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NXT Champ Bron Breakker leads WWE’s NXT Florida house show charge, and tickets are now on sale

NXT Champ Bron Breakker will be featured as WWE’s NXT returns to its Florida house show schedule — The Coconut Loop, The Citrus Circuit — beginning June 10 in Tampa.

Here is my audio interview with The Champ as he talks touring Florida, the NXT Roster, the WWE PC, football, his famous dad, his ring name, Triple H and more.

Breakker, 24, a former state champion wrestler for Etowah High School in Woodstock, Georgia, also starred in football. He played collegiately at Kennesaw State University in Georgia and spent a few months with the Baltimore Ravens, before opting for pro wrestling.

WCW alum “The Swing Man” Johnny Swinger of Impact Wrestling is also a graduate of Etowah High School.

Breakker has grasped the concept quickly, making tremendous strides in a short period of time, since training at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando. His favorite wrestler Triple H.

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Breakker made his pro debut on October 8, 2020, in Ringgold, Georgia at “WrestleJam 8.” He signed with WWE in February 2021.

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On Jan. 4, 2022, Breakker defeated Tommaso Ciampa for the NXT title. In March, Dolph Ziggler pinned Ciampa in a triple threat match (with Breakker) for the NXT title, but Breakker regained the championship in April in a 1-on-1 battle with Ziggler.

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His father, Rick Steiner, is a WWE Hall of Famer, and his dad has been very helpful and supportive in all of Breakker’s endeavors. His uncle, Scott Steiner, is also a WWE Hall of Famer.

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Twitter Breakker: https://twitter.com/bronbreakkerwwe

NXT Citrus Circuit / Coconut Loop

WWE announced that NXT will return to live event touring (house shows) across Florida in June & July.

The NXT Citrus Circuit / The NXT Coconut Loop drop kicks-off Friday, June 10 in Tampa.

Tickets for the first eight events are on sale via https://www.wwe.com/nxttix and www.Etix.comNXT.

The schedule includes:

Friday, June 10: UACDC Complex in Tampa.

Saturday, June 11: Largo Event Center.

Friday, June 24: Jacksonville Armory.

Saturday, June 25: Venice Community Center.

Friday, July 8: Citrus Springs Community Center in Dunnellon.

Saturday, July 9: Engelwood Neighborhood Center in Orlando.

Friday, July 22: Melbourne Auditorium.

Saturday, July 23: Cocoa Armory.

Additional NXT live event dates are forthcoming.

See NXT 2.0 TV shows

in Orlando for Free

NXT 2.0 at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando offers fans the opportunity to cheer, boo, chant and interact with superstars during live “NXT 2.0” TV broadcasts on Tuesdays on USA Network.

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To do that, there is an easy preregistration process to attend those NXT 2.0 shows for free.

Join the NXT Live Private Group (an official WWE NXT page) on Facebook at wwe.com/nxtlive. Click to join the group and then receive approval and instructions.

For those approved, free shuttles are available from Full Sail University in nearby Winter Park.

NXT Level Up matches are also part of this awesome experience.

“NXT 2.0” is 8 p.m. EST Tuesdays on USA Network.

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This story was originally published May 26, 2022 at 12:39 PM.

Jim Varsallone
Miami Herald
Jim Varsallone writes a high school sports column twice a week, featuring top performers in all varsity sports (boys and girls) in Broward and Miami-Dade counties. He also covers pro wrestling, something he’s done since his college days in the late 1980s. Now in his fifth decade of coverage, he currently follows WWE (Raw, SmackDown and NXT), AEW, Ring of Honor, TNA Impact Wrestling, MLW, WOW, NWA, and the South Florida indies, mainly CCW. He writes MMA, too -- mostly profile stories and video interviews with American Top Team and Sanford MMA fighters in South Florida. As for pro wrestling, he writes feature stories and profile pieces, updates upcoming show schedules in South Florida, photographs the action and interviews talent (audio and video) -- sharing the content here and via social media on his Facebook, Twitter and YouTube channel: jim varsallone (jimmyv3 channel). Support my work with a digital subscription
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