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David Bixenspan brought up a similar issue with Andrade's timeline of Cole becoming NXT champ that got cleared up by replies he received afterwards.

Yeah, it sounds like plans just changed after Andrade won the title, especially since they introduced the North American title which Cole got to establish.

— Stimmy Screwball: Half-Vaccinated Edition (@ScrewballSq) March 30, 2021

What Andrade mentioned was the original plan for the Undisputed Era vs. Drew feud that got changed after Andrade got the belt that then got changed again because of NXT's plans for Cole with the new North American belt at the time.

Andrade took what should have been Cole's spot since both were heels but since NXT flip-flops title reigns between faces and heel, Cole needed to be a face to take it off of Andrade which NXT didn't want to do at the time leading to him becoming NA champ instead while the NXT title moved into the very long Ciampa vs. Gargano feud after Black's reign.