Homegrown

Scott,

At which point will the verdict be delivered on the Performance Center and by extension NXT?

If you think about recent world champions who were genuinely over and had truly great matches,only really Bryan,Punk and Styles stand out and they weren’t ground-up homegrown stars,they had a cache and edge largely developed elsewhere.

It’s a similar vibe with Nakamura and Joe and to a lesser extent Owens/Zayn/Kenta,where a chunk of the audience know they have a history and they’re not (yet) about a cookie cutter look and style,they haven’t been bred in HHH’s lab.

Even the last three or so years of NXT champs have been imports too….will we ultimately see a No Way Jose type pushed to the Moon simply to justify and ‘prove’ the investment?

​But what about Roman Reigns?!

Also, Braun Strowman was entirely developed in-house and he’s looking likely to end up with the Universal title sooner rather than later, so I’d say he counts, too. ​