Tavion Heights Reflects On Winning NXT Tag Team Titles

Tavion Heights is savoring a career-defining moment after he and NXT North American Champion Myles Borne captured the NXT Tag Team Championship from Vanity Project’s Brad Baylor and Ricky Smokes on the August 4 episode of NXT on The CW.

In the aftermath, Heights posted a candid message reflecting on what the title win meant to him personally, writing that it “means more to me than most of you could ever imagine.” While he didn’t go into exhaustive detail about the specific journey behind that sentiment, the emotion in his words underscored just how significant the moment was for a performer who has spent time building his name on NXT’s undercard before breaking through in the tag ranks.

Pairing Heights with Borne, who already holds the North American Championship, gave NXT a de facto power duo heading into the match, and dethroning Vanity Project adds another layer to a tag division that has been one of the brand’s most consistently entertaining aspects over the past year. Baylor and Smokes had positioned themselves as a disruptive, attitude-driven act atop the tag ranks, and losing the titles opens the door for retooled storylines on both sides — a potential rematch angle for Vanity Project, and a fresh spotlight for Heights and Borne as a champion tandem carrying two different titles into the same storylines.

For Heights specifically, this looks like the culmination of a steady climb rather than an overnight push. NXT has increasingly used title victories like this to signal which performers the company views as ready for a bigger stage, and an emotional, heartfelt reaction like the one Heights shared suggests he sees this not just as a match won, but as validation of work that’s gone mostly unnoticed by the wider audience until now.

What happens next for the new champions — and whether Borne and Heights lean into a dual-championship alliance angle — will be worth watching in the coming weeks. For now, though, this belongs to Heights, who made clear the moment carried a weight beyond just the titles themselves.