Shawn Michaels wants to keep building on the culture that ultimately brought him back to the wrestling business.
Speaking on The Ringer Wrestling Show, Shawn Michaels spoke about his current role in NXT. Michaels said he’s no longer a coach, but he can’t help continuing to gravitate towards that aspect.
“So, I am no longer in the coaching role. I am in the television aspect of what we do, but look, I still can’t help myself, there are times I go down, I watch the training. I like to watch different aspects, I have my fingers in just about everything that is NXT, that is not always part of my job description. But it is part of my personality, that I can’t really help. I have legitimately fallen in love with all of the talent that comes through there, it’s hard not to want to do everything you can to help them. So I have a tendency to spread myself, maybe a little thin at times, but again I feel like, you know, when they are ready for television and they start to get to the point where they’re getting TV-ready, I need to have a little insight, a little background on them.
“So much of this job to me is relational and I don’t want to just make it all business, and that’s something that I feel like Hunter and I have always done, when we’ve been doing this job. That’s one of the things that sparked our friendship from the get-go. And, I know that that’s something that I recognized as soon as I stepped in the Performance Center for the first time, five years ago, that is a culture and an environment that we love there. It’s a culture and an environment that we want to continue to cultivate, and it’s the one thing that brought me back into this business, being perfectly honest. Instead of enjoying retirement, it was the culture in the Performance Center and I want to make sure that we continue to build on that.”
Asked what questions he gets most from up-and-coming wrestlers, Shawn Michaels said it’s really a case-by-case situation. He said that exploring the variables interests him most because it allows talent to learn a new side of the business.
“It’s beat-by-beat, a lot of it depends on where they’re at, I’ll be honest. I feel like probably the connection, the connecting with that audience. The allowing them to let themselves go, the part of trying to be uninhibited and really trying to free your mind, you know what I mean? Of whatever apprehensions that you may have in this job, especially now we’re dealing with so many real athletes that are so goal-driven and are sort of by the numbers, you know what I mean? “If I get my 40 down to 4.5, that ought to get me started,” you know? “If I work harder than this guy, if I push more in the gym, I should have these kind of results,” but that’s not always the case. There’s a lot of different x-factors as we like, to call in our line of work, and trying to explain that to some of these athletes is something that I find incredibly interesting. And watching them grow and start to learn that aspect of the business, it really is fascinating.”
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