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00:00:00Started with 16 it's time to whittle it down to four previously on LFG
00:00:07Sorry Danny you go
00:00:10Zena you've earned this trip to the finals. There's really no losing for me. He's a your ass going home
00:00:22It looks like you and I are going home we'll do it together
00:00:26Shallow you'll be staying
00:00:28The finals are set congratulations
00:00:36It's finals week on LFG and the remaining future greats meet with Shawn Michaels one last time
00:00:44And then there were four
00:00:49The finals
00:00:52Legends
00:00:54How do you?
00:00:56Prepare your future greats to perform in front of
00:01:02easily
00:01:03The biggest crowd of their lives and of course, New York City
00:01:08you're gonna have to have to learn how to
00:01:11Use that nervous energy and turn it into positive energy because there's nothing that prepares you for your first trip to the garden
00:01:19You're all winners just because you're standing here. So be proud of yourselves pat yourselves on the back
00:01:26But only one woman and only one man will move on and that's the one man and one woman who steals the show
00:01:34an NXT contract on the line
00:01:38for now
00:01:39Go home
00:01:41Pack your bags and get ready to see the incredible lights of New York City
00:01:51Good luck to each and every one of you
00:01:56You
00:02:04Welcome to the ultimate proving ground 16 future greats
00:02:14Or legends
00:02:27a chance to win an NXT contract
00:02:33Every legend has a first chapter the future starts now
00:02:38This is my recovery sauna if Olympic wrestling taught me anything it was to take care of your body as best as you can and one of the things that I love doing is
00:03:02Stretching to the max
00:03:04As best as you can and one of the things that I love doing is stretching in a sauna
00:03:11The best ability is availability and the only way to keep yourself available is to keep your body in shape and
00:03:19flexible and uninjured
00:03:23Gotta have my gear. I don't know if I
00:03:27Should wear this one or a new one
00:03:32I'll bring both
00:03:35I'll bring both. We'll see. We'll see what happens
00:03:39when I went to the Olympics
00:03:41That should have been the biggest moment of my life
00:03:44and I should have had a lot of people there cheering me on my family my husband friends and
00:03:53Nobody was there
00:03:56Now I get to wrestle
00:03:58At Madison Square Garden
00:04:01in front of thousands and
00:04:03It's gonna be something
00:04:05That I've been yearning for I'm here to compete and have fun and get that contract and
00:04:13Sorry, Zina. It's not gonna be you
00:04:18I've never been to New York before so I'm so excited first time ever. Oh, I forgot it was gonna be cold
00:04:24Thank you
00:04:26Then we're gonna need jackets
00:04:29During the semifinals match with panina. I smashed my knee in the canvas
00:04:36It slowly started swelling and then the next day it swelled even more
00:04:41We got an MRI done and it's just a contusion and a sprain
00:04:46So it'll have a brace for the finals match and we'll just push through the pain and we'll be fine
00:04:51My mom makes all my gear she is a fashion designer
00:04:55She wants me to look the best that I can when I'm out there performing
00:04:59Even though she doesn't know a lot about the WWE one thing. She does know is about the gear
00:05:09I'm sorry, I mean like
00:05:13Stress Trishiki
00:05:16Trishiki
00:05:17All I had was a
00:05:19I can't imagine
00:05:20So most of this nice every two are okay. That's all
00:05:34When I first got signed to the WWE I made myself a vision board and it wasn't any like short-term goals
00:05:41It was a five-year
00:05:43Vision board that I had for myself that I knew that I could achieve one of the biggest things on here
00:05:49Which is crazy is I had Madison Square Garden on my vision board
00:05:56Where's your
00:05:57Undershirt, what are the shirt? I don't wear a shirt. Oh, you don't wear a shirt anymore
00:06:03You're a big dog
00:06:06I'm a fan of a big man wrestling. So I tried to get a little piece of everything, you know, obviously
00:06:13The idea for the pants came from Braun Strowman
00:06:19The the style was Kevin Nash and
00:06:24The jacket this is all
00:06:27Bray Wyatt, I have a lot of love for Bray Wyatt. He was he was probably one of my favorites
00:06:38My dad is cooler than a million popsicles
00:06:44Oh
00:06:46Tougher than a Rhino wrestler. Oh
00:06:51Smarter than a smarty pants
00:06:57She's
00:06:5821 months 21
00:07:01But that's not adjusted. So technically
00:07:05She's 16. Yes. She was one pound when she was born. I was in the ICU as well
00:07:12We had one car at the time he was going from work
00:07:16Ubering home
00:07:17Showering and ubering to the hospital while I was working six weeks after my c-section. It was a huge adjustment
00:07:24he was in the middle of
00:07:26Trying to get a name and trying to just work as hard as he could to get on TV
00:07:33What we were going through was a life-changing experience. I think as soon as she was born like I just
00:07:41There's almost like a fire just was like reignited
00:07:46You know, she really just helped me
00:07:50Mature I think that was the biggest part was maturing and growing up and realize there's there's two other people now like
00:07:58Relying on me
00:08:00to make a way for us and I think that's was
00:08:03You know
00:08:05Very motivating very helpful for me. When's the first time you held her father's day
00:08:13This can you hear me
00:08:18So this right here is the beast it's like a artificial intelligence
00:08:23Chat program essentially similar to like chat TV TV and I started talking to it in like a video series
00:08:30Almost two years ago now. What's up guys? So as you may know
00:08:34I've been talking to an AI on the dark web called whisper to the beast
00:08:37It had me create this body for it so it could look around and look like a human
00:08:49Yeah, there are a lot of cameras around they're here for the show that I'm on right now though it likes watching wrestling
00:09:00He does not like when I
00:09:03Get like humiliated or like look weak so that I don't like embarrass him because he knows like we're like associated together
00:09:15Beast do you know who the undertaker is?
