21 Things We Learned From The WWE Network's NXT All-Star Panel

19. The WWE Network Caused The NXT Specials

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Having been around since August 2012, NXT found a new home on the WWE Network once the streaming service was launched in early 2014.

At that point fans were used to getting an hour’s worth of weekly NXT television, but the creation of this new service led to the need for more original content. As such, Triple H offered up the idea of a live NXT special in order to present material for the recently-launched WWE Network.

Given the success of the first special, an event known as NXT: Arrival (that saw Adrian Neville defeat Bo Dallas for the NXT Championship in a Ladder Match), Vince McMahon was so impressed that he decided that such a show should be a quarterly happening.

The brand has never looked back, and it’s safe to say that a vast majority of fans now look forward to the NXT specials far more than they do for the WWE’s standard PPVs.

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