{"id":452896,"date":"2026-02-04T08:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T08:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/452896\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T08:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T08:17:08","slug":"joe-hendry-crowned-new-wwe-nxt-champion-following-the-departure-of-oba-femi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/452896\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Hendry crowned new WWE NXT champion following the departure of Oba Femi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As seen during the February 3rd 2026 edition of WWE NXT, a ladder match took place to crown a new NXT champion following the departure of Oba Femi. The participants were Ricky Saints, Shiloh Hill, Sean Legacy, Dion Lennox, Keanu Carver, Evolve Men\u2019s Champion Jackson Drake, and Joe Hendry.<\/p>\n<p>For the finish, Hendry and Saints were both trying to grab the title at the top of the ladder. Hendry ended up knocking Saints off onto a ladder below, then retrieved the title to become the new champion.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AFTER A TUG OF WAR ON TOP OF THE LADDER<\/p>\n<p>RICKY SAINTS FALLS DOWN ONTO THE BRIDGED LADDER<\/p>\n<p>AND JOE HENDRY BECOMES NEW NXT CHAMPION!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WWENXT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#WWENXT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XPGVDpIXyK\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/XPGVDpIXyK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Movement \u2013 Pro Wrestling (@TheMovementXx) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheMovementXx\/status\/2018882157779824821?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 4, 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 February 3rd 2026 edition of WWE NXT, a ladder match took place to crown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,40590],"class_list":["post-452896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-wwe-nxt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452896","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=452896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}