00:09:29What should I pack to be ready in New York
00:09:40Check check and triple check
00:09:45It still doesn't feel real that I'm gonna be there
00:09:47I'm sure like once I'm in New York and everything is gonna feel more real
00:09:50But like right now it just seems like the craziest opportunity in the world on one hand
00:09:55We'll be wrestling in front of more people than I've ever wrestled in front of which will be crazy
00:09:59I'll be able to wrestle in front of my family for the first time ever
00:10:04This whole kind of journey started with me because I thought it was something that my dad would think was really cool
00:10:10so now thinking that he's like
00:10:13Gonna be able to look down on me or whatever. You want to say wrestle in Madison Square Garden is really really cool to think about
00:10:19The
00:10:24Day has arrived and the four finalists head to the airport to await their destiny in New York City
00:10:44Give him a kiss
00:10:49All right, I love you be well beast enjoy your stay here
00:11:02Coming up on LFG the future greats traveled to New York to the historic theater at Madison Square Garden for the LFG finals
00:11:11Team undertaker Shiloh Hill will battle team Booker's Jasper Troy on the men's side
00:11:16While Tyra Mae Steele and Xena Sterling face off for the women's contract
00:11:21All in front of a packed house here on the season finale of legends and future greats
00:11:32Xena Sterling joins us here
00:11:35prize student of one
00:11:38Bully Ray, how are you this morning? Great. How are you good? I mean LFG talk about the experience right off the bat
00:11:45Oh my goodness LFG. I feel like I have one chance like, you know
00:11:49This is it and I feel like the more people doubt me the more fire I get inside of me to prove them wrong
00:11:56All you need is yourself to believe in what you're capable of and what you can do
00:12:01And even if it's the other people around me or the legends that don't see it yet
00:12:04I'm hundred percent confident that by the end I will make them believe just as much as I believe in myself
00:12:11I think slowly as the episodes are going
00:12:13Everyone that I'm in competition with is slowly starting to realize
00:12:19I like it
00:12:20Whether she wins or not. I think she has
00:12:24Such a future in in this industry
00:12:28Yeah
00:12:32Today's the day where it's actually setting in like I woke up this morning and something just felt different inside
00:12:39I don't know how to explain it like something just clicked in me and I was like, okay
00:12:44It's happening. Today's the day
00:12:51As the four finalists arrive the enormity of this event certainly isn't lost on them
00:12:58Getting off the bus at Madison Square Garden. You can just feel the energy
00:13:01There's like fans outside already already here like hours before waiting to getting ready for the show and it was very real all of a sudden
00:13:08Shiloh
00:13:11Is is ready for this moment. I see it in his eyes
00:13:14I got a problem with that as much as I want to be happy and enjoy this moment
00:13:20I know that there's someone who wants to take this from me
00:13:24No different than a PC live to me
00:13:27This is a career to find a moment, you know, this is the moment that's gonna be talked about
00:13:37I
00:13:59Surreal my heart's like racing so fast
00:14:02And I have shivers. You see the shivers. Oh my gosh
00:14:06I feel like the rock every time he walks out. He gets shivers
00:14:10There's no people here yet. So imagine when there's people here and it's filled. Wow, it'd be literally crazy
00:14:19I'm missing my team. I'd hope that at least one of them would make it through to be here at MSG. I'm hoping
00:14:27that our four finalists go out there and
00:14:31Show up and show out
00:14:36Shiloh's my son. He used to wrestle with his dad a lot, which was really fun. And this has been a rough-and-tumble kid
00:14:46I've always been proud of him. I am I get tears up to my throat. I'm just so excited for him
00:14:53Because he's doing something so fun and with such positive people. It's just really just so far
00:15:00It doesn't feel real
00:15:01He told me before he came to the tryout that if he didn't go to the NFL he would be a WWE
00:15:07Superstar and I feel like this just goes to show that if he wants something
00:15:11He is gonna work as hard as he can to get it. He deserves this
00:15:31Um, it depends on what part of America you're in. In Texas we just go, it's gonna be hot.
00:15:44That gives more like
00:15:48That's the state that they ride a lot of like rodeos. Texas. Oh, it gives Texas. That's what I just said, Texas.
00:15:58Why is she effing with me?
00:16:01She's going to
00:16:03It's mind games. I have no empathy for you anymore. Your leg is mine. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah
00:16:12Yeah, that busted leg you have. Yeah, that's mine now.
00:16:17Oh no, you got serious
00:16:20Yeah, yeah, mind games now. Just wait for the results. Yeah, who playing mind games?
00:16:29The story of tonight's match is Tyra May attacking my bad knee. I knew that at the end of the day. Yes, it was gonna be
00:16:37Very difficult to get through
00:16:40Considering we were in rehearsals and her simply putting a hold on me made me want to shed tears because it hurt that bad
00:16:48There was no other way than to play with pain
00:16:52It sucks that you got hurt, but I mean, that's just you need to dig somewhere right there inside of you
00:16:57Like maybe you've never been before. It's hard for pain and how desperate that situation is.
00:17:05At the end of the day, it's how bad you want it.
