Christian Cage Quotes

Fox is huge and for WWE to be on Fox, it's an honor for us to be there.

In my opinion, NXT has a niche audience.

The CW likes to hold on to its shows.

Pete Rozelle used television to get the game to the American public by creating the Super Bowl and making it the biggest sporting event in the world.

Broadcasting for advertisers is still the best game in town, and they know it. Look, I admire a lot of the shows on cable. I think 'Mad Men' is wonderful. I think 'Breaking Bad' is wonderful. But let's remember they're about one-tenth the audience of NCIS.

I had kind of sworn off network TV a while ago.

I am broadcaster's biggest cheerleader because I genuinely believe in it. Where else can you get 20 million people a week watching 'NCIS' or 'American Idol?' Where else can you get 120 million watching the Super Bowl?

There's not a lot of light on television.

'Monday Night Football' is a competitor to 'Monday Night Raw.'

You know, we've got so much on Bravo and coming up on Bravo, and I think we have so much more going on than 'The Real Housewives.' And I think 'The Real Housewives' is a great, you know, great addition to the portfolio. I think it brings a lot of viewers under our umbrella. And I think they stay and sample other shows.

TV is still the place to grab the most eyeballs.

It used to be that you had to do a certain number of episodes to hit syndication in order to try to keep a show on, because it's important to the network because it sells good commercial time. That's really not how HBO does things.

For network TV, you obviously have to appeal to a wide viewership.

From my point of view, I'd like to bring other meaningful events through WWE, whether that's NXT or the United Kingdom championships, taking international brands and putting them on in those markets.

What's great about cable is that the ceiling of expectation is lowered because fewer people have to tune in for it to be a success. You don't need 23 million people a week like you do in broadcast.

TV is a level playing field, and you're competing for eyeballs.

The fact that I'm still able to wrestle on the indies and yet still do my stuff in NXT, and the fact that I wrestled in front of 15,000 people at the Barclays Center at TakeOver, and then, the following weekend, I was still doing indie shows, is wild.

When I came to NXT, it was very much a developmental brand.

I wouldn't mind being a part of that 205 Live brand.

NXT prepares you for literally everything for the main roster. They probably over-prepare you.

NXT is the part of the WWE that is about competition. It's not sports entertainment, it's the pro wrestling side and that's what we do.

Nowadays, television has taken over big time and I'm really enjoying my stints there.

I think 'Raw' is complacent in the fact that 'Raw's' been the flagship of WWE. 'Smackdown' wants to be number one.

We all just want NXT to be the best product we can do. I don't care about what's going on anywhere else, we just get on with what we do, which is competitive pro wrestling and that's what NXT is.

I went from two-minute matches when I started with NXT to eight, to 10, to 12.