Je’Von Evans is quite obviously one of the brightest young stars on the WWE roster, enough so that when Randy Orton went down to NXT for a match it was Evans he squared up against. They put together a banger too, one that could have been even better had Evans not screwed up the finish by rotating a time too many, messing up what would have been an epic RKO.
Orton, for his part, laughed it off and paid respect to the young man anyway. Again, clearly a bright young star in the making.
He never did win
the NXT championship during his run there, however, and when Adrian Hernandez asked him about it in a recent interview, he admitted it would have helped him (via F4WOnline.com):
“I feel like that’s just something that I could have accomplished, and I think it would have helped me to have that achievement under my belt, especially leading into and going to the main roster. I feel like at the same time now it only means that my first WWE title is going to be a main roster title, you know? So at the end of the day, I’m just ready for whatever. I didn’t get the NXT Championship, but it’s okay. Because now I’m either going to get the IC Championship, the US Championship, World Heavyweight Championship, WWE Championship, tag team championship. It don’t matter!”
Evans just so happened to be on the rise during a time that it quite frankly wouldn’t have made sense to put the title on him. He wasn’t going to be the guy to beat Oba Femi, after all.
And he’s right! This just means when he finally wins one, it will be on the main roster and meaningful in a different way.
Who needs an NXT title then?
