Triple H Says Asuka Has Changed Both WWE and NXT

– Triple H spoke with USA Today for a new interview discussing Asuka. The highlights are below:

On not wanting Asuka to move up during the draft: “I would never want to limit someone’s growth or their opportunities, but when Vince brought it up to me, I said the one person who we can’t afford to lose is Asuka. You could take everybody else you want to take – and trust me, he did – but I need her as an anchor. If I lose her and everybody else, I’m doomed.”

On why her undefeated streak matters: “It’s the faith to say that you’re that person and to say that if you hold that championship that the belief is there in you to lead a division or a company or a group and to be in that position. For somebody like her, here’s that faith for that long of a period of time and we’re not beating you, we’re keeping a championship on you and keeping it fresh. That’s a pretty bold statement of how good you are.”

On signing Asuka: “When we signed her, it made everybody already inside look at who we were bringing in and they were seeing what I was seeing – this girl is going to change the game. That’s why I wanted to bring her in. I could see what she had and how I took her into morphing and really helping make this change to the product. I think she’s done that. She’s changed the main roster too and how the girls work and that intensity level.”

On Asuka not speaking a lot of English: “In some ways, that’s helped her in keeping some of the mystery. There’s a saying, ‘It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it. She’ll speak a bit in English and then she says something in Japanese, I get more out of the way she says it and the intensity. I don’t speak Japanese so I have no idea what she said – but I know what she meant. It’s powerful and strong and that keeps an aura about her.”