WWE Negotiating With Olympic Wrestler, Celebrity At NXT Event, Rey Mysterio's Status
- 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.
- Actor Kris Kristofferson was backstage at last night's WWE NXT live event. His son is NXT star Garrett Dylan. Here he is with Billy Gunn:
Not only did we have a good show at @nxt in orlando we had a celebrity guess who twitter.com/RealBillyGunn/?
— Kip sopp (@RealBillyGunn) February 14, 2013
Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter
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