WWE recently held a set of tryouts at the Performance Center in Orlando, Florida to recruit new wrestlers and athletes. It was previously reported by Fightful Select that a new edict from WWE management noted they want to start focusing on younger and bigger male wrestlers for tryouts once again.
Dave Meltzer confirmed this in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter and added that they want everyone going forward to be young, males with good size, with an emphasis on minorities.
Regarding the “good size,” it was described as a legitimate 6-foot and 220 pounds. This is the only doctrine that has changed in several years when WWE started focusing on signing smaller “ROH-type” talents.
As it stands right now, there’s no word yet on who is being offered contracts who attended the tryouts. Of course, there can be exceptions to this edict.
There has been some talk about hiring women as WWE Producers as of late, which is why WWE Hall of Famer Molly Holly received a producer’s tryout at Monday’s Raw TV event.
Meltzer stated Holly was someone that everybody got along with and fits what they’re looking for in that role. She is slated to be brought back next week at Raw to continue the tryout, which is viewed as a good sign that she will be hired for the role.