Triple H Talks Recent NXT’s Poor Performance

On Thursday, WWE’s chief operating officer Paul Levesque, better known as Triple H, took part in a conference call, where he promoted next week’s NXT Takeover: Orlando event. In the call, the ex-WWE Champion talked about never being satisfied with the NXT product, and how he felt about last year’s draft, where several top performers in NXT were called up to the main roster.

On never being satisfied with NXT: “I want to make sure I’m clear on this, that unhappiness had nothing to do with talent,” Triple H said. “That unhappiness had to do with my end, with creative, our production, with all of it. There were reasons for all of it. NXT and the Performance Center were designed to create a lot of things. It was designed to create everything that we do, not just in-ring performers. It did that, and it did it very well. As those people were moved up to take on different and maybe bigger responsibilities within the company, it sort of stripmined NXT.”

On losing top performers due to the draft: “So at about the same time that we lost a lot of our performers – with the Draft, we lost our entire women’s division with the exception of Asuka. We had to start over in many ways, but we also did that behind the scenes, we kind of had to start over. So when I say I’m unhappy about the product, I’m happy with where we had brought it to. As NXT came up and changed, things that worked got adopted by the main roster and the things that worked got moved up and we had to re-invent ourselves. I just didn’t have the team … we just got caught. I’m much happier where we are now, not because it’s where I want it to be, but because I’m on a path to get there.”

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