NXT Takeover: Arrival

NXT Takeover: Arrival (stylized as NXT arRIVAL) is an upcoming professional wrestling event produced by WWE, featuring their developmental branch WWE NXT, that will take place on March 12, 2016 at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida.

It will be a special episode of WWE NXT and the first live professional wrestling event streamed online via the WWE Network. It will be headlined by the finals of the NXT Championship Tournament to crown a new and first NXT Champion since it's re-emergence.

Background
NXT Takeover: Arrival will feature professional wrestling matches involving different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines that played out on the WWE NXT television program. Wrestlers portrayed faces (heroes) or heels (villains) as they followed a series of events that built tension and culminated in a match or a series of matches.

After Alexa Bliss defeated Nia Jax she was named the #1 Contender for the NXT Women's Championship by William Regal. A few weeks later Alexa suffered a loss to Remi Skyfire and Regal later revealed that with Skyfire's victory she has inserted herself into the title picture as well. On the March 2, 2016 episode of NXT, Billie Kay defeated Dana Brooke and was added to the Women's Championship match set for Takeover: Arrival making it a triple threat match.

On the debut episode of NXT on January 20, 2016, General Manager of NXT, William Regal announced that there would be a Tournament to crown the first NXT Champion since it's reactivation. He talked about those past who had held the NXT Championship (Seth Rollins, Sami Zayn, Kevin Owens and Finn Bálor) and what it's done for their careers going forward with all of them capturing championships on the main roster. Regal then talked about how what winning the NXT Championship will do for the career of whoever holds it and called it one of the most sought after championships in professional wrestling history. The first tournament match was made as well with it involving Aric Hardy and Sterling Daniel Jacobs whom the latter was victorious in the first main event for NXT. The second being between Luke Harper and Scorpio. On the January 30, 2016 episode of NXT both Hardy and Harper were victorious in their matches and are set to meet in the Semi-Finals of the tournament. That same night Regal revealed the final set of Quarter-final matches being Mason Wolfe against Byron Knox and Alex Blade and Tommy End. On the February 10, 2016 episode of NXT, Wolfe defeated Knox while Blade defeated End with both advancing to the next round. On the March 2, 2016 episode of NXT, Blade defeated Wolfe after interference from William Regal to advance to the finals of the NXT Championship tournament where he'll face Luke Harper for the championship. After Regal interfered in the main event he was ridiculed by Triple H before a match was made between Regal and Wolfe for Takeover: Arrival, a No Holds Barred match.