{"id":69593,"date":"2020-06-02T13:02:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T17:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=69593"},"modified":"2020-06-02T13:02:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T17:02:39","slug":"preview-wwe-nxt-6-3-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/06\/02\/preview-wwe-nxt-6-3-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: WWE NXT (6\/3\/20)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WWE NXT<\/strong> returns to our screens this Wednesday! An action-packed night of wrestling looks to be in-store once more.\u00a0 This week&#8217;s show follows last week&#8217;s<em> excellent<\/em> cage fight between <strong>Matt Riddle<\/strong> and <strong>Timothy Thatcher<\/strong>, so it has much to live up to.\u00a0 With this week&#8217;s episode hosting the culmination of the Cruiserweight Tournament, it just might do that.\u00a0 However, in traditional NXT fashion, only two matches have so far been confirmed.\u00a0 We will be sure to update this preview as more is announced.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s dive in!<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Mia Yim vs Candice LeRae<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69594\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/05\/Mia-Yim-vs-Candice-LaRaae-e1590960693958.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\"><\/p>\n<p>The paths of these two have crossed aplenty over the years.\u00a0 Their first meeting came way back in 2014 &#8211; when the <strong>Lucha Sisters<\/strong> (<strong>Leva Bates<\/strong> and<strong> Mia Yim<\/strong>) defeated the World&#8217;s Cutest Tag Team (<strong>Candice LeRae<\/strong> and <strong>Joey Ryan<\/strong>) for the<strong> SHINE<\/strong> Tag Team titles.\u00a0 For much of 2019, they were a tag team together in NXT.\u00a0 Since then, however, Candice has undergone something of an attitude adjustment &#8211; now hellbent on beating the woman who she believes has been handed opportunity after opportunity on a &#8220;silver platter&#8221;.\u00a0 This is Yim&#8217;s chance to silence this new version of LeRae.\u00a0 Can she do it? Tune in to find out.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Interim NXT Cruiserweight Championship Tournament Final: Drake Maverick vs El Hijo Del Fantasma<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69595\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/05\/Drake-Maverick-vs-Hijo-Del-Fantasma-e1590960768943.jpg\" alt=\"WWE NXT\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Weeks of the gruelling Cruiserweight Championship Tournament have led to his moment.\u00a0 The recently-debuted, enigmatic <strong>El Hijo del Fantasma<\/strong> looks to defeat the emotional underdog story of the year, <strong>Drake Maverick<\/strong>.\u00a0 For weeks now, Fantasma has easily fought off the the masked men &#8211; leading to some claims that Fantasma is leading them.\u00a0 Is he? We don&#8217;t know.\u00a0 In contrast, Maverick has been scratching and clawing his way to the final in an attempt to prove to the WWE brass that he belongs in the WWE.\u00a0 You might remember that Maverick was released from the company a couple of months back, therefore his resurgence has been something of a nice surprise.\u00a0 However, he must now overcome the biggest obstacle in his way.\u00a0 <em>NXT is live at 8 PM ET, on USA Network<\/em>.<\/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 returns to our screens this Wednesday! An action-packed night of wrestling looks to be in-store once more.\u00a0 This week&#8217;s show follows last week&#8217;s excellent cage fight between Matt Riddle and Timothy Thatcher, so it has much to live up to.\u00a0 With this week&#8217;s episode hosting the culmination of the Cruiserweight Tournament, it just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2482,"featured_media":69595,"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":[738,162,2092,5563,6477,950,116,395,75,47],"class_list":["post-69593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-nxt","category-wwe-universe","tag-candice-lerae","tag-charlotte","tag-drake-maverick","tag-el-hijo-del-fantasma","tag-johny-gargano","tag-mia-yim","tag-nxt","tag-shawn-michaels","tag-triple-h","tag-wwe"],"modified_by":"Niklas George","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69593","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=69593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}