Earlier today, we posted the announcement of the new WWE Global Cruiserweight Series that will take place this summer.
Triple H spoke to PWInsider.com about how WWE plans to fill the tournament with talent from around the world.
“I’m excited about this. I really am. It’s a really great opportunity for us to tap into what’s a really exciting talent pool. I believe, sort of an underutilized talent pool. There are just numerous, numerous, numerous Cruiserweight’s around the world that are great performers that have not fully had the opportunity to be seen around the world and that’s something that hopefully, WWE can give them.”
Triple H commented on where WWE will be looking for and if we will see currently contract WWE wrestlers involved in the tournament:
“I would say the vast majority will be non-contracted or long-term contracted WWE talents. We haven’t finalized the selection process, watching tapes and seeing who we want to work with and all of that. It’s going to be a discovery process. Look, I want to have the best in the world. I don’t want to negate anyone from that process because they are under contract to us. At the same time, I’m looking for the best in the world and the brightest around to give them a platform that they’ve never had. I’m certainly looking at the vast majority from being from the outside [of WWE.] When I say Global, I mean Global. We are recruiting from everywhere. UK, Japan, China, to find the best talent. That doesn’t mean we are going to find someone everywhere, but we are really trying to turn things over and really find someone from every part of the globe to be part of this and show the world who they are and what they can do.”
Will there be a return of a Cruiserweight Division in WWE:
“I think it is slightly the cart before the horse. I think..I want this to be something that is repetitive. I would like this tournament to be a recurring thing where we take the best talent from around the world and let them do their thing. Does that morph directly into a Cruiserweight division right away? I don’t know about right away…and it might…but we’re clearly looking at all the guys in this tournament and saying, ‘who do we want to work with long-term? Maybe we give this guy a year and we’ll work with him long-term next year’ and who are all these talents. I think where it lands is sort of a work in progress. If you look at this tournament, it’s going to be a platform where somebody and it could be more than one person, is going to be seen as one of the best Cruiserweights in the world or the best Cruiserweight in the world. It’s a hell of a platform and it’s going to get bigger and better but just not sure 100% what that is.”
What exactly can we expect from the WWE Global Cruiserweight Series according to Triple H:
“It’s hard to say what [one match fans should look to as a preview] because when you think of Cruiserweights, people look to Neville and Kalisto who have that amazing aerial control but that’s not what being 205 and under means to me, ” said Levesque. “When you start to scour all of these different places, like the U.K., there’s all these amazing technical talents, just well rounded wrestlers who are mat technicians, who are amazing at what they do, who are just as exciting as someone performing a corkscrew moonsault. So, I don’t want to say, watch Rey Mysterio from WCW…I feel like that’s limiting. I feel like the best has yet to come for the Cruiserweights and like NXT, the thing that makes any match great is the differences in style. We’re going to put that opportunity out there for these guys. It may be a bit smaller, a big faster, maybe a bit more aggressive, the pace is different. We’re going to give them that platform whether they are mat-based or it’s something a little different. We’re not going to limit things. We’re going to give you something like you’ve never seen before. That’s what it’s going to be.”
Thanks to PWInsider.com for the interview with Triple H
