NXT UK to become NXT Europe

NXT UK to become NXT Europe

NXT UK is going to become NXT Europe. Details are limited, but it's going to take a hiatus and relaunch in 2023. They will expand further into Europe and it sounds like the roster will be revamped.

I think it's a shame that NXT UK is ending. It has been the best weekly show in my opinion, but nobody gave it a chance. Workrate lovers like Dave and Alvarez absolutely refused to watch it and the turdcircle types who obsess about good matches 24/7 actively refused it.

I think it just confirms the lesson that a lot of people here know - you don't try to appeal to smarks. WWE gave smarks all they could have wanted with NXT Black and Gold. They turned their noses up at it for AEW. WWE made 205 Live, a brand solely for flippy wrestlers, and turdcircle, who loves flippy wrestlers, didn't care. Then NXT UK came around and made NXT UK for European smarks and again, the fans didn't care. I think it's really hard for WWE to come out of this be like, "we should really be appealing to smarks and not the general fan".

Had NXT UK been a bigger success, maybe it would have gotten a second hour. Maybe they would have gotten a second show. Maybe WWE wouldn't have put the breaks on international expansion and maybe we would have NXT Africa, NXT India and NXT Middle East by now. Maybe it would have been good, maybe it wouldn't, but at the very least, it would have been more wrestling to watch and it would have done a lot to expand wrestling in those countries.

I don't know what NXT Europe is going to be or if it will ever come about, because this is wrestling and plans change. I hope it's as good as NXT UK was and I hope it can develop talent like NXT 2.0 is doing.