Top AEW Star Reflects On ‘Brilliant’ Moment From WWE Run

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A top AEW star has reflected on a ‘brilliant’ moment from their run in WWE before joining AEW back in 2022.

Samoa Joe finally made the jump to WWE back in 2015, where he debuted on the NXT brand at the end of NXT Takeover Unstoppable.

A year later, Joe would go on to capture the NXT Championship for the first time, defeating Finn Balor at an NXT live event in Lowell, Massachusetts to begin his first reign as champion.

Speaking at Terrificon, Joe discussed winning the title at an NXT live event, calling it one of the ‘most brilliant’ things he did during his WWE run.

He said:

“I thought it was one of the most brilliant things that we did. When you’re building a new brand and an imprint like we were in ‘NXT,’ you know a major thing is we want people to come to our live events. We were running live events around the nation, and if you knew if you showed up to an ‘NXT’ live event that a world title could change hands, I mean it just makes that event so much more exciting. So much more fan interactive, so much more better that you know, potentially on one night, any given Sunday, you could see something amazing happen.”

Joe was released from WWE for the second time in January 2022, which led to him ultimately joining AEW, where he went on to win the AEW World Championship at last year’s Worlds End event.

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