She worked for a couple of years as Faith the Lioness in WOW (Women of Wrestling) prior to signing with WWE in 2021. The Taekwondo black belt with musical ambitions now known as Nikkita Lyons was featured prominently during NXT’s 2.0 era, but missed significant time while dealing with injuries in 2023 and 2024. She was moved to the new NXT-feeder show Evolve not long after returning, and has been slowly regaining momentum on the purple brand.
That’s taken Lyons through a feud with Wendy Choo and into
an alliance with Sloan Jacobs, which led her to her latest one-on-one with Choo, this time for the Evolve Women’s title. Wendy’s reign ended at 70 days — the hour of Evolve’s Succession III event that premiered on Tubi tonight (June 24) actually filmed on May 29 at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida, but through the magic of taping schedules, Choo’s reign lasted as long in kayfabe as it did in the real world.
Anyway… the Big Kat actually submitted to Choo’s Dirt Nap finisher, but Jacobs jumped on the apron with Wendy’s belt to distract the referee while her partner tapped. Choo’s teammate Laynie Luck arrived to deal with Jacobs while the referee got the strap out of the ring, but Lyons grabbed her crystal (she’s working a new age spiritual guru gimmick these days) and blasted her opponent in the head with it to escape another hold.
A spinning heel kick then gave us the fourth-ever WWE Evolve Women’s champ at Succession III.
In addition to her work on Evolve, Lyons still appears on NXT, and recently lost a match on LFG, WWE’s other NXT-feeder show.
Thoughts on Nikkita Lyons first WWE or pro wrestling championship win?
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