WWE Tribute to the Troops/Level Up no longer airing moving forward

[Chris]

Updates on future of WWE Tribute to the Troops & NXT Level Up

A WWE tradition that goes back more than two decades has officially been put into mothballs for the time being. The company’s annual Tribute to the Troops specials are no longer…

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A WWE tradition that goes back more than two decades has officially been put into mothballs for the time being.

The company’s annual Tribute to the Troops specials are no longer, according to Dave Meltzer from the latest Wrestling Observer Radio. There was no formal announcement from the company, but a WWE source confirmed the news to Meltzer.

As noted by Meltzer, the show was a Vince McMahon and John Bradshaw Layfield-created tradition and one that started in December 2003 as the company brought a WWE show to Baghdad, Iraq, and aired it on Christmas as an episode of SmackDown.

It remained an overseas tradition through 2009 and then became a stateside occurrence at various military bases. It eventually was filmed at arenas and became standalone specials that aired on both NBC and Fox at various junctures.

There were 21 editions through 2023 with just one — 2019 — not airing on TV.

That follows the news that initially broke last week by Fightful and Bodyslam.net that NXT Level Up is also not moving forward. Its final episodes were filmed during last Thursday’s NXT TV tapings and will be replaced by the impending LFG reality-esque show that will debut on A&E in early-2025.

The successor to the shuttered 205 Live, Level Up debuted in February 2022 on Friday nights, designed to focus on mainly inexperienced NXT wrestlers who hadn’t yet made it to the main TV show. It aired on both Peacock and WWE Network with this Friday’s finale completing a 150-episode run.

 

[Cwalker]

RIP Tribute to the Troops.

They’ve sort of become trivial over the last decade or so to the point where they became glorified RAWs but they were cool at the beginning

 

[Skyefire]

I pretty much knew it was dead after they announced the Saturday Night's Main Event.

 

[Deadd2009]

im disappointed they never did one from an aircraft carrier though

 

[Comrade Khan]

RIP Tribute to the Troops.

They’ve sort of become trivial over the last decade or so to the point where they became glorified RAWs but they were cool at the beginning

Isn't trubute to the troops where they raped Ashley Monsaro n covered it up?

 

[Chris]

It was soldiers overseas that did it yeah, that's one of the reasons they tried to cover it up more than general WWE evilness

 

[Comrade Khan]

It was soldiers overseas that did it yeah, that's one of the reasons they tried to cover it up more than general WWE evilness

Yeah I worded that weird fsr I didn't mean to imply wwe did the assault. I just think it should have been shut down forever after that and I'm shocked ppl are sad it's done.

 

[JakeYourBooty]

Such a fucked up situation
Poor Ashley R.I.P.

 

[Chris]

Yeah I worded that weird fsr I didn't mean to imply wwe did the assault. I just think it should have been shut down forever after that and I'm shocked ppl are sad it's done.

It almost feels worse to me than if it was people on WWE. Protecting your own against outsiders has always been a priority no matter how toxic anything else was backstage, but once the military was involved everyone became cowardly as fuck

 

[Comrade Khan]

It almost feels worse to me than if it was people on WWE. Protecting your own against outsiders has always been a priority no matter how toxic anything else was backstage, but once the military was involved everyone became cowardly as fuck

Yea it's a straight up government cover up.they took part in. It's fucked and straight up evil

 

[JakeYourBooty]

Yeah it’s fuckin gross

 

[Deadd2009]

The Ashley thing, her assault didnt take place at a Tribute taping, it happened during a tour of Kuwait and apparently NCIS who handles all military shit couldnt find it

Details of NCIS investigation into Ashley Massaro sexual assault claims released

An investigation into Massaro’s allegations was launched shortly after her death.

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[Kim Jong Umb]

I always thought it was a nice idea where they did TFTT agree bout aircraft carrier venue would of been cool.