Triple H has come a long way since he was taking steel chairs to the cranium and ploughing Cactus Jack’s head into a bed of drawing pins.

The 49-year-old icon of sports entertainment now has a more subdued role as WWE’s Executive Vice President of talent and senior producer of their developmental brand, NXT, and you can’t fault him in his ambition.

In a cold, dreary industrial park in Enfield, just north of London, The Game, alongside Shawn Michaels and a host of NXT UK talent, unveiled the WWE’s first training centre for budding wrestlers outside of its Orlando facility — which now spawns around 80 per cent of the new stars on the Raw and Smackdown rosters.

And, when confronted by news.com.au, Triple H said it was only a matter of time before Australia would have its own breeding ground for a future generation of homegrown stars, challenging for the limelight.

However, he said a number of other regions, from the Middle East to Latin America, were also vying for their own NXT brands and training centres.

“It depends on the passion as to where we go first,” he told news.com.au.

“The passion was so strong here in the UK and there was a massive base.

“Australia has a good scene happening there right now. We’re obviously keeping an eye on it and working with it.

“But, these are large commitments, so it’s about when we have the level of interest and the belief that there are enough people there for it to succeed.”

At the moment he says it is easier to scalp the hottest talent from Australia and train them up to be superstars in Orlando or at the newly opened centre in London.

However, he believes this could change in the next few years — opening the door for an NXT brand and a talent training centre — which gives wrestlers everything from nutritional advice to media training and storyline development — in Australia.

“We can train people anywhere,” he said. “But once that boils up to enough passion, enough people and enough interest in the marketplace, then we will go there and reward that passion.

Once that happens in Australia, we can start what we’re doing here — which is train 30-50 talents.

“We get to put a brand on the ground. We get to put an NXT Australia there. We get to make that scene happen there. I do think that’s a strong possibility.”

But how far away could it be until the dream becomes a reality and more Australians get to join the likes of cruiserweight champion Buddy Murphy or Iconic duo Peyton Royce and Billie Kay in making their way to WWE.

Triple H said it’s hard to know at the moment, but reckons Australia could have its own brand with the next four years.

“We’re running the idea across the world, in a lot of different places at the same time, it just comes down to which place boils up first,” he said.

“I’d love to do it everywhere now, but it just takes time, effort and people.

“Our commitment is there and it’s just a matter of time. Hopefully in between four to five years we’re in Australia and a lot of places.”

It comes as a sold-out extravaganza of professional wrestling — the NXT UK TakeOver — will bring journalists and sports entertainment fans from across the world for a feast of high-octane action in the unlikely location of Blackpool — in England’s rainy north-west.

NXT UK is a fairly recently established British-based brand of the US-based WWE — which gives up-and-coming talent from around the world the chance to show off their skills in front of a massive audience through the WWE Network.

Two Aussie women — Adelaide’s Rhea Ripley and Gold Coast’s Toni Storm — will be slogging it out for the NXT UK Women’s Championship at the highly-anticipated event in Blackpool’s Victorian-era Empress Ballroom.

The 3000-capacity, old-school venue, built in 1896, might be a world away from the massive arena which host the likes of Wrestlemania and the Royal Rumble — but the Brits are not to be outdone in terms of creating a special atmosphere.

NXT UK TakeOver line-up

Rhea Ripley (c) vs. Toni Storm — Singles match for the NXT UK Women’s Championship

Moustache Mountain (Trent Seven and Tyler Bate) vs. Grizzled Young Veterans (Zack Gibson and James Drake) — Tag team match for the NXT UK Tag Team Championship

Pete Dunne (c) vs. Joe Coffey Singles match for the WWE United Kingdom Championship

Dave Mastiff vs. Eddie Dennis — No Disqualification match

Travis Banks vs. Jordan Devlin Singles match

NXT TakeOver Blackpool airs LIVE on WWE Network at 6am (AEDT) on Sunday 13th January.

WWE airs RAW & SmackDown weekly LIVE on Foxtel’s Fox8 and Fox Sports, WWE UK airs each Thursday Morning on WWE Network.