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NXT’s Steffanie Newell to challenge for PROGRESS Women’s title

Posted on by Joseph Currier

WWE’s working relationship with PROGRESS Wrestling will continue with an NXT wrestler challenging for the PROGRESS Women’s Championship next month.

PROGRESS announced today that Jinny will be defending her Women’s title against Steffanie Newell (formerly known as Nixon Newell) on June 10th at the O2 Academy in Sheffield, England. Before Newell joined WWE, Jinny was also the opponent in her last match for PROGRESS.

Newell, who is from Wales, made her NXT in-ring debut at a house show this April after recovering from a torn ACL. She was supposed to be part of the Mae Young Classic in 2017, but the injury kept her from wrestling in the tournament. She has yet to debut on NXT television.

Jinny won the championship from Toni Storm earlier this month and will be making her first title defense against Newell.

Though this has yet to be officially announced, Storm vs. Jinny vs. Isla Dawn vs. Killer Kelly is being advertised for WWE’s United Kingdom-brand show at Royal Albert Hall on June 18th. The winner will challenge for the NXT Women’s Championship at the venue the next night.

NXT Venice, FL, live results: Nixon Newell makes her debut

Posted on by JJ Williams

Results courtesy of @NerdxFerguson

Last night’s estimated attendance was 300 people.

– Ricochet defeated Chad Lail

– Vanessa Borne & Reina Gonzalez defeated Steffanie Newell (Nixon Newell) & Dakota Kai

Newell, who is from Wales and wrestled internationally prior to signing with WWE, was making her NXT debut here after being cleared to return from injury. She was supposed to be one of the wrestlers in last summer’s Mae Young Classic but tore her ACL before the tournament began.

Newell was wrestling under her real name and wore matching gear with Kai.

– Christopher Dijak defeated Mars Wang

– Kassius Ohno defeated Brennan Williams

– The Street Profits (Angelo Dawkins & Montez Ford) defeated TM61 (Shane Thorne & Nick Miller)

– Buddy Murphy defeated Lio Rush (w/ Babatunde Aiyegbusi)

Babatunde also accompanied Rush in a dark match at this Wednesday’s television tapings.

– Fabian Aichner (w/ Marcel Barthel) defeated Jeet Rama

– War Raiders (Hanson & Rowe) defeated Oney Lorcan & Danny Burch

– NXT Women’s Champion Shayna Baszler defeated Candice LeRae

Newell and Kai came out to make the save for LeRae when Baszler wouldn’t let go of the submission. Borne and Gonzalez tried to get involved, but the babyfaces stood tall to close the show.