Kevin Owens, Finn Balor and the WWE Stars who've jumped across to NXT

This week Dolph Ziggler became the latest WWE Superstar to jump across to NXT, as he laid the challenge down to NXT Champion Bron Breakker. 

Ziggler is the latest in the line of stars who have mixed it in NXT, with varying degree of purpose. GiveMeSport looks back at the best of them…

AJ Styles 

The most recent example of a Raw Superstar working a programme on NXT. Styles re-embraced his fan favourite persona upon the tag team break-up with Omos to fued with NXT 2.O upstart Grayson Waller. The pair exchanged verbals across both Monday and Tuesday nights before eventually going one-on-one on an NXT show last month. Styles got the win, but the rub that both NXT.2O and Waller got from mixing it up with the former WWE Champion was a phenomenal idea. 

Charlotte Flair 

In 2020 Charlotte followed in her dad’s footsteps and won the Royal Rumble, setting up a title bout for The Queen at WrestleMania. In an interesting twist, Rhea Ripley set her sights on Flair and goaded the multi-time champ into challenging her for her NXT Women’s Championship title on the grandest stage of them all. Brining Charlotte back to her NXT routes and having the first ever NXT Title match of any kind on the WrestleMania card. The pair stole the show in one of the weekend’s best matches, giving Ripley a major moment alongside of the women’s division’s very best.  

Kevin Owens 

KO’s dalliance back in NXT was a short but very sweet cameo for the former NXT Champion at TakeOver: WarGames in 2019, during Survivor Series weekend. Owens was revealed as Tomasso Ciampa’s mystery fourth man on his War Games team alongside Keith Lee and Dominic Dijakovic and faced off against long-time friend Adam Cole and Undisputed Era. In the fun spot-fest bout, Owens