NXT UK Takeover: Dublin - Show finally cancelled

SureYWouldntYa · 04-03-2020 11:17am

Have we seen this sort of setup on tv before? Just wondering how it will look with the ring at the top of the arena rather than the middle like usual

PTH2009 · 04-03-2020 6:56pm

SureYWouldntYa wrote: »

Have we seen this sort of setup on tv before? Just wondering how it will look with the ring at the top of the arena rather than the middle like usual

Its going to be interesting but feel the seating chart maybe wrong and the hard cam maybe be at the back of seating area B or D. Gorilla could be there or in a room backstage. You will be surprised how well the arena will look with the way wwe will configure there cameras. If they can make the royal Albert hall and Emrpess ballroom work than a modernish Arena like the 3arena will work

The hydro is Glasgow is of a similar shape to the 3arena and it looked amazing for the TV tapings a few years back.

PTH2009 · 05-03-2020 5:29pm

selling well it seems, low availabilty on the TM page atm

sadly i think

Walter vs Finn

will be at tampa takeover instead of here

bennyl10 · 05-03-2020 5:45pm

PTH2009 wrote: »

selling well it seems, low availabilty on the TM page atm

sadly i think
Walter vs Finn
will be at tampa takeover instead of here

Wouldnt shock me if it was both, some kind of interference at Tampa

PTH2009 · 05-03-2020 6:28pm

bennyl10 wrote: »

Wouldnt shock me if it was both, some kind of interference at Tampa

A new balor club vs all of Imperium in Dublin

Is this weeks episode that aired the last of the Jan's York tapings and next weeks is the first of this weekends Coventry tapings ?

bennyl10 · 05-03-2020 6:48pm

PTH2009 wrote: »

A new balor club vs all of Imperium in Dublin

Is this weeks episode that aired the last of the Jan's York tapings and next weeks is the first of this weekends Coventry tapings ?

Yup. We’ll start getting build next week

PTH2009 · 05-03-2020 7:03pm

bennyl10 wrote: »

Yup. We’ll start getting build next week

Deadly its actually a decent brand

Is it better for us just getting the takeover event or are we missing out somehow not getting TV tapings after it ?

showpony1 · 06-03-2020 12:23pm

PTH2009 wrote: »

Deadly its actually a decent brand

incredible what announcing a Dublin show does to opinions.

LineOfBeauty · 06-03-2020 12:27pm

It's kinda like NXT proper on downers. It's good, there's usually some good wrestling, everything is pretty functional and makes sense, it's just all pretty slow, a bit lifeless and dull. I'm going to the Takeover, I'm looking forward to it, but you'll have a tough job convincing people to watch what is essentially a soulless ripoff of a once thriving UK scene.

bennyl10 · 06-03-2020 2:19pm

Looks like they’ll put a ban on events of 5000 or more.
This should be fine

Lord TSC · 06-03-2020 4:03pm

bennyl10 wrote: »

Looks like they’ll put a ban on events of 5000 or more.
This should be fine

I'd say this would fall foul of numbers.

I would personally hope/believe the ban won't last till the end of April though.

bennyl10 · 06-03-2020 4:07pm

Lord TSC wrote: »

I'd say this would fall foul of numbers.

I would personally hope/believe the ban won't last till the end of April though.

With just the lower tier open would it be 5000?

You’d hope we’d be fine by April tho yes!

PTH2009 · 06-03-2020 4:31pm

It's all a big pain in the whole this virus stuff

https://3arena.ie/new-page/important-customer-information

Wompa1 · 06-03-2020 5:12pm

noisenotmusic wrote: »

Kinda looks like this for taped MMA

That's how it was for the TNA show and WWA back in the day too. I think that's how it was setup for at least one of the WWE shows I went to years ago.

SteM · 06-03-2020 6:06pm

bennyl10 wrote: »

Looks like they’ll put a ban on events of 5000 or more.
This should be fine

Has this been confirmed or are you speculating?

bennyl10 · 06-03-2020 7:31pm

SteM wrote: »

Has this been confirmed or are you speculating?

Was in the indo and times today. Seemed to be planned but not fully announced .

bennyl10 · 07-03-2020 6:07pm

Face off between

Tyler Bate and Finn

last night at the first night Coventry taping.

That could be our match; which would be a stormer!

SureYWouldntYa · 07-03-2020 6:36pm

bennyl10 wrote: »

That could be our match; which would be a stormer!

They came together backstage at Worlds Collide earlier this year, so makes sense

The White Wolf · 07-03-2020 8:20pm

bennyl10 wrote: »

Face off between
Tyler Bate and Finn
last night at the first night Coventry taping.

