There is absolutely no doubt that WWE Hall Of Famer Shawn Michaels is one of the best pro wrestlers to have ever graced the squared circle. He ended his in-ring career at WrestleMania 26 in 2010 against The Undertaker in a match that remains loved by both fans and Superstars alike. The Undertaker was also said to have turned down a huge WrestleMania match.
However, the Heartbreak Kid returned to the pro wrestling ring for Crown Jewel 2018, where he partnered up with Triple H and squared off against Kane and The Undertaker in a tag team match. The match was criticized by both fans and Superstars alike. Many fans also noted how Michaels was completely shaved bald during the match.
Shawn Michaels was in charge of NXT UK during the pandemic. He eventually made his way to NXT 2.0 as well. On the latest Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer talked about Shawn Michaels’ change in responsibilites in NXT.
“The former PROGRESS guys I think were doing it [running creative for NXT UK) the last I heard. There’s so many people who thought with all the budget cuts and everything that NXT UK would have a lot of cuts, and they really haven’t cut many people. There’s here and there guys that I think that have been cut, but very few. It just seems to be going and I don’t know anything new.
There was a point when I just thought that they were going to cut most of those guys and the ones they weren’t going to cut they would just bring to the United States now that you can do that. They’ve got their deals and everything in the UK, maybe because of that they want to keep the thing.
It’s pretty clear that the old idea of running NXT territories all over the world, Paul Levesque’s idea, you know, NXT Japan, NXT India, Middle East, and all that. That was the idea. That seems like it’s not happening. There’s nothing going on in that direction. That was with the idea of, basically, WWE being the local territory and kind of wiping out the independent scene by having the top independent promotion be WWE in those markets. Even in Mexico and Japan, having a WWE presence there to compete with the existing companies. The pandemic slowed it down and now, it just feels like that that’s just not a direction that they’re going in anymore.”
h/t Ringside News
