After Je’Von Evans fell short in his latest pursuit of the NXT Championship, a brand new number contender has come forth.
The names chasing the following title shot were Myles Borne, Dion Lennox, Joe Hendry, and TNA X-Division Champion Leon Slater, all of whom finished the Men’s Iron Survivor Challenge with one fall each. Following this, they competed in a fatal-four-way match on Tuesday’s edition of “WWE NXT,” with the winner moving on to challenge Oba Femi, the reigning NXT Champion, at “NXT” Recent 12 months’s Evil.
Slater appeared on the verge of victory when his three opponents descended off the highest turnbuckle from an avalanche slam-suplex combination. Lennox, Hendry, and Borne, nonetheless, all kicked out when Slater covered them.
Keeping his momentum up, Slater delivered a series of kicks to all three men until Borne reached his feet and dropped him with a side suplex. Lennox followed with a spinebuster to Borne before taking a German suplex from Hendry. Slater then returned fire with a slam to Hendry and a far-reaching Swanton to Lennox. Before he could capitalize with one other high-risk move, though, Slater went flying to the surface from Borne’s dropkick. Nevertheless, he emerged triumphant as a brawl up the ramp between Hendry and Lennox left a gap for Slater to hit one other Swanton on Borne for the win.
Femi regained the NXT Championship by defeating Ricky Saints at “NXT” Deadline on December 6. Three days later, Femi retained the title in a match against Evans after Saints yanked the referee out of the ring to stop Evans from securing a successful pinfall.