WWE NXT Halloween Havoc 2026 aired from the WWE Performance Center in Winter Park, Florida. Hosted by Danhausen, the show featured six matches, including Grayson Waller defending the NXT Championship against Tony D’Angelo and Kelani Jordan putting the NXT Women’s Championship on the line against Wren Sinclair.
Weapons Wild Match
Myles Borne vs. Tavion Heights
Borne and Heights immediately traded punches before Heights launched his former partner with two overhead throws. Borne retrieved a kendo stick and attacked Heights, but Tavion blinded him with a fire extinguisher and followed with a running shot using the cylinder.
Heights introduced a table, only for Borne to drive a chair into his midsection. Borne attempted a Con-Chair-To against the ring post, but Heights avoided it and threw him into a pile of chairs in the timekeeper’s area with an overhead belly-to-belly suplex. Heights then filled the ring with kendo sticks and rubbish bins.
After Borne drove Heights chest-first into a chair wedged between the turnbuckles, he repeatedly struck him with another chair and wrapped it around Tavion’s injured left ankle. Borne also removed the turnbuckle pads, but Heights responded by throwing a rubbish bin into his face and suplexing him into the exposed steel.
Borne cracked Heights with a toolbox and scattered dozens of nuts and bolts across the canvas. When he attempted the Borne Again, Heights countered by sending him back-first into the metal pieces. Borne recovered with DDTs on and from the apron before powerslamming Heights onto a chair for a near-fall.
Heights escaped after being pinned beneath the ring steps and delivered a Con-Chair-To across Borne’s back. He placed a rubbish bin over Borne’s head and struck it with a running chair shot before smashing Borne’s ankle and applying the Ankle Lock.
Borne escaped by sending Heights into the exposed turnbuckle. After exchanging strikes on the ropes, Borne pushed Heights through the table on the floor. He returned Tavion to the ring and delivered the Borne Again onto a rubbish bin to win.
Winner: Myles Borne via Pinfall
Danhausen’s Butcher Shop Scare Room
Tristan Angels became the first person to enter one of the scare rooms Danhausen had created inside the Performance Center. Angels encountered Sean Legacy before panicking when he realised the room had been designed as a butcher’s shop.
Legacy eventually walked away accompanied by Angels’ girls.
NARAKU vs. Shiloh Hill
NARAKU and Shiloh Hill began brawling backstage following the commercial break. Hill blinded NARAKU with orange mist, sending him into a strange vortex and transporting the fight to an undisclosed location.
Hill explored the decorated haunted house, speaking to a woman playing the piano, headbutting a zombie and attacking several other creatures while searching for his opponent. NARAKU later arrived and fought through zombies inside a bathroom before a talking dead king directed him toward a particular door.
The rivals eventually found each other in a cemetery area inside the Performance Center, where the zombie referee returned. NARAKU speared Hill through the “abyss” door, transporting them back to ringside.
NARAKU rolled Hill into the ring and connected with a two-handed chop, senton and Darkness Falls for a two-count. Hill blocked Enter the Abyss and avoided another senton before mounting his comeback with punches, a discus lariat, Big Boot and tilt-a-whirl powerslam.
Hill’s inside-out senton earned a near-fall, but NARAKU answered with a rolling elbow. When NARAKU attempted to use his mist, Hill blocked it with fog and responded with a pop-up forearm. Hill then delivered the pop-up neckbreaker to secure the victory.
Winner: Shiloh Hill via Pinfall
Zaria vs. Izzi Dame
Dame attempted to play mind games with Zaria, but Zaria chased her down and controlled the early action with a double-leg takedown, shoulder tackles and a bodyslam. Dame answered with a hair-pull takedown, repeated stomps and a surfboard before beginning to work Zaria over in the corner.
Dame remained in control with an inverted backbreaker and several submission holds. Zaria eventually powered free and built momentum with clotheslines, a Pump Kick, running back elbow and release German suplex. She followed with a flying lariat and fallaway slam, but Dame survived both covers.
After avoiding Zaria’s moonsault, Dame delivered a flying Codebreaker for a two-count. The two exchanged heavy strikes before Dame landed a lariat and chokeslam. Zaria fought back with a spear and prepared for the F5, but images and memories from her past appeared and distracted her.
Dame nearly capitalised with a roll-up, although Zaria recovered and landed another spear. Dame countered a subsequent F5 attempt with an inside cradle before connecting with a crucifix bomb and sit-out Gory Bomb for another near-fall.
Dame retrieved the Women’s North American Championship and struggled with the referee over possession of it. Zaria rolled her up and followed with a discus lariat before picking up the title herself. That momentary hesitation allowed Dame to connect with the Busaiku Knee and earn the victory.
