WWE has officially confirmed the next two NXT Takeover events. NXT UK Takeover: Blackpool II will take place on January 12th, 2020. NXT Takeover: Portland will take place on February 16th, 2020.
What is different about these two events is that they are both taking place on Sundays. Takeover specials have traditionally always taken place on Saturdays. So why is this changing?
According to Dave Meltzer in the latest Wrestling Observer Newsletter (subscribe here), WWE is doing these Takeovers as experiments to see how they do on the WWE Network.
The plan is to potentially do more Worlds Collide events on weekends of PPV’s. This saves Takeover specials for their own separate weekends. Here is what Meltzer wrote:
They are also doing a special in Houston called World’s Collide on 1/25, the night before the Rumble, which an ad for the show listed Cole, Baszler, Walter and Kay Lee Ray, the champions of the regular and the U.K. brands. WWE sources confirm the show will be built around brand vs. brand matches that have never been seen before. We’re told that has been the plan for this show for a few months, long before any such plans for Survivor Series took place with a similar concept. The experiment is to have more shows like this on Saturdays before PPVs down the line, with NXT and Takeovers on Sundays, to make Sunday the day for every brand’s individual big show. But all of this right now is just in the experimental phase.
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On a related note, check out my updated match predictions for NXT Takeover: Portland.