Santino Marella took to Twitter today to proudly announce that WWE has picked up one of his guys. Aleksandar Jaksic, who trained at Santino’s Battle Arts MMA facility, is heading to NXT and the WWE Performance Center.

Proud to announce @BattleArtsMMA’s 1st @WWE @WWENXT signing to the @WWEPC. Alexsandar Jaksic is a high level athlete w tremendous focus & passion. His physical attributes were impressive but his level of commitment was even more so. Get some sunglasses, the future looks bright! pic.twitter.com/JggiXRurax — Santino Marella (@milanmiracle) April 5, 2019

Aleksandar first caught WWE’s attention during a German tryout last year. He joins the company amidst continued talks that WWE could launch a German or European branch of NXT to compliment NXT UK. There are already several stars on both existing NXT brands who made their name in German promotion wXw. WWE appears to have a working relationship with that promotion, similar to their ties to PROGRESS in the UK.

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