In Defense of HHH

Hey Scott–

I was thinking about the WON article you linked yesterday about H spinning Nakamura being on NXT and not the main roster… and I’m finding myself siding with Hunter on this one.
Now, if this was the old NXT, and it was populated with Shinsuke Nakamura plus a bunch of not-ready-for-prime-time players, then sure; I’d be tearing my hair out and screaming about why he was languishing there when he should be on the main show.
But the NXT of today? As long as he’s happy with the money he’s making, why should Nakamura be in any hurry to get to RAW? Right now I get to see Nakamura, Asuka, Joe, Roode, Dillinger, DIY, the Revival, Roddy Strong, Austin Aries, and a supporting cast that is for the most part decent in the ring. They perform on a weekly show that clips along at a well-paced hour, and they put on 4 PPV-caliber super shows every year that usually have a molten-hot crowd and at least one Match of the Year candidate.
Why would I want any of these guys called up? So I can slog through 3 hours to get to  one point where Samoa Joe is scripted poorly in a bad comedy segment? So I can watch the crowd pop huge for Tye Dillinger’s entrance… and then see him squashed in 90 seconds as the latest sacrificial lamb in the epic quest to get Brauny the Strowman over?
 I haven’t watched RAW live in years; I read the recap and then find the segments worth seeing by fast-forwarding my DVR. NXT? I make sure to watch it in full every single week, because I LOOK FORWARD TO IT. I don’t view it as a laborious chore to stay current on what’s happening in the wrestling world. It’s what wrestling is supposed to be; entertaining.
So yeah, Trips is right; NXT is the third brand, and it’s light-years ahead of the two that Vince controls with an iron fist (Jack Gallagher and the Best Friends excepted, of course.) If that means they need to figure out an alternative to getting developmental talent ready for TV, so be it, but leave my loaded roster on my very entertaining show, please.
Have Nakamura come out at #2 for the Royal Rumble so he can do his complete epic entrance. Have Dillinger come out at #10 to really hammer in the joke. But then send them right back “down” to the most entertaining hour of weekly wrestling that we have seen in quite some time.

Really?  I’ve been pretty bored with the NXT show for a while now, pretty much since Ryan Ward left.  The Takeover shows are still spectacular, but the weekly show is kind of a meandering slog at this point that’s more there to fill time.  Plus I’d rather see Nakamura on Smackdown having great matches with AJ than going 1/4 speed with the Drifter or whoever.