According to Dana White, there could be a change coming to WWE’s schedule in the near future.
When Endeavor purchased WWE in 2023, it immediately announced that the company would be merging with UFC to form the new TKO Group. The purchase was completed in September 2023, and, as well as working more closely together behind the scenes, the two promotions have been aligning for event planning.
This has seen the promotions running events in the same arenas over the course of weekends. Typically, this would see UFC on Saturdays, with either Raw on Mondays or SmackDown on Fridays.
Now, speaking at the UFC on ESPN: Lewis vs, Nascimento press conference, UFC President White has revealed that changes are coming that will see Power Slap on Friday, UFC on Saturday, and WWE on Sunday.
“We already have those dates set up right now where Power Slap goes Friday and UFC goes Saturday. You’re going to see Friday, Power Slap, Saturday, UFC, and Sunday, WWE. You’ll start seeing that stuff too.”
Currently, the sports entertainment giant only runs non-televised live events on Sundays, with Premium Live Events having moved to Saturdays in recent years, the exception being WrestleMania which now takes place over both days. Whether White is hinting at a change back to Sundays for PLE’s or something different remains to be seen.
NXT BattleGround To Be First WWE Event Held In UFC APEX
In another sign of the two promotions working more closely together, it has been announced that NXT Battleground will take place at UFC APEX in Las Vegas on June 9th. The venue is normally used for smaller UFC Fight Nights which only have around 500 fans in attendance, although in 2022 it applied to increase the capacity to 1,000.
At the time of the announcement, Shawn Michaels noted his excitement at bringing NXT to the venue.
H/T to Fightful for the above transcriptions.