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Mr. Anderson And Shawn Daivari Talk New Wrestling School, Molly Holly Training Women, The Concept
- Updated: October 5, 2016
Mountain Man Beard Products presents for the first time ever The Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling getting a taste of its own medicine as John and Chad are joined by two guests at once and they are the mastermind’s behind The Academy: School of Professional Wrestling, former WWE & TNA Impact Superstars Ken (Mr. Kennedy) Anderson and Shawn Daivari. In this EPIC 90+ minute interview Anderson and Daivari discuss the creation of their new training facility in Minneapolis, Minnesota and what they expect to accomplish by using their well-traveled experience to help break in incoming students. You can download the full episode at this link.
What led to the creation of The Academy:
ANDERSON: “Daivari and I have been best friends for the last sixteen years. A lot of people don’t know that, we’ve never done anything on TV, we’ve never really alluded to it in our on screen presence but we started out riding up and down the highways and really humping it in the Mid-West and going to training seminars and trying to get dark matches and tryouts with WWE, ECW and with TNA and we didn’t know anybody when we got into the business. We literally had to book and network and make our own contacts and claw and fight and scratch our way to where we got and Minneapolis (where the Academy is located) used to be a huge hot bed for professional wrestling and some of the greatest names ever in the history of business have come out of this place and it sort of died down over the last ten years or so and there are no wrestling schools in the Twin Cities. There are 5.8 million people here and we thought it is time to do something and I think we bring a lot to the table, I think we are two guys that know what it takes and what WWE is looking for and what IMPACT (TNA) are looking for and we hope to give our students an opportunity that we never had. It is kind of like a parent wanting to have the best for his kids.”
Finally deciding to pull the trigger and put the concept together:
ANDERSON: “It is something that we have been talking about for a long, long time. I’m a guy that I feel like I have to have all my ducks in a row and everything needs to be lined up and everything needs to be perfectly placed before I pull the trigger and I think with my podcast my co-host at the time said let’s just get it off the ground and …
