Report: WWE Cancelled An NXT Call-Up Set For Last Week's SmackDown

The NXT call-up was supposed to be part of Kevin Owens' ongoing feud with Roman Reigns and Jey Uso.

By Andy H Murray /

WWE.com

WWE cancelled an NXT call-up that was originally supposed to go down as part of the feud pitting Kevin Owens against Roman Reigns and Jey Uso on SmackDown, reports WresleVotes.

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The Twitter account posted the following on Wednesday afternoon:-

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The aforementioned main event segment saw Owens brawl with Reigns and Uso halfway up the ThunderDome's video wall, concluding with him being launched onto a pile of plunder below, continuing KO's longstanding trend of taking massive, risky bumps to sell a story.

A similar report from Fightful Select states that Damian Priest was being groomed for a SmackDown call-up earlier this week, though there's no word on whether or not he was the man pegged for the Reigns/Owens role.

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Owens has already lost to Reigns twice as part of their feud, failing in Universal Title matches at TLC 2020 and the following week's SmackDown, on which the duo worked a well-received cage match. The former 'Prizefighter' did, however, pick up a win over Uso on last week's show.

It looks likely that Owens and Reigns will wrestle again, potentially at the Royal Rumble. Perhaps we'll see the NXT call-up go down sometime in the next few weeks.

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