Wrestling Inc. Picks The Winners

It’s once more time for “WWE NXT” to Stand & Deliver, and this time it isn’t happening on WrestleMania weekend — it’s happening this Saturday! Five championships are on the road, one friendship will complete the strategy of being totally destroyed, and likewise there is a match on the pre-show! Get hyped, St. Louis!

As all the time, there’s just one real query heading into an event of this magnitude: Who will emerge victorious? And as all the time, the Wrestling Inc. staff are here to make our collective predictions. Now, did we do super great with our AEW Revolution picks last month? Not a lot! Nevertheless, we did nail the last “NXT” PLE, Vengeance Day, so we’re pretty irrationally confident in our ability to guess how booker Shawn Michaels is pondering here — though admittedly, like Revolution, it isn’t the simplest card to predict. Who will we see coming out on top at “NXT’s” biggest show of the yr? Let’s get to the picks!

Birthright, WWE’s recent stable, would look pretty silly in the event that they lost their first big match on an “NXT” PLE. Granted, it is a group that features Lexis King, Channing “Stacks” Lorenzo, and El Hija Del Santino Marella already looks pretty silly to start with. In spite of everything, it is a group of second-generation stars, where not a single wrestler gets to make use of their family name because of trademark reasons, but that is why it is very necessary that they get the win at Stand & Deliver.

The show has often been the approaching out party for NXT stars, and 93% of the staff agree that it just feels right for Birthright to face victorious in St. Louis. Hank, Tank, Shiloh, and the remaining are a motley crew of “NXT” faithful, but they do not appear cohesive enough to best the latest heel stable. While there is not a single member that I’d trust with the NXT title yet, Birthright is loaded with midcard “NXT” talent, who could dominate the Tuesday night show for the following yr, and it feels very likely that they may start that momentum at Stand & Deliver.

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In one among the tightest WINC prediction races, former friends and tag team partners Sol Ruca will collide with each other in an “WWE NXT” Stand & Deliver grudge match.

Heading into the massive event, Ruca has a transparent advantage on paper. In spite of everything, she’s already proven herself as a championship-level talent through her reigns as NXT Women’s North American and WWE Women’s Speed Champion. She’s also challenged for 2 other coveted straps of gold — the TNA Knockouts and WWE Women’s United States Titles — and emerged as an Iron Woman and third place finisher within the 2026 Women’s Royal Rumble.

It’s this very success that tells 57% of Wrestling Inc. staff that Ruca doesn’t must beat Zaria at Stand & Deliver. Zaria, nonetheless, needs a win over Ruca.

Coming into “NXT” in late 2024, Zaria presented herself as a force that would likely plow through your entire division. Her nickname because the “The Adelaide Powerhouse” even supported that concept. Still, she’s often took a backseat to Ruca.

Yes, ZaRuca cemented themselves as contenders for tag team gold in WWE and TNA, together. In singles motion, though, Ruca primarily occupied the highlight, hence her quite a few opportunities as each a champion and challenger. This sentiment especially rang true when Ruca and Zaria competed alongside each other in a February 2026 tag bout where the person behind the winning pinfall would earn an NXT Women’s Championship match. Zaria was evidently on target to clinch that chance, but an inadvertent tag resulted in Ruca seizing it as an alternative. This proved to be Zaria’s breaking point as she derailed Ruca’s title match with a spear and an F5 just two weeks later, effectively putting their partnership to an end.

A win at Stand & Deliver would arguably mark the most important win of Zaria’s WWE profession up to now, and hopefully, set her up for correct success on the brand. Considering that Ruca can be reportedly set for a principal roster call-up, the slight majority of us are in favor of her putting over her former ally on the way in which out.

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The Vanity Project, Ricky Smokes and Brad Baylor, are set to defend the NXT Championships against Los Americanos, and a complete of 77% of us consider the previous EVOLVE stars are emerging victorious from their first-ever Stand & Deliver. While they might take the titles to the principal roster and even AAA, we do not think Rayo and Bravo are getting the job done over these recent, fresh stars.

The tournament to find out the primary contenders to the tag titles was barely snake bitten, with now-former WWE Speed Champion Elio LeFleur getting injured earlier on within the competition, leaving him on the shelf and his tag partner, Eli Knight, seemingly sidelined as well. WWE had so as to add in a brand new team to the tournament somewhat last minute, and the writers selected to usher in the decisive Americanos, who do appear to get response on “NXT.” Even greater than that, WWE selected to have them win your entire tournament to go on to Stand & Deliver.

While Pete Dunne and Tyler Bate are excellent employees, we do not think they need the NXT tag titles under their current comedy gimmick. They may, nonetheless, lead Smokes and Baylor to an ideal match on a giant stage. If plans were modified because of the injury to LeFleur, this matchup might be the most effective option for Vanity Project.

Jackson Drake may also be at ringside, which is able to even the percentages against El Grande Americano. And, alongside Drake, Smokes and Baylor are up-and-coming heels on an “NXT” roster that won’t exactly filled with strong male talent who aren’t immediately destined for the principal roster. Here at WINC, 77% of us consider Vanity Project is retaining the NXT Tag Team Championships in St. Louis, as they need the win to maintain looking strong.

