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After more than a year away from the ring, Samoa Joe is making his comeback.
It was set up during Wednesday night’s NXT TV recordings that Joe will challenge Karrion Kross for the NXT Championship at NXT TakeOver 36 next month. The TakeOver event will take place on Sunday August 22.
There was an in-ring segment during Wednesday’s tapes where Joe offered NXT general manager William Regal his resignation as NXT’s authority figure so he could take on Kross at TakeOver. Regal, who wanted to fire Kross during the segment, accepted Joe’s deal and signed the documents.
Last night’s NXT ended at an angle where Kross was shown to have laid out Regal. The attack on Regal was that Kross was sending Joe a message. The week before, Kross smothered Joe after Joe was the special guest referee for Kross’ NXT Championship defense against Johnny Gargano.
Joe has not struggled since February 2020 due to concussion issues. He worked as a color commentator for Raw until he was released to WWE in the April List Cups. Joe returned as an onscreen authority figure for NXT in June. He also works in the talent search department of NXT.
On Fox Sports’ Out of Character podcast with Ryan Satin in June, Joe was asked if he’s still working on a return to the ring. “Absolutely,” Joe said. “We’re just going to say yes. We’re going to stop there.” Joe has named Kross, Pete Dunne, WALTER, Adam Cole, Roderick Strong, Kyle O’Reilly and Bronson Reed as opponents he would like to face in NXT.
Kross made his Raw debut on Monday, losing an untitled game to Jeff Hardy. Hardy pinned Kross while having his feet on the ropes for extra leverage.
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