2. There are More Experienced Talents Not Being Signed
If WWE needs talent, there is an entire industry of promotions and hundreds of performers all over the world that would love to wrestle for WWE. With that in mind, why would WWE sign unproven talent, who placed fifth in the Tough Enough competition instead of veterans of the business, who have been wrestling for years.
NXT isn’t a safe place for the Tough Enough signees to hang out at the WWE Performance Center, and learn to wrestle. NXT is a full brand now. It’s a brand that provides an alternative way of booking and presenting a wrestling promotion with new characters or wrestlers that are familiar in others. Tough Enough talents are going to struggle to find a place there when it was a show designed for an audience that loves sports entertaining, not real wrestling. Josh and Sara Lee would probably be better off in the NXT kids show that’s being developed.