WWE NXT Reportedly Set to Go Head-to-Head With AEW Blood & Guts 2026

AEW Blood & Guts could reportedly go head-to-head with WWE NXT on Wednesday, November 4.

With the US midterm elections scheduled for Tuesday, November 3, The CW is looking to move that week’s NXT episode to Wednesday, Dave Meltzer reported on the post-Dynamite edition of Wrestling Observer Radio (WOR).

Here’s what Meltzer wrote [quotes via F4WOnline]:

“I don’t know this 100%. I was told by people who know that CW wants to move NXT to that Wednesday. It probably will be moved because if it’s on Tuesday, it’ll be preempted on far too many stations. That’s the night of Blood and Guts. AEW has the two Blood and Guts matches they set up tonight that are going to be pretty wild. I don’t know that AEW knows any of this right now, but obviously they will in five minutes. NXT is going to have to shoot a big angle on Halloween Havoc because it’s a tough situation.

“WWE will actually have three shows going against Blood and Guts. They’re going to have NXT, which isn’t 100% but is probable, the Evolve show, and the Main Event show, all at the same time. They’re competing with themselves on three levels, and they’re competing with one of AEW’s signature shows of the year on their own night.”

AEW Blood & Guts will take place at the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida. Meanwhile, the first episode of NXT in November will address the fallout from Halloween Havoc, which is set for October 31.

This will be the first time since 2021 that the two shows will go head-to-head on Wednesdays. The two shows notably went head-to-head when AEW presented Grand Slam: France on Tuesday, October 6.