Former NXT head writer Joe Belcastro has left WWE. Triple H addressed Belcastro\’s departure recently on a media call to promote TakeOver XXX on Saturday.
Trile was asked about a possible replacement for Belcastro, but according to Triple H – it will be \’business as usual\’ on the NXT creative team.
\”As far as the writing of NXT goes, we shift around a little bit as things happen. I won\’t necessarily comment on people that aren\’t necessarily talent for us but we have a team that works with NXT that includes Shawn Michaels, Brian James, myself. So, it\’s a group and the ideas all go through that. It\’s really business as usual for us,\” Triple H said.
Triple H also spoke about what he has learned from doing live television with NXT since October.
\”There\’s a dramatic difference between doing taped television, doing live television, doing 1-hour live television vs 2-hours,\” Triple H continued.
\”I think the biggest difficulty for us has been in this time frame is just the shifting of everything,\” he said. \”COVID has really made doing all of this, in a way, exponentially harder.\”
WWE currently has a job ad up on LinkedIn looking for a new lead writer for Smackdown but nothing on NXT. Johnny Russo recently updated his LinkedIn to say he started as NXT\’s lead writer in July after having been working as a producer for the last year.
NXT presents TakeOver XXX this Saturday from Full Sail University.