Pro athletes from around the world work out at the WWE Performance Center: photos
From the first Indian-born player to be drafted to the NBA to the first woman to climb "American Ninja Warrior's" Warped Wall, a select crew of pro athletes from around the globe got a glimpse of what life as a WWE recruit is like at the WWE Performance Center. PHOTOGRAPHY BY SCOTT MILLER
The WWE Performance Center hosts an international crew of top-flight pro athletes from around the world, with backgrounds ranging from basketball to rugby, obstacle-course racing to football.
Kasim Edebali, a German-born linebacker with the New Orleans Saints, checks his footwork during an in-ring workout.
English rugby player Eorl Crabtree, the nephew of U.K. wrestling great Shirley "Big Daddy" Crabtree, chats with Satnam Singh, the first Indian-born player drafted to the NBA.
WWE Performance Center coach Norman Smiley offers some tips to Kacy Catanzaro, one of the most popular athletes in the history of the "American Ninja Warrior" competition.
Head Coach Matt Bloom guides Edebali through a rope-running drill.
Edebali stands next to a fellow German-born NFL player, Bjoern Werner, who observed the workouts in Orlando, Florida.
"Mighty Kacy" locks up with WWE recruit Taynara Melo.
