pursuing a career in wrestling

Question
QUESTION: Respected Sir,
         This is Sourav Sarkar once again from India. As per your advice, I am ready to start my wrestling career from U.K.Plz kindly send me the names of the best wrestling schools over there. one more questiom - What if i have a B.tech or a BBA degree from India itself and in the meantime join a gym and have some acting classes as well as take up a part-time job and save enough to move up to the U.K. as my financial condition is not so sound.  By the time i have a graduated, i will have a muscled body as well as some experience in the field of acting.
         After training for 2-3 yrs in U.K,I try my luck out in U.S by joining FCW in Florida.
         Moreover, is age a big factor in the WWE?
         Thank You.

ANSWER: That is a very good plan to have, and one I admire you for. As you are not jumping into this and are proving you'll do anything to accomplish a dream. People look highly on that.

Now, you plan make take a little while, but it works.

WWE takes in a lot of people. They really more so like to bring in those under 30 years of age, so if you're older than that when all of your training and what not is done, you do still have a chance to join WWE, it's just not as high as it could have been if you were younger.

Now, most of the time, there is no talent under the age of 21 with WWE's main roster. The youngest I've ever seen on WWE's TV shows was Kelly Kelly. I believe she was either 18 or 19 when she first arrived to ECW. She is by far the youngest in WWE. Hornswoggle is also pretty young too. I believe he was around the same age Kelly was when she arrived, but he's in his mid-20s now. Kelly is the youngest full time performer WWE has ever had on TV.

Now, did I give you a list of schools yet? If not, I can send a few from the UK. Or actually, here is a link to some good one's you may want to check out.

http://www.wrestlingdirectory.co.uk/websites/wrestling-training-schools/uk-wrest

Hope this helped!

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QUESTION: Good Morning, Sir,
         Thank You for your information on the wrestling schools of U.K. Now, the exchange currency rateof U.K is huge with respect to India( 1 pound = Rs. 73.6 ) . So , it might just not be possible for me to start my career from such a costly area. But Canada is affordable ( 1 dollar = Rs. 5 ). Plz kindly send me the link of wrestling schools situated there. I have heard that Chris Jericho, Bret Hart, Edge etc. Came over from Canada?
         Also give me the information of how Khali came up to the WWE?
         Have you ever been to India, Sir?
         Thank You.

ANSWER: Oh, I'm glad the currency is good for both.

Canada is quite the ways away from you, IDK if it's the best place to go for you seeing as the UK is closer and they teach the exact style Canada does.

But, if you do want to go to Canada, here are some schools to check out:

Camp Martell Professional Wrestling School    
280 Kenilworth N.
Hamilton, Ontario L8H 4S9
(905) 318-9574
Trainers: Jerry Martell, Quinson Valentino, Flexx Falcone, Brigit, Storm
http://www.campmartell.com
[email protected]

ECCW Training School    
Head Trainer: Michelle Starr
British Columbia
http://members.home.net/eccw/school.html
[email protected]

Hart Brothers School of Wrestling    
Head Trainer: Waldo Von Erich
757 King St. East, Unit 3
Cambridge, Ontario M3H 3N8
(519) 653-8225
http://www.icw.on.ca
[email protected]

Ring Masters Professional Wrestling School    
Trainers: Ted Herbert and Mike Garcia
18 Strathern, North Unit 16C
Brampton, Ontario
(905) 789-1351
http://www.ringmasterswrestling.com

Sully's Gym 2000    
Head Trainer: Ron Hutchison
(416) 534-8723
53 Fraser Ave., #215
Toronto, Ontario M6K 1Y7
http://www.angelfire.com/biz/wrestlingschool/

Wrestlecorps Pro Wrestling Academy    
280 Kenilworth Ave North
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Phone: (905) 318-9574
www.wrestlecorps.com
wrestlecorps2yahoo.ca

EWF Wrestling School    
Beamsville, Ontario, Canada
(905) 336-0959
http://www.ewf.ca
[email protected]

Squared Circle Training
320 Dearhide Crescent
North York, Ontario, Canada
Phone: (416) 236-3980
email: [email protected]
http://www.squaredcircletraining.com

Lance Storm Wrestling Academy
PO Box 58013
Chaparral RPO
Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2X 3V2
http://academy.stormwrestling.com/index1.html



My favorite out of all these would be Lance Storm's school, it's one of the more expensive schools in Canada sadly, but Storm teaches great and he has WWE and TNA connections. He worked for WWE for years of course.

Now, a lot of the big time Canadian stars came through Stampede Wrestling. Stu Hart owned and operated it, that's where Bret Hart was trained. Where British Bulldog, Dynamite Kid, and other top names in WWE were from as well. Bulldog and Kid were from the UK first however, that's where they were first trained, then they went to Canada and got polish.

This area is no longer running, it died off in 2008 sadly. But, it was where many Canadians went through. Storm also trained there, so, he knows how to do well. But, all of the schools above are good.

Sorry for the late response by the way, I had no idea there was another question until today. I apologize.

Also I have never been to India, hope to go one day however


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QUESTION: Thank You, Sir.
         And finally back to the FCW.........Do they train beginners or they have any criteria to to have some previous wrestling experience before one contacts them?
         Thank you.

Answer
You're Welcome!

And yes, because their a WWE territory, they usually require you to have some training before bringing to in. Now, they do all just about anyone to train there, but they have to come when the WWE people aren't there, and they have to pay for training. It's better if you wait off on FCW, seeing as the best training in the world is where your going anyway