The WWE NXT Title picture has recently undergone a major change thanks to the WWE Draft, which caused the NXT Women’s Championship to be vacated and the NXT Women’s Tag Team Championship is currently ending on SmackDown. A new NXT Women’s Champion will be crowned at NXT Battleground, but without the titles around, there is currently only one title for the all-women’s division, rather than something like the North American title. At today’s press event for NXT Battleground, ComicBook.com asked Shawn Michaels if there was any consideration for adding another women’s title to NXT, and although he’s pretty much gone for it, he has some reluctance to come up with another title. starring in the mix.
“So look, every now and then these thoughts drift through your head, but I will say this. I think that as proud as I am of our women’s division, I would argue that there isn’t anyone… I know for sure in my opinion, there isn’t anyone who takes the spotlight on their women as much. We do here in NXT,” Michaels said. “Having said that, I don’t know what another title is, and sometimes I’m not sure what I’ve really achieved in that regard.”
“So I think the fact that we’re spotlighting our women and putting them in so many different stories and distributing them incredibly well throughout the list, I think is a huge success and something that we do very well. I think to answer your question, I play with it. I go back and forth on it.” Every now and then, but then again, when all is said and done, there’s a TV show on Tuesday that we have to put on, but we also, it’s about developing talent here and we have a lot of young people, especially on the women’s side we have now,” Michaels said.
Michaels said the draft had an impact on the roster in several ways, including taking veteran stars off the brand and thus the locker room. “With the draft and everything else, we’ve lost a lot of, again, what we consider to be veterans and a lot of leaders. And now we have a very, very young locker room,” Michaels said. “And so I think now… And I would argue at one point, the Women’s Championship was obviously the only title that ever existed from a women’s point of view. But as much as I would love to do something like that, you really want it to be scrutinized.”
“I hope I’m not giving you a quick BS answer. It’s something I think about on a daily basis. I don’t know that I’m comfortable with what’s out there yet or that I’ve made that decision. And again, I also know that with such young talent, is There will be people who are ready to take on that role? I guess that’s my answer to you. I think about it a lot, but I’m not ready to pull the trigger on something like that. I’m very proud of what we’re doing here with our women in NXT, because I think they are, again, the strongest division Feminists across the country, Michaels said.
The WWE draft took many veteran NXT stars from the women’s division, including Indi Hartwell, Zoey Stark, Alba Fyre, Katana Chance, and Kayden Carter. They were all with NXT for a while before NXT 2.0 moved into gear, and now they’re all on either Raw or SmackDown. As for the current NXT roster, there is a great deal of up-and-coming talent, and two major superstars will be battling it out for the NXT Women’s Championship at Battleground in Tiffany Stratton and Lyra Valkyria.
The second women’s title isn’t just something fans wanted in NXT, but also on SmackDown and Raw, where the division could use another title similar to the Intercontinental or United States Titles. We’ll have to wait and see if that happens, but in the meantime, let us know what you think in the comments. You can also talk all things wrestling with me on Twitter @MattAguilarCB!
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