WWE NXT has now confirmed the next TakeOver special which emanates on Valentine’s Day. It was announced during this week’s NXT New Year’s Evil special that the next NXT TakeOver event will go down Sunday, February 14 of this year. ‘Love is on the air, and so will be the pain’ is the catchphrase being promoted for the upcoming show.
The Valentine’s Day WWE NXT TakeOver special will take place at the Capitol Wrestling Center at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida, airing live on the WWE Network. No particular title to the event has been given while no matches have been planned for the event. But it’s clear that WWE’s third brand will continue the trend of hosting separate PPV nights irrespective of the main roster.
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Love is in the air… and so is pain. ❤️#NXTTakeOver streams LIVE on Sunday, February 14 at 7ET/4PT on @WWENetwork! #NXTNYE pic.twitter.com/MRrhqIZnaj
— WWE NXT (@WWENXT) January 7, 2021
WWE NXT Confirms 2021 Dusty Classic Participants
Seven more teams have been revealed for the 2021 WWE NXT Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic tournament. It was announced last week that Adam Cole and Roderick Strong represent The Undisputed Era as the first tag team of the series. Afterward, a new team was added to the equation completing the eight teams of the card. Below is the full line-up of tag teams after this week’s announcements during New Year’s Evil:
* The Grizzled Young Veterans (James Drake and Zack Gibson)
* Ever-Rise (Chase Parker, Matt Martel)
* The Undisputed Era (Adam Cole, Roderick Strong)
* Breezango (Fandango, Tyler Breeze)
* Legado del Fantasma (Joaquin Wilde, Raul Mendoza)
* Imperium (Marcel Barthel, Fabian Aichner)
* Drake Maverick and Killian Dain
* Curt Stallion and August Grey
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The #DustyCup begins NEXT WEEK with #UndisputedERA's @AdamColePro & @roderickstrong vs. #Breezango @WWEFandango & @MmmGorgeous AND #EverRise's @ChaseParkerWWE & @MattMartelWWE vs. GYV's @ZackGibson01 & @JamesDrake_GYT! #NXTNYE pic.twitter.com/6aNWNrZB4F
— WWE NXT (@WWENXT) January 7, 2021
The first round of the Dusty Tag Team Classic will begin with the next episode of WWE NXT as The Undisputed Era takes on Breezango. The show will feature The Grizzled Young Vets vs. Ever-Rise in another first-round match. The first two Dusty Classic tournaments featured 16 tag teams, while the rest went down with 8 tag teams. The same will tradition will be followed with this year’s tournament.
On a related note, WWE NXT General Manager William Regal appeared in a backstage segment during New Year’s Evil episode to announce that the Women’s Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic tournament is set to take place soon. No other details on the same were disclosed.
Named after the late WWE Hall of Famer Dusty Rhodes, the inaugural Dusty Tag Classic tournament was held in 2015 where Samoa Joe and current NXT Champion Finn Balor winning it. The Authors of Pain won in 2016, The Undisputed Era (Adam Cole, Kyle O’Reilly) won in 2018, Ricochet and Aleister Black won in 2019, while the 2020 edition was won by The BroserWeights (Riddle and Pete Dunne).
