WWE has raised serious questions about their developmental system after they buried their own show.
WWE LFG started with a lot of fanfare and hype as Shawn Michaels the head of NXT and talent development in the company dubbed the show as the manufacturing hub of the next generation of megastars.
The first season started with four judges – Bully Ray, Undertaker, Mickie James, and Booker T as they took on budding WWE talents, trained them, judged them, and nurtured them. Both winners from the first season of the show have now been released with many of the others also on their way out.
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WWE LFG Is A Failure And So Is Their Developmental System
For a show that was named Legends And Future Greats, there has been quite the destruction of the product. The winners from the first season of the show in Tyra Mae Steele and Jasper Troy have both been let go.
Now, Fightful is reporting a host of other departures in the form on Zena Sterling, Braxton Cole, and a host of others.
This really begs the question as to what the purpose of the first season of LFG was? With a show that was supposed to create ‘future greats’ along with current legends, it seems that the purpose has completely failed. Moreover, some of these stars have spent too little time on either NXT or Evolve to really know their worth.
The developmental system is supposed to pick out the best and then hone their craft to make them future greats. But it seems that WWE has little to no patience with some of the talent and want instant results. Even then, Sterling and Troy were prominently featured on the shows every week. Troy even won the Speed Title and had 71 matches on NXT (including LVL Up and House Shows). He was surely talented enough to be featured on what the company calls their ‘third brand’.
It’s absurd how much the promotion invested in the LFG programme only for it to be ripped apart in one fell swoop. In reality, their own show has now been buried, and nothing they ever do will be able to revive it.
Stars like Adriana Rizzo and Wendy Choo who were quite popular have also been inexplicably let go. Choo spent seven years on the developmental scene and won the Evolve Title only recently but was let go without even a chance to show her skills to a wider audience.
This just gives the feeling that WWE doesn’t trust their own developmental system, something it has spend years building, enough to see someone who has spent seven years in it worthy of a main roster call.
Overall, this feels like a failure of the entire machinery of this company and the structure that it has for so long presented as foolproof and ideal to build the next generation of superstars.
