THE NXT LVL - NXT LVL UP recap for March 31, 2023

Valentina Feroz beats Lash Legend. During the match, Elektra Lopez shows up to watch from ringside, and after Valentina tumbles out following a meteora and a pinfall attempt, Lopez tries to grab her from behind only for Valentina to shove her into the ring steps. Lash Legend tries to hit Valentina with a big boot as she gets back in the ring, but Valentina avoids it and stacks Lash Legend up in a schoolkid pin-style roll-up for the win.

In backstage footage from earlier today, Kelly Kincaid interviews Nathan Frazer. Frazer says Javier Bernal claims to have a massive body but is actually a "massive fraud," but admits that Bernal has taken the fight to some of the brightest stars in NXT. He says it will be a challenge, but the path to enlightment was not easy. Frazer then tells Bernal to bring his best.

We hear from Dani Palmer, who says that being on LVL UP is exactly what the title implies: levelling up in life. She says she is no stranger to that, as she became a multiple-time champion in Division I sports in a sport she had never played and made it to WWE before she even stepped in a wrestling ring. Palmer says she plans to dominate with a hybrid style that nobody has ever seen, and while she is a daredevil, she is not stupid. She says that she sees someone as technical as Lyra Valkyria or lethal as Zoey Stark, fear will definitely be present, but she leans into that fear that stops most girls, which presses her on every side, but never crushes, as she makes the impossible possible.

Nathan Frazer beats Javier Bernal.