|
 WWE
has been on a signing binge recently and has added the following to NXT: Impact
alum MJ Jenkins, The Crash’s Lacey Lane, gymnast Stacey Ervin Jr., former rugby
player Luke Menzies, seven-foot tall Chinese boxer Taishan Dong, amateur
wrestler Denzel Dejournette, former Impact/Tough Enough/All In talent Chelsea
Green, Ring of Honor’s Punishment Martinez, Humberto Carrillo, rugby player
Daniel Vidot and 7-foot-3 former basketball player Jordan Omogbehin. Austrian
standout WALTER has signed and will work out of NXT UK . During their European
tour WWE held a four-day tryout in Cologne, Germany which involved: Ilja
Dragunov, Jurn Simmons, Emil Sitoci, Wesna, Camille Grignon (a third-generation
French wrestler), Raffael Gordzielik (a German strongman champion), Edwige
Trabouillet (French wrestler Mila Smidt), Christopher Oketch (a strongman
competitor from Kenya) and Aleksandar Jaksic (who trained at Santino Marella’s
Battle Arts Academy). There was also a tryout at the WWE Performance Center that
brought in: Eric Spicely, a contestant on Ultimate Fighter season 23, All In’s
Olivia Hasler, Cal Bloom (the son of Wayne Bloom who wrestled as Beau Beverly),
Liberian amateur wrestler Emmanuel Matadi, Heba Ali (seen on season five of
Stone Cold Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Challenge show), Jeremiah Buoni (from
MTV’s Floribama Shore), The Titan Games’ Tina Rivas and Kenny Marquez (seen on
the Undercover Boss episode that Stephanie McMahon was on) WWE will hold a
number of tryouts across the world, including India which will have their own
tryouts in March in order to load up the roster. |
