Carmelo Hayes is headed to WWE SmackDown for the United States Title event.
The event to find out Logan Paul’s subsequent challenger for the United States Championship is underway. The official bracket consists of Dragon Lee, Santos Escobar, Grayson Waller, Bobby Lashley, Kevin Owens, Austin Theory, Karrion Kross and a mysterious NXT competitor.
On Friday’s SmackDown Lashley and Santos Escobar got here out victorious in their matches advancing to the event semi-finals. Ahead of this week’s matchups, Shawn Michaels has introduced that the thriller NXT identify is none aside from former NXT Champion Carmelo Hayes. Hayes can also be a two-time NXT North American Champion and former NXT Cruiserweight Champion.
Hayes is recent off a win towards Lexis King at NXT Deadline, the ultimate NXT PLE of the 12 months, and can compete towards Grayson Waller for a chance to advance in the United States Championship event semi-finals. Should he make it to the finals he’ll battle it out towards the winner of Bobby Lashley vs. Santos Escobar.
“When it was announced an NXT Superstar would be competing in the United States Title Tournament on SmackDown, there was a line outside my office door. The man at the head of that line, and the man who will be representing NXT, is Carmelo Hayes,” Michaels introduced in the video. This will mark Hayes’ official SmackDown televised debut as he beforehand wrestled a darkish match in 2021 with Trick Williams towards Erik and Ivar of The Viking Raiders.
Hayes beforehand appeared on an episode of WWE Raw the place he confronted off towards Finn Balor. Seth Rollins and Finn Balor have been set for a nose to nose confrontation forward of their title match at Money in the Bank. Eventually a brawl broke out amongst them main Balor to try to go after Rollins with a chair. Hayes, who was sitting ringside, grabbed the chair out of Balor’s fingers and Rollins used his forearm to throw Balor over the barricade. The match between Balor and Hayes was made official for later that evening and though he misplaced that match, it left followers desirous to see extra from the star.
BREAKING: @ShawnMichaels has introduced that the #WWENXT Superstar coming into the #USTitle Tournament on #SmackDown is former @WWENXT Champion @Carmelo_WWE! pic.twitter.com/gqx4fX2GwR
— WWE (@WWE) December 11, 2023
Hayes has had a tremendous run in NXT. From constructing himself from the bottom as much as turning into the face of NXT 2.0 and beating nearly each single wrestler on the NXT roster, it appeared like he was primed for a fundamental roster name up any day. This particularly gave the impression to be the case when he misplaced the NXT Championship to Ilja Dragunov. At this level, he has completed every little thing there was to do in NXT, even getting co-signs from Superstars like John Cena and Cody Rhodes. Could this result in a fundamental roster name up for the A-Champion? Only time will inform.
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