Location from WWE by WWE / TKO Group
The proving ground — a state-of-the-art training complex in Orlando where recruits are transformed from athletes into sports entertainers, and where the next generation of legends is forged.
The Performance Center is the funnel through which all of WWE's future passes. Athletes arrive — football players, Olympic competitors, independent wrestling veterans, actors, MMA fighters — and are rebuilt according to WWE's language: character, entrance, promo, in-ring psychology. The coaches are former main-eventers who know the difference between a worker and a star. The pressure is immense: performance reviews, character evaluations, cuts. The NXT brand is the pipeline out — performing for live audiences before graduating to Raw or SmackDown. What the Performance Center produces defines what WWE will be in five years.
A massive modern facility of high ceilings and multiple practice rings visible from a mezzanine above. Weight rooms, media training studios, physical therapy bays. The rings are lit like performance spaces. Recruits in gear run drills under the eyes of coaches who are themselves former main event performers. It is simultaneously a gym, a drama school, and a pressure cooker.
Also known as: The PC, Performance Center