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WWE NXT NEWS: Jushin Liger announced for "Takeover" special, Balor-Owens, Samoa Joe, Charlotte, more notes from Thursday's TV taping

Jul 16, 2015 - 9:50:21 PM
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WWE NXT TV taping 7/16 news & notes

- WWE held a contract signing between Finn Balor and Kevin Owens for the NXT Title re-match at "NXT: Takeover." The contract signing for the August 22 special from Brooklyn, N.Y. will air on next week's NXT episode.

- WWE announced Japanese legend Jushin "Thunder" Liger for "NXT: Takeover" in Brooklyn.

Liger is scheduled to face Tyler Breeze in a singles match.

- The only title match at the taping was Blake & Murphy defending the NXT Tag Titles against The Vaudevillians on the episode airing July 29.

- Samoa Joe will have matches on two of the next four NXT episodes taped Thursday night. WWE also set up an issue between Joe and Baron Corbin presumably leading to a big match.

- Fresh off her main roster debut, Charlotte wrestled two matches at the taping. However, NXT Women's champion Sasha Banks did not compete at the taping.

WWE determined a #1 contender to the Women's Title in the main event of the August 12 episode.

- Zack Ryder continued his NXT run with Mojo Rawley as the Hype Bros. They faced The Mechanics in a tag match for the third episode airing August 5.

- Eva Marie continued her NXT Developmental run, wrestling in the opening match of next Wednesday's episode.

- Jesse Sorensen, the former TNA star and current Paragon Pro champion, wrestled a singles match at the taping.

- One of the NXT's new female signees, Nhooph Al Areebi, wrestled the pre-taping dark match.

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