{"id":36884,"date":"2019-01-28T20:35:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T01:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=36884"},"modified":"2019-01-28T20:35:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T01:35:04","slug":"half-time-heat-returns-for-nxt-showcase-during-super-bowl-liii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/01\/28\/half-time-heat-returns-for-nxt-showcase-during-super-bowl-liii\/","title":{"rendered":"Half Time Heat Returns For NXT Showcase During Super Bowl LIII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the big pieces of news out of Sunday&#8217;s <em><strong>WWE Royal Rumble<\/strong><\/em> was the return of <em><strong>Half Time Heat<\/strong><\/em>, a special broadcast of WWE programming presented during the half time portion of the <strong>Super Bowl<\/strong>. The program returns this coming Sunday with a special NXT Showcase, featuring <strong>Aleister Black, Velveteen Dream<\/strong> and <strong>Ricochet<\/strong> taking on the trio of NXT Champion <strong>Tomasso Ciampa<\/strong>, NXT North American Champion <strong>Johnny Gargano<\/strong> and <strong>Undisputed Era<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Adam Cole<\/strong>. <strong>Shawn Michaels<\/strong> announced the event during the Royal Rumble Kick-Off Show panel, following a post-TakeOver altercation involving all six men.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shawn Michaels announces WWE Halftime Heat to stream live on Sun., Feb. 3: Royal Rumble 2019 Kickoff\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BMvRQOz5Xjk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It marks the return of\u00a0<em>Half Time Heat\u00a0<\/em>for the first time since 2000, when <strong>&#8220;Stone Cold&#8221; Steve Austin<\/strong> appeared for an exclusive interview to update his neck surgery progress. It was the second event, following 1999&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Half Time Heat\u00a0<\/em>that featured an empty arena match for the WWE World Championship between <strong>The Rock<\/strong> and challenger <strong>Mankind<\/strong>, that saw Mankind win his second World title in the WWE.\u00a0<em>Half Time Heat\u00a0<\/em>was a special event tied in with WWE&#8217;s regular Sunday night program,\u00a0<em><strong>Sunday Night Heat<\/strong><\/em><em>,\u00a0<\/em>that ran from 1998 until 2008.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Rock vs. Mankind in an empty arena during Halftime Heat: This Week in WWE History, Feb. 4, 2016\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PzzBHmEOxWY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A high octane match up instead of Maroon 5? I think Tomasso Ciampa said it best&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProjectCiampa\/status\/1089728638705065984<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the big pieces of news out of Sunday&#8217;s WWE Royal Rumble was the return of Half Time Heat, a special broadcast of WWE programming presented during the half time portion of the Super Bowl. 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