Mason Rook has returned to WWE NXT, and he wasted little time making his presence felt.
On the November 10 episode of WWE NXT on The CW, the present kicked off with CM Punk’s entrance music, though it was NXT Champion Grayson Waller who emerged as an alternative.
Waller was celebrating his victory over Punk from the November 4 episode, the place he retained the NXT Championship following a distraction from Kevin Owens. Regardless of mocking Punk, Waller acknowledged that the previous WWE Champion would go down as one of many all-time greats earlier than declaring that he had crushed him.
With Punk seemingly behind him, Waller turned his consideration towards discovering his subsequent challenger.
Shiloh Hill answered the decision, confronting the champion and delivering some heated phrases about his current actions. Waller, nevertheless, dismissed Hill as somebody who wasn’t prepared for a chance on the NXT Championship.
Issues took an surprising flip as Waller tried to go away.
The returning Mason Rook immediately ambushed the NXT Champion, making a direct assertion in his first look since being sidelined in late September.
Rook had beforehand been scheduled to problem Waller for the NXT Championship earlier than being faraway from in-ring competitors.
His shock assault on Tuesday night time seems to have put him proper again into the championship image, with unfinished enterprise between the 2 now again in play.
