At today’s WWE live event “Beast In The East” which was shown around the world on the WWE Network, Finn Balor defeated Kevin Owens to become the new WWE NXT Champion.
Following the match, WWE Hall of Famer Tatsumi Fujinami came out to congratulate Balor. After this Owens declined a handshake from Balor.
This is Balor’s first title run within the WWE and Triple H tweeted a photo shortly after the match showing Balor backstage with his title.
A prince returned home and became a champion. Congratulations to @wwebalor on winning the @WWENXT title. #WWETokyo pic.twitter.com/HgwJkpwm3j
— Triple H (@TripleH) July 4, 2015
– During the WWE Network Special, the Divas Championship match was advertised as being Nikki Bella defending against Naomi and Paige.
As noted Tamina had replaced Naomi and fans began asking Naomi on Twitter why she wasn’t at the show and she explained the tweet below that they were dealing with the loss of a family member:
@SlayQueen128 family and I are dealing with a loss…I'm happy to have my girl @TaminaSnuka representing I know she's kicking a** literally
— Trinity Fatu (@NaomiWWE) July 2, 2015
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