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Tony Khan Appears To Respond To Nick Khan’s Recent NXT Revamp Comments

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Earlier today here on eWn, we reported that WWE President Nick Khan had spoken with Ariel Helwani for BT Sport and confirmed that WWE NXT will be getting a “complete revamp” in the coming weeks. He said,

“We’re doing a complete revamp on NXT, led by Paul Levesque/Triple H, who is really one of the architects of the original NXT. So what we found, it’s probably why we did the tryout yesterday, what we want to make sure is easy for folks who want to be for WWE Superstars is figuring out how to become WWE Superstars. So, if you think of the life of an elevated athlete throughout their career, the opportunity to go play somewhere has always been easy. Being able to play somewhere is not. That’s what’s hard. But if you’re an amazing high school football players, colleges come after you, you get recruited. You go into their system, and either you make it or you don’t make it. Again, all that takes to get there, very difficult, but the system? Not difficult, from my point of view. So we want our system to be an easy system, where people who want to be Superstars, they know how to get to us, and we can get to them. In terms of an NXT rebrand, look for it in the next couple of weeks. It’s going to have a whole new look. It’s going to have a whole new feel, and we believe because a lot of the ‘indie wrestlers,’ if you will, have come through our system and are in our system with SmackDown and RAW now, we don’t want to just keep doing that same thing. We want to look elsewhere for great young talent. The look of the show, the production of the show, everything’s gonna’ change.”

Following the interview being posted online (see below), AEW President Tony Khan took to Twitter and appeared to respond to Nick’s comments. Tony noted that pro wrestling is an art form. He said,

“Professional wrestling is an art form. You don’t create great artists by training them all to paint by numbers in the same way.”

For what it’s worth, Tony Khan did not specifically mention what his tweet was is in reference to but you can only assume given the timing.