17 Things You Probably Missed From WWE Raw (4 Nov)

16. An Interesting NXT-Related Championship Stat

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Time for a game of spot the difference.

WWE Champ Brock Lesnar, Universal Champ Bray Wyatt, Raw Women's Champ Becky Lynch, SmackDown Women's Champion Bayley, US Champ AJ Styles, IC Champion Shinsuke Nakamura, Raw Tag Champs The Viking Raiders, SmackDown Tag Champions The Revival. What do most of those names have in common?

Every single one of them except Brock and AJ passed through NXT's system before landing on the "main roster". That leaves Lesnar and Styles, as WWE and US Champions respectively, as the only existing titleholders on Raw or SmackDown who had nothing to do with NXT.

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