Category: NXT

NXT TakeOver: Dallas Card & Predictions – 4/1/16

NXT Championship: (C) Fin Balor VS Samoa Joe

NXT Women’s Championship: (C) Bayley VS Asuka

NXT Tag Team championship: (C’s) The Revival VS American Alpha

Sami Zayn VS Shinsuke Nakamura

Austin Aries VS Baron Corbin

Apollo Crews VS Elias Sampson

 

Wrestling News Blog’s Predictions:

Vanessa: Samoa Joe, Asuka, American Alpha, Shinsuke Nakamura, Austin Aries, Apollo Crews

John: Samoa Joe, Asuka, American Alpha, Shinsuke Nakamura, Austin Aries, Apollo Crews

ED: Fin Balor, Asuka, The Revival, Shinsuke Nakamura, Austin Aries, Apollo Crews

The Balor Club Coming To WWE’s Main Roster Soon?

Multiple sources are reporting that Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows are scheduled to start with WWE imminently and PWInsider reports that they are scheduled to be at the post-WrestleMania 32 WWE TV tapings. They are also expected to be at WrestleMania 32, at least backstage. It’s still believed they will be debuting on the main roster, with WWE NXT Champion Finn Balor, using the Balor Club name.

NXT Preview: 3/30/16

The following is scheduled for tonight’s 3/30 WWE NXT:

Samoa Joe vs. Bull Dempsey

Apollo Crews vs. Alex Riley

NXT Tag Team Champions The Revival vs. Tucker Knight & Steve Cutler

American Alpha vs. Corey Hollis & John Skyler

Baron Corbin in action.

Theme Music Announced For NXT TakeOver: Dallas

WWE World Heavyweight Champion Triple H announced today that WWE NXT “Takeover: Dallas” will feature music from Halestorm, Yelawolf and Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes. Yelawolf’s “Fiddle Me This” single is the official theme song.

NXT Preview: 3/23/16

The following is scheduled for tonight’s 3/23 WWE NXT on the WWE Network:

Asuka vs. Emma

NXT Champion Finn Balor vs. Rich Swann

Alexa Bliss vs. Sarah Dobson

Elias Samson vs. Johnny Gargano

Bull Dempsey vs. Danny Birch

NXT Preview: 3/16/16

The following is scheduled for tonight’s 3/16 WWE NXT:

* #1 Contenders Match: American Alpha vs. The Vaudevillains

* Tommaso Ciampa vs. Jesse Sorensen

* Emma w/Dana Brooke vs. Deonna Purazzo

* NXT Women’s Champion Bayley & Asuka vs. Eva Marie & Nia Jax

Vince McMahon Not a Fan of NXT?

Source: ringsidenews.com

Apparently Vince McMahon is not a big fan of NXT, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Vince perceives NXT as a touring product filled with so many guys Vince doesn’t believe are money.

NXT talent took notice of how Tyler Breeze was treated after he arrived on the main WWE roster. Some of the locker room was disgruntled over seeing Breeze treated like a “jobber” following all the buildup he received from Breaking Ground.

Tag Team Headed To WWE NXT Soon

Source: WrestlingINC

Pro Wrestling NOAH tag team “TMDK” Mikey Nicholls and Shane Haste are expected to sign with WWE NXT soon. The wrestlers from Australia worked their last NOAH show today, defeating Mitsuhiro Kitamiya and Naomichi Marufuji. “The Mighty Don’t Kneel” cut a promo after the match to thank the fans in Japan and NOAH for all their support. They also tweeted their farewells. No word yet on when they will arrive in Orlando to begin work at the WWE Performance Center.

NXT Head Writer Moved To SmackDown

Dave Meltzer noted on Wrestling Observer Radio that NXT head writer Ryan Ward has left for the main roster and will be writing for SmackDown. Ward has written all of the NXT television shows through NXT Takeover: Dallas.

Official WWE Book To Focus On Rise Of WWE NXT

Source: WrestlingINC

ECW Press, which often works with WWE on new books, has announced “NXT: The Future Is Now” for an April 2017 release. The book will be written by Jon Robinson and will focus on the creation and rise of the WWE NXT brand.

The following was issued today:

NXT: The Future is Now by Jon Robinson (April 1, 2017, ECW Press) follows the rise of NXT from its conception to becoming WWE’s newest global brand. Learn how NXT came to be, from the opening of the WWE Performance Center to WWE’s new, forward-thinking approach to talent development. See how Seth Rollins, Bray Wyatt, Paige, Charlotte and other new stars have broken into WWE more prepared than any generation before. Get an inside look into WWE’s future as new and exciting performers hone their skills, personalities, and so much more under the watchful eye of Paul “Triple H” Levesque. With new, insightful interviews from Triple H, NXT trainers, Superstars and Divas, fans will learn how the future is indeed now!

NXT: The Future is Now is scheduled for a Spring 2017 release by ECW Press, in partnership with WWE. Over the past fifteen years, ECW has been a leading publisher of wrestling books, including autobiographies of Jimmy “The Mouth of the South” Hart, Larry Zybyszko, and The Missing Link, as well as The Death of WCW and The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame series.