Shawn Michaels Says It Can Take Three Years For A New Athlete To Become WWE Main Roster Ready

Shawn Michaels speaks about the progression of new wrestlers.

The latest guest on Stephanie McMahon’s ‘What’s Your Story?’ podcast was Shawn Michaels. During the chat, Michaels stated that for an athlete who is new to wrestling, it takes three years for them to be WWE main roster-ready.

“It’s very challenging. That’s one of the things I can remember being asked. ‘How long do you think it takes to get one of these athletes that doesn’t know anything totally ready for the main roster?’ I said, ‘Honestly, to get them ready to what I think is adequate to be ready for a main roster guy, three years.’ And they said, ‘Really? You can’t get it done faster than that?’ I was like, ‘Well, I guess we can. But not to get them to where I think they need to be.’ I was in the hundreds of matches in probably three months. They may not get there in a year with the amount of live events we do.”

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