No ceiling can seemingly hold WWE right now.
Since Paul “Triple H” Levesque took full control of WWE’s creative wheel, the company has seen a number of production and relational changes. Production wise, WWE has increased the usage of long, singular camera shots, rather than repeatedly cutting to different angles. The company has also weaved in more cinematic segments, in addition to the traditional backstage and in-ring promos.
Relations-wise, WWE has notably partnered up with TNA Wrestling to deliver several cross-promotional appearances and content. In general, the organization has further opened the door for talents to wrestle outside of the WWE bubble, with the likes of Josh Barnett’s Bloodspot, Reality of Wrestling, and Pro-Wrestling NOAH already taking advantage.
While speaking on Insight With Chris Van Vliet, WWE SmackDown General Manager Nick Aldis shared his thoughts on working under the current regime in WWE, which has personally dubbed “The Renaissance Era.”
“One of the really exciting things about the Paul Levesque era, for lack of a better term, I tried to coin the Renaissance Era, but that doesn’t seem to have taken off. I felt like wrestling and WWE in particular was experiencing a renaissance, and part of that to that point is there is this freedom,” Aldis said. “Last week in the [backstage] meeting, it was brought up [that] we have a relationship with TNA, maybe we can get some footage and work some of it into the show. Think about how unheard of that would have been just a few years ago.”
“I’ve been at WWE for one year, which in the grand scheme of things is like nothing. And I’m also aware that I came in in the Triple H era, so a lot of my observations and stuff are more sort of just that. They’re observations. I don’t know. It’s more just sort of ‘Okay, it seems to me that this is the way that it is.’ But I get the feeling that a lot of the guys at the company, that fog is still lifting, and they’re still realizing like ‘Oh wait, I can make that suggestion. We could do that.'”
‘There Is No Ceiling For The WWE’
According to Aldis, the sky is the limit for WWE right now. And with WWE Raw — the company’s flagship show — moving to Netflix in January, Aldis believes their reach will only expand even more.
“… There is no ceiling for the WWE, literally none,” Aldis continued. “These are conversations that have happened internally. We don’t have to be like almost as big as the NFL. We’re about to be on Netflix. About to go global, more global. If you think about where the company was, where it started and all the way through, it’s almost like you [think] it couldn’t possibly get any bigger.”
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