“We Are The Main Roster Now” – Dakota Kai On NXT

NXT star Dakota Kai recently spoke to Bleacher Report to discuss the yellow brand’s recent move to the USA Network and how the locker room feels heading into 2020.

On that very point, how the brand plans to move into the next year, Kai said:

“I don’t think we really look to Raw and SmackDown as moving up to the main roster anymore. We are the main roster now. The only difference before was that Raw and SmackDown were on television and we were on the WWE Network. Now that we are also on that same level, the main goal of everyone at NXT is to just keep bringing it and to really elevate everyone within the brand itself.

“We are the third brand, and a lot of us are so very loyal to NXT. We want to stay and just help elevate it to that level. I mean, us being on the USA Network is the first step but we have so much work to do in terms of continuing to bring your eyes to NXT and show everyone watching that we are on the same level as Raw and SmackDown.

“They’re doing their thing too, but I think here at NXT, we offer something edgy. We offer the kind of wrestling that I think a lot of people crave.”

Kai, who is just coming off of a big heel turn at TakeOver: WarGames 2019, also spoke on how the move to the USA Network has affected everyone involved with NXT:

“I think I can speak for everyone here—a lot of us at NXT and at the Performance Center have been dreaming about this for a long time. And, I know that us going to TV on the USA Network was something that was in the works for a while. I want to say over a year they’ve been talking about it and then they finally pulled the trigger on it.

“There’s a lot of responsibility on our shoulders, especially those of us who are on TV every Wednesday, to make sure we show everyone what we already know and what the NXT Universe faithful have already seen over the last few years that NXT has been a thing.

“There’s a lot of excitement.The energy has been very, very exciting. It makes a lot of the new trainees at the Performance Center want to step up their game because there are a lot of opportunities for everyone to show what they are capable of. It’s been crazy.”