WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins recently made his return to the NXT after more than a decade. Rollins had been extremely successful in the NXT. He had been the inaugural NXT Champion and right now he is one of the biggest attractions of WWE.
Rollins recently returned to the NXT to defend his World Heavyweight Championship against the former two times NXT Champion Bron Breakker. Rollins managed to beat Breakker in this match and successfully defended his Championship. There are rumours that he would return to the NXT again for more big matches.
Back to the Roots: Seth Rollins Discusses the Emotion and Excitement of Returning to NXT
Rollins’ return to the NXT brought huge success to the show. Its ratings and viewership increased massively following this return and we can say that the main purpose of this return was actually successful. The Visionary recently spoke with Ryan Satin on the Out Of Character podcast where he talked about this return. Here is what the World Heavyweight Champion had to say;
“I hadn’t wrestled in front of a crowd that small and intimate in a very long time. There is something special about wrestling in front of an intimate crowd like that in a small space. You’ll see big bands do that, go back to these small bars and pack them out.
Seth Rollins Returned To NXT Recently
“There is something about that where you get a different experience as opposed to doing it in an arena or stadium, it’s a lot more personal. It really hit me when I went out there and you could really interact with any person in any seat. It was an awesome experience.”
“Bron was a hell of an opponent. I was really happy to get down there and get in the ring with him and chit-chat with other guys and girls, and see what they are experiencing on a day-to-day basis. It was cool. I felt a lot of hunger to get to the next level. I was happy to see that.
“We were going through a period with NXT where there was a lot of complacency and people talking about, ‘I’d rather stay in NXT, I don’t want to go to the main roster.’ That always rubbed me the wrong way. When I went down there this past time, I felt a different energy and I felt people were excited to come to the main roster and take their careers to the next level. That got me hyped.”
The main purpose of bringing him back to the NXT was to grow the ratings and viewership of the show and the plan actually worked. There are massive rumours that WWE has plans of bringing more main roster starts to the NXT so that they could improve the ratings and viewership of the show even more.
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