
Former WWE star Trevor Lee spoke with Denise Salcedo on a number of topics, including working under WWE Chief Content Officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque in NXT.
Lee said, โWhen Hunter was in charge of NXT, it was a very different model of how NXT was done. If you remember at the time( they would do the TV tapings at Full Sail, so they would do maybe three or four episodes in one taping and then you wouldnโt see Hunter for another couple weeks until we would do the next set of tapings. You would get less one-on-one time with Hunter. Now, Hunter and Shawn have the same kind of brain waves, right, because theyโve worked together for so long and theyโve just kind of been in this whole process together.โ
On working under WWE Hall of Famer Shawn Michaels:
โBut, the beauty of having Shawn there was that you were in class with Shawn Monday through Friday and you would do your school sessions which are watching the matches together. You would get a lot of time with Shawn. Then we were doing the television every single week as well, so now youโre getting that feedback immediately every single week. When youโre doing the multiple tapings in one episode, things can get lost right because thereโs so much going on. Itโs way easier to get direct immediate feedback immediately off of just one appearance, one TV taping. Weโre not breaking down three different episodes, itโs just immediate. I wouldnโt say like one was better than the other or anything, itโs just we had a lot more time with Shawn than we did with Hunter. Once Hunter picked up the role of doing everything, then it was even harder to kind of communicate. I lived having both of the experiences with both of them. Right at the end of Hunterโs [reign] is when he started to mention to wanting to turn the Cameron Grimes character more serious. So then it was kind of like transitioning from that into the new thing and it was always so much fun.โ
You can check out Lee’s comments in the video below.