Stuck between double tapings, Damon Kemp and Eddy Thorpe's match on the July 4, 2023 edition of "WWE NXT" was the final bout of the night. With only eight minutes scheduled, their hard-hitting fight saw Thorpe gain the victory. Thorpe may have won the overall contest, but both men won the "MVP" award that night for going out there with no safety net and hoping their battle would bring relevance to the Underground style for the first time ever, which it did.

"We thought of it as if they didn't do another match after this, we sucked," Kemp said. "That day, we did a double taping. We were the last match...everything was stacked against us. We literally wrestled at 11 p.m. at night...We killed it...Me and Eddy take great pride in bringing 'NXT' Underground back."

Since the favorable reception from Kemp and Thorpe's match last year, two more Underground matches were showcased, with Thorpe winning his second battle against Dijak on December 26, 2023, and the first-ever women's Underground match between Lola Vice and Natalya, with Vice as the victor, at this year's Spring Breakin'. Not long after his career-defining match, Kemp joined "NXT's" No Quarter Catch Crew before leaving WWE this past July. He is currently a free agent.