For those of you who may have missed it, on the Sept. 18 episode of Raw, the newly crowned NXT Women’s Champion Becky Lynch issued an open challenge. News broke that it was to be Tegan Nox who was slated to answer that said challenge. Extremely last minute plans changed it from Nox to Natalya who we saw face Lynch.
Fightful Select provides a bit more details about what took place. Nox hasn’t wrestled on the Raw brand since July 4. Outside of that, she has wrestled three times on Main Event where she ended up last night in a taped match against Xia Li.
Fightful states that Lynch had pushed for Nox to get the match on Raw, but it was ultimately changed. Per their source, Fightful learned that all day, the plan had been for Nox vs. Becky Lynch. However, they were told that about ten minutes before doors opened, the plans changed. Lynch and Nox already had their match laid out, which was to be produced by TJ Wilson.
As for the reason why it was changed, there wasn’t given a reason why. Over the weekend, Fightful also reported that higher ups had been very happy with Natalya working two matches in India. So perhaps that could have played a factor?
There continues to be no creative plans for Nox. As for Lynch continuing with the open challenges it is said to be optimistic that those continue but that could always change.
