Originally published at Io Shirai & Kay Lee Ray win 2022 women's Dusty Cup
Kay Lee Ray and Io Shirai turns down the Tag Title match.
Headlining tonight’s installment of NXT 2.0 was the finals of the women’s Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic tournament. Io Shirai and Kay Lee Ray met Dakota Kai and Wendy Choo and coming out on the winning end of the match were Kay Lee Ray and Io.
They now join Dakota Kai and Raquel Gonzalez as winners of the women’s version of the tournament. Shirai and Lee Ray were confronted by Toxic Attraction (Mandy Rose, Gigi Dolin & Jacy Jayne), but the Dusty Cup winners stated that they want to break Toxic Attraction by taking away Mandy’s title.
Instead of challenging Gigi and Jacy for their tag titles, Io and Kay Lee Ray are opting to add themselves to Cora Jade and Mandy Rose’s singles match at Stand & Deliver.
Are we going to have a Fatal 4-Way at NXT #StandAndDeliver?!?#WWENXT @WWE_MandyRose @shirai_io @Kay_Lee_Ray @CoraJadeWWE pic.twitter.com/KZOXoTNy3c
— WWE NXT (@WWENXT) March 23, 2022
WHAT A MATCH!! 🔥@Kay_Lee_Ray and @shirai_io have won the #DustyClassic! #WWENXT pic.twitter.com/CFV1uT3yuG
— WWE NXT (@WWENXT) March 23, 2022
As of this writing, there are six matches scheduled for Stand & Deliver on 4/2 and here is the updated lineup:
- NXT North American Championship — Ladder Match: Carmelo Hayes (c) vs. Santos Escobar vs. Solo Sikoa vs. Grayson Waller vs. TBD
- Tommaso Ciampa vs. Tony D’Angelo
- NXT Tag Team Championships — Triple-Threat Match: Imperium (Fabian Aichner & Marcel Barthel) (c) vs. The Creed Brothers (Julius & Brutus Creed) vs. MSK (Nash Carter & Wes Lee)
- NXT Women’s Championship — Fatal 4 Way: Mandy Rose (c) vs. Cora Jade vs. Io Shirai vs. Kay Lee Ray
- NXT Championship: Dolph Ziggler (c) vs. Bron Breakker
- L.A. Knight vs. Gunther