During his podcast 83 Weeks, Eric Bischoff stated that he doesn't believe NXT is as good as TNA was at it's peak.

“I don’t think NXT is as good as TNA was when TNA was at its peak. Now ‘at its peak’ is subjective, right? Some people liked TNA when it first started because it was new. I get that. There’s value in that. There’s a valuation you can apply to that fact,” Bischoff said. “A lot of people liked it because it did feel different in the very beginning. Some people liked that smaller presentation. More than anything, everybody loves a competitor. Right, because you get your hopes up and you start getting interested in some new, fresh characters that you hadn’t seen before.”