Boa

Last updated: March 14, 2025

Title History

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Career Highlights

  • Cheng Yuxiang was signed by the WWE in September of 2016 among other Chinese athletes.
  • July 8, 2017 – NXT Live Event: No Way Jose and Yanbo Wang defeated Steve Cutler and Wesley Blake.
  • July 22, 2017 – NXT Live Event: Street Profits (Angelo Dawkins & Montez Ford) and Yanbo Wang defeated Demitrius Bronson & The Ealy Twins (Gabriel Ealy and Uriel Ealy).
  • September 17, 2017 – NXT Live Event: Big Boa defeated Aiden English.
  • October 20-21, 2017 – NXT Live Event: Christopher Dijak defeated Big Boa.
  • November 3, 2017 – NXT Live Event: Big Boa and Oney Lorcan defeated Riddick Moss and Tino Sabbatelli.
  • December 2, 2017 – NXT Live Event: Big Boa defeated Tian Bing.
  • January 5, 2018 – NXT Live Event: Big Boa defeated Kona Reeves.
  • January 6, 2018 – NXT Live Event: Big Boa defeated Marcel Barthel.
  • January 18, 2018 – NXT Live Event: Fabian Aichner and Marcel Barthel defeated Big Boa and Roderick Strong.
  • January 20, 2018 – NXT Live Event: Big Boa defeated Kishan Raftar.
  • February 2, 2018 – NXT Live Event: Big Boa defeated Chad Lail.
  • February 10, 2018 – NXT Live Event: Marcel Barthel defeated Big Boa.
  • March 22, 2018 – NXT Live Event: Tino Sabbatelli defeated Big Boa.
  • April 19, 2018 – NXT Live Event: Adrian Jaoude, Cezar Bononi and Taynara Conti defeated Big Boa, Rocky and Xia Li.
  • April 20, 2018 – NXT Live Event: Adrian Jaoude and Cezar Bononi defeated Big Boa and Rocky.
  • April 26, 2018 – NXT Live Event: Big Boa, Mars Wang and Rocky defeated Chad Lail, Steve Cutler and Wesley Blake.
  • May 11, 2018 – NXT Live Event: The Undisputed ERA (Adam Cole, Kyle O’Reilly and Roderick Strong) defeated Big Boa & Heavy Machinery (Otis Dozovic and Tucker Knight).
  • May 17, 2018 – NXT Live Event: Big Boa defeated Cheng Yuxiang.
  • May 18, 2018 – NXT Live Event: Babatunde Aiyegbusi defeated Big Boa.
  • July 27, 2018 – NXT Live Event: Jeet Rama defeated Boa.
  • August 11, 2018 – NXT Live Event: The Coffey Brothers (Joe Coffey and Mark Coffey) defeated Boa and Mars Wang.
  • September 27, 2018 – NXT Live Event: Boa defeated Cezar Bononi.
  • September 28-29, 2018 – NXT Live Event: Cezar Bononi defeated Boa.
  • October 12, 2018 – NXT Live Event: Jeet Rama defeated Boa.
  • October 19, 2018 – NXT Live Event: Kassius Ohno defeated Boa. Danny Burch, Matt Riddle and Oney Lorcan defeated Boa, Mars Wang and Rocky.
  • October 27, 2018 – NXT Live Event: Boa was in the #1 contender battle royal for the NXT North American title won by Stacey Ervin Jr..
  • November 9, 2018 – NXT Live Event: War Raiders (Hanson and Rowe) defeated Boa and Rocky.
  • November 10, 2018 – NXT Live Event: Heavy Machinery (Otis Dozovic & Tucker Knight) and Jessie Elaban defeated Boa, Rocky and Xia Li.
  • December 6, 2018 – NXT Live Event: Shane Thorne defeated Boa.
  • January 5, 2019 – NXT Live Event: Adrian Jaoude and Cezar Bononi defeated Boa and Rocky.
  • January 11, 2019 – NXT Live Event: Shane Thorne defeated Boa.
  • January 12, 2019 – NXT Live Event: The Undisputed ERA (Adam Cole & Bobby Fish) defeated Adrian Jaoude & Cezar Bononi and Boa & Rocky and Heavy Machinery (Otis Dozovic & Tucker Knight) and Humberto Carrillo & Raul Mendoza and Rinku Singh & Saurav Gurjar in a tag team gauntlet match to become #1 contenders for the tag team titles.
