4 of the 5 WWE ID colleges already had robust ties to WWE, with ROW, Nightmare Manufacturing facility, Black and Courageous, and Knokx Professional being run/co-owned by Booker T, Cody Rhodes, Seth Rollins, and Rikishi respectively. In the meantime, one in every of Elite Professional’s head trainers, Mike Hole, beforehand labored as a WWE jobber throughout the 90s.
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Impartial expertise related to this system may also obtain a “WWE ID” designation, with WWE offering “monetary alternative” for the expertise, in addition to “aiding with coaching, mentorship and growth, together with entry to world-class services, best-in-class ring coaching, athletic trainers and extra.” This system may also enable followers to watch these expertise’s progress through matches, highlights, and behind the scenes content material to be aired on “WWE social platforms.”
To date, at the least one unbiased promotion has expressed hesitancy in the direction of this new program. Taking to X this morning shortly after WWE’s official announcement, Ottawa primarily based promotion Capital Metropolis Championship Fight, higher referred to as C4, posted a number of tweets, the primary of which said the purpose of unbiased wrestling was “to develop. To study,” and that these claiming to be unbiased whereas backed by a billion greenback promotion weren’t unbiased. In later tweets, the C4 poster admitted this was their rapid response, and hoped extra information would come up that might show them flawed.
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The purpose of unbiased wrestling is for expertise to find themselves, and develop themselves. To develop. To study.
In case you declare to be an unbiased however are certain to a billion greenback firm, you are not an unbiased.
— C*4 (@C4Wrestling) October 29, 2024
Anyway, these are my rapid emotions…. Perhaps there’s extra to come back that can show me flawed.
However once more, the expertise I’ve seen succeed and attain that subsequent stage, did not obtain what they’ve as a result of the trail was a straightforward one to success.
Make your individual roads.
— C*4 (@C4Wrestling) October 29, 2024