The road to NXT Heatwave continued last night with an episode that leaned heavily on in-ring action, immediate championship stakes and the fallout from The Great American Bash. Lola Vice fought her way back into the NXT Women’s Championship picture by defeating Kelani Jordan and Kali Armstrong in a competitive main event, but the result … Read more
The road to NXT Heatwave takes an unexpected turn tonight after NXT General Manager Robert Stone announced that Layla Diggs is not medically cleared to challenge Zaria for the NXT Women’s North American Championship. Diggs suffered an injury during Saturday’s NXT live event, abruptly taking away the biggest opportunity of her career only days after … Read more
WWE NXT July 7 heads into tonight with the brand officially shifting from Great American Bash fallout into the next stage of its summer direction. Last week’s show was all about reintroducing NXT after a major reset, with Kendal Grey beginning her reign as NXT Women’s Champion, Tony D’Angelo trying to move forward after surviving … Read more
WWE NXT entered last night with less than two weeks remaining before Great American Bash and several important pieces still missing from the June 28 card. By the end of the night, Tavion Heights had earned an emotionally complicated championship opportunity against his former partner, Jaida Parker had suffered another damaging defeat, and the already … Read more
Last night’s WWE NXT was a show built around the women’s division carrying the night, a new challenger emerging for the Men’s Speed Championship, DarkState trying to explain why it cut out one of its own, and Tony D’Angelo suddenly finding himself in the middle of a title picture that has multiple bodies circling him … Read more
WWE NXT returns tonight with a show that has to do more than simply put matches on the board. Last week’s episode was built around new faces making statements, champions being dragged deeper into trouble, and a tag team main event that ended with DarkState kicking Saquon Shugars out of the group in one of … Read more
Last night’s WWE NXT felt like one of those episodes where the brand was clearly trying to reset the board while still pushing several new faces into bigger spots at the same time. It was not a perfect show, and there were definitely moments where the promos felt forced, the pacing felt a little uneven, … Read more
Last night’s WWE NXT felt like another step in the brand’s current reset, but it was also a show that proved NXT is still trying to figure out exactly which stories are ready to carry the summer and which new faces need more time to breathe. The episode had a lot going on: Naraku finally … Read more
WWE NXT enters tonight’s episode feeling like a brand that is being rebuilt in real time, and that makes this show more important than the average week at the Performance Center. Last week’s episode was chaotic by design, with Tony D’Angelo surviving Tavion Heights in the main event before Mason Rook laid out the NXT … Read more
Last night’s WWE NXT felt less like a normal weekly episode and more like the start of another forced rebuild. After the recent call-ups of Fatal Influence, Sol Ruca, Joe Hendry, Ricky Saints and Ethan Page, NXT came into the night with a gutted upper card, a shaken women’s division and a roster badly needing … Read more