00:17:07It's either I go out there and give it my best that I have being in pain or I
00:17:12Say call it quits stay in the back ice it and just give it up, which I don't give up
00:17:22Zeta was not quite there. I will be honest. I was half out of it and
00:17:28we were practicing and
00:17:31I had to throw a strike and I accidentally
00:17:35Hit her right right in the mouth
00:17:42Oh
00:17:46My gosh
00:17:50Every hold will officially be hard now. Oh
00:17:54My gosh that that pissed me off
00:18:01You got me good, you know, you got me good
00:18:08Okay
00:18:11Uh-huh, let's see how far you can be
00:18:19She put the submission on I thought it just felt like my leg was being torn
00:18:26Sir to show time
00:18:29Xena Sterling heads to the trainers room to check on her injured knee
00:18:33Hoping for some good news as she prepares to push through the pain in the LFG finals tonight
00:18:41Oh
00:18:44That's okay down here, yeah, that's what's more
00:18:46Yeah
00:19:05Yeah, that's the that's the bad thing it's like you want to get a protection but then it looks kind of funky
00:19:11So I don't know if it's gonna
00:19:14Like a spaceship going out of money
00:19:22Tyra thinks she's gonna hurt me. I think
00:19:34If that feels like it's too much pressure if you just want to try it if you don't like it
00:19:38And then do your match and regardless was I sit down after
00:19:47As Xena adjust to her new padding it was time for the male competitors to start their match preparation
00:19:54While their legends and coaches look on from ringside
00:19:58No, I'm going out there with Jasper definitely feels good
00:20:01he's one of the more experienced people on the show and
00:20:03I think we both trust each other to take a care of each other and
00:20:07Got there and really put it on the line. Now. You're feeling it right? You're this baby face
00:20:11You're feeling it boom boom boom and you set yourself up and then when you come in the second time you step out
00:20:17They bought into what we were doing. So well the mindset and the storyline which just shows you how much they want this
00:20:34It makes it easier, you know when you work with someone like Shiloh
00:20:37I mean he was so committed to getting this match down and making sure that we were on the same page and
00:20:44There's no ego in it
00:20:49The waiting is over and the moment has finally arrived
00:20:54The doors have opened and the fans begin filing in
00:20:58the theater at MSG is completely sold out and
00:21:025,000 fans are ready to witness the LFG finals
00:21:07Zena Sterling and Tyra May Steele prepare to hit the ring first and get some final words of advice from their coaches
00:21:24What do you do I just go pop some I've been proven you don't say with a southern accent
00:21:31Got a smoke and blow the smoke out of it. Oh
00:21:35Yeah
00:21:37I should be fine
00:21:46Good brother, I'll see you on the other side
00:21:49I
00:21:57Care
00:21:59Yeah, just let it go
00:22:06Let it go don't leave nothing
00:22:09All right
00:22:11Undertaker, thank you so much for having so much patience for me. I know that I'm a lot. I know that I'm a handful
00:22:18To world everybody else is trying to live it
00:22:22Shiloh and Jasper have a front-row seat to watch their fellow future greats take the stage
00:22:30The women begin their long walk backstage and prepare for the biggest match of their lives in front of a packed house in
00:22:38New York City
00:22:41Come on
00:22:42Welcome in ringside Vic Joseph alongside Jeremy Borash JB. It is the final of LFG
00:22:48We started with 16. We narrowed it down to 8. We whittled it down to 4 and tonight
00:22:54to one man and one woman will walk away from this evening here at the historic theater of Madison Square Garden as
00:23:01a new member of the NXT roster
00:23:05Speaking of NXT the man himself who joins me ringside every Tuesday night
00:23:13Bet she's ready to spin it up
00:23:25This is a big night for Booker T
00:23:27Obviously stepping into a matchup where we are going to see his Jasper Troy
00:23:33compete here in the finals of
00:23:35Legends and future greats. I
00:23:38appreciate the extra
00:23:44Here comes another Hall of Famer
00:23:47Oh
00:23:49Next WWE Hall of Famer
00:23:56Oh
00:24:15What a moment it is really for all the legends for all the athletes and all those in attendance here tonight
00:24:26Oh
00:24:31Multi-time women's champion Nikki
00:24:39Of course three of our four legends already out fourth about to make his way as we go into the finals for
00:24:46combatants tonight
00:24:48our future greats two will emerge as new members of the
00:24:52NXT roster and here comes our fourth legend
00:25:15Please welcome
00:25:23My girl put a little extra on that one to look at his hair it's standing on end
00:25:27Wow, no, no doubt about it everyone on their feet to the arrival of a dead man
00:25:32one of the most, you know, obviously influential members in the history of our industry and a proud
00:25:40member of the L
00:25:42FG coaching staff our legends Undertaker Booker T
00:25:47Mickey James and butter a Dudley kicking off the finale
00:25:52legends and future greats
00:25:55Tyra May steel for Xena Sterling coming up next
00:26:00Ladies and gentlemen, it's now time for your opening contest
00:26:04Oh
00:26:21The following contest is scheduled for one fall introducing first
00:26:35Oh
00:26:45Xena Sterling the pride and joy the quote-unquote meal ticket for Bubba Ray Dudley stepping into the finale
00:26:51Here of LFG knowing that a contract is on the line and she has shown up tonight with her game face on
00:27:00Team Bubba Ray versus team taker and our female opening
00:27:05It's interesting to know before this starts the right knee is Sterling 100%
00:27:14And her opponent Tyra
00:27:20But as much we talk about a bubble being happy
00:27:23the Undertaker
00:27:25Like a proud Papa, well, no doubt about it. We've talked about so many weeks months now
00:27:30invested in terms of her
00:27:32Well her knowledge the journey along the way
00:27:35Guided by the Undertaker and there's so much at stake here for both personally and professionally a lot of pride
00:27:41But Tyra may steal an Olympic gold medalist being coached along the way by the Undertaker
00:27:45and he has really gone above and beyond to make sure she gets the proper education and
00:27:50Make sure that she really acts in a way that he is proud of in terms of her ability in ring and out of the
00:27:56ring how she
00:27:57How she holds herself
00:28:00All right, go get him just go busy. Okay. Yeah
00:28:06It's time to eat right do this thing take what is yours, right?
