September 23, 2019 Observer Newsletter: NXT debut on USA, Clash of Champions reviewed

NXT debuted on the USA Network on 9/18 as the third straight night of pro wrestling that week on the station.

The first show consisted of two dark matches, a one-hour show on USA followed by another 51 minutes on the WWE Network.

You got a lot of hard work, an emphasis on in-ring and building matches for the future. There was less time for interviews, and much higher quality of wrestling than on Raw or Smackdown. Indeed, if it wasn’t a WWE product, the push of no B.S., had any other company said it, would be taken as a knock on the WWE main brands themselves.

NXT in uncharted water. There was one hour special a few years ago on USA that did 841,000 viewers. This debut was far more heavily promoted, but also comes at a time that WWE itself has run off a substantial percentage of its audience since that show a few years ago. 

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