Paige Returns to WWE NXT, Loses NXT Women's Title Challenge to Kelani Jordan

Paige made a surprise return to WWE NXT on 4 November 2026 as Kelani Jordan's mystery opponent for the NXT Women's Championship, and Jordan retained the title. WWE posted on X (linked in the sources below): "SCREAM FOR HER. Paige is BACK in #WWENXT to challenge Kelani Jordan for the Title!"

Official result

WWE's NXT results page for 4 November lists NXT Women's Champion Kelani Jordan def. Paige. The official write up says Paige was dominant and hit Paige Turner, that Jordan kicked out, that Paige scored a near fall with the One of a Kind split legged moonsault, and that Jordan "wisely locked in a rollup and escaped with her title."

How POST Wrestling described the finish

POST Wrestling reported that Paige had not wrestled a televised NXT match since a 2014 trios bout, and that commentators noted she never lost the NXT Women's Championship in the ring before relinquishing it when she became Divas Champion. POST says Paige was largely in control, Jordan kicked out of the Rampage, Jordan worked over Paige's neck, and after Paige avoided the One of a Kind moonsault and went for another Rampage, Jordan reversed that Rampage into a small package to keep the title.

WWE's "rollup" and POST's "small package" describe the same finish type from two sourced accounts. This article does not invent a third finishing narrative, and it does not rely on a single social media spelling of Paige's finisher when the official results emphasise Paige Turner, the One of a Kind moonsault and Jordan's roll up. Wrestling Inc also covered the title retention as an upset defence for Jordan.

Why the return mattered on the card

The bout was billed as Jordan's stiffest test of her young title reign against a former NXT standout, per WWE's results language. Crowd chants of "whose house? Paige's house" were noted by POST. A returning former champion challenging for the current title is a clear ratings and storyline beat; the result, however, leaves the championship with Jordan rather than resetting the lineage on the night.

Paige's dominance for large stretches, as both WWE and POST describe it, makes the roll up finish a classic champion's escape rather than a lengthy underdog comeback. That detail matters for anyone writing follow ups: the challenger looked strong, and the champion still left with the belt.

Separate from Punk and Waller

This Women's Title return is separate from any CM Punk and Waller NXT Title preview already on RingZine. Do not merge those angles: Paige vs Jordan was a concluded NXT Women's Championship match on the 4 November card, with Jordan retaining.

Other results on the same show, including Chad Gable, Rey Fénix and Dragon Lee defeating The Vanity Project and Noam Dar & Romeo Moreno winning the 2026 Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic (with Cody Rhodes presenting the trophy afterward, per WWE), appear on WWE's results page but are outside the scope of this Paige return story. Those bouts show how stacked the episode was; they do not change the Women's Title outcome.