Sean Legacy speaks on the benefits of being a WWE ID talent.
Sean Legacy is a WWE ID talent, a program that signs talent to ID contracts that leaves them with several benefits from the company, but are not officially signed to WWE and can leave the program if they wish to do so.
While speaking to Bite Size Chats in a recent interview, Sean Legacy was asked about what being a WWE ID talent entails, with Legacy listing off the benefits.
"WWE ID is new. It's basically them supporting you and helping you branch your name out even more around the entire world on the indies. Whenever I get paid X amount of money, they say, hey, Here you go. We want to help you with your travel. We want to help you with like a hotel or something like that. Because, man, that's the thing with wrestling, especially indie wrestling. The only way to get known is you've got to branch yourself out there. So that's what WWE ID is mainly about. But also, man, we get to go to the Performance Center in Orlando and get to train there and we get to learn their ways. When we learn their ways, we're allowed to bring it back on the indies and show the indie wrestlers that maybe their dream is to be in WWE. Like, hey, they're looking for this. Get away from this. Start doing this. You know, this is the stuff they're looking at."
Legacy continued, telling his story of how he was recruited to WWE ID from a Pro Wrestling NOAH tryout.
"So just in case if you get an opportunity like I did, how I got picked for the WWE ID was two years ago. I did a Pro Wrestling NOAH tryout. It's a company in Japan. It was in San Jose, California. It was $500 to do this tryout. Not only was it $500 to do this tryout, but I had to pay for my plane ticket to get to San Jose. That was $900 something. Then I had to get a hotel, which was like $300 something. Then I had to buy a rental. I almost spent like two grand on this tryout. There's a wrestler up there named (Naomichi) Marufuji, and he was one of the judges. Well, Gabe Sapolsky, who kind of runs the WWE ID program, but we didn't know back then. But he was there, and he was just scouting out talent. I did a tryout, and I got picked out of 40 people, and then Gabe was like, hey, let me have your email and stuff like that, and just send me some of your matches, and we'll just keep in touch. Well, that's what I did. Then a couple months later, he gave me a call, and I was – I was actually in Germany. Yeah, I was actually in Germany at the time when he called me and told me about everything, about the ID stuff, and I was like, yeah, let's do it. So then it got announced when I was in Germany and, man, it's crazy. I feel like it got announced like a year ago, but it's only been like five or six months."
Legacy is currently scheduled to challenge for the NXT North American Championship on this week's edition of WWE NXT. You can read more about that here.
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