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The Brit-Am brawlers throw down with The Forgotten Sons' Steve Cutler & Wesley Blake. Video courtesy of the award-winning WWE Network.

The Forgotten Sons’ Steve Cutler & Wesley Blake put a hurting on the rough-and-tough Oney Lorcan & Danny Burch in an intense duel to move on to the next round of the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic.

The lower back of Lorcan was a bull’s-eye for Cutler & Blake, who hindered the usually torpedoing bruiser with an array of hard-hitting strikes and brutal tandem offense. At one point, Cutler hip-tossed Blake onto Lorcan’s lower back in the corner. Although Burch picked up the pace for his wounded tag partner by downing his opposition with a barrage of attacks, Cutler & Blake continued to rally.

As a charged-up Lorcan hopped on the top turnbuckle, Blake rained on the Brit-Am alliance’s parade by catching him mid-air with a running powerbomb into Cutler’s knees, which was followed up with the heavy hitters’ vicious inverted DDT/stomp combo to land the pinfall.

The hard-fought victory brings the “Savages of NXT” a step closer toward NXT tag team supremacy.