Professional wrestling legend and former four times WWE European champion William Regal who is the winner of the King of the Ring tournament in 2008 recently talked about WWE‘s decision to move away from bringing indie stars. He also talked about the changes that recently occurred in the NXT.
As long as Triple H was in charge of the NXT, he mostly focused on bringing indie stars. A lot of independent stars became quite famous while working in the NXT as well. Some of them even became World champions in the main roster. Finn Balor is one of the major examples of this statement.
William Regal Discusses WWE Not Bringing Indie Wrestlers Anymore
There was a time when NXT seemed more like an action packed episode of any of the Independent circuit wrestling. So you could have satisfy yourself in all aspects while watching WWE. You could have fun with independent wrestling style action with NXT and normal WWE action with the main roster shows.
But from last year WWE decided to change their policy of the NXT and they are more focused on developing wrestlers from the performance centre. Most of the independent circuit stars had been released from WWE since then and we can say that the NXT is a completely different show right now.
William Regal who is the winner of the King of the Ring tournament in 2008 recently spoke to The Sessions podcast where he talked about WWE’s decision to move away from bringing indie stars. He also talked about the changes that recently occurred in the NXT. He said;
“There were all these things happening and I was all for that fact, ‘Okay, if the boss doesn’t want independent fellas, now we have to get massive numbers,’ because you’re only going to get one out of every 50 or 100 that actually really wants to put the time in and love this and work and be there all day long, every day, trying to hone their craft.
“A lot of people talk a good game, but they don’t actually put the time in. There were a lot of things that I thought needed a kick up the backside because people are not paying attention and nobody had to tell me to go up to better wrestlers when I was younger and try to pick their brains.
“Nobody had to tell me to work on everything that I could work on, that’s where I got to. I was all for the change, but I also get that if you’re trying to make a complete change, you might not think that…I don’t think anybody knew, but I was very open to the fact that I wanted to be a big part of that, and I was because I was very hands-on with the Creed Brothers and Bron Breakker.
“I had an incredible run on the main roster and I had the absolute greatest run possible in NXT. If nothing else, the time came when it was time to go now, so it didn’t become something I didn’t like and move on. That’s the way I look at it.”
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