NXT July 08, 2025 - Hank & Tank Vs The Culling (Shawn Spears & Niko Vance) _ NXT Tag Team Championship Match - video Dailymotion

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00:00Welcome, Tatum.

00:03It's good to have you.

00:04Oh, this place is incredible.

00:06I feel right at home here.

00:08Our home is now your home, Tatum.

00:10You guys are the best.

00:12We're no better than you are.

00:14And thanks to you, the guys have a chance to bring home the tag team titles.

00:19Damn right we do.

00:21And it's gonna happen.

00:24I've put Hank and Tank down once.

00:26And I plan to do it again.

00:33They're gonna regret saying that we attacked them last week.

00:36And if it was us, they would know.

00:37And I'll stop in nothing to make them feel...

00:40Easy, Nico. Easy.

00:42In due time, the truth will come to light.

00:44But for now, we'll reap the benefits of their assumptions.

00:49All right?

00:50So for now, we stay level-headed with our eye focused on the one goal.

00:56Spears is right.

00:58Tonight, you two will win the tag team titles.

01:01And on Saturday, I'll win the Women's North American Championship.

01:04That's right.

01:05And then all my new best friends will have new gold championships

01:09to match the color of their hearts.

01:13Because the culling always prevails.

01:16The NXT Tag Team Championships are on the line next.

01:35We take over Atlanta this weekend.

01:45It will all begin Saturday with a great American bash

01:48before Saturday night's main event live nationwide

01:51starting at 8 p.m. Eastern on NBC.

01:54Then on Sunday, WWE Countdown to Evolution sets the tone

01:57before Evolution begins at 7 Eastern for Pacific.

02:00And don't miss the unpredictable Evolution post-show.

02:05Immediately following the historic Evolution events,

02:08all live from Atlanta this weekend.

02:11Don't forget to buy your tickets now

02:13to meet your favorite WWE superstars

02:16at the Evolution Superstore at the center,

02:19July 11th through 13th in Atlanta,

02:21including Rhea Ripley, Stephanie Bacare,

02:24Charlotte Flair, Jacob Batu, and more,

02:26as well as many of your favorite NXT superstars.

02:31What a weekend it is going to be in Atlanta.

02:34But what a matchup this is going to be tonight.

02:40The following contest scheduled for one fall

02:43is for the NXT Tag.

02:47Whoa. Fight.

02:48Tank and Tank bringing the thunder to the challengers

02:52before the bell is even on.

02:53I was gonna say, I don't even know if I necessarily heard a bell,

02:55but finally, we're officially underway.

02:58And look, a Dark Cloud Booker can certainly hang over

03:00the tag team division if the Culling puts gold around their waist.

03:03Man, you talking about the Dark Cloud,

03:05that would be cat-dropping, to say the least.

03:08But right now, Tank and Tank, the belly, boys.

03:11Let me tell you something, these guys beat Axiom and Nathan Fraser,

03:15our tag team, we didn't think it was beautiful.

03:17That tells you, these guys are ready, man.

03:20Well, Graves, do you believe it?

03:21The champions have been locked in tonight.

03:23I think that Hank and Tank understand that they are under fire.

03:27There's a massive threat challenging their NXT Tag Team Championships.

03:31Hence, this start before the match even begun.

03:34Because Hank and Tank know they're in trouble.

03:37So many people think Hank and Tank are beatable.

03:40Let me tell you something, these guys have grown to become a great tag team.

03:44It's time to look at tonight's NXT recap presented by Progressive.

03:48I've been impressed, Booker, as many have by the physical in-ring abilities of Hank and

03:53Tank, and at the end of the day, these guys probably both have more fingers than brain cells.

03:57They've been effective, but the fairytale has to end.

04:00Well, the championship is on the line right now.

04:03Hank and Tank have to look on the outside because the Culling has only gotten stronger since the arrival of Tatum, Paxley, and Booker.

04:09And Booker, will the champions, I just asked this, will the champions have fire that they've been missing at?

04:15Whoa!

04:16I mean, they were in the American match last year.

04:18These guys were kind of the de facto hosts, if you will, having fun in the barbecue.

04:23Like I said, nobody thought these guys were gonna have the success they've had.

04:26Let me tell you something, I was one of them, I didn't believe in Hank and Tank.

04:29Cover, cover, cover, cover, to retain.

04:31No, you certainly did not.

04:32No, but these guys have grown, like I said, as a tag team.

04:34And the thing is, I don't think it's about anything other than just going out there and

04:38being successful through the fans, exactly what they want every week.

04:42I love these guys.

04:43Graves, what are you looking for out of the champions who, of course, won gold,

04:47WrestleMania weekend at standard delivery?

