1) Vince McMahon’s Feelings About NXT UK
According to journalist Tom Colohue, WWE is considering shutting down NXT UK. This comes after several NXT UK Superstars were accused of sexual assault over the past week or so.
If this happens, Colohue says that the top NXT UK stars will move to the NXT roster. This will also push some of the current NXT roster up to RAW or Smackdown. Here is what he wrote:
With action expected to be taken to root out WWE wrestlers across the board that the company considers “problematic”, as well as the recent releases of talent due to the COVID-19 pandemic, multiple sources have explained that the closing of NXT UK would allow the majority of the wrestlers there to move to NXT, padding out numbers, as NXT wrestlers move into RAW and SmackDown. We have apparently only seen the beginning of this with Matt Riddle’s move to SmackDown.
Colohue also says that Vince McMahon is upset with the financial drain of NXT UK:
Additionally, Vince McMahon is said to be personally upset with the financial drain of keeping all NXT UK talent on the payroll without any new product to offer. NXT UK is said to have been unprofitable outside of TakeOver events for a while now, with tapings attracting a low turnout and BT Sport not paying out a huge amount for the product.
My Take:
- It does seem like only a matter of time before WWE shuts down the brand completely. We will have to wait and see what happens but I don’t see it lasting much longer.
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