6 Jobs That WWE Must Create

1. International Talent Wrangler

Storm Wrestling WWE has done an incredible job creating a state-of-the-art training facility in Orlando Florida. Their developmental territory, NXT, is brimming with hungry and young wrestlers eager to join the main roster and become a bonafide superstar. They've survived the scouts, the training camps, and become contracted talent. They are the few, and at the rate new talent is being called out, it's possible they'll spend their entire professional career without ever being called up. For American talent, it can be a quick process to get your affairs in order and move down to Florida to start training. However, for international talent, it can take weeks to months to work out visas, green cards and bureaucratic headaches. And that's assuming foreign wrestlers are even able to get on WWE's radar in the first place. It would behoove WWE to license training centers outside of the US, so they would be able to start training camps with foreign talent quickly while the paperwork continues in parallel. WWE needs places to send talent, particularly foreign talent, for initial conditioning, testing and training. Lance Storm's Calgary-based school is a good example of an excellent setup which is outside of the US and could provide top-notch seasoning. In this highly interconnected world, it's easier than ever to beam footage from professional wrestling companies from around the world back to the US. Yet, the talent pool is so much deeper than those people that have already been picked up by New Japan Pro Wrestling or CMLL. WWE needs more dedicated "talent agents" who can travel around the globe to discover those untapped talent resources. They would travel everywhere from Professional Rugby Leagues to Acting Schools to Gymnastic Centers. They'd be looking for a cross-section of talent, talking ability, intelligence, charisma, athleticism and the hard-to-pin down "it" factor. WWE needs an international talent wrangler, who could not only scope out these unusual leads, but offer pipelines outside of Florida's NXT center to get things moving quickly. It's far more important to start working with people and getting them the attention and training they need instead of letting them languish overseas due to ineffective paperwork.
 
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I'm a professional wrestling analyst, an improviser and an avid NES gamer. I live in Saint Paul, Minnesota and I'm working on my first book (#wrestlenomics). You can contact me at chris.harrington@gmail.com or on twitter (@mookieghana)