10 Things You Didn't Know About Charlotte Flair

5. A Performance Center Success Story

WWE Performance Center
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How successful has the WWE Performance Center been? That is a question with plenty of answers, all depending on how one judges success. As a training facility, it has allowed individuals to get into peak physical shape. For developing one’s craft, it really is second to none. For creating top-tier professional wrestling superstars? Not so great.

Look at all the roster of NXT singles champions. Of the 16 different men to hold the NXT Championship, only Big E. and Bo Dallas can be called WWE products. The WWE Performance Center hasn’t produced a single WWE Champion, a single WWE Universal Champion. With the exception of Charlotte Flair, it hasn’t really produced a superstar at all.

It is important to note that Flair began her training the year before the opening of the PC, but her development has taken place under the watchful eye of Sara Lovato (Sara Del Rey) and the modern NXT era. WWE’s inability to create homegrown stars is one of the biggest indictments of the company in the modern age, but Charlotte Flair is one of the few exceptions to that black hole.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.