10 Secrets Nobody Has Told You About WWE Yet
8. NXT Is Good...
...as long as you know exactly what you're signing up for.
The original NXT was a concept so fatally and catastrophically flawed that the brand should have never escaped it to become the home of WWE's most critically acclaimed product several years later. Those two extremes looked like they would define the developmental forever, but the 2021 "2.0" relaunch located something in-between, and not just the gooey middle the original sex-crazed show appeared to be.
Yes, there were initially constant references to people being up to their eyes in intercourse backstage, but eventually that levelled off into a decent hybrid landscape of inane gimmicks fused with quality in-ring in a way far more satisfying than the average two-hour telecast.
Chase University is an academic institution existing entirely within a wrestling gym. Car park lore from old NXT is observed but never acted upon. There are as many wrestlers that seemingly have wrestling as a side-hustle as those that do it for a living, including but not limited to those that commit actual crimes in order to earn a wage.
A show that rewards you asking less questions than more, it's nonetheless been home to one of WWE's best matches of the year in The Creed Brothers Vs The Dyad from, and within that, the potential next breakout star you need to keep your eye on.
Improbably, NXT in 2023 has the lot.