WWE NXT 6/16/2026: 3 Things We Hated And 3 Things We Loved
Welcome to Wrestling Inc.'s weekly review of "WWE NXT," the show that gave us a new No. 1 contender for the men's North American Championship and a pair of WWE Women's Speed Championship tournament matches! The WINC staff, as it turns out, has thoughts on all these developments and more, from Zaria's show-opening promo to Jaida Parker vs. Nattie.
If you missed the show and need to catch up, you can do that by checking out our "WWE NXT" 6/16/26 results page, which contains everything you need if you like your coverage objective, comprehensive, and live. This column, on the other hand, is the WINC crew's opportunity for subjective opinion, as we turn our gaze on only this week's highest highs and lowest lows — as we saw them, anyway. Without further ado, here are three things we hated and three things we loved about the 6/16/26 episode of "WWE NXT!"
Zaria scored a big victory, one of the biggest of her WWE career thus far, last week when she dethroned Women's North American Champion Tatum Paxley, but she didn't get to celebrate that win for long tonight on "NXT." She opened the show to cut a promo about her victory, but before she could talk about much other than doing it all herself after breaking out of the shadow of Sol Ruca, she was interrupted by the entire current NXT Women's Championship field. While all love all these women, I hate a promo parade, especially one where those responding to the initial promo don't quite make sense.
Things were already difficult to start for the heel Zaria, with the WWE Performance Center crowd, rightfully so, chanting to tell her she deserved the win. She was then interrupted first by the first-ever Women's North American Champion, Kelani Jordan, who quite literally told her, "you don't have the title I'm looking for," so she was just out there to give Zaria advice. I thought maybe, since Jordan
