NXT TakeOver Portland media call: Lesnar-Riddle, AEW, Simone Johnson
WWE COO Paul “HHH” Levesque spoke with the media for nearly an hour Wednesday for his customary pre-TakeOver conference call, the audio of which you can listen to by clicking the red button below.
Topics on the call included:
- Why NXT isn’t beating AEW in the key demos on Wednesday nights and why that is
- What he knows about the recent Brock Lesnar/Matt Riddle rumors
- The decision making behind dropping “women’s” from the NXT women’s title
- Whether Rhea Ripley and the Charlotte Flair angle takes away from the specialness of her on TakeOver
- The Simone Johnson signing and the immense spotlight on her as she begins her journey
- Why there wasn’t a Halftime Heat show this year
- Whether Shayna Baszler is a full-time member of Raw or not
- The recent signings of Killer Kross and Timothy Thatcher
- An upcoming announcement of a schedule change due to a Full Sail commitment
NXT TakeOver is this Sunday in Portland, OR, for what he called a WrestleMania weekend-esque show.