WWE's NXT brand will bring 'Vengeance Day' to Middle Tennessee in 2024

Marcus K. Dowling, Nashville Tennessean

World Wrestling Entertainment is coming to Clarksville, Tennessee, in 2024.

The brand's almost two-decade-old and weekly-broadcasted NXT developmental brand will host their NBCUniversal Peacock-portal streamed "Vengeance Day" premium live event (PLE) from Middle Tennessee's newly-opened, 6,000-seat F&M Bank Arena on Feb. 4, 2024.

WWE NXT's Ilja Dragunov will appear with the rest of the global company's developmental brand in Clarksville, Tennessee on Feb. 4, 2024
WWE NXT's Ilja Dragunov will appear with the rest of the global company's developmental brand in Clarksville, Tennessee on Feb. 4, 2024

Tickets for WWE's first-ever NXT premium live event in Tennessee go on sale Dec. 8 at 10 a.m. CT via http://www.ticketmaster.com. Exclusive pre-sale opportunities are available now on the website.

Roughly 100 professional wrestlers from around the world with varying levels of expertise train at WWE's Orlando, Florida and London, England-based Performance Centers and appear on a weekly, Orlando-based program that airs live on Tuesday evenings at 8 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. CT on the USA Network.

WWE will host six NXT premium brand events in 2023 compared to 11 monthly, co-branded PLEs for their Raw and Smackdown brands.

NXT performers, including the brand's Champion llja Dragunov, NXT Women's Champion Lyra Valkyria, NXT Tag Team Champions Tony D'Angelo and Channing "Stacks" Lorenzo, Carmelo Hayes, Trick Williams, Roxanne Perez, Tiffany Stratton and more are scheduled to appear at "Vengeance Day."

In the past decade, WWE has held four major events and numerous editions of its Raw and Smackdown weekly television programs in longtime American regional wrestling stronghold Memphis and Nashville. July 2022 saw its SummerSlam event held at Music City's Nissan Stadium.

WrestleMania could be headed to Nashville as a tentpost event for the new Nissan Stadium, which is tentatively scheduled to open in Feb. 2027.

In Nov. 2022, Butch Spyridon, then CEO of the Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp., noted he had spoken in the past with World Wrestling Entertainment about hosting WrestleMania. When Mayor John Cooper and the Tennessee Titans delivered the draft terms for the enclosed proposed stadium to the Nashville Council in October 2022, tSpyridon received a verbal commitment from WWE to host the 2027 WrestleMania once the stadium was built.

WWE NXT's Tiffany Stratton delivers a diving senton splash to multiple-time WWE women's champion Becky Lynch
WWE NXT's Tiffany Stratton delivers a diving senton splash to multiple-time WWE women's champion Becky Lynch

It is estimated that WrestleMania would have an estimated economic impact of $206.5 million on Nashville.

Overall, WWE is now owned by TKO Group Holdings, a conglomerate combining WWE with the Ultimate Fighting Championships. A press release highlights that the company currently creates and delivers original content 52 weeks a year to an estimated global audience of over one billion homes, including premium live events, digital media, and published materials.

The company's distribution partners include NBCUniversal, FOX Sports, TNT Sport, Sony India and Rogers. The streamable WWE Network catalogs all premium live events, scheduled programming and a historical video-on-demand library and is currently available in approximately 165 countries.

This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: WWE's NXT brand will bring 'Vengeance Day' to Middle Tennessee in 2024

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