By: John Pollock & Brandon Thurston
NXT will be heading to Fort Lauderdale for a premium live event in September, POST Wrestling can confirm.
The brand is set to hold its No Mercy event on Saturday, September 27, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, although it has yet to be announced by WWE, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment
It marks the first NXT show since April, which will not be airing head-to-head with an AEW pay-per-view. NXT Battleground in May, Great American Bash in July, and Heatwave this Sunday have been positioned directly against their competitors’ pay-per-views.
The NXT PLE is expected to air live on Peacock in the U.S. and on Netflix internationally. While WWE has struck a seven-year deal with ESPN for the domestic rights to its premium live events, NXT events were not listed as part of that deal, which goes into effect on September 20 with the announcement of Wrestlepalooza on the ESPN streaming service.
No Mercy began as a U.K. only event in May 1999 and became WWE’s annual pay-per-view in October from 1999 until 2008. It was resurrected as a pay-per-view in 2016 & 2017 and was dormant until being repurposed as an NXT event in 2023.
