The USA Network has renewed Miz & Mrs. for a new season.
During The Miz’s appearance on The Ellen Degeneres Show today, it was announced that Miz & Mrs. has been renewed for season three. The season, which will consist of 10 episodes, is expected to air on the USA Network in 2022.
“We are overjoyed that we are able to continue giving fans a front row seat into our crazy lives,” The Miz and Maryse said. “Season three is going to be AWESOME!”
Miz & Mrs. premiered in 2018, with the first season of the reality show airing in 2018 and 2019. Season two aired in 2020 and 2021.
“At the end of Season 2, which aired earlier this year, Mike and Maryse celebrated an anniversary, had a pregnancy scare and took a step to ensure they wouldn’t have any more false alarms. While that is usually more than enough for a family to navigate, both their moms decided they were ready to date, Mike helped his dad find a hobby-turned-business and Maryse achieved entrepreneurial success,” the press release announcing the show’s renewal said.
Miz & Mrs. is produced by WWE and Bunim/Murray Productions.
The Miz is currently a contestant on season 30 of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars. Before taking time away from WWE television to be part of Dancing with the Stars, Miz was involved in a storyline where he turned against John Morrison.
The Wednesday Night War between AEW Dynamite and WWE NXT is officially coming to an end.
WWE and the USA Network announced today that, starting with the April 13 edition of the show, NXT will move to airing live on the USA Network on Tuesday nights. It was also announced that WWE and the USA Network have signed a multi-year extension for NXT to continue airing on the USA Network.
“We are incredibly proud of our three-decade partnership with WWE and in extending USA’s NXT deal, we are further establishing our portfolio as an unrivaled home for quality WWE content,” said Frances Berwick, Chairman, Entertainment Networks, NBCU. “By transitioning NXT to a Tuesday timeslot where WWE has performed well in the past, we are giving our passionate fanbase more of what they love with back-to-back nights of exhilarating, live programming.”
“We are thrilled to continue WWE and NBCUniversal’s longstanding partnership with the extension of NXT on USA Network,” said Paul “Triple H” Levesque, WWE Executive Vice President, Global Talent Strategy & Development. “The move to Tuesdays provides a new opportunity for us to grow the NXT brand and enables our partner, USA Network, to continue to build its strong portfolio of sports and entertainment programming.”
Levesque also spoke to Variety about NXT’s move to Tuesday nights: “We now feel like we’re in a good place where we can move that consistent fanbase over to Tuesdays. We believe they’ll follow us. That way we can grow the brand more given the lead in from ‘Monday Night Raw,’ which we’ve seen in the past.”
The day after NXT episodes premiere on the USA Network, they’ll be made available on demand on Peacock in the United States.
Ahead of Dynamite making its debut, NXT began airing live weekly on the USA Network in September 2019. NXT had aired as a taped show on the WWE Network on Wednesday nights prior to that. The Wednesday Night War between Dynamite and NXT then kicked off on October 2, 2019.
It had been confirmed earlier this month that NXT was close to finalizing a move to Tuesday nights. In January, it was announced that NBCUniversal will be shutting down NBC Sports Network by the end of the year. Some of that sports programming will be moving to the USA Network, which — prior to the announcement of NXT moving to Tuesdays — would have created a conflict on Wednesday nights if NBCUniversal is able to retain rights to the NHL in the league’s next television package.
The Tuesday, April 13 episode of NXT will be the TakeOver: Stand & Deliver fallout edition of the show. TakeOver: Stand & Deliver is a two-night event that’s taking place on Wednesday, April 7 and Thursday, April 8. Night one will be live on the USA Network, while night two will be live on Peacock in the United States and live on the WWE Network everywhere else.
WWE’s Charlotte Flair is attached to star in a remake of “Walking Tall” on the USA Network.
Deadline reported on Monday that a remake of “Walking Tall” has received a script sale from the USA Network. The remake is by former “Battlestar Galactica” executive producer David Eick and features Charlotte attached as the star of the TV movie. It’s being produced by Village Roadshow in association with Three Rivers, WWE Studios, and Mosaic.
