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The WCW Power Plant was a professional wrestling school located in Atlanta and owned and operated by World Championship Wrestling. The Power Plant was in operation throughout the 1990s, and produced a number of highly successful wrestlers. It stopped holding tryouts in December 1999, and closed in March 2001 when WCW was purchased by the World Wrestling Federation. It had a reputation for pushing trainees to the limit. A professional wrestling school is a school or gym that teaches students the necessary skills to become pro wrestlers. ...
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World Championship Wrestling or WCW, was a professional wrestling promotion that was based in Atlanta and existed from 1986 to 2001. ...
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Criteria for entry
The Power Plant was advertised on WCW Monday Nitro, and potential trainees could schedule a three day tryout session costing $250 where they would attempt to impress the trainers. If the applicants were suitably impressive, they would earn an invitation to join the school at a cost of $3000 for six months training. The selection process was somewhat intense; on one occasion, Sonny Siaki and two other wrestlers were admitted out of a field of twenty three applicants. In order to be accepted, applicants had to be physically fit and between the ages of eighteen and twenty eight. Male applicants had to be at least 5 ft 9 in (175 cm) tall and 180 lb (82 kg) in weight, and were forced to undergo a physically taxing three day exercise session. Potential trainees unable to keep up or unable to leave under their own power at the end of the day were asked to leave. In the course of the three day period the applicants would often vomit and suffer from muscle spasms and cramps. WCW Monday Nitro logo, 1999-2001. ...
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Training routine The Power Plant had an infamous reputation, with many graduates comparing it to a boot camp. This was exacerbated by the presence of head trainer Dewayne Bruce, who acted like a drill sergeant. Successfully training required the trainee to possess a great deal of strength and stamina, with less focus on pure wrestling skills. Bret Hart, who was forced to retire when a too-stiff kick from Power Plant graduate Goldberg tore a muscle in his neck and gave him post-concussion syndrome, blamed the end of his career on the Power Plant training regime, saying "I don't think it was a priority to protect your opponent.” The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ...
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The Power Plant was equipped with four 18' by 18' (5.5 m) rings and a gym. A typical weekday would see the trainees begin at 9am with a half hour warm-up session consisting of calisthenics such as vertical squats, press-ups and sit-ups. They would then spend three hours practicing bumps. After a forty minute break for lunch at 12:40pm, the trainees would take more bumps and then work on promos, finishing at 5pm. The squared circle of professional wrestling is the ring where the match takes place (at least initially and primarily) and is a term borrowed from boxing, as is the ring itself; legitimate amateur wrestling takes place on a mat on a floor, not in a boxing ring. ...
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The name calisthenics is Greek in origin, a combination of the words beauty and strength. // United States usage In the United States, calisthenics is a type of exercise consisting of a variety of simple movements usually performed without weights or other equipment that are intended to increase body strength and...
Squatting using the Smith machine. ...
A press up (also push up) is a common strength training exercise performed while lying horizontal and face down, raising and lowering using the arms. ...
The sit-up is a strength training exercise. ...
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The daily fitness regime saw trainees perform between 500 and 1000 squats for up to six hours. They would also execute 200 to 500 press-ups, 200 leg lifts and 200 abdominal crunches. In addition, trainees underwent weight training and cardiovascular conditioning exercises. There were few breaks for rests or water, and the trainers were rarely sympathetic to complaints. Performing the crunch. ...
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Unsurprisingly, the drop-out rate was high (85%). The typical student would train for between six and nine months before graduating.
The motto of the Power Plant was "Pain is temporary, pride is forever."
Whilst researching professional wrestling for a BBC documentary, journalist Louis Theroux visited the Power Plant. He volunteered to take part in some training in an effort to show some respect for the business, but as he had asked Dewayne Bruce some questions about kayfabe, he was forced into very hard exercise. At one stage, Bruce encouraged the other trainees to call him a cockroach whilst Theroux was struggling to regain his breath. Theroux was later shown vomiting on camera. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the publicly-funded radio and television broadcasting corporation of the United Kingdom (see British television). ...
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Trainers
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Legacy The WCW Power Plant produced three future WCW World Heavyweight Champions (The Giant, Diamond Dallas Page and Goldberg), two future World Heavyweight Champions (Triple H and Goldberg) and two future WWF World Heavyweight Champions (Triple H and The Big Show). However, the later Power Plant graduates, many of whom were part of the stables The Natural Born Thrillers and The New Blood, largely failed to achieve considerable success. WCW World Heavyweight Championship (1994-2001) The WCW World Heavyweight Championship was the primary championship in the World Championship Wrestling professional wrestling organization. ...
The World Heavyweight Championship is one of the top-level championships in World Wrestling Entertainment, exclusive to the SmackDown! brand. ...
Paul Michael Levesque (born July 27, 1969 in Nashua, New Hampshire) is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Hunter Hearst Helmsley (usually abbreviated to Triple H or HHH), currently working for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) on its RAW brand. ...
John Cenas customized version of the WWE Championship, April 2005-present. ...
Paul Wight, Jr. ...
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In April 2003, Dewayne Bruce opened his own wrestling school in Jasper, Georgia known as The Super Power Plant. 2003 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - → A timeline of events in the news for April 2003. ...
Jasper is a city located in Pickens County, Georgia. ...
References - United Airlines advertisement for the Power Plant
- Interview with Sonny Siaki
- Mad dogs and glory
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