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Nikkita Lyons is the new WWE Evolve Women’s Champion, winning the title at tonight’s Evolve Succession III show.
Lyons, who made her NXT debut back in 2021, has been working in Evolve for the past year as she hasn’t had a prominent spot on NXT TV due to injury setbacks.
On tonight’s show, she defeated Wendy Choo in the opening match to become Evolve Women’s Champion.
Lyons was originally one of the top pushed women of the NXT 2.0 rebrand, in 2021 and 2022, but as noted, injury setbacks took her out of action for extended periods of time.
Returning to action in 2025, she has mainly been working on Evolve instead of NXT, and has been featured on WWE LFG in the ongoing third season on A&E as well.
She has been back on NXT recently, seemingly forming a new alliance of sorts with Nattie and Karmen Petrovic.
The lineage of the WWE Evolve Women’s Championship is now Kali Armstrong, Kendal Grey, Wendy Choo and Nikkita Lyons.
Choo won the title on the April 15 episode of Evolve, winning an eight-woman gauntlet match for the title after it had been vacated by Kendal Grey when she made the move from Evolve to NXT full-time.
NIKKITA LYONS DEFEATS WENDY CHOO TO BECOME WWE EVOLVE WOMEN’S CHAMPION!pic.twitter.com/ZYBO0usLGu
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The Reinvention Of Nikkita Lyons
Nikkita Lyons came under a lot of scrutiny when she first debuted in WWE NXT – as mentioned, she was one of the top pushed women of the NXT 2.0 era in late 2021 and early 2022.
Met with the criticism of being pushed because she’d been ‘chosen’ by management rather than the support of the fans, her injury absences have allowed her to build up some goodwill.
Rebuilding herself on shows like Evolve and LFG, fans have seen another side to her as a hard worker and there is certainly a lot more of a positive sentiment nowadays, and not too many fans would begrudge her winning the Evolve Women’s Title.
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