  • January 19, 2019 – NXT Live Event: Boa defeated Ric Bugez in the 1st round. Mansoor Al-Shehail defeated Boa in the semi-finals of the Unleash The Universe tournament.
  • February 14, 2019 – NXT Live Event: Aliyah and Riddick Moss defeated Boa and Xia Li.
  • March 9, 2019 – NXT Live Event: Brennan Williams and Mansoor defeated Boa and Mars Wang.
  • April 20, 2019 – NXT Live Event: Albert Hardie Jr. defeated Boa.
  • May 16, 2019 – NXT Live Event: Garza Jr. defeated Boa.
  • May 23, 2019 – NXT Live Event: Boa defeated Brendan Vink.
  • June 6-7, 2019 – NXT Live Event: Albert Hardie Jr. defeated Boa.
  • June 29, 2019 – NXT Live Event: Danny Burch and Oney Lorcan defeated Dorian Mak and Riddick Moss, Dio Maddin and Isaiah Scott & Boa and Rocky in a 4-way tag team elimination match.
  • July 10, 2019 – NXT: Jordan Myles defeated Boa in the 1st round of the NXT breakout tournament.
  • August 16, 2019 – NXT Live Event: Cameron Grimes and Reina Gonzalez defeated Boa and Xia Li.
  • August 17, 2019 – NXT Live Event: Bronson Reed defeated Boa.
  • August 23, 2019 – NXT Live Event: Jaxson Ryker defeated Boa.
  • August 24, 2019 – NXT Live Event: Boa was in the battle royal won by Jordan Omogbehin.
  • September 6, 2019 – NXT Live Event: The Forgotten Sons (Jaxson Ryker, Steve Cutler and Wesley Blake) defeated Babatunde Aiyegbusi, Boa and Bronson Reed.
  • September 7, 2019 – NXT Live Event: Damian Priest defeated Boa.
  • September 11, 2019 – NXT: Damian Priest defeated Boa.
  • October 3, 2019 – NXT Live Event: Boa defeated Rocky by disqualification.
  • October 9, 2019 – NXT: Cameron Grimes defeated Boa.
  • October 16, 2019 – NXT: Killian Dain defeated Boa.
  • October 18, 2019 – NXT Live Event: Boa, Jeet Rama and Raul Mendoza defeated Dexter Lumis, Ridge Holland and Rocky.
  • October 19, 2019 – NXT Live Event: Ridge Holland defeated Boa.
  • October 24, 2019 – NXT Live Event: Kona Reeves defeated Boa.
  • October 26, 2019 – NXT Live Event: Damian Priest defeated Boa.
  • October 21, 2020 – NXT: Boa presents Xia Li with another letter.
  • November 11, 2020 – NXT: Raquel Gonzalez takes out her frustrations on Boa.
  • November 18, 2020 – NXT: William Regal tracks down Boa.
  • November 25, 2020 – NXT: Boa & Xia Li begged for a second chance.
  • December 2, 2020 – NXT: Boa & Xia Li pays the price for coming short.
  • December 9, 2020 – NXT: Boa & Xia Li penance continues.
  • December 16, 2020 – NXT: Xia Li is forced to brutally punch Boa.
  • December 23, 2020 – NXT: Boa & Xia Li goes through grueling training.
  • December 30, 2020 – NXT: Xia Li & Boa have a promo airing they return to NXT next week.
  • January 6, 2021 – NXT: Xia Li w Boa & Mei Ying defeated Katrina Cortez.
  • January 13, 2021 – NXT: Xia Li w Boa & Mei Ying defeated Valetina Feroz.
  • February 10, 2021 – NXT: Xia Li w Boa & Mei Ying defeated Cora Jade.
  • February 24, 2021 – NXT: Xia Li w Boa & Mei Ying defeated Kacy Catanzaro w Kayden Carter.
  • March 10, 2021 – NXT: Xia Li w Boa & Mei Ying defeated Kayden Carter by disqualification.
  • March 31, 2021 – NXT: Xia Li w Boa & Mei Ying defeated Kayden Carter and Kacy Catanzaro in a handicap match.
