NXT will run against AEW Dynamite after all.
The black-and-gold brand will air a special episode on the USA Network this Tuesday; however, an encore of NXT will play on its original Wednesday night time slot for both Wednesday, September 2 and 9. NXT has been temporarily moved to Tuesday nights for the next two weeks due to NHL broadcasts.
According to Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer, the reasoning behind SYFY airing encore episodes stems from WWE not wanting Dynamite to go unopposed for the next two weeks (Transcript courtesy of wrestletalk.com):
“They can’t let them go unopposed […] I asked somebody [in WWE] and it’s like ‘we can’t let them go unopposed,’ you know what if? I think that there’s a feeling that if the number gets too big that people will look at them a different way. To be fair, AEW for the last two weeks they put on the pay-per-view, but they put it on YouTube, and it was not competition at all and I don’t know that a re-run on Syfy going head-to-head is going to be major competition to AEW, but the fact that they’re putting it there tells you from both sides, you know whatever, you know it’s like they can’t, you know they can’t let it go unopposed. Neither side did. They’ll say they’re just doing it for themselves, but clearly you know clearly there’s competition head-to-head.”
A 60-Minute Iron Man Fatal 4-Way match to determine a new NXT Champion will be the main attraction for the black-and-gold brand. This week’s episode of AEW Dynamite will be the final show before All Out this weekend.