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Shawn Michaels was recently a guest on The MMA Hour, where he spoke about taking over WWE NXT responsibilities from Triple H when he had his health scare.
âNothing sucks more than to have to follow in those footsteps and then have all these abrupt changes that you have to take over. I will say this, for my knowledge at the time, for instance, the logo that came at the last minute, even from Hunterâs standpoint, from the best of my understanding, it was âthis is what it is.â Thatâs maybe something that, I saw the interview you did with Hunter where he said there were a lot of things that people thought that he wouldnât have done or decisions he didnât make, but they actually were. There were some things that he did know about, but then there were others, especially as it started going and he wasnât there, that were very different and difficult to deal with. Me, having stepped in from the outside, you can be in Orlando, but not have any idea whatâs going on from a corporate standpoint in Stamford. Thatâs where it was difficult for me. I stepped in and was no longer answering to Hunter, I was answering to other people, and quite honestly, I wasnât sure who that was because it was different people at different times. It was very challenging.â
On how WWE changes:
âThe one thing in this company you must adjust to is change. Things can change overnight, but it was my understanding that Hunter did want to get back to the developmental. I donât think we would have done it as drastically, for instance, starting out on the first shows with 75% new people, we wouldnât have put anybody out there before we were ready. There were some things sort of insisted upon that we couldnât control, I certainly couldnât control, and Hunter because he wasnât here had no say. It was challenging and it wasnât fun trying to be that guy to balance both sides. Putting on a two-hour live wrestling event with people who have never done it before is not easy. What this crew has been through over the last year really brought us closer together and the fans got to watch the progression of these young men and women over the last year and over time, I think you respect what they went up against because it wasnât easy for any of us. You do what youâre told, you take that hill whether you should be taking it, and thatâs what weâve certainly tried to do. When everything is said and done, I think weâre all better for it, going through the challenge. Iâd be lying to you if I didnât say it was rough.â
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