Aftermath
As a result of winning the 2022 Men's Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic, The Creed Brothers (Brutus Creed and Julius Creed) were scheduled to take on Imperium (Fabian Aichner and Marcel Barthel) for the NXT Tag Team Championship at NXT: Roadblock on March 8,[21] but they were attacked backstage. They were replaced by MSK (Wes Lee and Nash Carter). The match ended when The Creed Brothers attacked both teams, ending the match in a no-contest with Imperium retaining the titles.[22] The following week, a triple threat tag team match between the three teams for the titles was scheduled for NXT Stand & Deliver.[23]
On the following episode of NXT, NXT North American Champion Carmelo Hayes was confronted by Pete Dunne, setting up a match between the two for the title for the following week,[24] where Hayes retained after interference from Trick Williams. Hayes then announced that he would defend the title in a ladder match at Stand & Deliver.[21] This would be Dunne's final NXT appearance before he was promoted to the main roster on SmackDown and debuted on the March 11 episode of SmackDown under the new ring name Butch, joining Sheamus and Ridge Holland as part of The Brawling Brutes.[25]
During Vengeance Day, a match between Tommaso Ciampa and Dolph Ziggler was announced for the following week where the winner would be the number one contender for Bron Breakker's NXT Championship. Ziggler won the match after interference from a cameraman, who was later revealed to be Ziggler's tag team partner, Robert Roode. Afterwards, Breakker attacked Ziggler and Roode and, along with Ciampa, challenged them to a match for the March 1 episode.[24] On that episode, Ciampa and Breakker won when Ciampa pinned Ziggler. As a result, Ciampa was added to the match, making it a triple threat match, and the match was scheduled for NXT: Roadblock.[21]
After Carmelo Hayes and Pete Dunne announced their NXT North American Championship match for the following week, Cameron Grimes attacked Hayes and Trick Williams from behind, setting up a match between Grimes and Williams immediately afterwards, where Grimes was victorious.[24] Grimes then qualified for the final spot in the NXT North American Championship ladder match by winning a triple threat match on the March 29 episode of NXT.[26]
Also on NXT, Grayson Waller and LA Knight had their match, where Waller won, but after the match, Knight attacked Waller and Sanga.[24] The following week, Knight challenged Waller to a Last Man Standing match, and Waller accepted. The match was subsequently scheduled for Roadblock.[21]
After Indi Hartwell and Persia Pirotta failed to defeat Toxic Attraction (Gigi Dolin and Jacy Jayne) for the NXT Women's Tag Team Championship, they entered the 2022 Women's Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic, but lost to Dakota Kai and Wendy Choo in the first round.[21]
Also on the following episode of NXT, Imperium (Gunther, Fabian Aichner, and Marcel Barthel) confronted The Creed Brothers (Brutus Creed and Julius Creed) and Malcolm Bivens in the ring. A brawl broke out between the two teams, and Solo Sikoa superkicked Gunther to save Bivens. This led to a match between Gunther and Sikoa for the following week[24] where Gunther was victorious.[21]
While the 2022 Vengeance Day was held as a television special, the following year's event returned to livestreaming, although not PPV, as beginning with the 2022 calendar year, NXT's major events no longer air on PPV, just livestreaming. The 2023 event was also the first standalone NXT livestreaming event since NXT TakeOver: Portland in February 2020 to take place outside of Florida. The 2023 event was also the first Vengeance to air on Peacock due to the American version of the WWE Network merging under Peacock in March 2021.[27] It was also the first Vengeance, as well as NXT's first major event, to livestream on Binge in Australia after the Australian version of the WWE Network merged under Foxtel's channel Binge in January 2023.[28][29]
