During a recent Q&A panel at Terrificon, former AEW World Champion Samoa Joe commented on his WWE NXT Championship win over Finn Balor, which took place at a house show in Lowell, Massachusetts in April of 2016.
You can check out some highlights from the panel below:
On winning the NXT title at a non-televised event: “I thought it was one of the most brilliant things we did. When you’re building a new brand like we were with NXT, a major thing is that we want people to come to our live events. We were running live events around the nation.”
On showing that a title change could happen at a live, non-televised event:“If you knew that if you showed up to a NXT live event that a world title could change hands, I mean, it just makes that event so much more exciting. So much more fan interaction. Potentially on one night, any given Sunday you could …