5 Ways WWE Can Improve NXT

NXT is arguably the best thing going in WWE today. The show has given us some tremendous talent, excellent PPV-style shows, and a place where hardcore fans can get invested in the future of the top wrestling business today. From a distance, the NXT product has only improved with age; the superstars in development are all impressive in their own ways and the brand is continuously bringing in new talent.

However, if you've been watching the show for a long time, you may be a bit worried.

Sure, Shinsuke Nakamura and Samoa Joe are all great talents, and the arrivals of Bobby Roode, Austin Aries, and Eric Young help pad the upper card, but the show itself is starting to show it's age. Although that upper card is full of stars, the lower card is a jumbled mess. This is before mentioning all the recent call ups to the main roster, leaving NXT to feel a bit barren.

However, NXT is not a production that just sits around and gets stale. It's a show all about the future, and its future would look a little bit brighter if Triple H and company take the time and look how to fix their current issues.

Here are five ways such ways.

If there is one thing I can say about NXT, it's that it is always looking ahead. Soon enough, Samoa Joe is going to the main roster, leaving Shinsuke Nakamura to probably fight Bobby Roode for the NXT Championship sooner rather than later.

So that asks the question: who's next?

When NXT was turning into the monster that it is now, the show had constant talent coming in at the right time. When Neville became champion, Sami Zayn was getting hot, and Kevin Owens was just debuting. There has always been someone behind them waiting for their shot. We have heels galore right now in NXT, and each of them could easily be thrown in the title equation. The real problem is that there is no real babyface ready for a main event push.

As far as singles babyface competitors go, we have No Way Jose, Tye Dillinger, and Hideo Itami - none of which, in my opinion, are ready for the NXT Title. Jose is a midcard talent through and through, and Itami just got injured again, so there's no trust in him yet. That leaves Dillinger, who lost so much as a heel that I'm not sure if it is repairable. If anything, him and Itami would make the main roster before they touch NXT gold.

And looking at the next crop of stars, there seems to be no faces coming up. Anthony Dawkins, Steve Cutler, Tino Sabbatelli, and Patrick Clark all seem to be more heelish than face. NXT is a place of development, and they really need to develop some good guys for the gold and black brand.