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Richard Adonis joins WWE ID program
Richard Adonis has joined WWE’s ID program after receiving a deal at a WWN event in Clearwater, Florida.
WWE coach Timothy Thatcher presented the deal on October 12.
Adonis is a Florida-based independent wrestler who has competed for the National Wrestling Alliance and other promotions.
He also had a dark match for WWE’s NXT in September.
The program gives independent wrestlers financial and other support and may help them move to full-time work in NXT.
Adonis joins several recent additions as the program also sees wrestlers leave.
The sources do not say what Adonis will do next.
Richard Adonis joined WWE’s ID program at a WWN event in Florida.
WWE coach Timothy Thatcher presented or offered Adonis the deal at the event.
The event took place on October 12 in Clearwater, Florida.
Adonis had attended WWE’s SummerSlam week tryout in August and wrestled a dark match for NXT in early September.
The ID program provides resources to independent wrestlers and a possible route to full-time work with NXT.
- Who
- Richard Adonis, an independent wrestler, joined the WWE ID program.
- What
- WWE coach Timothy Thatcher recruited him to the program.
- When
- October 12, 2026.
- Where
- A WWN Live event in Clearwater, Florida.
- Why
- Not stated.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Adonis attended WWE’s SummerSlam week tryout.
Adonis wrestled a dark match for WWE NXT.
Thatcher recruited Adonis to the ID program at a WWN Live event in Clearwater, Florida.
Adonis posted that he had joined WWE ID.
- Program
- WWE ID
- Event date
- October 12, 2026
- Event location
- Clearwater, Florida
- Presenter
- Timothy Thatcher
- NXT dark match
- Early September 2026
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