Deadline wrote that “Walking Tall” is being set up as a two-hour TV movie on the USA Network with the hope of future installments or as an ongoing series.
Charlotte “will play a Tucson cop who finds herself caught in a web of fraud, exploitation and murder, and is forced to go full vigilante to protect her home town from falling victim to modern corruption.”
Charlotte (real name Ashley Fliehr) previously appeared in “Psych: The Movie” for the USA Network in 2017 and played herself on an episode of Peacock’s “Punky Brewster” revival that premiered this year.
The original version of “Walking Tall” was released in 1973 and was about a former professional wrestler-turned-lawman. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson starred in a remake of “Walking Tall” in 2004.
On Raw two weeks ago, Charlotte cut a promo declaring that she wants to challenge Raw Women’s Champion Asuka at WrestleMania 37. Asuka’s WrestleMania challenger has yet to be announced.
We’ve got a double issue of the Observer out this week with notes on how President Biden’s new policies on international travel will affect wrestlers and fighters from different countries.
Also in this issue:
The new WrestleMania plans, including how the Super Bowl plays into it, the time frame for the shows for both nights, the inside hopes for attendance and how the dynamic is different this year as to what gets announced. We also look at the decision making in regards to Dallas and Los Angeles, update the Royal Rumble and also have notes on match plans.
Coverage of Impact Hard to Kill, with notes on the key angles, the departure of Madison Rayne, Taya Valkyrie and Ethan Page, Page’s scathing words after his departure, plus match-by-match coverage with star ratings and poll results.
Dwayne Johnson’s new TV show about his life, new WWE signees, Dusty Rhodes men’s and women’s tournament, Kofi Kingston talks his injury, WWE television personality gets an ESPN TV show, A.J. Styles talks retirement, lawsuit update, where wrestling shows ranked with network sports, who is looking for new entrance music, what aspect of WWE’s major events are they trying to sell, why Raw will have two very tough dates for competition soon, as well as the most-watched shows of the past week on the WWE Network.
Coverage of both UFC shows over the past week and the story behind Max Holloway’s setting records.
A story on the life of Paul Varelans, an early star of UFC and MMA around the world, as well as his different forays with four different pro wrestling companies as well as his infamous angle with Taz in ECW. For the first time, Missy Hyatt talks publicly about the situation plus comments from all involved. We look at the tournament days of UFC, crazy street fights, and much more.
A story on the life of Guy Hauray, the voice of WWF in France for a generation.
A story on famous carnival shooter and pro wrestler Dick Cardinal, who was the oldest living pro wrestler at the time of his death.
History of the biggest draws in pro wrestling each year from 1916 to 2020, including what wrestlers were No. 1 for the most years.
Win-loss record of every WWE talent in 2020 including who wrestled the most dates, who never lost, who never won and more.
Television ratings of the past week, segment-by-segment numbers for the past two weeks on Wednesday, who was watching in different age groups, how different segments did on Raw & Smackdown.
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FRIDAY NEWS UPDATE
Garrett Gonzalez and I will be doing a show tonight covering news of the past week, as well as a look at the history of Memphis Wrestling with Randy Hales, who worked as the General Manager of the promotion under Jerry Jarrett. Bryan and I will be back Saturday night covering New Japan, Smackdown and UFC 257.
There was a huge media story today regarding NBCUniversal looking at major changes, the biggest one being shutting down the NBC Sports Network. The key is that the sports properties that carried the network, the NHL, NASCAR and soccer among them, will move to USA. Right now there is no specific word on what this means, and the NHL contract with NBCU expires after the current season. But NBCU is likely to move the NHL if they keep it to USA. That could affect Raw, but probably won’t. If NBCU keeps the rights, this has a good chance to mean that NXT would have to be moved from Wednesday since the NHL is a far higher profile show, reaches a higher income viewers, younger viewers and stronger ad rates than NXT. Right now there is nothing official but there are ramifications we’ll talk about tonight that are huge.
