On the most recent episode of his podcast, "The Arn Show", pro wrestling veteran Arn Anderson discussed how WWE has dealt with AEW and how they have damaged NXT by bringing main roster stars onto the show.

"Well do you think that some of the guys from the main roster that were bumped back down so that you have more star power on that show. This is in the front offices mind, ‘Okay, we’ll take some of these proven talents and bump them back down to make that a more competitive brand with those people’, but when they come back down they bring their Raw or SmackDown style with them. So it’s not NXT or NXT style matches.”

“Now it’s guys from Raw or SmackDown that are bringing their style of work back down with them so that show dynamic changes. [The fans] are seeing a lot of stuff they see on Monday or Friday and now it’s on NXT so it’s not a pure NXT show."