Today get to know the man forever known as “Das Wunderkind” and join The Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling’s unofficial “International Summit” with former WCW Superstar Alex Wright. You will experience the absolutely incredible story about how an injury led to Alex having an extremely frightening surgery that almost proved to be not only career threatening but also life threatening. On a lighter not however, John and Chad get to sit back and listen to Alex Wright’s story from being merely a young man in a foreign land tackling the politics of a crazy world known as World Championship Wrestling to his triumphant return home to Germany to build a wrestling legacy with a new crop of talent. Get ready to dance and get ready to feel the beat of Alex Wright.
Full Episode Download Link: http://tmptow.podomatic.com/entry/2015-10-09T21_00_00-07_00
Alex Wright On Working With HHH in WCW & Visiting NXT: https://youtu.be/Wy66GN2rETM
Rumors that he helped “make” Triple H while they worked together in WCW:
I wouldn’t put it that way that I “teached” him wrestling. He was a great talent and I really enjoyed working with him. I knew he was going to make himself a big name in the world or sport of wrestling but not that he was going to be the boss. If I knew that I certainly would have kept in touch more then I did now. Actually, I met him last year and talked to him about a lot of stuff with my promotion and they invited me over to the WWE Performance Center to train their talent and also see how it is and I was very happy they invited me over.
The WCW Power Plant vs. The WWE Performance Center:
When I was at the Power Plant it was just a factory hall where they just used to put the stuff like old rings and stuff that they would just keep that if they didn’t use it they would put it in there and somewhere between all that stuff there were two or three rings. They didn’t really have showers or stuff like that but you really cannot compare it to the WWE Performance Center. The Performance Center is really top notch and professional and you get treated very well and the trainers are really good. At the time in WCW they had good trainers too but it was just tougher. I had to run the ropes eight hours a day and my back was swollen and they still said well keep going. A lot of people threw up and it was so hard and in one side it makes you hard but in the other it was a little bit too hard. Sometimes you got the feeling they tried to break you.
Wanting the trainee to quit (WCW Power Plant) vs. how he teaches at his school, The Wright Stuff:
That’s really bad because you might lose good talent. My wrestling school is a school. You hear it in the word, I try to take the people that come to me and who want to learn pro wrestling and take them from that spot and watch the endurance level that they have or the experience level that they have and teach them from that point on. Of course I bring them to their physical borders but I never bring them over it. I try to get the most talent out of the interested wrestling people who come to my school. So then the market grown here and we have good talent.
Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.
