Triple H Discusses Growing The Pool Of Talent In WWE For The Future

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The creation of new stars for the company has been an ongoing issue that WWE has wanted to address for quite some time.

The need for growing future stars has led to the rebrand to NXT 2.0 and the NIL program, which the latter led to the signing of the 21-year old Olympic Gold Medalist Gable Steveson.

Speaking to The Athletic, WWE Executive Vice President of Global Talent Agency and Development Triple H has discussed growing the pool of talent for the company.

In regards to the original idea behind the WWE Performance Center, Triple H stated:

“It always bothered me, like, (to get into wrestling in the past) you’ve almost got to be someone with nothing else going on or can’t take no for an answer and dig and dig and dig. But that pool is so small, people trying to get into this business. As I met more people, and you become savvy to the world of athletes, you realize the NFL is letting go 500 players a year. … You look at that massive pool of incredible athletes (from all sports). If you take that pool and 10 or 5 percent have big personalities that would be good for your business, you’re talking about a talent pool that’s 1,000 times bigger than right now.”

The Game continued on to talk about how WWE may miss on talent who will eventually become stars elsewhere, but it’s not necessarily a bad thing for them.

The WWE legend said:

“Are there going to be some we miss where they say they’ll stay in the business, go find somebody else to train them? Yeah. Good for them. Probably sooner or later, we’re going to see them and realize we were wrong and should hire them. And at some point, they’ll want to be part of the biggest promotion in the world and come back here.”

As previously mentioned, Triple H also addressed the shift to NXT 2.0 in this interview, which you can see here.

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