Oba Femi to defend WWE NXT North American title against Wes Lee
Oba Femi’s next challenger for the WWE NXT North American Championship will be Wes Lee.
Femi and Lee agreed to a future title match on Tuesday’s WWE NXT episode, although no date has been set for the bout to this point.
At Battleground earlier this month, Femi successfully defended his title against Lee and Joe Coffey in a triple threat, but Coffey ate the pin in the contest. Lee declared his intention to challenge for the title in an in-ring promo segment with Femi on Tuesday, with Femi agreeing — with one caveat — Should Lee lose the one-on-one match, he will never challenge for the North American title again as long as Femi holds it.
Lee owns the longest title reign in North American Championship history at 269 days. Only Carmelo Hayes has more overall days as North American Champion at 272 as recognized by WWE, but Hayes’ record came across two separate reigns.
Our full report from Tuesday’s WWE NXT episode is available here.
An F4WOnline Editor since 2019, Ethan has been covering wrestling and MMA since 2011. He has hosted The Wrestling Life Podcast since 2014, and is a former Baltimore Sun TV/Tribune Media contributor. He is also a Baltimore Ravens and Baltimore Orioles fan.