[VIDEO] The star of the latest NXT TakeOver was the Capitol Wrestling Center which is located at WWE's Performance Center in Orlando, Florida. I did some cursory research on this as I watched last nite's event on the WWE Network.
Before the broadcast commenced there was some archived footage of 1950s wrestling especially what was produced by the preceding companies of WWE. Capitol Wrestling Center is in fact named for the predecessor company of WWE the Capitol Wrestling Corporation utilizing the graphics that was that company's logo.
We see references to Vince K. McMahon's father Vince J. McMahon. A letter written on Capitol Wrestling Corporation letterhead. We see a reference to *gasp* professional wrestling - and allow me to state NXT is really the property of Triple H who is the husband to Vince McMahon's daughter Stephanie however WWE is Vince's company and he wants his product to be not pro-wrestling but sports entertainment.
Either way, I'm sort of glad of the set up they created at the Performance Center. Once the pandemic was in full force WWE was forced to take it's programming out of the arenas onto a WWE owned property. WWE isn't generally known for that, but as we know this is new territory.
At first there were no spectators. As you recall there was no audience for WrestleMania this year. Eventually as an audience you would have trainees at the Performance Center - well the PC is actually a wrestling school after all - sometimes fans however coronavirus reared it's ugly face there. From the PC the WWE moved to the Amway Center in Orland where LCD screens represents fans showing their faces and sometimes weird pictures occasionally of other wrestlers to enhance the arena look which was missing for the last few months.
And now we have NXT's answer, the Capitol Wrestling Center. As I understand it Full Sail University where NXT normally broadcasts their weekly programs were skiddish about allowing fans on their campus. WWE moved TakeOver to the PC and it appears the CWC will be the home for NXT from this point forward.
As per usual, here's hoping the world begins to return to normal and fans can attend wrestling shows in the near future. I still can't wait to go to my first WrestleMania...
Oh, I almost forgot! Perhaps in anticipation of this move WWE began renovations of the Performance Center to created the Capitol Wrestling venue for NXT. I do wonder if this is the same closed set that WWE Raw & SmackDown and PPV were filmed at least before those renovations. I look forward to see more of this venue in the future on NXT.