UFC 257 had some late changes. Ottman Azaitar was fired for trying to sneak someone into his hotel room and breaking quarantine protocols and getting some sort of a box inside the hotel. Nasrat Haqparast never weighed in due to an illness. Luckily their respective opponents agreed to fight each other. White said that Azaitar and his team cut off their wrist bands (that allowed them into the quarantined hotel) and gave them to somebody who shouldn’t have been let in. That guy showed up with a big, went into a room, shimmied across four balconies, went into Azaitar’s room and dropped the bag off, changed his clothes and then left. When security tried to stop him, he ran off.
Weigh-ins for the show tomorrow:
ESPN+ at 7 p.m. Eastern
Amir Albazi (126) vs. Shalgas Zhumagulov (126)
Nik Lentz (150) vs. Movsar Evloev (150)
ESPN at 8 p.m. Eastern
Khalil Rountree (206) vs. Marcin Prachnio (205)
Sara McMann (135) vs. Julianna Pena (136)
Brad Tavares (185.5) vs. Antonio Carlos Jr. (185)
Matt Frevola (155.5) vs.; Arman Tsarukyan (157) – this was agreed to be at 157 pounds
PPV at 10 p.m. Eastern
Makhmud Muradov (186) vs. Andrew Sanchez (186)
Marina Rodriguez (116) vs. Amanda Ribas (116)
Jessica Eye (126) vs. Joanne Calderwood (126)
Dan Hooker (156) vs. Michael Chandler (156)
Conor McGregor (155) vs. Dustin Poirier (156)
Smackdown tonight has announced Big E vs. Apollo Crews for the IC title and Bayley vs. Bianca Belair in an obstacle course. 205 Live will have tag team tournament matches, a men’s match with Tommaso Ciampa & Timothy Thatcher vs. Tony Nese & Ariya Daivari and a women’s match with Candice LeRae & Indi Hartwell vs. Gigi Dolin & Cora Jade.
In relation to one of the articles in the new issue of the Observer, the NFL announced today that it will put 14,500 tickets on sale for the Super Bowl at Raymond James Stadium, and will also give 7,500 tickets to vaccinated healthcare workers from hospitals in Central Florida and also the NFL teams will send vaccinated healthcare workers from their cities to the game.
How’s this for something different? Pro Wrestling Illustrated is about to publish its first-ever all Japanese edition. It will be a digital issue with extensive Tokyo Dome coverage, a look back at a famous Tokyo Dome match, and interviews with Kazuchika Okada and Takami Ohbari (new President of New Japan Pro Wrestling).
Bill Apter put this together talking about the famous Bruno Sammartino vs. Ivan Koloff match where Koloff ended Sammartino’s WWWF title reign, one of the most famous historical matches of all-time, on the 50th anniversary of the bout.
The ONE promotion will get another TV shot in the U.S. TNT will air a show on 4/7 at 10 p.m., right after Dynamite. Adriano Moraes defends the flyweight title against Demetrious Johnson and Eddie Alvarez faces Iuri Lapicus in the two main bouts.
Hajime Ohara of Pro Wrestling NOAH tested positive for COVID-19 and is out of action. Thus far he is asymptomatic.
New Japan has a live show from the Ota-Ward Gym at 3 a.m. Eastern or midnight Pacific tonight:
Minoru Suzuki & Douki vs. Gedo & Jado
Kazuchika Okada & Tomohiro Ishii & Yoshi-Hashi vs. Evil & Yujiro Takahash & Dick Togo
Will Ospreay & Great O’Khan vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima
Kota Ibushi & Hiroshi Tanahashi & Tomoaki Honma & Sho & Master Wato vs. Tetsuya Naito & Sanada & Shingo Takagi & Hiromu Takahashi & Bushi in an elimination match
Desperado & Yoshnobu Kanemaru vs. El Phantasmo & Taiji Ishimori for the IWGP jr. tag titles
New Japan Strong at 10 p.m. on New Japan World:
Logan & Sterling Riegel vs. Jordan Clearwater & Kevin Knight
AEW has filed for a trademark for the term “Battle of the Belts,” which was the name for some 1980s television specials from Florida that Joe Koff of ROH produced, one of which was headlined by what was a match of the year contender with Ric Flair vs. Barry Windham for the NWA title. Battle of the Belts was also where Keiji Muto as Super Black Ninja made his U.S. national TV debut years before WCW or World Class.
