WWE: Zoey Stark Underwent Knee Surgery, Jayce Jayne vs. Stephanie Vaquer for NXT Women’s Title Match and Trick Williams Set for 5/27 WWE NXT Show, Aleister Black on His Recent WWE Return

May 27, 2025

Zoey Stark Knee Injury Update – Stark Underwent Successful Surgery

As noted before, Zoey Stark has been out of action for WWE since the May 18th episode of WWE RAW due to a serious knee injury.

Stark provided an update earlier today on Instagram that she had underwent successful surgery and she is on “Day One” of her road to recovery.

Zoey Stark shared a photo on her Instagram Stories, announcing that she is recovering from a knee injury. pic.twitter.com/mudkiF4OMP
— Pro Wrestling & MMA News (@PWMMANews) May 27, 2025

A potential timetable for Stark’s return from injury is currently not known.

Jayce Jayne vs. Stephanie Vaquer for NXT Women’s Title Match and Trick Williams Appearance Announced for Tuesday’s WWE NXT Show

WWE recently announced one new match and one new segment for the card for tonight’s WWE NXT show at the Performance Center in Orlando, Florida.

In regards to the new match, this was announced to be a NXT Women’s Championship match of Jacy Jayne vs. Stephanie Vaquer (c).

In regards to the new segment, this was announced to be new TNA World Champion Trick Williams to make an appearance on the show.

Current card for May 27th WWE NXT show:

NXT Women’s Championship – Jacy Jayne vs. Stephanie Vaquer (c)
NXT North American Championship – “All Ego” Ethan Page vs. Ricky Saints (c)
Tatum Paxley vs. Jaida Parker
Mike Santana vs. Tavion Heights
Jasper Troy vs. mystery opponent
TNA World Champion Trick Williams to appear

Aleister Black on His Recent WWE Return

The Atomic Drop held a recent interview with Aleister Black. One of the topics discussed included Black’s thoughts about his recent return to WWE and how he felt like he was back home and everything made sense for him.

“I’ve been thinking about that a lot and I feel like it happened very organically. I think the first day that I came back, like physically being backstage, you know, walking around and talking to people and being quote-unquote reintroduced to the company and stuff like that. It’s strange, right? Because it’s like a mixed feeling of nostalgia and familiarity whilst there is something unknown, because obviously as much as the setup is the same, internally, its guts have been like rearranged if that makes sense, because it’s no longer the same people in charge, but at the same time, it’s the same people that I connected with the first time around. And I remember being very nervous, but then realizing that everything felt the same in the most positive sense and then I was like, why are you so nervous? You know all these people. And then at that point, it was really strange. It was like all my anxiety just kind of dropped. And I’m like, yeah, this time around, it’s even better, you know what I mean? Because I’ve always had a good relationship with Triple H, and I get along great with Nick Khan, and the locker room is something that I’ve always preached about, how fantastic the boys are in WWE. And it just really felt good, it felt like coming home, and I know that sounds somewhat cliché, but I’ve never experienced that feeling of coming home in that sense, and I think that was the first time I could ever say it felt like coming home and everything made sense again. I was in that system for eight years and it is a completely different system than anything else. Nothing is like WWE, no locker room I’ve ever been in, and it just felt like this is what it’s supposed to be for me, you know? I was really excited to be back, of course, and like I said initially, it’s a little bit anxiety-driven. But then once you walk around and you get a feel of everything, you’ll say to yourself, hey man, you know all these people, you know all this and everybody’s just going around doing what they always do and everything is just right, it works, everything runs so smoothly. Then, we get ready for the show, and here we go, rock and roll, everybody’s heading in the same direction and that’s just a really good feeling.”