Former WWE Title-Holder Returns As Coach

Ken Doane has returned to WWE as a Performance Center coach.

This is according to PWInsider's Mike Johnson, who notes that the former Kenny Dykstra has been at the PC in Orlando, Florida for the past few weeks.

Doane, 35, retired from active competition this April, having last competed in December 2019. A wrestler since 2001, he made several WWE developmental appearances and more as a televised jobber before becoming a full-timer with the rest of The Spirit Squad in 2006.

The cheerleading group clashed with some of WWE's biggest names, including Vince McMahon and Triple H, and co-held the World Tag Team Championships after defeating Big Show and Kane that April, though they were infamously disbanded after being stacked in a crate labelled "OVW, Louisville, Kentucky" in November.

Continuing as a singles wrestler until his WWE release in November 2008, Doane was intermittently active on wrestling's smaller stages over the ensuing years. He mounted a surprise WWE comeback in October 2016, doing so as part of a storyline with fellow former Spirit Squad members Dolph Ziggler and Mike Mondo, before leaving again by the end of the year.