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WWE NXT on Tuesday night was full of surprise debuts, but one wrestler made more noise than the rest when she entered the ring.
Lizzy Rain, niece of late Iron Maiden drummer Clive Burr, vowed to keep heavy metal alive when she joined WWE from PROGRESS Wrestling, where she was the PROGRESS Women’s Champion. The British wrestler, formerly known in the ring as Rayne Leverkusen, took on Nikkita Lyons in her first NXT match.
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Lizzy Rain celebrates her win during NXT at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida on April 28, 2026. (Kevin Sabitus/WWE)
She avoided a mid-rope splash from Lyons and then hit her opponent with a step-up knee shot to Lyons, which was dubbed the Thunderstruck. She held off Lyons to pick up her first win.
Rain talked about how her uncle inspired her in her life on “Busted Open After Dark”.
“Clive, he inspired me so much. To be honest, when I was younger, I didn’t really know who he was,” she said via Wrestle Talk. “He died, I think it’s been 13 years now, something like that, so I was 15 years old. And when I was growing up and he was doing well, he died of MS, unfortunately so he wasn’t very well when I got into the teenage years, he wasn’t verbal or anything.
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“Then I was younger and around him I had no idea who he was. I liked music, I always liked Alice Cooper, I always liked Iron Maiden, but as a kid I didn’t really know, ‘Oh, my uncle is the original drummer of Iron Maiden’ until I got into my teens.”
Unfortunately, Rain said, she wasn’t able to really talk to Burr about his life in Iron Maiden until he died in 2013.
Elsewhere, a few other newcomers appeared.
Evil confronts Tony D’Angelo during NXT at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Fla., on April 28, 2026. (Chansey Augustine/WWE)
Former IWGP Champion known as EVIL stepped up to Tony D’Angelo, the current NXT Champion. After EVIL left the ring, the former PROGRESS Atlas Champion known as Will Kroos attacked D’Angelo.
Kam Hendrix, Tristan Angels and Tate Wilder also appeared on NXT for the first time.
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Ricky Saints enters the ring during NXT at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Fla., on April 28, 2026. (Chansey Augustine/WWE)
NXT results
Myles Borne def. Saquon Shugars to retain the NXT North American Championship.
EK Prosper and Sean Legacy def. Stacks Lorenzo and Uriah Connors.
Lizzy Rain def. Nikkita Lyons.
Kelani Jordan def. Wren Sinclair.
Shiloh Hill def. Ricky Saints.
