As initially covered by eWrestlingNews, World Wrestling Entertainment’s developmental division, NXT, conducted a double TV recording on Tuesday evening. This strategy was implemented to afford the backstage crew and officials sufficient time to journey to Saudi Arabia next week for the King & Queen Of The Ring event. However, it’s worth noting that a significant portion of the NXT production squad will not be traveling to Jeddah; they’ll instead remain “on call” for the May 27th airing of RAW, should their assistance be required.
Interestingly, the blueprint for the double television taping underwent revisions throughout the day. The final plan for next week’s show wasn’t locked down until the eleventh hour, 60 minutes prior to the start of the show.
Furthermore, there were no additional matches recorded for Level Up. This is because in the lead-up to the double taping session, surplus bouts had already been filmed over the preceding four weeks.
Lastly, security personnel were assigning guidelines to fans entering the WWE Performance Center, instructing them that only still photography was permissible, not video recording. Internally, the first show was christened as “Rise Of The Young OG”, while the subsequent week’s show was labelled “Fighters Fight.”