WWE Opening New Performance Center As Major Deal Nears Completion
WWE’s acquisition of another promotion is about to be completed, and it means another Performance Center is on its way.
At WrestleMania 41, WWE announced it had acquired AAA, but the deal was not expected to be finalised for several months. Since the announcement, however, WWE talent has appeared on AAA shows, with Angel and Berto even winning AAA gold. And it seems that as the deal nears fruition, major plans are being put in place.
Speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer explained what WWE’s plans are for AAA and it seems there will be a pathway for wrestlers to make it from the Mexican promotion all the way up to Raw or SmackDown:
One of the things I know they want to do is get rid of a lot of the nostalgia acts and focus a lot more on younger guys. They want it to be a different style than NXT or WWE because they’re trying to market it as something different from the American audience. But they want the wrestlers to all learn American style, learn to do English promos, because the idea is that AAA, in their mind, is going to be akin to NXT Europe, NXT UK, where you have shows, but the goal is to get these guys to NXT and later WWE.
So they don’t want them to have to go to NXT and learn American style; they want them to know American style right from the start. Even though when they work, it’ll be kind of a combination of some lucha and some American style, as far as what they’re doing.
WWE Opening Brand New PC
Meltzer confirmed that WWE will be opening up a new Performance Center in Mexico that will give talent a place to train the way WWE wants:
They’re gonna open up a Performance Center in Mexico. The idea right now is not to have an arena in the Performance Center but just a Performance Center where they take independent wrestlers, young guys who they feel have a lot of promise on the independent scene and try to teach them American style, AAA style, promo work, character development, all of those things.
They are going to have American and Mexican instructors. The Mexican coaches are going to have to go to Orlando so they know how they do it in WWE, so they teach them the way they want them to do it in WWE.
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