Triple H TakeOver Media Call News: Kurt Angle, WarGames, & More

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Triple H held his NXT TakeOver: WarGames media call yesterday, and here are some of the highlights of what he had to say.

• Kurt Angle was in the midst of medical testing when the issues with TLC rolled around. They were rushed and finished up so that Angle could make his return to the ring for WWE at the event.
• He’d love to have another match with Angle now that he’s been cleared.
• There will be no roof on the cage for the WarGames match at TakeOver. According to Triple H, WWE needed to modify the match for the current audience, hopefully making it better in the process.
• He said that the roof is a bit limiting (of course, this means we will be seeing someone or a couple of someones jump off the cage come Saturday).
• There was resistance to bringing the match to WWE, but the creative changes helped with that.
• He was asked about the UK talent and the possibility of finally doing the UK weekly show that has been discussed for almost a year. His answer was vague at best, but he asserted that the UK talent is still working for WWE and that some are at the Performance Center right now.
• NXT will be taping at Center Stage in Atlanta early next year due to scheduling conflicts at Full Sail.

Trips also spoke with NBC Sports to promote the Survivor Series weekend of events, and he elaborated a bit on why the changes were made to the WarGames match.

“It seemed like the perfect time to bring it out, so I dusted it off. Throughout the years, I was aware of Vince’s feelings about it. There were some things about that match that he liked and there were some things about the concept that he didn’t necessarily think worked, especially in today’s world. So I brought it back up to him and we walked through the process and I said here’s the way I think we can make this match work for us and he liked it, agreed with it, thought it worked great for NXT and was real happy to do it. So here we are.

“When you do this, the goal is not to go backwards. My goal isn’t to make people go, ‘oh is this as good as it was back then?’ I want to put a slightly different spin on it, so that it begins again and takes a life of its own because it can’t be what it was. I grew up watching it in the Dusty [Rhodes], [Ric] Flair, Four Horseman vs. the world sort of iteration of it and this cannot be that. It has to be today’s version of it. Hopefully it’ll be something that our fan base really enjoys. I think the NXT fans are going to love it. I know the talent is very excited about it. When we announced the match and word began to spread on the Internet, a bunch of main roster talent came to me and said, ‘oh my God, you’re doing WarGames? Anyway I can do something in that?’

“For me, it’s also a cool nod to Dream [‘The American Dream’ Dusty Rhodes]. It’s cool that his vision is able to continue.”

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