NXT II? Impact Wrestling Announces Partnership With New Developmental Territory.

It’s a good way to teach. I’d think it’s safe to say that NXT has been a success in more than one way. While it offers some of the best and most exciting wrestling in the world right now, it also serves as a way to get the newly signed wrestlers some experience in the ring. It serves WWE well as a developmental system, and now it seems that another major company is doing the same.

Impact Wrestling has announced via their Twitter account that they are reestablishing their relationship with Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) to make it their official developmental territory again. OVW, out of Louisville, Kentucky served as the WWE’s developmental territory from 1999-2008 and for Impact Wrestling from 2011-2013. The two companies recently worked together for a One Night Only event from Impact Wrestling’s Davis Arena.

BREAKING: We are thrilled to announce that we have re-entered into an agreement with @ovwrestling to serve as an official development and training territory for IMPACT Wrestling. pic.twitter.com/Wm8g20VwPT

— IMPACT (@IMPACTWRESTLING) March 19, 2019

Could not be happier to be working with @IMPACTWRESTLING and building new and upcoming stars of professional wrestling https://t.co/xprLx74JEI

— Al Snow (@TheRealAlSnow) March 19, 2019

They’ve been around lately. Check out Moose heading to OVW earlier this month:

Opinion: The history is certainly there and with Impact Wrestling becoming more of a stable product as of late, it makes a lot of sense for them to start this relationship up again. OVW isn’t the biggest promotion in the world but it has a long history of success in training wrestlers and can do a lot of good things for Impact Wrestling. Hopefully this version works better than last time.

Do you like the idea of a developmental territory for Impact Wrestling? Who would you like to see head down to Louisville? Let us know in the comments below.

Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen over 50,000 wrestling matches. He has also been a wrestling reviewer since 2009 with over 5,000 full shows covered. You can find his work at kbwrestlingreviews.com, or check out his Amazon author page with 28 wrestling books. His latest book is the the Complete 2000 Monday Nitro and Thunder Reviews Part 1.

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