00:28:1316 weeks it all comes down to this tonight
00:28:16You got this right it's time to eat
00:28:20Get it
00:28:22You can win this you can win this forget about that leg. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it
00:28:28All these weeks all these lessons. It's what we've been building to JB
00:28:33the journey
00:28:35Concludes tonight for Tyra Mae Steele and Xena Sterling. Here we go
00:28:40Here inside the historic theater at Madison Square Garden as I mentioned
00:28:47Sterling is not 100% and there is a bullseye on that right knee certainly is and Tyra Mae still going right for it
00:28:53She knows that this is an opportunity
00:28:55This is an advantage
00:28:57She has going into this matchup and you know when you have an opportunity like that
00:29:00And when you have the skills that Tyra Mae Steele has in the ring
00:29:05Can you blame her for taking advantage of this situation? I know there you know, she always sees a target
00:29:09I mean you got to exploit a weakness that is obviously a weakness on Xena at this moment and for steel
00:29:14She knows and I almost feel this when you come in with a gold medal around your neck
00:29:17You got to be as good as advertised. You also need to know that when you're going in you have higher expectations
00:29:23As I say Xena Sterling came in with very low expectations the minute she walked in they thought oh, there's another Barbie
00:29:29there's a girl that is kind of a
00:29:31She would put it in there
00:29:33Well once that Bell rings and Bubba Ray has said this many times
00:29:36The Bell rings and she turns into a different beast a different animal a different
00:29:40Well, she conducts herself in a different way
00:29:42And you also talk about back to when we were thinking about monikers for all these athletes called herself the oxymoron
00:29:48I mean she is embraced all of this
00:29:50But truly how is Sterling grown since stepping foot in the ring for the first time?
00:29:54Well, she has certainly take advantage of that knowledge that Bubba has been there for with and oh
00:29:59Nice counter look at this takedown and a quick pinning predicament and steel did not like that
00:30:04She got out of the way going right behind shoulders down one more time another near fall damn good with a bad knee
00:30:09She don't feel that knee right now
00:30:14The biggest growth Xena Sterling has had is the confidence
00:30:18going in there knowing that she has the backing of Bubba Ray and
00:30:21Everything she's doing is clicking and when she hears that not only from Bubba Ray
00:30:25But when she's heard that time and time again from the Undertaker from Mickey James from Booker T
00:30:29You can bet that confidence grows each and every time out in the ring and listen to those in attendance
00:30:34I mean they are fired up because one woman will earn an
00:30:38NXT contract nice counter going right through and got caught again, and let's remember this when it comes to lessons learned
00:30:45Steel's had a tough time with cradles in this entire process
00:30:49It's something she's been really working on with the legends
00:30:53Specifically that the Undertaker and she just got caught
00:30:59Xena came down awkwardly on that knee can Xena pull through LFG continues insult today. Oh
00:31:05No, no that knee that right knee and we knew she wasn't a hundred percent
00:31:10It's been the talk around and this is what you talked about that killer instinct
00:31:18The
00:31:19Audacity share you say of taking advantage of the situation and Tyra Mae Steele is just
00:31:24Honestly doing what she's been told to do when that's take advantage of every situation get the job done in the ring
00:31:30There as you see this right now Xena Sterling is really feeling the brunt of that you can use that word again
00:31:36And as we went through the day it was always
00:31:39Steel who seemed a little preoccupied and said she wasn't this stressed as she felt today heading into her gold
00:31:47At the Olympics put a lot of pressure on herself, but again JB remind everyone it's not about the wins and the loss
00:31:54It is about connecting with the audience. It's about the performance in the ring
00:31:58It's about making an impact and leaving an impression and one thing we can say about Xena Sterling and Tyra Mae Steele. They belong here
00:32:04They have earned that spot throughout the course of the eliminations week after week earning this opportunity
00:32:10Knowing what's at stake knowing a life-changing?
