Triple H spoke with CBS Sports to promote NXT Takeover: Dallas and WrestleMania 32. Here are the highlights.
On some of the talents that have come from NXT to the main roster:
“This is a phenomenal brand unto its own,” he said. “Some of the talent will absolutely, 100 percent make it to the main roster, will make it to the main event of WrestleMania at some point in time. You see that this year at WrestleMania. When you start to look at Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose, Bray Wyatt, Charlotte, Sasha [Banks], Becky Lynch, all of these talent that have come through that system and more. I’m just sort of scratching the surface.”
On Finn Balor:
“[Balor] had a lot of experience overseas in Japan,” he explained, “but he wrestled in Japan. He really didn’t do a lot of talking. One of the biggest shocks, I believe, in the system to him was television production.
“I remember having a conversation with him shortly after he started. We were gonna debut him on TV, and I was working with him on his entrance. We got done and he was outside. I saw him standing off to the side, and he looked like he’d been shot out of a cannon, you know? He was just frazzled. I went up to him and I said, ‘You alright?’ He’s like, ‘Yeah, yeah.’ I said, ‘What’s going on?’ He goes, ‘Man, it’s just a lot to absorb. I’ve never thought about any of this stuff because I never had to. [In] Japan, we just went to the ring and wrestled and they just pointed cameras at us. I never thought anything more about it beyond that.'”
On NXT being different from the main roster:
“NXT allows us to, for lack of a better term, super-serve our most hardcore and passionate WWE fans,” Levesque said. “I kind of felt like there was always room for that to happen. There’s just that alternative and the opportunity to grow in a different direction. I think NXT has just kind of hit that niche in a perfect way.”
On Shunsuke Nakamura:
“[Nakamura is] one of the most talented guys in-ring in the business,” Levesque said. “I’m anxious to get my hands on him in some way at the Performance Center, just from a learning television production [perspective]. I’m unsure, a little bit, of how much of that he knows and doesn’t know, and it’s gonna be an exciting thing.”
You can read the entire interview here.
