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Lumis out of NXT North American title ladder match, new matches set

Posted on by Josh Nason

On Wednesday’s edition of NXT, General Manager William Regal announced that Dexter Lumis is out of the vacant North American title ladder match at Takeover XXX.

The reason given was that Lumis sustained an ankle injury at the hands of Timothy Thatcher in last week’s qualifying match. Lumis submitted Thatcher with his Silence choke to win the match as Thatcher had Finn Balor in a leglock.

Regal said that due to complaints from Johnny Gargano and Balor that they didn’t directly lose in their respective qualifying matches, he is booking two matches for the Wednesday, August 19th NXT involving the four men that didn’t get beat in the qualifying matches. The winners of those two singles matches will get two of the remaining three spots.

Balor, Gargano, and Ridge Holland are three of the men with the fourth to be decided next week as Kushida vs. Cameron Grimes vs. TBA will square off for the other spot.

Thus far, Bronson Reed and Damian Priest have qualified for the five man match.

Damian Priest qualifies for NXT North American title ladder match

Posted on by Josh Nason

The third entrant for the vacant North American Championship ladder match at NXT TakeOver XXX is official.

Damian Priest defeated Ridge Holland and Oney Lorcan Wednesday in a three way to advance, joining Bronson Reed and Dexter Lumis with two more spots yet to be filled.

The end of the physical bout came when Priest dropped Holland with a sit-down chokeslam and followed up with the Reckoning on Lorcan to get the pin. This will be his third televised opportunity at the title after losing efforts to then-champion Keith Lee in a three way with Dominik Dijakovic and then to Lee, both in April.

This was Holland’s televised NXT in-ring debut as he has been primarily seen on NXT UK.

Next week’s NXT will feature Kushida vs. Cameron Grimes vs. a mystery man in the fourth qualifying match.

As of now, the August 22nd event has just the ladder match and Women’s Champion Io Shirai vs. Dakota Kai as official. Kai earned the shot earlier Wednesday with a win over Rhea Ripley.