WWE: Tiffany Stratton on Potential of WWE Adding New Netflix Title for Women’s Division, The Rock on WWE Career Future, More on WWE ID Program

Nov 8, 2024

Tiffany Stratton Comments on Potential of WWE Adding New Netflix Title for Women’s Division

A recent episode of the Gorilla Position podcast featured Tiffany Stratton as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Stratton’s thoughts about the potential of WWE adding a new mid-card championship for their Women’s division and idea of this new title being a Women’s Netflix Championship.

“I think it would be a great idea, because I know NXT has one [the NXT Women’s North American Championship], actually. And they have so many women down in NXT and we have so many women on the main roster right now. So I think it would be a great idea to introduce a mid-card title. And a Netflix Championship? I think that would be amazing. What a great idea.”

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com

The Rock Comments on His WWE Career Future & Potential Return to WWE

As noted before, WWE’s Bad Blood 2024 event this past October in Atlanta, Georgia featured Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson making his surprise return to WWE. This was The Rock’s first appearance in WWE since this past April.

LADbible held a recent interview with The Rock. One of the topics discussed included The Rock’s thoughts about the future of his career in WWE and potential return to the company in the future.

“Any opportunity I can to go back and not only make appearances, but help to expand the company, whether domestically or globally, I always go back. It’s also part of my obligation that I happily do.
I came along in the 90s and wrestled for Vince into the 2000s, so there’s some real connective tissue that goes back generations, and for that I will forever be grateful, because it provided me a platform and a way to express myself in ways that nothing else would allow, other than actingSo the opportunity for me to become a director, sit on the board, take that position, is just another way that I could help the company grow.”

More on WWE’s New WWE ID Program for Indie Wrestler Development

As noted before, WWE recently launched a new indie wrestler development program called WWE ID and have affiliated with several wrestling schools to develop indie wrestlers for potential careers in the company. Among the indie talents confirmed to have signed WWE ID deals includes “Cartwell” Jack Summit, Zara Zakher, Sean Legacy, Zayda Steel, Bryce Donovan, and “Cold Brew” Cappuccino Jones.

Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that one source spoken to within WWE provided additional details regarding the company’s new WWE ID program.

In regards to the independent school affiliation announcement, this source stated that indie talent from those schools or elsewhere WWE officials feel has potential will be signed to WWE ID contracts.

Meltzer reported that this is a change to WWE’s prior system for indie talent signings that involved them inviting talent to tryouts and then a decision would be made to sign them to full-time deals and move them to their Performance Center or pass on them. Meltzer reported that the current system means that WWE officials can now sign indie talents to new deals sooner that were described as being similar to their NIL deals.

In regards to monetary amounts, Meltzer reported that WWE’s new WWE ID deals are low paying deals compared to developmental contracts and not enough for a WWE ID talent to live on by its own but it is extra money coming in for those talents. These deals reportedly also means that their is a working relationship and the door being open for those talents to be signed to bigger deals in WWE.

Meltzer reported that another change in WWE’s mentality over indie signings involves this program allowing their WWE ID talents to continue working in the indies as part of their development. This reportedly is different compared to the prior system where WWE did not want talent under contract with them, including those under NIL deals, to be working indie shows unless those bookings were through WWE.

Meltzer also reported that while WWE ID talent can still accept offers for deals from outside companies, WWE holds the first right of refusal and at that point can decided to either sign them to an official contract or drop them from their WWE ID deal.

In regards to indie talent signed from schools not currently affiliated with the WWE ID program, Meltzer reported that the same source spoken to stated that WWE officials will recommend that they train at one of their affiliated schools.