Ohio Valley Wrestling No longer WWE Territory
OVW No More
WWE severs all ties with Ohio Valley wrestling. Here are the details:
In a meeting that was held today with contracted developmental talent. WWE’s John Laurinaitis and Ty Baily made the announcement that all of the contracted wrestlers training at OVW there would be heading to Florida Championship Wrestling - which is now WWE’s only developmental territory.
Laurinaitis told the talents that WWE wanted to keep all their talents in one place. This huge move would make up and coming talents of aspiring superstars a better chance to learn from former stars who reside in close prximity to the Florida Championship Wrestling.
Talents was told that there will be no releases stemming from OVW shutting down and that they will all be relocated to Tampa after finishing a few more weeks in OVW.
Talents was told the trainers in FCW would be Tom Prichard, Steve Keirn, aka WWE star Billy Kidman.
FCW is slated to run its first official TV taping later this month and there have been plans in place to run a regular schedule of live events in Florida.
The move had been suspected for some time as the amount of contracted talents working in Louisville had dwindled greatly in the last year and morale in OVW overall had fallen.
Over the years, OVW has groomed a number of WWE’s biggest stars, including Batista, Brock Lesnar, Randy Orton and John Cena.
September 24th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
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