Wikipedia / List of WWE personnel
Wikipedia / List of WWE personnel
WWE is an American entertainment company and professional wrestling promotion based in Stamford, Connecticut. It is owned and operated by TKO Group Holdings, itself a majority owned subsidiary of Endeavor Group Holdings. WWE personnel consists of professional wrestlers, managers, play-by-play and color commentators, ring announcers, interviewers, referees, trainers, producers, script writers, and various other positions. Executives and board members are also listed.
Overview
As of 2024, WWE employs over 800 full-time employees as part of its business operations, spread across its three segments: Media, Live Events, and Consumer Products. In addition, they contract with various other vendors and service providers. As part of its Live Events segment, WWE signs performers known as professional wrestlers; these performers are described by the company as "independent contractors", with contracts for performers typically ranging from short developmental to multi-year deals.
Brands
Since the reintroduction of the WWE brand extension in 2016, performers are assigned to one of two primary "main roster" brands: Raw and SmackDown. A third brand, NXT, had originally been designated as a developmental brand for the main roster. In 2019, it was elevated to the third main roster brand. In 2021, the brand's weekly television show was rebooted as "NXT 2.0", and was reinstated to its original status as the developmental division for the main roster (Raw and SmackDown), although it has since dropped the "2.0" name. In 2025, WWE introduced a fourth brand, called Evolve, which features wrestlers who are just beginning their training at the WWE Performance Center under the WWE NIL program, as well as wrestlers in independent promotions that are part of the WWE ID program, with the goal of advancing to NXT.
Main roster performers primarily appear on Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown. Advanced developmental wrestlers appear on NXT, while beginning developmental wrestlers appear on Evolve. Supplementary shows include Main Event, which features Raw and SmackDown wrestlers (with occasional appearances from NXT wrestlers), and LFG, which features Evolve wrestlers. Performers may also appear on other WWE weekly television programming, as well as on its Premium Live Events (PLEs) and untelevised house shows. A majority of personnel in its developmental system train at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida.
Championships
For the most part, the brands have their own distinct championships, although some select titles are open to all the brands, such as the WWE Speed Championship for male wrestlers, as well as the WWE Women's Speed Championship and WWE Women's Tag Team Championship for female wrestlers. WWE wrestlers holding championships from Mexican sister promotion Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA), U.S. partner promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), and Japanese partner promotion Pro Wrestling Noah (NOAH) are also recognized by WWE.
Main roster
Raw
Men's division
Women's division
Other on-air personnel
SmackDown
Men's division
Women's division
Note - The WWE Women's Tag Team Championship is shared between Raw, SmackDown, and NXT, thus the champions can appear on any brand regardless of what their home brand may be (if any).
Other on-air personnel
Nonexclusive
WWE refers to talent not specifically assigned to a brand as "free agents", who may appear on any show.
Men's division
Women's division
Developmental roster
NXT
The NXT brand is for wrestlers in an advanced stage in their training in WWE's developmental system, who are prepping for a potential call up to the main roster. WWE (in particular NXT) has partnerships with U.S. promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), and the Japan based Pro Wrestling Noah (NOAH). As a result of these partnerships, TNA and NOAH wrestlers periodically appear on NXT programming and vice versa.
Men's division
Women's division
Other on-air personnel
Evolve
Evolve serves the brand for wrestlers just beginning their training in WWE's developmental system, featuring collegiate athletes signed through the WWE NIL program, and independent wrestlers in promotions serving as developmental territories under the WWE ID program.
Men's division
Women's division
Other on-air personnel
PUP list
WWE has established a PUP (physically unable to perform) list for wrestlers who are out with a legitimate injury and thus are not able to wrestle. The list documents talents of both the main and developmental rosters.
Referees
Broadcast team
There are several announcers who cover WWE broadcasts. This group includes backstage interviewers, presenters, ringside commentators, ring announcers, pre-show hosts, and analysts.
Raw
SmackDown
NXT
Evolve
Other
Ambassadors
Select former or retired WWE wrestlers not on the main roster (sometimes billed as "WWE Legends") and other celebrities and personalities have contracts to make periodic appearances—either on WWE TV or for promotional events—serving as "ambassadors" (public representatives/spokespeople) for the company.
Creative team
Producers
Main roster
NXT
Music department
Performance Center staff
As both NXT and Evolve are based at the Performance Center (PC), PC coaches and trainers also work as producers for those brands.
Medical team
Corporate staff
TKO Board of Directors
Senior management
See also
Notes
References
External links