Ricky Saints Knows He’ll Have To Face Oba Femi In Singles Match On WWE Main Roster Since They’re Tied 1-1

Ricky Saints and Oba Femi are tied.

There were two times in NXT that Ricky Saints and Oba Femi went one-on-one. Both matches were for the NXT Championship, and they took place at Premium Live Events.

Saints got the first win at No Mercy to win the belt, and Femi regained it at Deadline 2025. While appearing on Complex Graps, Saints stated that he knows he’ll one day have to run it back with Femi on WWE’s main roster.

“I beat Oba (Femi) and that was for me to become the NXT Champion. So, that was kind of interesting, only for the fact of, I think at the time, I didn’t really expect — I don’t know what I expected honestly. Obviously, Oba is a great wrestler. I definitely could see it even from then of why people are infatuated with him. But I think I went home afterwards like, ‘Woah, okay. I beat Oba, I’m the new NXT Champion.’ I don’t think it still kind of settled in for me because I’m so used to — things happen, right? And I’m just on to the next. It takes me like a year for me to look back and go, ‘Oh wow, that was crazy.’ But I think this current part of my life where we have Oba and Brock (Lesnar) and then I’m having my stuff on SmackDown and whatnot. It is crazy to go back and be like, ‘Wow, I am actually one of the very few people to have a win over Oba Femi’ and I already know that’s gonna come back into play down the line here and I’m willing and I’m open to it and I’m ready for it, and I know that he’s gonna want that back. I definitely expect that full force but, I would say it’s a pretty, pretty great time to have.”

Femi advanced out of the first round of the King of the Ring tournament. His next tourney bout will be a singles match against AAA Mega Champion Dominik Mysterio.

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