That could be our match; which would be a stormer!

I would hope to jaysus Finn goes over, they're finally doing him justice so way too early for him to be jobbing to the upstart jigolo of the company.

bennyl10 · 08-03-2020 10:53am

Ilja Dragunov won a NxT uk championship no1 contender match. So looks like he’ll take on winner of Walter/Finn depending on Tampa (which could well happen there)

showpony1 · 09-03-2020 1:44am

bennyl10 wrote: »

Ilja Dragunov won a NxT uk championship no1 contender match. So looks like he’ll take on winner of Walter/Finn depending on Tampa (which could well happen there)

I had originally thought before all the Walter/Balor stuff that we'd get Devlin vs Walter & Finn Balor vs Tyler Bate as our main events.

They must not see Devlin in that role and may give Balor the big home coming and Devlin beat someone in a strong showing for cruiser weight title.

bennyl10 · 09-03-2020 9:55am

showpony1 wrote: »

I had originally thought before all the Walter/Balor stuff that we'd get Devlin vs Walter & Finn Balor vs Tyler Bate as our main events.

They must not see Devlin in that role and may give Balor the big home coming and Devlin beat someone in a strong showing for cruiser weight title.

So did I, but Ilja deserves this shot. Wouldnt shock me in Walter lost to Finn at Tampa, then we get Ilja Balor, Walter/Tyler against Devlin

PTH2009 · 09-03-2020 5:00pm

All the matches for Dublin will prob be announced on social media if they already taped TV episodes

PTH2009 · 10-03-2020 7:46pm

Just under 6 weeks til this and the biggest battle of all the world vs Coronavirus could stand in the way

SureYWouldntYa · 10-03-2020 9:36pm

I'm just imagining Ticketmaster keeping the charges if there's a refund, can't imagine we get the full amount back

the deftone · 10-03-2020 11:01pm

This is now looking very unlikely to go ahead. We will know on Friday.

bennyl10 · 10-03-2020 11:26pm

the deftone wrote: »

This is now looking very unlikely to go ahead. We will know on Friday.

Nothing postponed that far out anywhere yet

Start of April seems to be what most countries have planned until so far.

May well not go ahead. But too early to say yet

Lord TSC · 11-03-2020 9:44pm

bennyl10 wrote: »

Nothing postponed that far out anywhere yet

Start of April seems to be what most countries have planned until so far.

May well not go ahead. But too early to say yet

E3 was meant to be in June, and thats cancelled.

I'd be very surprised if this goes ahead, but I think they'll post-pone stuff in blocks. So, we'll know soon that everything is cancelled up to, say, April 5th, but won't hear about this till 3 weeks out.

SureYWouldntYa · 11-03-2020 10:03pm

I havent been really interested in any of the house show stuff that's come around in recent years even the good ones like NXT with Nakamura and Joe I believe a couple years back

I jumped on this when announced, the first time WWE will be live from Ireland albeit the D show really it's still a spectacle and it'll be disappointing when it's cancelled

PTH2009 · 11-03-2020 11:02pm

Whole situation is frustrating

You want to plan ahead and be excited for things but feel you're going to be very disappointed. Even going to the pub to drown the sorrows might not be an option ha

Have a concert this day week in the 3arena but still none the wiser wtf will happen

grames_bond · 12-03-2020 3:37pm

PTH2009 wrote: »

Have a concert this day week in the 3arena but still none the wiser wtf will happen

well you know now - that's postponed!

PTH2009 · 12-03-2020 3:51pm

grames_bond wrote: »

well you know now - that's postponed!

Yeah

Wait and see for this I suppose

Hopefully the current actions help and we will be back to normality in about a month

PTH2009 · 12-03-2020 9:34pm

Hopefully it will get rescheduled for after the summer

PTH2009 · 13-03-2020 9:18pm

Could see this happening in the UK performance centre

bennyl10 · 13-03-2020 10:29pm

Too early to worry yet lads, let’s see how this current plan works.

DM_7 · 13-03-2020 11:43pm

Fair to say it won't be on in April. There is no vaccine, therefore it won't be over in a month.

Might get the show in October when all the marathons are getting reset for.

leggo · 14-03-2020 8:51am

DM_7 wrote: »

Fair to say it won't be on in April. There is no vaccine, therefore it won't be over in a month.

Might get the show in October when all the marathons are getting reset for.

