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Elio LeFleur out six months due to injury, WWE Speed title vacated

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Elio LeFleur will be out for a while.

On Tuesday’s NXT, Elio LeFleur was seen wearing a sling and announced that he had torn labrum ligaments in his shoulder. As a result, he had to vacate the NXT Speed Championship. He additionally announced that a tournament would start on next week’s show to crown a new champion and encouraged Eli Knight, who was sitting next to him, to enter the tournament and challenge for the title.

During a NXT house show that took place on March 20, both LeFleur and Lexis King were injured while competing in a tag team match. LeFleur was said to be in a sling in the days following the house show, while King was eventually cleared.

On the March 24 episode of NXT, LeFleur and Knight were seen laid out backstage just prior to their match against Shawn Spears and Niko Vance, where the winners would have advanced to the finals of a number one contender’s tournament. Los Americanos ended up taking their spot and ended up winning the tournament on Tuesday, defeating Birthright. They will now challenge Vanity Project for the NXT Tag Team titles at Stand & Deliver.

Elio LeFleur wins men’s Speed title on WWE NXT

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Elio LeFleur has won his first title in WWE.

The French NXT competitor defeated Jasper Troy and Eli Knight in a three-way match on Tuesday to win the men’s Speed Championship. The end of the bout had LeFleur hit his finish on Troy as Knight followed through with a moonsault. As Knight attempted to recover, LeFleur swooped in and pinned Troy to become champion with less than 90 seconds to go.

Troy had been champion since October, defeating El Grande Americano to become the first NXT wrestler to win the title. In the most recent tournament, Knight and LeFleur both won their opening round matches but reached a time limit draw in the finals. Interim GM Robert Stone then came out and announced that he would make the upcoming championship match a triple threat, and instead of the normal five minute time limit the three wrestlers would get seven minutes instead.

This is the first of two title changes to take place as of this writing. The show opened with The Vanity Project (Ricky Smokes & Brad Baylor) defeating DarkState to win the NXT Tag Team titles.

Details for Men’s Speed Championship tournament revealed on WWE NXT

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Details on the Men’s Speed tournament title have finally been revealed.

During Tuesday’s NXT, Ava announced that following the success of the Women’s Speed Championship tournament, a new Speed tournament would start next week for the men’s title. Two tournament matches were announced: SmackDown’s Axiom will take on Evolve’s Sean Legacy while TNA’s Zachary Wentz will face Jasper Troy.

The winner of the tournament will go on to face champion El Grande Americano. It was the first time on television that Grande Americano has been recognized as the Men’s Speed Champion, as he has been seen frequently on Raw without the title.

After Sol Ruca had been seen with the Women’s Speed title for a number of weeks, it was announced that both Speed titles would be defended in NXT moving forward. A tournament was held to determine the next contender for the Women’s Speed title, with Laney Reid emerging as the surprise winner. However, Reid was pulled from the tournament due to injury and Jaida Parker took her place instead. Parker lost thanks to interference from Lash Legend.