WWE: 10/8 NXT Show in St. Louis Moved to Chesterfield, Missouri, Backstage Update on WWE’s Current Plans for RAW, SmackDown, & NXT Shows Going Forward, More News

Sep 14, 2024

WWE Announces October 8th NXT Show No Longer Taking Place in St. Louis & Moved to Chesterfield,

WWE recently announced that their upcoming NXT show on October 8th will no longer be taking place at the Enterprise Center in St. Louis, Missouri.

It was announced that this upcoming show will now be taking place at the The Factory at The District in Chesterfield, Missouri.

It was also announced that those who had purchased tickets for the St. Louis location can current request for refunds or exchanges.

Official press release:

“The NXT event scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 8 at the Enterprise Center in St. Louis has been relocated to The Factory at The District in Chesterfield, Missouri. Refunds and exchanges are available at all original points of purchase.
Tickets for the NXT event at The Factory at The District will go on sale next Wednesday, September 18 at 12 PM CT via Ticketmaster.”

Backstage Update on WWE’s Current Plans for RAW, SmackDown, & NXT Shows Going Forward

Fightful Select reported that their sources provided some details regarding WWE’s current plans for their RAW, SmackDown, and NXT shows going forward.

In regards to overruns for shows, it was reported that WWE will have more flexibility for overruns for their SmackDown shows while NXT shows will have less and possibly none at all once it moves to The CW.

In regards to NXT’s upcoming premiere show on The CW, it was reported that WWE officials currently want to make a huge first impression for their NXT premiere show on The CW on October 1st. WWE officials reportedly want to keep an upward trend in viewership for NXT shows on The CW.

In regards to the location for weekly NXT shows, it was reported that those spoken to stated that the WWE Performance Center is still expected to be the regular location for NXT shows following their initial CW debut shows in Chicago and St. Louis. This report was released prior to WWE’s announcement of their October 8th show in St. Louis being moved to Chesterfield, Missouri instead.

It was reported that those spoken to confirmed that RAW shows will not be commercial free when it premieres on Netflix in January of 2025. Those same sources also confirmed that RAW will be returning to a three-hour format on Netflix.

WWE News & Notes

Friday’s WWE SmackDown season premiere show in Seattle, Washington featured WWE Hall of Famers Booker T, Michael Hayes, Ron Simmons, and Teddy Long and former WWE talents Rob Van Dam, Vickie Guerrero, and Sharmell in attendance as special guests among the crowd. WWE officials William Regal and Robert Roode and RAW brand talents Gunther, Ludwig Kaiser, Sheamus, and Damian Priest were also shown in the crowd.

Friday’s WWE SmackDown season premiere show in Seattle also featured the Wyatt Sicks logo being shown in the background during a backstage segment involving interviewer Cathy Kelly and SmackDown GM Nick Aldis. The same logo was seen later in the show during a backstage interview segment involving Bianca Belair and Jade Cargill.

USA Network recently announced that replays for WWE SmackDown shows will be available on Peacock thirty days after its initial airing on their network.

As noted before, former TNA Wrestling talents The Motor City Machine Guns, Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin, recently signed official contracts with WWE. PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that WWE officials current plans are for the Motor City Machine Guns to make their official NXT debut on the October 1st NXT debut show on The CW in Chicago, Illinois.

Former WWE talent and ECW brand General Manager Armando Alejandro Estrada reportedly recently signed a WWE Legends contract, according to PWInsider.

As noted before, Raquel Rodriguez has been absent from WWE since this past February due to Mast cell activation syndrome health issues. In a recent Q&A article, PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that WWE officials are currently working on a new storyline direction for Raquel for their RAW brand once she makes her return from her health issues.

WWE recently released a behind-the-scenes video on Twitter featuring the production of Cody Rhodes’ pyro for WWE shows and revealed that Rhodes has his own dedicated pyro button.

In a recent AMA session on Reddit, Drew McIntyre gave his top five choices for dream match opponents who are currently outside of WWE. McIntyre stated “(Will) Ospreay, (Kazuchika) Okada, Joe Hendry, (Tetsuya) Naito, (Tomohiro) Ishii.“

In a recent interview with AcesOdds, Wade Barrett gave his thoughts about his interest in potentially wrestling one more match and Drew McIntyre being his opponent for a potential final match. Barrett stated “100%. Anytime I get asked this question, if I could have one match for the remainder of my days on this planet and you’re allowed one more match, who would it be? It would absolutely be me against Drew McIntyre at Wembley Stadium. A sold-out Wembley Stadium, I think that is the pinnacle for British wrestling, especially if you’re fans of the era back when Davey Boy and Bret Hart competed in 92 at that SummerSlam. If they dangled that in front of me at any point in time, yeah, absolutely. I’m coming back and I’m having that sold-out match at Wembley Stadium. But that is a bit of a pipe dream. It’s not something I’m actively pursuing or trying to pursue. I’m fit and healthy, if something came up where they say, ‘Okay, there’s a match here, would you be interested in doing it?’ If it makes sense to me and I was excited to do it, absolutely, I could. The other thing I would say though, is I look at the kind of schedule that Cody Rhodes has, for example, it’s a killer at this point in time for me. I’m 43 years old, not too far from 44. The prospect of physically grinding that kind of schedule month after month after month as a full-time guy, it’s not for me at this point in time. I’ve kind of mentally moved on from that.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

In a recent virtual fan signing event for K&S WrestleFest, WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle stated that he would be interested the idea of managing the American Made stable. Angle stated “If the money was right (I would come back to manage a faction)… The spot (matters too), yeah, definitely. I think Chad (Gable) and his gang that he has right now, that would be a great idea. I wouldn’t mind doing a spot here and there. But, if you’re gonna ask me to do a wrestling match, it’s just not gonna happen. Yeah, I could take some bumps.” Angle also gave his thoughts about not being interested in working as a coach for WWE due to him not wanting to be away from his family for long periods of time. Angle stated ” Um, no (I wouldn’t consider becoming a trainer for NXT). You know what? I love my life right now. Being retired, spending time with my family. I missed a lot of that when I was in the business and I like where I am in my life right now. I’m working with USA Wrestling right now as the Chairman to raise funds for the wrestlers so they don’t have to work while they’re training for the Olympics… Look at athletes in Russia and China. They’re Olympic athletes. The government pays them to be athletes. They pay them to train and compete. Here in the United States, we don’t have that luxury. So we need to fundraise for our athletes, or they have to get jobs and they have to work their training schedule around their job and if you’re doing that, you’re not gonna be at your full ability. There’s just no way. So, we’re raising funds for the athletes so that we can fund them, so they can worry — just strictly focus on training and competition.” (Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com)

WWE announced two new matches for the card of next week’s WWE SmackDown show on September 20th in Sacremento, California: