Bruce Prichard On WWE Changes: "It's Exciting Times"

WWE is changing... and according to a certain top executive, for the better.

WWE Executive Director, Bruce Prichard recently released a new episode of his 'Something To Wrestle' podcast (h/t to Fightful) and delved into the recent changes happening in the company, something he calls an "exciting time".

"Let's call it exciting. It's exciting times, it's a time in life to which, people take life for granted sometimes and take things happening around you for granted and it's all how you look at life. You can either, love life, live life or you can hate life and just exist. I choose to... there were times in my life where I chose the latter, but I choose the former. I would rather live life and enjoy it because life is a journey, not a destination. Remember, the light at the end of the tunnel may be you."

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When it comes to the major change of NXT transitioning away from it's black and gold era to it's current 2.0 iteration, Prichard claims he never wrote a single segment for NXT both before and after the change.

"I do have to say, because it's something people, even internally, have come to me with and made comments about... that I was writing NXT. I never said a word. You know what else I never did? I never wrote one NXT show in the history of my existence. I'm a fan of NXT, I love NXT. Shawn Michaels recently came out and talked about how, 'It's been me [Shawn], it's been me since day one.' Shawn has done a tremendous job of grabbing NXT by the horns and doing what he's done. I love Shawn Michaels to death. The fact that Shawn finally came out and said, 'What are you guys talking about?' To those pundits out there, the dirt sheet writers who reported as fact, not, 'hey rumors are,' no, they reported as fact, that I had been involved in NXT. The fact of the matter is, they were 100% just fabricated lies. From where? I don't know. Now that they've heard it from two different sources who were actually there and would actually know, they should probably consider their sources, or just stop making things up. I just found it so funny when, in an interview, with so many different things going on, Shawn said, 'I'm gonna comment on that,' just because so many people were dying on that soapbox and wanted to have my head. Those that want my head are going to want my head, have at it. I love what I do, I love where I'm at, what I'm doing, with whom I do it with. Get over it. it's not all about what you think you perceive. Reality is reality and perception can be reality too, but when your reality is based on the perception that you have no idea about, it's just wrong,"

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Prichard remains in his role as Executive Director of both RAW and SmackDown despite now-former Chairman Vince McMahon retiring from 'all active duties' following the company's Board of Directors investigating several sexual misconduct and hush money payment claims against both McMahon and former VP of Talent Relations, John Laurinaitis.