Triple Threat Elimination Match
NXT Tag Team Championship:
Authors of Pain (c) v #DIY v The Revival
This is really difficult to predict. The Revival don't need another title run. DIY work best as underdogs. Authors of Pain are undefeated. I think that they will continue to be so. It's difficult to say for sure who will get eliminated first as well. Normally you'd say that DIY need to be in the final two as you need fan favourites there, however WWE have experimented with heel v heel matches recently and I think The Revival are popular enough to face off against the Authors of Pain in the final. I'd say it's likely that The Revival will be out first, though. This could be the best match on a stacked card.
Prediction: Authors of Pain
NXT Women's Championship:
Asuka (c) v Ember Moon
You have two undefeated competitors in this match. Asuka has wiped the floor with everyone in the women's division and they have built up Ember Moon well as a viable challenger to the title. Their paths haven't crossed before and this makes this match intriguing. Moon will almost certainly be the one to take Asuka's title from her. For it to be anyone else, they will need to make another credible challenger which they really don't have in the division at the moment.
Asuka will have held the title for over a year and she is almost certainly going to head up to the main roster sometime soon as Moon is probably the last programme she will work in NXT. There have been rumours that she will be part of the Smackdown Women's Championship match as Daniel Bryan has said that every available woman will challenge for Bliss's title.
I can see one of two things happening - Moon beating Asuka and Asuka taking Bliss's title, enabling an easy transition to the main roster in due course (although Asuka still needs to fulfil some NXT live dates) or perhaps Asuka retaining the title and also winning the Smackdown title, thereby cementing her legend even further. When Paige won a title on the main roster, she was stripped of the NXT title by JBL.
If I was writing it, I think I'd go down the latter path however my instinct says that the first is most likely.
Prediction: Ember Moon
Andrade "Cien" Almas v Aleister Black
Black is better known as Tommy End and will be familiar to UK wrestling fans. He debuted on WWE television during the UK Championship in January, losing a non-tournament match against Neville. Whilst Almas has been on the rise, Black will almost certainly win on his debut.
Prediction: Aleister Black
NXT Championship:
Bobby Roode (c) v Shinsuke Nakamura
On the coming UK NXT tour, they have been advertising that you can see "Bobby Roode, Asuka and more." To me this suggests that Nakamura won't be on the tour due to being called up to the main roster. This means that he won't be becoming the first 3-time NXT champion. He doesn't need to be. He's amazingly over qualified to be working in NXT and is long due a call up to the main roster. He also has been off television for a while, perhaps due to doing some preparation work for this call up.
I can see him appearing on the Raw after Wrestlemania. Triple H has taken a lot of NXT talent there where he can continue to oversee their development. However, putting him on Smackdown Live would give WWE fans a chance to see AJ Styles v Shinsuke Nakamura which was a match of the year contender in Japan. It would also keep him away from Samoa Joe and they wouldn't need to justify why they're not going straight for each other.
When Roode won the championship, there was the asterix of Nakamura's injury. He could use a clean victory here.
Prediction: Bobby Roode
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