And XT on Knicks. Now a lot of people forget about this, or you may not have been watching

back in 2010. But of course, the original idea, the original concept for this was to

take a bunch of dudes and feature them as the next big breakout stars of world wrestling

entertainment.

Now obviously as a play on the word next, but given that it is a wrestling promotion,

you never allowed more than three initials hence why it became NXT. But for the last decade,

I have been convinced that it stands for New Extreme Talent, because Vince McMahon.

Unfortunately, it was to play on next generation, but mine is better. I don't see a G anywhere

around here, do you?

The whole concept as well was designed to save WWE version of ECW, or at least the time

slot that WWE had, because it was airing on the sci-fi network at the time, and just to

be completely honest with you, nobody was watching this.

I mean, the concept had died an absolute death, because this was nothing like the Extreme

Championship Wrestling we all remembered from the late 90s, so given that the UFC's ultimate

fighter was doing super duper well, and basically made that company, WWE thought, well, why

not? We tried it, it was quite similar.

So this was going to be used as a trial grand, not only for superstars, but also for production,

because honestly, you do any kind of research into this. WWE had all these grand plans for

new camera angles, and as soon as they worked at the kinks, they were going to bring them

to Raw and SmackDown. Even with all of that, inside all this, the

meeting bones would still be eight rookies, teaming up with eight pros, as the real superstars

put them by the hand, and led them to the murky waters of WWE.

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