Samoa Joe appeared before the main event of last night’s NXT house show in Riverside, CA and announced that he was unable to compete. Joe then watched the main event as Shinsuke Nakamura and Tye Dillinger defeated Bobby Roode and Andrade Almas.
NXT has not announced an injury to Joe but he’s worked every house show on the tour of Australia from this past week. After the steel cage match with Nakamura on 12/8 in Melbourne, Joe teamed with Roode and Elias Samson and lost to Nakamura, Murphy and Dillinger on 12/10 in Newcastle. Both Joe and Nakamura were limited in this match. Joe also appeared at the 12/12 NXT house show in Gold Coast, teaming with The Revival to face Joe and TM-61. It was noted by fans in attendance that The Revival and TM-61 worked most of that match but there was not a lot of involvement from Joe.
Joe then worked the 12/13 house show in Sydney, teaming with Roode and Samson to take on Nakamura, Dillinger and Murphy. This match was originally supposed to be Nakamura vs. Joe vs. Roode vs. Dillinger in a fatal 4 way but it was changed at the last minute, forcing boos from the crowd and a hijacking at one point.
Stay tuned for updates on Joe’s condition.
