HBK voices his thoughts about NXT WarGames.
This past Sunday, the NXT 2.0 brand hosted their latest special which was WarGames. The women’s WarGames match opened the show and the men’s match closed it.
After the event concluded, Scott Fishman of TV Insider caught up with Shawn Michaels and during their discussion, Michaels spoke about his increased responsibility within NXT since Paul ‘Triple H’ Levesque has been out recovering from his cardiac event. Michaels said Levesque’s team is still running NXT 2.0 but people think it’s all a Vince McMahon and Bruce Prichard-type of production.
I started out doing two hours a day, three days a week. Now I’m doing it about 23 hours a day, seven days a week. People out there thinking it’s all Vince McMahon and Bruce Prichard type of production. They just are the ones who gave us the direction of what it is they wanted from NXT going into the future. It is still all the team Hunter [Triple H] put in place doing it here. I love learning and growing in the different aspects of WWE, but I have a greater appreciation for everything he took on. I now understand how you can not return a text when you get it. I’ve never had so many emails, learning computer stuff. Things I swore I would never want to do. But have since learned to do that. It has been a blast. To be able to step in for my friend is my honor to do.
Michaels heaped praise onto the WarGames show and credited the talents for rising to the occasion. He’s thankful for the veterans for steering the ship and expressed how proud he is of the lesser experienced talents for looking like they belonged after being thrown in the deep end.
I’m just excited about this new launch of NXT. I will say I think they get held to an unfair standard. Nobody likes change. I know that was very tough. I thought tonight was a fantastic show. I’m so thankful for our veterans who go out there and deliver consistently like they always do. We have such faithful veterans that are out there and having to bring up an entirely new generation. We put a lot of our young guys in a really tough spot, we threw them in the deep end like we’ve been doing the last 10 weeks. They went out there and looked like they belonged.
upNXT’s Davie Portman and Braden Herrington reviewed NXT WarGames and to hear their thoughts about the show, head over to the ‘upNXT’ section of POST Wrestling.
