Just out of late night curiosity

[Guest Red Hot Thumbtack In The Eye]

So the WWF has 2 feds which are basically "feeder leagues". Those being OVW and HWA, right?

 

I'm wondering. Does one of those leagues feed into another? ie:young talent goes to OVW to develop some and then move to HWA and then on to WWF if they are good enough to get a spot?

[Guest The Vanilla Midget]

no, im pretty sure they are supposed to be level, although OVW seems to get a lot more of the big name guys and top development prospects, so you never know.

[Guest Tony149]

They stay in the same fed. I don't think they start from one place then move to another. The WWF picks who they want to bring up.

[Guest EUX4life]

i haven't seen any of the two feds live or on tv or anything, but from the rosters, it seems like OVW is the place for trainees and rookies, the fed where people actually go and get trained first, then start wrestling in the federation.  HWA looks for the most part like all the people that already were trained, and most of them were already on tv at one point or another, but they don't know what to do with them.  big show is the only established talent that i know of that went to OVW and HWA.  but OVW is LEARNING and developing skills, and HWA is HONING and developing skills.  isn't UPW a developmental territory too?

[Guest converge241]

I think the UPW deal expired in the last 6-9 months or so.

They also had something with NWA Wildside at somepoint. I think they picked up the developemental deal from the WCW purchase or something along those lines. Whatever it was that's gone now too. Theyre also affiliated with USA championship, but thats just more of a friendly thing with Lawler featuring mostly OVW and memphis guys.

[Guest The Masked Yodeler]

OVW is mostly guys that have been in the WWF developement program their whole careers.  As such, it's mostly hosses.  HWA is mostly cruiserweights and rookies that WWF picked up from WCW.  And talent does move between HWA and OVW occasionally.

 

NWA Wildside's deal with WCW ran out before WWF bought it.  And UPW is no longer a developement fed.  But WWF has friendly relations with it.  The WWF also has a relationship with IWA in Puerto Rico, although it's not really part of the farm system.  Some guys that the WWF wasn't using (Tiger Ali Singh, D'Lo) were sent there for a while, and occasionally the WWF sends undercarders (Tommy Dreamer, Raven, etc) down there for shows.  Some of the IWA guys have had dark matches, too.

[Guest converge241]

thanks for clearing up the Wildside deal.

I forgot all about IWA in 'Rico.