Triple h to Bring Drastic changes To FCW & Plans to Move FCW WWE Network.

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- WWE’s developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling held a taping two weeks ago at Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida. The show was held to see about potentially using the building for tapings of a new show. No word yet if that show will be a local FCW television show or a program on the WWE Network.

The current FCW show suffers because the sparse crowd is always the same people and it looks bad on TV.

FCW taped three shows that night – a one-hour show with FCW talents, a thirty-minute show with FCW talents and another thirty-minute show with
WWE Superstars Drew McIntyre & Cody Rhodes vs. Sheamus & Daniel Bryan.

Triple H was in attendance overseeing everything and a combination of Jim Ross, Byron Saxton and Chris Russo was used as announcers. The shows taped were all pilots and experimental, and there’s no word yet if they will ever air.

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WWE's developmental system is on the verge of undergoing some major changes in the coming months - and it all has to do with how WWE calls up their talent to the main roster.

Recruiting talent is not an issue at this point - as Florida Championship Wrestling currently features on of its best rosters ever. Wrestlers such as Seth Rollins, Dean Ambrose, Husky Harris and Percy Watson all have potential to be breakout stars - but WWE has learned the hard way how absolutely crucial first impressions are and what happens when you introduce talent before they're ready.

Triple H's latest inititive is not to bring developmental talent to the main roster until the WWE creative team has a character in mind for them and a long-term idea of how to use them.

On many occasions, WWE has called up wrestlers without properly introducing them or having an angle for them. The wrestlers are seen as "filler" and their careers are badly damaged.

It's been acknowledged that several FCW stars have more potential than guys on the main roster, but WWE does not want to bring the FCW guys up until their characters are more polished.

Because many of FCW's most promising stars spent years working the independent scene (Rollins, Ambrose), that path is no longer looked down upon the way it was just a few years ago.

Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter

Great news.

 

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Great news regarding the call ups. The amount of talented workers who are being wasted currently as WWE didn't plan in the medium term is phenomenal.