Shawn Michaels Addresses NXT Battleground Going Head-To-Head With Double Or Nothing

To promote Sunday’s WWE NXT Battleground pay-per-view event, Shawn Michaels took part in a media conference call where he answered various NXT-related questions.

During the call, the topic of WWE going head-to-head with AEW Double or Nothing this weekend was brought up. Michaels said,

“To the best of my knowledge, no. For me, and for us, the WWE as a whole, as I’m always honest with you guys, clearly there are people far more important than me that make decisions that they don’t tell me about. For us, this was about a big Memorial Day weekend for WWE. Even though it’s a little switched around, for us, it’s a little bit of a throwback to when we would have joint weekends with NXT on Saturday and WWE pay-per-views on Sunday.

“This is just flip-flopped with Night of Champions on Saturday, especially coming in the afternoon, everyone felt it was a good combination to have NXT on Sunday night and create a big WWE weekend for WWE fans. For me, personally, I would love to have as many standalone weekends on us as we can get.

“No different than having to go up against the (NBA & NHL) playoffs for the last several weeks. As much as I’m a basketball fan or NHL fan, it thrills me when the playoffs are done. The less competition we can get, the better.”

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