will kick off the next step in the evolution of our European brand. We have the talent, we have a UK Championship, and now, we’re ready to give those fans more. You can already see this template starting to take shape in the UK. going into individual markets around the world, we will create scaled versions of the template we’ve created: organizing tryouts, recruiting talent, establishing Performance Centers and building, on the ground, NXT-style brands. That’s where “Global Localization” comes in: Or “to transform the current pathway into a super highway”. He touts the success of the Developmental System and how Vince has tapped NXT stars for the main roster (somewhat disingenuously, when his big success stories are 38 year old Shinsuke Nakamura and 36 year old Asuka, with more than two decades of combined experience in Japanese wrestling before reporting to The Performance Center) as the reason why they need to develop feeder systems for the feeder system. And while it won’t be happening overnight, it does seem like a WWE-controlled global territory system is coming our way in the not-too-distant future.Ĭonsidering Trip’s territories would include “career development, life skills training, advanced education, language skills, media training” for talent, that could be great! And there’s a demand for more NXT product, as Haitch’s presentation pointed to the black-and-yellow brand as the most popular weekly offering on the Network, with “more than 1 million subscribers viewing and consuming NXT content” and a 53% increase in social media followers over the last year. The Game delved into the vision for NXT and the company’s entire development system. The video of the WrestleMania week event was just released on the company’s corporate site this week (watch it here), and it’s worth a look if you’re considering investing, or just interested in the direction of the biggest wrestling promotion the world’s ever known.Įven more than things like planning for “WWE Network 2.0” or the company’s designs on using the subscriber information from their streaming service to become a data broker, of particular interest to me was the presentation from Triple H, working his gimmick as Paul Levesque, Executive Vice President of Talent, Live Events and Creative.

There’s a lot of interesting topics raised from the presentations at WWE’s 2018 Business Partner Summit.

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