Tyler Breeze & Fandango join forces with Kushida to battle Alexander Wolfe, Marcel Barthel & Fabian Aichner in Six-Man Tag Team action.

If Imperium thought it could single out Kushida as an easy target after arriving on NXT, that idea was flipped on its head.

After standing up to WALTER and his teammates last week when Imperium pre-empted his scheduled match, Kushida faced the difficult task of recruiting two teammates to help him answer Imperium’s challenge.

Luckily for Kushida, he located help that was equal parts formidable and fashionable in Breezango.

The recently reunited team of Tyler Breeze & Fandango joined forces with Kushida to take on, and ultimately defeat, the Imperium triumvirate of Alexander Wolfe, Fabian Aichner and Marcel Barthel. Imperium looked like a well-oiled machine for much of the encounter, slowing the pace and isolating Tyler Breeze in their corner.

Breeze was eventually able to tag in Fandango, who stunned Imperium with blistering offense, including a physics-defying tope con giro. Moments later, Kushida snatching the victory from thin air with a crafty bridge pinfall on Barthel.

Though Imperium came up short, its leader did not. WALTER appeared on the ramp to blindside the celebrating Kushida, nearly taking off his head with a devastating big boot. Though they suffered a defeat in the latest battle, The Ring General and his Imperium comrades stood tall in the latest chapter of a war with Kushida that seems to be just beginning.