Winner: Izzi Dame via Pinfall
Dusty Cup Finalists Exchange Words
Hank Walker and Tank Ledger traded passive-aggressive remarks with Noam Dar and Romeo Moreno before their Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic final on Wednesday.
Robert Stone Punishes The Vanity Project
The Vanity Project blamed Robert Stone for their failure to reach the Dusty Cup final. Stone was angry that the group had interfered during Jackson Drake’s North American Championship defence after he explicitly ordered them to remain uninvolved.
Drake accused Stone of holding a personal vendetta against the group and argued that Kam Hendrix deserved the blame for costing EK Prosper the championship. Stone promised consequences and announced that The Vanity Project would face Chad Gable, Rey Fenix and Dragon Lee in a six-man tag-team match on Wednesday.
Blake Howard, Tatum Paxley and SiriusXM WWE Radio’s Dave LaGreca comprised the Halloween Havoc panel.
Very Nice, Very Evil No Rules and Falls Count Anywhere Match
Zilla Fatu vs. Charlie Dempsey
Dempsey attacked Fatu from behind and immediately targeted his injured right hand. Fatu responded with rapid punches and consecutive Stinger Splashes, but Dempsey regained control with a wrist-lock takedown, Gutwrench Suplex and bridging German suplex.
Fatu sent Dempsey outside and attacked his left shoulder against the announce table. The Birthright intervened and overwhelmed Fatu at ringside before returning him to the ring. Fatu took a shovel from Lexis King, only for Dempsey to strike him from behind with another one.
Dempsey applied a cross armbreaker and later delivered a cravate neckbreaker on the floor. He followed with a running boot that drove Fatu through a decorative tombstone on the stage, but the resulting cover only earned two. The Birthright then positioned two shovels against the ropes as more weapons entered the fight.
Fatu struck Dempsey with a prop gate and landed a DDT. After both men narrowly avoided the shovels, Fatu delivered a low blow. Dempsey recovered by throwing Fatu into the pointed gate and delivering a belly-to-back suplex onto it.
Outside the ring, Dempsey accidentally struck King with a pumpkin before repeatedly slamming Fatu’s injured hand against the steps. He then smashed the hand with another pumpkin and later used a steel chain supplied by Stacks to enhance an Octopus Stretch.
Fatu escaped and began his comeback with two clotheslines, a lariat and senton. He superkicked King and caught Stacks with an uppercut in mid-air before delivering a piledriver and sit-out Banzai Drop combination. A pop-up Samoan Drop earned Fatu a two-count.
Dempsey blocked the Triple Z with a shovel but missed his attempted weapon shot. Fatu then delivered the Triple Z and followed with a flying splash to win the match.
Winner: Zilla Fatu via Pinfall
Cruz Montana and Dion Lennox Trade Final Warnings
UFC star Michael Chandler was announced as the special guest enforcer for Wednesday’s Unsanctioned Match between Cruz Montana and Dion Lennox.
Robert Stone hosted a sit-down confrontation between the two competitors. Montana said Lennox had backed himself into a corner by involving his family and warned that neither DarkState nor Chandler could save him. He promised to thrive under unsanctioned rules and prove that Lennox was not prepared for that life.
Lennox said everything he had done was intended to push Montana over the edge because he wanted to face the most vicious version of him. Describing himself as a disciplined machine, Lennox promised to get back up, run through Montana and eventually break him.
Lennox again mentioned Montana’s daughter and called Cruz a deadbeat father with a broken promise. Montana moved closer and warned that Lennox had made a mistake his parents could not fix. He vowed to beat Lennox within an inch of his life and make him a thing of the past.
Chantel Monroe Encounters Lizzy Rain
Chantel Monroe entered one of Danhausen’s mirror-filled scare rooms and admired her reflection. Thea Hail reminded her that everything was not about Chantel, while Nikkita Lyons shared Monroe’s appreciation for the mirrors.
Monroe described herself as the Personification of Perfection and cited her victory over Lizzy Rain. Skylar Raye accused her of cheating, but Monroe told Hail and Raye to become accustomed to losing. Rain then emerged from a coffin, frightening Monroe before declaring that metal would never die.
WWE NXT Women’s Championship
Kelani Jordan (c) vs. Wren Sinclair
Jordan repeatedly slapped Sinclair during the opening exchanges, prompting Wren to respond with a forearm and repeated stomps. Sinclair caught Jordan in mid-air and delivered a rolling senton, but the champion escaped a belly-to-back suplex and used a running hurricanrana to send her challenger outside.
