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25-459: In a press conference at The O2 Arena on 15 December 2016, the American professional wrestling promotion WWE announced plans to establish a United Kingdom-based brand on which professional wrestlers from the country would compete. The WWE United Kingdom Championship (later renamed NXT United Kingdom Championship) was established that same day, however, it was not until mid-2018 when NXT UK

50-539: The AO Arena in Manchester. The ground surface can also be changed between ice rink, basketball court, exhibition space, conference venue, private hire venue and concert venue. The arena was designed to reduce echoing, a problem common among older arenas used for concerts. On 18 February 2022 during Storm Eunice , large sections of the arena's fabric roof were shredded, causing the evacuation of 1,000 people, and

75-570: The 30 June 2023 go-home episode of Friday Night SmackDown beforehand, which was the first time the show aired live on BT Sport (Now known as TNT Sports ). In October 2023, American singer Madonna opened her 40th anniversary concert series, The Celebration Tour , in the O2 Arena. The six shows at the venue were sold out in minutes. In July 2024, the American band The Killers on the Rebel Diamonds Tour sold out six shows at

100-547: The NXT Tag Team Championship, with Jensen and Briggs recognized as the final NXT UK Tag Team Champions. Pretty Deadly went forward as the unified NXT Tag Team Champions. The championship belts were unveiled by WWE Chief Operating Officer and NXT head Triple H and NXT UK General Manager Johnny Saint on the 14 October 2018 tapings of NXT UK in Plymouth. The center plate of the championship belts

125-611: The O2 will host F1 75 Live, a special launch event for the 2025 Formula One World Championship in which all 10 teams and 20 drivers will be present to unveil their season liveries and to launch Formula One's 75th anniversary season. This will be the first time in the history of the Formula One World Championship where all competing teams reveal their liveries together and at the same time. Despite being open for only 200 days per year (the equivalent of seven months),

150-529: The United Kingdom, behind Co-op Live and Manchester Arena , and in 2008 was the world's busiest music arena. As of 2022, it is the ninth-largest building in the world by volume with a diameter of 365 metres (399 yards) and a height of 52 metres (57 yards). The arena was built under the Millennium Dome (renamed The O2), a large dome-shaped building built to house an exhibition celebrating

175-477: The actual length of their reign is undeterminable as the real date they lost the title is unknown. Flash Morgan Webster and Mark Andrews had the shortest reign at 34 days; however, WWE recognizes their reign as lasting 47 days due to tape delay, and as such, recognize that Ashton Smith and Oliver Carter had the shortest reign at 20 days also due to tape delay (although Smith and Carter's reign actually lasted 62 days). Brooks Jensen and Josh Briggs are recognized as

200-495: The arena for her Sweetener World Tour on 17, 19, and 20 August 2019 as well as 15 and 16 October 2019. On 30 November 2019, JoJo Siwa became the youngest person to perform in the O2 Arena at the age of 16, as part of her D.R.E.A.M. The Tour . On 14 May 2022, Little Mix held the final show of The Confetti Tour , called The Last Show (For Now) in the O2, which was their last show before their indefinite hiatus. Along with performing there live to 20,000 they also livestreamed

225-465: The arena started in 2003, and finished in 2007. In December 2004, after the interior of the dome had been largely cleared and before building work inside began, the dome was used as the main venue for the annual Crisis Open Christmas organised by the London-based homelessness charity Crisis . Owing to the impossibility of using cranes inside the dome structure, the arena's roof was constructed on

250-511: The arena, with the main stage accessible only to ticket-holders. The seventh C2C was held on 8–10 March 2019. The arena has hosted the 2013 EuroLeague Final Four between 10 and 12 May 2013. Ariana Grande was scheduled to perform on 25 and 26 May 2017 as part of her Dangerous Woman Tour , but the event was cancelled after the Manchester Arena bombing on 22 May. The event was not rescheduled. Grande, however, held five concerts at

275-522: The final champions. The oldest champion was Trent Seven, winning the title at 40 years old, while the youngest was Jensen, winning it at 20. The O2 Arena The O2 Arena , commonly known as The O2 , is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the centre of The O2 entertainment district on the Greenwich Peninsula in southeast London. It opened in its present form in 2007. It has the third-highest seating capacity of any indoor venue in

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300-414: The ground within the dome and then lifted; the arena building's structure was then built around the roof. The arena building, which houses the arena and the arena concourse, is independent from all other buildings in the O2 and houses all the arena's facilities. The arena building itself takes up 40% of the total dome structure. The seating arrangement throughout the whole arena can be modified, similar to

325-538: The reigning champion's logo; the default side plates featured the WWE logo on a blue globe. The plates were on a black leather strap. Over the championship's four year history, there were seven reigns between seven teams composed of 14 individual champions and one vacancy. James Drake and Zack Gibson were the inaugural champions. Gallus (Mark Coffey and Wolfgang) had the longest reign, which WWE recognizes as lasting 497 days (beginning 17 October 2019 and ending 25 February 2021);

