Former WWE Universal heavyweight champion Kevin Owens who is also a former three times WWE United States champion recently said that the name of NXT 2.0 should be changed.
WWE has changed the style of the NXT for a month and it is going quite well so far. A lot of NXT fans did not like the idea of a repackaging. A number of fans were even saying rest in peace NXT. Actually, nobody knew what was coming.
Kevin Owens Thinks WWE Should Change The Name Of NXT 2.0
But the negativity of the fans was quite high as the show was being taken over by Vince McMahon, and he did not have a very good reputation of booking good matches or shows recently.
But the product got cleared after the very first episode of the NXT 2.0. It was pretty much cleared that WWE would focus on home grown talents more than big names coming from the independent promotions. The whole product of WWE is quite same right now. They are going to take the same product that they used during the monday night wars and that is focusing on the home grown talents more.
A lot of fans and critics were saying that the WWE is scared with the growth of their latest competition the AEW. The promotion has signed some of the biggest names in sports entertainment today including the likes of Bryan Danielson and CM Punk.
Really there in the pole position to give competition to WWE. And with the recent reputation of the promotion it would be very interesting to see how they manage to deal with this situation.
Kevin Owens who is also a former three times WWE United States champion recently spoke to TVA Sports’ wrestling podcast where he said that the name of NXT 2.0 should be changed. He said;
“Today’s NXT is very different than the NXT I was part of, to the point I believe it should have a totally different name,” he said. “And I don’t think it’s better or worse, but it’s just too different. So when I’m watching NXT, I don’t see the NXT I was part of. It’s not the same thing. It’s a little bit like Ring of Honor.
“The ROH of old days and the ROH now, it’s just not the same thing. So to me, it’s completely two different products, so when I’m watching it, I put myself in the mindset we had when I was at NXT and the mindset there seems to have right now, it’s completely different. It’s very hard for me to compare them. I don’t even consider that to be the same show. I don’t really feel any attachment to NXT now.
“Listen, there are very talented people working there, and I have watched the last TakeOver show they did and there were parts of it that I thought was really good, but it’s like a few years ago, if they had asked me to go back to NXT, I would have said yes.
“But if they would ask me that now, I don’t think I would be as receptive to go back, because it’s not the same thing. I don’t think I fit in the new NXT as I was fitting in the NXT I was part of, with guys like Sami, Finn, Samoa Joe and Nakamura. When I watch NXT now, I don’t feel the same thing I felt when I was watching NXT two years ago.”
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