WWE NXT Women’s Champion Raquel Gonzalez has seemingly found her next opponent over the title on this week’s episode of NXT. She is scheduled to defend her title during next Tuesday’s show on the USA Network against this new opponent that is Xia Li.
This week’s WWE NXT show saw Gonzalez giving company to Dakota Kai to ringside as Kai picked up a win over Ember Moon in the opening contest of the night. After the match, Xia Li of the Tian Sha faction hit the ring and had a confrontation with Gonzalez. Li declared that she wanted a shot at the title, and Gonzalez accepted the challenge, right away. The match was made official for next Tuesday night after this week’s episode went off the air.
Boa Priestley and Mei Ying did not appear with Li during this week’s show but they are being advertised to be in her corner for the title match while Kai will be present in the corner of Gonzalez.
This going to be the third WWE NXT Women’s Title defense for Gonzalez since she won the belt from new one-half NXT Women’s Tag Team Champions, Io Shirai at “Takeover: Stand and Deliver” Night One on April 7.
Gonzalez retained over Martinez on May 11, and then over Moon at “Takeover: In Your House” on June 13. Li and Gonzalez previously worked in several singles and multi-person matches at NXT live events through 2018 and 2019, but this will be their first TV encounter.
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The 2021 WWE NXT Breakout Tournament began during this week’s live episode on the USA Network. In the first match of the opening round, Duke Hudson defeated Ikemen Jiro to advance to the next round but there’s no update on who he should be facing, next.
It was noted by WWE that the tournament will continue next Tuesday night, but no matches were announced. As Ziro has been eliminated from the lineup, the remaining competitors in the tournament are Hudson, Trey Baxter, Carmelo Hayes, Andre Chase, Josh Briggs, Joe Gacy, and Odyssey Jones.
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In more news for next week’s WWE NXT, The Diamond Mine will be in action, making their tag team debut. Roderick Strong and Tyler Rust will compete against Bobby Fish and NXT Cruiserweight Champion Kushida. This week, the faction wanted to attack Fish after his loss against Rust. But Kushida made the save to set up this tag team bout.
