Shawn Spears Comments On His NXT North American Title Win

The main event of this past Tuesday night’s WWE NXT Roadblock go-home episode of NXT saw Shawn Spears defeat The D’Angelo Family’s “The Don Of NXT” Tony D’Angelo to become the new NXT North American Champion.

Spears appeared in a digital exclusive shortly after the show to discuss several topics, including his huge title win.

Spears said, โ€œReally? You couldnโ€™t let me have it, could you? Here I stand, the new North American Champion, and you canโ€™t just give it to me. A year to the day since I returned, and you canโ€™t just say, โ€˜Congratulations, you earned it.โ€™ Exactly like everybody else over the course of 23 years, you canโ€™t just give it to me, can you? Whether you like it or not, this happened. I am your new North American Champion. Love it. Learn to enjoy it. But a man is only as strong as the people behind him, and there is nothing more important on this planet than family. This symbolizes many things. It symbolizes that Iโ€™n a top star here in NXT. It means that I have ascended the ladder. What this also means is that everything Iโ€™ve been talking about, to Izzi Dame, to Niko Vance, to Brooks Jensen, is validated. Itโ€™s validated by this championship. Itโ€™s validated by me. Together, this is only the beginning.โ€

You can check out Spears’ comments in the video below.