WWE Never Planning To Launch NXT Europe
A new report has shed light on WWE’s plans for the long-talked-about NXT Europe brand and it seems it might never happen.
WWE brought the curtain down on NXT UK back in August 2022 with releases following as the company did not hold onto all the talent that had been working on that brand.
The shutdown came as plans were said to be in place to launch a new NXT Europe brand that would encompass the entire continent but two years later, nothing has come to fruition, and it’s looking unlikely that it ever will.
NXT Europe Never Part Of WWE’s Plans?
Speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer explained that he was told at the time NXT UK closed that the European brand was never going to happen but WWE didn’t want to admit they only set up the UK brand to counter the launch of the short-lived World of Sport promotion that featured Will Ospreay and Grado:
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 were 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 [World of Sport]…I always hear we’re doing the European thing but it’s been years now and I’m hearing less now than I heard years ago that they are.
There could be bigger plans afoot for WWE and NXT with conflicting reports suggesting the Performance Center could be on the move to a whole new city.