WWE Officially Launching Global Cruiserweight Series in July

Almost two weeks, there was a report that WWE was planning a major tournament this summer on the WWE Network.

The plan on paper was to use the tournament as a launching pad to bring create new stars and bring back the Cruiserweight division to WWE.

Today, WWE has officially announced the Global Cruiserweight Series for this summer that has shown that rumor to be totally accurate.

PWInsider.com has done the following in-depth interview with Triple H about the series and how it will impact the landscape of WWE. You can read the full interview right here. Below is a highlight:

Why Is He Doing The Show?

“At the end of the day, I was just having this conversation with my wife. I kind of approach this as I’m just a huge fan. I started out that way and I will be that way my whole life. I kind of do what I think I’m going to dig and that I’m going to like and that’s the way I approach it. There’s this talent that I like and I’d like to go and see what they can do. So, I push for going to see what I can do with that. I think it’s important for everything to always grow and become bigger. I’ve looked for a long time at that population of talent in that under 205 lb. category, the Cruiserweight category and thought, ‘Man, there’s a lot of really talented performers’ and I don’t mean guys that can just do flips. Really talented performers that have characters and can speak are really good. They are underutilized to me and they don’t have the platform to show what they can do. I feel like that’s a miss. Not intentionally a miss, but just something that we’ve left sitting on the table, and I don’t want to leave stuff sitting there on the table.”

Source: PWInsider.com