10 Things We Just Learned From Triple H About NXT & WWE

3. The Lessons NXT Can Teach The Main Roster

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It might be entirely different - and that's a key message from Triple H, undoubtedly - but can the third brand actively teach the other two some positive lessons for the future?

"You know, it's hard to say that you've learned something directly from, "Oh, this brand specifically showed me this, or this brand specifically showed me that." I feel like the business constantly changes."

Instead, business and the product changes as a reflection of the market and the culture of fandom changing:

"What fans want, what fans are into, what they're interested in constantly morphs and changes. Characters that worked 15 years ago wouldn't work today. Performers that were huge 10 years ago wouldn't work today. You know, it's constantly morphing and constantly changing."

But there are lessons to be learned between the brands:

"I think they will all learn from each other. I think, when you see things succeed in SmackDown, you're going to see them begin to morph into Raw. And as things begin to succeed in Raw, you're going to see them morph into SmackDown and, vice versa, you know, with NXT and all of it."

And that may well happen even more after the brand extension because "it creates a lot more opportunity for a lot more talent and a lot more ideas to be put out on the table and performances to take place. And that gives the NXT universe much greater variety, much greater option for them to express what they like and dislike."

That inherently means more opportunity for the fans to express what they want, how they want business to be shaped and while it might not happen on the scale they want "their voices change the business and change the industry. And they create its success, as much as anything."

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