{"id":72928,"date":"2020-07-21T12:33:35","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T16:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=72928"},"modified":"2020-07-21T12:33:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T16:33:35","slug":"preview-wwe-nxt-7-22-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/07\/21\/preview-wwe-nxt-7-22-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: WWE &#8211; NXT (7\/22\/20)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WWE NXT<\/strong> returns this Wednesday after another solid episode last week.\u00a0 The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2020\/07\/09\/bask-in-his-glory-dual-champion\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Keith Lee<\/strong> era<\/a> of NXT is limitless and has plenty of star power to keep the brand fresh and interesting going forward.\u00a0 During the COVID-19 era where there&#8217;s not as much talent to work with &#8211; and even less fans to work with &#8211; anything which can freshen the show up is appreciated.\u00a0 What does NXT have in store this week? Let&#8217;s find out!<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Dexter Lumis vs Killian Dain<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-72934\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/07\/Dexter-Lumis-vs-Killian-Dain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/07\/Dexter-Lumis-vs-Killian-Dain.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/07\/Dexter-Lumis-vs-Killian-Dain-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before COVID-19 took the world by storm,<strong> Killian Dain<\/strong> was actually on a five match winning streak in NXT.\u00a0 When he returned to WWE NXT in June (after a three month absence), he lost against <strong>Damian Priest<\/strong>.\u00a0 Well, this week he gets a chance to get back to winning form, by beating<strong> Dexter Lumis<\/strong>.\u00a0 Lumis is by far one of the more interesting acts on NXT television currently and if there was anyone Dain would have liked to avoid, it&#8217;s him.\u00a0 This should be a solid big man match.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Dominik Dijakovic vs Karrion Kross w\/Scarlett Bordeaux<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-72935\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/07\/Karrion-Kross-vs-Dominik-Dijakovic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/07\/Karrion-Kross-vs-Dominik-Dijakovic.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/07\/Karrion-Kross-vs-Dominik-Dijakovic-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of solid big man matches, here&#8217;s another.\u00a0 This week, NXT regular<strong> Dominik Dijakovic<\/strong> takes on NXT new boy, <strong>Karrion Kross<\/strong>.\u00a0 Kross &#8211; accompanied by <strong>Scarlett Bordeaux<\/strong> &#8211; is currently undefeated in WWE NXT.\u00a0 He has looked unstoppable; even vanquishing<strong> Tommaso Ciampa<\/strong> at<em><strong> NXT TakeOver<\/strong><\/em>:<em><strong> In Your House<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Well now he&#8217;s got an opponent who can match his power and explosiveness.\u00a0 Dijakovic is a top-tier talent and is definitely someone who can stop Kross.\u00a0 Can he do it this week? Tune into NXT on USA Network this Wednesday (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 this Wednesday after another solid episode last week.\u00a0 The Keith Lee era of NXT is limitless and has plenty of star power to keep the brand fresh and interesting going forward.\u00a0 During the COVID-19 era where there&#8217;s not as much talent to work with &#8211; and even less fans to work with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2482,"featured_media":72935,"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":[84,5393,4039,111,304,6340,270,435,116,3093,2073,75,47],"class_list":["post-72928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-nxt","category-wwe-universe","tag-adam-cole","tag-dexter-lumis","tag-dominik-dijakovic","tag-finn-balor","tag-io-shirai","tag-karrion-kross","tag-keith-lee","tag-killian-dain","tag-nxt","tag-scarlett-bordeaux","tag-tommaso-ciampa","tag-triple-h","tag-wwe"],"modified_by":"Niklas George","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72928","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=72928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}