OTHER NOTES
All Japan has a Sunday Korakuen Hall show on its streaming service headlined by Suwama vs. Shotaro Ashino for the Triple Crown and Koji Iwamoto vs. Fuminori Abe for the jr. title.
Brian Johnson won the poll on the ROH Facebook page to get a shot at Dragon Lee’s TV title. The match will be taped and air as a Facebook exclusive. A Pure title match with Jonathan
Gresham defending against Joe Keys will air on the 1/30 television show.
IWA from Saturday night in St Johns Park, New South Wales, Australia: Tree Hugger Luchi b Brad Alexander, Kingsley b Charli Evans, Dazza & Jimmy Townsend b Will Kiedis & Sam Osborne-DQ, Head Hunter Rig b Jude London, Chris Abbott b Matty Wahlberg to keep the IWA title (thanks to Kirk Beattie)
Guto Inocente, a former UFC fighter, will debut with KSW facing Michal Andryszak on the 1/30 show in Lodz, Poland.
Paige VanZant will host a new radio show called Knuckle Up Radio with Paige VanZant every Wednesday at 5 p.m. through 2/10 in Sirius XM Fight Nation.
PCW from Melbourne, Australia will be running a ilve show on FITE.tv on 1/30.
Glory will have a one-night heavyweight tournament with Rico Verhoeven, Hesdy Gerges, Levi Rigters and Tarik Khbabez on 1/30. Originally Verhoeven was to defend his title against Jamal Ben Saddick but Ben Saddick suffered a back injury. There will be three title fights on the show.
Less than 100 tickets remain for the NFC Fight Night show on 1/30 at District in Atlanta headlined by Corey Jackson vs. Brandon Webb. They also announced a 2/20 Jiu Jitsu show at Elite Edge Fitness in Atlanta.
EPW from earlier today in Perth, Western Australia: Kaz Jordan won Battle Royal,Taskforce NC The Children in a tag title match, Taskforce b Stella Nyx & Tyler Jacobs to keep tag title, Casey Johns b Edith Night, David Storm b Kaz Jordan to keep Coastal title, Kiel Steria b Zenith, Michael Morleone & Julian Ward b Damien Slater & Marcius Pitt-DQ. (thanks to Kevin Chiat)
Wayne Mattei, the former leader of the Bullet Kliq in Australia, will be playing the role of Sgt. Slaughter in the NBC TV series “Young Rock.”
Richard Holliday vs. Savio Vega in a Caribbean strap match for the Caribbean title will be on Wednesday’s MLW TV show.
Mayu Iwatani, Momo Watanabe and Saya Iida of Stardom made a surprise appearance at the Seadlinnng show in Tokyo earlier today. They did angles to set up Iwatani vs. Yoshiko and Watanabe vs. Nanae Takahashi on 3/3 at Budokan Hall as well as Watanabe & Iida vs. Takahashi & Arisa Nakajima on the 2/10 Seadlinng show.
SoCal Uncensored announced its 2020 awards in this unusual year:
Wrestler of the Year – Danny Limelight
Women’s Wrestler of the Year – Heather Monroe
Tag Team of the Year – Tito Escondido & Che Cabrera
Most Outstanding Wrestler – Danny Limelight
Rookie of the Year – Ray Romero Jr.
Promotion of the Year – United Wrestling Network
Match of the Year – KENTA vs. Brody King
CWE has announced its Manitoba and Alberta dates are canceled and moved to March.
The USA Network has revealed the premiere date and guest list for “Straight Up Steve Austin” season two.
