{"id":133185,"date":"2025-04-01T22:51:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T02:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=133185"},"modified":"2025-04-01T22:53:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T02:53:28","slug":"major-wwe-title-changes-hands-on-april-1-nxt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/04\/01\/major-wwe-title-changes-hands-on-april-1-nxt\/","title":{"rendered":"Major WWE Title Changes Hands On April 1 NXT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The April 1 edition of WWE NXT saw a major title change. This changes things in a major way heading into Stand &amp; Deliver season. Here is everything you need to know.<\/p>\n<h2>AND NEW: NXT North American Champion Ricky Saints<\/h2>\n<p>Ricky Saints challenged Shawn Spears for the NXT North American Championship on the April 1 show. This was Saints&#8217; first challenge for a WWE championship and, more specifically, an NXT championship.<\/p>\n<p>The odds were stacked against Saints as Spears had The Culling in his corner. During the match, Saints had to deal with all members of The Culling. Ultimately, Saints picked up the victory, thus ending Spears&#8217; reign at just 28 days.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">HE DID IT!!!!<\/p>\n<p>RICKY SAINTS IS THE NEW NORTH AMERICAN CHAMPION!!!<a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WWENXT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WWENXT<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G7jaTTKjJQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/G7jaTTKjJQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WWE (@WWE) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE\/status\/1907251639574020349?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Saints became the 25th champion in the NXT North American Championship&#8217;s lineage. Having joined NXT on February 11, Saints has now surpassed Ethan Page as the fastest to claim a title upon debut. Saints&#8217; post-victory celebration did not last too long because Page then attacked him, and this would surely be his first challenge as champion.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">PARTY. OVER. <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficialEGO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@OfficialEGO<\/a> couldn&#39;t let <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/starkmanjones?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@starkmanjones<\/a> have the spotlight! \ud83d\ude21<a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WWENXT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WWENXT<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BuMwQeKdeF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/BuMwQeKdeF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WWE (@WWE) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE\/status\/1907252518280679815?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Regardless, with only a couple of weeks until Stand &amp; Deliver, there is a good chance that Saints will be heading into WrestleMania 41 weekend as a WWE champion.<\/p>\n<h3><em>The full WWE NXT results from April 1 can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/04\/01\/wwe-nxt-results-4-1-25\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/h3>\n<p><strong>More From LWOS Pro Wrestling<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Header photo \u2013 WWE \u2013<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<em>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a> for more on WWE NXT, Ricky Saints, and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You can check out WWE programming on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/81788927\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Netflix<\/a>\u00a0(Raw),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usanetwork.com\/wwe-friday-night-smackdown\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USA Network<\/a>\u00a0(SmackDown),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cwtv.com\/shows\/wwe-nxt\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The CW<\/a>\u00a0(NXT),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tubitv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tubi<\/a>\u00a0(WWE Evolve),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aetv.com\/wwe\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A&amp;E<\/a>\u00a0(WWE Superstar Sunday \u2013 Rivals, WWE LFG, and Greatest Moments) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.peacocktv.com\/watch\/home\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peacock<\/a>\u00a0(WWE Main Event as well as archives and premium live event streaming). Follow WWE on social media to relive top moments and matches on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/wwe\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>, and catch fast-paced action on X (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/i\/events\/1773457579022155776?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WWE Speed<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The April 1 edition of WWE NXT saw a major title change. This changes things in a major way heading into Stand &amp; Deliver season. Here is everything you need to know. AND NEW: NXT North American Champion Ricky Saints Ricky Saints challenged Shawn Spears for the NXT North American Championship on the April 1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4545,"featured_media":133187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2192,4,5,3],"tags":[157,116,2537,9185,4669,8836,47,1251],"class_list":["post-133185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-wrestling","category-wwe","category-nxt","category-wwe-universe","tag-ethan-page","tag-nxt","tag-nxt-north-american-championship","tag-ricky-saints","tag-shawn-spears","tag-stand-deliver","tag-wwe","tag-wwe-nxt"],"modified_by":"Chinyere Okafor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4545"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133185"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133190,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133185\/revisions\/133190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}