NXT Battleground (2025)

Battleground
Promotion	WWE
Brand(s)	NXT
Date	May 25, 2025
City	Tampa, Florida
Venue	Yuengling Center
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The 2025 Battleground is an upcoming professional wrestling event produced by WWE. It will be the third annual Battleground held for the promotion's developmental brand NXT, and the eighth Battleground overall. The event will take place on Sunday, May 25, 2025, at the Yuengling Center in Tampa, Florida, and will air via WWE's livestreaming platforms including Peacock in the United States and Netflix, marking the first Battleground to air on Netflix internationally.

Production

Background

The event will be held at the Yuengling Center in Tampa, Florida.

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, ^[1] but then moved to July from 2014 to 2017, after which, it was discontinued. ^[2] Since its revival in 2023, the event has been held for WWE's developmental brand, NXT. On March 7, 2025, NXT's third Battleground event, and eighth overall, was announced to be held on Sunday, May 25, 2025, at the Yuengling Center in Tampa, Florida. ^[3] In addition to Peacock in the United States, the event will also be available to livestream on Netflix in most international markets and the WWE Network in any remaining countries that have not yet transferred to Netflix due to pre-existing contracts. This marks the first Battleground to livestream on Netflix following the WWE Network's merger under the service in January 2025 in those areas. ^[4] Beginning with Halloween Havoc in 2024, all major NXT events are branded solely with the WWE logo instead of the NXT logo, marking the first Battleground since 2017 to just use the promotion's logo. Tickets will go on sale on March 14 via Ticketmaster. ^[3]

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 , ^{[5] [6]} as well as Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's (TNA) weekly television program, Impact! , following WWE and TNA signing a multi-year partnership in January 2025. ^{[7] [8]}

References

1. Salgado, Sebastian (July 30, 2013). "WWE officially announces the Battleground PPV". Super Luchas . Archived from the original on November 24, 2021. Retrieved November 24, 2021.
2. Sapp, Sean Ross (February 17, 2018). "WWE Eliminates Single-Branded PPV Shows, Shuffles PPV Schedule". Fightful. Archived from the original on May 18, 2021. Retrieved February 17, 2018.
3. Currier, Joseph (March 7, 2025). "WWE reveals location for next Saturday Night's Main Event, John Cena to appear". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online . Archived from the original on March 7, 2025. Retrieved March 7, 2025.
4. Gibbons, Aidan (January 25, 2024). "WWE Network to be shut down by the end of 2024". Cultaholic. Archived from the original on January 25, 2024. Retrieved January 25, 2024.
5. Grabianowski, Ed (January 13, 2006). "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks. Discovery Communications. Archived from the original on November 29, 2013. Retrieved March 5, 2012.
6. "Live & Televised Entertainment". WWE . Archived from the original on February 18, 2009. Retrieved March 21, 2012.
7. "WWE & TNA Wrestling announce multi-year partnership". WWE. January 16, 2025.
8. "WWE & TNA Wrestling announce multi-year partnership". TNA. January 16, 2025.

External links

• WWE NXT official website