8 Big Questions About HUGE NBC Peacock/WWE Network Deal

8. What's The Future Of NXT?

The Wednesday Night War is over, and - contrary to just about everything else to do with this breaking story - WWE have lost.

Yes, two wrestling shows happen at the same time of the week and theirs is "only" trailing the other by a few hundred thousand in viewership, but one only needs to contextualise that with modern viewing habits and the key advertising demographic deficits to see how big the gap really is.

AEW has struggled to hold bigger numbers after bigger shows and they've yet to truly penetrate the hearts and minds of the deified lost casuals, but Dynamite has all the intangibles - buzz, discussion, comedy, heart - that NXT used to have during its own golden era. One resembles the other in fact, only highlighting how the black-and-gold brand has become something else in its wake.

And with two major stories in two days, the power might have shifted away from the frivolity of Wednesdays anyway. The closure of NBC Sports resulted in speculation that NHL would go to USA Network, and on Wednesdays. With NXT's deal running out later this year, the show was facing a potential move of some form before Peacock took the wheel of its original home.

The third brand is still in need of an overhaul, but it remains to see if one of such magnitude will arrive unexpectedly.