I definitely did not have a match pitting Oba Femi against Kit Wilson on my 2026 bingo card, but I suppose, here we’re, and I hated all the things about this for therefore many reasons. While I definitely disliked “The Ruler” showing up on “WWE Raw” and laying waste to the War Raiders, I actually hated this tonight on the blue brand.
We didn’t see Wilson, who has gained a ton of steam over recent weeks resulting from his excellent recent, catchy theme song, on the Royal Rumble, which I didn’t really mind, and it made sense for him to go on the market tonight and cut a promo about all of the “toxic masculinity” within the ring at one time. Nevertheless, as a substitute of being confronted by Matt Cardona, who he’s been feuding with over the previous couple of weeks, it was Femi who strode right down to the ring.
It also made it ever-so-slightly worse that it turned out to be an actual match. No shade to Wilson in any respect, nevertheless it seems odd that Femi’s first official win on the essential roster can be against Wilson and never someone a bit higher up the cardboard. I very highly doubt that Wilson and Femi are going to be locked right into a feud, though that might absolutely be something WWE would do, but thankfully, Wilson and Cardona did have a backstage segment a bit in a while, making me think Femi is secure from such a mid-card feud.
While he could also be secure from that, I actually do not like the direction WWE is taking him in. This looks like we will get a couple of more weeks of extremely random squashes, ones that do not profit Femi or the guy he’s up against. And which will occur until Brock Lesnar decides to indicate up for work, but that also might never occur if recent reports about their WrestleMania match not being 100% set in stone are true.
This also seems weird for Nick Aldis and Adam Pearce to choose where Femi officially lands on the essential roster. I suppose, technically, he’s squashed yet one more guy on the red brand, since he took out each of the War Raiders, but, he’s got an official victory on the blue brand. Neither of that are exactly impressive feats for the previous NXT Champion, who was so dominant that he needed to relinquish the title when the essential roster got here calling, somewhat than lose the gold. I didn’t love this for Femi as much as I didn’t find it irresistible for Wilson, and it really stinks, as each men must have been highlights on what turned out to be a reasonably lackluster show.
Written by Daisy Ruth