WWE Announces New Training Facility

WWE made an official announcement Thursday morning announcing the creation of the WWE Performance Center, which will be located in Orlando, Florida. Making the announcement, along with Florida Governor Rick Scott, was WWE COO Triple H. The 26,000-square-foot facility is scheduled to open this summer, and will create more than 100 new high-wage jobs. The Performance Center will be set in the same location as Thursday’s press conference, The Forsyth Central Commerce Park in Winter Park, Florida. This places the new facility directly across from Full Sail University, the current home of WWE’s NXT developmental brand.

The new top-of-the-line facility will contain seven wrestling rings, a gym, and high-tech production/edit rooms that will train new and upcoming producers for the company. The Performance Center will help to further WWE’s partnership with Full Sail University, whose students exclusively edit and produce the weekly broadcasts of WWE NXT from the university. The new facility will be the new home of NXT moving forward. The center also boasts a “best-in-class” sports medicine program, creating not only a new place of learning, but a care center for active and developmental WWE talent.

No exact opening date was announced, just that the new location would be open Summer of 2013.

 

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