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The independent wrestling circuit offers WWE firecrackers and warriors to replenish the NXT Divas division.

With Paige, Summer Rae and Emma all on the main roster and Charlotte likely to join them, there's a need for new talent to step into Full Sail University. Women like Mia Yim offer the combination of skill, youth and marketable looks that make them great potential fits for WWE developmental and beyond.

Being a tremendous wrestler doesn't automatically make one an ideal candidate for WWE's female ranks.

After all, WWE signed Sara Del Rey, one of the best mat workers in the business, and made her a trainer, not a wrestler. One assumes that her age (she's in her 30s) and the fact that she wouldn't make it in the modeling world played a part in that decision.

The company has signed pageant queens and fitness models with no prior wrestling experience. For its Divas, photo shoots are just as important as mat acumen.

Otherwise, JoJo would have been on the radar.

Scouting the indies for wrestlers who would fit into the WWE mold is not simply a case of identifying the best in-ring performers. Women like Cheerleader Melissa and Madison Eagles are likely not what company officials are looking for, despite their talent.

The following are female wrestlers who are still in their 20s and have both the athletic ability to cut it between the ropes and the kind of look WWE has sought in the past.