WWE: Dragon Lee Pulled from NXT New Year’s Evil, Triple H to Make “Major Announcement” on Thurs., Giovanni Vinci Injury Update

Dragon Lee Pulled from Tuesday’s NXT New Year’s Evil 2024 Show Over Visa Issues

Dragon Lee announced on Twitter on Monday evening that he will not be able to make his scheduled appearance at this Tuesday evening’s NXT Near Year’s Evil 2024 show due to him being stuck in Mexico for the time being.

Lee stated that visa-related issues is the reason why he is currently unable to travel out of Mexico.

Feliz año nuevo!
Sad news to kick off the year, but due to visa issues I am unable to leave Mexico right now. Por eso, I will miss @WWENXT New Years Evil… But the LWO has a big surprise for the NQCC and the NXT Universe tomorrow night.

— Dragon Lee ドラゴンリー (@dragonlee95) January 2, 2024

Lee had been originally scheduled to compete in a Six-Man Tag Team match with LWO’s Joaquin Wilde & Cruz Del Toro against No Quarter Catch Crew (Drew Gulak, Damon Kemp, & Myles Borne) at NXT’s show.

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that there are no imminent issues with Lee’s new work visa for WWE in the United States. Johnson reported that Lee’s new visa had been recently approved but due to the recent holidays, it did not arrive in time in order for him to travel back to the U.S. to work at tonight’s NXT show. WWE officials reportedly currently expect Lee to be back in the U.S. soon and potentially as early as this Friday’s SmackDown show in Vancouver, Canada. WWE officials reportedly are just waiting for Lee’s visa to be physically in his hands.

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Triple H to Make “Major Announcement” on Thursday’s WWE Preview Special

During Monday’s WWE RAW Day 1 show in San Jose, California, RAW commentator Michael Cole announced that WWE’s upcoming Preview Special 2024 show on Thursday, January 4th on Peacock will feature a “major announcement” by WWE CCO Paul “Triple H” Levesque.

No other details were given regarding this upcoming announcement.

A major announcement from Triple H will occur on the Preview Special 2023 this Thursday + CM Punk appearance. #WWERaw pic.twitter.com/YwN86320Is

— Denise ‘Hollywood’ Salcedo (@_denisesalcedo) January 2, 2024

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Giovanni Vinci Head Injury Update

As noted before, Giovanni Vinci suffered a head-related injury at Monday’s WWE RAW Day 1 show in San Jose, California. Vinci suffered the injury during a tag team match between Imperium and Kofi Kingston & Jey Uso which resulted in the match first being stopped and then called off.

Vinci provided an update on Twitter stating that he is currently feeling fine and thanked the fans for their support shown towards him.

“I am fine. A thousand thanks.”

Sto bene. Grazie mille 🙏🏼

— Giovanni Vinci (@VinciWWE) January 2, 2024