WWE: Triple H on NXT’s Move to USA Network, Ronda Rousey Update, WrestleMania 37

Triple H Comments on NXT’s Move to USA Network and the Brand’s Future

WWE held a recent interview with Triple H discussing NXT’s upcoming move to USA Network and the future of the brand.

“It’s been a crazy journey, something that I don’t think most people would have thought would ever happen, but this was the vision of it. From starting out with a partnership with Full Sail University and having to bring in main roster stars to have enough people to put the show on each week to. We got to the point where they didn’t want to see the main roster stars anymore. We stopped calling it main roster because NXT was becoming white-hot when we didn’t even have a distribution home for it. We were the first live show on the WWE Network with NXT Arrival, which was the first sort-of TakeOver we did. A year after that, we were selling out the Barclays Center for TakeOvers. Selling out all over the globe.

And now, the opportunity to go on the #1 cable network, USA. I couldn’t be happier or more proud. I said it in the beginning; this is going to be [the fans] brand. As good as NXT is now, it’s only going to get better. This is going to expose a whole new side of NXT that people haven’t been able to see. As excited as everybody is about this moment, this is the start. This isn’t the destination.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Ronda Rousey WWE Status Update

Ronda Rousey has been on a break from WWE since WrestleMania 35 this past April.

WWE currently has plans for Rousey to work a more limited scheduled and be treated more as a special attraction if she ever decides to resume her wrestling career, the Wrestling Observer’s Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Newsletter.

Meltzer also reported that WWE does not have any current plans for Rousey to make one-off appearances for television but those plans could easily change for special episodes like SmackDown’s debut on FOX.

Los Angeles Reportedly a Finalist for WrestleMania 37’s Host City

The city of Los Angeles reportedly is currently one of the finalists being considered by WWE to be the official host city of WrestleMania 37 in 2021, according to the L.A. Times.

L.A. Times’ Arash Markazi reported that Inglewood mayor James T Butts Jr. confirmed that L.A. was recently chosen by WWE to be one of the official finalists for next year’s WrestleMania event.