NXT Is Interested In Bringing Back Samoa Joe, According To Talent And Staff (Patreon)

Samoa Joe could be headed back to NXT, at least if talent have heard things correctly.

Fightful spoke to numerous NXT talent and staff on Friday who noted that they heard NXT (not any specific figurehead) was interested in bringing in Samoa Joe. Joe was released in April as a part of significant cuts to the roster, but there have been several wrestlers that people in the company have pushed to bring back. Over a half dozen talent in the company and another outside have heard that the interest on NXT's side is for a wrestling role if he can get cleared, and a producer role if he can't get cleared. 

A few things we should specify, talent in a broad sense in speculating this, with some even believing that it's going to happen. Fightful has reached out to WWE officials but has not confirmed this with them, and have no indication that a deal has been made or will be from our side. 

UPDATE: In an update on this story, officials in NXT have confirmed that Samoa Joe was briefly at the WWE Performance Center this week. We were not told why he was there. We did get confirmation there have been pitches within NXT to use Samoa Joe, however. We're told if he's not back with WWE, they're expecting him to be by this weekend. Triple H was a major part of making this deal happen, and wanted Joe back almost immediately after his release.