Back in the day, WWE used to send their new talents to their developmental territories like FCW and OVW to prepare them to make their television debuts. Starting from 2012, NXT became their official developmental brand, but with the rising competition and their vision to build up the stars for the future, WWE came up with an innovative idea in their Performance Center.
The Performance Center serves as a training facility for aspiring superstars, and the promotion opened the first branch in Orlando, Florida, in July 2013, while opening their second branch in Enfield, London, in 2019. WWE has trained and introduced various wrestlers into the business throughout the years, and most of them are doing well for themselves, but there are fans that might not know which wrestlers came through the WWE Performance Center without any prior wrestling experience.
10 Reggie
Reggie is making quite the strides in WWE as of late with his incredible athleticism. He has become a vital part of the 24/7 Championship segments.
He graduated from the WWE Performance Center as part of the 2020 batch, along with superstars like Simone Johnson and Shanky. He had a tough journey into the pro-wrestling business. He once got sucked into the gang life but left after a horrific incident to pursue his circus aspirations.
He signed a deal with WWE in January 2020 and made his debut as Carmella's French sommelier. After a brief pairing with Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler, Reggie found success in the 24/7 Championship picture and has won the title on two occasions.
9 Carmella
Carmella is one of the most successful superstars to have graduated from the WWE Performance Center. She entered the facility as part of the inaugural 2013 batch and made her debut for NXT in September 2014.
She got called up to SmackDown during the 2016 WWE Draft. Carmella then started her slow rise to the top of the blue brand's women's division. She won the first-ever Women's Money in the Bank Ladder match and cashed in the contract on Charlotte Flair to win the SmackDown Women's Championship.
She continues to perform in important spots in the women's division and is currently holding the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship along with Queen Zelina.
8 The Street Profits
With their unique charisma and exceptional in-ring skills, The Street Profits have become a vital part of WWE's tag team division. Angelo Dawkins was the first of them to enter the Performance Center. He entered the facility in 2013 and made his debut for NXT in May 2013.
Montez Ford was a part of the 2015 batch and made his NXT debut in January 2016. The two worked as a team in multiple matches before they got repackaged as The Street Profits in July 2017.
They got called up to the main roster in July 2019 and went on to hold the Raw and SmackDown Tag Team Championship.
7 Adam Scherr
Adam Scherr, who competed in WWE as Braun Strowman, remains to this day the only graduate from the Performance Center to win a men's world championship in WWE.
He entered the Performance Center as part of the 2013 batch and made his first main roster appearance as part of Adam Rose's Rosebuds. WWE re-introduced him as the newest member of The Wyatt Family in August 2015, and soon he would embark on a singles career as The Monster Among Men.
He won the Universal Championship from Goldberg at WrestleMania 36 and continued to appear for WWE until getting released in June 2021. He now works the independent circuit under his real name Adam Scherr and is waiting for the opportunity to make it big in the industry once again.
6 Liv Morgan
Liv Morgan entered the WWE Performance Center in the 2014 batch along with future superstars like Nia Jax and Madcap Moss. She had her first televised match for WWE on the November 4, 2015, episode of NXT in a losing effort against Eva Marie.
She made her main roster debut in 2017 for SmackDown alongside Ruby Riott and Sarah Logan as part of The Riott Squad. She continued to flounder in the lower cards of the women's division until WWE noticed her talents and started to use her in the Raw Women's title picture against Becky Lynch.
5 Happy Corbin
Happy Corbin was part of the original 2013 batch of the WWE Performance Center. He had already competed in various matches for NXT during live events from October 2012 and entered the Performance Center once WWE introduced it as the new training facility.
His lone wolf character turned out to be successful, and it led to his main roster debut at WrestleMania 32, where he won the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal. He also went on to capture the Money in the Bank contract but failed to cash it in successfully.
Despite not winning a major championship, Corbin has successfully become a legitimate heel character on the roster, and WWE continues to book him in significant angles on the weekly shows.
4 Alexa Bliss
Alexa Bliss was also a part of the original 2013 batch of the WWE Performance Center. She had no prior wrestling experience but had quite the accolades in fitness competitions before joining WWE.
She made her first televised appearance for NXT with a cheerleader gimmick and, in 2016, got called up to the main roster as part of the WWE Draft. She established herself as a heel on SmackDown and soon went on to capture the SmackDown and Raw Women's Championship on multiple occasions. She has also won the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship twice with Nikki Cross.
3 Omos
The powerhouse Omos got signed to a developmental deal with WWE in January 2019. WWE assigned him to the Performance Center along with six other athletes, including fellow superstars like Indi Hartwell.
He made his first televised appearance on Raw as one of Akira Tozawa's ninjas and also appeared as the doorman and bouncer for Shane McMahon's Raw Underground segments.
Omos then aligned himself with AJ Styles, with whom he went on to capture the Raw Tag Team Championship from The New Day, which also happened to be his televised in-ring debut for WWE. He has now embarked on his own after splitting from AJ Styles and is looking to establish his dominance among the other superstars on the roster.
2 Tay Conti
All Elite Wrestling's rising star Tay Conti is also a product of the WWE Performance Center as she was part of the training facility in the 2016 batch.
She made televised her in-ring debut for WWE during the 2017 Mae Young Classic Tournament under the name Taynara Melo and lost to Lacey Evans in the first round.
She continued to perform in NXT until WWE released her from her contract in April 2020 as part of their budget cuts. She signed with AEW in September 2020, and not only did she find success in the promotion, but she has also found her soulmate in Sammy Guevara, so she is doing very well for herself.
1 Bianca Belair
The EST of WWE Bianca Belair is also a graduate of the WWE Performance Center. She started training at the facility in 2016 after she had expressed interest in joining WWE due to a premature end to her CrossFit career.
WWE Legend Mark Henry was the one who made the call to Belair and offered her a tryout. She got into WWE following two tryouts and made her televised debut on the May 3, 2017, episode of NXT.
She got called up to the main roster on the Raw after WrestleMania 36 and rose above the ranks soon to win the 2021 Women's Royal Rumble match. She went on to defeat Sasha Banks for the SmackDown Women's Championship at the main event of Night One at WrestleMania 37 and continues to get featured in high-profile feuds in the women's division.