WWE NXT has confirmed a singles match between Cruz Montana and Dion Lennox for the October 20 episode of the show, set to air from Orlando, as a bitter personal rivalry between the two men reaches a new flashpoint. Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic matches are also part of the announced lineup for the broadcast, according to Fightful and F4W Online.
The animosity between Montana and Lennox has built over several weeks of confrontations on NXT television. The conflict escalated after Montana spoke openly about the hardships he and his parents endured growing up, a personal disclosure that Lennox used against him. Lennox confronted Montana directly, telling him that his time had passed and that it was now his own time, while invoking his own background in the process, per F4W Online’s account of the storyline.
That tension boiled over physically on the October 13 edition of NXT, when Lennox attacked Montana backstage, according to Fightful. The ambush appears to be the immediate catalyst for the singles match now scheduled for October 20, giving both men a chance to settle their dispute in the ring rather than in backstage skirmishes.
Neither source detailed the stipulations attached to the Montana-Lennox match beyond confirming it as a straightforward singles contest, nor did they specify which teams will compete in the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic bouts also booked for the same show. The Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic is an annual NXT tag team tournament named in honor of the late WWE Hall of Famer Dusty Rhodes, and its return to the October 20 card suggests NXT is moving forward with tag team tournament action alongside the singles feud.
With four matches total reported for the October 20 lineup, NXT appears to be building a card that pairs the personal grudge match between Montana and Lennox with the structured tournament format of the Dusty Classic. How the Montana-Lennox story develops beyond that date, and whether the backstage attack factors into any additional stipulations, has not been detailed by either outlet.
