WWE NXT Notes: 2025 NXT Year End Awards Winners Revealed, Izzi Dame vs. Tatum Paxley Set for NXT New Year’s Evil 2026, Tavion Heights Wins WWE Speed Men’s Title #1 Contender Tournament

Dec 30, 2025

2025 NXT Year End Awards Winners Revealed

Tuesday’s taped WWE NXT show also featured WWE announcing the official list of winners for this year’s NXT Year End Awards.

Full list of winners for 2025 NXT Year End Awards:

Male Superstar of the Year – Je’Von Evans
Tag Team of the Year – ZaRuca (Zaria & Sol Ruca)
Match of the Year – NXT Championship Triple Threat match – Trick Williams vs. Je’Von Evans vs. Oba Femi (c) (NXT Stand & Deliver 2025)
Female Superstar of the Year – Sol Ruca

.@WWEJeVonEvans is your 2025 #WWENXT Male Superstar of the Year! 🙌 https://t.co/H3OVvEB5Xg pic.twitter.com/DS5KuLn5SN
— WWE NXT (@WWENXT) December 31, 2025

ZaRuca on top! 😤@ZariaWWE_ and @SolRucaWWE are your 2025 #WWENXT Tag Team of the Year! https://t.co/gGjE5gm8h4 pic.twitter.com/1s6PAcMoVm
— WWE NXT (@WWENXT) December 31, 2025

The 2025 NXT Match of the Year Award goes to the #WWENT Championship Match at #StandAndDeliver! @Obaofwwe @_trickwilliams @WWEJeVonEvans https://t.co/7wvJaPXyyi pic.twitter.com/YE8z3jktmf
— WWE NXT (@WWENXT) December 31, 2025

Another one for @solrucawwe. 🤙

She is the 2025 #WWENXT Female Superstar of the Year! https://t.co/nfClsdX25e pic.twitter.com/UUbUIa4zaT
— WWE NXT (@WWENXT) December 31, 2025

Izzi Dame vs. Tatum Paxley Announced for NXT New Year’s Evil 2026

Tuesday’s taped WWE NXT show also featured one new match announced for the card of NXT New Year’s Evil 2026, which takes place on January 6, 2026 at the Performance Center in Orlando, Florida.

This new match announced was a singles match of Izzi Dame vs. Tatum Paxley.

This new match was setup over recent weeks shows over Paxley’s bad blood issues with Dame and The Culling after they cost her the NXT Women’s Championship and kicked her out of their group. During tonight’s show, Dame came out to the ring and proceeded to trash talk and insult Paxley. This led to Paxley coming out to interrupt and after some banter between the two, Paxley issued a challenge to Dame for New Year’s Evil which Dame accepted. It was announced afterwards that this match was made official for the show.

"It's not over until I say it is."

Did @TatumPaxley just give us a preview of her match with @izzi_wwe next week at New Year's Evil?! 😈 pic.twitter.com/5p2A6DELWx
— WWE (@WWE) December 31, 2025

Current card for WWE NXT New Year’s Evil 2026:

NXT Championship – NXT Championship – Leon Slater vs. Oba Femi (c)
NXT Women’s Championship – Kendal Grey vs. Jacy Jayne (c)
NXT Women’s North American Championship – Blake Monroe vs. Thea Hail (c)
Izzi Dame vs. Tatum Paxley

Tavion Heights Wins WWE Speed Men’s Title #1 Contender Tournament

Tuesday’s taped WWE NXT show also featured Tavion Heights defeating Lexis King in the Finals of WWE’s newest WWE Speed Men’s Championship #1 Contender tournament.