NXT wrestling debuts Feb. 24 at Memorial Centre

Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. for the debut of NXT Live! wrestling at the Peterborough Memorial Centre next month.

NXT is World Wrestling Entertainment’s third touring brand. Based out of Full Sail University in Orlando, Fla., NXT is WWE’s developmental territory, providing training and experience for newly signed wrestling stars and propects.

NXT Live! takes place Feb. 24 at the Peterborough Memorial Centre. The last time WWE was in the city was in December 2016 when the Memorial Centre played host to a Smackdown brand card.

Peterborough professional wrestler Bobby Roode was the NXT men’s champion from last January until August but has since been elevated to the Smackdown roster.

But Peterborough fans could have a chance to get some payback when one of the NXT stars enters the PMC ring. Velveteen Dream confronted Roode’s wife, Tracy Fielding, in the crowd during a Sept. 9 NXT card at the Mattamy Athletic Centre (the former Maple Leaf Gardens) in Toronto when Roode was making his final NXT appearance.

Velveteen Dream, who broke in with WWE as a contestant in the 2015 season of Tough Enough as Patrick Brown, is among the performers slated for the Peterborough card along with NXT champion Andrade “Cien” Almas with Zelina Vega, NXT women’s champion Ember Moon, NXT tag team champions Undisputed Era, Aleister Black, Adam Cole and Johnny Gargano (Gargano is facing Almas at an NXT Takeover payper-view later this month for the chance to become men’s champion heading into the Peterborough card).

Canadian Kyle O’Reilly, a native of Delta, B.C., is one half of the NXT tag team champion Undisputed Era. Akam of the NXT tag team Authors of Pain is also a Canadian, while Canadian-born Mauro Ranallo is the lead announcer of the weekly NXT series on the WWE Network.

Tickets start at $28.25 CDN and are available at the Peterborough Memorial Centre box office or at www.memorialcentre.ca.

The Peterborough card is part of an NXT southern Ontario road swing with stops in Mississauga on Feb. 22, St. Catharines on Feb. 23 and Barrie on Feb. 25

JULIE JOCSAK/POSTMEDIA NETWORK FILES Peterborough professional wrestler Bobby Roode and Drew McIntyre wrestle for the title during the main event of the WWE NXT card at the Meridian Centre in downtown St. Catharines on Sept. 8. NXT will make its debut at the Peterborough Memorial Centre...