Shawn Michaels Says Success Of NXT’s Women’s Roster Has Led To ‘Incredibly Healthy Competition’ Between NXT Women’s & Men’s Divisions
The success of the women’s roster lit a spark.
Shawn Michaels’ hometown of San Antonio, Texas, is playing host to WWE NXT’s Deadline Premium Live Event on December 6th.
To promote the event, Michaels chatted with San Antonio Express-News. He opened up about the depth and strengths of NXT’s women’s division. Michaels said the success of the women’s roster has created healthy competition between NXT’s women’s and men’s divisions.
“Well, one, it honestly wasn’t a focus to be perfectly honest… That’s what I think — I don’t know — we’re so proud of is the reality is we didn’t try to have the best women’s roster and the deepest women’s roster in all of wrestling. It is just something that kind of just naturally happened. As we began in NXT and the WWE to reach out to all of these D1 athletes, I don’t know, it was just something that over time, you could just see how quickly that some of the young ladies were adapting to this and understanding it, and quite honestly, becoming very good, very quickly, and I think as you see the success of people like Tiffany Stratton, who came in and was a part of NXT and then how successful she’s been on the main roster, I think that encouraged a lot of our young ladies obviously. They’re hungry, they’re passionate, they’re extremely competitive as well, and look, NXT has just been a huge beneficiary of, again, this women’s division just being so strong. But I can honestly say it wasn’t something we set out to do, and it is just something the women have kind of taken over and controlled for the last year and a half. But I will tell you this, it has certainly inspired the men’s side of our division. So now there’s an incredibly healthy competition going on in NXT to see who can have the strongest division coming up in 2026.”
NXT’s weekly show airs on The CW Network. The President of the network publicly stated his opinion that the women of NXT are better than the men of NXT.
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