WWE NXT Results, Winners, Live Grades, Reaction, Highlights From July 28

Once again airing from the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida, the July 28 episode of WWE NXT featured a new star and heated matches between rivals.

Myles Borne put his North American Championship on the line against the cocky Kam Hendrix. Cruz Montana was ready to speak for the first time as member of the NXT roster.

Shiloh Hill promised to bring The Fog against Tristan Angels. Izzi Dame and Lizzy Rain collided while OTM hoped to shut up BirthRight.

Check out the results, grades and highlights live as NXT airs tonight.

Grayson Waller Declares His Intention to Take Over NXT

After recapping last week's show including the arrival of the former Mike Santana, now Cruz Montana, Grayson Waller interrupted Vic Joseph with a live microphone in the ring.

Waller talked about his career trajectory, falling apart as he was held back by working with Austin Theory and left behind after his story with New Day disappeared.

He focused his attention to resetting his direction by taking the title he never won, the NXT Championship.

Waller talked down about Cruz Montana and Tony D'Angelo then mocked the whole men's roster, calling them soft while the women's roster ran laps around them.

He refused to stop shooting after a stage hand told him to wrap it up. His mic was cut off, and when Waller talked to the camera directly, NXT cut the feed to commercial.

This was the most interesting thing NXT has done in months, maybe even years. While shoot promos are often overused by WWE, this felt appropriate for the moment.

Waller finally got a live microphone to speak his piece and came off as a bigger star than just about any other man in NXT right now.

It is not surprising given that he has always delivered on the mic, but Waller absolutely nailed this, even when it went just a bit too long.

WWE clearly has not seen this in Waller in a while. Hopefully, a fresh start in NXT can help get him back on track as it has other top men of NXT's past.

If this spot is anything to go by, Waller might have just jumped to the top of most likely men to dethrone D'Angelo.

Grade

A

Notable Moments and Observations

• Waller showed off his newly toned abs, honed while he could not get booked.
• It took one sentence of Waller talking about Montana to talk down about his new name.
• Waller rightfully called out that the 10% of the NXT roster ready for the main roster were all women.