Since the WWE discontinued the old NXT and switched to NXT 2.0 with Vince McMahon and Bruce Prichard running it, it’s been praised and denounced by fans.
It comes down to personal taste, but to be honest, this is what had been reported as McMahon’s vision of what the WWE’s developmental brand was supposed to look like.
The wrestlers have a reported 6 months to impress and develop or they’re supposed to be released and the process will begin again.
What was lost in the dismantling of the old NXT and the launch of the new are Triple H and Shawn Michaels’ thoughts and feeling on having their work for the last decade removed and replaced.
Michaels offers optimism
While Triple H’s health scare is common knowledge and he’s been out of the public eye, Shawn Michaels has remained working with NXT 2.0.
Jim Varsallone interviewed Michaels about NXT 2.0 and Michaels gave a different angle than we usually hear. He explained how it’s about fun and wrestlers enjoying and learning about the performance part of it.
Special thanks to wrestlinginc.com for the following transcript.
“That’s what’s so exciting and that’s why a lot of us come here to NXT. Because this, for us, is everything that is wonderful and pure about being in WWE. The reason we all got into this. It’s wonderful when you make it to the main brands, when you make it to SmackDown or you make it to Raw. But then it becomes business and it’s about the whole altering of your life. This is before it gets to be that business aspect. Where it’s fun, it’s passionate, it’s all about the love of doing this and getting out and performing.”
Michaels wasted no time in putting NXT 2.0 over by claiming they’re the only ones in the world that’s created new and fresh talent.
“Now I recognize right now that one of the cool buzz words in this business is, ‘we’re producing new, young, fresh superstars.’ And they’re actually people that have been around this job for 10 or 15 years and they’re just now making it onto television. We are the only brand in the entire world that is bringing, real true-to-life, young, fresh men and women, that are going to be the stars of Raw and SmackDown in the next 5 to 10 years. It’s just that simple.”
While there’s room to argue with his later statement as most of AEW’s roster is and was fresh faced talent when it start and continues to grow, there’s no denying his passion.
Is Michaels right in that NXT 2.0 is the way of the future or is it the company line? Let us know your thoughts.
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