Big Singles Match For NXT Takeover: Philadelphia, NXT Road Trips

- Triple H has announced that the first NXT Road Trip live events of February 2018 will take place in Tennessee - Saturday, February 3rd at the Nashville War Memorial Auditorium and Sunday, February 4th at the Knoxville Coliseum. Tickets go on sale this Friday at 10am local time via NXTTickets.com.

Superstars announced include NXT Champion Andrade "Cien" Almas & Zelina Vega, NXT Women's Champion Ember Moon, NXT Tag Team Champions Kyle O'Reilly & Bobby Fish, Adam Cole, Aleister Black, Roderick Strong, Kairi Sane and more. It was previously announced that the first Road Trip live events of 2018 will take place in South Carolina and North Carolina this weekend after Thursday's TV tapings at Center Stage in Atlanta. The roster will be at the Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium in Spartanburg, SC on Friday and the Grady Cole Center in Charlotte, NC on Saturday.

- While not officially announced as of this writing, Adam Cole vs. Aleister Black is set to take place at the NXT "Takeover: Philadelphia" event on Saturday, January 27th from the Wells Fargo Center. Black remains undefeated in singles action going into this week's pre-Takeover TV tapings. The only confirmed Takeover match is Johnny Gargano vs. NXT Champion Andrade "Cien" Almas. Below is a promo for the event, which takes place during WWE Royal Rumble weekend:

The first #NXTTakeOver of 2018 will be streaming LIVE from Philadelphia on Saturday, January 27 at 8e/5p exclusively on the award-winning @WWENetwork! pic.twitter.com/ExEVolw9Gl
— WWE (@WWE) January 4, 2018