WWE’s cuts continued and the company released another 14 superstars recently mainly from 205 Live and NXT brands. From the past couple of months WWE is continuing to clear out the roster and now, company reportedly looking to sign new wrestlers.
Dave Meltzer of Wrestling Observer Radio reported that currently there is movement started in WWE to sign the bigger and younger talent. In recent set of releases WWE targeted old talent and now, looking to sign wrestlers under age of 26, who all are tall and 220 pounds. It was also noted that Vince McMahon is following traditional metrics of pushing bigger guys.
“Yeah, I haven’t finished my story on it, but the one thing I noticed, and there are a couple of exceptions, is that I mean, they gutted the 205 Live guys that had been around for a long time. The guys that they got rid of were the guys they weren’t going to, you know, they weren’t going to do anything with the guys, and they were mostly older guys. I know that there is a movement to bring in younger and bigger guys, you know, that’s like the big thing right now there. 26 and under, over 220 (pounds), that type of mentality again. Whenever business is bad, or whatever you want to call it, let’s say popularity is so-so at this point. You can’t say business is bad. I mean, in traditional metrics, it’s not great, but whenever that happens, Vince is always going to go back to his intuition, which is always, ‘We need bigger guys.'”
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