WWE Looking for Another “Ethnic Hero”, Celeb at NXT Event, Mysterio’s Status

Posted by Marc Middleton on February 14, 2013 at 8:00 AM

- Actor Kris Kristofferson was backstage at last night’s WWE NXT live event. His son is NXT star Garrett Dylan. Here he is with Sasha Banks:

- While Rey Mysterio was pulled from the upcoming SmackDown overseas tour, he is scheduled to start working live events again in a few weeks.

- WWE has been negotiating with Olympic wrestler Jaime Espinal, who won a silver medal at 185 pounds in 2012. Espinal was one of only two Olympic medalists in any sport from Puerto Rico. Recruiting Espinal is part of WWE’s movement to try and create ethnic and national heroes going forward. Espinal has interest in both WWE and MMA.

Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter

About The Author: Marc Middleton

Marc has worked in the “IWC” since the late 90′s when he began working on news sites as well as official sites for stars like Sunny and Taz. He had brief stints with World of Wrestling and the ECW magazines. When Marc isn’t working on WNZ, he’s managing Middleton Creatives – a web development and screen printing company.

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http://twitter.com/bpkosher Bradley Patterson

well being an olympic level wrestling now he really only has two choices…thanks to the IOC…wrestlers can either go to pro wrestling or MMA
CMmox

lol He’s the guy who played as the Whistler guy at Blade series ain’t he?
http://www.facebook.com/nhphimmasone Naleen Phimmasone

They could’ve made “Ethnic Heroes” out of Yoshi Tatsu and Justin Gabriel and still could if they push production of their cruiserweight show.
glitch

it must be a crime to put the wwe world strap on a black wrestler. now the latino demo is priority one. you can tell a republican runs this company.