WWE acquires Evolve wrestling. The WWE and Evolve have had a long standing working relationship with each other and today news is breaking that WWE has acquired the independent wrestling company.
Evolve was found in 2010 by Gabe Sapolsky. Sapolsky was a former booker for WWE’s developmental brand NXT and Vice President of Dragon Gate USA. Evolve was part of Sal Hamaoui’s company World Wrestling Network which also includes Shine Wrestling and Full Impact Pro. Evolve started a working relationship with WWE in 2015. This allowed WWE to scout and sign talent from Evolve. Evolve also held qualifying matches for the 2016 Cruiserweight Classic and WWE broadcast Evolve’s 10th Anniversary show on the WWE Network. PW Insider has confirmed in a post that WWE is now the owner of Evolve:
“World Wrestling Entertainment has officially acquired ownership of the Gabe Sapolsky-Sal Hamaoui EVOLVE promotion. EVOLVE has long been the flagship promotion of Hamaoui’s company, World Wrestling Network (WWN). The deal was closed after several months of negotiations. While there were rumors making the rounds that EVOLVE had been sold to WWE, nothing had been finalized until just recently.
The sale is believed to give WWE the entire EVOLVE and Dragon Gate USA video library. It is also believed some other content would have been sold to WWE as well, including the earliest era of Full Impact Pro, but how much of other material has not yet been confirmed as of this writing. We are told that material will be removed from WWNLive.com in about a month, so any material that disappears would likely have been sold to WWE. So, if you are a WWNLive subscriber, you have a chance to watch the material one last time before it goes into the WWE vault.”
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