This post will include a few spoilers for the upcoming several weeks of NXT Television. If you don’t want anything spoiled for you, make sure to leave now.
As noted prior, the NXT Championship match at NXT Takeover: New Orleans is going to be Aleister Black vs Andrade ‘Cien’ Almas. It turns out that this might not have been the original plan for the match.
On Wrestling Observer Radio (subscribe here), Dave Meltzer says that Lars Sullivan was penciled in for the next NXT Title match at the event. He has since disappeared from not only NXT Television but also live events.
Here is what Meltzer said:
“There’s something going on and I don’t know the answer to this question. The original main event for New Orleans…I don’t know this 100 percent but [I’m sure] 90 percent [the main event] was gonna be Andrade against Lars Sullivan. Lars Sullivan has disappeared off the face of the Earth. He was not at any of the tapings. At the last set of tapings, they announced a number 1 contenders match with Lars and Killian Dane and it ended up being Aleister Black and Killian Dain. Aleister Black is gonna get the shot so I don’t know what happened. Lars Sullivan wasn’t at the tapings, he wasn’t at the house shows this weekend, I’m not sure when he last wrestled but something’s going on there.”
We will let you know when we hear anything more on Sullivan.
Would you have liked to see Almas vs Sullivan?
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