WWE’s Partnership Potential: Why TNA & AAA Could Fix Roster Overcrowding

Peter Klein

Breaking Down the Ideal WWE/TNA/AAA Talent Exchange System Key Scenarios Analyzed: - NXT Overflow Solution: Why Trick Williams-style cases benefit from TNA runs - Lucha Development: How AAA could polish talents like Cruz Del Toro  - Personality Preservation: Why AAA/TNA must keep their identities  - NOAH Opportunities: Briggs’ potential in Japan    👇 **Subscribe to *Living Room Lariat* for exclusive WWE analysis!**   🔗   #WWERaw #LivMorgan #RoxannePerez #JudgementDay    🎧 Listen on: Apple https://apple.co/49NGm2L | Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QgazeHcSKSteZbBIubcuM?si=icY7NEBvT7yZadv_JFlT6Q  💬 Follow for live breakdowns: X.com/primetimepk | Twitch.tv/primetimepk  | Kick.com/primetimepk  🔗 Support the Show:   - Tip Jar: https://streamelements.com/couchpotatodiary/tip (fuels more content!)   - Partners: C of Dead http://cofdead403.ca/ | Swift Energy https://www.swiftenergy.gg/?ref=mriusnqm PROMO CODE: PKPrimetime for 25% Off!

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00:00so the wwe is in a partnership now with tna and triple a triple a in a way that they haven't

00:28really ventured into before so what does this look like in a perfect world what do we want this

00:34partnership to look like with wwe tna and triple a triple a i have said this before i think it would

00:41be great to have multiple stops for guys and girls to go work on their skills if you don't have a story

00:48for someone on the main roster send them down to nxt for a bit of a run there just like a ple cycle

00:54or two keep them busy keep that experience maybe discover a bit of a different character with that

00:59if it takes a spot now from someone in nxt then you send them to tna for a bit of a cycle there

01:06if they need to learn a new hold or just need a bit more bigger arena type of experience

01:12triple a triple a is right there for them as well and if anyone breaks through in all of that now

01:19you bring them to wwe i just feel like this is it's a very sports way of looking at it and i think

01:25it is the next step in the evolution of the performance center and what they wanted and i

01:29know that the the the want was w uh nxt mexico nxt japan nxt england nxt uk they tried that didn't

01:36really work all that well um and i think they learned from that to not just make this nxt mexico

01:42and turn it into that sort of a thing and try to wwe-ify that sort of a style i think it would

01:49be very beneficial to kind of keep all of them similar styles right not not like similar style

01:57to what they have now uh not necessarily just put them all under a wwe blanket and okay there you go

02:01but i just think the roster is so deep right now in wwe that there are so many opportunities

02:08for performers to work all over the place like look what they just did with nick wayne and kevin

02:14knight in aew going off to best of the super juniors that had to be an amazing experience

02:18for those performers and so cruz del toro who put on a fantastic show at worlds collide and i don't

02:25know if we have seen him on wwe television since right and part of that is like he's in an lwo

02:30storyline with a ray mysterio who is hurt currently so there is a bit of a pause on that but wow that's

02:36happening like the garza's got to go to triple mania send him on a ray de reyes to a tournament

02:42or something along those lines see how he actually handles this main event spotlight i love what they

02:49are doing with trick williams right now because trick has certainly outgrown nxt i think at this

02:55point i think everything he can learn at nxt he has learned but i also don't think that he is

03:01main roster ready at the level that he would be brought in at as a former nxt champion and someone

03:09who has the theme song and a lot of crowd support behind him and so i think allowing him to still

03:14develop as a top guy just in tna now instead of just like in kind of meandering going nowhere feuds

03:20in nxt i think that makes all the sense in the world to to do something like that and so again if

03:26you want to see what we know what cruz can do in the tag team but let's we're trying to make him stand

03:30out a little bit but we don't have the tv time to just actually um dedicate to putting this guy

03:37over as a top star so now have him go on an x division run have him go for the latin american

03:41championship in in triple a or something along those lines i just think it gives you the opportunity

03:47to see what you have in a lot of different spots and i'm not saying okay half the roster now go to

03:51triple a and now triple mania looks like a wwe evolve that's not what i am saying but i think you

03:57can pick and choose a few different guys to put into those spots and what we're seeing him now come

04:02up with opportunities on the main roster and stuff like that but i think this would have been a great

04:07opportunity for a carry and cross to join whatever stable jbl has going on in triple a

04:14right now i i don't know if i want as much attachment to alberto del rio as that would bring

04:18but just have him be in some kind of a high level spot over there so you're not just having

04:22these people sit on the shelf and sit on the sideline for a while and then maybe get a couple

04:26of matches off in um off on main event like basically the main event roster should go somewhere

04:33else right and and get those opportunities so i i think that there is a lot of growth that can come

04:38and a lot of potential that you can have in something like this and i just think it opens up

04:43so many doors and the opposite is true right like joe hendry we can debate if you want to have your

04:50champion losing in three minutes to randy orton at wrestlemania but the tna championship was at

04:55wrestlemania on netflix like that's that is kind of a cool thing and kind of a big thing and so now

05:01you get this opportunity to go go with this the other way give him a chance over like a few of them

05:06are getting opportunities now on nxt maybe have him pop up on the main roster for a run in something

05:13right like just if we're doing these fatal four-way whatever it's like yeah toss toss someone uh eddie

05:19edwards maybe not the best example but toss a moose into that rusev match or something and just give

05:24them a heightened exposure with that same thing with the mr iguanas and the psycho clowns and stuff

05:29like that like they now get the opportunity to come here as well and it just it allows you to

05:34keep things fresh when you have six hours basically of main roster content to fill every single week

05:43and it also allows these other performers to get new experiences and to get new opportunities

05:49in um different areas different styles and maybe you stumble upon something and so i i think that there

05:57is a real benefit to this the main challenge is that you want all these areas to keep their uniqueness

06:04right you don't want triple a tna and nxt to all feel like the same version of something you want

06:12triple a to keep that lucha heritage and keep the authentic authenticity to it you want tna to keep

06:18that underdog status that they have you want nxt to still be focused on developmental it is a tricky

06:25balance to try to find but i think there is a way of doing that that allows a lot of your roster to get

06:32a lot of opportunities and it also i i think it would help you creatively as well um i think that's one of

06:39the things that is happening with a ray phoenix and the idea that some of these performers would

06:46need developmental is borderline insulting right and so to suggest that ray phoenix should have started

06:52in nxt is a gross thing to have come out of my mouth but i do think that it is not just for the

07:00performer to learn the wwe style and to learn what it is like to be in wwe i think it is also for the

07:08company to see what can we what works with him creatively what are some ways that we can utilize

07:14this performer and what scenarios what different character traits what can we kind of maximize how

07:20do we use him basically wwe hasn't really found that with ray phoenix yet and i think he would have

07:25benefited from a run in nxt just so they could see okay how how should we work with uh this particular

07:33performer i think that there is really something there with him so um i think that you could find

07:39that in a few different spots like you you see you send someone off to tna put them in a storyline

07:43there it's like oh shit that we could do something like that here and you find different creative ways

07:49that you can really maximize these characters so i think that this is a a real opportunity that

07:55shouldn't just be a couple of our guys pop up on their screen a couple of times and a couple of their

08:00guys pop up on our screens a couple of times i think there is a real partnership that could be had

08:05with wwe tna triple a and maybe some others along the road it's just that wwe would have to

08:13completely change how they have always done anything that's it

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