Sep 4, 4:25 PM
Former WWE wrestler says NXT doesn’t prepare you for Raw or SmackDown
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A couple quotes I saw during my morning stumble around the wrestle web seemed worth discussing together. We’ll see if you fine folks agree. The key one is the one in the headline. It’s from TNA’s Zoey Serrano — fka former WWE NXT Women’s Tag champ Zoey Stark. During her appearance on Busted Open earlier this week, Bully Ray asked Serrano if going through NXT prepares wrestlers for working on WWE’s main roster shows, Raw and SmackDown. Serrano replied: “I don’t think so. I personally don’t think it is. I would love to say it does, but it’s just a whole different ball game when you’re up there. “You don’t have people telling you exactly what you’re going to do in every single moment… when I was in NXT and I had a problem, you would sit there in the ring with [Johnny] Russo and Shawn [Michaels] and [Matt] Bloom, and they would say, ‘Okay, say it like this or do it like that,’ and give you different ideas of how to portray it. Same thing with your match. You’re going through it A to Z. You