WWE NXT is leaving Wednesdays! Renown wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer answered various members of the WWE Universe to discuss the very real possibility of WWE NXT moving from Wednesday nights to it’s alleged new day – Tuesdays. This move would also affectively end the so-called ‘Wednesday Night Wars’ between NXT and rival promotion, AEW whose flagship program, Dynamite airs directly in competition with NXT. Meltzer indicated that major WWE executive Nick Khan must have had a ‘bad’ call. This WWE NXT star ripped a celebrity wrestler.
One fan posted that this move has more to do with National Hockey League rights that NBC holds vs anything in regards to AEW as iceagecoming posted on F4WOnline.com forums, There are a lot of big stories here; and I wonder what this could be. I believe part of the closure of NBCSN is that they’ve basically merged the management teams of their cable stations so rather than USA having its own team and their other stations having their own its all one team now; I wonder if that meant that there was a change in management who weren’t as close to WWE and so were more willing to push back on the apparent folly of running your wrestling show against another wrestling show rather than on a clear night. Another thing that might be a factor is that NBC currently hold the NHL rights and Wednesday night games air on NBCSN which is closing. If they want to keep the NHL rights and they don’t want to move around dates they need to clear Wednesday Nights on USA to show hockey and in that case it makes sense for NXT to move permanently to Tuesday than for them to bounce around for half the year.”
Dave Meltzer responded, “This is the reason.”
Another member of the WWE universe, Jas2781 said, “During investors call “We think it has no impact on us, the departure of NBC Sports Network. There’ll be no effect on Raw or NXT.” Nick Khan said I laughed then, I laugh now. NHL playoffs begin in May.” USA Network also reacted to WWE NXT’s new timeslot.
Meltzer responded, “Nick didn’t have a good second call with the benefit of hindsight.”
