WWE: WWE Announces Four New Performance Center Recruits, Tatum Paxley on Her Feeling Prepared for WWE Main Roster Call-up, Maxxine Dupri on Her Dealing with Social Media Hate During Her Time in WWE

WWE Announces Four New Performance Center Recruits

As noted before, WWE was believed to have recently signed Ahmed Essam, Delia Schweizer, and Ellen B. Akesson to NXT developmental contracts for their Performance Center.

WWE officially announced their newest class of signees for their Performance Center and confirmed that Essam, Schweizer, and Akesson have been signed to developmental deals with the company.

It was also announced that they had signed Rayne Leat to a developmental contract as part of their new class of Performance Center signees. Leat is former indie wrestler Rayne Leverkusen who will be going by that new ring name for her career in WWE.

They got next 🔥

Ahmed Essam Samy Twfiq
Ellen Akesson
Rayne Leat
Delia Schweizer#WWENXT pic.twitter.com/g5F3y2RJPU

— WWE NXT (@WWENXT) March 11, 2026

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Tatum Paxley Comments on Her Feeling Prepared for WWE Main Roster Call-up

A recent episode of the Busted Open Radio podcast featured NXT Women’s North American Champion Tatum Paxley as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Paxley’s thoughts about her spending the past five years in WWE’s NXT brand and her feeling that she is prepared for a call-up to WWE’s main roster.

“1000 percent. But, I am also in zero rush. I’m in no rush to get there. This is something I’ve learned from being in NXT, that timing is everything. My career was a little bit of a slow start, but I would not have wanted that to change at all, especially looking back on it.

Now, if you were to go back in time and ask me, I’d be like, ‘Man, I wish this’ and ‘I wish that.’ But gosh, looking back on it now, timing is everything. I trust in them, the writers and everybody. I trust in them so much that I know when they’re ready to give me the ball and run, I trust their timing. You know, like, ‘Okay, it’s Tatum’s turn. Catch.’ ‘Thanks!’ And I’ll take off.

So whenever Raw or SmackDown is ready to toss me that ball, I’m catching it and I’m sprinting.”

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com

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Maxxine Dupri on Her Dealing with Social Media Hate During Her Time in WWE

A recent episode of the Impaulsive podcast featured Maxxine Dupri as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Dupri’s thoughts about the social media hate and criticisms she has faced over her work and wrestling career in WWE and how she has managed to overcome it.

“I signed up to learn this new craft and try new moves and do it in front of the world and it’s fun. So I do enjoy that. The part that actually is like — it’s still challenging, but the part that’s truly hard is like mentally being away from home.

You’re probably, like, so numb to this, but for me, sometimes if I catch a glimpse of something online, I don’t do well with that. So that’s why I got to stay off X.”

Dupri also gave her thoughts about her still being on Instagram and TikTok and how she finds those platforms to be kinder than X/Twitter.

Dupri also gave her thoughts about how some of the stuff that has been said towards her in hate messages was stuff she has already thought about herself.

“Anything they say about you, I promise you I’ve thought about myself already. I don’t need you to tell me. And I also think, like, I’ve never said anything outright mean about another person that wasn’t coming from a place of my own insecurity.”

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com