Keith Lee To WWE!
It’s time for your weekly update on top independent wrestler Keith Lee going to WWE.
The update is: yeah, still looks like it’s happening.
The latest site to report the move is PWTorch, who claim multiple sources have confirmed Lee is expected to report to NXT after finishing up his independent bookings in May. The Wrestling Observer had previously reported that Lee and other top independent big guy Walter had been offered WWE contracts back in early March. Walter denied he was made a deal, but the Torch has now also confirmed he was offered one, but he has not signed it. Walter is currently taking bookings through September, though, implying he doesn’t intend to join anytime in the future either.
In just five minutes, tickets to Keith Lee's farewell event, Bask in His Glory, go on sale! Get yours at https://t.co/KhAHlkQzBk at 8PM!
— PWG (@OfficialPWG) May 2, 2018
Further evidence comes for Lee’s WWE move, however, is in PWG naming a show after his catchphrase, Bask In His Glory, and promoting it as his ‘farewell event’, and Lee telling a fan that he won’t be making Evolve’s show in June.
Was working on something…but I am not certain it will work out at this point. Closest thing may be Detroit with Evolve at this point. https://t.co/RnEIn8G3yT
— Excellent Lee (@RealKeithLee) May 1, 2018
It’s almost like there’s an NXT TakeOver: Chicago show on June 16 he has to sit in the crowd for.
The PWTorch report goes onto note, however, that the hulking Lee will have to “adjust his style once he arrives in WWE”. Apparently, he received “mixed reviews from WWE officials” for his match against Kassius Ohno at Axxess over WrestleMania weekend where he came in “with a rep of doing moves”. Heaven forbid he do moves!
How To Make It In NXT
Interestingly, the Torch goes onto note that indy stars joining NXT are best served listening to and implementing all the advice you’re given from the Performance Center coaches to get a reputation of being very easy to work with. Once you’re seen more favorably by the NXT team, you’ll potentially be allowed more creative freedom.
The Torch illustrates this point with two examples. Young high flyer Lio Rush apparently “wasn’t coachable” when he joined the promotion, which is one reason why he struggled early on. Ricochet, however, who only joined NXT in January, has been “great to work with and in turn, producers have invited him to have more input into his character”.
Danny Burch Signs With WWE
Despite Triple H saying the Performance Center was full just a few months ago, the promotion has signed another independent wrestler. Although he was kind of there full time already.
Martin Stone first signed with WWE in 2011, debuting two years later as Danny Burch. But despite being a bloody hard bastard, he was released in April 2014.
Following a brief spell in TNA, however, he still wrestled rather frequently on NXT from 2015 onwards and even competed at last year’s UK Tournament. His free agent spell has now seemingly come to an end, though, as he announced at last weekend’s Beyond Wrestling event that he’d signed with WWE.
And he’s not the only name we’ll be seeing on WWE TV on a regular basis soon…
Jason Jordan Returning Very Soon
…as PWInsider are reporting Jason Jordan will be returning very shortly.
Faster than you can say ‘decades of unpaid child support’, Kurt Angle’s kayfabe illegitimate son has seemingly recovered from the “minimally invasive operation” to decompress a nerve in his neck back in early February, and PWInsider claim he is “slated to return later this month to the Raw brand”, where he could be back on the road for the company as early as next week.
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