{"id":19357,"date":"2018-05-27T09:30:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T13:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=19357"},"modified":"2018-05-27T02:49:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T06:49:08","slug":"tye-dillinger-makes-surprise-nxt-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/05\/27\/tye-dillinger-makes-surprise-nxt-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Tye Dillinger Makes Surprise NXT Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night at the NXT Live Event in Orlando, Florida, former NXT Superstar <strong>Tye Dillinger<\/strong> made a return to NXT to answer an open challenge from NXT&#8217;s <strong>Marcel Barthel<\/strong> (formerly <strong>Axel Dieter Jr.<\/strong> in Germany&#8217;s <strong>wXw<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/AKonWrestling\/status\/1000553101861023745<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/OutnumbersAlI\/status\/1000619798244478976<\/p>\n<p>Tye Dillinger, who now competes as part of the\u00a0<em><strong>Smackdown Live\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>roster, returned to the brand that made him <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2016\/12\/11\/tye-dillinger-feel-good-story-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one of WWE&#8217;s great underdog characters<\/a>, where he competed from 2013 through 2017. Prior to that, he worked for WWE&#8217;s developmental with <strong>Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW)<\/strong> and <strong>Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Revival make surprise appearance at NXT Live in Oklahoma City\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rkVmCZtDsM4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Dillinger&#8217;s surprise return marks the latest former NXT Superstar to return to the brand at Live Events, following the return of former NXT Tag Team Champions (and current <em><strong>Raw\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>tag team)\u00a0<strong>The Revival<\/strong> (<strong>Scott Dawson<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Dash Wilder<\/strong>) at an NXT Live Event in Oklahoma on March 17 (where they answered a challenge from current tag team champions, <strong>Undisputed Era<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Kyle O&#8217;Reilly<\/strong> and <strong>Roderick Strong<\/strong>) and the return of <strong>Tyler Breeze<\/strong>\u00a0from <em>Smackdown Live\u00a0<\/em>the following night in Jacksonville, Florida (where he also answered Barthel&#8217;s open challenge). The Revival would go on to work the rest of the Live Event tour in Texas, in San Antonio, Dallas and Houston.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Welcome back to NXT TYLER BREEZE! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NxtJacksonville?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NxtJacksonville<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CZmmLud50Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/CZmmLud50Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; JoshK (@figure22leglock) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/figure22leglock\/status\/997653379194277888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 19, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While some have thought they may be returning to NXT, as reports last summer had mentioned that some main roster talent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/wi\/news\/2017\/0727\/628543\/backstage-news-on-wwe-doing-another-superstar-shakeup\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">may see their way back to NXT<\/a> to avoid getting lost in the main roster shuffle, it appears that the four WWE Superstars were most likely special appearances due to being left off the current WWE European tour. Interestingly, after The Revival made their return, current <em>Raw<\/em> star and former 4x Raw Women&#8217;s Champion and NXT Women&#8217;s Champion <strong>Sasha Banks<\/strong> tweeted the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Can I come next time<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mercedes Mon\u00e9 Varnado (@MercedesVarnado) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MercedesVarnado\/status\/997472767858692096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 18, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night at the NXT Live Event in Orlando, Florida, former NXT Superstar Tye Dillinger made a return to NXT to answer an open challenge from NXT&#8217;s Marcel Barthel (formerly Axel Dieter Jr. in Germany&#8217;s wXw). https:\/\/twitter.com\/AKonWrestling\/status\/1000553101861023745 https:\/\/twitter.com\/OutnumbersAlI\/status\/1000619798244478976 Tye Dillinger, who now competes as part of the\u00a0Smackdown Live\u00a0roster, returned to the brand that made him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":19364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_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":[2,5,3],"tags":[2775,116,1701,243,230,860],"class_list":["post-19357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-nxt","category-wwe-universe","tag-marcel-bartha","tag-nxt","tag-nxt-live-event","tag-the-revival","tag-tye-dillinger","tag-tyler-breeze"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19357","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}