Shawn Michaels On T-BAR Burning His Mask In Halloween Havoc Segment, Potential NXT Return

T-BAR appeared in a segment on last night’s NXT Halloween Havoc where he burned his mask, and Shawn Michaels touched on the segment in the post-show media call. The segment aired on last night’s show and led fans to speculate that the former Dominik Dijakovic was heading back to the brand, where he was until he moved to the main roster as part of RETRIBUTION. Michaels spoke on the post-show media call about the segment and talked about the possibility of Dijakovic returning to the brand.

“It’s not like we don’t see what goes on out there in the social media world and the shaking of the fist at different things that were done with different characters over the years and we do what we can here creatively to ‘nudge, nudge, wink, wink,'” Michaels said (per Fightful). “We see you and we hear you. I would love to be able to take credit for that, but I have a pretty good head writer here that comes up with some pretty snazzy stuff in Johnny Russo. That was something he mentioned, just a quick tease and I thought, ‘that’s fantastic.’ I guess I’ve already given a bunch away. When you get a talent that is very talented, and we felt was just coming into his own in NXT prior. The larger perspective, the pandemic, and everything that happened, there were quick changes, we lost a lot of people and over time, they found out, ‘we’re not sure how they’re going to finish the story they’re in.'”

He continued, “Any time they are willing to allow us to have the opportunity to have them back, we look at, not in a bad way, we find that like a fun new toy. To be able to take guys with that much talent. One of the things we certainly try to do is not insult the fans and not pretend like somebody wasn’t who they were a short time ago, just connect the dots and get you thinking and teasing it and making you feel like what’s going to happen and then, down the road, we surprise you, and you think it’s cool and it works.”