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The issue with NXT happened way before AEW, and it was how badly Vince handles the callups. Vince killed any incentive for fans to be invested in NXT or the roster. It got to the point where even the wrestlers themselves did not want to get called up because they knew it would be doom. Even guys who by all accounts fit Vince's vision of what a wrestler should look like such as EC3 or Karrion Kross, were intentionally devalued immediately. They were literally called up not to improve Raw or Smackdown, they were called up to devalue NXT.
Triple H's creative upstaged Vince's by a mile, and instead of Vince trying to make improvements to the main roster's creative, he pulled Triple H's best pieces and buried them, then tried to put the blame on Triple H for NXT's failures.
I don't know for certain Triple H will be able to have large scale success, but at the very least if he and Steph can do simple things like not doing mass firings or having people walk out, not renaming everybody and not intentionally killing anybody getting over, well that itself would be far better.
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