Details behind the decision made by WWE on moving days for the next NXT and NXT UK TakeOver specials have surfaced.
WWE has already confirmed that NXT TakeOver will take place on a Sunday in Portland, Oregon on February 16, 2020 while the next UK TakeOver will be on January 12 at the Empress Ballroom in Blackpool, Lancashire, England. Both shows will air on WWE’s streaming service, WWE Network.
Historically, WWE has aired TakeOver shows for NXT UK on Saturday afternoons while NXT aired on Saturday nights. The two shows above will take place on Sunday during those same time slots.
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Dave Meltzer reported in the latest edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that WWE is putting the upcoming TakeOver shows on Sunday as an “experiment.” The reason for that is to see how they will perform on a new night on the WWE Network.
The company is also experimenting with shows like Worlds Collide on a Saturday before a WWE pay-per-view. The next Worlds Collide will take place the night before the Royal Rumble pay-per-view event in January in Houston, Texas.
The idea behind the experiment is to make Sunday the destination for each major show for every WWE brand.
Regarding the Worlds Collide event on January 25, WWE promoted the show in the official announcement as an NXT vs. NXT UK show in a “clash for brand supremacy.”
According to the report, the show will be built around NXT vs. NXT UK matches that fans have never been able to have the chance to see before up to this point. The event has been in the works for the last few months and before WWE did it with a similar concept for Survivor Series this year.