The 2023 NXT Roadblock is the upcoming fourth Roadblock professional wrestling event produced by WWE. It will be held primarily for wrestlers from the NXT brand division. Like the previous Roadblock event, NXT Roadblock will air as a special episode of NXT on the USA Network. The television special will take place on March 7, 2023, at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida. The event's title is a reference to its position on the road to NXT Stand & Deliver, NXT's WrestleMania week event. Production Background Roadblock is a professional wrestling event established by WWE in 2016. The inaugural event was held in March that year and aired exclusively on the WWE Network. The event's name was a reference to its position on the "Road to WrestleMania". In July 2016, WWE reintroduced the brand extension, where the roster was divided between brands where wrestlers were exclusively assigned to perform. Roadblock was brought back that same year in December as a Raw-exclusive event under the title Roadblock: End of the Line. It aired on pay-per-view (PPV) and the WWE Network with its name being in reference to being WWE's final PPV of 2016. Roadblock was then discontinued without any further events scheduled. However, Roadblock was revived for the NXT brand as a television special episode of NXT titled NXT Roadblock. On the February 14, 2023, episode of NXT, it was announced that the 2023 NXT Roadblock would take place on March 7, 2023. Storylines The card included matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. Results were predetermined by WWE's writers on the NXT brand, while storylines were produced on the weekly television program, NXT, and the supplementary online streaming show, Level Up. On the February 14 episode of NXT, after winning their tag team match, Meiko Satomura challenged Roxanne Perez to an NXT Women's Championship match, which Perez accepted. The following week, the bout was made official for Roadblock. At NXT Vengeance Day, Dijak lost his NXT North American Championship match after interference from Tony D'Angelo and Channing "Stacks" Lorenzo. On the February 21 episode, D'Angelo challenged Dijak to a Jailhouse Street Fight at Roadblock, which Dijak accepted a week later. At NXT Vengeance Day, Toxic Attraction members Gigi Dolin and Jacy Jayne failed to win