Backstage Details On Nixed Plans For NXT Star To Join Roman Reigns Storyline On SmackDown

Roman Reigns and Jey Uso have been feuding with Kevin Owens for some time now, and they often get the upper hand due to the fact that Owens is outnumbered.

It was recently reported that WWE had plans to insert a NXT talent into the storyline last week on Friday Night SmackDown, but those plans were dropped.

Dave Meltzer noted on Wrestling Observer Radio that the plan was to call up Damian Priest, and have him work alongside Kevin Owens as his best friend. Owens reportedly objected, and Roman Reigns agreed.

So, they had a story where it was supposed to be Damian Priest is Kevin Owens’ best friend and he’s helping him against Roman Reigns and Jey Uso. In fact they were even gonna do a tag match on the show Friday night. And Damian Priest is there and ready and all that, and Kevin Owens essentially said ‘it makes no sense for me to be my best friend. What do we have in common? Why would he be my best friend? I mean we could do it but, why is he my best friend?’ So Roman Reigns agreed, and since it’s Roman Reigns, it was nixed. I don’t know where Heyman stood on it but Roman’s the one who got it nixed, so we got what we got. So Damian Priest is lost because he is going to the main roster, or a main roster. As of this morning it was later this month on Raw, but when I heard that it’s like ‘yeah right, whatever’. I mean he’s gonna be on Raw or SmackDown some day soon. Or not soon. Or tomorrow. Or who the f**k knows? Or maybe they’ll do the angle next week that they didn’t do this week. But anyway, he was supposed to start on Friday, but this was not a long planned out thing. Before, it was supposed to be nobody moves from NXT to the main roster unless it’s planned for months in advance so you can finish the story blah blah blah. This was actually something that was decided like Thursday before Friday and then they decided not to do it.”

It’s worth noting that Damien Priest was defeated by Karrion Kross during the NXT New Year’s Evil event that aired on Wednesday.

H/T WrestleTalk.com