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Former WWE wrestler Hardcore Holly is one of Varsity Pro Wrestling’s biggest stars but whereas most talent coming onto these shores just wrestle for the company, he has a massive hand in the development of young talent at VPW’s School of Excellence. “I was asked if I would hold a training seminar, I did and enjoyed it. The students really applied themselves, if they didn’t I wouldn’t waste my time doing it. They really took an interest in wanting to learn and getting better.” Holly has a very direct approach with training, believing that getting into the ring to show the young rookies how it is done is the best method of helping them learn. “You can tell somebody all day long but until they actually do it they won’t know how it’s done or how it’s supposed to be done. You can’t talk somebody through it, or give them a mental image of how it is meant to be done, they have to physically do it.
E I DON’T CARE IF I MAkE A DIM T juS I . y... PAN COM AT FROM TH WANT [THEM] TO SuCCEED “I don’t just stand outside the ring and instruct them, I get in there because I have a passion for what I do. “If they don’t see that passion in me and feel like I’m not bothered with training them, they won’t want to be there. I am still learning, even though those guys may be green they may do something I might learn. You just never know.” The former WWE Tag Team Champion has been asked to wrestle and to take training seminars all over the world but he shows loyalty to VPW. “It is a first class promotion.” Exclaims Holly, “They gear everything they do towards the fans, take pride in the talent that they have and don’t just put anybody out there to wrestle. “Everybody is critiqued night after night; The UK Kid won’t let anybody from the school into the ring, in front of people, until he feels they are ready and to me that is very important.
“VPW is a company that gives people opportunities to become wrestlers and they want to see people succeed, if wrestlers come out of VPW and get booked elsewhere then that makes the school look good, the company look good and the UK Kid look good for training them.” Over the years Holly has seen a lot of wrestling promoters push talent who haven’t deserved their position, giving wrestling fans the best show with the best talent possible is something he is passionate about. “Other promoters I have worked for just don’t care about what talent they show, they are only worried about what they are bringing in at the door. They don’t try and critique the talent working for them or give them tips. They go out there and just do whatever and that’s not how it is in VPW. “The UK Kid is a very good trainer and booker, he is one of the few guys I know who actually can go out there and knows how to wrestle, he worldwide wrestling magazine 15