{"id":68310,"date":"2020-05-13T15:24:32","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T19:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=68310"},"modified":"2020-05-13T17:17:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T21:17:45","slug":"preview-wwe-nxt-5-13-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/05\/13\/preview-wwe-nxt-5-13-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: WWE NXT (5\/13\/20)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WWE NXT<\/strong> is returns tonight for another action-packed installment of its weekly episodic broadcast! Last week, NXT went all out to promote a stacked card in advance of the show.\u00a0 This week, they have returned to promoting just two matches, with the rest of the card likely to be announced just before the show (if at all).\u00a0 With that being said, let&#8217;s jump right in and take a look at what has been announced so far.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Finn Balor vs Cameron Grimes<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68311\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/05\/Finn-Balor-vs-Cameron-Grimes-e1589293865996.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finn Balor<\/strong> versus <strong>Cameron Grimes<\/strong> is the first of two advertised matches for the evening.\u00a0 Grimes comes into the match on a two-match winning streak, having won his most recent bout against <strong>Denzel Dejournette<\/strong> in just 22 seconds.\u00a0 Of course, Finn Balor needs no introduction.\u00a0 He is the Prince; a former NXT Champion and the inaugural <strong>WWE<\/strong> Universal Champion.\u00a0 A win here for Balor would just be another day at the office.\u00a0 A win for Grimes would likely be the biggest of his career so far.\u00a0 Of course, Balor has been the target of a mystery attacker lately, so expect some kind of shenanigans to occur at some point.\u00a0 With that being said, Balor will want to finish off the trash-talking Grimes before the attacker is dealt with.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>NXT Tag Team Championship: Matt Riddle &amp; Timothy Thatcher (C) vs Imperium (Marcel Barthel &amp; Fabian Aichner)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68312\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/05\/Matt-Riddle-Timothy-Thatcher-vs-Imperium-e1589293919184.jpg\" alt=\"NXT\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The currently billed main event of the evening sees <strong>Matt Riddle<\/strong> and <strong>Timothy Thatcher<\/strong> square off against <strong>Imperium<\/strong> (<strong>Marcel Barthel<\/strong> and<strong> Fabian Aichner<\/strong>).\u00a0 With<strong> Pete Dunne<\/strong> currently stuck in the UK with lock down in place, Thatcher has stepped up to the plate.\u00a0 Riddle and Thatcher have<em> interesting<\/em> chemistry; with Thatcher being the straight man to Riddle&#8217;s&#8230; &#8220;chilled&#8221; character.\u00a0 Whereas the duo perhaps don&#8217;t possess quite the same level of chemistry as Riddle and Dunne, they are still highly entertaining.\u00a0 Of course, Aichner and Barthel aren&#8217;t here for laughs.\u00a0 They will be turning up to NXT with one goal in mind; defeating the Tag Team Champions.\u00a0 It is perhaps too soon to take the titles away from Thatcher and Riddle, but anything is possible.\u00a0 Anything is possible&#8230; like Thatcher rejoining his former Ringkampf comrades.\u00a0 NXT is available tonight at 8\/7 C on <strong><em>USA Network<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Also On Tap<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&#8211; DX to make a MAJOR announcement<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Rhea Ripley Returns<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Cruiserweight tournament kicks on<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this 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.\u00a0 WWE fan? You can check out an almost unlimited array of WWE and NXT content on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/watch.wwe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WWE Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWE NXT is returns tonight for another action-packed installment of its weekly episodic broadcast! Last week, NXT went all out to promote a stacked card in advance of the show.\u00a0 This week, they have returned to promoting just two matches, with the rest of the card likely to be announced just before the show (if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2482,"featured_media":68379,"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":[84,111,5042,116,751,1194,75,47],"class_list":["post-68310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-nxt","category-wwe-universe","tag-adam-cole","tag-finn-balor","tag-imperium","tag-nxt","tag-matt-riddle","tag-timothy-thatcher","tag-triple-h","tag-wwe"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68310","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\/2482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}