{"id":393564,"date":"2026-01-07T09:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/393564\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T09:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:13:08","slug":"oba-femi-seemingly-finished-with-the-wwe-nxt-brand-after-leaving-his-championship-in-the-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/393564\/","title":{"rendered":"Oba Femi seemingly finished with the WWE NXT brand after leaving his championship in the ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As seen during the January 6th 2026 edition of WWE NXT, Oba Femi defeated Leon Slater to retain the NXT world title. Afterwards, Ava spoke to the Evolve roster about potential NXT opportunities. Robert Stone then burst into the room, exclaiming, \u201cDid you see what Oba Femi just did?!\u201d The broadcast cut back to the ring, where Femi was nowhere to be found and the NXT Championship sat abandoned in the center of the ring as the show went off the air.<\/p>\n<p>The ending of NXT teased Femi\u2019s long-rumored main roster call-up that has been hinted at through recent vignettes on RAW and SmackDown.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Opportunity knocks\u2026 \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p>Who will step up in 2026 and rise to the top of NXT?! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MDqBk2d1p9\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/MDqBk2d1p9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WWE (@WWE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE\/status\/2008736486779130027?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 7, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As seen during the January 6th 2026 edition of WWE NXT, Oba Femi defeated Leon Slater to retain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,41809],"class_list":["post-393564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-oba-femi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}