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WWE Title Change As Star Returns After 1 Year Out

By Lyle Kilbane • Published Apr 23, 2025 06:10 EDT
WWE logo over blurred Lexis King Noam Dar

One WWE championship has changed hands after disappearing in a puff of smoke as one star returned to the company after a year out of action.

As NXT got into the Las Vegas spirit at Stand & Deliver, legendary magicians Penn & Teller appeared to make Lexis King’s Heritage Cup disappear. On the April 22 edition of NXT, they reversed the magic and gave King his trophy back. However, that magic came at the cost of agreeing to defend the cup against an unnamed opponent on the show with King readily agreeing.

However, Lexis King ended up having his cup disappear permanently as Noam Dar returned to WWE after almost a year out of action. Dar managed to pick up the win over King to become a four-time holder of the NXT Heritage Cup.

A mysterious backstage attack wrote Dar off WWE TV back in May 2024. That attack was later attributed to a debuting Ethan Page.

Lexis King Sets Sights On More WWE Gold

Before the match with Noam Dar, Lexis King had already challenged Ricky Saints to a title vs. trophy match on the following week’s edition of NXT. Now that King has lost the trophy, it appears that the match will now just be for Saints’ NXT North American Championship.

After King’s loss, he laid out Saints backstage while Ethan Page looked on as WWE continues to group their contingent of ex-AEW stars together in NXT.