As the march on the Road to WrestleMania continues, there will be some groundbreaking battles on Tuesday, March 11 when NXT Roadblock takes place at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York.
The live event is scheduled to start at 8 p.m. EDT and will be broadcast on The CW Network. Fans looking to watch can do so for free through FuboTV, which offers a free trial and up to $25 off your first month, or DirecTV Stream, which also offers a free trial. SlingTV doesn’t offer a free trial but does have other promotional offers available. Fans can watch a replay of the event after it airs available to stream through Peacock..
There are five matches scheduled for Roadblock and three of those are championship matches, including the Title-for-Title dream match between NXT Women’s Champion Giulia and NXT Women’s North American Champion Stephanie Vaquer.
Along with that meeting which will see only one woman walk away with gold, a few TNA title holders will compete in championship matches. The TNA Tag Team Champions and WWE legends Matt and Jeff Hardy defend their belts against NXT Tag Team Champions Axiom and Nathan Frazer. And while Fraxiom looks to hold two championships across promotions, TNA X-Division Champion Moose looks to do the same when he battles for the NXT Championship against Oba Femi.
Additionally, a couple of feuds that go back a few months will be settled on Tuesday when Jordynne Grace gets another shot at Roxanne Perez. Back at NXT Battleground in June 2024, The Prodigy defeated The Juggernaut to retain the NXT Women’s Championship, but they meet again with only pride and bragging rights on the line. And the war between Ethan Page and Je’Von Evans will continue with another battle, this time, A New York City Street Fight.
Match List:
- Jordynne Grace vs. Roxanne Perez
- New York City Street Fight: Je’Von Evans vs. Ethan Page
- TNA Tag Team Championship Match: The Hardy Boyz (Matt and Jeff)(c) vs. NXT Tag Team Champions Fraxion (Nathan Frazer and Axiom)
- NXT Championship Match: Oba Femi (c) vs. TNA X-Division Champion Moose
- Title vs. Title Winner-Take-All: NXT Women’s Champion Giulia vs. NXT Women’s North American Champion Stephanie Vaquer
When: Tuesday, March 11 at 8 p.m. EDT
Where: The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York
Stream: FuboTV (free trial); DirecTV Stream (free trial); Sling; Peacock
What is FuboTV?
FuboTV is an internet television service that offers more than 200 channels across sports and entertainment including Paramount+ with SHOWTIME. From the UEFA Champions League to the WNBA to international tournaments ranging across sports, there’s plenty of options available on FuboTV, which offers a free trial and $30 off the first month for new customers.
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DirecTV Stream offers practically everything DirecTV provides, except for a remote and a streaming device to connect to your television. Sign up now and get three free months of premium channels including MAX, Paramount+ with SHOWTIME and Starz.
What is SlingTV?
SlingTV offers a variety of live programing ranging from news and sports and starting as low as $20 a month for your first month. Subscribers also get a month of DVR Plus free if they sign up now. Choose from a variety of sports packages without long-term contracts and with easy cancelation.
What is Peacock?
Peacock is the home to the Premier League, Sunday Night Football, exclusive college football games, WWE premium live events and the Olympics, as well as programing across the NBCUniversal networks.
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UFC President Dana White says he can fix boxing with new promotion in partnership with Saudis
By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — TKO Group, the company that already houses WWE and UFC, is set to step into the ring with a new boxing promotion as part of a business deal with Saudi Arabia.
TKO announced Wednesday it entered a multiyear partnership with Turki Alalshikh, chairman of the Saudi General Entertainment Authority, and Sela, a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.
Led by UFC president and CEO Dana White and WWE president and TKO board member Nick Khan, TKO will serve as managing partner and run the day-to-day operations of the promotion.
“Everybody’s going to say it’s the money. I don’t do (expletive) anything for the money,” White told The Associated Press on Wednesday. “I want to be in business with people that I’m aligned with. We have the same ideas, we have the values. We have the same everything”
The first TKO Group boxing card will be held in 2026. The start date will depend on when a broadcast rights deal can be secured.
“I’m going to go in and select who my partner is going to be,” White said. “Then they’re going to let me know what they need, as far as programming goes. I’ll let them know what works for me and, as a partnership, we’ll work out a rights deal.”
TKO did not announce a name for the new promotion. Boxers will have access to the UFC Performance Institute, with locations in Las Vegas, Mexico City and Shanghai. TKO will handle production, media and promotion for events that will include worldwide broadcasts. There was little immediate detail outside of the announcement of the promotion’s impending launch.
“I like taking things are that broken, can’t be fixed and I’m going to fix them,” White said.
White calls the shots in UFC — and even with an alignment with Khan and the Saudis, the 55-year-old former boxer says he still will be the final boss with this venture.
“There’s no way I would get into something that I couldn’t run and control,” White told AP.
The new venture is just the latest in Saudi Arabia’s massive spending on global sports driven by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
The Saudis host a Formula 1 auto race, fund LIV Golf, have hosted numerous pay-per-view boxing cards — topped by Tyson Fury’s win over Francis Ngannou in October 2023 — are in the midst of a 10-year deal to hold WWE events and will host the 2034 World Cup in men’s soccer, giving the oil-rich kingdom its biggest prize yet in its sports expansion.
The kingdom plans to spend tens of billion of dollars on projects related to the World Cup as part of the crown prince’s sweeping Vision 2030 project that aims to modernize Saudi society and economy. At its core is spending on sports by the $900 billion sovereign wealth operation, the Public Investment Fund, which Salman oversees.
Critics have accused Saudi Arabia of “sportswashing,” an effort to rebrand a nation’s troubling public image that has been going on for decades, using the Olympics and other sports across the globe.
Alalshikh purchased Ring Magazine in November and is set to stage a May 2 boxing card in Times Square.
The fighters on the card are known: Ryan Garcia against Rolando “Rolly” Romero in the main event; Devin Haney against Jose Ramirez in the co-main; and Teofimo Lopez against Arnold Barboza Jr. in a title fight as the opener.
Up next, Saudi Arabia’s biggest partnership yet, this one with the global leaders in mixed martial arts and professional wrestling.
“This landmark partnership between industry powerhouses sets the stage for an unparalleled experience for boxers and fans,” Alalshikh said. “Together, we are developing the next generation of talent and delivering world-class events at a time when the sport is primed for further disruption.
White said he’s not interested in celebrity bouts at the outset — such as Jake Paul’s win over a 58-year-old Mike Tyson — and that his unnamed promotion will not be confined to fight nights only in Saudi Arabia.
“I’m going to take this thing everywhere,” White said. “We’re going all over the US. We’re going to Mexico, Canada, Brazil, Australia, the UK. The list goes on. Just like UFC. You can’t build a boxing business without America. You have to have the United States to have a truly successful sport.”
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
