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IT'S WRESTLEMANIA WEEK, COMPLETE BREAKDOWN OF WHAT MAY BE BUSIEST WWE BROADCAST WEEK EVER

By Mike Johnson on 2021-04-05 09:30:00

It's Wrestlemania 37 week and as you imagine, there will be a TON of content produced by World Wrestling Entertainment as they kick off, for the first time ever, nine straight days of original broadcasts with tonight's Raw.

WWE Network and Peacock will be releasing Best of Wrestlemania collections all week based around the Best of the 1990s, the 2000s and 2010s as well as the best of Wrestlemania main events, with the '90s collection debuting today.

Tuesday morning, the WWE Network and Peacock will debut Prime Target: Cole vs. O’Reilly and Making WWE: Jason Robinson.

Tomorrow at 8 PM EST, WWE will present the Hall of Fame ceremony on Peacock with  The NWO (Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, Sean Waltman and Scott Hall), The Bella Twins, Eric Bischoff, The British Bulldog Davey Boy Smith, The Great Khali, Molly Holly, JBL, Kane, Jushin 'Thunder' Liger, Rob Van Dam and Celebrity Inductee William  Shatner being honored.

Wednesday morning, WWE's The Bump will feature Triple H, Shawn Michaels, Raquel Gonzalez, Adam Cole, LA Knight , Izzy, Scarlett and Karrion Kross scheduled to appear.

Wednesday and Thursday night will be the first-ever two-day NXT Takeover: Stand and Deliver broadcast.  There will be Kickoff Shows at 7 PM EST led by Sam Roberts and Mickie James with the official broadcasts at 8 PM EST.  Night One will air on the USA Network as well as commercial free on Peacock (the final head to head broadcast with AEW Dynamite), featuring:

*WWE NXT Women's Champion Io Shirai vs. Raquel Gonzalez.

*MSK vs. Grizzled Young Veterans vs. Legado del Fantasma to crown new WWE NXT Tag Team Champions.

*WWE NXT UK Champion WALTER vs. Tommaso Ciampa.

*Gauntlet Eliminator  - Winner Earns NXT North American Championship match the next evening - Isaiah Scott vs. Leon Ruff vs. Bronson Reed vs. Cameron Grimes vs. Dexter Lumis vs. LA Knight (listed in entrance order)

*Pete Dunne vs. KUSHIDA.

Night Two will air on Peacock, the USA Network and as a traditional PPV, featuring:

*WWE NXT Champion Finnn Balor vs. Karrion Kross with Scarlett.

*WWE NXT Cruiserweight Champion Santos Escobar vs. NXT UK Cruiserweight Champion Jordan Devlin - Ladder Match to unify titles.

*WWE NXT North American Champion Johnny Gargano vs. Gauntlet Eliminator Winner.

*WWE NXT Women's Tag Team Champions Ember Moon & Shotzi Blackheart vs. Candice LaRae & Indi Hartwell.

*Unsanctioned Match: Adam Cole vs. Kyle O'Reilly.

Thursday afternoon at 3 PM EST on Peacock and the WWE Network will be the first-ever NXT UK Prelude, featuring:

*NXT UK Champion WALTER vs. Rampage Brown.

*Noam Dar vs. Tyler Bate to become the number one contender to the NXT UK Heritage Cup Championship.

*Meiko Satomura and Millie McKenzie vs. WWE NXT UK Women's Champion Kay Lee Ray and Isla Dawn.

*A-Kid and Jordan Devlin to appear.

*An update on Ilja Dragunov.

This Friday will be the first-ever "Wrestlemania edition" of Friday Night Smackdown on FOX, the go home show for Wrestlemania 37, featuring:

*WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns, Daniel Bryan and Edge to appear.

*The 2021 Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal.  Competing in the Battle Royal are Cedric Alexander, Mustafa Ali, Shelton Benjamin, Humberto Carrillo, King Corbin, Lince Dorado, Angel Garza, Drew Gulak, Elias, Erik of the Viking Raiders, Kalisto, Mace, Gran Metalik, Buddy Murphy, Shinsuke Nakamura, Ricochet, Jaxon Ryker, Slapjack, Akira Tozawa, T-Bar, Tucker and Jey Uso.

*WWE Smackdown Tag Team Champions Robert Roode & Dolph Ziggler vs. The Street Profits vs Rey & Dominik Mysterio vs. Otis & Chad Gable.

There will also be a new episode of 205 Live this Friday.

Leading into Wrestlemania this weekend, there will be special editions of WWE's The Bump on Saturday 4/10 and Sunday 4/11 at 1 PM EST previewing the show of shows. 

Saturday morning, the WWE Network and Peacock will debut WWE Chronicle: Edge.

Of course, those evenings are Wrestlemania 37, which will air on Peacock, the WWE Network (internationally) and traditional PPV.  The Kickoff will be 7 PM EST and we are told the plans are to have a three hour broadcast each night. 

After Wrestlemania 37 goes off the air, Steve Austin's latest Broken Skull Sessions episode will debut with AEW's Chris Jericho as the guest, an announcement that caught a lot of people by surprise when it was unveiled last week.

After ALL THAT, there is no rest for the wicked as Wrestlemania will be followed by Monday Night Raw next week and WWE NXT's Tuesday night premiere on Tuesday 4/13.

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