Oba Femi, Sol Ruca, and Joe Hendry are planned for WWE main roster call-ups after impressing at Saturday Night’s Main Event. This comes after Trick Williams was called up and Je’Von Evans was announced to be a soon-to-be free agent.
According to Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio, the reaction these talents received from the larger audience sped up the timeline for their move to the main roster.
“Joe Hendry and Sol Ruca, they’re all on the list,” Meltzer said. “I don’t know when Sol Ruca’s coming, but number one, they put her over Bayley. I was told on the Sunday right after that show that all of those guys, when they got over, Oba Femi is too even though he’s the champion right now. They see Oba Femi as a major main eventer.”
Meltzer noted that while these call-ups were inevitable, the positive reception from a crowd beyond the regular NXT viewership changed perceptions within the company.
“But all of those people that were on that show, the key was that when they got over to the ‘real’ audience, to the large audience that watched John Cena, it sped everything up,” Meltzer explained. “That was the thing. All those guys were going to be up anyway, but there’s a perception that, ‘Well, they’re big in their little bowl.’ But when you see them on the big bowl and they’re really over, that changed a lot of opinions real fast.”
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