Samoa Joe de-thrones NXT Champion Finn Balor to leave Lowell, Massachusetts crowd stunned.

Samoa Joe defeated Finn Balor via a muscle buster to win the NXT Championship in front of a stunned crowd at the Memorial Auditorium in Lowell, Massachusetts last night. The NXT live event had been promoted heavily, including on the previous episode of NXT on the WWE Network.

WWE tweeted a photo of Joe with the NXT Championship, then promptly put up this video on their YouTube account as the news quickly went viral;

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Finn Balor had been NXT Champion since July 4, 2015, when he defeated Kevin Owens at Sumo Hall in Tokyo at ‘Beast In The East’ Live network special. His 292 day reign as champion broke the record of 287 days set by Adrian Neville’s in 2014.

The results from the rest of the show;

-Mojo Rawley defeated Riddick Moss

-Bayley & Carmella defeated Peyton Royce & Dana Brooke

-Chris Girard defeatedTommaso Ciampa

-Austin Aries defeated Manny Andrade

-Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Elias Samson

-Chad Gable & Jason Jordan defeated Dash Wilder & Scott Dawson to retain the NXT Tag Titles

-Asuka defeated Alexa Bliss to retain the Women’s Title