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Myles Borne might need probably the most momentum of anyone who is not within the four-way NXT title match. After ending the historic reign of Ethan Page, Borne has been on fire. While I’d like to say that the staff believes his opponent, the despondent Johnny Gargano, could win the match, it just doesn’t feel likely.

I do not doubt that Gargano will find another great match in him, likely willed on by the “NXT” fans, but it is a man whose shadow knows his story and feels AEW-bound at any second. Defeating Gargano can be a serious feather in Borne’s cap, and it could be one last gift to the “NXT” roster from the previous NXT Champion, who can be making Borne a made man on his way out of the corporate.

Borne feels ready for greatness because of the simplicity of looking like Randy Orton and wrestling like Dolph Ziggler. While Borne won’t go for the simple inspirational angle often, his success in WWE as its first deaf champion also adds a certain sentimentality to his reign. He’s just, simply, someone the WWE fans can root for, wholeheartedly, and 93% of the staff thinks that WWE won’t squander that for a nearly-catatonic Johnny Gargano.

Written by Ross Berman

Stand & Deliver will mark Blake Monroe’s first opportunity to win the Women’s North American Championship back since she lost the title to Thea Hail last December, but with Tatum Paxley’s reign being slightly below 30 days long, 71% of our staff consider the present champ will retain on Saturday.

Firstly, Paxley became NXT Women’s Champion last yr, but her reign only lasted 24 days, and if she were to lose one other title inside a brief time period, it could possibly be damaging to the strength of her character and be a sign that the brand doesn’t view her a star who can carry gold long-term. Moreover, Monroe has been rumored to be called as much as the principal roster because the starting of the yr, and it could make sense if she were to debut on “WWE Raw” or “WWE SmackDown” shortly after Stand & Deliver, or more likely, after WrestleMania 42. Monroe has also already been Women’s North American Champion and doesn’t must have one other reign on the expense of Paxley, especially if her call as much as the principal roster is on the horizon.

Two weeks ago, Monroe kickstarted her feud with Paxley when she shockingly dragged her underneath the doorway ramp following the 29-year-old’s Steel Cage title defence against Izzi Dame. Subsequently, a win for Paxley wouldn’t only be the logical selection because of Monroe already having a previous reign with the title and her call as much as the principal roster looming, but would also complete the story by giving the babyface within the feud the revenge she’s been on the lookout for.

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Traditionally, a triple threat match would equate to every competitor having a 33.3% likelihood of winning. When one among them has an obvious investment backing them, though, their odds increase. Amongst Wrestling Inc. staff, Kendal Grey’s odds of capturing the NXT Women’s Championship have upped to 43%, with Lola Vice and defending champion Jacy Jayne lowering to 27% each.

From the moment Grey claimed the WWE Evolve Women’s Championship, then concurrently performed on the “WWE NXT” brand, it has been clear that WWE trusts in her potential as a star in the corporate. Fans got a glimmer of Grey’s star-worthiness when she outmaneuvered 4 “NXT” veterans to earn the title of Women’s Iron Survivor and a future shot on the NXT Women’s Championship last December. And despite falling short in her initial attempt on the title, Grey still looked strong coming out of it.

On condition that Grey already held the Women’s EVOLVE Title on the time of her first major NXT title match, we imagine that WWE didn’t want to provide one more case of a double champion (Stephanie Vaquer, Sol Ruca, and Jacy Jayne all did that in 2025). This time around, nonetheless, Grey is titleless, having recently vacated her EVOLVE belt to ensure that her to enjoy a full-time run on “NXT.”

It’s infrequently that talents willingly relinquish a championship, so the indisputable fact that Grey did tells a lot of us that one other, larger one is probably going in her future. What higher way is there to make that a reality than by capturing it at “NXT’s” biggest event of the yr: Stand & Deliver?

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While it isn’t a straightforward match to predict because of its four-way status, half of us consider that Joe Hendry will retain the NXT Championship on the Stand & Deliver stage. It’s his first Stand & Deliver as champion, which is one more big deal for the viral sensation, and 50% of us who forged our votes consider he’s hanging on to the gold because the fan-favorite, despite the most effective efforts of Ethan Page, Ricky Saints, and Tony D’Angelo.

Page and Saints are each already one-time NXT Champions, and each (albeit, like Hendry) are principal roster-ready and feel like they could possibly be called up at any time. Even when they are not called up, the pair are running a storyline together, best described as “frenemies,” as Page decided he also desired to challenge for the highest title once more after losing his North American Championship, much to the chagrin of his friend, Saints. The “Absolute” one is tolerating Page, however the pair are on a crash course to a feud of their very own, and we do not think either one is taking the NXT Championship together with them.

As for D’Angelo, it almost appears like his story is not as fleshed out because it could possibly be, but that would even be the very fact he was thrown into this four-way match. While it’s good he’s on the Stand & Deliver card, the previous “Don” of “NXT” may gain advantage greatly from a singles feud, resulting in a match where he captures the title from Hendry. That appears like the likely next step, which can require D’Angelo going heel again, nevertheless it’s one among the numerous reasons half of us convinced Hendry retains the title at Stand & Deliver. As for the opposite half, 43% of the WINC crew see it as finally being Tony D’Angelo’s day within the sun, while 7% consider “NXT” is gearing up for one more title reign for Ethan Page.

Written by Daisy Ruth