Actually with the Spanish Flu (I believe) and the arrival of a warmer climate, it naturally dissipated once April arrived. Now it later returned when the colder weather returned in autumn as they still didn’t have a vaccine in place, but there’s precedent for things stabilising naturally in a pandemic.

Truth is none of us have a clue how this will play out and trying to speculate is an exercise in futility. Experts themselves are giving educated assessments on how to best contain things and slow down the spread, that’s where we’re at.

DM_7 · 14-03-2020 2:35pm

leggo wrote: »

Actually with the Spanish Flu (I believe) and the arrival of a warmer climate, it naturally dissipated once April arrived. Now it later returned when the colder weather returned in autumn as they still didn’t have a vaccine in place, but there’s precedent for things stabilising naturally in a pandemic.

Truth is none of us have a clue how this will play out and trying to speculate is an exercise in futility. Experts themselves are giving educated assessments on how to best contain things and slow down the spread, that’s where we’re at.

Did they have many indoor events like this during that Flu?

I just see no way an indoor event like this can take place as soon as april.

showpony1 · 14-03-2020 9:42pm

If it's rescheduled for a later date with same tickets i won't mind - i got great seats so don't want to go through the process again.

PTH2009 · 16-03-2020 3:26pm

Sadly this is inevitability going to be cancelled/postponed

very much love if i was postponed for later in the year

Stay save everyone and keep the heads up

showpony1 · 17-03-2020 2:01am

Takover Florida is cancelled - hopefully a chance to get some bigger matches including Balor/Walter on this card.

Loughc · 17-03-2020 2:25am

showpony1 wrote: »

Takover Florida is cancelled - hopefully a chance to get some bigger matches including Balor/Walter on this card.

Except there isn’t a chance takeover Dublin is still gonna go ahead.

ThePott · 17-03-2020 11:29am

Postponing this is absolute best case.
I had good tickets which I'd love to hold on to but this is not going to go ahead in April.

PTH2009 · 18-03-2020 4:53pm

Ringside tickets seem to be available now

This hopefully might get rescheduled in place of what could be Takeover Cardiff II (which was held August 31st last year)

PTH2009 · 20-03-2020 6:17pm

Ott postponing there April events

Hard to see this not being cancelled/postponed

Shame really but this situation around the world at the moment was so unprecedented

xtal191 · 20-03-2020 8:41pm

Its going to be months until things are back to normal, there's not a hope it'll go ahead. Honestly wouldn't be surprised if almost everything, gigs, sporting events etc are cancelled until Sept at the earliest.

PTH2009 · 20-03-2020 9:24pm

xtal191 wrote: »

Its going to be months until things are back to normal, there's not a hope it'll go ahead. Honestly wouldn't be surprised if almost everything, gigs, sporting events etc are cancelled until Sept at the earliest.

Really hope that Sep timeline will not be right and see some sort of sport for the summer months

beakerjoe · 21-03-2020 11:36pm

PTH2009 wrote: »

Really hope that Sep timeline will not be right and see some sort of sport for the summer months

Look at Italy and Spain...... its gonns get a whole lot worse here before it gets better. The experts are all guessing timelines, no one knows. **** gigs, entertainment, sport...... just pray your loved ones and those close to you sre here come Sept.

leggo · 21-03-2020 11:59pm

It’s alright for people to hope and look forward to things to be fair, even if they are unimportant in the grand scheme. Better to focus on random stuff like NXT Dublin and have a bit of hope than to be up the walls permanently about something we all have minimal control over where people we know might die. When AEW was good last week, or when Tom Brady left the Patriots, I was delighted to have something a bit ‘normal’ to focus on for a while.

Lord TSC · 22-03-2020 1:06pm

leggo wrote: »

It’s alright for people to hope and look forward to things to be fair, even if they are unimportant in the grand scheme. Better to focus on random stuff like NXT Dublin and have a bit of hope than to be up the walls permanently about something we all have minimal control over where people we know might die. When AEW was good last week, or when Tom Brady left the Patriots, I was delighted to have something a bit ‘normal’ to focus on for a while.

Yeap, fully agree.

One of the most damaging aspects of all this, at least for me, is it’s stripped pretty much everything away that I was looking forward too.

And don’t get me wrong, it’s the priority. I don’t resent why it’s happened. But it doesn’t mean I’m not upset either. Human beings need short and long term goals, things they can look forward to and escape, even if only temporarily, in to.

Not having a single discernible thing in life to look forward to is rough. Even worse when you’re sitting at home, waiting for the inevitable sickness to hit

A little bit of escapism is absolutely needed every now and again,

NXT UK Takeover: Dublin - Show finally cancelled

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