Can someone here list the names of those professional wrestlers who have wrestled within the last 15 years or so who appear to have some legit wrestling and/or submission skills, a significant amount of which, they picked up in professional wrestling circles? I am talking about people like Bret Hart, Lance Storm, Al Snow, etc., not guys like Kurt Angle, Brock Lesnar, Shelton Benjamin, etc. who learned 99.9% of their wrestling before they ever pro-wrestled.
If some of the more knowledgeable members of this forum could contribute to this thread, I would appreciate it.
Virtually all the wrestlers trained under stu hart got exposed to catch, and that includes Dynamite. Last 15 years, huh? If you're talking Japan, well, there are a number of them. If you're talking north america, let's see...Stu Hart's students; Regal. Can't think of anyone else who started their careers in the last 15 years.
Regal did train with the last carnival wrestling booth.
On the subject of having an amatuer background.
Yes but probably not in the way you are thinking.
I think he just learnt to wrestle at the carnival booth and in the clubs of staffordshire.
Sometimes under freestyle rules sometimes under professional.
Depended on what he was doing
Any of the Dungeon students (Bad news Brown, the Harts, Benoit, Storm etc.). Sho Funaki was trained by Fujiwara. Al Snow apparently has some mad grappling skills. Almost anyone from England has some submission knowledge, don't beleive me? watch Catch the hold not taken.
Samoa Joe, Low Ki, American Dragon, Harry Smith, any of the Malenkos, Nunsio the list goes on and on. Nunsio was trained by Billy Robinson!!!!!!!!!!!!!
