Oba Femi Tipped To Be A Top WWE Main Roster Talent By Shawn Michaels

Shawn Michaels sees a bright future for Oba Femi in WWE.

Speaking on the Battleground podcast, the WWE Senior Vice President of Talent Development Creative tipped Oba Femi to eventually become a star on the main roster and feature at WrestleMania. 

"I'll tell you what, one of the things that I think that people can see now that's been a proven success is the N.I.L. programme and obviously, reaching out to these young men and women on a college level and Oba (Femi) is a guy that has, one, not just his background but he's had a great deal of success in his youth and in his college years, which strangely enough has kind of prepared him for this. It's amazing how incredibly well-spoken and well-mannered and just, I don't know. He's so much more experienced than his age you would think lends itself to. As we all say, he's a very complete young man and I think everybody sees the promise in him as not just an NXT superstar but a future WWE superstar," Michaels said.

"You can just see it by the way he carries himself... Again, he would obviously know better than me but, I have to attribute that, a lot of times, to, again, some of the success that they had in college and at the collegiate level that has kind of prepared them and look, a lot of these young men and women, they have been successes at a very young age and people have been sort of courting them and coming after them since they were young in high school and so I think that better prepares them for a world, you know, like NXT and the WWE but I think the future's incredibly bright for him," he continued.

"But obviously, he's got the former North American Champion Dragon Lee from SmackDown wanting his title back so, I think that'll be something, again, that'll be very exciting to watch this Sunday at Vengeance Day but, I can't lie when I say Oba Femi has got all those tools that I think everybody could easily look at him and go, oh yeah, I see him being on the main roster someday and easily being a part of a WrestleMania not too far down the line."

Oba Femi is the reigning NXT North American Champion, having won the belt from Dragon Lee on the January 9 edition of NXT. Femi cashed in a contract to win the belt that he earned by coming out on top in the men's NXT Breakout Tournament. The former track and field athlete has impressed on NXT so far through his powerhouse style. 

Femi has only been a part of WWE since August 2022, having signed with the company after spending time as part of the NIL programme. 

Another WWE NXT talent tipped to have a bright future is Trick Williams, with reports noting that WWE view him as a possible future WrestleMania main eventer. 

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