After successfully defending her NXT Women's Championship at Spring Breakin' against Lyra Valkyria and Tatum Paxley back in April, the NXT Women's Champion was getting antsy waiting for a new, viable challenge to step up to bat for her strap, so much so that on NXT, she marched down to the center of the ring to address the situation head-on, demanding a clear foe for the June 9th PLE.

“Can we all just acknowledge the fact that I am the only woman in the WWE who has actually appreciated this championship from the very beginning? I mean seriously, from the moment that I won this NXT Women's Championship in 2.0 to when I finally regained it at the biggest Stand and Deliver of all time, I've seen this title jump from waist to waist to waist, and it's been continuously held by women who use it as a stepping stone to get to something bigger and better. I am the only one who has shown true commitment to this championship,” Roxanne Perez boldly declared to the NXT crowd.

“It's true. Don't believe me? At 13 years old, I started training, creating myself into a prodigy for this NXT Women's World Championship; nobody else can say they've been working towards this title for nine years! I never cared about RAW or SmackDown; all I ever cared about was my NXT Women's Championship. Because to everybody else, this title represents future greatness instead of present greatness, but trust me when I say all of you are in the presence of true greatness right now, which is why I find it really, really, really disrespectful that I have to come out here and find out who my Battleground opponent is like this. Come on Ava, where's the respect? As the face of the NXT women's division, the best women's division in all of wrestling, the only thing me and Ava actually agree on, I deserve to be treated better. But okay, okay, Ava, you don't want to give me the respect I deserve? That's okay; I can play that game too, so who the h*ll is it gonna be, Ava? Who the h*ll?”

Fortunately for fans in the WWE Universe, it didn't take long for Ava to walk out to the ring and answer Perez's question, cracking open the Forbidden Door to show the “Prodigy” who she will be facing in a few short weeks at Battleground in Las Vegas.

Roxanne Perez has found her next foe in a fellow TNA alumni.

While Roxanne Perez still wasn't sold on Ava's vision, she eagerly anticipated Dwayne Johnson's daughter's announcement either way and was met with shock, much like the rest of the audience.

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“Whoa, Roxanne, I don't know why you created this whole ‘Whoa is me, Roxanne versus the world' thing when I never said that you were a bad champ,” Ava explained. “I think you're a great champ, but it's not a matter of whether you're a good or bad champ; it's a matter of if you're going to even be champ after your next title defense at Battleground. Roxanne, you will be defending that Women's Championship at Battleground against…”

And with the blares of a siren, the NXT Titontron slashed a name that got fans beyond excited about the future of the women's division: Jordynne Grace.

Marching down to the ring with her TNA Knockouts Championship belt, Grace stood opposite her fellow impact Impact/TNA alumni and declared her intentions for Battleground.

“So, if you may remember me from the Rumble earlier this year, but if you don't let me officially introduce myself, I'm the TNA Knockouts Champion, Jordynne Grace,” Jordynne Grace declared after a steady round of holy s**ts. “Now, Roxanne, you are a great champion, a two-time champion. You have built your name here in NXT the same as I have in TNA but I'm curious, who do you think has built the stronger foundation? I wanna find out, so at Battleground, I am going to be challenging you for your NXT Women's Championship, and I am fully prepared to leave Las Vegas a double champion.”

Welp, there you have it, folks; after making her WWE debut at the Royal Rumble back in January, Grace has officially landed as a representative of TNA at the performance center and will wrestle one of the most experienced wrestlers in the promotion – minus the main roster castoffs and the AEW rejects – at the next Peacock PLE. While WWE didn't invent the Forbidden Door, they are certainly using that concept to expert effect and in a weird way that has to make even Tony Khan smile.