“Straight Up Steve Austin” will return as season two premieres on the USA Network immediately after Raw at 11 p.m. Eastern time on Monday, January 11. Here’s the description for the series:
In the series, WWE Hall of Famer ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin and a celebrity guest get real, heading out to different cities across America to take part in one-of-a-kind adventures, while swapping stories about their lives and careers. It’s a unique twist on the standard interview show, with no studio, no couch and no cue cards — just a straight up good time and good old-fashioned American fun.
Becky Lynch appeared as a guest on “Straight Up Steve Austin” season one. Season two will also include a WWE guest, with Charlotte Flair joining Austin for one of the episodes.
Bert Kreischer, Brett Favre, Ice-T, Luke Combs, Joel McHale, Steve-O, and Tiffany Haddish are the other celebrities who will be appearing as guests on “Straight Up Steve Austin” season two.
The first season of “Straight Up Steve Austin” debuted in August 2019. It was announced this January that the show had been renewed for season two, which would feature eight half-hour episodes. The new season was originally expected to premiere this summer.
The trailer for season two is available to watch below:
WWE and the USA Network have revealed the premiere date for the second half of Miz and Mrs. season two.
It was announced today that Miz and Mrs. will return to the USA Network on Thursday, November 12. It will premiere at 10:30 p.m. Eastern time.
WWE hyped the new episodes: “A lot has changed for the Mizanin family, as Miz and Maryse welcomed their second daughter and experienced the joys and challenges of becoming parents of two. Also, with a newly-retired, fan-favorite grandfather, George, taking advantage of an available guest room, there’s never a dull moment in the Mizanin house.”
Season two of Miz and Mrs. premiered this January with episodes airing after NXT on Wednesdays. For season one, Miz and Mrs. episodes aired after SmackDown on Tuesdays back when SmackDown was on the USA Network.
Miz is currently feuding with Otis on SmackDown. WWE has announced that Otis will “represent himself in court” on SmackDown this Friday as he attempts to stop Miz from taking his Money in the Bank contract.
The trailer for the new Miz and Mrs. episodes is available to watch below:
The updated USA Network schedule has NXT remaining on Tuesday for an additional week due to the NHL playoffs.
If the schedule remains as listed, NXT will air on Tuesday, September 8th at 8 PM Eastern with the NHL’s conference finals airing on Wednesday on USA. NBCUniversal owns the rights to the playoffs and with several options available like the NBC Sports Network, the schedule could change but USA might be the preferred option due to availability in more homes.
Those preferring to wait until Wednesday can watch NXT in its usual timeslot on SyFy Network for the next two weeks.
This Tuesday will mark the first NXT preemption due to the NHL playoffs with a “Super Tuesday” show headlined by a first time ever four-way 60-minute Iron Man match for the vacant NXT Championship featuring Adam Cole vs. Finn Balor vs. Tommaso Ciampa vs. Johnny Gargano and a six-man tag match with Legado del Fantasma (Cruiserweight Champion Santos Escobar, Raul Mendoza & Joaquin Wilde) facing Isaiah “Swerve” Scott & Tag Team Champions Breezango.
According to USA Network’s upcoming schedule, NXT will be moving nights for a week due to the NHL playoffs.
The episode previously scheduled for Wednesday, September 2nd will air on Tuesday, September 1st at 8 PM Eastern as a playoff game is scheduled in their usual slot.
With the playoffs set to conclude no later than October 4th, it’s unknown if this could affect future weeks of NXT as USA’s schedule is only available through September 2nd as of this writing.
Neither USA nor WWE have officially announced the schedule change.
On the AEW front, their Wednesday, September 2nd schedule will also see a slight change according to Dave Meltzer.
On Wrestling Observer Radio, Meltzer said that night’s episode of Dynamite was originally supposed to be followed by a one hour Countdown to All Out show. However, the show will now be 30 minutes and will air on All Out Saturday at 5:30 PM Eastern prior to The Buy-In pre-show. It’s unclear whether the pre-show will still air on TNT or only YouTube.
