BirthRight Pick Up Win To Move On In Dusty Rhodes Classic On WWE NXT

BirthRight’s Charlie Dempsey & Lexis King have advanced in the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic, beating Tokyo Bad Boys on this week’s WWE NXT. Tuesday night’s show saw King and Dempsey defeat Kento & Takuma in a first-round match to move to the next round of the tag team tournament.

The match was King’s second of the night after he lost a singles bout to Zilla Fatu at the opening of the show. It went just under five minutes and saw the AAA tag team get some offense in, but in the end Dempsey pinned Takuma with a Regalplex to get the victory for his team.

You can see clips from the WWE NXT match below. Dempsey and King will now face Vanity Project, who received a first-round by, in the second round of the tournament.

THIS MATCH 🤩 pic.twitter.com/f5AIwLgMlK

— WWE (@WWE) October 7, 2026

BirthRight makes the MOST of the opportunity and ADVANCE in The Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic!! 😲 pic.twitter.com/bVSmjkINfu

— WWE (@WWE) October 7, 2026