Oba Femi wins WWE NXT Championship at New Year’s Evil
Oba Femi is the new NXT Champion.
At NXT New Year’s Evil, he defeated Trick Williams and Eddy Thorpe in a three-way match to become the new champion. This ends Williams’ reign with the championship after 93 days, when he defeated Ethan Page for the title during NXT’s premiere on the CW back on October 1.
The finish had Williams going for the trick knee as Thorpe looked to use a steel chair. However, Femi saw Williams coming and threw him into Thorpe, colliding into both Thorpe and the chair. Femi then hit the pop up powerbomb to win the title.
After the match, Femi exited the ring and met with Giulia on the stage, who earlier in the night won the NXT Women’s Championship. Both of the new champions held their titles high as the segment ended.
Femi had earned the title match after winning the Iron Survivor Challenge during the Deadline premium live event last month. Thorpe, who had originally qualified for the Iron Survivor match, faked an injury to take himself out and instead managed to talk his way into a title match against Trick Williams before exposing his ruse to GM Ava. After the controversial ending to their title match that saw a double pin, Thorpe was added to the New Year’s Evil title bout, making it a three-way.
Earlier at New Year’s Evil, Thorpe was seen laid out again as Ava came to investigate. She didn’t believe Thorpe this time around, but Femi backstage later admitted to attacking him as revenge over Thorpe’s attack on both him and Williams on last week’s show.