NXT Battleground 2023 is the next premium live event waiting under WWE’s third brand, later this month. The same weekend will also see WWE going back to Saudi Arabia for another spectacular event to celebrate a Night of Champions. Meanwhile, on that same weekend, a brand new NXT Women’s Champion will also be declared.
The announcement of crowning a new champion at NXT Battleground 2023 came during the main event segment of this week’s NXT. Indi Hartwell came to the ring in the final session of the show to inform the fans of her new beginning on the main roster which is a bittersweet ending for her as she’s dealing with an injury.
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Hartwell picked up the injury during her title defense against Tiffany Stratton and Roxanne Perez last week in a triple-threat match. Tiffany flew off the top rope and landed on her awkwardly causing the injury. However, she was able to come back and rejoin the match to successfully defend the title.
Women’s Title vacated before NXT Battleground 2023 PLE
However, the will of continuing with the reign had to be ended after her call-up was received from the main roster. She eventually closed the show with a piece of major news to crown a new champion at NXT Battleground 2023 as she has officially relinquished the title. Hartwell will now head to Raw next Monday night without her NXT Women’s Championship. There’s no update on whether this injury will cost her some time off television.
Now that the title is in a vacated state, a tournament will begin next week to begin the process of crowning a new NXT Women’s Champion. The finals of this tourney have been announced to culminate at NXT Battleground, later this month. The competitors in the tournament are yet to be revealed, but the announcement of this tournament forced the NXT women’s locker room members to come out and share a brawl over the title after Hartwell left the ring.
NXT Battleground 2023 Premium Live Event will take place at the Tsongas Center in Lowell, Massachusetts on Sunday, May 28, the same date as AEW’s Double or Nothing pay-per-view. Officially, no matchup for the WWE PLE has been confirmed but Bron Breakker vs. Carmelo Hayes (c) over the NXT Title is in the pipeline to be announced.