04:49Listen, I'm just curious to see if they can out-strategize the Culling.

04:53When it comes to Nico Vance and Sean Spears, you've got two bodies, but essentially one body.

04:57Hey!

04:58The Culling are locked in as far as chemistry goes.

05:00What a mission.

05:01Nice neck breaker, off the tag, it is Sean Spears, who is now a legal former North American champion.

05:07I also think Hank and Tank might need to show their challengers.

05:12Whoa, there's Ivy Nile of American made.

05:15Ivy Nile has arrived.

05:16We've also seen Maxine Natty, Zelina Vega, the Evolution Women's Summit,

05:20still to come live here on NXT.

05:23Graves, though, as you were saying.

05:25Hank and Tank need to show the Culling something new.

05:28We know Sean Spears studies, he strategizes, he pours over the opposition for

05:31sometimes days if not weeks before a matchup.

05:34We know Spears has a plan tonight.

05:37Hank and Tank need to throw him off his game.

05:39Well, a chilly message was certainly sent earlier to think Nico and Spears could have

05:45mold tonight.

05:46Izzy could be the Women's North American Champion Saturday afternoon in Atlanta.

05:50Could also be a big weekend for Izzy at the Great American Bash.

05:53Her opponent will team with Zarya at WWE Evolution for the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship.

05:59So you start to wonder if maybe Izzy will have some sort of inside track with the

06:03mind games, the manipulation that she learned courtesy of Sean Spears as Hank and

06:08Tank have now taken over this matchup.

06:10Swung the momentum right back in to their corner.

06:14And look at Tank, Seton, Tank looking to fly.

06:19Hulk, Hulk.

06:22It's the Hulk right there.

06:24Able to miss just out of the way and right now.

06:27Izzy and Tank.

06:28Hey, back it up, baby.

06:29Izzy, back it up.

06:30Now, let's go.

06:31Back it up.

06:32Here goes, back it up.

06:33Where is Hulk?

06:34Hulk, you all right?

06:39Hulk, Ash has spilled all over the place.

06:42Hulk, you all right under there?

06:56Yeah, we're back, Corey.

06:57You gotta stop.

06:58Hey, look out.

06:59Yeah, you can get off headset right now.

07:01I mean, action spilling out all over the place.

07:04Corey trying to help out Booker T, Hank trying to get back to his feet.

07:08They're calling in control and the tag team titles are on the line right now.

07:13All action breaking loose.

07:14I'm good.

07:15You all right, Booker?

07:16I'm good.

07:17I know you didn't want to get chopped by Guter years ago.

07:19I'm certainly sure you were scared as hell as that body was flying through.

07:22Look at Vance now teeing off on Hank.

07:26Look, you all right?

07:29Tag team titles again on the line in this juncture as we're trying to get our desk

07:40back assembled.

07:41Good luck with that.

07:42Trying to get Booker back connected.

07:44We need a carpenter.

07:46But Sean Spears in control with Nico Vance.

07:50Izzy on the outside along with Tatum certainly opened the door.

07:53And Rage, has time and maturity been the greatest asset in the growth of Sean Spears?

07:59No doubt about it.

08:00Sean Spears truly is a student of the game.

08:02Keep your eyes on Nico Vance.

08:04Our official's view is obscured.

08:06Classic tag team villainy being employed.

08:10And look, no tag was even made.

08:12The referee didn't see it.

08:14He certainly heard the clap though.

08:16And he believes a tackle.

08:17Maybe he did.

08:18Good job by the official.

08:22But I think what we're seeing right now is exactly what Sean Spears had planned.

08:26Wait, inside title.

08:27Inside title.

08:28Nico with the official.

08:29The official couldn't hop on the cover and it was a near flat.

08:32I'm gonna be honest with you guys, that should be the end of the match.

08:35Hank had Spears wrapped up for probably five if not six seconds.

08:39And if it weren't for Nico Vance, this one will be over.

08:42Where are we going?

08:43Because Sean Spears had that all planned out, man, that was scouting.

08:46And this is what we're seeing here, classic tag team strategy being employed.

08:50The Culling has cut the ring in half.

08:52Hank might as well be three miles away from Tank, who's pacing like a caged animal on the other side.

08:57Well, Booker, I wanna go back to something that Sean Spears had said earlier when he mentioned truth will come to light.

09:05What the hell you think, did he mean by that?

09:07Come on, that's in the Bible, man.

09:09I mean, so shall he think it.

09:11You've heard that before.

09:13That might have been a soliloquy you listened to on the way here.

09:17Wasn't even an answer, but then the West will move on.

09:19He's reaching out for a tag.

09:20Book's still recovering over there.

09:23Look at Nico Vance reaching out for the tag.

