ORLANDO, Florida: WWE announced that they will be recruiting talent from the Middle East as part of their initiative to recruit new talent from around the world to train in performance center in Orlando, Florida.
The announcement was made by WWE COO and multi-time former world champion Paul Levesque better known by his ring name Triple H at the WWE performance center’s media visit during WrestleMania 33 weekend.
Levesque said during his speech that in recent years the WWE’S talent recruitment has gone global already recruiting performers from 22 different countries. He said the WWE is recruiting globally in a way they have never done before.
“To me the world has become a smaller place, whether its television, social media, the Internet or through the WWE network. To me talent are talent and I want to find them from every walk of life, from every country, from every city, from every village everywhere in the world” said the COO.
A lot of the current WWE superstars have come through the performance center and Arab News received their perspective on how it enhanced their abilities as superstars.
Aiden English from the tag team known as the Vaudevillains told Arab News that he could not have felt more prepared when he moved to the main roster because he learned everything in the performance center.
“You can do everything there. You train, we can work out, we can develop characters, we can film things, we can edit things, we can do an entire episode of smackdown live. Everything is available so by the time we walk through the curtain on smackdown it doesn’t feel foreign,” English said.
Former women’s champion Becky Lynch, who was training to be a wrestler since the age of 15, said the difference of what she learned is that in the performance center you learn to to tell a story and get the fans invested and an overall package.
“If you go to a wrestling school you learn how to do a moves. You learn how to do a wrist lock, you learn a hammer lock, whereas in here you learn how to be a superstar and how to communicate your story as an artist,” Becky said.
The performance center opened in 2013 in Orlando, home to WWE’s talent development program with 26,000 square feet of training facilities. The facility includes seven full size rings, a fully equipped strength and conditioning room, a sports medicine facility, a promo room with private studio for perfecting on camera techniques such as character development and performance skills.
Also in the center there is a cutting edge edit and production suites featuring a studio and voice over booth.
The facility is currently training 96 men and women from 16 countries who have an opportunity to become a WWE superstar.
WWE talent recruitment to hit the region
WWE talent recruitment to hit the region
Barcelona pounces on Real Madrid stumble and regains lead of La Liga with a 3-0 win over Levante
- Barcelona moved one point ahead of Madrid, which had won eight in a row in the league before losing to Osasuna
MADRID: Barcelona took advantage of Real Madrid’s stumble and regained the Spanish league lead with a comfortable 3-0 win over relegation-threatened Levante on Sunday.
Marc Bernal, Frenkie de Jong and Fermín López scored a goal each as Barcelona ended a two-game losing streak to get back in front of rival Madrid, which lost 2-1 at Osasuna on Saturday.
Barcelona moved one point ahead of Madrid, which had won eight in a row in the league before losing to Osasuna.
Barcelona was coming off a 2-1 loss to Girona in the league and a 4-0 loss to Atletico Madrid in the first leg of the Copa del Rey semifinals.
“It was important to win and earn three points again,” Barcelona defender João Cancelo said. “Soccer gives you these opportunities to rebound and that’s what we did today, playing well again after two bad games.”
Barcelona had earned a clean sheet only once in its previous six games in all competitions.
Good start for Barcelona
Bernal scored from close range four minutes into the match at the Camp Nou Stadium. The 18-year-old Bernal had scored his first goal with the first team two rounds ago in a win over Mallorca.
“They had an early chance but my goal helped us settle and gain some confidence,” Bernal said.
De Jong added to the lead from inside the area in the 32nd and López sealed the victory with a beautiful long-range shot in the 81st, with the ball ricocheting off the post before going into the net.
Levante’s Australian goalkeeper Mathew Ryan kept Barcelona from adding the fourth with a pair of outstanding saves in a row in the final minutes, first off a header by Raphinha and then off a point-blank strike from López on the rebound.
It was the fourth straight defeat for Levante, which sits in 19th place. It is one point ahead of last-place Oviedo, which has a game in hand.
Levante has only one victory in its last eight matches.
Pedri entered the match in the 66th to make his return to action after an injury layoff.
Other results
Sevilla won 1-0 at 10-man Getafe for its second win in its last 10 matches in all competitions.
Djibril Sow scored a 64th-minute winner for the visitors. Getafe played a man down from the 26th after a straight red card for Djene Dakonam.
The result left Sevilla in 11th place, immediately above Getafe.
Third-place Villarreal, Barcelona’s next league opponent, can restore a three-point gap to fourth-place Atletico Madrid if it beats Valencia at home later Sunday. Atletico beat Espanyol 4-2 at home on Saturday.
