Trick Williams’ pair of runs as NXT Champion, as well as his 140-day crossover tenure as TNA World Champion, have been overly impressive and the lead-up to this showdown with incumbent NXT champ Ricky Saints took a spicy turn on the go-home episode to Halloween Havoc when, after a contract signing that (shocker!) featured some tense back-and-forth between champion and challenger, Saints sent Williams through the conveniently-placed table in the ring with something of an F5. (Yep, an F5 — interesting, that)

Clearly, we’re all in sync here with 94% of precincts predicting a Saints retention in this match, and one would think that a lot of that lends itself to one outstanding question: “What does Trick Williams have left in NXT?” To that, we put forth, “not much.” It appears to be a bit of a new era down Orlando way and Saints is poised to lead the charge for a bit while it would make a lot of sense to see Williams head to, say, “SmackDown” sooner rather than later. Of course, we’ve said this before but unless something wacky happens, that’s the guess.

Beyond that, and thinking solely of Saints, it wouldn’t make much sense to flip the title this quickly after he won it, not even a month ago, beating Oba Femi at No Mercy. Instead, it seems likely we’d see Williams do the honors here and move forward to a fresh lot of opponents “up in the bigs,” while “The Revolution” forges forward as the face of a new era for NXT.

Written by Jon Jordan