What To Expect From NXT’s New Year Episode

WWE has announced that next Wednesday’s special episode of WWE NXT on New Year’s Day will have three hosts: Cathy Kelley, Sam Roberts and Pat McAfee. They will be the hosts for the NXT Year-End Awards. The Awards will be taking place on next week’s broadcast of the weekly wrestling show. There will be no live wrestling show for this episode of New Year’s Day.

The show will reveal winners of the NXT Year-End Awards. Fans were asked to cast their votes on the official website and Twitter for the nominees if the awards. Just like last year, this year also has a total of nine categories. The categories and winners of the 2018 NXT Year-End Awards are as follows:

• Male Competitor for the Year: Tommaso Ciampa
• Female Competitor of the Year: Kairi Sane
• Overall Competitor of the Year: Kairi Sane
• Tag Team of the Year: The Undisputed Era (Kyle O’Reilly and Roderick Strong)
• Rivalry of the Year: Johnny Gargano vs. Tommaso Ciampa
• Breakout Star of the Year: Ricochet
• TakeOver of the Year: NXT TakeOver: New Orleans
• Future Star of NXT: Io Shirai
• Match of the Year: Andrade (c) vs. Johnny Gargano for the NXT Championship at NXT TakeOver: Philadelphia

Apart from the awards, WWE will also air replays of the biggest NXT TakeOver matches from this year, which includes the first-ever women’s WarGames match.

The episode will also see the announcement of the names of the NXT 2020 Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic participant tag teams.

The special New Year’s episode will air from 9 pm to 10 pm Eastern Time, January 1, 2020, on the USA Network.

Below is the announcement that WWE made on its Twitter account:

Electric. Magnetic. Nuclear.@PatMcAfeeShow knows what's in store NEXT WEEK in the #NXTYearEndAwards. #WWENXT @catherinekelley @notsam

— WWE NXT (@WWENXT) December 26, 2019

NXT will resume its live episode format from January 8, 2020.