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WWE is planning for the following Saturday Night time’s Essential Occasion particular with a date and placement locked down.
Saturday Night time’s Essential Occasion has a storied historical past. It initially aired on NBC from 1985 to 1991, filling the “Saturday Night time Dwell” slot. A short stint on FOX adopted in 1992 earlier than the sequence disappeared.
WWE revived the prime-time particular in March 2006 on USA Community, a part of the NBCU household, and continued till August 2008. The sequence returned in December with a present from Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, every week earlier than the Royal Rumble PLE.
The highest bouts on the cardboard had been Cody Rhodes vs. Kevin Owens for the Undisputed WWE Championship, Gunther vs. Damian Priest and Finn Balor for the World Heavyweight Championship, and Liv Morgan vs. Iyo Sky for the Girls’s World Championship.
A second version adopted on January twenty fifth. The highest bouts featured had been World Heavyweight Champion Gunther vs. Jey Uso and Girls’s World Champion Rhea Ripley vs. Nia Jax.
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Peacock’s WWE schedule, revealed earlier this yr, lists the following two Saturday Night time’s Essential Occasion specials: Might twenty fourth and July twelfth. Notably, the July twelfth particular will air reverse AEW’s All In occasion at Globe Life Area in Arlington, Texas, marking AEW’s first PPV in an American baseball stadium. The schedule was later eliminated.
Based on WrestleVotes Radio, WWE is planning its subsequent Saturday Night time’s Essential Occasion for Might twenty fourth in Tampa, FL, on the Amalie Enviornment. NXT’s Battleground PLE will comply with this on Might twenty fifth, additionally in Tampa.
WWE’s present settlement with NBCU requires 4 Saturday Night time’s Essential Occasion specials yearly. As confirmed on WrestleVotes Radio, the Might twenty fourth date is ready.
Saturday Night time’s Essential Occasion occasions airs dwell on NBC and is simulcast on Peacock. This was a part of the deal that WWE and NBCU agreed to as they stored SmackDown’s media rights to air on the USA Community. They’d the rights to Uncooked, which has since moved to Netflix. This deal kicked in initially of January. WWE has drawn robust numbers with these specials.
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