WWE NXT Women’s Tag Team Champions Ember Moon and Shotzi Blackheart have received next opponents to defend their titles. It has been announced that The Way faction’s Candice LeRae and Indi Hartwell will challenge the champions for an upcoming title shot.
It wasn’t specified when the title match will take place, but this is going to be a rematch from the recently bygone WWE NXT Takeover: Stand and Deliver Night Two. In that match, Moon and Blackheart retained their titles, in their second-only title defense since winning the belts from Dakota Kai and Raquel Gonzalez in early March.
This week’s WWE NXT featured a backstage segment where LeRae and Hartwell confronted the champions. Hartwell eventually abandoned her during the confrontation, presumably to see Dexter Lumis. Moon and Blackheart then beat LeRae up. Hartwell later joined The Way in another backstage segment to reveal that she met with Regal where the General Manager had granted them the future title shot.
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More big matches have been announced for next Tuesday’s WWE NXT episode on the USA Network. Mercedes Martinez is scheduled to face Dakota Kai in a singles contest. Martinez has called out NXT Women’s Champion Raquel Gonzalez for the past two weeks, and this week she continued taunting Gonzalez, mentioning how she will always remain in Kai’s shadow. She then pledged to take out Kai next week so that the title match could go down with Kai not getting involved.
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Bronson Reed vs. Austin Theory will also go down on next week’s WWE NXT. If Reed wins, he will another future title shot from NXT North American Champion Johnny Gargano in another TakeOver rematch. Gargano retained his title over Reed at Takeover: Stand and Deliver Night Two.
It was also announced that next week’s show will feature a six-man tag team match where Legado del Fantasma – Santos Escobar, Raul Mendoza, Joaquin Wilde will battle against the team of WWE NXT Cruiserweight Champion Kushida and NXT Tag Team Champions MSK – Wes Lee and Nash Carter.
This six-man match was announced after Legado del Fantasma attacked Kushida following his successful title defense over Oney Lorcan, this week. MSK made the save and the two teams had a face-off. On a related note, Kushida defeated Santos Escobar to win the unified Cruiserweight Title, last week.