A surprising heel turn happened on the latest NXT episode after the main event.
Kayden Carter and Katana Chance were defending their NXT Women’s Tag Team titles against Nikkita Lyons and Zoey Stark. This was a rematch from a couple of weeks ago where Stark pinned Chance and they thought they had won, but they found out that Carter was the legal competitor. The match was restarted and Katana ended up pinning Nikkita to pick up the win. In the rematch happening this episode, Stark and Lyons went to work on Chance isolating her from Carter. Chance dropped Stark with head scissors and tagged in Carter.
While Nikkita and Kayden were fighting ringside, Stark tried an unsuccessful Phoenix Splash on Katana. Grabbing this opportunity, Katana delivered a cutter on Stark but only got a 2 count for her effort, as Nikkita broke the pinfall.
At a point, due to misunderstanding, Zoey almost hit her own partner Nikkita on the apron. Nikkita pushed her out of the line of fire but went down herself. In the end, the champions Carter and Chance finished off Zoey Stark with their team finisher to retain their titles.
As the referee was about to hand the titles to the retaining tag team champions, Stark and Lyons grabbed the belts. They wanted to hand over the titles to the champions themselves. However, in a shocking turn of events, Stark hit her partner Lyons over the head with a belt and put her down.
What just happened?! 😱@ZoeyStarkWWE@nikkita_wwe#WWENXT pic.twitter.com/K2Q1BuU73T
Advertisement— WWE on BT Sport (@btsportwwe) November 9, 2022
She has effectively turned heel now.
Backstage she angrily said: “I’m no longer doing this for anyone. This is for Me!”
😈 #wwenxt pic.twitter.com/d6Gq3ytWLb
— Zoey Stark (@ZoeyStarkWWE) November 9, 2022
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She also gave some explanation for her actions while quoting a WWE tweet about the betrayal. She tweeted: “No…My WIN! I’m done having to carry others…I’m putting myself first from here on out”.
No…My WIN! I'm done having to carry others…I'm putting myself first from here on out https://t.co/JHX5X6poYt
— Zoey Stark (@ZoeyStarkWWE) November 9, 2022
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Nikkita Lyons is yet to respond elaborately but has tweeted out a broken heart emoji while quoting another WWE tweet.
