{"id":157081,"date":"2026-04-05T19:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=157081"},"modified":"2026-04-06T21:50:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T01:50:04","slug":"tony-dangelo-makes-history-winning-the-nxt-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2026\/04\/05\/tony-dangelo-makes-history-winning-the-nxt-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony D\u2019Angelo Makes History Winning the NXT Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

NXT Stand and Deliver<\/a> was a big night for everyone in NXT as both the men and women have new locker room leaders. The NXT Gold is now in the hands of Lola Vice and Tony D\u2019Angelo.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This title change made history in NXT. Now, Tony D\u2019Angelo is the first ever NXT Grand Slam Champion. He has held the heritage cup, North American Championship, NXT Tag Team Championship, and now the NXT Championship<\/a>. D\u2019Angelo officially etched himself into history of the company and among some of the greatest who has stepped in a WWE NXT ring.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Why This is Important<\/span><\/h2>\n

Tony D\u2019Angelo creating history is important for various reasons. There are the obvious reasons, like boosting his career. Winning the NXT Championship means he finally reached the top of the mountain in NXT, and now a lot more challenges will be facing him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now no matter what, Tony D\u2019Angelo\u2019s name will be brought up when talking about the history of NXT. There is no way to erase him from it. The first ever NXT Grand Slam Champion.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is important because of how many former NXT stars couldn\u2019t accomplish this. The stars that you may think of when you first hear NXT who are extremely successful on the main roster includes Seth Rollins, Finn Balor, Charlotte Flair, and more; they haven\u2019t been able to achieve that accomplishment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even though the North American Championship is fairly new, we have seen stars return to NXT and win championships. We\u2019ve seen Dolph Ziggler return to NXT and win the NXT Championship. It would\u2019ve been possible for someone else to achieve this accomplishment first, but it was something Tony D\u2019Angelo did.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He now has a stacked resume for whenever the main roster starts calling.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What\u2019s Next for Tony D\u2019Angelo?<\/span><\/h2>\n

He did it. Tony D\u2019Angelo is the NXT Champion, but what now? With that gold around his waist he is not only the biggest threat in NXT, but also the largest target. What will happen when he walks to the ring<\/a> for the first time with the championship?<\/span><\/p>\n

Joe Hendry is owed a rematch for the championship, but we don\u2019t know when or if that will take place yet. Who else do you want to see step up to challenge for the NXT Championship now that it is held by D\u2019Angelo?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Even though he just won the championship, D\u2019Angelo has been in NXT for a while and nearly accomplished everything that he could in NXT. The next stop for D\u2019Angelo seems to be the main roster, but that is after what will be hopefully a long championship run. The main roster holds nearly an entirely new locker room, meaning new opponents. Whatever may be next for D\u2019Angelo, it seems like he\u2019s heading in the right direction.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NXT Stand and Deliver was a big night for everyone in NXT as both the men and women have new locker room leaders. The NXT Gold is now in the hands of Lola Vice and Tony D\u2019Angelo.\u00a0 This title change made history in NXT. Now, Tony D\u2019Angelo is the first ever NXT Grand Slam Champion. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5214,"featured_media":157086,"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":[2192,4,5,3],"tags":[9690,8048],"class_list":["post-157081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wrestling","category-wwe","category-nxt","category-wwe-universe","tag-nxt-stand-and-deliver","tag-tony-dangelo"],"modified_by":"Marilee Gallagher, Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157081","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\/5214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157081"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157089,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157081\/revisions\/157089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}