Generation NXT - NXT recap for March 27, 2019

Adam Cole shows up to start tonight's show. The NXT Championship is seen on a table in the center of the ring. Cole states that he outlasted four of NXT's very best last week and earned the right to face Johnny Gargano for the vacant NXT Championship, and while he could give a million reasons for why he will be champion, he wants Gargano to come to the ring. Gargano shows up and meets Cole in the ring, and sits on the top turnbuckle as dueling fan chants fill the arena. The chants end after Cole yells that he needs no support and can win the title on his own and Gargano states that he loves the chants. Gargano then demands Cole list off all the reasons that Cole knows he will beat him, then demands the fans get their cameras out as NXT history is being made because Cole is at a loss for words. He then asks Cole if he knows that he is in the fight of his life, as Gargano states that his path ends at the NXT Championship and that his path goes through Cole, who will find out why he is called "Johnny Takeover." Cole is interrupted by "Johnny Takeover," then implies that the nickname does not intimidate him as Gargano has not been in the winner's circle at TakeOver and that "Johnny Participation" is more fitting. He states that Gargano cannot beat him in one fall, much less two, because he become the first-ever North American Champion, first-ever War Games Match winner and winner of his debut match all at TakeOver events, and plans to repeat history with a NXT title win. Cole claims that he earned all of his accolades, and asks what Gargano has done to earn a championship match. Gargano admits he didn't get the red carpet rolled out for him like Cole did, and that he was initially told he wasn't good enough to be in NXT. He talks about how he fought for his one chance - which he got in the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic while thrown into a tag team with Tommaso Ciampa - and fought for his life alongside Ciampa to make it. After the tournament, a month passed with no response, but he was suddenly invited back again and again, because every time he showed up, he poured his heart out in the ring and fought so hard that the fans chanted for him. The louder they chanted, the harder he fought for a chance in NXT, as the fans fought for him and he fought for them back to defy the odds and earn his NXT contract and all of his accolades here. Gargano states he earned everything he could here because NXT is his life, and that he was not "handed a top spot in a group of cronies who fought for [him] since day one," and he would not change a thing. He then states he will fight to make his dream come true, fulfill his destiny and finally become NXT Champion. Cole leaves, then turns back and tells Gargano that he can fight all he wants, but he will become the NXT Champion in the end because the win will not be definitive according to WWE CEO and NXT founder Triple H, but undisputed as Bobby Fish, Kyle O'Reilly and Roderick Strong stand at the top of the ramp.

Vanessa Borne and Aliyah vs. Lacey Lane and Kacy Catanzaro ends in a no-contest. During the match, "The Queen of Spades" Shayna Baszler, Marina Shafir and Jessamyn Duke show up and attack Lacey Lane and Kacy Catanzaro while Vanessa Borne and Aliyah leave. Kacy Catanzaro fights back, but she falls victim to a Kirafuda Clutch from Baszler. Baszler, Duke and Shafir head to the announce table, and Baszler announces that this will keep happening as long as she is mistreated before standing on the announce table and raising up the NXT Women's Championship.

Matt Riddle beats "The Finest" Kona Reeves with the Bromission. During the match, two women carry Velveteen Dream out on a couch, and this distracts Riddle to the point that he almost loses. After the match, Velveteen Dream interrupts the ring announcer to congratulate Riddle on his win and acknowledge him as his challenger at NXT TakeOver: New York. After the match, Velveteen Dream interrupts the ring announcer to congratulate Riddle on his win and acknowledge him as his challenger at NXT TakeOver: New York. Riddle takes the goblet out of Velveteen Dream's hand and drinks out of it before tossing it aside, then takes Dream's microphone and tells him "I'll see you in New York...bro."

Aleister Black and Ricochet beat The Forgotten Sons (Wesley Blake and Steve Cutler) to win the 2019 Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic and face War Raiders (Hanson and Rowe) for the NXT Tag Team Championships at NXT TakeOver: War Games. During the match, Jaxson Ryker gets ejected from the match after getting caught pulling Aleister Black's foot off the rope as Wesley Blake goes for a pinfall attempt. After the match, War Raiders show up and stare down with Aleister and Ricochet in the ring to end the show.