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WWE officials notified television partner Bright House Network Monday that they have opted to cease their affiliation with the Florida based sports network as they are shutting down developmental promotion Florida Championship Wrestling effective immediately. Florida Championship Wrestling programming, which was taped last Thursday in Tampa, Florida, will cease to air on the network in three weeks.

Everyone involved with Florida Championship Wrestling will relocate to WWE's homebase in Stamford, Connecticut until a further decision regarding the developmental program is made.

WWE employees were given the impression that a developmental promotion will ultimately open in Connecticut with the possibility of a second at an undetermined location.


My question is simple enough really: why?

Every episode of FCW that I saw, even the few events I went to while I lived in Florida were heads and shoulders above most of televised wrestling today.

Honestly hope this doesn't delay certain talent from being brought up.

Agreed. I enjoy it more than I do Raw and SD. Though I only got to see a few of them. it's silly. WWE can never make their minds up about anything.

I just want Tyler Black / Seth Rollins to finally get on TV!

Mar 20, 2012 - 12:05:00 PM

- All FCW events currently scheduled for this coming weekend will go on as planned. FCW President Steve Keirn is denying the rumors of FCW shutting down. All talents are at school today and as of this writing, no official announcement has been made.

PWInsider just updated their story and reports that sources within WWE state there are no plans to shutdown WWE's developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling. The show on the Brighthouse Network is scheduled to end however.

Mar 20, 2012 - 5:08:06 PM

WWE.com has addressed the online rumors that Florida Championship Wrestling is shutting down, vehemently denying the "erroneous" report by an "unreliable online news source."

The WWE website reached out to WWE’s Executive Vice President of Talent, Paul Levesque (Triple H) to address this issue:

“It is absolutely not true. FCW is not closing. I don’t know how the rumor started but I believe it’s a situation where the ‘dirt sheets’ want to believe they have the scoop on everything. If anything, we are in the process of ramping up our entire developmental system. It’s the lifeblood of our company. It’s what feeds our future and in no way are we going to close it down.”

Triple H acknowledged that there are plans to overhaul the developmental system and revealed that there is a "major announcement" coming shortly after WrestleMania regarding the future of WWE developmental:

“WWE’s developmental system is being revamped, not shut down. If anything, it’s going to get bigger and better than ever. WWE Developmental cultivates the future talent of WWE. By no means is it going to get smaller or shut down.”

Mar 20, 2012 - 11:22:42 PM

- I [wrestling reporter] spoke with Florida Championship Wrestling President Steve Keirn directly today and he told me they were at school training today and their was "no truth" to the rumor that WWE was shutting down the territory.



Unless something's changed since then? *shrugs*

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