Three Top Indie Talents Headed to WWE

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THREE NEW WWE SIGNINGS EXPECTED IN NEW YEAR
by Mike Johnson @ 7:54 AM on 12/19/2017

The word making the rounds at the WWE Performance Center over the last several days is that members of the latest class being signed for WWE NXT, which will be revealed in January are:

*Ricochet aka the former Prince Puma in Lucha Underground, who had been expected to sign for some time. Impact Wrestling had made a run at him, but was unsuccessful.

*Warbeard Hanson and Ray Rowe aka War Machine in ROH. It is believed the team (who were not under contract) finished up with the promotion at Final Battle and the Philadelphia TV taping the following day. They will finish up with New Japan at Wrestle Kingdom.

There are other names circulating as well as potentially being signed, including a very prominent female independent talent. Stay tuned.

I'm wondering if the female isn't Tessa Blanchard given her relationship with Ricochet.

[Allie Kitsune]

Quick, scour their Twitter and make a big stink if they've ever said anything even remotely stupid!

[Gus Richlen: Ruffian]

F***ING WAR MACHINE!!!!

You have no idea how f***ing stoked I am for this. Best team of big boys hands down right now.

[Fauxnaki]

Yeah war machine! Bring in the big boys

[Mozenrath]

WWE really needs some tag goodness, so, good hire.

Ricochet earned it with how much effort he put into Lucha Underground. Bit of a shame to lose Prince Puma, but maybe have seasons not take a decade to come out, El Rey, and you could prevent this. Besides, not sure how many more stories you could tell with Prince Puma, certainly after other characters gained momentum and it wasn't as much of a star vehicle for him anymore.

[Push R Truth]

The main thing that bother's me is that the WWE doesn't have a lack of talent. This is I believe, without hyperbole, the most stacked the company has even been with talent.


I hope they don't get brought in and are just bottom level jobbers. There really isn't much roster room for anything else at the moment, although that's a Booking issue. It's purely a booking issue. The most important lesson to learn from the Attitude era is "make everybody on the card matter". I hope that's the direction we are going... but I doubt it.

At least they'll be paid.

[Abdullah]

Dec 19, 2017 11:16:41 GMT -5 Allie Kitsune said:

Quick, scour their Twitter and make a big stink if they've ever said anything even remotely stupid!

I think WWE stopped responding to these for the most part.

Good on them.

[DJ Maniak]

Now Bludgeon Brothers are gonna need a new gimmick.

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I'm really glad that there are traveling tag teams in wrestling again.

[Mozenrath]

Dec 19, 2017 11:24:37 GMT -5 Push R Truth said:

The main thing that bother's me is that the WWE doesn't have a lack of talent. This is I believe, without hyperbole, the most stacked the company has even been with talent.


I hope they don't get brought in and are just bottom level jobbers. There really isn't much roster room for anything else at the moment, although that's a Booking issue. It's purely a booking issue. The most important lesson to learn from the Attitude era is "make everybody on the card matter". I hope that's the direction we are going... but I doubt it.

At least they'll be paid.

I think they're probably in something closer to a KENTA-level spot where they probably had enough value to get a higher than entry level salary, and WWE would be more inclined to try to have them be big deals to justify paying them that much. That, and Ricochet has a decent number of connections in the company as it is, so he will probably benefit from that. Not as sure about War Machine, but WWE's got depth problems with their tag divisions right now, and Authors of Pain may be due to get called up soon, so they'll have a spot somewhere.

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I’ve never been a big War Machine fan, but their presentation has definitely improved over the past little bit. I’m super pumped about the Ricochet signing though.

[BlahBlah]

omg omg omg richochet omg omg omg richochet omg omg omg ricochet. Omg omg omg ricochet. I'm slightly excited about the ricochet signing. YES!

[corndog]

These rumors have been out there and known for a while. Ricochet had his farewell match with New Japan a few months back, so it's pretty obvious where he's going. I was hoping War Machine was sticking around in New Japan, but it's been talked about for a while that they were headed to WWE.

All I have to say is if WWE screws these guys up, I hope people stop going. Ricochet is one the greatest athletes in all of wrestling, he's a special talent. War Machine are just awesome and it would be pretty cool to see them dethrone AOP.

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Warbeard Hanson is a a pretty damn cool name, and even if they end up dropping the last name just Warbeard is still cool.

[Baby, it’s Jes outside]

Dec 19, 2017 11:45:07 GMT -5 @dax said:

Warbeard Hanson is a a pretty damn cool name, and even if they end up dropping the last name just Warbeard is still cool.

He'll end up being called Hanson. 🙂

[Pgarodactyl]

War Machine vs Authors of Pain

War Machine vs Sanity

War Machine vs Bludgeon Brothers

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Dec 19, 2017 12:07:42 GMT -5 Baby, it’s Jes outside said:

Dec 19, 2017 11:45:07 GMT -5 @dax said:

Warbeard Hanson is a a pretty damn cool name, and even if they end up dropping the last name just Warbeard is still cool.

He'll end up being called Hanson. 🙂

I can hear the Full Sail crowd singing MMMBop now.

[Shy Guy]

AOP vs heavy machinery vs war machine

[Feargus McReddit]

Three really good pickups there.

Ricochet’s one of the best in the world and there are very few teams as badass yet athletic as War Machine out there.

[Final Countdown Jones]

War Machine is another feather in the cap of a tag division that, when the company is run by someone who doesn't hate tag team wrestling, is going to be f***ing incredible.