Sinclair swept Jordan’s legs on the apron and dropkicked her to the floor, although Jordan regained control during the commercial break. The champion later removed the covering from the bottom turnbuckle before landing a splitting leg drop and bridging Northern Lights suplex for separate near-falls.
Sinclair answered with clotheslines, a butterfly suplex, neckbreaker over the top rope and flying crossbody. Jordan countered the Spinning Alabama Slam and survived a series of roll-ups before landing a superkick and driving Sinclair into the bottom turnbuckle.
Jordan began concentrating on Sinclair’s left shoulder with stomps, a slingshot foot stomp and double-knee drop. She continued the assault with a leg drop, Fujiwara armbar and Codebreaker directed at the injured shoulder.
Both women collided with simultaneous crossbodies before trading strikes. Jordan landed a shoulder breaker and frog splash, but Sinclair survived and later escaped another Fujiwara armbar. Sinclair responded with the Swinging Alabama Slam and applied the Final Wrench, forcing Jordan to escape outside.
Jordan drove Sinclair’s injured shoulder into the exposed turnbuckle and landed a 450 splash, but Wren kicked out. Sinclair raised her knees to block a moonsault and nearly won with an inside cradle before reapplying the Final Wrench. Jordan escaped by driving her into the top turnbuckle and then used the bottom rope for leverage to steal the pin.
Winner: Kelani Jordan via Pinfall to retain the WWE NXT Women’s Championship
Robert Stone informed Jordan that she would defend the championship against a mystery opponent on Wednesday. The broadcast also hinted that CM Punk could appear on the show.
WWE NXT TLC 2026 was announced for December 12. Elsewhere, EK Prosper attacked Kam Hendrix inside Danhausen’s laboratory.
WWE NXT Championship
Grayson Waller (c) vs. Tony D’Angelo
D’Angelo attacked Waller as soon as the bell rang, taking him down and unloading with punches. The champion escaped outside, but D’Angelo followed with a suicide dive. Waller then sidestepped a charge into the steps, only for The Don to counter an attempted powerbomb with a back body drop from the steps.
D’Angelo controlled the action with suplexes until Waller targeted his shoulder and neck. Waller dropkicked the left knee, attacked the back of D’Angelo’s neck and applied the cravate. The Don responded with a leg-capture suplex, release German suplex and overhead belly-to-belly throw.
Waller removed a turnbuckle covering and dropped D’Angelo neck-first across the exposed steel. He followed with a baseball-slide lariat and continued working over his challenger inside and outside the ring. Waller also applied an armbar and winked at D’Angelo’s wife and son in the crowd.
The match returned outside, where Waller dropped D’Angelo with a DDT onto the steps and threw him into the LED barricade. His continued taunting of D’Angelo’s family enraged The Don, who fought back with shoulder strikes and a belly-to-back suplex onto the ring steps.
D’Angelo checked on his family before returning Waller to the ring and landing a bridging fisherman’s suplex. Waller answered with a double-foot stomp, knee strike and vertical suplex, while D’Angelo continued displaying his resilience.
The Don eventually countered a top-rope attack with an avalanche belly-to-belly suplex. He followed with a German suplex, two corner clotheslines and a running bulldog. Waller escaped Dead to Rights, but D’Angelo countered the leaping Curb Stomp and landed a pop-up powerslam for a close two-count.
Waller stopped a spear with a knee and connected with the Curb Stomp and a modified crucifix bomb. He then retrieved a crowbar from the steps. D’Angelo fought him off and landed a spear, but Waller blocked Dead to Rights and delivered a rolling cutter through the announce table.
Back inside, D’Angelo countered the rolling Stunner with Dead to Rights, although Waller survived. The Don picked up the crowbar, but the referee intervened. Waller shoved D’Angelo into the official and raked his eyes before attempting to use the weapon.
D’Angelo avoided the crowbar and speared Waller while the referee remained down. Waller then struck D’Angelo with the crowbar from outside the ring and connected with the rolling Stunner to retain the championship.
Winner: Grayson Waller via Pinfall to retain the WWE NXT Championship
Danhausen appeared on the stage after the match and said he had a message for Waller from a close personal friend. CM Punk then appeared on the screen and addressed the champion.
Punk said he had heard Waller repeatedly claim that anyone entering NXT required his permission. After waiting to see who emerged from Halloween Havoc as champion, Punk announced that he would challenge Waller for the NXT Championship on November 4.
Although Waller called NXT his house, Punk described himself as the landlord and warned that the rent would be due on Wednesday.
