Over the weekend on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer stated that NXT is preparing for a huge transformation. It seems Vince McMahon has given up on the current version of NXT and wants to move the product back into a pure developmental brand and institute rules which applied to their developmental before Triple H took over and changed NXT into what it is today. Dave Meltzer says Vince McMahon wants NXT to become a place to find and develop, “younger, bigger guys that could someday main event WrestleMania. The wording is “no more midgets, no one starting in their 30s and people who can be box office attractions and main characters.

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And it’s back to when they first started developmental, because, I know this from Jim Ross, who was a very key part of this, the original idea of NXT was to be developmental, and to get guys with the mentality of, we’re trying to find people who can main event WrestleMania – that’s always what they’d say. And their feeling is that even though Bryan Danielson main evented at WrestleMania, and CM Punk never did but could have, what that means is they want more Roman Reigns-looking guys. And the basic feeling is that they lost the war (with AEW) and now it’s time to get it back to, you know, it’s like, this is the aftermath, and this is the new direction, and the new direction is younger guys and bigger guys.”

This has caused a lot of speculation on what this means for the future of NXT’s current stars who clearly does not fit this mould, with guys like Tomasso Ciampa, Johnny Gargano, Pete Dunne and Kyle O'Reilly possibly becoming relics of the modern NXT. These are all world-class talent, who have been vocal in their support of NXT being an equal brand to Raw and Smackdown, however it is becoming clear that WWE no longer sees NXT that way. Vince McMahon wants NXT to develop big guys under 30, so will talent at the high standards of Ciampa and Gargano be really be happy spending the prime of their career building up an assortment of faceless big guys while they get nothing? Talent like them deserve much better than that.

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How Big A Change Will It Be For NXT?

Vince McMahon has never really paid much attention to NXT. Just because NXT will apparently have a new roster of bigger guys, the guys who book NXT will still be the same, the likes of Triple H and Shawn Michaels have always been able to book a competent product. NXT hasn’t exactly been setting the world of fire recently but it can’t be denied the shows make sense, they have solid storylines, and they manage to create interesting characters.

If this can still be the case while the product becomes filled with so-called younger and bigger guys then maybe that could be a positive. More coherency between WWE and NXT can only be a good thing. Over the past few years a lot of fans have been aghast at how Vince McMahon treats their favorite NXT stars, though if NXT is filled with talent Vince McMahon already likes, maybe we could see a better relationship between developmental and the main roster.

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A Roster Of Big Guys

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Although, what would these hypothetical big guys do once they do reach the main roster? If a big guys feuds with another big guy, how big do they actually look? It’s clear big guys look at their biggest when they are staring down little guys, The Great Khali looked enormous when face to face with Rey Mysterio and Omos looks incredible when he is standing next to AJ Styles.

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A roster of the same type of wrestlers will quickly become boring, it has been proven in the past that a mixing pot of different wrestlers are the key to a successful product. You need big guys, high flyers, technical wrestlers, comedy characters, scary characters, monster heels, and plucky babyfaces, among others.

A roster full of big guys is Vince McMahon’s dream, it always has been, and after all, it worked in the ’80s. The modern wrestling scene however is about as far away from the ’80s as it gets, and whether Vince can make that style work in the modern-day remains to be seen. One thing that is certain however is that NXT and WWE as a whole will be much, much different than it is right now.

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