NXT has become it’s own brand and features some of the best wrestling in the world today (see Nakamura vs Zayn). If you are a fan of NXT, you can thank Triple H, who is credited with the creation of the brand. Bray Wyatt in a recent interview with Busted Open, emphasizes how much Triple H has meant to not only NXT but to his own career success. He says that he owes Triple H everything:
Bray Wyatt on how much Triple H has meant to his career:
“Hunter was there at the beginning of NXT. It was nothing, it was still FCW, it was a warehouse, and when he came in, everything started to change. It was a lot of cartoon characters. It was, I’m not going to name names, but a lot of goofs and, you know, guys just wearing trunks and going out there, baby oil all over themselves, and then there was me. When we started that first show, I was one of the first characters to ever come out and I was so different. No one understood that at that time because NXT was not what you see today with all these bright characters. Finn Balor coming out with all the, whatever, devil crap. It wasn’t like that then. It was just cartoon characters and when I walked out, it was just a great feeling because people immediately accepted what I was doing. They didn’t care about the other guy. They didn’t want to know about how it happened. They were just happy it did. They were very receptive and Hunter was instrumental in that for believing in me when not too many other people did… He’s carried me a long way and I owe him everything.”
Source: Busted Open
When he is talking about ‘the other guy’ he is talking about his previous gimmick Husky Harris. I think it is a testament to Triple H and NXT that he was able to redevelop a character that has become a big deal on the main roster!