Triple H Shoots On UK Wrestling Scene - “Some Of Those Indies Are Going To Go Away”
'The Game' talks expansion and extinction...
Triple H has spoken at length about NXT UK and the wider impact it continues to have on the increasingly depleted United Kingdom independent scene.
Talking to Corey Graves on his After The Bell podcast, 'The Game' said; "People misunderstood what we were trying to accomplish over in the UK because of small thinking or short-sightedness. Yes, some of these indies are going to go away. The ones that are going to go away are the ones who are paying you 25 bucks when they promised you 75. The ones that have a ring that doesn’t hold up. The ones that don’t have medical there. The ones that didn’t care about you, they were just booking you because they were hoping to sell some tickets, and you might have a bit of buzz. So they were hoping to sell some tickets, and they could care less what you do...We wanted to work with the ones who were cultivating talent. The ones that were encouraging them to become better, working with them on their promos or giving them guidance, right or wrong on their matches. Ones that had equipment that was functioning, or medical care if you were injured, instead of waiting 45 minutes for an ambulance or trying to figure out if they were going to call you an Uber.”
Hunter's comments ignored the presence of a free at point-of-use National Health Service in the United Kingdom, though to contextualise, were in reference to why they'd chosen to work with the likes of Progress, ICW et al over other organisations.
It'll take longer than a few years to assess exactly how the scene will look in comparison to the 2016 boom period, but Pete Dunne's "British wrestling is safe" tweet remains a go-to for folk whenever their local indie shuts down or cancels events - a situation occurring with alarming regularity in 2019.
More on this as it (rather frustratingly) develops.