WWE Raw star and a former WWE NXT North American Champion Ricochet who is also a former WWE United States champion recently discussed the NXT changing back to the black and gold era. Last year WWE decided to change the NXT to NXT 2.0, now it is going back to its previous black and gold days again.
The NXT had been the developedment territory of WWE for over a decade. It has produced some of the biggest names in the history of professional wrestling today including the likes of Seth Rollins and Big E. Over the time the NXT had changed a few times, but it has never lost its touch. It has always been a fan favourite brand.
Ricochet Discusses The Change Of The NXT
But after the introduction of the AEW, it was failing to maintain its ratings as it was losing to the newly founded professional wrestling promotion almost every week. Last year WWE decided to change it and making it is developmental territory strictly. Force It had been a developmental territory but WWE tried to presented as an indie alternative as well.
From last year NXT became NXT 2.0 and it started focusing on their talents from the performance centre. It was not a failure but not a massive upgrade from its previous version either. As a matter of fact, the previous version produced better matches than the 2.0 version. Ratings increased honestly but not by a massive Times.
Recently, Vince McMahon took retirement and Triple H became the Head of Creative of WWE. He made some big changes in the promotion, one of the big changes being the reversion of the NXT. The NXT 2.0 days are gone and it looks like Triple H is bringing back the older version of the NXT once again.
Ricochet who is also a former WWE United States champion recently spoke to Steve Fall from NBC Sports Boston where he discussed the NXT changing back to the black and gold era. Last year WWE decided to change the NXT to NXT 2.0, now it is going back to its previous black and gold days again. He said;
“I think, again in this business, it’s forever. It doesn’t stop. They’re just trying something new, they’re trying something different and I think it was just so sudden and so quick that people didn’t get a chance to adjust. So now I think changing again, not back to what it was but something different and something that I feel like will be better.”
“Because now I think they have the grasp on maybe bringing some Raw and SmackDown people in or some NXT people to Raw and SmackDown. It really might start being something bigger, who knows? I think it’s so cool to be thinking about the future and being excited to see what will come from it.”
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