Sexyy Red Confirms ‘WWE NXT’ Appearance for Next Week

Sexyy Red continues her dominance over the pop culture landscape. Over the weekend, she linked with Lana Del Rey at Hangout Festival in Alabama, and TikToker Young Mantis recently mocked up a prank Skee-Yee Shrimp promotion to help get Red Lobster out of bankruptcy.

Now after helping save America’s favorite seafood chain, the St. Louis rapper is setting her sights on the world of wrestling. Last night on X, she teased an appearance on WWE’s developmental show NXT, tweeting:

No one really knew if she was trolling or not, so we had to wait for WWE to confirm, which it did on last night’s WWE NXT show on USA:

Sexyy and her fans seem hype too, with one X user calling her Sexyy Orton:

Her music is no stranger to the wrestling world. Last year, wrestler Jey Uso used her hit “SkeeYee” as a walk-up song and, in turn, spurred this interesting partnership.

According to the WWE, Sexyy Red is “a lifelong WWE fan.” Backing up that claim are a bunch of posts across social media, like when she took to X to comment on wrestler Trick Williams and his feud with the Meta-Four stable:

Hip-hop has been intertwined with pro wrestling since the ’80s when Run-DMC performed at Wrestlemania V in 1989. A slew of rappers have also made appearances in and outside of the ring like Ice-T, Bad Bunny and Salt-N-Pepa, to name a few. And rappers like Westside Gunn, Action Bronson and Wale frequently make wrestling references in their music, with the latter going as far as to host a yearly wrestling event called WaleMania.

Big Sexyy will be on NXT, live next Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET, on the USA Network.

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