WWE Scheduled To Make A Big Announcement Tomorrow

By AG

Posted on August 18, 2019

• OLD SCHOOL VIDEO HISTORY (August 18, 1991) – WWF Wrestling Challenge

On this day in 1991, the World Wrestling Federation aired an episode of their weekly TV show ‘WWF Wrestling Challenge’.

This episode was pre-taped at the Portland Civic Center in Portland, Maine and featured matches, promos & storyline segments on the road to the ‘WWF SummerSlam 1991’ PPV.

Here’s the card:

– I.R.S. vs. Sonny Blaze

– Ricky Steamboat vs. Bob Bradley

– Bobby Heenan Interview (hints at Ric Flair coming to the WWF)

– The Big Boss Man vs. Jim McPherson

– The Nasty Boys vs. Mark Thomas & Ross Greenberg

– The Barber Shop with Sid Justice

– SummerSlam Report

– The Bushwhackers vs. Brian Donahue & Kerry Davis

• WWE Scheduled To Make A Big Announcement Tomorrow

According to Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer, WWE officials are in talks of moving NXT to the USA Network, instead of FS1, for 2 hours on Wednesday nights (to go head-to-head with AEW on TNT).

Below is what Meltzer said:

“So it went from FS1 to USA on Wednesday 8:00 PM EST to 10:00 PM EST. The word that I heard is that they’re trying to get the jump which means it would start before October 2nd whereas before I think it was starting on October 2nd and FS1 was going to be the problem with the Big East Basketball.

I don’t know what USA schedule’s like. So it’s all in play, but yeah I mean we expect that announcement real soon.

WWE fans are more familiar with watching USA than FS1 so that is another thing that leads the USA Network’s favor. Do they go live every week do they go live every other week? Both have been discussed, but there will be a live component for sure.

Do they continue with another hour on the WWE Network which would mean three hours of NXT a week which is starting to stretch and will burn things out or do they drop the WWE Network and the WWE Network subscribers are going to be unhappy. What do they do about international? Because this is coming up.”

In an update to this, WrestleVotes reported that WWE is expected to make an announcement regarding this tomorrow:

A lot of rumors going around concerning NXT. I’ll add what I’ve heard… NXT is moving to USA Network on Wednesday nights. Not FS1.
And… I’ve been told WWE will make the official announcement this Monday.
— WrestleVotes (@WrestleVotes) August 17, 2019