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Shawn Michaels has revealed plans for NXT premium live events taking place away from the WWE Performance Center.
Since the pandemic, the NXT brand has held nearly all of their Takeover and premium live events at the WWE Performance Center. The only exemption being the NXT Stand and Deliver event in Dallas this past April.
The WWE has seen a lot of major changes over the past few months with Vince McMahon’s retirement and Triple H taking over as Head of Creative.
Along with these major overhauls, Shawn Michaels was promoted to WWE’s senior vice president of talent development creative.
Speaking with Scott Fishman of TV Insider, Michaels was asked whether he sees NXT shows like Halloween Havoc being held in traditional arenas moving forward.
The WWE Hall of Famer answered:
“Absolutely. As you mentioned, we started with the Florida loop, or the coconut loop, as we call them. We’ve briefly discussed getting out for our premium live events. Do we want to do that at the end of the year or start at the beginning of the new year? We had Stand & Deliver for WrestleMania weekend, which is the first time many of our talents were out of the Performance Center. It’s certainly something we want to get back to. We have every intention of doing that. We’re actually having talks on how we want to go about executing that. This will go beyond shows in the state of Florida for certainly premium live events but regular live events. As you know, that is part of the developmental process. They have to get out there and perform on the main roster all around the world. They might as well get their feet wet in NXT.”
In a recent interview, Shawn Michaels noted the one thing that has changed in WWE since Triple H took over.
WWE NXT will hold their next premium live event, Halloween Havoc, this Saturday, October 22. The show will be headlined by Bron Breakker vs. JD McDonagh vs. Ilja Dragunov for the NXT Championship.
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