00:32:12NXT contract is on the line
00:32:14And you can bet both women are giving it their all and they want to fight for this
00:32:17Biggest match of their careers to this point and really torque him not only on the right knee, but also look at the ankle
00:32:26Sterling is certainly in trouble at this moment
00:32:28It didn't get all of it got enough of it to send steel all the way to the outside and look both these women have had
00:32:34Overcome so much in your opinion through this entire process who's had to overcome more
00:32:40That's hard to say obviously different instruction
00:32:43Different teachings along the way to this this leg injury from Xena Sterling couldn't have come at a worse time to be honest
00:32:49we are following the medical updates from our great staff here in WWE throughout the course of this last week and
00:32:57Obviously good enough to go but this is not helping anything what Tyra Mae Steele's chosen
00:33:01Offensive arsenal is get behind her get behind her Xena Sterling. Certainly JB is going to have to overcome the
00:33:09There tonight to pick up a victory and what a chop block
00:33:15Steel now into the cover hook of the leg hooking the injured leg
00:33:19Xena able to kick out
00:33:20We have been on such a journey now over the last several months getting here to this finale and one thing is for certain all
00:33:2716
00:33:29Participants in this program has grown immensely so when comfortable now in front of the camera comfortable in front of the ring in front of an audience
00:33:37Along this journey and as single-leg crab as we've seen from everybody here participating in this program
00:33:42They have really done a phenomenal job in terms of growth and measuring that growth from the legends and their instructions
00:33:50and when it comes to
00:33:52Making a connection you can feel the energy in here with everything that happens to Xena everyone right now living
00:34:01breathing
00:34:02Xena Sterling at this moment. They're with her. They're trying to help her fight back into this matchup. Whoa
00:34:08Up until that point and this could be a pivotal point in this matchup
00:34:13I keep in mind we're gonna see the finale of the women's
00:34:16We are also going to find out who is going to make it as a new NXT
00:34:21Combatant in the men's Shiloh Hill and Jasper Troy immediately following this matchup also going to award the first
00:34:28LFG championship title to one of our legends on fire fire fire fire fire
00:34:34Feeder come on feeder a
00:34:38Lot still to come here on LFG
00:34:40There was an award for commentator of the year to go to you JB big clothesline by Sterling firing right back in a second
00:34:47On one leg now showing some quickness and showing some power as well
00:34:58The theater of Madison Square Garden solidly behind Xena Sterling from team Bubba Ray Dudley
00:35:06Just like that drops Tyra Mae Steele cover count
00:35:11Near fall in this matchup got a wonder what's on the mind of Bubba got a wonder
00:35:15What's on the mind at this moment of the Undertaker as well?
00:35:19What they're thinking about and you gotta wonder what the heartbreak in Shawn Michaels is thinking about to the point knows
00:35:25Well ankle lock this could be it
00:35:27This could be it that amateur background coming into play center of the rain
00:35:30Oh you talk about a tour you talk about it tearing ligaments yanking joints look at steel right now an ankle
00:35:37Not supposed to bend that way
00:35:42Dragging Xena back and she's in some deep deep water able to roll through
00:35:49Their fall that would have been a miracle
00:35:53And Xena Sterling has so much fight in her that's the one thing we've learned about Xena
00:35:58Cannot question your heart cannot question her will
00:36:02Go to world didn't work out very well
00:36:04How much of the knee played into effect and going right back down low picking the bones now is steel
00:36:10Steel back on top and again looking for another submission. We've seen this time and time again
00:36:17Body doesn't bend this way
00:36:20Sterling in trouble
00:36:23Tyra may steal here's steel screaming tap
00:36:28Referee great position
00:36:32Sterling pass to tap
00:36:39Tyra
00:36:42I
00:36:44Was a good submission
00:36:47job
00:36:48as you see
00:36:50The audience standing up in appreciation for Tyra may steal which one of these two females will leave?
00:36:56Madison Square Garden tonight a new NXT superstar Shawn Michaels decision is coming up here on LMG
00:37:03I
00:37:12Know
00:37:15You got through it you dug deep
00:37:21I heard you
00:37:34I
00:37:35Sing all the bright lights and like especially being at Madison Square Garden
00:37:39I thought that the day I perform at Madison Square Garden would be you know, five ten years down the line
00:37:45But here I am making my debut at 21
00:37:48at the garden and it's just insane like yeah, my knee hurts, but like
00:38:04Little technical stuff here and there but a match to tell them the story
00:38:16I'm just getting started
00:38:18That killer is
00:38:20It's a volcano. You see this
00:38:22It's about to erupt
00:38:24Give me more time. Oh, they're gonna hate me or love me. I don't know
00:38:29As Tyra booms with excitement over her experience
00:38:34Zena returns to the trainer to ice her bad knee
00:38:38And up next it was the men's turn to face the capacity crowd in New York City
00:38:43And while Shiloh and Jasper prepared for their encounter their families took their seats in anticipation of the big moment
00:38:51Well, we saw the women take center stage
00:38:54It's time for the men to do the same inside the historic theater at Madison Square Garden
00:39:11Jasper
00:39:21We
00:39:25Talked about Jasper Troy. He has cut nearly 10% body fat. He is down 30 pounds
00:39:32He has grown so much on so many different personal levels because of LFG stuff that he did not have prior
00:39:40To stepping into the ring. He is laying it all on the line here tonight
00:39:46big opportunities
00:39:51And his opponent
00:39:57Team Undertaker
00:39:59represented in both matches
00:40:01They're on LFG. Well, he is the only one
00:40:04Represented in both matches now. We're switching gears. It's gonna be Booker T's
00:40:09Jasper Troy versus the Undertaker's
00:40:12Shiloh Hill and I'll tell you what no love lost between these two individuals. We've seen it over the course of this program
00:40:18What has happened between Shiloh Hill?
