Noam Dar Forced To Vacate NXT Heritage Cup (WWE News)

NXT's Noam Dar is out with an injury.

by Andrew Pollard
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In some unfortunate news, WWE's Noam Dar is seemingly set for a spell on the sidelines.

As announced on X by NXT General Manager Ava, Dar is injured and has been forced to vacate the Heritage Cup. Previously, he was due to defend that prize against Channing 'Stacks' Lorenzon on this coming week's NXT episode. Instead, Stacks will now compete against a to-be-confirmed opponent for that vacated cup.

Making this all the more unfortunate for Noam Dar, of course, is that he's only relatively recently returned to action after spending 11 months on the shelf due to a leg injury.

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That return came in April, which itself was followed by Noam's Meta-Four faction disbanding in a kayfabe sense due to the group's members wanting to focus on individual success. In reality, Oro Mensah and Jakara Jackson were released by the company just a matter of days later.

Since that split, Lash Legend has been featured as a singles act in the brand's stacked women's division, while Noam Dar defeated Lexis King for the Heritage Cup on the very same night that he'd made his return from that injury.

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As of this writing, there are no specifics on the injury that Noam is dealing with, nor the severity of this issue.

From all of us here at WhatCulture Wrestling, here's hoping for a full and swift recovery, and that it's not too long before we see Noam Dar back between the ropes again.

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