The Orlando Sentinel recently conducted an interview with Triple H and Matt Bloom discussing WWE NXT and their plans for the future. Here are some highlights:
Bloom on the talents living in Orlando: “They get paid well. We expect results. They do very well. I can tell you we take the hustle out of the game of the independent circuit where you have to live week to week and hope you get bookings. We now enable these men and women to come in and do what they love.”
Triple H on what he told Vince McMahon when asked to get more involved with the company: “I think the biggest gap we have is that we’re doing all these amazing things to grow our business and our company, except: How are we finding these guys for the future? We’re a victim of our own success. Territories don’t exist; the outside places to do this are less and less. How do you want to do that?”
Triple H on the best thing about the business: “The business has always been — I hate saying this — a traveling circus because I feel like most people say that in a derogatory way, but it’s like a traveling family. They’re all learning together at different levels and they are there to support each other, and that’s what I always stress to the talent. The coolest thing about this business is that when you’re a star, you can reach down and try to help a kid who is trying to become a star and help him or her.”
