{"id":72431,"date":"2020-07-14T13:20:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T17:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=72431"},"modified":"2020-07-14T13:20:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T17:20:36","slug":"preview-wwe-nxt-7-15-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/07\/14\/preview-wwe-nxt-7-15-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: WWE NXT (7\/15\/20)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WWE NXT<\/strong> returns following a highly successful<em><strong> Great American Bash<\/strong><\/em> event which saw the NXT Championship change hands <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2020\/07\/08\/andnew-keith-lee-becomes-nxts-first-ever-double-champion\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(congrats, <strong>Keith Lee<\/strong><\/a>).\u00a0 This week, NXT returns to a new normal and features what might just be a show-stealing women&#8217;s main event.\u00a0 A new era of NXT begins with Keith Lee replacing <strong>Adam Cole<\/strong> and joining<strong> Io Shirai<\/strong> at the top of the mountain.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s dive in and take a look at what the black and yellow brand has in store!<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Damian Priest vs Cameron Grimes<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-72432\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/07\/Damien-Priest-vs-Cameron-Grimes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/07\/Damien-Priest-vs-Cameron-Grimes.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/07\/Damien-Priest-vs-Cameron-Grimes-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Damian Priest<\/strong> has been embroiled in a feud with <strong>Cameron Grimes<\/strong> over the past month.\u00a0 Previously, both men had feuded with (and eventually lost) to<strong> Finn Balor<\/strong>, which is kind of how this all started.\u00a0 Both men had a solid match on NXT a few weeks ago.\u00a0 Grimes managed to take advantage of an injured, far from 100% version of Priest and which allowed him to inevitably secure the win.\u00a0 Now, however, it is an absolute certainty that the big man will be looking for revenge.\u00a0 This crazy, cowboy adversary is a thorn in the side of Priest and he wants it gone.\u00a0 Will he manage to successfully secure a win this week? Tune in to find out.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>NXT Women&#8217;s Championship: Io Shirai (C) vs Tegan Nox\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_72232\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72232\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-72232 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/07\/io-shirai-tegan-nox.jpg\" alt=\"Io Shirai vs. Tegan Nox on WWE NXT\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/07\/io-shirai-tegan-nox.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/07\/io-shirai-tegan-nox-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72232\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo \/ World Wrestling Entertainment<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The main event of the evening sees Io Shirai defend her NXT Women&#8217;s Championship against the Girl with the Shiniest Wizard, <strong>Tegan Nox<\/strong>.\u00a0 If there is anybody on the NXT roster right now capable of taking it to the seemingly unstoppable Joshi Judas, it is Tegan Nox.\u00a0 Tegan has been having something of a breakout year.\u00a0 Her recent tag team match (with partner, <strong>Shotzi Blackheart<\/strong>) against Women&#8217;s Tag Team champions,<strong> Bayley<\/strong> and <strong>Sasha Banks<\/strong>, have perfectly demonstrated the Welsh woman&#8217;s talent to a larger audience.\u00a0 Here, she gets to prove herself against a woman widely considered the greatest in the game today, male or female.\u00a0 Can Tegan cause an upset and steal the NXT Women&#8217;s Championship against all odds? Tune into WWE NXT on USA Network this Wednesday at 8\/7c to find out.<\/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 following a highly successful Great American Bash event which saw the NXT Championship change hands (congrats, Keith Lee).\u00a0 This week, NXT returns to a new normal and features what might just be a show-stealing women&#8217;s main event.\u00a0 A new era of NXT begins with Keith Lee replacing Adam Cole and joining Io [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2482,"featured_media":72232,"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":[84,160,5397,6558,111,304,270,116,159,3086,75,47],"class_list":["post-72431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-nxt","category-wwe-universe","tag-adam-cole","tag-bayley","tag-cameron-grimes","tag-damian-priest","tag-finn-balor","tag-io-shirai","tag-keith-lee","tag-nxt","tag-sasha-banks","tag-tegan-nox","tag-triple-h","tag-wwe"],"modified_by":"Niklas George","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72431","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=72431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}