Curious what this means for the performance center. I think having prospects work outside in the indies can only help. Al Snow salty Ovw didn't get the nod probably.
was listening to a podcast where this came up
time will tell but the hosts speculated this isnt really that big a deal since most of the 'indies/training schools' are owned/ran by WWE talent (Booker T, Seth Rollins & Cody). This might be a way to help support indie wrestlers that arent ready for WWE while supporting them financially. Also away to differenate talent thats super green (athletes and influencers) vs real indie talent at the development. The way its currently set up 10 year vets are in the same class/training as former college pros that know nothing about wrestling. Also it might give new recruits other options if they are catching on NXT (recently they've let young prospects go without really giving them alot of time to deveopment)
hopefully its a good thing for indie wrestling and the industry