09:26Sean Spears in desperate need.

09:28Hank and Tank can feel the title slipping away.

09:31And Nico Vance trying to run a little interference, picked up by Tank.

09:37Hank right now reaching out so close, and Sean Spears able to pull half of the champions back over to the wrong part of town.

09:45And this Booker is what you would call textbook tag team wrestling.

09:49The mugging right now.

09:50I love this guy, Nico Vance.

09:52He's in here on a mission right now.

09:54Got the big man up.

09:55What is he gonna do?

09:56That's the question.

09:58Nico and Spears, excuse me, Nico said earlier along with Sean Spears,

10:03the culling will reap the benefits of others' assumptions.

10:07They need to remain calm, they need to remain collected.

10:10Graves, if you go back to your time in NXT, it was tough for someone who is a newer superstar like Nico Vance to be calm.

10:17No, listen, Nico Vance still scares me half to death.

10:20If it weren't for this business, if it weren't for sports entertainment, the guy would likely be behind bars.

10:25Let's be honest, he's a dangerous, dangerous human being.

10:28Championship's on the line.

10:30NXT Tag Team Titles on the line.

10:39Hank can take the champions.

10:41Spears, Nico Vance, the challengers.

10:43Bang!

10:44Wow!

10:45The top, all hell broke loose before the break.

10:47Booker got knocked down, our table's all in disarray.

10:50The championships though, hanging in the balance right now.

10:54We've been questioning ourselves.

10:55Booker, would Hank and Tank have the fire?

10:58They better find it now.

10:59I mean, Hank and Tank right now, they're doing a hell of a job right now.

11:02Tank legend.

11:03They're just looking to get that tank.

11:04Here we go, baby!

11:06Spears, Hank, big uppercut.

11:09And Hank right now rocking and rolling Atomic Drop.

11:14A little old school.

11:16And whoa, flying through the air with a shoulder attack.

11:19Wait a minute.

11:20Watch out, baby!

11:21It wasn't pretty, but that was a tank flying through the air.

11:27And nobody's ever confused Tank with anything pretty.

11:30Super Kick was blocked.

11:32Circus Panda Cartwheel.

11:33Super Kick.

11:34Spears, a second one this time.

11:37Double up.

11:38Gets into the corner.

11:39Tag was made.

11:40Nico Vance is legal.

11:41Vance to the top.

11:42Championship's on the line.

11:43Flying headbutt connected.

11:45Where are the dangers of?

11:46You gotta be Kimpy.

11:47Look at the leg.

11:48You gotta be Kimpy.

11:49And four.

11:50Just breaking up the cap.

11:52So close.

11:54Was Hank half a second, if not less.

11:59Is he game in disbelief?

12:02And this is for the NXT Tag Team Championships.

12:11Here comes the GPS, here he comes.

12:16Sean Spears, whoa.

12:17Got countered, got hoisted.

12:19And you heard Sean Spears yelling for Tatum.

12:22Tatum distracting the official.

12:24Is he?

12:25With a boop.

12:26Spears with an impaler DDT.

12:30They're gonna steal the titles.

12:33Not, man.

12:35Not quite yet.

12:39That was supposed to seal the deal.

12:43You know that was the trick play the Culling had drawn up in case of emergency.

12:49And it did not do the job.

12:51Let's see Ruka who's gonna face Izzy at the Grand American Bash for the Women's

12:57North American title.

12:59There's Zarya trying to carry away with a once considered a friend in Tatum Paxley.

13:04But Graves, the match is still continuing.

13:06Booker is gonna return down the line.

13:08Break and take.

13:10Here comes the belly boys.

13:12Spears and Vance.

13:14All hell starting to break loose.

13:16And again, this is for the titles.

13:19Big clothesline.

13:20And I think you can get ready Booker for what you do in your car at a red light.

13:26Here we go, baby.

13:28Hold on.

13:29Hold on.

13:30Spears just sacrificed himself for Nico Vance.

13:32Vance taken out by the champions.

13:34Spears turns right back around in the belly boys.

13:38Get out of here Hank.

13:39Into the cover.

13:40One, two, three.

13:42Hank and Tank retain the titles.

13:46Here are your winners and still the NXT Tag Team Champions, Hank and Tank.

13:58To steal a quote from Booker T.

14:01What a night.

14:02What a fight.

14:03See the closing moment.

14:05Sorry again with a casual kidnapping of Tatum Paxley.

14:09Sean Spears willingly takes the bullet for his teammate and ultimately lends to the demise of the

14:16Coen's Tag Team Championship dream.

14:21What an effort by Hank and Tank and Still.

14:26Well, let's now turn our attention to Saturday's Great American Bash.

14:31Because Izzy Dan-

14:32.

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