Report: WWE Unlikely To Ever Launch NXT Europe

Two years on from the shuttering of NXT UK and the launch of NXT Europe looks more unlikely than ever, with Dave Meltzer reporting on Wrestling Observer Radio that he had people two years ago telling him the brand would never actually become a reality. Meltzer noted he has heard less about the possible launch of the brand in 2024. 

"I just keep thinking like remember when they closed NXT UK? This was a couple of years ago now and they were going to immediately re-open NXT Europe and then they fired almost everyone...Most of the people that worked NXT UK were fired and I thought if you're going to do NXT Europe like you say why are you firing people? They were under $25,000 a year contracts, it's not like they were paying giant money to these people. The cost savings was negligible. Other people were telling me they're never gonna do this Europe thing, they say it because they didn't want to admit to shutting down the UK thing because the UK thing was their original idea to offset that ITV show...I always hear we're doing the European thing but its been years now and I'm hearing less now than I heard years ago that they are," Meltzer said.

WWE NXT UK was shuttered in September 2022, with WWE stating at the time they planned to launch NXT Europe in the near future. Triple H noted in the Summer of 2023 that NXT Europe had been delayed due to the WWE-UFC merger under TKO Group Holdings. The merger was completed in September 2023 and NXT Europe has yet to become a reality, however. 

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