Third Name Announced For The NXT Gauntlet Match

More than half of the field is set of Wednesday.

This Wednesday on NXT we will have a five-man gauntlet match with the winner challenging Finn Balor at NXT TakeOver for the NXT Championships. It had already been announced that both Kushida and Cameron Grimes will be in this match and a third name was announced on Saturday.

Today WWE has announced that form NXT Tag Team Champion Kyle O’Reilly. This is the first time WWE has given O’Reilly a chance to challenge for the NXT Championship. It has been talked about for a while not that Triple H sees big things in O’Reilly as a singles star and possibly the new leader of the Undisputed Era.

BOOM! @KORcombat is the third competitor in the first-ever #GauntletEliminator Match for an #NXTTitle opportunity THIS Wednesday on #WWENXT! pic.twitter.com/fQisKitAg6

— WWE NXT (@WWENXT) September 19, 2020

After this announcement was made O’Reilly to social media to speak on this opportunity.

The struggle will be worth it. #GauntletEliminator @WWENXT #statistics pic.twitter.com/fkNIcfqFBl

— Kyle O'Reilly (@KORcombat) September 19, 2020

There are four more days till NXT this Wednesday and two more names to be announced. Who else would you like to see in the special gauntlet match for a shot at the NXT Championship at TakeOver?