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Triple H explains why NXT’s constant roster turnover is a strength

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Triple H is a proud dad. Coming off the latest Superstar Shakeup, while everyone is concerned over the future of the Raw and SmackDown rosters, NXT just keeps chugging along.

What started out as a training ground and minor league for the WWE has transformed into it’s own powerful standalone promotion. “The Father of NXT”, Triple H is always happy to wax poetic about NXT.

In a new interview with ESPN, Triple H addressed concerns about how NXT deals with it’s ever evolving roster of wrestlers. In what may come as a surprise, the former 14-time WWE world champion views NXT’s revolving door of talent as one of the promotion’s strengths.

“That level of growth in that short period of time, is awesome. It’s one of my favorite things about NXT. I think there was a lot of people who thought it was a weakness when we first started -- this turnover, that ‘Oh my God, you get somebody over and then the roster takes them and then you’re doomed, right?’ Might take us a little bit... but we’ll get there.”

Triple H continued

“It’s about new talent. I think it’s the strength. I can look at almost every card...when we go to Brooklyn, almost every year I can look at that card and there’s nobody on it from the year before. I can look at this card tonight, I’m not really sure who’s on it from last year’s WrestleMania [weekend] card. It’s very small, and when you look at the main roster [at WrestleMania], I think there’s two matches on that card that don’t have somebody from NXT.”

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