NXT Battleground (2024)

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Promotion WWE
Brand(s) NXT
DateJune 9, 2024
City Enterprise, Nevada
Venue UFC Apex
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The 2024 NXT Battleground (marketed as NXT Battleground: Las Vegas), is an upcoming professional wrestling event produced by WWE. It will be the second annual Battleground held for the promotion's developmental brand NXT, and the seventh Battleground overall. In partnership with Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), WWE's sister company under TKO Group Holdings, the event will take place on June 9, 2024, at the UFC Apex in the Las Vegas community of Enterprise, Nevada. It will be WWE's first event held at the venue and will air via the company's livestreaming platforms.

Contents

Production

Background

Battleground was previously an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event established by WWE in 2013. The inaugural 2013 event was held in October, but then moved to July from 2014 to 2017. [1] [2] Battleground was then discontinued after the 2017 event as WWE ceased producing brand-exclusive PPVs for the main roster brands, Raw and SmackDown, resulting in less PPV events held per year. [3] However, in May 2023, the company revived the event for its developmental brand, NXT, which aired via WWE's livestreaming platforms. [4]

On January 26, 2024, WWE announced a second NXT Battleground, and seventh Battleground overall, thus establishing it as an annual livestreaming event for NXT. The event was originally scheduled for Memorial Day weekend on May 26 at the Enmarket Arena in Savannah, Georgia. [5] However, on April 22, 2024, the company announced that in partnership with Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), WWE's sister company under TKO Group Holdings, the event would instead be held at the UFC Apex in the Las Vegas community of Enterprise, Nevada on June 9, with the event also promoted as NXT Battleground: Las Vegas. [6]

Storylines

The event will include matches that result from scripted storylines. Results are predetermined by WWE's writers on the NXT brand, while storylines are produced on WWE's weekly television program, NXT , and the supplementary online streaming show, Level Up . [7] [8]

At Stand & Deliver on April 6, NXT General Manager Ava announced a new championship title in NXT called the NXT Women's North American Championship. The title will be the equivalent to the men's counterpart title, marking it the first women's secondary championship in WWE. [9] At Week 2 of Spring Breakin', Ava announced that the inaugural champion will be crowned at Battleground in a six-woman ladder match, with the participants determined through qualifying matches and the participants in those qualifiers would come from the results of a NXT Women's Combine. [10] The combine evaluated the athletes' speed, power, strength, and conditioning with the top 12 moving on to the qualifiers. The top 12 from the combine in order were Sol Ruca, Chase University's Thea Hail, OTM's Jaida Parker, Brinley Reece, The O.C.'s Michin (from SmackDown), Fallon Henley, The Meta-Four's Lash Legend, Diamond Mine's Ivy Nile (from Raw), Izzi Dame, Kelani Jordan, Tatum Paxley, and Wren Sinclair. [11] The first two qualifying matches took place on the May 15 episode of NXT, where Ruca and Legend defeated Dame and Nile, respectively. The next qualifiers will take place on the May 21 episode, with Henley facing Hail and Reece facing Parker. [12]

At Stand & Deliver on April 6, Oba Femi retained the NXT North American Championship in a triple threat match also involving Josh Briggs. [9] On the following episode of NXT, when Femi celebrated his successful title defense, he was interrupted by Raw's Ivar, who wanted a title match. Femi accepted, and the match took place on Night 2 of Spring Breakin', where Femi retained the title. After the match, Wes Lee, who had been sidelined with a back injury since December 2023, made his return and stared down Femi. [10] On the May 14 episode, Lee, Ivar, and Briggs argued over who should get a title match. Femi decided to let the three fight amongst themselves, and a triple threat match between Lee, Ivar, and Briggs was scheduled for the following week, where the winner would face Femi for his title at NXT Battleground. Later that same night, Gallus (Joe Coffey, Mark Coffey, and Wolfgang) made their return attacking the three competitors. Ivar ended up injured and out of action for an indefinite period of time. [12]

Matches

No.Matches*Stipulations
1 Sol Ruca vs. Lash Legend vs. Jaida Parker vs. Fallon Henley vs. 2 TBD Ladder match for the inaugural NXT Women's North American Championship [13]
2 Oba Femi (c) vs. Joe Coffey vs. Wes Lee Triple threat match for the NXT North American Championship [14]
3 Shayna Baszler vs. Lola Vice NXT Underground match [14]
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match
*Card subject to change

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