350-522: The set list changed every night, so no two shows would be the same. Beginning in July 2009, Michael Jackson was scheduled to hold a 50-show residency at the arena, titled This Is It . However, he died on 25 June, eighteen days before the first scheduled show. The arena hosted the ATP World Tour Finals between 2009 and 2020. During the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics ,

375-433: The show live to millions for those who could not attend the tour. On 15 October 2022, the O2 hosted a boxing match between Claressa Shields and Savannah Marshall that was the first time two female boxers headlined at a major venue in the United Kingdom. Shields won, and the fight headlined the first all-female boxing card in the United Kingdom. On 1 July 2023, the O2 Arena hosted WWE Money In The Bank , as well as

400-547: The team of James Drake and Zack Gibson defeated Moustache Mountain ( Trent Seven and Tyler Bate ) to become the inaugural champions. In August 2022, WWE announced that the NXT UK brand would go on hiatus and would relaunch as NXT Europe at a later time. As such, NXT UK's championships were unified into their respective NXT championship counterparts. Subsequently, the NXT UK Tag Team Championship

425-734: The turn of the third millennium; as the structure still stands over the arena, The Dome remains a name in common usage for the venue. The arena, as well as the overall The O2 complex, is named after its primary sponsor, the telecommunications company O2 , a subsidiary of Virgin Media O2 . Following the closure of the Millennium Experience at the end of 2000, the Millennium Dome was leased to Meridian Delta Ltd. in December 2001, for redevelopment as an entertainment complex. This included plans for an indoor arena. Construction of

450-415: The upper globe read "UK Tag Team" while a banner below the lower globe read "Champions". A gold ornamented border with red jewels circled the center plate. Gold and black divider bars with red jewels at each end separated the center plate from the belt's two side plates. In what became a prominent feature of WWE's championship belts, the side plates featured removable center sections that could be replaced with

475-512: The venue and selling over 105,000 tickets. On 2 November 2024, the O2 Arena hosted the finals of the 2024 League of Legends World Championship . T1 of the League of Legends Champions Korea claimed their fifth title against Bilibili Gaming of China's League of Legends Pro League . In May of 2025 the O2 will host two shows from American Rapper Tyler The Creator on his tour supporting his 8th studio album Chromakopia . On 18 February 2025,

500-519: The venue sold over 1.2 million tickets in 2007, making it the third most popular venue in the world for concerts and family shows, narrowly behind the Manchester Arena (1.25 million) and Madison Square Garden in New York City (1.23 million). As of 2023, the O2 Arena was the third busiest music arena in the world in terms of ticket sales. Subculture (professional wrestling) Too Many Requests If you report this error to

525-484: The venue to close. It was later announced that repair works would take place and that the arena was likely to reopen on 25 February 2022, for a UB40 concert. The repairs took place as planned, with the O2 Arena reopened as scheduled. In August 2007, American musician Prince began The Earth Tour: 21 Nights in London , a series of 21 sold-out nights at the venue. The record-breaking run featured many of his hits while

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550-484: The venue was referred as the North Greenwich Arena due to Olympics regulations regarding corporate sponsorship of event sites. Since March 2013, the arena has hosted C2C: Country to Country , Europe's largest country music festival, which annually attracts over 20,000 fans. UK and Irish acts, as well as up-and-coming American acts, perform sets several times across various pop-up stages in and around

575-725: Was formally established as the United Kingdom-based brand, and sister brand of the American-based NXT . On 18 June during the first night of the 2018 United Kingdom Championship Tournament , the NXT UK Tag Team Championship, along with the NXT UK Women's Championship , was announced for the NXT UK brand. A four-team single-elimination tournament took place on the 24 and 25 November tapings of NXT UK (aired 2 and 9 January 2019, respectively). The finals occurred at TakeOver: Blackpool on 12 January, where

600-517: Was modeled on the NXT UK logo, which itself took inspiration from the United Kingdom's royal coat of arms , featuring a lion and a horse (instead of the traditional unicorn) with a vertical NXT logo between them; the animals were gold while the logo was silver (the WWE logo was affixed at the center of the X). Above and below the logo were two halves of the globe which were colored blue. A banner above

625-410: Was retired on 4 September 2022 at Worlds Collide . At the event, Pretty Deadly (Elton Prince and Kit Wilson) defeated NXT Tag Team Champions The Creed Brothers (Brutus Creed and Julius Creed), Gallus ( Mark Coffey and Wolfgang ), and reigning NXT UK Tag Team Champions Brooks Jensen and Josh Briggs in a fatal four-way tag team elimination match to unify the NXT UK Tag Team Championship into

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