The Rascalz were supposed to challenge the team of Nathan Frazer and Axiom for the NXT Tag Team Championship on the latest episode of WWE NXT. However, General Manager Ava Raine announced that the challengers will be replaced by The Street Profits under suspicious circumstances. The two teams were putting on a great match until it was crashed by The Bloodline.
WWE shared behind-the-scenes footage of the Samoan faction following their interference on NXT. The group members were extremely hyped up as they made their way out of the building. Tonga Loa declared that you are no one if you are not part of The Bloodline. Furthermore, Tama Tonga said that this attack was carried out by orders of their Tribal Chief, Solo Sikoa.
WWE did not reveal why Sikoa gave these orders to crash the NXT Tag Team Championship match. Perhaps he did not want the Street Profits to get their hands on tag gold. The Samoan faction was involved in somewhat of a rivalry with the 3-time Tag Team Champions following the Guerillas of Dynasty’s title defense on SmackDown.
NXT GM Ava Raine said after the show that if the Samoan faction wanted to be a part of the show, they could have simply asked her, and she would have allowed it. Furthermore, it is also unknown why The Rascalz were pulled out of the show.
Wrestling journalist Bill Apter makes a bold statement regarding Cody Rhodes’ feud against The Bloodline
Cody Rhodes defended his WWE Undisputed Champion against Solo Sikoa. The match ended with the return of Roman Reigns, and many thought that the Bloodline 2.0 leader would be involved in a feud with his cousin and be taken out of the championship picture. However, this was not the case.
After dealing with Roman Reigns, Sikoa declared that he would be chasing the WWE Undisputed Championship once again. However, according to Bill Apter, this was not the right move. Speaking on Smack Talk, the 78-year-old opined that fans were not interested in seeing Rhodes go up against the former NXT North American Champion.
Rather, Apter believed that fans wanted to see Cody Rhodes defend his WWE Undisputed Championship against Jacob Fatu instead. He even went so far as to say that the American Nightmare was at a much greater risk of losing his title if he went up against The Samoan Werewolf instead.
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