Hello and welcome to the WrestleTalk News - I’m Oli Davis, and this is an NXT special.
Whoah, yeah, developmental.
Hey Luke, get in here!
NXT!
Yay.
And we’re starting off with… an injury.
Stop the music.
STOP THE MUSIC!
It’s inappropriate now.
Sorry Luke.
It’s a legit injury.
Bobby Fish Injured Current tag team champion Bobby Fish seemingly
suffered an injury at last weekend’s NXT house show, where live reports described him
as tweaking his knee, with Kyle O'Reilly having to finish the match alone against Heavy Machinery.
The referee threw up the ‘X’ signal, which informs the backstage area about an actual
injury, and Fish was helped out of the arena.
PWInsider have since reported that while Fish was backstage at last night’s NXT TV tapings
in Orlando, he was using crutches and he’ll be having surgery later this week.
There’s no word yet on how long he’ll be out of action for, nor what this means
for The Undisputed Era’s tag team championships - although because they’re a three man faction,
Adam Cole could conceivably step in for his fallen comrade.
SPOILER WARNING!
The following stories come from last night’s NXT TV tapings - which is for episodes that
have not yet aired.
So beware because we’re entering the Spoiler Room Brawl in 3… 2…
Roman Reigns turned heel!
Just kidding, that’ll never happen.
1…
NXT TakeOver: New Orleans Card With Fish out of action, Cole and O’Reilly
interfered in the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic finals, ending Pete Dunne and Roderick Strong
(how about that for a team you never knew you wanted) vs the Authors of Pain in a double
DQ.
This set up a three way between Undisputed Era, Dunne and Strong and AoP for both the
tag team titles and the Dusty Rhodes Classic trophy at NXT TakeOver: New Orleans.
The New Orleans card also contains Andrade Cien Almas vs Aleister Black for the NXT Championship,
Ember Moon vs Shayna Baszler for the Women’s title… and a six man ladder match for a
brand new belt...
WWE Announce NXT North American Championship At the tapings, William Regal announced TakeOver:
New Orleans will debut the NXT North American Championship, who’s first holder will be
decided out of Adam Cole, Velveteen Dream, Killian Dain, Lars Sullivan… and new NXT
signees Ricochet and former TNA Heavyweight Champion EC3.
EC3 WWE Plans Revealed When Regal announced the new belt in front
of the live crowd, EC3 made his proper NXT debut saying he wants to just be handed the
title.
Regal said he’d have to compete for it instead, and booked the six-man ladder match.
According to live reports, EC3 was using the ‘EC3’ name he made in TNA - which I suppose
retcons him being Dixie Carter’s nephew into WWE continuity…
- was given the nickname ‘the One Percenter’ and the crowd gave him a huge reaction, chanting
NX3.
Ricochet WWE Plans Revealed The announcement of Ricochet in the six-man
ladder match also marks his debut programme in WWE, after being signed to the promotion
at the start of the year.
Ricochet is one of the most exciting wrestlers in the world, having won New Japan’s Best
of the Super Juniors tournament in 2014, and being the first ever Lucha Underground Champion
as Prince Puma.
This comes after The Velveteen Dream - who will also be competing to be the inaugural
North American Champion - has been playing his unique style of mind games with Ricochet…
which mainly involves tweeting him animated gifs from the Lion King.
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