The Miz will be one of the hosts of a new competition reality series coming to the USA Network.
The USA Network announced today that The Miz and Rocsi Diaz will co-host “Cannonball.” Comedian Simon Gibson will be the sideline reporter for the show.
USA noted that the series will feature “contestants from all across America who face off in the biggest, wettest, slippery-est water sports competition ever created. From sliding off a 100-foot waterslide to rocketing off one of the world’s fastest drop towers, ‘Cannonball’ contestants will battle a variety of water obstacles to win a $10K cash prize.”
Miz wrote about the news: “Incredibly happy, honored, over the moon to be the host of @USA_Network’s new show ‘Cannonball.’ These posts all may sound the same, but when you set out with a vision of what you want to do and that vision starts taking shape, it just feels good. Every project for me is a passion project because I put everything in to making it the very best it can be. No shortcuts, no phoning it in. Along with me are two incredible talents. Emmy award winning television host @rocsidiaz who showcases her quick wit and @simeygibson is sure to make you cry laughing. We had amazing chemistry from the start and I can’t wait for you to see it. See you this summer on #Cannonball”
“Cannonball” will feature 10 episodes, with summer 2020 listed as when it will premiere.
Miz and Maryse are the stars of USA Network’s “Miz & Mrs.” Season two of that show will debut on Wednesday, January 29.
New episodes of Straight Up Steve Austin are coming to the USA Network this summer.
USA Network announced today that Straight Up Steve Austin has been renewed for season two. It was noted that the new season will feature eight half-hour episodes and is expected to premiere in the summer.
The first season of Straight Up Steve Austin debuted in August 2019. Aside from its two-night season finale that concluded on a Tuesday, the show aired after Raw on Mondays.
USA Network describes the show as: “In every episode, Steve and a celebrity guest get real, heading out to different cities across America to take part in one-of-a-kind adventures, while swapping stories about their lives and careers. It’s a unique twist on the standard interview show, with no studio, no couch and no cue cards — just a straight up good time and good old-fashioned American fun.” They also hyped that Straight Up Steve Austin “was 2019’s #1 new unscripted cable series for Men 18-49 and Men 25-54.”
Raw Women’s Champion Becky Lynch appeared as one of the guests on the first season of the show. Rob Riggle, Sal Vulcano, Baker Mayfield, Gabriel Iglesias, Trace Adkins, and Dale Earnhardt Jr. were the other guests on season one.
Guests for season two have yet to be announced.
Austin also hosts his Broken Skull Sessions interview series on the WWE Network. A new episode will debut after NXT UK TakeOver: Blackpool II on Sunday, with Kane appearing as Austin’s guest.
Miz & Mrs. is moving to a new night when the show’s second season premieres on the USA Network next month.
It was announced today that season two of Miz & Mrs. will debut on the USA Network after NXT at 10 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, January 29. The show had previously aired after SmackDown on Tuesdays before SmackDown moved from USA to Friday nights on FOX.
Miz & Mrs. being renewed for a 20-episode second season was announced this April. The reality series is produced by WWE and Bunim/Murray Productions.
Season one of Miz & Mrs. premiered in July 2018. It was also 20 episodes, though there were three different sets of episodes that were all categorized as being part of the first season.
Miz will be in action against Bray Wyatt at Sunday’s TLC pay-per-view. Wyatt isn’t wrestling as The Fiend and his Universal Championship won’t be on the line.
Candice LeRae is the new number one contender to the NXT Women’s Championship.
LeRae defeated Mia Yim, Bianca Belair, and Io Shirai in a fatal four-way number one contender’s match at the start of tonight’s NXT on USA Network premiere. It was later announced that LeRae will get her title shot against Shayna Baszler on the Wednesday, October 2 episode of NXT.
LeRae pinned Yim to win the number one contender’s match. Baszler, Marina Shafir, and Jessamyn Duke then came out to the stage, with Baszler and LeRae going face-to-face.
