Oba Femi Discusses His WWE Tryout, Signing With NIL Program

– WWE NXT Champion Oba Femi joined Sheamus on this week’s Celtic Warrior Workouts. He discussed his WWE tryout and signing with the NIL program. Below are some highlights (via Fightful):

Oba Femi on signing with the WWE NIL program: “So I was still in college when it happened. I got the DM from WWE recruits. They were like, hey, come to Vegas and do a tryout. Skeptical at first, but then I did some more research and I was like, this is real. I’m interested. So we go to Vegas, we do the tryout. Fun fact, Nikkita Lyons and Edris Enofe were part of that tryout too.”

On getting signed: “I got the job. They said, come to the performance center and I was like, I still have one year of college left. hen they were like, okay, so this is perfect. The name, image, and likeness thing with NCAA had just gotten into effect at the time. So WWE started the NIL program and they said they were going to pipeline me through that. But the only catch was I’d already done my tryouts, so there’s no need to do a tryout at the end of it. So they were like, we’ll just keep in contact with you through the NIL and when you’re done with college, you can start.”

Oba Femi defended his WWE NXT Championship against last month at NXT Battleground 2025, beating Myles Borne.