WWE News: WWE Changes Hiring Policy
WWE has made a monumental change in their hiring policy. WWE have reported that they no longer will be signing wrestlers under the age of twenty-one. This has come as a shocker considering the fact that the company in the past decades have hired younger talent, and have made them into the stars they are today by moulding them in the required way from the ground up. The company also used to bag several independent talents so as to groom them from the very beginning.
Notable younger talent seen on WWE T.V. includes Paige who was the youngest Divas champion at the age of twenty-one when she made her debut. Kelly Kelly who also debuted at the age of nineteen on WWE’s ECW brand, and René Duprée who also at the age of twenty won the Tag-Team Titles with Kenzo Suzuki, making him the youngest wrestler to win a championship within the WWE.
This notable change in the policy was discovered during WWE’s recent tryout in Australia. A young female athlete of nineteen years of age was refused to be hired by the officials because of her age and was told that she was welcome to tryout when she reaches twenty-one years of age. Until now no official reason has been given for this change in the hiring policy.
However, one of the reasons may be that WWE might be on the lookout for performers more mature and dedicated for a long-term career in wrestling, as the younger athletes fail to make up their minds as for what they want to do with their lives. Speculations have also been made that the policy change might have taken place because of the liability issue which they may have been forced to start addressing on the account of frequent injuries, concussions etc. suffered by the current wrestlers.This can be counted as a positive reform by the WWE as younger wrestlers can take the time to sort out the pros and cons before turning over their lives to pro-wrestling, as the WWE never has an off-season which in turn never lets their superstars have an off-time until and unless they get injured.
What the actual reason for such a change is still not known to anyone except the people who make the policy changes. Hence, until WWE decides to explain why they won’t hire younger talent? We can only speculate until any official statement is given by the pro-wrestling giant.