WWE NXT stars talk Stand & Deliver standing on its own away from WrestleMania weekend

For the archetypal clip successful NXT Stand & Deliver’s history, the premium unrecorded lawsuit showcasing the champion endowment successful WWE’s alleged developmental marque volition beryllium detached from WrestleMania.

Stand & Deliver volition genuinely basal connected its ain arsenic it is acceptable to instrumentality spot astatine The Factory successful St. Louis, Missouri astatine 7 p.m. ET connected Saturday night. The amusement volition beryllium broadcast connected YouTube.

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Jacy Jayne competes against Sol Ruca during NXT astatine the 713 Music Hall successful Houston, Texas, connected March 17, 2026. (Meg Oliphant/WWE)

Usually, Stand & Deliver would beryllium the appetizer for WrestleMania and instrumentality spot the greeting earlier Night 1 of WWE’s biggest premium unrecorded lawsuit of the year. The past clip it wasn’t connected the aforesaid time arsenic WrestleMania was successful its archetypal iteration erstwhile it took spot successful Tampa, Florida, days earlier the show.

Being connected its ain has its advantages. NXT tin battalion an arena without forcing the fans to aftermath up aboriginal and tally backmost and distant from spot to spot conscionable to drawback the amusement and WrestleMania astatine the aforesaid time.

"I deliberation it’s good. I mean, it has its pros and cons, but I deliberation this 1 specifically, it’s not connected the aforesaid play truthful we tin get much eyes connected the event," NXT Championship contender Tony D’Angelo told Fox News Digital earlier this week. "Every twelvemonth prior, it’s ever the greeting of WrestleMania Night 1, so, immoderate radical don’t consciousness similar getting up and going to a amusement and past going to WrestleMania connected apical of it. I deliberation it’s a bully thing. Everybody tin see, everybody tin watch, each wrestling fans are focused connected NXT Stand & Deliver."

Sol Ruca, who volition apt beryllium ending her feud with Zaria astatine the event, was optimistic astir being capable to gully a large assemblage for the show.

Ruca besides suggested she was looking guardant to a calmer gait during WrestleMania play arsenic she is 1 of the dozens of WWE superstars who volition marque appearances astatine WWE World successful Las Vegas to conscionable and instrumentality photos with fans.

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Tony D'Angelo competes successful the ringing during NXT astatine the WWE Performance Center successful Orlando, Florida, connected Feb. 10, 2026. (Conor Kvatek/WWE via Getty Images)

"I deliberation it’s beauteous cool. I deliberation a batch of america would emotion to beryllium progressive successful the full WrestleMania play but I bash deliberation this gives america an accidental to perchance gully a bigger assemblage present that we’re abstracted due to the fact that having to spell to aggregate shows successful the aforesaid play – it tin beryllium a batch for the fans," she said. "I deliberation america having it a small spot abstracted from everything other and inactive having our ain infinitesimal tin besides beryllium beneficial. I cognize a batch of america are gonna beryllium astatine WWE World anyhow truthful it’ll beryllium benignant of similar having the 2 small WrestleMania moments. I deliberation immoderate of america are a small bummed astir it, but I deliberation it’ll beryllium a bully happening for us."

Ricky Saints, who volition beryllium going up against Tony D’Angelo, Ethan Page and Joe Hendry for the NXT Championship, said it was an accidental for fans who whitethorn not person the other currency to walk for a travel to Las Vegas to travel and spot what NXT has to offer.

"I deliberation it’s a bully accidental for radical who whitethorn not person the time, the money, oregon immoderate the lawsuit whitethorn be, to spell spot it during ‘Mania weekend," helium said. "So, to person it connected a standalone, you don’t person to aftermath up early. You tin spell to different spot and conscionable get to chill retired and not consciousness truthful overwhelmed with things that you person to bash oregon privation to do. I deliberation that’s a truly bully determination for everyone involved, to beryllium honorable with you. That’s from accumulation radical to the wrestler."

WWE NXT STAR JACY JAYNE READY FOR STAND & DELIVER CHALLENGE, SAYS SHE LOVES TO PROVE PEOPLE WRONG

Jacy Jayne, the NXT women’s champion, admitted she had "mixed feelings" astir having the lawsuit extracurricular of WrestleMania, but looked guardant to keeping NXT arsenic the 3rd marque successful WWE and not conscionable a developmental show.

"Yeah, I person mixed feelings astir it but I consciousness similar this is the cleanable accidental for america to amusement that we truly are the 3rd brand," she told Fox News Digital. "It’s not conscionable a developmental brand. We tin basal connected our own. We tin merchantability tickets. We’re not conscionable the future, we’re the now."

Stand & Deliver is genuinely a glimpse into WWE’s future, and that is underscored by who is connected the WrestleMania 42 paper this year.

Last year, Stand & Deliver featured NXT stars Stephanie Vaquer, Lash Legend, Oba Femi and Trick Williams successful action. Each of those 4 competitors received their WWE call-up implicit the past twelvemonth and are going to beryllium competing astatine WrestleMania 42.

Sol Ruca wins the women's North American Championship successful a ladder lucifer during NXT Stand and Deliver astatine T-Mobile Arena successful Las Vegas, Nev., connected April 19, 2025. (Heather McLaughlin/WWE)

Roxanne Perez, Nathan Frazer and Axiom were besides connected the Stand & Deliver paper and person go apical stars connected the main roster.

From the looks of this year’s Stand & Deliver card, determination could beryllium a fewer much call-ups by this clip adjacent year. Jayne and Ruca already got a sensation of the main roster. Jayne appeared astatine the Royal Rumble, arsenic did Ruca. The second was besides progressive connected Saturday Night’s Main Event for John Cena’s last show.

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• This year’s Stand & Deliver paper volition look similar this:
• Hank Walker, Tank Ledger, Shiloh Hill, EK Prosper and Wren Sinclar vs. Lexis King, Channing "Stacks" Lorenzo, Charlie Dempsey, Uriah Connors and Arianna Grace (known arsenic Birthright) successful a 10-person mixed tag squad match
• The Vanity Project (Brad Baylor and Ricky Smokes) vs. Los Americanos (Bravo Americano and Rayo Americano) successful a tag squad lucifer for the NXT Tag Team Championship
• Myles Borne (c) vs. Johnny Gargano for the NXT North American Championship
• Jacy Jayne (c) vs. Kendal Gray vs. Lola Vice for the NXT Women’s Championship
• Sol Ruca vs. Zaria
• Tatum Paxley (c) vs. Blake Monroe for the NXT Women’s North American Championship
• Joe Hendry (c) vs. Ricky Saints vs. Ethan Page vs. Tony D’Angelo for the NXT Championship