WWE NXT Notes: Eli Knight Advances in WWE Speed Men’s Title #1 Contender Tournament, Sean Legacy Issues Challenge to Keanu Carver for 2/24 Show, Sol Ruca vs. Jacy Jayne for NXT Women’s Title Set for 2/24 Show, 2/17 Show Card

Eli Knight Advances in WWE Speed Men’s Title #1 Contender Tournament

Tuesday’s WWE NXT show at the Performance Center in Orlando, Florida featured one First Round match for WWE’s newest WWE Speed Men’s Championship #1 Contender tournament

This match was Eli Knight defeating Josh Briggs.

As a result of his victory, Knight will be facing off against Elio LeFleur in the Finals of WWE’s Speed Men’s Championship #1 Contender tournament at next week’s show.


Sean Legacy Issues Challenge to Keanu Carver for Feb. 24th WWE NXT Show

Tuesday’s WWE NXT show also featured one new potential match for the card of the February 24th show at the Center Stage in Atlanta, Georgia.

This new potential match announced is a singles match of Sean Legacy vs. Keanu Carver.

This new potential match was setup following Carver attacking Legacy and several members of the NXT Men’s locker room backstage after being frustrated over Interim GM Robert Stone giving Jackson Drake a shot at the NXT Championship instead of him.

In a follow-up segment, Legacy was seen backstage being interviewed by Kelly Kincaid. Legacy gave his thoughts about Carver’s attack to him earlier in the show and issued a changeling to Carver for a match in two weeks in front of his hometown of Atlanta.


Sol Ruca vs. Jacy Jayne for NXT Women’s Title Set for Feb. 24th Show

Tuesday’s WWE NXT show also featured one newly updated match announced for the card of the February 24th show at the Center Stage in Atlanta, Georgia.

This newly updated match announced was a NXT Women’s Championship match of Sol Ruca vs. Jacy Jane (c).

This newly updated match was setup following ZaRuca (Zaria & Sol Ruca) defeating WrenQCC (Wren Sinclair & Kendal Grey) in a tag team match that featured the stipulation of the person who scored the pinfall victory would get a shot at the NXT Women’s title.

Current card for February 24th WWE NXT show:

  • NXT Women’s Championship – Sol Ruca vs. Jacy Jane (c)
  • NXT Tag Team Championship – winner of #1 Contender Fatal Four-way vs. DarkState (Saquon Shugars & Cutler James) (c)
  • WWE Speed Men’s Championship – winner of Elio LeFleur/Eli Knight vs. Jasper Troy (c)

Current Card for Next Week’s Show

Tuesday’s WWE NXT show also featured five new matches announced for the card of next week’s show on February 17th at the Performance Center in Orlando, Florida.

Current card for February 17th WWE NXT show:

  • NXT North American Championship – Shiloh Hill vs. “All Ego” Ethan Page
  • NXT Tag Team Championship #1 Contender Fatal Four-way match – Hank & Tank (Hank Walker & Tank Ledger) vs. OTM (Bronco Nima & Lucien Price) vs. The Culling (Nico Vance & Shawn Spears) vs. Vanity Project (Brad Baylor & Ricky Smokes)
  • WWE Speed Men’s Championship #1 Contender Tournament Finals – Elio LeFleur vs. Eli Knight
  • Kelani Jordan vs. Lola Vice
  • Tony D’Angelo vs. Cutler James