In recent months, WWE and TNA have been crossing over, with TNA stars appearing on NXT TV and vice versa.
This collaboration began with TNA Knockouts Champion Jordynne Grace participating in an NXT TV match and losing to NXT Women’s Champion Roxanne Perez.
Joe Hendry and Frankie Kazarian also competed in a battle royal to determine the new #1 contender for the NXT Title. Hendry has since gained popularity with fans and made multiple appearances.
During the post-SummerSlam press conference, Triple H discussed the relationship between WWE and TNA, and why the two promotions are working together:
“I think, as we’ve said before, we’re open for business. Whether that’s what you see in NXT with TNA or whether that’s the different international opportunities. We’re going to look at what’s best for WWE, but how does that benefit us? How does it benefit them? How does it benefit us? I think there’s opportunities.
As you look at NXT, a lot of those kids are young, and what they really need is repetitions. They need opportunities to go to. We can only create so many of them. So when we have opportunities to partner with others to help their business. At the same time, you know, get them on a platform that is seen by so many more people and use the strength and the power of our brand across social media to help.
I think you’ll see more of that right so when we have the opportunity to help them while at the same point in time getting the future of not just us, the future of this business more opportunities and more reps to approve what they do as performers to improve what they do on every aspect of what they go out day in and day out and do.
The world is different now. There is no… there aren’t territories where you’re out there working a couple hundred days a year, and I don’t know that anybody would want to, but we all did it. It’s how everybody got where they got to, how they got good, and how they learned this.”
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