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| Promotion | WWE | ||
| Brand(s) | NXT NXT UK | ||
| Date | January 25, 2020 | ||
| City | Houston, Texas | ||
| Venue | Toyota Center | ||
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The 2020Worlds Collide was the secondWorlds Collideprofessional wrestlinglivestreamingevent produced byWWE. It was held for wrestlers from the promotion'sNXT andNXT UKbrand divisions. The event aired exclusively on theWWE Network and took place on January 25, 2020, at theToyota Center inHouston,Texas.
Six matches were contested at the event, including one on the Kickoff pre-show. In the main event, NXT UK's Imperium (Walter,Fabian Aichner,Marcel Barthel, andAlexander Wolfe) defeated NXT'sThe Undisputed Era (Adam Cole,Kyle O'Reilly,Bobby Fish, andRoderick Strong) in aneight-man tag team match.
Worlds Collide is a series ofprofessional wrestling shows that began on January 26, 2019, whenWWE held an interbrand tournament featuring wrestlers from theirNXT,NXT UK, and205 Livebrands.[1][2][3] The "Worlds Collide" name was subsequently adopted for aWWE Network series that aired in April 2019. During theRoyal Rumble 2020 weekend announcements, WWE revealed that a second Worlds Collide event would airlive on theWWE Network on January 25, 2020, and be held at theToyota Center inHouston,Texas, though unlike theprevious year's event, it would only feature the NXT and NXT UK brands and not also 205 Live. Also unlike the 2019 event, there was not a Worlds Collide Tournament with a future championship opportunity at stake. Instead, the card's matches were interbrand matches pitting wrestlers from NXT against those from NXT UK.[4]
The card included six matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayedheroes,villains, orless distinguishable characters in scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. Results were predetermined by WWE's writers on the NXT and NXT UK brands,[5][6] while storylines were produced on WWE's weekly television shows,NXT andNXT UK.
| Role: | Name: |
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| Commentators | Tom Phillips |
| Nigel McGuinness | |
| Spanish commentators | Carlos Cabrera |
| Marcelo Rodríguez | |
| Ring announcers | Alicia Taylor |
| Andy Shepherd | |
| Referees | Drake Wuertz |
| Darryl Sharma | |
| D. A. Brewer | |
| Interviewer | Cathy Kelley |
| Pre-show panel | Charly Caruso |
| Sam Roberts | |
| Andy Shepherd |
On the pre-show,Mia Yim took onKay Lee Ray. In the end, Ray rolled up Yim while grabbing the ropes to win.[7]
The actual pay-per-view opened withIlja Dragunov facingFinn Bálor. In the end, Bálor performed the 1916 DDT to win the match.[7]
Next,Angel Garza defended theNXT Cruiserweight Championship againstIsaiah "Swerve" Scott,Jordan Devlin, andTravis Banks in afatal four-way match. In the end, Garza performed the Wing Clipper on Scott, however, Devlin broke up the pin by delivering a headbutt to Garza and threw him out of the ring. Devlin then performed the Devlin Side on Scott and pinned him to win the championship for the first time.[7]
After that,Moustache Mountain (Trent Seven andTyler Bate) facedDIY (Johnny Gargano andTommaso Ciampa). In the end, Ciampa and Gargano performed their old tag finisher, Meeting in the Middle (running knee smash/superkick combo) on Seven to win the match. After the match, both teams shook hands and hugged, with Ciampa and Gargano raising Bate's and Seven's hands afterward.[7]
The penultimate match wasRhea Ripley defending theNXT Women's Championship againstToni Storm. In the end, after Storm missed the Frog splash, Ripley performed the Riptide to retain the championship.[7]
In the main event,Imperium (NXT UK ChampionWalter,Fabian Aichner,Marcel Barthel, andAlexander Wolfe) defeatedThe Undisputed Era (NXT ChampionAdam Cole,NXT Tag Team ChampionsKyle O'Reilly andBobby Fish, andRoderick Strong) in aneight-man tag team match despite being outnumbered 4-3 after Wolfe suffered an injury early in the match.[7]
A Worlds Collide event was not held in 2021, but it was announced to return in2022.[8] The 2022 event was also the first Worlds Collide event to air onPeacock after the American version of the WWE Network merged under Peacock in March 2021.[9]
| No. | Results | Stipulations | Times[7] | ||||
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| 1P | Kay Lee Ray defeatedMia Yim bypinfall | Singles match[10] | 9:15 | ||||
| 2 | Finn Bálor defeatedIlja Dragunov bypinfall | Singles match[11] | 14:00 | ||||
| 3 | Jordan Devlin defeatedAngel Garza (c),Isaiah "Swerve" Scott, andTravis Banks bypinfall | Fatal four-way match for theNXT Cruiserweight Championship[12] | 12:05 | ||||
| 4 | DIY (Johnny Gargano andTommaso Ciampa) defeatedMoustache Mountain (Trent Seven andTyler Bate) bypinfall | Tag team match[13] | 22:55 | ||||
| 5 | Rhea Ripley (c) defeatedToni Storm bypinfall | Singles match for theNXT Women's Championship[14] | 10:15 | ||||
| 6 | Imperium (Walter,Fabian Aichner,Marcel Barthel, andAlexander Wolfe) defeatedThe Undisputed Era (Adam Cole,Kyle O'Reilly,Bobby Fish, andRoderick Strong) bypinfall | Eight-man tag team match[15] | 29:50 | ||||
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The WWE Worlds Collide Tournament, which will be taped for a WWE Network special, kicks off with a 15-Superstar Battle Royal on Saturday, Jan. 26, at the 8 a.m. session of Axxess.