7 Things We Learned From ESPN's WWE Special "Behind The Curtain"

3. Triple H Has A Trusted Team To Help Him Make NXT Roster Decisions

This is the part that really made it worthwhile. We got to see even more of what the creative process was like because they showed a NXT production and creative meeting. Triple H sat at the head of the table running the meeting. There must have been 20-25 people in the room on as they sat at a very long desk. There were so many familiar names there: Dusty Rhodes Jim Ross, Michael Cole, Michael Hayes, Billy Gunn, John Laurinaitis, Joey Mercury, Terry Taylor and others that are a part of WWE's developmental system. We also got to see Renee Young seated in the background as well as Byron Saxton because announcers need to know thins for production purposes. It's likely that only the people at the table were the ones talking while the others were there to take notes. When they showed the creative table, they discussed guys like Rose, Woods and Graves. In each case, Triple H led the discussion to ask the team about whether or not they wanted to fish with these guys or cut bait. You could tell that Triple H was interested in trying to help all of them, so he listened to the team to hear what they had to say. In the case of Woods, Cole stepped up to say he's a guy that could represent WWE so well due to his education and they just had to find the right role for him. He made a great point. Woods is a huge asset to WWE because he can speak to kids about getting an education since he will have his PhD soon. Michael Hayes was brutally honest about Leppan, saying that nobody wanted to see him as Leo Kruger. You could tell that they all wanted him to succeed, they just didn't feel like Leo Kruger was connecting that much. Those scenes with the production team sharing ideas were the most riveting because we never really see that sort of thing. To see WWE decision makers putting that much thought into these NXT guys shows how much they care about the product succeeding. It would be awesome to see something like that for Raw although it's unlikely that WWE would want to share that with the world.