WWE NXT star Sol Ruca reveals reaction to Tatum Paxley winning title, Kendal Grey's tremendous growth

WWE NXT wrestlers Tatum Paxley and Kendal Grey person been 2 of the standout performers connected the marque implicit the people of 2025.

Paxley went from being connected the tag-team country with Gigi Dolan and Shotzi to commencement the twelvemonth and rapidly worked her mode up the ladder to gain shots astatine the NXT Women’s Championship and the NXT Women’s North American Championship.

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Tatum Paxley celebrates arsenic the caller NXT Women's Champion during NXT Halloween Havoc astatine the Findlay Toyota Center connected Oct. 25, 2025 successful Prescott Valley, Arizona. (Meg Oliphant/WWE via Getty Images)

Tatum Paxley successful enactment against Lola Vice during NXT astatine the WWE Performance Center connected Oct. 28, 2025 successful Orlando, Florida. (Kevin Sabitus/WWE via Getty Images)

She became the NXT women’s champion aft she defeated Jacy Jayne astatine Halloween Havoc. However, her caller narration with Izzi Dame and The Culling fractured, starring to an affectional lucifer astatine NXT Deadline, which she mislaid acknowledgment to assistance from Dame’s compatriots.

Sol Ruca, who has made her ain waves successful NXT implicit the past 3 years, told Fox News Digital successful a caller interrogation she was implicit the satellite for Paxley arsenic her hard enactment paid off.

"Tatum, she’s grown truthful overmuch and erstwhile she won the title, I was virtually backstage, like, trying not to outcry due to the fact that she’s conscionable tried truthful hard and she’s conscionable ever connected it," Ruca said. "She’s ever showing up and acceptable to enactment and I deliberation she truly deserved being the NXT women’s champion."

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Kendal Grey enters the ringing during NXT astatine the WWE Performance Center connected Oct. 28, 2025 successful Orlando, Florida. (Matt Pendleton/WWE via Getty Images)

Kendal Grey enters the arena during NXT Deadline astatine Boeing Center astatine Tech Port connected Dec. 6, 2025 successful San Antonio, Texas. (Andrea Kellaway/WWE via Getty Images)

Grey recovered her footing astatine WWE Evolve arsenic she divided clip betwixt that marque and NXT. She won the Evolve Women’s Championship against Kali Armstrong backmost successful September. Then, she won the Women’s Iron Survivor Challenge and earned a changeable astatine the NXT Women’s Championship.

Ruca suggested she was impressed with Grey’s maturation implicit the past 2 years. Grey joined the WWE enactment successful 2023 arsenic portion of WWE’s Next In Line programme 5 years aft being named the USA High School Wrestler of the Year.

"Same with Kendal, she’s gotten truly bully wrong the past, I don’t know, she’s been present for what? Like 2 years, maybe? I deliberation the inheritance successful amateur wrestling decidedly helps but they’re truly putting her successful the heavy extremity close now," Ruca said. "And I deliberation she’s decidedly holding up.

"I deliberation she’s performing very, precise well. I deliberation her promos are getting amended and I don’t deliberation she’s ace tense astir the presumption she’s in. I deliberation she’s beauteous confident, which is decidedly a bully happening for her."

Zaria and NXT Women's North American Champion, Sol Ruca interrupt Fatal Influence during NXT astatine the WWE Performance Center connected July 15, 2025 successful Orlando, Florida. (Andrea Kellaway/WWE)

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Ruca volition person a large accidental to marque an content with WWE fans. She volition instrumentality connected Bayley connected Saturday astatine Saturday Night’s Main Event, which volition besides beryllium John Cena’s last lucifer of his WWE in-ring career.

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