Triple H Shoots On Tommaso Ciampa's Refusal To Move To WWE Raw Roster
"Could he handle the grind and the wear and tear and everything else of a full run on Raw?"
Triple H spoke candidly about Tommaso Ciampa's recent remarks about how he'd feel about a move away from NXT to Raw or SmackDown.
When asked by Ryan Satin earlier this month if he'd want to make the jump, Ciampa said "I had neck surgery and I'm not freaking stupid. I get that my window is smaller than it was and my bump card is ticking. I just look at like, if I'm doing 200 plus dates a year on the road with Raw or SmackDown OR I'm doing a manageable load of 30 to 50 matches with NXT – I can do 4 years of that in the time that I do 1 year on Raw or SmackDown. So how long can my career and portfolio grow HERE as opposed to going there."
Speaking on Corey Graves' After The Bell Podcast, 'The Game' concurred, noting that; “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...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...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. And he 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.”