Shayna Baszler at NXT Homecoming urges Ruca and Zaria to fix pairing

Shayna Baszler made a surprise backstage appearance at NXT Homecoming on Tuesday, offering pointed advice to struggling tag partners Sol Ruca and Zaria but stopping short of signing back with WWE. The former NXT women's champion appeared at Full Sail University during the Homecoming special and urged the duo to mend their partnership, telling them, "Fix it, and you'll get everything you want," according to on-screen exchanges and a postshow clip.

The segment came amid lingering tension between Ruca and Zaria after a Sept. 9 NXT match in which Ruca inadvertently struck Zaria with her finishing move, touching off weeks of on-screen friction and a social media spat that saw Zaria remove Ruca from a posted photo. During the Homecoming segment, rivals Candice LeRae and Lainey Reid confronted the pair but were shooed away by Baszler, after which Ruca and Zaria apologized to each other. Zaria later wrote on social media, "I'm not the forgiving kind. But maybe just this once. For her," signaling a possible reconciliation.

The appearance was explicitly described by industry reporting as a one-off rather than the start of a fulltime return to WWE. Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer...