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Roxanne Perez spoiled the primary title match of Giulia’s WWE profession on Tuesday’s NXT premiere on The CW by beating the Japanese star to retain the NXT Girls’s Championship.
Cora Jade performed a pivotal function within the consequence. Halfway by the match, she pulled Giulia out of the ring and delivered a DDT on the skin because the referee was distracted. Jade rolled Giulia again into the squared circle, which allowed Perez to hit Pop Rocks on the challenger and choose up the win.
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A number of months in the past, a number of studies instructed that WWE had signed Giulia, however slightly than instantly making the transfer to the US, she left Stardom and helped Stardom founder Rossy Ogawa get his new Marigold girls’s wrestling promotion off the bottom.
That led to loads of hypothesis concerning when Giulia would lastly arrive in WWE, however the wait got here to an finish final month on the No Mercy premium reside occasion following Perez’s profitable title protection in opposition to Jaida Parker.
Giulia’s music hit and she or he made her first WWE entrance, concluding together with her and Perez coming nose to nose, which was a harbinger of issues to return.
On the next episode of NXT, Perez minimize a promo in the principle occasion phase solely to get interrupted, but it surely was Chelsea Inexperienced who who made her strategy to the ring slightly than Giulia.
The previous multi-time Stardom champion and NJPW Sturdy girls’s champion did the truth is make her presence felt a few minutes later, although, confronting Inexperienced and laying her out with a knee.
After taking out Inexperienced, Giulia as soon as once more had a stare-down with Perez earlier than saying, “Me, you, CW,” which instructed she wished to problem Roxanne for the NXT girls’s title on the primary episode of NXT on The CW.
One week later, Giulia had the primary match of WWE profession, which was a victory over Inexperienced, and her title match in opposition to Perez turned official as effectively.
Giulia undoubtedly offered Perez with the hardest problem of her reign, however Perez considerably surprisingly escaped together with her title reign intact, leaving Giulia to return to the drafting board.
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