Triple H On the Current State of NXT, Why It Is Not a Disservice to Top Talents If They Miss TakeOvers, One Hour NXT Format

Triple H participated in a conference call immediately after NXT Takeover Chicago last weekend, and below are some highlights via ESPN:

On the state of NXT following Takeover:

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“Something like tonight is when all the pieces fit and it’s just magic,” said Paul “Triple H” Levesque in an exclusive interview with ESPN shortly after the show wrapped up Saturday night. “It’s like the puzzle set up so nicely that you shake the box and all the pieces just fall into place and the picture’s there — it’s perfect.”

“The match has to deliver off the story you’re telling, right? You feel like, ‘OK, now we got there, we’re there. We’ve set the table really well. Now can the story deliver on it?’” said Levesque. “That is the beauty of the art of what we do, and also the dilemma of what we do. The final chapter … it’s never the final chapter, because the book never stops, but that kind of final chapter that you’re telling [for now], it goes live, so no matter the best plan of how you see it playing out, it can go awry.

“Shawn [Michaels] and I talk about this a lot,” continued Levesque. “It’s almost more nerve-wracking for me back here watching it play out, because you want it to be so good for them, and just the heart and soul that everybody puts into it. It’s tough as a fan, because you don’t know — you just watch it and you’re either entertained or you’re not. But everybody puts their heart and soul into all this stuff.”

On NXT possibly expanding to two hours:

“There are times when I look at NXT and part of me loves the hour format because everybody’s got busy lives,” said Levesque. “By the time you get to Wednesday … if you’re a huge fan, by the time you get to Wednesday, you’ve watched five hours of WWE, and then you’re watching NXT. And that’s if you didn’t watch ‘205 Live.’ There’s a lot out there. The great thing is they’re all slightly different, so there’s a little bit of something for everybody.

“I run into things, for me, when we’re scripting out weekly episodes of NXT, [where]it’s like, ‘Oh, man, I’d really like to debut this person, or do this thing with this new character, or help get a persona going or something [else], and I don’t have the room to do it,” Levesque continued. “There’s a fine line between that and leaving them wanting more, so it’s a balance.”

“I’ve heard people say it to me, even on these TakeOvers, ‘How can you do this card and not put EC3 on? How can you do this card and not put Adam Cole on? That’s a disservice.’ No, you just don’t put everything on the show. You save something for the next one that’s even bigger. You save something for the episode that’s even bigger. To me, that is the ‘leave them wanting more’ part in it, and I think we do a pretty decent job of balancing it — but it’s always a work in progress.”