WWE Performance Center

Less of a real-life struggle or fight, and more like a speech from Thanos in a Marvel movie before he, like, snaps his fingers and, you know, kills half of the world.

And that's about all the good things I'm gonna say about [laughs] Shawn Michaels here because Shawn is now the senior vice president of talent development creative at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida at NXT.

Shawn Michaels is teaching the next generation of professional wrestlers.

Brilliant.

If you don't make enough progress or WWE doesn't feel like you're making enough progress for them to satisfy the financial investment they're making in you, then you're no longer gonna be in the program.

And it's really a shame because some of these young ladies and gals, they're, they're not in the WWE Performance Center being trained by Matt Bloom and, you know, Robbie Brookside and people like that.

They're out on the indie scene, and WWE has taken an interest in them.

But if y- you gotta wonder how, if they were in the WWE developmental system, would they perform better, and would they get more information to be able to be a more WWE-esque wrestler and therefore make it so WWE would see, uh, the, p- a purpose to investing more money in them? And the reason I bring this up this week, first off, Lainey Luck, who was the ID Women's Champion for close to a year, was released from her ID contract.

All right.

The WWE Performance Center is number five here.

This is a big deal in that, like the WWE Network, it's not an in-ring moment, but it changed the game of and in a very important way of how WWE gets their talent.

With WCW being purchased in 2001 with very little competition, you can't count TNA.

Also on the show, Mark Davis and Jake Doyle beat Jon Moxley and Gabe Kidd.

NXT also aired last night with a live broadcast on the CW from the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida.

In the main event, Wren Sinclair won a battle royal to become the number one contender to the NXT Women's Championship.

Sinclair had disguised herself as Lady Shani, but removed her mask after winning the match.

There was a tweet that was put out by WWE NXT on September 29th, 5:00 PM on the button.

"Breaking news from the WWE Performance Center.

Mason Rook is not medically cleared to compete tonight.

However, Grayson Waller will still defend the NXT championship tonight.

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Mojo Rawley somehow has a mat from the WWE Performance Center, and he uses it inside, like a ring mat.

He uses it inside his home to his outside pool as a slip and slide.

How does Mojo have a pool?

Because someone online, I believe on Twitter, shared a picture of the NXT novel that was put out some years ago.

And he was a part of the groundbreaking of the WWE Performance Center alongside Finn Balor and Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn.

They were a part of that foundation of people that helped the NXT system to grow into what it is now.

And like I said, it's so easy to forget that.