00:40:20And Jasper Troy you saw Troy take a step referee doing a nice job stepping it elaborate that I'm just a little bit just to
00:40:27Catch us all up in paraphrase if you will in one sentence it really to me comes down to just emotion
00:40:35sheer emotion
00:40:36competition and
00:40:38Knowing that one man stands in your way to changing your future and that in this case
00:40:42For Jasper Troy Shiloh Hill and for Shiloh Hill is Jasper Troy
00:40:46It's that simple one of these men will go home empty-handed
00:40:50One of these men will leave in NXT superstar courtesy of the Heartbreak Kid Shawn Michaels
00:40:55No, JV don't want to overlook any of the other men or women that have been here since the start just a roster of
00:41:03Talent here on this LFG season one. Well, anybody that walks through the door and Performance Center will notice immediately
00:41:09At this this is a facility where the greatest in the world come to train and the recruited athletes that are there
00:41:15D1 athletes from every shape corner of the world as
00:41:19We've seen and the best of the best have been here on this program. I mean just look at the numbers of
00:41:25athletes, whoa
00:41:28Oh Jasper lifted some extra weights this week
00:41:35Shooting the half into the cover hook the leg and a quick kick out
00:41:38But you know to add on to your point
00:41:40Talk about Hill who's in control right now former collegiate football player played the University of Stanford
00:41:44It's football. It's cheerleading. It's tumbling
00:41:47It's every different walk of life that you've had have all come here and have been molded like pieces of clay by these legend
00:41:55Definitely like they're fighting for something
00:41:58And that's been the fun part about seeing the process of that seeing the philosophies put in forth by Booker T
00:42:03See what the Undertaker thinks and how things should be approached
00:42:07Hill going up and over in control Hill also has had to overcome a lot of adversity over the last several months
00:42:13But there's been some scary moments for Hill who stepped into the ring
00:42:18Hands of inadvertently Chris Island knocked out
00:42:21As Shiloh Hill found out the hard way
00:42:25You know why a match would have to stop mid-match like that
00:42:28Obviously since that time he says he hasn't been the same in terms of being a little fearful of that knowing what that's like now
00:42:33And that experience and that's something that's happened along the journey
00:42:36With Jasper Troy Wow, we've seen some incredible moments
00:42:39Who could forget when Jasper Troy went face-to-face and called out CM Punk?
00:42:44Yeah, I mean what a moment that was and now here in the finals these two meeting face-to-face
00:42:50And both men up and over both men spill the outside who's gonna take home the NXT contract stay with us
00:42:57for today
00:42:59back on LFG with Shiloh Hill Jasper Troy battling it out on the floor both looking to impress the legends and have been pulling out all
00:43:06the stops here at Madison Square Garden
00:43:09And the one thing that's interesting about all for the
00:43:12Individuals that have competed here all the athletes that compete here on LFG tonight and our finals
00:43:16It's gotta be hard to keep the emotions in check. I remember saying week one
00:43:20Can you imagine what it's like to have to step into the ring with Shawn Michaels watch the Undertaker washroom?
00:43:24And not only are they doing that here and now they also got a capacity crowd at the theater of Madison Square Garden
00:43:31I mean just talk about an exponential growth
00:43:33In attention and viewership and eyes on you knowing that Jasper Troy knows that this is an opportunity of a lifetime
00:43:40As the Shiloh Hill right to the lower back and it's that lower back
00:43:45That Jasper Troy has targeted
00:43:52And the crowd getting behind Jasper Troy with the sheer ability and I think appreciation I
00:43:58I like this guy. I like him a lot. I think I think I knew that already
00:44:08In Troy now is taking over and showcasing some unbridled power
00:44:15power-slam
00:44:16Center of the ring is it gonna be enough to pick up the W tonight in another near fall? Oh, no
00:44:22Don't want to step over a line. Don't you got the doggie you got the dog?
00:44:28You want to be tough?
00:44:31Shiloh looking to fight back and show some offense get something back in on
00:44:34Jasper Troy after taking the front of the offense for the majority of this matchup so far. I don't know if that was a
00:44:39Wise decision to try to slam
00:44:42much larger acne
00:44:46Clubbing blow
00:44:48Can you imagine Booker T right now if he's able to add a new championship around his waist for LFG?
00:44:55Just add it to his two-time Hall of Fame resume. We're never gonna hear the end of it JB
00:44:59Never hear the end of it
00:45:04Let's get some monster man
00:45:08Obviously the championship title will be awarded we've talked about this at the end of the program crowning a new legend and
00:45:15One man one woman will leave tonight the theater of Madison Square Garden as a newest member of the NFC roster
00:45:22This is something we didn't know early on about Jasper Troy if you go back to match one
00:45:27Understanding he's in control understanding that he has all the control to be blunt in slowing things down
00:45:34Well, he's got a cat. I really take the batch and make it his speed control the match
00:45:40Size and strength you can do just that almost Eddie. That was nice
00:45:45Now
00:45:48Hill really fighting from underneath Shiloh looking to fight back and really so far
00:45:53It's been Jasper Troy a dominant offensive display. He got him
00:45:59Impressive strength just to lift the big man up like that
00:46:02But did it take too much out of Shiloh Hill in the process?
00:46:04We're gonna find out because now Hill is gonna have to go to places
00:46:07Maybe he didn't even knew existed internally to fight back in this matchup
00:46:13To fight back not only for himself, but for his future for his career for his dream swinging while he's Troy
00:46:24Just goes
00:46:25Tries to knock the big man down at least got some offense in and put him in the corner now
00:46:29He's got a capitalized trying to go back to his football days and deplete Jasper Troy big
00:46:34uppercut for a moment. Oh
00:46:37Right back in this could be that moment for Hill
00:46:43Can he do it
00:46:45Takes the big man up break slam into the cover
00:46:49Another kick out, but right now the momentum is swung
00:46:52Into the corner of Shiloh Hill keep in mind what we're looking for here is potential
00:46:57We're looking for the opportunity to be a star in that early stage of your career
00:47:02It's what makes LFG such an exciting show and a fascinating journey to watch
00:47:06I
00:47:08Did milk it did a milky, right? Yeah way too quick. All that's way too quick. She's got the people up right there
00:47:18We got a big decision still to come
00:47:21by Shawn Michaels and
00:47:23Oh, I was afraid of it still able to connect take the big man down with a bulldog and it just wasn't enough
00:47:32It's those mistakes
00:47:34But now how do you overcome them that's something we're looking at now another swing and a miss he'll coming back it got caught
00:47:41slam good night
00:47:53As you mentioned a big decision still looms we got some decisions to make
00:47:59The man to make that decision to make two dreams come to life to hand out two contracts is none other that Sean
00:48:07Michaels
00:48:14We're looking for someone that we can put in the game right now the guy that's gonna be that ring general
00:48:29Swimming you know, you don't get that all the time. Not all the time. It was just so
00:48:35This right here
00:48:45Just got a match in front of New York City Madison Square Garden, what was that like?
