NXT Halloween Havoc (2024)

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NXT Halloween Havoc
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Promotional poster featuring Ethan Page, Trick Williams, Roxanne Perez, Oba Femi, and Kelani Jordan
Promotion WWE
Brand(s) NXT
DateOctober 27, 2024
City Hershey, Pennsylvania
Venue Giant Center
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The 2024 NXT Halloween Havoc is an upcoming professional wrestling event produced by WWE. It will be the fifth annual Halloween Havoc held for the promotion's developmental brand NXT, and the 17th Halloween Havoc event overall. It will take place on Sunday, October 27, 2024, at the Giant Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

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Production

Background

Halloween Havoc is a professional wrestling event currently produced by WWE. As the name implies, it is a Halloween-themed show held in October. It was originally produced as an annual pay-per-view (PPV) by World Championship Wrestling (WCW) from 1989 until 2000 as WWE purchased WCW in 2001. The 2000 event was the final Halloween Havoc until WWE revived the show as an annual event for their developmental brand NXT in 2020. [1] The 2020, 2021, and 2023 events were held as television specials of the NXT program on the USA Network, but for 2022, it was held as a livestreaming event. [2]

On July 15, 2024, it was announced that NXT Halloween Havoc would return as a livestreaming event. The fifth annual NXT Halloween Havoc, and 17th Halloween Havoc overall, is scheduled to take place on October 27, 2024 at Giant Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania. [3] [4] This would mark the first time that NXT Halloween Havoc would take place outside the WWE Performance Center.

Storylines

The event will comprise matches that resulted 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 . [5] [6]

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