{"id":448306,"date":"2026-02-04T10:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/448306\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T10:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:07:11","slug":"new-wwe-nxt-champion-crowned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/448306\/","title":{"rendered":"New WWE NXT Champion Crowned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" data-class=\"LazyLoad\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/NXT-Championship-Oba-Femi-January-7.jpg\" alt=\"New WWE NXT Champion Crowned\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    WWE<\/p>\n<p>The new WWE NXT Champion has now officially been crowned after Oba Femi vacated the championship back at New Year\u2019s Evil.<\/p>\n<p>At NXT New Years Evil, Oba Femi defeated TNA X-Division Champion Leon Slater to retain the NXT Championship, before he would relinquish the title, leaving it in the ring to close the show.<\/p>\n<p>It was then announced that a Ladder match would take place on the February 3 episode of NXT to determine the new champion, with Ricky Saints being announced for the match before five qualifiers took place.<\/p>\n<p>The qualifiers for the match would see Shiloh Hill defeat Josh Briggs, Sean Legacy defeat Eli Knight, Keanu Carver defeat Andre Chase and Dion Lennox defeat Myles Borne.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Hendry and Jackson Drake\u2019s qualifier was called off after an attack on Hendry, with Drake earning a bye into the match, before it was then announced that Hendry would also be cleared for the match, making it a seven-man clash.<\/p>\n<p>The match took place to close out tonight\u2019s NXT show, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wwe.com\/shows\/wwenxt\/joe-hendry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Hendry<\/a> scoring the win to become the new NXT Champion.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight\u2019s show also saw the announcement of a new interim NXT General Manager following Ava\u2019s WWE departure, <a href=\"https:\/\/wrestletalk.com\/news\/new-interim-wwe-nxt-general-manager-announced\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which you can see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlingmasterclass.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-436300 size-full\" data-class=\"LazyLoad\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/wrestling-masterclass-9-stars-webp-768x127.webp.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"778\" height=\"128\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To make sure you stay up to date with all the biggest wrestling and WrestleTalk news, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@wrestletalk.official\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">follow us on Threads by clicking this link<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p class=\"share\">Share this article with friends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WWE The new WWE NXT Champion has now officially been crowned after Oba Femi vacated the championship back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,5742,210472,4366,94185],"class_list":{"0":"post-448306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-nxt","10":"tag-nxt-championship","11":"tag-wwe","12":"tag-wwe-nxt"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}