WWE Title Match Booked Due To Champion Dealing With Injury (Spoiler)
A champion is dealing with an injury, so WWE’s creative team booked a title match a lot sooner than expected.
Stephanie Vaquer defended the NXT Women’s North American Title on WWE NXT in Cincinnati against Karmen Petrovic. The two women had a competitive match and Petrovic came close to winning, but Vaquer found a way to win with her SVB backbreaker for the pin.
After the match, the NXT Women’s Champion Giulia got into the ring with Vaquer. Giulia congratulated Vaquer on the win. Giulia spoke about how Vaquer said she was the best champion, but Giulia said she was the best champion. Vaquer claimed she was the champion of champions. That’s when Giulia said they should find out who the best woman is. Vaquer said they were friends, but she wanted a champion vs. champion match and they held up their titles. The fans cheered it.
Later in that episode of NXT, it was confirmed by General Manager Ava that at NXT Roadblock on Tuesday, March 11th, Giulia’s NXT Women’s Title will be on the line against Vaquer’s NXT Women’s North American Title in a Winner Take All match.
The title vs. title match may seem odd to some fans since Vaquer recently won the title and only had one successful defense. It turns out that WWE had a reason for it. There’s an injury, as revealed by Bryan Alvarez on Wrestling Observer Live.
“Without spoiling it, because if I spoil it I spoil the match, one of these women is banged up, needs time off. And so they’re doing the match and then she’s taking time off. So that’s what happened.” (h/t Wrestletalk)
It was reported by PWInsider Elite that Giulia is the one who is injured, but she will still be able to work the match. It has been rumored that it is a hand injury, but that hasn’t been confirmed. The injury to Giulia also means that it’s likely that Vaquer will win the Winner Take All match.
WWE NXT Roadblock Lineup To Feature Three Championship Matches
The WWE NXT brand is run by two-time Hall of Famer Shawn Michaels, who is WWE’s Senior Vice President of Talent Development, Creative. While the Roadblock episode of NXT will air on a Tuesday night in the regular timeslot rather than run as a PLE show, they have a stacked lineup already that you can see below.
- NXT Championship: Oba Femi (c) vs Moose
- TNA World Tag Team Championship: The Hardy Boyz (Jeff Hardy and Matt Hardy) (c) vs Fraxiom (Axiom & Nathan Frazer)
- Winner Take All match for the NXT Women’s Championship & NXT Women’s North American Championship: Giulia (c) vs Stephanie Vaquer (c)