Update On Main Roster Stars Heading Down To NXT

Welcome home. NXT is viewed as college for a lot of wrestlers. The wrestlers get to spend at least a year down there and learn how to be ready for the main roster, but at the same time their runs down there has to end. They have to go up to the main roster (or get released) at some point and that can lead to mixed results. However, something might have changed now and it’s a good thing.

According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, more WWE main roster stars are likely to head down to NXT for some appearances at house shows when they have nothing else going on. People like Luke Harper and Tyler Breeze, former NXT stars whose current tag team partners are sidelined due to injuries, have made recent appearances on NXT house shows in singles matches.

If nothing else, the crowd reactions will be great.

Tyler Breeze makes surprise return to NXT

Opinion: I see absolutely nothing wrong with any of this. NXT gets a boost with some bigger names appearing on their shows and these guys get to go do something else in front of a fresh crowd. There’s just no reason to have them sit on the sidelines when you have them under contract in the first place and can plug them into NXT on a one off basis. Everyone wins and there’s not much of a downside anywhere.

Do you like having the main roster stars in NXT? Who else would you like to see go down? Let us know in the comments below.

Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen over 50,000 wrestling matches. He has also been a wrestling reviewer since 2009 with over 5,000 full shows covered. You can find his work at kbwrestlingreviews.com, or check out his Amazon author page with 28 wrestling books. His latest book is the the Complete 2003 Smackdown Reviews.

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