Triple H and Shawn Michaels were recently guests on WWE’s podcast, After The Bell. During this, Triple H was asked about some comments that Tommaso Ciampa recently made about never wanting to leave NXT.
For those who missed it, Ciampa said that he will retire if WWE wants him to leave NXT for RAW or Smackdown.
Here is what Triple H said about Ciampa’s comments (h/t to 411Mania for the quotes below):
“I think there’s a part of Ciampa, though — that comes down to wear and tear and physicality of, in his current place physically, could he handle the schedule? Could he handle the grind and the wear and tear and everything else of a full run on Raw or Smackdown, right? It’s a different — that’s a different beast. And even though that schedule has now dropped and has become much more manageable, especially if you have a family and everything else. But for him, he probably looks at it and says, ‘Look, if I was on the main roster, I have a run that’s this long. If I was on NXT with a lessened schedule and much more manageable, I have a run that’s this long.’ He’d rather do this for a long period of time and then transition into doing all the other stuff that he loves.”
On Ciampa’s future after he does retire:
“I’ll tell you, when the time is right, he’ll be a phenomenal coach. He’ll be a phenomenal backstage producer. We’re letting him get experienced in that now. He goes to EVOLVE right now, and he’ll go there and he’ll sign autographs or whatever. But then during the day, he’s a producer. He goes and he pulls the role that we do, right? He goes there and he’s passing on that knowledge to those kids, and he’s a producer and an agent there. And helps with their shows and does everything else. And then when they’re producing the television event or the digital whatever it is that night, he’s helping with that. He’s picking up the things that we’re teaching him, and he’s putting it someplace else. And that’s gonna translate long-term in his career too.”
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