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Originally Posted by Fignuts
Vince’s involvement could of just been sending the main roster writers over to NXT. That’s something that would definitely be Vince’s call. Also explains the sterile, formulaic feeling of NXT since the TV deal.
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Road Dogg mentioned in an interview a while back about NXT putting a lot more focus towards character/gimmick building and sports entertainment style and less on what NXT was doing pre-USA Network.
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Originally Posted by Fightful
Speaking with Corey Graves on WWE’s After The Bell podcast, Road Dogg opened up about how the black and gold brand is making a conscious effort to develop more characters as the in-ring action is at an all-time peak in WWE
“Working on the entrances, working on the TV spots, and cool camera angles and I mean, we take a lot of time in that stuff and I don't know what people think about that, but man the television aspect of what we do is second to none,” said the former multi-time WWE Tag Team Champion. “I'd put [NXT] up against any, even in the other [WWE] brands, but any television show”
He continued, “Sometimes we get the criticism like, 'Oh it's too clean. It's too perfect.' Well, okay. That's what we're doing. That's what we're trying to do. We don't want it to be Channel 5 studio wrestling. We want it to be a cool television show that just happens to be hip tosses and arm drags in between commercials, you know? Now like we talked about, it's time to [say] okay, we got this live TV thing down. We got this wrestling thing down. Let's dive deeper into the characters and that's where we're going and we're going to try to bring a little more entertainment back into the show. NXT's been heavily wrestling, wrestling, wrestling. We want to bring-- and we started that with Riddle and Pete Dunne-- we're making a conscious effort to get a little more entertainment and dive deeper into character. So, the future is bright, man and I'm loving what I'm doing.”
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Him and HBK having a heavier hand in NXT Creative has been having more of a negative effect on the show.
When Dusty was in charge, he was a lot more hands-off when it came to creative stuff and let the sole lead writer handle creative with some input from NXT agents. Same for Triple H back then but he's been getting more hands-on ever since Dusty's death and even more so since the switch to USA Network.