Who Emerged From NXT Worlds Collide As The Unified Champions?
Three sets of titles were unified Sunday. Who left with each title?
WWE's developmental brands unified its championships Sunday at NXT Worlds Collide, as the main NXT and NXT UK pitted their champions against one another.
The move came as NXT UK is closing its doors, with the majority of its roster released or brought directly into NXT in recent weeks. This comes in advance of the planned launch of NXT Europe next year, though specific details about this new brand have yet to really surface.
Sunday, however, we saw NXT Champion Bron Breakker face NXT UK Champion Tyler Bate to unify their singles titles. Their title bout closed the show and easily was the highlight of the night, with Breakker countering a rebound clothesline with a vicious spear to capture both titles.
Nothing but respect between Tyler Bate and @bronbreakkerwwe. ?#NXTWorldsCollide pic.twitter.com/jqTwWAl4uT
— WWE NXT (@WWENXT) September 4, 2022
Similarly, NXT Women's Champion Mandy Rose won a triple threat against NXT UK Women's Champion Meiko Satomura and Blair Davenport to unify the women's titles. Rose would pin Davenport after a pump knee took both opponents down.
And the NXT and NXT UK Tag Team Championships were unified Sunday, though it wasn't either champs -- the Creed Brothers and Briggs & Jensen, respectively -- who left with the titles. In a four-way elimination match, it was Pretty Deadly who won the straps when Damon Kemp turned on the Creeds.
NXT announcers were referring to the champs as "unified" champions, but we'll see how long that lasts, especially once NXT UK formally closes its doors.