Shawn Michaels talks NXT hitting the road.
To celebrate their move to the CW Network, NXT will be hitting the road. The show will visit Chicago on October 1 and will feature a special appearance from CM Punk. Following that, the show will visit St Louis on October 7 and will feature a special appearance from Randy Orton.
While speaking to Claibs Online for a new interview, Shawn Michaels talked about the decision to bring NXT on the road for a few weeks in October.
“We always have times where we talk about being able to get out a bit more on the road and the possibilities of doing that. You always have to worry about what’s best for the product and what’s within reason. When this unbelievable five year partnership got announced with CW, there was just something where we wanted to make a big splash when we did it. It’s a fantastic deal, it’s a fantastic partnership. The CW is so behind NXT, so encouraged about having us on their network, it just seemed like the right thing to do is to make a huge splash in those first couple of shows. The decision was made to go to Chicago and follow it up with St Louis on the 8th. There’s also gonna be other possibilities, those are announcements that have yet to come and look, there’s always going to be evolution when it comes to the NXT product and WWE a a whole. We’re always trying to continue to go to that next level of the sports entertainment genre. But for right now, excited about these first two shows, NXT is doing something, and so are Raw and SmackDown, that’s not really seen much in linear television anymore and that is continue to grow their audience and to grow a younger audience. Anytime you do that right now in the television landscape, it’s damn near a miracle.”
In a seperate recent interview, Michaels said that he thinks the relationship between NXT and TNA is still in the early stages. Learn more here.
Check out the current lineup for the August 20 edition of WWE NXT by clicking here.
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