WrestleMania season isn’t only a big time of the year for the WWE main roster, but it also means the top NXT PLE, Stand & Deliver, is coming up as well.
With the product on quite a hot run heading into Las Vegas, there’s always the chance of some big title changes coming up at Stand & Deliver, and even plenty of opportunities on TV regardless of the upcoming PLE.
Here are our predictions for the next holder of every championship in NXT.
NXT North American Championship (Shawn Spears) – Ricky Saints
The WWE NXT North American Championship only changed hands last week, with Shawn Spears picking up the win against Tony D’Angelo.
However, Spears’ reign might be short-lived, as Ricky Saints seems like a solid pick to be the next champion.
Saints has already had a brief backstage interaction with Spears, effectively setting up a future match whenever it’s time to do it.
With Saints also likely having an upcoming match against Ridge Holland, a win there would ‘earn’ him a shot at Spears’ title, either at Stand & Deliver or perhaps even sometime before then.
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NXT Tag Team Championship (Fraxiom) – Tyriek Igwe & Tyson Dupont
There aren’t a whole lot of teams in WWE NXT that Fraxiom haven’t already beaten, with Hank Walker and Tank Ledger seemingly next in line for a title shot.
However, that would be a babyface vs babyface situation, and considering how popular Fraxiom are, it might be best to avoid a babyface team beating them for fear of the crowd turning on the new champions.
Step in Tyriek Igwe and Tyson Dupont, who recently formed a trio with Wes Lee – one of the few teams that Fraxiom hasn’t already beaten, and heels who would benefit in a big way from ending the title reign of fan favorites Fraxiom.
Another option would be any two of the new four-man faction with Cutler James, Dion Lennox, Saquon Shugars and Osiris Giffin, but given that they’re all completely new to TV, it might be too soon for any of them to be champions. That said, Igwe and Dupont are still pretty much completely new as well.
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NXT Heritage Cup Championship (Lexis King) – Noam Dar
The WWE NXT Heritage Cup Championship has been completely stripped back under current champion Lexis King, with the Heritage Cup rules not even in effect anymore.
It seems like the concept may have run its course, but if there was going to be someone to restore it to its original status, it could be the man who’s held it more times than anyone, Noam Dar.
Dar has been out for almost a year due to injury, and given the trajectories of Meta-Four teammates Lash Legend and Jakara Jackson in his absence, he’s likely to get a babyface reaction upon his return – something that could be turned into him fighting for the honor of the Heritage Cup against a heel Lexis King.
The other option at this point is to just get rid of it completely.
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NXT Women’s Championship (Giulia) – Stephanie Vaquer
Tonight at WWE Roadblock, the main event will be NXT Women’s Champion Giulia vs Women’s North American Champion Stephanie Vaquer in a title for title, winner takes all match.
The belief is that this match has been somewhat ‘rushed’ due to Giulia needing some time off to recover from wear-and-tear injury issues.
That would be an explanation for the somewhat abrupt build to such a big match, and would obviously lead to Vaquer becoming double champion.
The only question then would be what happens to the Women’s North American Title, since the titles aren’t being unified…
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NXT Women’s North American Championship (Stephanie Vaquer) – Jacy Jayne
So the easy thing here would be to say the next champion will be ‘vacant’, because the most likely scenario is Stephanie Vaquer wins the WWE NXT Women’s Championship, and in turn, vacates the North American Title.
But that would be boring, so we’ll take a shot at saying the next actual person to hold the championship will be Jacy Jayne, playing off the dynamic of fellow Fatal Influence member Fallon Henley being a former champion.
Presumably, there’ll be a tournament or at least qualifying matches to set up a multi-woman match (potentially a ladder match) at Stand & Deliver for the vacant title, and there are so many women right now who could win it – really anyone featured on TV is in with a shot, outside of Roxanne Perez who’s set for a call-up, and Jordynne Grace who’s likely to be Vaquer’s Stand & Deliver challenger for the NXT Women’s Title.
Pretty much anyone on the roster could feasibly win, but in terms of making a story out of it, Jayne and Henley both being in the multi-woman match for the vacant title and Jayne being the one to come out of it the winner might be the most intriguing option in terms of how both Henley and Jazmyn Nyx would react.
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NXT Championship (Oba Femi) – Je’Von Evans
Not to state the obvious, but Oba Femi is pretty incredible and it’s hard to envision anyone beating him for the WWE NXT Championship any time soon.
However, someone else who’s stood out as being pretty incredible for quite some time now is Je’Von Evans.
This does not have to happen any time soon, but thankfully Evans is stupidly young so he’s got plenty of time to get this done.
If you still don’t want to beat Femi whenever it’s time for him to lose the title, it could always be a multi-man match where he doesn’t take the fall – or just wait until there is an opening and a loss wouldn’t hurt Femi too much.
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