{"id":7052,"date":"2020-12-18T13:09:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T13:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=7052"},"modified":"2020-12-18T13:09:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T13:09:06","slug":"nxt-preview-what-happened-after-smackdown-tapings-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=7052","title":{"rendered":"NXT Preview, What Happened After SmackDown Tapings &amp; More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211;\u00a0Tonight&#8217;s episode of NXT on the WWE Network will feature the start of a tournament to crown a new #1 contender for Sami Zayn&#8217;s\u00a0NXT Championship. The tournament finals will take place at the next NXT TakeOver live special on February 11th. Here&#8217;s a preview:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Finn Balor vs. Curtis Axel in a first round tournament match<\/li>\n<li>Hideo Itami vs. Tyler Breeze in a first round tournament match<\/li>\n<li>Wesley Blake and Buddy Murphy vs. The Vaudevillians in a #1 contenders match<\/li>\n<li>NXT Women&#8217;s Champion Charlotte vs. Sasha Banks in a\u00a0non-title match<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211; The dark main event that took place after Tuesday&#8217;s SmackDown tapings from Austin, Texas\u00a0saw Daniel Bryan, Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose defeat Kane, Seth Rollins and Bray Wyatt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Steve Austin appeared on The Rich Eisen Show this week to discuss college football, Peyton Manning, wrestling finishing moves and more:<\/p>\n<p>\n* PHOTOS from Yesterday&#8217;s Big WWE&#8217;s WrestleMania 32 Announcement at the AT&amp;T Stadium<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211;\u00a0Tonight&#8217;s episode of NXT on the WWE Network will feature the start of a tournament to crown a new #1 contender for Sami Zayn&#8217;s\u00a0NXT Championship. The tournament finals will take place at the next NXT TakeOver live special on February 11th. Here&#8217;s a preview: Finn Balor vs. Curtis Axel in a first round tournament match&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}