Shawn Michaels Touts WWE NXT As The Best Two-Hour Wrestling Show On TV

NXT - like the rest of WWE - has had a stellar 2023, with the third brand of WWE increasing in viewership, and inking a new TV broadcast deal with The CW.

NXT head Shawn Michaels is well aware of NXT’s gains this year, and when asked about the brand’s performance by POST Wrestling on the pre-Deadline media call, ‘HBK’ said the following:

"My feeling is, a lot of it is the movement of the show. Our show moves very fast. I think that's something that resonates with that audience. I'll also say, it's a variety show, it's sports entertainment. We have something for everybody. Certainly, for me, is what I believe is resonating with that audience. It's quick moving, it's going from one scene to another. It's almost like scrolling on your phone, some of the segments we have. We can go from a Chase U segment to a backstage promo into the ring to a shot that happens from the Performance Center to an off-site with the Family at the restaurant.

“We have a lot of different atmospheric aspects to the NXT show. That's why I do say that we're the best two-hour wrestling television show on TV today because we have so much variety. That's something that being in Orlando at the Performance Center allows us that other people don't have. That's one of the things that resonates.

“Also, we have younger writers on our show. The old man is still making the final decisions, but at the same time, we're always trying to think of stuff that is natural and what is going on today. Certain emotions are there regardless of age group; anger, jealousy, joy, happiness, being hurt, any emotion you have under the sun doesn't really have an age group. If you can find yourself tapping into all of those emotions, that's what sort of attracts the 18 to 34 audience because I think they are a bit more focused on that aspect of television,” said Michaels.

H/T: Fightful