“WWE NXT” Common Supervisor Ava has introduced that Tiffany Stratton is not going to be competing on Tuesday’s Homecoming particular at Full Sail College.Â
WWE’s developmental model heads again to Full Sail this week for the particular episode, scheduled to function the returns of #DIY, Carmelo Hayes, and a trio of NXT Ladies’s Champions in Stratton, Stephanie Vaquer, and Rhea Ripley to their outdated stomping grounds; Stratton, Vaquer, and Ripley emerged to confront the reigning NXT Ladies’s Champion, Jacy Jayne, after she had made the declare to be the perfect holder within the title’s historical past.Â
The primary roster stars have been as a result of face Jayne alongside Fallon Henley and Jazmyn Nyx in trios motion. However because the reigning WWE Ladies’s Champion, Stratton defended her title in opposition to Jade Cargill throughout final Friday’s “WWE SmackDown,” with the bout ending in a double rely out and an assault on Stratton by the hands of Nia Jax.Â
Evidently, the assault has left Stratton unable to compete in her return to “NXT,” with Ava asserting by way of social media that she couldn’t be medically cleared and would get replaced by fellow alumnus Lyra Valkyria.Â
“After her WWE Ladies’s Championship match on SmackDown, Tiffany Stratton just isn’t medically cleared to compete at Homecoming. Consequently, former NXT Ladies’s Champion Lyra Valkyria shall be taking her place within the six-woman tag crew match in opposition to Deadly Affect.”Â
After her WWE Ladies’s Championship Match on SmackDown, Tiffany Stratton just isn’t medically cleared to compete at Homecoming. Consequently, former NXT Ladies’s Champion Lyra Valkyria shall be taking her place within the six-woman tag crew match in opposition to Deadly Affect.
— A V A (@avawwe_) September 15, 2025
For her half, Valkyria has not been part of the “NXT” roster since April final yr, having misplaced her Ladies’s title to Roxanne Perez at Stand & Ship and receiving her call-up shortly thereafter.