4 things NXT got right on this week’s episode (January 8, 2020)

#2 Women’s Champions

The show was opened by none other than the new NXT Women’s Champion Rhea Ripley. With former Champion Shayna Baszler absent from the show, it was the former NXT UK Women’s Champion Toni Storm who walked out to challenge Ripley for Worlds Collide.

Storm also believed she could defeat Kay Lee Ray for the NXT UK Championship on Sunday, but Lee Ray came out to take exception.

While the two women alone can put on stellar matches, it didn’t take long before Io Shirai and Bianca Belair also came out to lay their claims to a Championship match.

Candice LeRae was a little late to the party but she also wanted a shot at the title, which made things even more interesting.

There is no question that each of the five women in the ring can hold NXT upon their shoulders, and Ripley will have to fight hard in order to extend her reign for as long as possible.

The six women fought in a tag team match, with Storm, Ripley, and LeRae taking on Belair, Shirai, and Lee Ray. The Nightmare delivered a Riptide to The EST of NXT to pick up the victory for her team.

This segment and the match did exceptionally well to show the world how deep the NXT women’s roster runs. Ripley will have a handful of challengers to look out for in the coming weeks, and things could get very interesting once she faces LeRae and Shirai.