NXT Returns to Tuesday Slot After Big Week

NXT returned to its regular Tuesday night slot this week following an episode less than a week ago that featured several of the company's top stars. The show came after the conclusion of the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic and featured the two top champions who had both come off successful title defenses.

Grayson Waller retained his NXT title in last week's main event against CM Punk with help from a distraction by Kevin Owens. Waller entered the ring at the start of this week's show to the first verse of CM Punk's theme song Cult of Personality, sending the Performance Center crowd into a frenzy before revealing it was him and not Punk.

The NXT champion declared himself the best in the world and rhetorically asked the audience what was next for him. Hill, the LFG Season 2 winner who had confronted Waller before his Halloween Havoc match against Naraku, declared himself next in line for the NXT Championship with visible fire and passion.

Waller dismissed Hill by saying he did not think he was ready before his music played and he attempted to leave the ring. As Waller reached the Performance Center floor, Mason Rook attacked him out of nowhere and carried him back into the ring.

Rook hit a fireman's carry cannonball into the corner on Waller, making a statement that he is back and ready for the title shot he had earned prior to suffering an injury several months ago.