4 Ups And 6 Downs From NXT Vengeance Day

3. Underhanded Title Win

You might think the Kiana James/Brooks Jensen storyline and the ongoing “Can they get along?” story with James and Fallon Henley are basic and boring, but it’s at least a story you can follow.

James and Henley won the NXT Women’s Tag Team Championship at Vengeance Day, ending Kayden Carter & Katana Chance’s modern-day record reign for women’s tag champs, but they didn’t do it cleanly. Henley had made it clear beforehand and during the match that she didn’t want to cheat to win, but when she got a pinfall attempt on Carter, James grabbed Kayden’s feet to prevent her from kicking out, doing exactly what Fallon forbade.

So now you have an interesting dynamic: Henley is clearly elated to win her first gold in NXT, but is the reward worth the price? Will she give in and just accept the results, or will she demand a rematch to do it “the right way”? How will this impact Kiana’s relationship with Brooks Jensen?

You could go about 20 different ways with either woman changing their ways, the titles being flipped back to the KC twins, new contenders swiping them quicky from squabbling champs, or even the titles being vacated because Henley refuses to hold them dishonestly.

It’s not Bloodline/Sami Zayn by any stretch – and it might be downright cringeworthy at times – but it’s at least a story to follow, with plenty of options.