Roxanne Perez can have an opportunity at historical past on Saturday night time when she takes half in a deadly four-way match for the NXT Ladies’s Championship at Vengeance Day.
Recent off a Royal Rumble the place she rewrote the file books by being the longest-lasting competitor, Perez will compete towards defending champion Giulia, Bayley and Cora Jade to change into the primary three-time NXT girls’s champion within the model’s historical past. The one different two-time champions have been Charlotte Aptitude and Shayna Baszler earlier than they have been known as as much as the principle roster.
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Roxanne Perez is proven throughout the WWE Royal Rumble at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Feb. 1, 2025. (Joe Camporeale-Imagn Pictures)
NXT normal supervisor Ava Raine made the title match a deadly four-way after Jade’s win over Bayley on the ultimate present earlier than Vengeance Day. Perez instructed Fox Information Digital in a current interview she was “upset” that Raine reduce her possibilities of presumably making historical past however was “centered” on the last word aim.
Perez and Bayley have feuded in current weeks, and it got here to a head when the younger girls’s famous person dressed up as one in every of Bayley’s older gimmicks simply to be a thorn in her facet.
“It’s a lot enjoyable,” Perez mentioned. “Did you see the look on her face after I got here out as her little previous ‘Hugger’ Bayley? I feel I obtained to her. She could have gotten me after, however I feel I positively obtained to her. But it surely’s been very enjoyable.”
The 23-year-old mentioned going up towards Bayley was a dream that she had considered since she was youthful.
“I really feel like I form of manifested this since I used to be a child. Prior to now few years, I’ve been saying I need to step within the ring with Bayley. She’s one in every of my dream opponents, dream matches,” she mentioned. “However now I’m lastly realizing I obtained to show to her that ‘The Prodigy’ is just a bit higher, it’s means, means higher.”
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Roxanne Perez regained the NXT Ladies’s Championship at Stand & Ship 2024. (WWE)
Perez received the NXT Ladies’s Championship for the primary time on Dec. 13, 2022, and held it for 108 days earlier than she misplaced a six-way ladder match at NXT Stand & Ship 2023. She regained the title at Stand & Ship 2024 towards Lyra Valkyria.
Giulia defeated Perez at New 12 months’s Evil again in 2025 as the previous Stardom and Marigold star made her affect felt on NXT.
Perez defined to Fox Information Digital what having the NXT Ladies’s Championship meant to her.
“Means every little thing to me,” she mentioned. “I feel profitable it the primary time, I positively solidified myself as the most effective wrestlers that WWE has. I solidified myself as ‘The Prodigy.’ And it was the primary title I received in WWE, my first singles title. Each single factor, each hurdle, each arduous factor that I went by means of to get right here, that proved to me that each single factor was value it.
“I don’t assume that there’s one woman on that roster that loves that title greater than me, that desires the title greater than me. So, that’s precisely why I’m going to change into a three-time NXT girls’s champion, and I’m going to take the ladies’s championship straight to RAW, straight to SmackDown, and possibly, if I determine to vacate it, anyone else can have an opportunity. However I don’t know. I feel it belongs to me. Giulia’s simply holding it for now.”
This is how the remainder of the cardboard will form as much as be:
- Obama Femi vs. Austin Principle vs. Grayson Waller for NXT Championship
- Fallon Henley vs. Stephanie Vaquer for NXT North American Championship
- Trick Williams vs. Eddy Thorpe in a strap match
- Nathan Frazer & Axiom vs. Josh Briggs & Yoshiki Inamura for NXT Tag Group Championship
- Je’Von Evans vs. Ethan Web page in a singles match
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Ivy Nile and Chelsea Inexperienced and Roxanne Perez throughout the Ladies’s Royal Rumble at Lucas Oil Stadium. (Joe Camporeale-Imagn Pictures)
Vengeance Day will happen in Washington, D.C., beginning at 6 p.m. ET.
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