Triple H has become the voice of the higher ups of WWE. With conference calls and interviews, if you want to know about what the top brass thinks of the goings on in WWE, HHH is usually the one to deliver the news.
HHH sat down with Newsweek this week to discuss a plethora of topics, below are some of the highlights.
On being prepared to move NXT to cable television
It’s one of those things when you’re doing it, it’s taking forever. Like I said, we’ve been talking about NXT moving to cable television in a bigger way for a year and a half, two years. It’s been brought up, we’ve had people talk to us about it and the timing wasn’t right or we couldn’t come to the right terms to it. This year the stars started to align, but it still felt like it took a long period of time. And then suddenly you get a call that “hey, here we are and it’s happening.”
And then it’s like “oh my god, I wasn’t ready for this to happen quite yet.” [Laughs]
Like I said, thrilled to do it, talent is chomping at the bit to get out there and, not only are they happy to have the opportunity, but they get to show the world what they can do and who they are and keep that NXT brand out there for everyone to see.
On if the writing will change now that NXT will be two hours
In that manner, it’s not really going to change how we approach the writing of the program. I don’t intend for it to speed things up. I don’t intend for it to now all of a sudden you’re going to see the same talent more often because they are on the same show and it’s two hours instead of one.
I see it as opening a door. The biggest challenge for me in the last two years or so has been not having [time]. With the show being one hour, not having the ability to get talent out there. To continue to tell the story that needed to be out there [and] to continue to tell the story that will take you to the next Takeover or whatever it was. But to have the availability and opening to say, yeah I want this person on TV, I want to debut this talent. I want to move this person into something big. And you just run out of time and space. This really opens up that opportunity and will allow for a much more diverse grouping of talent to be shown.
There’s a lot of talent chomping at the bit for the last year saying “put me in coach,” you know? And we haven’t had it. Now we have that space and time and, trust me, they are going to be there to be the top players on the brand and that’s the competition that will breed success.
On what will make NXT a success on USA Network
That long-term, people begin – and I think they are – to lose the perception of “developmental” and it just becomes a brand. That it becomes a brand with its own unique look and feel, but that it creates the opportunity for every talent on every brand to have another place to go do what they do.
The true success for us, would be to deliver the best product possible for the group of fans that are really passionate about NXT, which is a large group of the core audience of what we do.
I say all the time, there are a lot of people that watch the NFL. There are some that are real hardcore fans of footaball. They know everything about football, stats, figures all of it. And they are deep into it. And then they are just those that enjoy football on the weekends and are more casual in their desire.
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