6. Samoa Joe vs. Shinsuke Nakamura For The NXT Championship Is Now Official, Big Debut on Next Week’s Episode of NXT, 3 NXT Wrestlers Released
On last night’s episode of NXT, NXT General Manager William Regal made it official that the “King of Strong Style” Shinsuke Nakamura will face Samoa Joe at NXT Takeover: Back To Brooklyn for the NXT Championship. Joe was not happy with this decision but finally had to agree.
It was also announced that next week’s show will feature the official NXT TV return of Hideo Itami and the official on-screen NXT debut of former TNA World Heavyweight Champion, Bobby Roode.
NEXT WEEK: @REALBobbyRoode makes his official @WWENXT debut, only on @WWENetwork! pic.twitter.com/c85vQPL2SV
— WWE NXT (@WWENXT) July 28, 2016
Speaking of NXT, the following 3 names have been released:
– ZZ (WWE Tough Enough 2015 Competitor)
– Josh Woods
– Tom Kingdon
5. Did Triple H Book This Week’s Raw?
As we saw on this week’s episode of Raw, Sasha Banks won the Women’s Championship, enhancement/jobber matches returned, Finn Balor defeated Roman Reigns to become the #1 contender for the WWE Universal Championship & more.
There was speculation that Triple H might be the one who booked this week’s Raw, but Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer confirmed that it was Vince McMahon who booked the show.
