NXT Great American Bash replay includes same picture-in-picture commercial breaks

Dudes everywhere wished they could’ve wiped the ads clean from NXT’s first PLE on The CW. | (Photo: The CW App) Fans who were upset with picture-in-picture ad-breaks during NXT’s Great American Bash, the first premium live event on The CW Network, won’t find any relief in its replay. The Great American Bash became available to stream online and on The CW App on Monday. But the replay also includes the picture-in-picture ad breaks during matches. It’s the same presentation that frustrated viewers watching live on Sunday. Viewers accustomed to WWE’s PLE format on ESPN likely expected commercials to air between matches rather than during them. Instead, the presentation mirrored NXT’s regular Tuesday broadcasts on The CW, making Sunday’s show feel more like a standard weekly show than a modern PLE. What fans saw on Sunday isn’t likely to change, even when CW Sports begins streaming live events, including NXT, on the ESPN App sometime this summer. In April, The CW Network and ESPN announ