Right now on the Busted Open podcast, Mark Henry and I react to the news of the beginning of the WWI ID program.

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WWE is launching a new program to help assist with the development of independent wrestlers.

And they partnered with select training schools and indie wrestlers

to basically establish a potential pathway for wrestlers to join WWE.

And of course, in their press release, they gave a lot more details in this in regards to, like,

okay, you're going to be given a place for your developmental journey, providing some financial

opportunity.

They're going to assist with

training, mentorship, and development as well as allowing access to their facilities and, you know,

in-ring training as well. So a little bit of everything. I guess there's still, I do have some

questions, I guess, in terms of like how this is going to work exactly.

But it sounds to me like basically, all right, these are the schools we're partnering with.

We're going to give them resources that they may or may not have already.

And if they do have some of these resources, we're just going to give them the, you know,

the extra high class, W.WE status to it and a little bit more of a professional feel maybe.

Because, you know, it's w.

They're very, very corporate.

So the schools that were announced for this, we got a couple.

We got Booker T's reality of wrestling out in Houston.

Cody Rhodes is Nightmare Factory out in Atlanta.

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