WWE NXT to hold Stand & Deliver Tag Team title number one contender’s touranment
A tag team tournament will determine Vanity Project’s next challengers.
Interim GM Robert Stone announced backstage on Tuesday that the tournament will begin next week and will conclude at NXT’s Madison Square Garden Theatre event on March 31. Initially The Culling, Sean Legacy & Eli Knight, Hank & Tank, Birthright, OTM, and DarkState were slated to participate, with Hank & Tank facing Birthright next week in an opening round match.
Saquon Shugars of DarkState was upset about the situation, saying the group wanted their rematch from when Vanity Project won the titles several weeks ago. When OTM arrived in Stone’s office, they immediately began brawling with DarkState. Later in the show, Stone announced that as a result of the fight, both teams were out of the tournament.
Brad Baylor and Ricky Smokes won the NXT Tag Team titles last month, defeating Shugars and Osiris Griffin after Tony D’Angelo came in and laid out members of DarkState, causing Vanity Project to score the shock win. D’Angelo went on to meet Dion Lennox at Vengeance Day in a match that saw them brawl in the parking lot initially, with other DarkState members joining in. OTM came out to even the odds, allowing D’Angelo to take Lennox to the ring and eventually scored the victory.
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