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Check The Boxes: What WWE Requires At Its NXT Tryouts

They have a type. There are a lot of wrestlers in WWE these days but it makes sense for the company to bring in new talent to keep things moving. It is a good idea to keep the roster fresh and that involves bringing wrestlers to the Performance Center for tryouts. It can be quite impressive to make it past a tryout, but now we know a bit more about what WWE wants from their applicants. The Wrestling Observer Newsletter has reported what WWE is looking for in wrestlers at their tryouts. As a general but not universal rule, WWE is looking for a wrestler about six feet tall and at least 220lbs. Wrestlers who do not meet these requirements will also be considered if they are an “exceptionally good athlete” seen as handsome. WWE is also looking for to hire more African American and Hispanic/Latin wrestlers as they want to market to international audiences. These tryouts can be intense. Check out what they include: [This post contains video, click to play] [This post contains video, cli..

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X-Pac 1, 2, 360 Recap w/ Alex Riley – WWE Release, Pursuing A Career in Acting, Will He Wrestle Again? More!

<p>X-Pac opens today’s show speaking about Shane McMahon’s forced helicopter landing from last week. He says that it didn’t surprise him for a second that Shane came out of that incident uninjured, and it was amazing to see how calm Shane was when he was being interviewed after the fact.</p><p>Speaking about last Monday night’s revelation that <strong><a href="http://www.ringsidenews.com/wrestler/jason-jordan" title="Jason Jordan">Jason Jordan</a></strong> is Kurt Angle’s son, X-Pac says for a minute he thought the whole thing might have been a shoot. He says that Angle is known to have had relationships with African American women in the past, and the age gap definitely works out.</p><p></p><p>X-Pac welcomes Kevin Kiley Jr. (<strong><a href="http://www.ringsidenews.com/wrestler/alex-riley" title="Alex Riley">Alex Riley</a></strong>) to the show.</p><p>Riley says that he was always a big fan of X-Pac from his time in WWE during the attitude era, and X-Pac always came off as a very real character who had a natural confidence in himself. X-Pac thanks him and says that he was never one to cut a masterful promo, but he was able to make his character work in different ways.</p><p>Riley informs that after he parted ways with WWE he immediately wanted to pursue acting. He says that his <strong><a href="http://www.ringsidenews.com/tag/short/" title="short">short</a></strong> stint at broadcasting in NXT was fun, but at the end of the day he wanted to venture out on his own. He was lucky to garner some interest in Hollywood right away and he soon landed a role in the Netflix series GLOW.</p>

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WWP Wrestling India

Source: WWP World wrestling professionals is the South African wrestling company started in 2002 by former South african pro wrestling star Abdul Kader and h...