WWE has booked a huge match at Nassau Coliseum for its long-awaited return to NBC.
The Undisputed WWE Championship is on the line, the wrestling promotion exclusively confirmed to The Post.
“Saturday Night's Main Event. It's back on NBC, this time broadcast live to a national audience in prime time. It's a big deal for two of its biggest stars, WWE Champion Cody Rhodes vs. Kevin Owens.” It's the perfect vehicle and shows the level of ambition we have for this show,” said WWE Chief Creative Officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque.
“Saturday Night Main Event” aired as a special on NBC from 1985 to 1992 and will return on December 14th.
The fact that this fight was booked as a debut means that these shows will be broadcast as premium live events (pay-per-view reimagined) to be broadcast to all subscribers of NBC's Peacock streaming platform. This sends a strong signal that they will be treated at approximately the same level when executing the name). Now four times a year.
“Saturday Night's Main Event” was brought back as part of WWE's five-year media rights deal with NBCUniversal for SmackDown that was announced last September. The contract value is said to be $1.4 billion. According to variety.
Viewership numbers for these programs are high due to a combination of NBC's broadcast network reach and events booked as special attractions.
Rose and Owens have been building a simmering story for months, and their feud escalated with a vicious personal promo on Friday's SmackDown.
Rose won the Undisputed WWE Championship match at the Bash in Berlin in August, even though Owens, in storyline, did not put in the effort necessary to win the match. Owens attacked Rose in the parking lot after October's Bad Blood, after the champion teamed up with challenger and longtime rival Roman Reigns. Two weeks ago, Owens used a banned piledriver on his tag team partner and Rose's mentor Randy Orton, inflicting an injury that sidelined the legend.
Owens claims it's Rose's fault that their on-screen friendship ended.
“For four years, I fought Pedigree. Every week. Blood sweat and tears. I fought them all,” Owens said on SmackDown last week. “And they tried to end my career.”
This segment was fascinating because it blurred the lines between who the audience considered good and bad. Although Owens entered the promotion as a heel, he logically explained why he felt betrayed by Rose and was forced to react.
“More specifically, Roman Reigns, who led the group, tried to end my career more times than I can count, and he could never and never will. “No!” Owens continued.
“And I kept fighting even before you came back, and when you came back, what happened? I was by your side, I fought alongside you. I fought. they With you. I was standing in the ring at WrestleMania 39 trying to help you win the WWE title. After you won the title, I got in the ring at WrestleMania 40 and celebrated with you. I was so happy that you finished the story.
“So what happened? Then, a few months later, Roman Reigns needed a partner because he pissed off the people around him. And who says yes?” you. You joined forces with the man who tried to end my career, the man who tried to take away the only thing I've loved since I was 11 years old. He tried to take my livelihood away and you joined forces with him, so everything that happened is your fault! ”
During the storyline, Rose became visibly upset and ultimately said that Owens' problem was not that he was at odds with Rose, but that he hated himself. . The irritated champion once shoved Carmelo Hayes backstage after the young star made a comment about Owens.
All of this creates a very different atmosphere for Rose and Owens' second title showdown this year on Saturday Night Main Event.
