AJ Francis Believes He Can Dethrone Oba Femi: NXT Title Should Belong To Someone TNA Can Be Proud Of

AJ Francis wants to face Oba Femi for the WWE NXT Championship. 

AJ Francis is no stranger to the WWE Performance Center and the land of NXT. Even before re-emerging as part of the TNA roster, AJ Francis was once part of a top act in NXT, Hit Row, along with Ashante Adonis, B-Fab, and Swerve Strickland. Now that he’s back in NXT, for however long the working relationship between WWE and TNA allows him to be, he would like the chance to hold some singles gold on the brand. 

Speaking with MuscleManMalcolm on Muscle Memory, Francis noted that he wants to wrestle the NXT Title away from Oba Femi. 

“I’ve been saying Oba. I’ve been saying that. Currently, the TNA World Champion is a person who is contracted to NXT. I think it wouldn’t be too crazy of an idea for the NXT World Champion to be contracted to TNA,” he said. “I know that Oba be bullying these other boys, but he can’t bully me. He can’t throw me around like he do these other boys. He can’t throw me around like he do these other boys. I’m bigger than him. I’m stronger than him. I don’t have as good as accent as him. He’s got better hair than me. In that ring? Come on, man, me and Oba? Let’s talk about it, shout out Trick Willy. I’m going to put Oba out of commission. I’m going to make sure that we can have an NXT Champion that TNA can be proud of.” 

AJ Francis most recently competed in a Street Fight against Mike Santana on the live episode of TNA iMPACT! Check out the full results of that here. 

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