NXT Takeover: Stand & Deliver

NXT TakeOver: Stand & Deliver is an upcoming professional wrestling event produced by WWE, featuring their third brand WWE NXT, that will take place on May 12, 2021 at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas.

It will be a special episode of WWE NXT and the thirteenth live professional wrestling event streamed online via the WWE Network as well as on the USA Network.

Background
NXT TakeOver: Stand & Deliver will feature professional wrestling matches involving different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines that played out on the WWE NXT television program. Wrestlers portrayed faces (heroes) or heels (villains) as they followed a series of events that built tension and culminated in a match or a series of matches.

At NXT Takeover: Vengeance, Kurt Angle would announce that the matches between Tay Conti, Vicky Haskins, Natalya, Shaul Guerrero, Cesaro and Bronson Reed would determine the next challengers for the NXT Championship, NXT Women's Championship and NXT North American Championship respectively. Cesaro and Reed would end in a draw after both men pinned each other's shoulders to the mat after a double clothesline and it would be revealed that both were the #1 Contender and that both men would face the winner of Mason Wolfe and Tessa Blanchard in a Triple Threat match at the next Takeover. Tay Conti managed to defeat Vicky Haskins to become the #1 Contender for the NXT Women's Championship while Natalya defeated Shaul Guerrero to become the #1 Contender for the NXT North American Championship.

All three of these matches would be confirmed for Takeover: Stand & Deliver on the April 7, 2021 episode of NXT by Kurt Angle while it was also revealed that the Superbad Gods (Kip Sabian & Sammy Guevara) would defend their Tag Team Championships at Takeover as well against two unnamed opponents. On the April 28, 2021 episode of NXT during the contract signing for the NXT Women's Championship match it was revealed that the match would be a Submission match after Ray allowed Conti to choose the stipulation for the match. Afterwards Conti would be attacked and put through a table by Kay Lee Ray's new muscle, Jazzy Gabert.