Baszler has been NXT Women’s Champion since defeating Kairi Sane at WWE’s Evolution pay-per-view in October 2018. This is Baszler’s second reign with the title.
October 2 is the first night that NXT is airing live on USA Network for the full two hours. Due to the final two episodes of the USA Network series “Suits,” the second hour of this and next week’s NXT episodes are airing on WWE Network.
AEW will also debut on TNT on October 2. It will go head-to-head with NXT.
The North American Championship will be on the line when NXT debuts on the USA Network in two weeks.
WWE has announced that North American Champion Velveteen Dream will defend his title against Roderick Strong on the debut of NXT on USA Network on Wednesday, September 18.
For the first two weeks of NXT on USA, the first hour will air live exclusively on USA Network. The second hour won’t be on USA and will instead air live on WWE Network.
The first two-hour NXT episode on USA will be on Wednesday, October 2, which is the same night that AEW debuts on TNT.
Dream retained the North American title by defeating Pete Dunne and Strong in a triple threat match at NXT TakeOver: Toronto last month. After Strong hit the End of Heartache on Dunne, Dream broke up the pin and then pinned Dunne to retain his title.
Every member of Undisputed Era aside from Strong is currently a champion in NXT. Adam Cole holds the NXT Championship, while Kyle O’Reilly & Bobby Fish hold the NXT Tag Team titles.
A triple threat number one contender’s match has also been announced for September 18, with Mia Yim, Bianca Belair, and Io Shirai facing off to determine a challenger for Shayna Baszler’s NXT Women’s Championship. It wasn’t specified that Yim vs. Belair vs. Shirai would be part of the USA Network broadcast.
It was announced this morning that WWE and USA Network have reached an agreement for NXT to begin airing live weekly on USA starting on September 18. The show will be two hours long each week and will air from 8-10 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesdays.
NXT will continue to take place from Full Sail University.
WWE sent out an email announcing that — when the move begins — NXT will be made available on demand on the WWE Network every Thursday at 8 p.m. Eastern. It was noted that TakeOver events will continue to air live exclusively on WWE Network.
Triple H responded to NXT going to USA: “Can’t describe this announcement in any other word than PROUD. Proud of everyone involved from day one. Proud you’ve let your voice be heard and carried the banner of this brand. Proud you’ve loudly & clearly said #WeAreNXT. And I’m proud to say, we’re just getting started.”
Starting on September 18 means that there will be two NXT on USA episodes before AEW TV begins airing on TNT. The shows will go head-to-head starting on October 2.
“The move to USA Network provides an opportunity to deepen our relationship with NBCUniversal and further build the NXT brand,” Vince McMahon said in a press release. “Over the long term, our goal is to develop a following that can be monetized to the same level as our flagship programs, Raw and SmackDown.”
“USA Network and WWE have one of the longest and most successful partnerships in television history,” Chris McCumber, President, Entertainment Networks — USA and SYFY said. “As the No. 1 cable entertainment network, we’re excited to add NXT to our weekly lineup alongside powerhouse flagship Raw and to bring a new generation of Superstars to a wide audience.”
The new two-hour NXT television show that will be announced tonight on Raw for the USA Network will have a September 18 debut date.
It was imperative on the WWE side to get a jump on AEW, which debuts with its October 2 show from the Capital One Arena in Washington, DC.
One would think with a date so close to happening, that the locations for the early shows would also be announced tonight.
NXT will be airing on 8-10 p.m. Eastern time on USA on Wednesdays, head-to-head with AEW on TNT.
WWE stock has increased $2.57 per share today to $72.18 based on the expectation of the announcement tonight.
In addition to the NXT announcement, tonight’s Raw will feature AJ Styles defending the United States title against Braun Strowman, two first round matches in the King of the Ring tournament, and a King’s Court segment with Jerry Lawler interviewing Sasha Banks. Samoa Joe vs. Cesaro and Cedric Alexander vs. Sami Zayn are the King of the Ring matches.
