NXT Women’s Champion Raquel Gonzalez set to defend her title against Dakota Kai at NXT TakeOver 36


NXT Women’s Champion Raquel Gonzalez set to defend her title against Dakota Kai at NXT TakeOver 36

Gonzalez and Kai

NXT TakeOver 36 has the massive responsibility of being the WWE event that follows up their biggest event of 2021, WWE Summerslam. The PPV, which is exclusive to the black-and-gold brand will be airing live, just a night after “The Biggest Party of the Summer”.

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While there are several blockbuster matches on the card like – Samoa Joe vs Karrion Kross and Adam Cole vs Kyle O’Reilly, the women’s division of the NXT too has a match that could be the match of the night! Raquel Gonzalez will be defending her NXT Women’s Championship against her former friend Dakota Kai.

Dakota Kai and Raquel Gonzalez have a lot of history together. The former best friends and Tag Team partners were even the inaugural Women’s Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic, consequently becoming the inaugural NXT Women’s Tag Team Champions.

In fact, Gonzalez had made her NXT debut by helping Dakota Kai during one of her matches. Since then, she became Kai’s bodyguard. But as opportunities came by, Gonzalez excelled in her singles matches and captured the Women’s title, while Kai just became a mere spectator.

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Things started turning sour between them, after Gonzalez won the WWE NXT Women’s Championship and stared getting more attention than Kai. The jealously led to Kai attacking Gonzalez and that eventually led to this match at TakeOver 36.

Raquel Gonzalez has massive momentum heading into WWE NXT TakeOver 36

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NXT Women’s Champion Raquel Gonzalez and Dakota Kai

Raquel Gonzalez is currently under her first reign as the WWE NXT Women’s Champion. She had won the title during the Wrestlemania 37 week, at NXT TakeOver: Stand & Deliver. Gonzalez defeated Io Shirai on the Night One of the event, to win the NXT title.

Gonzalez’s first challenger, for the title, was Mercedes Martinez, against whom Gonzalez managed to pick up a dominant win. She then went ahead and even defended the title successfully against Ember Moon. But now at NXT TakeOver 36 she faces her former best friend and Tag Team partner, who obviously knows her better than anyone.

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