On Thursday, WWE has announced its latest class of Performance Center recruits, and the group includes Aalyah Gutierrez, the daughter of WWE Hall of Famer Rey Mysterio.
The seven-person class spans four countries and brings together collegiate athletes, independent wrestlers, a working referee and a reality television runner-up. Here’s a look at each recruit.
Cara Brown (Coeur d’Alene, ID) — Brown was an amateur wrestler at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee, where she also worked as a manager for the football team.
Katie Reynolds (Kokomo, IN) — Reynolds is already employed by WWE. She joined the company as a referee in July 2026 after working for TNA and Ohio Valley Wrestling under the name Alice Lane, and made her debut officiating NXT live events in Fort Pierce and Citrus Springs, Florida. She drew wide praise in TNA for stopping the Steve Maclin and Mike Santana main event at Sacrifice when Maclin was rocked by a superkick, a call that earned her the company’s All-Star Award. Her appearance in a recruit class raises the question of whether she is moving toward in-ring work, though nothing has been said either way.
Aalyah Gutierrez (San Diego, CA) — Gutierrez is no stranger to WWE. She’s the daughter of Hall of Famer Rey Mysterio and the sister of Dominik Mysterio, and she’s appeared on WWE television several times. Her on-air work includes the Mysterio family’s 2020 feud with Seth Rollins, in which she was written into a storyline romance with Buddy Murphy, and the build to her father and brother’s match at WrestleMania 39 in 2023, where she sat ringside. Gutierrez, 24, graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a degree in human biology in 2025. She first got in a WWE ring in October 2025, returned for a two-week Performance Center session in February, and reported for full-time training this summer. She was added to WWE’s internal roster in August under her real surname rather than Mysterio, which PWInsider noted is standard for new recruits awaiting an assigned ring name. Speaking to The Sun this month, Rey Mysterio said his daughter picks things up quickly but also gets frustrated easily, which he called normal given she did not grow up around the business the way Dominik did.
Zoë Sager (Edmonton, Canada) — Formerly part of the WWE ID program, Sager is now training full-time at the Performance Center. She played rugby and competed in amateur wrestling in high school, has contended for the WWE Women’s ID Championship and has worked dark matches on NXT.
Ana da Silva (Ribeirão das Neves, Brazil) — A former track and field athlete who specialised in shot put at the University of Georgia, da Silva is a three-time Brazilian national champion and competed at the 2016 World U20 Championships.
Jackson Goonrey (Sydney, Australia) — Goonrey wrestled on the Australian independent scene as Scott Green, teaming with Tyran Tuckey as The Dropouts. Outside wrestling, he competed on Australian Survivor, lasting 45 days and finishing as runner-up.
Tyran Tuckey (Minto, Australia) — Also known as The Tuckman, Tuckey walked away from a double degree at the University of Canberra two years in to wrestle full-time, a decision that drew coverage in Australian regional press and gave The Dropouts their name. He and Goonrey both came up through Pro Wrestling Australia, the promotion that produced Grayson Waller, and were among three PWA names at WWE’s February tryouts.
Gutierrez is the highest-profile name in the group, but the Australian pair represent the more established wrestling background, arriving as an intact tag team with several years of work behind them. PWA has now sent multiple graduates into WWE developmental, and taking both halves of a working team at once is not something the company does often.
There’s been no word yet on when any member of the class might debut on television, or on what ring names they will be assigned.
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