{"id":10013,"date":"2016-02-07T04:11:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T10:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=10013"},"modified":"2016-02-07T04:59:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T10:59:37","slug":"nxt-champion-injured-update-evaluation-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/02\/07\/nxt-champion-injured-update-evaluation-process\/","title":{"rendered":"NXT champion injured &#038; to be re-evaluated, appears at Sat. show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2813354025\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>NXT champion Finn Balor suffered an ankle injury at Friday&#8217;s NXT live show in Nashville, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwe.com\/inside\/finn-balor-injures-ankle\" target=\"_blank\">according to WWE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>WWE said that Balor would\u00a0not wrestle\u00a0at Saturday&#8217;s tour finale in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:\u00a0<\/strong>Balor made an in-ring appearance on crutches at the\u00a0Indy finale. NXT Women&#8217;s champion Bayley did a bit honoring Balor mid-way through the show. The main event was then changed to Sami Zayn vs. Samoa Joe vs. Baron Corbin in a three-way match. (<a href=\"http:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/2016\/02\/06\/26-nxt-in-indianapolis-results-finn-balor-appears-despite-ankle-injury-samoa-joe-vs-sami-zayn-vs-baron-corbin-dash-and-dawson-vs-jason-jordan-and-chad-gable-in-a-best-of-three-falls-match-for-t\/\" target=\"_blank\">Full Indy Results at Prowrestling.net<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The next step is Balor will &#8220;undergo further evaluation&#8221; on Monday after the NXT crew returns to their home base in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately for WWE,\u00a0Balor would not miss any TV tapings, as WWE\u00a0taped all NXT programming leading up to WrestleMania Weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, WWE\u00a0has a handful of live tours before\u00a0April. Depending on the severity of the injury, the ultimate goal is to make sure Balor is healthy for the &#8220;Takeover&#8221; special two months from now in Dallas.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-1776663560\"><div id=\"pwtor-1549558883\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>NXT champion Finn Balor suffered an ankle injury at Friday&#8217;s NXT live show in Nashville, according to WWE. WWE said that Balor would\u00a0not wrestle\u00a0at Saturday&#8217;s tour finale in Indianapolis. Update:\u00a0Balor made an in-ring appearance on <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/02\/07\/nxt-champion-injured-update-evaluation-process\/\" title=\"NXT champion injured &#038; to be re-evaluated, appears at Sat. show\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,13,3],"tags":[124,1656,71,123],"class_list":["post-10013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spotlightarticles","category-news_nxt","category-news_wwe","tag-nxt","tag-nxt-nashville","tag-wwe","tag-wwe-nxt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/BalorFinnTB_3x2_600.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10013"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10065,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10013\/revisions\/10065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}