  • June 13, 2021 – NXT TakeOver – In Your House: Xia Li w Xia Li w Boa & Mei Ying defeated Mercedes Martinez.
  • June 29, 2021 – NXT: Tian Sha (Boa and Xia Li) defeated Jake Atlas and Mercedes Martinez by referee’s decision.
  • August 10, 2021 – NXT: Boa w Mei Ying defeated Drake Maverick.
  • August 24, 2021 – NXT: Xyon Quinn defeated Boa w Mei Ying.
  • September 7, 2021 – NXT: Mei Ying w Boa defeated Virginia Ferry.
  • September 17, 2021 – 205 Live: Boa defeated Malik Blade.
  • September 28, 2021 – NXT: Boa w Mei Ying defeated Andre Chase.
  • October 15, 2021 – 205 Live: Boa w Mei Ying defeated Jeet Rama.
  • October 29, 2021 – 205 Live: Boa w Mei Ying defeated Jeet Rama.
  • November 2, 2021 – NXT 2.0: Boa defeated Grayson Waller.
  • November 9, 2021 – NXT 2.0: Joe Gacy defeated Boa by disqualification.
  • December 3, 2021 – 205 Live: Boa defeated Draco Anthony by referee’s decision.
  • December 14, 2021 – NXT 2.0: Boa defeated Edris Enofe.
  • January 11, 2022 – NXT 2.0: Boa vs. Solo Sikoa ended in a double count-out.
  • January 25, 2022 – NXT 2.0: Solo Sikoa defeated Boa in a falls count anywhere match.
  • Boa suffered a unknown injury in the match vs Solo Sikoa and will be out of action for a unknown amount of time.
  • April 7, 2023 – NXT Level Up: Dante Chen defeated Boa. (this was Boa’s 1st match back in over a year due to injury.
  • April 14, 2023 – NXT Live Event: Boa & Diamond Mine (Brutus Creed, Ivy Nile and Julius Creed) defeated Schism (Ava, Jagger Reid, Joe Gacy and Rip Fowler).
  • April 28, 2023 – NXT Live Event: Gallus (Mark Coffey and Wolfgang) defeated Big Boa and Dante Chen.
  • May 5, 2023 – NXT Level Up: Eddy Thorpe defeated Boa.
  • May 13, 2023 – NXT Live Event: Boa and Dante Chen defeated Kale Dixon and Skylor Clinton.
  • May 20, 2023 – NXT Live Event: Dragon Lee and Trick Williams defeated Big Boa and Dante Chen.
  • May 26, 2023 – NXT Level Up: Javier Bernal defeated Boa.
  • June 16, 2023 – NXT Level Up: Boa defeated Bryson Montana.
  • Boa only wrestled once since May 26, 2023 with no given updates.
  • July 21, 2023 – NXT Live Event: Joe Gacy defeated Boa.
  • August 11, 2023 – NXT Live Event: Bronco Nima and Lucien Price defeated Boa and Dante Chen.
  • September 22, 2023 – NXT Live Event: Edris Enofe and Malik Blade defeated Boa and Dante Chen.
  • October 14, 2023 – NXT Live Event: Hank Walker and Tank Ledger defeated Boa and Dante Chen.
  • October 20, 2023 – NXT Level Up (Taped): Edris Enofe and Malik Blade defeated Boa and Dante Chen
  • November 11, 2023 – NXT Live Event: Gallus (Mark Coffey and Wolfgang) defeated Boa and Dante Chen, Edris Enofe and Malik Blade & Tyriek Igwe and Tyson Dupont in a 4-way tag team match to become #1 contenders for the tag team titles.
  • December 15-16, 2023 – NXT Live Event: Chase U (Duke Hudson and Riley Osborne) defeated Boa and Dante Chen.
  • This was Boa’s last match with WWE NXT as his contract expired on June 1st, 2023 and did not re-sign.
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hometown: China
height: 6' 4" (194 cm)
weight: 220 lbs (100 kg)
trained by: WWE Performance Center
debut: July 8, 2017
previous names: Yanbo Wang,
Big Boa
website: https://x.com/BigBoaWWE
gender: Male
status: Retired
type: Single
current promotion: Inactive