After months of tension amongst best friends, Zaria finally had enough last week. Instead of even letting Sol Ruca have a chance to win the NXT Women’s Championship from Jacy Jayne, Zaria brutally attacked her before the match could even start. As our man Gomez pointed out after the match, Sol foolishly agreed to let the match begin despite barely being able to stand, giving Jacy Jayne an opening to hit a Rolling Encore and score an easy victory to retain her championship. The ladies will meet one last time, face to face, before squaring off in the ring together. It will be an intense conversation, as their history runs deep. From once fighting alongside one another to fighting against each other.

Interim NXT General Manager Robert Stone made a questionable call and rewarded Zaria’s bad behavior by making her Jacy’s new #1 contender. That title match will take place tonight on NXT. Months before Zaria betrayed Sol Ruca, Izzi Dame and The Culling cut ties with Tatum Paxley and cost her the NXT Women’s Championship at NXT Gold Rush in November. Several intense showdowns (with a few of them involving a chainsaw) later and the two former friends will meet at Vengeance Day this Saturday with Izzi’s Women’s North American Championship on the line. The Vanity Project benefitted from Tony D’Angelo’s continuing crusade for revenge against DarkState and became the new NXT Tag Team Champions when Tony hit a brutal spinebuster on Saquon Shugars on the ring apron. Later in the night, they got into an altercation in the locker room with Hank, Tank, and Shiloh Hill, which set up a 6-man tag team match for tonight’s show.