WWE: Nia Jax vs. Thea Hail Set for 8/5 WWE NXT Show, Full List of Athletes & Wrestlers at WWE’s SummerSlam Tryouts, More News

Aug 5, 2025

Nia Jax vs. Thea Hail Announced for Tuesday’s WWE NXT Show

WWE announced one new match for the card of Tuesday’s WWE NXT show at the Performance Center in Orlando, Florida.

This new match announced was a singles match of Nia Jax vs. Thea Hail.

Nia Jax will go head-to-head against @theahail_wwe TOMORROW on #WWENXT!

📺 8ET/7CT on @TheCW pic.twitter.com/9MdieIRSqH
— WWE NXT (@WWENXT) August 4, 2025

Current card for August 5th WWE NXT show:

NXT Women’s North American Championship – Tatum Paxley vs. Sol Ruca (c)
NXT Tag Team Championship – Chase U (Kale Dixon & Uriah Connors) vs. Hank & Tank (Hank Walker & Tank Ledger) (c)
Blake Monroe vs. Kelani Jordan
Lexis King vs. Myles Borne
Yoshiki Inamura vs. Channing “Stacks” Lorenzo
Nia Jax vs. Thea Hail

Full List of Confirmed Athletes & Wrestlers Who Participated at WWE’s SummerSlam Tryouts

WWE recently held a new set of talent tryouts last week in New Jersey as part of their SummerSlam week festivities. Indie wrestler Rayne Leverkusen was announced by WWE to have been the MVP of their SummerSlam tryouts.

Twitter user Alex recently compiled a list of all of the confirmed athletes and talents who had participated at last week’s SummerSlam tryouts.

Full list of participants for WWE Summerslam tryouts (via Fightful):

Vert Vixen (Independent Wrestler)
Rayne Leverkusen (Independent Wrestler, Named MVP of Tryout)
Zoe Sager (WWE ID Prospect)
Anita Vaughan (Independent Wrestler)
Ariana Milan (Miss Maryland, Track & Field)
Sydney Langston (Model, Hockey Player)
Mai McKenna (Swimmer)
Zoe Hines (Softball)
Jenna Marie Eagles (Gymnast)
Taelor Moore (Jiu-Jitsu)
Meghan Walker (WWE NIL Athlete, Sprinter)
Eva Eun-Kyung Sandersen (World Taekwondo Champion, Stuntwoman)
Ellen B Akesson (Powerlifter, Streamer)
Delia Schweizer (Crossfit)
Jessica Bogdanov (Model, Rhythmic Gymnast)
Joao Santos (Independent Wrestler)
Daga (Independent Wrestler)
Jha’Quan McNair (Independent Wrestler, Former D1 Wrestler)
Eli Knight (Independent Wrestler)
Ahmed Essan (Amateur Wrestler)
Mike Cunningham (Independent Wrestler)
LJ Cleary (Independent Wrestler)
Yayne Harrison (WWE ID Prospect)
Elijah Blum (Independent Wrestler)
CBL (Independent Wrestler)
Ben Bishop (Independent Wrestler)
Will Kroos (Independent Wrestler)
Steven Stetson (Independent Wrestler)
CJ Felder (College Basketball)
Eduardo Godinho (Marathon Runner)
Vincent King (Football)
Aeden Begue (D1 Wrestler)
Maliq Carr (College Football
Joey Wachs (Fitness Instructor)
Tyler Reyna (Track & Field)
Henry Zimmerman (Track & Field)
Marcus Jason Brown (Bodybuilder)
Youssef Mdini (Basketball)
Van Fillinger (College Football)
Brandon Myles Sebastain (Football)
Mustafa Salih (Influencer)
Onur Alp Cam (Actor)
Gui Da Silva-Greene (Actor)
Omari (Independent Wrestler)

WWE News & Notes

Monday’s WWE RAW show in Brooklyn, New York featured Seth Rollins defeating LA Knight via disqualification to retain his WWE World Heavyweight Championship. This match was notable for the post-match brawl between The Vision, CM Punk, Knight, and Roman Reigns that ended with The Vision laying out Punk, Knight, and Reigns and “Big” Bronson Reed stealing Reigns’ shoes for the second week in a row.

WWE filed a new trademark for “The Vision” on August 2nd for wrestling and entertainment-related purposes to the United States Patent and Trademark Office. This was revealed to be the official name of Seth Rollins’ current group with Paul Heyman, Bron Breakker, and “Big” Bronson Reed.

TMZ reported that FOX will be airing a new Hulk Hogan based documentary special titled The Real Hulk Hogan on Tuesday, August 12th on their network. It was reported upcoming special will be one hour in length and will air from 8:00-9:00PM EST. It was also reported that this upcoming special will include interviews from Sylvester Stallone, Vince McMahon, WWE Hall of Famers Mick Foley, Bill Goldberg, and Jimmy Hart, and WWE Superstars including Alexa Bliss, Jacob Fatu and Charlotte Flair.

Fightful Select’s Sean Ross Sapp reported that his sources stated that musician Jelly Roll recently approached Randy Orton about covering his entrance theme song. Sapp reported that those spoken to stated that surprisingly Orton was receptive to it considering he has been very protective of keeping his “Voices” theme song in recent years. Those spoken to within WWE reportedly stated that they believe Orton will push to make this happen.

In a recent interview with The Maggie and Perloff Show podcast, Randy Orton gave his thoughts about WWE’s recently released WWE Unreal docuseries on Netflix. Orton stated “The old school in me doesn’t love it. But, I had to learn over the last few years especially, you gotta change with the times. I think there’s a large amount of fans out there that are very curious and they want to know behind the scenes and how we do what we do and make it look so effortless, two, three, four nights a week, live television. But, there’s a part of me that also misses just the magic. When I was a kid, the number one thing that people would ask my father and kids at school would ask me, ‘Is it real? Is it real?’ Of course, everyone knows now it’s entertainment and we’re not trying to say that it’s not. But, my job is to go out there in that ring and get you to kind of suspend your belief while you’re in that arena and make you believe that what you’re seeing, that there’s real emotion behind it and I think that there is real emotion behind it in most cases. We’re like actors in that sense where you find that place and you get to that place before you go through that curtain and I know at least I do but, it’s hard and honestly, I don’t love the idea but I’m also — it’s intriguing and I think that there’s a large group of fans that are gonna love seeing what it takes to put on a WWE show.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

As noted before, WWE Hall of Famer Nikki Bella suffered a breast implant injury on the July 28th episode of WWE RAW during her Eight-Women Tag Team match on the show. In a recent episode of The Nikki & Brie Show podcast, Bella provided an update stating “I literally told Brie all of this in private. When she said it live about my implant, I was like, ‘Are you kidding me?’ Then it’s everywhere. I keep getting text messages. I was backstage and everyone kept coming up, ‘Is that okay?’ I’ll know later. I don’t know yet if it exploded or not. It still seems intact. It’s swollen, it hurts. I think it might be fine. I can’t believe I’m loudly talking about this, but hey, it’s 2025, whatever. Send well wishes to my fake boob, thank you.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

WWE recently announced two new segments for the card of this week’s WWE SmackDown show on August 8th in Montreal, Quebec, Canada: