After winning the inaugural women's Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic, NXT superstars Dakota Kai and Raquel González were flying high on their way to a WWE Women's Tag Team Championship match. Now, WWE's Shayna Baszler and Nia Jax are looking to send them crashing back to Earth.
Speaking to GameSpot's Wrestle Buddies podcast, Baszler admitted she and her co-champion aren't sweating the competition. "They did a great job through that tournament," she said. "They showed that they were the best tag team in that tournament. But, like we weren't in that tournament because we don't need to be."
Baszler continued, "They're flying high right now. But they're going to learn [and] they're going to learn real fast."
This is more than a match. For Baszler, this NXT appearance is a homecoming. Baszler was NXT's first-ever two-time Women's Champion, with her second reign lasting over a year, cementing her as one of the brand's top villains.
"I'm so glad that I got to experience that, even though they hated me most the time I was there," she remembered. "I didn't see it until actually I went to Raw. You know, you don't know what you got [until] it's gone. I think people were appreciating what I did for the title and the division and just the girls that were there during that time."
Baszler and Jax will defend the WWE Women's Tag Team Championships on this week's episode of NXT, which airs Wednesdays on USA.
