Former ROH booker and NWA World Champion Adam Pearce has been hired by WWE as a full-time coach and producer, according to PWInsider. Pearce will be working out of the WWE Performance Center in Orlando.
Pearce has worked as a guest trainer several times in the past but has reportedly just now signed with the company. He was in attendance for a meeting at the Performance Center today.
Over the weekend we noted that Samoa Joe had been accepting independent bookings throughout the remainder of the summer, despite rumors of him possibly moving to NXT. On today’s NXT media conference call, Wrestling Inc. asked Triple H about the possibility of signing Joe to a contract.
“He was here at the Performance Center a month or two ago,” Triple H told us. “We only spoke for about five minutes, and that was mainly exchanging pleasantries.”
Triple H went on to say that he admires Samoa Joe’s work, and that he was impressed with the Performance Center.
Regarding the contract status of Samoa Joe, Triple H said he wasn’t sure if the two sides would end up doing business or not. Many speculated when Samoa Joe’s Ring of Honor dates came to an end recently, that he’d be headed to Orlando to start with NXT. Thus far, that hasn’t materialized.
While not directly in response to the question about Samoa Joe, Triple H later stated that NXT is typically a young man’s game. He mentioned that it’s a lot easier to instill the WWE’s way of running things in someone younger than it was for someone who has been wrestling for most of their life.
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