Is it somewhat insulting/embarrassing that Albert is the head Trainer at WWE NXT?

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I can't believe that Hugh Morrus had a high position over there. :mjlol: He had no business teaching anyone anything.
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2 of his New Japan cup finals matches.
 
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People are reaching to defend this. The fact is, throughout history, the best wrestlers have trained the best wrestlers. The thing here is, the older generation (Gagne'so, Dunks etc) are properly old now, and the generation after them are all enveloped in the WWE system, and I highly doubt the wwe can pay them enough to live in Orlando full time, move their families, and be trainers.

Especially when if they really want to, they can just open up a wrestling school themselves.

There are guys that didn't come from legendary wrestling schools and made it, but they're exceptions, not the rule. And in most of those cases, even if where they learned the basics was meh, they really learned the game from someone else after the fact.

Like Trips being traiNed by Killer Kowalski, but really learning from years of being picking up the game from HBK, Hall, Waltman, and later Flair

The real sports analogy doesn't work because Michael Jordan can't teach you how to take off from the free throw line, but Ric Flair absolutely can teach you the right timing for a transition spot, how to get the most from a control segment, and how to keep track of the tally light to know what camera to work to.

So... when was Stu Hart the #1 wrestler in the industry?

Point is, even if the trainers themselves were never the top wrestlers, they have likely worked with all the best, and learned a lot from the best. There's countless wrestlers who were great and weren't trained by all-time greats. It's not what a person did in their career that makes a good trainer, it's what he/she KNOWS that makes a good trainer.

Look at Goldberg. He didn't do much wrestling-wise, but for a time he was the most entertaining thing in WCW, a hot draw, and a big star... and he was taught by Dwayne Bruce who jobbed to EVERYBODY during his in-ring career... so... :manny:
 

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So does this prove my point about Lance Storm then? Because he has no people skills.

And as far as @mrken12 yeah, Blue Pants didn't know how to handle herself backstage, which is definitely a Dudley trait, and why they got fired and went to TNA in the 1st place. Like I said in an earlier post, its not about wrestling, you have to see how stars handle themselves in the WWE atmosphere as well, see how you can excel, etc...Albert couldn't do that.

Blue Pants got herself over as a non contract jobber and was making more $ than every contracted woman in NXT. She used their tv time to sell her own merch on the side and not cut the WWE into shyt. She was a true hustler. Exactly what she should have been doing. That's what she learned from the dudleys?
 

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Blue Pants got herself over as a non contract jobber and was making more $ than every contracted woman in NXT. She used their tv time to sell her own merch on the side and not cut the WWE into shyt. She was a true hustler. Exactly what she should have been doing. That's what she learned from the dudleys?
So not one thing you typed in that paragraph is true and is fukking laughable actually.

Show me where Blue Pants made more then Bayley, Asuka, Dane Brooke, Emma, etc...

And the WWE was cut into her shirts. They sold them on website dummy.

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It's a actually a really interesting question/discussion.

Not every great wrestler can be a good trainer. Hearing Ric Flair talk about his work makes it seem he wouldn't know how to teach his "secrets" to other people. Then again, Dory & Terry Funk are probably the GOAT training duo and they were fukking amazing in the ring.

To me though, it doesn't really matter who is teaching a guy the basics as long as they teach them right. A guy like Albert should be able to train the basic stuff, he's worked all over the world and a bunch of different wrestlers and at his peak he was a good wrestler, shyt he was even trained in the Funking Conservatory...

And honestly, anything he can't teach can be taught by Normal Smiley or Robbie Brookside or even Sara del Rey. There's enough people at the PC that can complement each other and give a wrestler enough advice for him to be able to work.

But I think the most important thing for a worker is actually work. No matter how many bumps, flips and selling classes he'll have, he's only gonna get better by working other people and learning from them, the crowd and the feedback he gets by watching footage, asking people how he can improve and actually trying shyt in his matches and see what works.

OP talked about how once upon a time they had Dusty and Steamboat in Florida teaching guys. But haven't we always criticized how WWE was never able to actually teach a guy on their own and make him a star? How much of a difference did they make compared to the guys they have now? I honestly have no clue :patrice:
 

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So not one thing you typed in that paragraph is true and is fukking laughable actually.

Show me where Blue Pants made more then Bayley, Asuka, Dane Brooke, Emma, etc...

And the WWE was cut into her shirts. They sold them on website dummy.

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How would WWE possibly get a cut of the merch she sold at the indys she worked, while making NXT tv appearances? Or her Leva Bates PW Tees page? They couldn't stop her from selling a t shirt with 'blue pants' on it. She used WWE for her own benefit, and got a bigger name and made more $ than she would have as a one off jobber.
 

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How would WWE possibly get a cut of the merch she sold at the indys she worked, while making NXT tv appearances? Or her Leva Bates PW Tees page? They couldn't stop her from selling a t shirt with 'blue pants' on it. She used WWE for her own benefit, and got a bigger name and made more $ than she would have as a one off jobber.
Anybody can sell t shirts on pw tees :mjlol:
 

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arguably the best wrestling school out there right now is Lance Storm's wrestling academy.

I love Lance Storm. Why do you say that? (EDIT: just saw the other post. But those are his people's bigging him up.) I always thought Impact Players were one of the most underrated parts of prime ECW (along with Corino)

who came out of his school?
 

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I love Lance Storm. Why do you say that? (EDIT: just saw the other post. But those are his people's bigging him up.) I always thought Impact Players were one of the most underrated parts of prime ECW (along with Corino)

who came out of his school?
Hey I like Lance storm too, nothing against him but he has tier zero personality.

Read through the thread, 11 years he has been doing this and the only people that have made it are Tyler Breeze and Emma.
 
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