And they remember what the old part’s like. “They’ve already seen what today’s part is like. Because I think fans are really starving for that.” “And, I don’t know if we could ever go back to that day, but there’s got to be a place in the middle. “We used to tell a story in the ring,” he stated.
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“When Bill would come out in all that pyro? That was the most awesome entrance I had ever seen.” Thoughts On Today’s StyleĪs a stickler for the traditional ways of pro wrestling, Bruce admits that he’s disappointed with today’s style. He said he was proud to see what his star pupil would go on to accomplish. “I had him doing a lot of stuff that he would have never done, ever.” And then, he did a back handspring and speared me out of that.” One time, I called a spot (where Goldberg went down). There was no talking about it, like they do these days. “I had the thing where I called it in the ring… on the fly. I had so many dark matches with him, where we were selling to a monitor and Eric Bischoff, you know?” He did the squats and the cardio with no problem. “Bill came to a tryout, but it was naturally closed doors, of course” Sarge recalled. Bruce recalled the first time he saw the former football player, and said he knew he had someone special. The rookie superstar flew on a rocket ship of success upon entering WCW and was a critical part of the Monday Night Wars. So that’s exactly why I did what I did.” By far, his greatest protege had to be Goldberg. And you’ve got to dedicate your life to it. “But it just proves that you got to love it. But did I put people through hell? Yeah… I guess so.” I’d have military people, football people, people who had been training their whole life, who said they would never go through another day at the Power Plant.”
“A lot of times, the ones who survived were the ones who made it to the second day. If they decided not to prepare for it, then shame on them.” Because I done told them what we were going to do. “So you know, I figured if they came in out of shape? That was their fault. “I used to tell (trainees) exactly what we were going to do on the phone,” Bruce remembers. If you weren’t serious and in shape, you were in for a long ride with the Sarge. One thing was true about DeWayne Bruce when you came to his camp. So, I don’t know how people can say that we weren’t successful, to tell you the truth.” Dewayne Bruce Demanded Commitment We took a lot of people from other sports and turned them in to wrestlers. “Kevin Greene, Steve McMichael, Bill Kazmeier… Then, you look at the athletes (from other sports) like Kevin Nash, DDP, and The Giant.
“I also trained football players,” Bruce continued. But if you look at who graduated, there’s like 80 people who went on to have good careers. “Some people say the Power Plant wasn’t successful. He also helped produce a crop of young stars like Shane Helms, Elix Skipper, and Molly Holly. Nothing was just handed to me there.”ĭuring his time there, he would work with names like Diamond Dallas Page, The Giant ( Paul Wight), and Bill Goldberg. “People think I was appointed to that spot that wasn’t the case,” Bruce said. Originally fueled by such luminaries as Hamilton and Ole Anderson, Bruce would eventually take over as its lead trainer. Originally founded by ‘The Assassin’ Jody Hamilton in 1989, the Power Plant would officially become WCW’s talent factory two years later. Bruce’s greatest achievements would come later, at the WCW Power Plant, where he molded several, significant careers. At that point, he was already putting his skills and wrestling acumen to work in a different way. Unfortunately, singles success would also elude him. And nobody ever fought back with me on it. In fact, I could work with guys and lean things a different direction. “So, I didn’t get any flak or anything (as a single performer). “I had earned the respect of all the top guys,” Bruce said. He also appeared as Braun the Leprechaun as part of Kevin Sullivan’s Dungeon of Doom stable. Over the course of the next few years, he would portray a military style character. Then, when they got us back to the police station? They asked us for some autographs and let us go.” Solo Runīruce would later be re-packaged as a solo performer.
“And then one time, we got stopped at a roadblock in Florida. “I got stopped many a time at the airport,” he laughed. You never check your ‘wrestler bag’, because if you lose it? You can’t work.” I can’t tell you how many times we were stopped in the airport. We went out and bought everything that looked real. “My Mom was a police officer,” Bruce told us about the gimmick.
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