WrestleMania Weekend’s NXT TakeOver To Be Renamed

The general rule for naming an NXT TakeOver event is just to put a colon and then the city the arena is in, and then a number if it’s been there more than once.

We have seen a few exceptions to this rule particularly in the early days, with the most recent example being NXT TakeOver: Wargames 1 & 2.

The TakeOver show on WrestleMania weekend is in Brooklyn, so many simply assumed it would be Brooklyn 5, but ticket websites are now giving us a few alternative names.

A few months ago, it was announced that they were dropping Brooklyn in favour of TakeOver: New York, but there has since been another alteration. The official NXT ticket website is now listing both NXT TakeOver: Blacklist and NXT TakeOver Blacklist: Brooklyn as possible names for the show.

Here is the current placeholder image they have on the NXT ticket website:

Why they’re going for Blacklist is not clear, but it’s a cool sounding word so I’m putting it down to Triple H.

It must be noted that the Barclays Centre where the show is being held still has it as TakeOver: New York, but we are led to believe the name will now incorporate Blacklist in some way.

Maybe it’s just because Aleister Black is going to be there?

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