WWR NXT premiere tonight live on The CW Network from the Allstate Arena in Chicago.
Nikkita Lyons has returned to in-ring action.
At Friday night’s WWE NXT live event in Davenport, Florida, Lyons was victorious in her in-ring return. This marked her first match since she suffered a knee injury on an episode of WWE NXT in January.
Source: eWn
Stephanie Vaquer made her on-screen debut during this week’s episode of WWE NXT.
In the main event segment on this week’s edition of NXT, Roxanne Perez and Giulia were involved in a “press conference” prior to their Women’s Title match on next week’s debut on The CW Network.
As the two women took shots at each other, Vaquer appeared on the big screen from Chile to interrupt Giulia. She revealed that she’ll be waiting for the winner of next week’s match.
Source: eWn
Tonight’s WWE NXT will be the last episode on the USA Network before moving next week to The CW Network.
Tonight’s show will feature a press conference on the upcoming debut for NXT on The CW Network scheduled for next week in Chicago.
WWE has new TV deals, with Monday Night RAW moving to Netflix in January, Friday Night SmackDown returning from FOX to the USA Network, and NXT moving from USA to the CW Network next month.
NBCU still has a streaming deal with WWE for the WWE Network to air in the United States on Peacock. As part of the new deal, the full past-season library of WWE SmackDown is available on Peacock, with new episodes becoming available 30 days after airing on the USA Network.
New episodes of WWE RAW are also accessible on Peacock 30 days after airing on the USA Network. However, Peacock will no longer have the libraries for NXT and RAW after 9/19 and 10/1, respectively.
Moreover, fans will notice countdown clocks for NXT and RAW programming on Peacock, indicating that the library will expire, but only for episodes after the mentioned dates.
WrestleVotes Radio is reporting that NXT Level Up will end soon after airing on Fridays on Peacock since February 2022.
The report states, “While we’re talking about NXT, with the WWE Hulu contract coming up next week, the NXT secondary show Level Up will be discontinued. That’s what we’re hearing. They will no longer continue filming the Level Up show that airs on Peacock, that features a lot of the younger NXT talent. And you know, it is what it is. It’s just a lot of moving parts right now, but we will say goodbye to Level Up.”
It’s uncertain whether the entire NXT library will be removed from Peacock once the CW deal takes effect.
The report adds, “It’s likely everything from NXT 2.0 up until today will disappear and move over to the CW app. With that said, we don’t know if Takeovers are included here. Again, it could be just 2.0 stuff, which would include Deadlines and No Mercy and things like that, could disappear from Peacock, but a lot of the more recent NXT stuff will be gone off of the WWE Network/Peacock….it just comes down to the rights of that now that CW is in charge of having the NXT rights. I think that because they were formally in the hands of Peacock and USA Network. How those agreements all are written is definitely playing into why those past episodes will no longer be available moving forward.”
In addition to potentially discontinuing NXT Level Up, WWE will expand SmackDown to three hours starting January 2025.
Tonight’s WWE NXT on USA Network
The Motor City Machine Guns have been the subject of much discussion in recent months, as fans around the world are still wondering where they will end up. Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin’s contracts with TNA expired at the beginning of April, and rumors have been rampant concerning whether they will choose to sign with WWE or AEW. Initially, it looked as if Sabin and Shelley would become ‘All Elite,’ with the two men already having a brief history with AEW, appearing at All Out 2022. However, that talk seemed to die off, and the word inside the business was that they were WWE-bound.
Now it seems there is an answer, at least according to Dave Meltzer, who claimed in the latest Wrestling Observer Newsletter that the Motor City Machine Guns are expected to start in WWE imminently. As far as the destination within WWE, Meltzer claims that, despite the fact that Sabin and Shelley are one of the most influential tag teams of their generation, they will be part of the “WWE NXT” brand when they eventually debut.
“NXT” has a lot of big events coming up in the near future, as the brand will be moving to The CW on October 1. The live debut on October 1 will take place from the Allstate Arena in Chicago, Illinois, which will then be followed by a live episode in St. Louis, Missouri on October 8, which will go head-to-head with “AEW Dynamite.” Following on from the two live shows on October 1 and 8, “NXT” will be back on the road for the Halloween Havoc PLE, which will take place on October 27 at the GIANT Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
According to multiple reports, the current plan is to have Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin debut in a tag team match during WWE NXT’s Chicago debut on October 1st.
Source: Wrestling Inc.
NXT Anonymous posted a video on Twitter of Tony D’Angelo of The Don of NXT paying off a mystery person with the intent of him taking care of Oba Femi.
On this week’s season premiere of WWE NXT, it was revealed who that was, as the NXT North American champion found himself face-to-face with one of TNA Wrestling’s biggest powerhouses, Hammerstone.
Despite the impressive challenge Hammerstone put up against NXT’s behemoth, Femi was able to keep his win-loss record in tact, winning the match with one of his devastating powerbombs.
Backstage, The D’Angelo Family was shown distraught, with Tony D’Angelo walking off in anger after seeing his hired gun taken out.
Source: eWn
In the opening contest of this week’s “NXT,” Axiom and Nathan Frazer defended their NXT Tag Team Championships against “WWE SmackDown” stars Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins, together known as the Street Profits. The Street Profits put forth a valiant effort against Frazer and Axiom and even appeared to be closing in on a victory. Unfortunately for them, Ford’s pinfall attempt on Frazer was interrupted by the surprise arrival of The Bloodline’s Jacob Fatu, Tama Tonga, and Tonga Loa, who currently hold the WWE Tag Team Championships via the Freebird rule.
Tama was the first to enter the scene when he pulled Ford out of the ring and sent him crashing into the nearby steel stairs. As Dawkins approached Tama in defense of his partner, Jacob Fatu came charging at him. Joining in on the action, Loa then wiped out Axion with a clothesline in the ring, while Tama laid out Frazer with a suplex. The Bloodline concluded their attack with a Swanton to Dawkins, courtesy of Fatu.
For Tama Tonga and Jacob Fatu, tonight marks their first appearance on the “NXT” brand. For Tonga Loa, it marks his return to the “NXT” brand. Under his former ring name of Camacho, Loa wrestled over three-dozen “NXT” matches between 2012 and 2014, with his last taking form in tag team action against The Ascension at a June 2014 “NXT” live event.
Source: Wrestling Inc.
WWE NXT tonight on USA Network.
WWE NXT General Manager Ava took to Twitter today to announce that TNA’s The Rascalz (Zachary Wentz & Trey Miguel) were unable to compete due to “somewhat conspicuous circumstances.”
Instead, The Street Profits will challenge Nathan Frazer & Axiom for the titles. This match will open the show.
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