Some big news broke this weekend about Wrestlemania 35 weekend. It turns out that NXT Takeover will be switching nights with the WWE Hall of Fame ceremony. The Takeover show will now be on Friday night and the Hall of Fame will be on Saturday.
That also means Takeover will no longer be going head-to-head with the NJPW and ROH Supercard show at Madison Square Garden.
According to Bryan Alvarez on Wrestling Observer Live, here is WWE’s reasoning for why they moved the show (h/t to Ringside News for the quote below):
“Their story is that, and you can see here when they say… what was the term? What better serves our fans, that’s the exact wording they used. Their claim is that the Hall Of Fame being on Friday and the NXT TakeOver being on Saturday, a lot of fans fly in on Saturday for the NXT show, and thus they don’t go to the Hall Of Fame. Because they flew in on Saturday.”
“So they’re claiming that they moved NXT was that if they moved NXT to Friday, everybody will fly in Friday and thus they’ll be in town Saturday for the Hall Of Fame. So this move was done they claim to help the WWE Hall Of Fame.”
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On a related note, here are some of our early bold predictions for Wrestlemania 35.