With the WWE Women’s and Men’s Speed Championships recently moving to the “WWE NXT” brand, latest contenders were named. At “NXT” No Mercy, Sol Ruca successfully defended the ladies’s title against Jaida Parker. Soon, El Grande Americano (portrayed by Ludwig Kaiser) will do the identical for the boys’s iteration.
On Tuesday’s edition of “NXT,” the WWE Men’s Speed Championship tournament kicked off with a pair of opening round matches pitting “WWE SmackDown” star Axiom against Sean Legacy of “WWE EVOLVE” and TNA Wrestling’s Zachary Wentz against “NXT” star Jasper Troy. Troy and Wentz were the primary to tackle the three-minute cut-off date, though Troy only needed two to seal the victory with a spinning slam.
Axiom and Legacy followed later within the show, with the forwards and backwards motion going right down to the wire. In the long run, Axiom picked up his own win with a kick and Spanish Fly off the highest rope with a mere three seconds to spare.
Following their opening round victories, Troy and Axiom will move on to face one another within the tournament finals, slated for next week’s episode of “NXT.” The winner will then earn the correct to challenge El Grande Americano for the Men’s Speed Championship. The time and place of that title match has yet to announced.
Troy, the co-winner of “WWE LFG” season one, previously challenged Oba Femi, albeit unsuccessfully, for the NXT Championship on “NXT.” Axiom is a former NXT Tag Team Champion, having held the titles alongside Nathan Frazier on two separate occasions.