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Seth Petruzelli On Working With WWE Stars, Teaching Wrestlers How To Strike, A Possible Career
- Updated: May 18, 2016
Source: FOX Sports
Former UFC fighter Seth Petruzelli, who has been working as a striking coach at the WWE Performance Center for six months, recently spoke with FOX Sports about the job. The full interview is at this link. Below are highlights:
Everyone asking why pro wrestlers need to learn how to strike:
“A lot of guys asked about that, too, and that was one of my main concerns. Like, these guys are going to hate me because ‘We don’t need to learn this crap if we’re not doing the same stuff; we’re not really trying to hit the person’ but Triple H really wanted them to get a real look at it — MMA is so huge now and people know like, ‘Oh, he dropped his hands’ or ‘Oh, he got caught with a punch’, so they are catching on to the phony stuff.
“So they really wanted me to teach them the proper footwork, the way to turn your hand over (for a punch), the proper hand and foot combinations, the timing, speed, …
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