Earlier this month, former WWE trainer Dr. Tom Prichard appeared on the Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling and spoke about a number of topics.
The former tag team champion spoke about Seth Rollins being the future of the WWE, what he taught The Rock, what made things easy in his own matches, and much more.
If you want to check out the interview in full, you can do so at this link, you can also check out highlights from the podcast below:
On why Seth Rollins was chosen as “The Future of the WWE”:
Rollins had that cocksure-ness, he knew he was good, and he was good, he was great. He and Ambrose had their angle in FCW, that was our top angle up until they went to the Performance Center. You knew that Roman Reigns was going to be great because he had the stock, he came from the stock they wanted.
Now, the way it turned out, once again, you have to peel back the layers and look at the business end of things, how does Seth Rollins get in that position? Seth’s a smart guy, Ambrose is a smart guy but I don’t know if he is as good a politician as Seth Rollins is, and that’s not taking anything away from Seth but you have to know how to play the game and you have to know who is running the game up there.
Seth got in with the right people and he has talent and he had everything going for him. Ambrose, I thought was very talented but there were some in FCW who didn’t think he had the look or the talent to be a top guy.
They were high on Reigns from the start because he had the family background, he had everything going for him, Ambrose and Rollins were going to be bit players in FCW that was the take on them but as time went on and other factors came into play, The Shield came about and they fractioned off and they became.
On what he was able to teach The Rock:
I don’t know that I was able to teach him that much. He came in August and debuted in October and had been in Memphis for a year and we just trained and worked out at that time with Achim (Brakkus) and Mark Henry.
He was a young kid, a great guy, had the Chia Pet haircut and you knew he had talent but once again you couldn’t tell, no one could tell at that time that he was going to be as big as he is today, but he had personality. To go over his finish, I gave him the shoulder-breaker, well, that was terrible.
I worked some of his first matches on the road and worked with him in the warehouse in the ring on a daily basis. He had that charisma, he had that personality but once again, you looked at him and he was this smiling, good looking kid with a Chia Pet haircut coming out and wanting everybody to cheer him and it just didn’t work.
People were revolting against that typical baby-face guy from back then and it was to his advantage because he knew and he understood once it was explained to him, once he got the feel of it, once he got to be who he really is, it was that smart-Alec come back with a comment kind of guy. That really gave him a platform, I had no idea that his goal in life was to be the performer or the actor that he is.
