Gabe Sapolsky On EVOLVE’s Relationship With WWE, Triple H And The WWE GCS, Safety In The Ring

Source: Uproxx

WWN Live’s Gabe Sapolsky recently spoke with Uproxx to talk about EVOLVE, the WWE Global Cruiserweight Series and more. The full interview is at this link. Below are highlights:

How EVOLVE’s partnership with WWE came to be:

WWE got into a very progressive mindset when it came to the independents and started looking into where talent was coming from. When they did this, they looked at Evolve and guys like Dean Ambrose, Luke Harper, Kalisto, Neville and several other talents that came from Evolve, and they looked at me personally from my time at ROH when I booked guys like Seth Rollins, Daniel Bryan, Kevin Owens, Sami Zayn, and CM Punk going way back… so they looked at the track record and realized it was in their interest to support us and make sure this independent undercurrent of talent keeps flowing.

At the same time for them, they benefited from having this pipeline of talent. So, there was a natural synergy there and it made a lot of sense. It’s giving us a great deal of exposure and getting the talent ready to go for them and perform on a big stage. The relationship started slowly and is …

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