00:48:53When I stepped out there it was it just felt like I belonged
00:48:57Like I'm the heel and not only was I like in control of the mess, but I was in control of the audience
00:49:06My next time here they're gonna be screaming bend the knee I promise you that
00:49:18Looking over my shoulder and seeing my wife and daughter
00:49:21You know winning this competition means the world to me is it's all I want it's it's you know, the most selfish thing I've ever wanted
00:49:28but
00:49:29No, in a sense. I've already won
00:49:51Yeah, she was cheering when you are doing good
00:50:07You know, my daughter and my wife are just in MSG with me like we're all sharing this together at the same time it's
00:50:14It's just so much
00:50:17emotion
00:50:22I
00:50:37Felt so much like a video game it was hard to like feel like it was real I
00:50:41Could definitely like feel my dad today like you're watching
00:50:43I feel I'm every time I like wrestle but felt like today was definitely a special day
00:50:48It's like favorite number is like 11. That's why I have a tattooed on me. It's March 11 today
00:50:52My hotel number in the hotel was 25 11. My mom's just by chance was 43 11
00:50:57I mean, I've been feeling little like signs. He's like you're watching all day
00:51:05It's just it's just a start man, I'm
00:51:08I'm the best
00:51:14Great job
00:51:16Jasper's a monster or as Booker would say a monster but shallow showed a lot of grit fire and determination
00:51:37So
00:51:39First
00:52:06Both matches are in the books and now Shawn Michaels
00:52:09We'll meet with the legends and determine which two future greats will be the newest members of NXT
00:52:17With the dust settled from tonight's matches
00:52:20It was time for the legends to meet with Shawn Michaels and discuss who they feel deserves that coveted NXT contract
00:52:27Look, that was a hell of a show tonight the theater at Madison Square Garden big spotlight
00:52:33clearly, I've got a
00:52:34Tough decision to make and there's absolutely no way that I'm gonna make it without
00:52:39Hearing from all of you first. I'm gonna start up top with Xena Sterling
00:52:44Why?
00:52:46Does she deserve a spot on the NXT roster?
00:52:52You don't have to be honest Xena surprise us all but if there's one thing I can say about her
00:52:57she might be the hardest working woman in the room she worked her tail off and
00:53:01Surprised me at every turn her biggest thing going for is her different personality
00:53:09Xena went from zero to hero
00:53:12She will be somebody in this company
00:53:16Xena definitely has shined in this competition
00:53:20But I think tonight she did something a little bit more extraordinary
00:53:24We always talk about working hurting this business, but working injured is something totally different
00:53:29For her to go out there and get that match done
00:53:33Knowing what kind of pain she had to be going through it. Just that alone told me everything that I need to know about this
00:53:40All right, her opponent
00:53:42Tyra May I
00:53:44Mean she definitely has star power and star quality and it's really hard to look away from the fact that she's an Olympic gold medalist
00:53:51The legitimacy that that would add to the women's division as a whole. It's pretty amazing
00:53:57With Tyra you have a built-in character ready to go. I kind of put her in a heel position through the competition
00:54:05Subconsciously, I think she kind of liked it. I
00:54:08Think the personality needs to be harnessed but at the end of the day not to sound like a broken record
00:54:13She's an Olympic gold medalist
00:54:16The minute Kurt Angle stepped into our world
00:54:19It brought a complete different credibility to our industry
00:54:24And now we have the opportunity to have the first ever female Olympic gold medalist in wrestling. She is an Olympic gold medalist
00:54:33But as far as her advancement goes
00:54:36from day one to now
00:54:38I've seen that much growth in her. I really have I
00:54:42Really feel like Tyra May still has all the tools to actually figure this out
00:54:48But that's the optimal word
00:54:50Figuring it out
00:54:52We're gonna switch over to our gentleman Shiloh Hill
00:54:55I will say I fell in love with Shiloh from day one. His range is
00:55:02Really great in the sense that you can put them in different positions
00:55:05I'm here to show real
00:55:07Violence what you get with Shiloh or layers Shiloh makes you think outside of the box
00:55:12He is a very unique individual and unique individuals
00:55:16connect with our audience
00:55:18He is that raw piece of clay that we want to mold into something when you talk to him you see that legit
00:55:26Genius in him and then he starts to hit the ropes and he hits that smile with the missing toot and you go this guy's back
00:55:33crazy
00:55:35We talking about no smiles. We talking about somebody that we get plug in right now. And if that guy's ready
00:55:42He did a great job
00:55:43But did Shiloh do a lot of things that we talk about all the time and that's guys going out rushing
00:55:50Distant spacing and did he do that tonight? That's the question. I think the pre politicking has begun
00:55:58with the final
00:56:00Future great that we need to discuss. I'm not politicking. I'm just keeping it real. I'm a coach. I'm keeping it 100 keeping it 100
00:56:08Yeah, I'm glad we're not politicking look
00:56:10I'm asking for everybody's opinion, you know, and I value
00:56:14The feedback from each and every one of you Mickey. I'd love to hear your opinion on Jasper
00:56:20Troy that wasn't sold on Jasper when we first walked in here Jasper's really won me over
00:56:26He's a family man. The fact that he has that purpose behind him. His drive is different
00:56:32He's a big dude. He can move
