WWE NXT New Year’s Evil 2026 Notes: Elio LeFleur NXT Debut Vignette Airs, Izzi Dame Wins NXT Women’s North American Title, Jorydnne Grace Called Up to Main Roster, Oba Femi Leaves NXT Title In Ring & Departs After Victory Over Leon Slater, 1/13 Show Card

Elio LeFleur NXT Debut Vignette Airs

Tuesday’s WWE NXT New Year’s Evil 2026 show at the Performance Center in Orlando, Florida featured a video airing hyping up Elio LeFleur’s official debut in NXT.

LeFleur talked about how he put French wrestling on the map and he is ready to fly. LeFleur stated that he is coming to NXT and he is here to “slash the sky.”

Introducing Elio LeFleur! 🦅@ElioLeFleurWWE pic.twitter.com/X8iD3CfQge

— WWE (@WWE) January 7, 2026

LeFleur was previously known under the ring name of Aigle Blanc in the European indies prior to his signing with WWE this past October.

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Izzi Dame Wins NXT Women’s North American Title

Tuesday’s WWE NXT New Year’s Evil 2026 show also featured Izzi Dame defeating Thea Hail in an Open Challenge match to become the new NXT Women’s North American Champion.

Hail’s originally scheduled match against Blake Monroe did not take place after Monroe had attacked Hail earlier in the show resulting in the match being thrown out and NXT GM Ava banning Monroe from the building. In a follow-up segment, Hail, Jordynne Grace, and Ava were seen in the trainers room and Hail managed to convince Ava to let her still defend her title in an open challenge on the show.

In another follow-up segment, Hail came out to the ring and issued an open challenge for her title. This led to a bunch of the women’s locker room rushing out only to get chased away by Tatum Paxley with a chainsaw. Before Paxley could get into the ring, Dame attacked Hail and Shawn Spears had the timekeeper ring the bell to make the match official.

The Culling just hijacked the Open Challenge… @izzi_wwe just stole @TatumPaxley’s title match!! 😱 pic.twitter.com/aVxtkCGMS2

— WWE (@WWE) January 7, 2026

This match ended with Dame defeating Hail after hitting a Avalanche Sit-out Powerbomb for the title victory.

Speechless. 🤯

Izzi Dame is the new NXT Women's North American Champion!!@izzi_wwe pic.twitter.com/DRdvjV6PxB

— WWE (@WWE) January 7, 2026

No one saw this coming. 😱

Izzi Dame is the new #WWENXT Women's North American Champion! #NewYearsEvil #AndNew pic.twitter.com/dUwtrJndb2

— WWE NXT (@WWENXT) January 7, 2026

This was Dame’s first ever NXT Women’s North American Championship in her NXT career.

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Jorydnne Grace Called Up to WWE Main Roster and Oba Femi Leaves NXT Title In Ring & Departs After Victory Over Leon Slater

Tuesday’s WWE NXT New Year’s Evil 2026 show also featured NXT Champion Oba Femi departing from the NXT brand following his victory over Leon Slater to retain his title.

Following his victory, NXT GM Ava was seen backstage talking to the WWE EVOLVE locker room and stated that there will be a lot of new opportunities on NXT and spots due to Je’Von Evans, Trick Williams, Lash Legend, and Jordynne Grace all being officially called up to the main roster. This led to Robert Stone showing up to interrupt and told Ava if she saw what Femu just did, which Ava responded back not knowing what happened.

This led to the camera going back to the ring showing the NXT title laid on the mat and Femi being nowhere to see as Tony D’Angelo looked on from the crowd.

Opportunity knocks… 👀

Who will step up in 2026 and rise to the top of NXT?! pic.twitter.com/MDqBk2d1p9

— WWE (@WWE) January 7, 2026

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Current Card for Next Week’s Show

Tuesday’s WWE NXT New Year’s Evil 2026 show also featured four new matches announced for the card of next week’s show on January 13th at the Performance Center in Orlando, Florida.

Current card for January 13th WWE NXT show:

• WWE Speed Men’s Championship – Tavion Heights vs. Jasper Troy (c)
• TNA International Championship – Shiloh Hill vs. Channing “Stacks Lorenzo (c)
• No Disqualification match – Joe Hendry vs. Dion Lennox
• Lola Vice vs. Kelani Jordan