In an update on Hideo Itami (the former KENTA) joining WWE, the Japanese wrestling star has received high praise for how hard he works, as well as how he’s improving his English while settling into the country with help from former WWE Superstar Sho Funaki.

While Itami is looked as one of their top developmental talents, there was some concern that he was trying too hard to adapt to the WWE style of working in the ring and has been asked to tone things down a bit as some of his in-ring action was looked at in a negative way, which resulted in one of his matches having to be re-taped at the last set of WWE NXT TV tapings.