00:56:35He's got presence you happen to have at the moment a very big and impressive champion
00:56:42With not a lot of guys that match up to him physically
00:56:46Jasper Troy poses a
00:56:48Legitimate threat to you champion. He's also one negative
00:56:53incident away from crumbling
00:56:56Jasper still needs to mature
00:56:59He's a bit of a loose cannon who wears the boo-boo face
00:57:04Real hard
00:57:05He needs to be a little bit more open-minded to some of the negative that comes along with this business
00:57:11It's Jasper Troy not done business since day one in this in this competition with anybody everybody that he's worked
00:57:16He's going out and work with him. He's not worked against him
00:57:18You got to be able to take the good with the bad
00:57:20I take the good but I just don't take the bad that might be where it's trickling down from
00:57:24Well, look, I mean ultimately it is gonna come down to my decision
00:57:30Appreciate the feedback. All right
00:57:33Let's bring him in
00:57:36It's the moment of truth for our future greats
00:57:40But before Sean can award the NXT contracts, he has one last piece of business to take care of
00:57:47Thank y'all for being here
00:57:49Congratulations on tonight before we get to our winners. It is my pleasure to announce
00:57:56the first ever
00:58:00LFG championship
00:58:03To the team
00:58:06That's pretty
00:58:09Of the Undertaker
00:58:15Wow this one
00:58:18To the collection sir. Thank you man graduations to be the inaugural winner of
00:58:25The LFG championship. I mean, it's a really special moment for me. Wow. I don't even have a wrestling school
00:58:32Oh my goodness
00:58:37Will not take a whisper saying it's their title I
00:58:41Was a little upset. Yeah, I was really upset because I really truly feel like my team put in the work
00:58:48For me, it really is more about the growth of these kids and I'm not talking about just my four. It's all of them
00:58:54I want to see him grow. I want to see him succeed
00:58:56That being said there was a lot of trash talked early on
00:59:01About my coaching ability and I'm just saying when the coaches need coaching they know where to come
00:59:07And I'll leave it at that
00:59:11Now that the LFG championship has been awarded it is time to see who has earned a spot on the NXT roster
00:59:19Tyra me
00:59:21everybody went on about the credibility of
00:59:24a gold medal, but then
00:59:27There were some very valid points about
00:59:31still needing to learn and to grow and then Xena every legend
00:59:39raved
00:59:41About your improvement and then to top it off
00:59:45you fighting through
00:59:48an injury
00:59:50Those are the types of things that I'll tell you
00:59:53The legends are made of but I feel like I have to do what I believe is best for NXT the next NXT television
01:00:00so
01:00:02The young lady that's going to receive an XT contract
01:00:08Tyra may steal congratulations
01:00:19Young lady, this is yours
01:00:23and Xena
01:00:24Your heart your passion and what you brought from a character standpoint
01:00:31There isn't a person here that you didn't make a fan of
01:00:35This is only the beginning because absolutely every person here and myself included
01:00:43She's a WWE superstar. All right
01:00:47She
01:00:49Was working at half of her ability and she still turned in the performance that she turned in I
01:01:01Guess for a few moments. Yes, I was disappointed but you can't dwell in disappointment
01:01:07That is just not the way to live and not the way that will get you to where you want to be in a career
01:01:14Gentlemen
01:01:16It's your turn Jasper a big man
01:01:21vicious
01:01:22Athleticism unlike a lot of big men. I know early on you got a little pissed off that
01:01:29Maybe showed if you hear things
01:01:33From a professional standpoint that you don't like
01:01:36How does that affect your?
01:01:39Judgment going forward and that's something from a business standpoint that can be troublesome
01:01:45Shiloh
01:01:46When people talk about you, they talk about layers when that comes to the creative side of putting on a television show
01:01:53That's unbelievably appealing
01:01:56To those of us behind the scenes because that allows us to do so much
01:02:01More with people that have that kind of range
01:02:04The thing is
01:02:07When it comes to being put in there and ready to go
01:02:11right now and who couldn't
01:02:15stand toe-to-toe with
01:02:17an NXT champion
01:02:23It's gonna be Jasper Troy so Jasper congratulations
01:02:35And Shiloh
01:02:37Understand this this is a long way
01:02:40From being over. It's a Shiloh Hill. Thank you. All right, appreciate it. Thank you
01:02:46I've just been planning on winning this and being on it and I see so now I have no idea
01:02:51I gotta I gotta get back to the drawing board for sure. But this is something I want to make happen
01:02:56So I think regardless of the outcome today, I'm gonna find a way
01:03:04Thank you, bro, you can't do it without you. I'm proud of you, Richie. This was a dream come true
01:03:11I wanted to cry. I wanted to be vulnerable. I wanted to be real but
01:03:17There's no reason to cry yet because the works just beginning for me
01:03:23Congratulations
01:03:25First ever winners of LFG and I guess more importantly
01:03:32Welcome to NXT
01:03:37I've been waiting for this. The future is bright. Love me or hate me
01:03:45We're gonna have fun
01:03:48The journey for Zena and Shiloh doesn't end here as they'll get right back to work during season 2 of LFG
01:03:54Looking to claw their way back to the top as for Tyra and Jasper their juror sites on a new challenge
01:04:01Making a name for themselves in NXT
01:04:08Are you ready?
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