WWE NXT Results: Winners, Grades, Reaction and Highlights from January 4

Tag team wrestling was at the heart of the Jan. 4 episode of NXT, a show taped in Melbourne, Australia.

Countrymen TM-61 challenged DIY's Tommaso Ciampa and Johnny Gargano for the NXT Tag Team Championships in the night's main event, but it was another Aussie, Buddy Murphy, who may have stolen headlines with his superb performance in another tag bout.

Murphy, teaming with Tye Dillinger, threw caution to the wind as he combated Bobby Roode and Elias Samson.

The Revival, still looking to avenge its loss from TakeOver: Toronto, looked to get back to its winning ways as it squared off with upstart team Tino Sabbatelli and Riddick Moss. 

Ember Moon, Billie Kay and Liv Morgan rounded out the lineup with a big Triple Threat showdown.

Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Samoa Joe was covered previously, airing on the Dec. 14 episode. That review can be found here.

The Revival vs. Tino Sabbatelli and Riddick Moss

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The team of Riddick Moss and Tino Sabbatelli may one day develop into a quality team in NXT, but Wednesday night, they squared off with the absolute best team in professional wrestling, The Revival, and found out the hard way what it takes to make a championship tandem.

Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder isolated Moss from his partner, working him over with an array of double-team maneuvers that were executed to perfection and in the vein of The Andersons.

Late, the babyfaces cleaned house and appeared to have "upset" in mind, but Dawson tripped up Sabbatelli, and the former tag champions flattened Moss with Shatter Machine for the pinfall victory.

Result

The Revival defeated Tino Sabbatelli and Riddick Moss.

Grade

B-

Analysis

Even the extended squashes involving The Revival are fun.

Dawson and Wilder are simply fantastic. Students of the game, they have put together one of the most impressive runs by any team since the heyday of Jim Crockett Promotions. They are so well-oiled that it appears as though they know what each other will do before it is actually done.

That is a sign of a great team that will hopefully dominate the Raw or SmackDown tag division sometime in the near future.

Tye Dillinger and Buddy Murphy vs. Bobby Roode and Elias Samson

The ongoing rivalry between Tye Dillinger and Bobby Roode continued this week, with Buddy Murphy and Elias Samson thrown in for fun.

Babyfaces Murphy and Dillinger were incredibly over with the Australian fans, as was Roode. Samson was greeted with his typical nuclear heat, not to mention a few chants that Vince McMahon and WWE censors would not approve of.

Roode and Samson withstood an early onslaught and isolated Dillinger, who was arguably the most over Superstar in the entire match. The Perfect 10 showed great resiliency, though, and made the hot tag to Murphy, who exploded into the match with an arsenal of offense that few knew he had in him.

He wiped Roode out with a dive, allowing Dillinger (fresh off a hot tag) to enter the ring and obliterate Samson with the Tye Breaker for the win.

Result

Tye Dillinger and Buddy Murphy defeated Bobby Roode and Elias Samson.

Grade

B

Analysis

How good was Murphy here?

Seriously, if you have not seen the match, go back and rewatch just to fully appreciate the performance he turned in. For a guy who is regularly disregarded by management, he never appeared to be dogging it. If anything, it was the best performance of his career and one that should, in a perfect world, net him some television time.

Otherwise, this was a fun and harmless tag match that did nothing to hurt anyone involved. 

Ember Moon vs. Liv Morgan vs. Billie Kay

Ember Moon continued her march toward Asuka and the NXT Women's Championship on Wednesday night. To take that one step closer, though, she had to overcome the challenge of countrywoman Billie Kay and Liv Morgan in a Triple Threat match.

It proved to be no problem.

Late in the match, Kay wiped Morgan out with a powerbomb but turned right around and into an Eclipse from Moon, who picked up the easy pinfall victory.

Result

Ember Moon defeated Billie Kay and Liv Morgan.

Grade

C

Analysis

One of the biggest issues with the current state of the women's division has been the lack of credible stars. Part of that can be attributed to the 50-50 booking that has overtaken it.

Kay and Peyton Royce are treated like the lead heels one week but are then jobbing to Morgan and Aliyah the next. Here, Kay ate a pin that easily could have been saved for Morgan.

The influx of new talent, including independent standouts Kimber Lee and Heidi Lovelace, cannot come soon enough.

Moon, as always, was impressive and should make for an outstanding next opponent for Asuka.

NXT Tag Team Championship Match: DIY vs. TM-61

Australia's favorite export, TM-61, looked to score the biggest victory of its NXT tenure as it battled DIY's Tommaso Ciampa and Johnny Gargano for the NXT Tag Team Championships.

The challengers started quick, wiping out both Ciampa and Gargano ahead of the commercial break.

The champions slowed the pace just slightly, though, and proved why they are the top tandem in NXT.

The action again picked up until late in the match when Nick Miller showed incredible natural strength, picking up Gargano and planting him with a dead-lift powerbomb. The champion kicked out.

Moments later, Gargano and Ciampa delivered their kick-knee combination to score the successful title defense.

Result

DIY defeated TM-61.

Grade

B+

Analysis

This was an outstanding match that could have been even better on a bigger stage. The only problem with it is the complete and utter lack of continuity.

TM-61's loss to The Authors of Pain earned that team status as the No. 1 contenders. So how does it make any logical sense whatsoever for Miller and Shane Thorne to jump over them and get the opportunity they did here, regardless of whether they were in Australia or not?

It may be a bit nitpicky, but it is one of those small things NXT used to handle so well.