During his appearance on the After the Bell podcast with Corey Graves, Triple H was asked if he thinks we’ll see more situations like Finn Balor going back down to NXT after taking time away from WWE.
His response:
“I do, yeah, I think now this is sort of the template of whatever is on the table. I think that as... if you look at the roster, there are going to be times when they’re like, ‘look, until the next draft comes or whatever this talent is here but they’ve kind of worked with everybody, and we’re gonna finish up this program with them and then we almost kind of inherently need to sit them down for three months, or six months, or whatever that is, just to clear this up so we can get to this other side and when we do the switch it’s new again.’ Great, give ‘em to me, I’ll take ‘em. You mentioned the territories... I’ll take ‘em. Here’s the window and here’s what I’m gonna do with you in that window, for the most part, barring all the other things that could happen. It’s a cool opportunity.”
Balor wasn’t the first to do it, as Tyler Breeze and Fandango had both gone back down, but he’s probably the biggest star to make the jump back. This has been the biggest indication that the territory type system Triple H has long been a champion of is coming to fruition.
Is it the best thing for WWE’s future?
We’ll just have to wait and see.