Report: WWE NXT Talents Encouraged To "Lay It In”

Randy Orton made the rounds recently with comments about WWE NXT trainees, saying they “don't know what the f**k they're doing.”

Orton’s comments were in regard to NXT stars throwing hard punches during matches rather than fully working them, and now a report from Wrestling Observer Live’s Bryan Alvarez suggests the NXT talent are told to work this way by WWE:

“Randy Orton is absolutely 100 percent correct,” Alvarez said. “That is what this used to be. It used to be that this was a show and you pretended to hurt each other and there was an art to pretending that you hurt each other but not actually hurting each other.”

Alvarez continued, “Bro I don’t know when that changed but I have heard and I am sure that many other people listening to this who might be in the business have heard the same thing – that in developmental, these wrestlers are encouraged to lay it in [work snug/stiff]. They are encouraged to lay it in.”

H/T: WrestlingNews.co