There’s one major aspect that Tyler Breeze feels a lot of aspiring wrestlers are missing today.
The former WWE Tag Team Champion was on the Agents Of Wrestling podcast and was discussing his life as a trainer at Flatbacks, a wrestling academy operated by himself and AEW’s Shawn Spears. Breeze believes that a lot of trainees expectations are a little too high when first starting.
“People get infatuated with the moves and the risky stuff and all the stuff that takes years to get to, and they don’t really understand the ‘whys’ behind it. ‘Oh man, I want to do this.’ Okay, first, you need to be able to crawl before you run. At the same time, everything we do can change your life because it can hurt you. You need to learn how to do this properly, you need to learn how to do the basics.”
Tyler Breeze On What’s Missing Most From Younger Talent
When asked what the modern trainee is missing from their repertoire today, Tyler Breeze believes it’s the simple aspect of having a good work ethic.
“I hate being that older dude who goes ‘back in my day,’ but the only thing I can compare it to is myself. Luckily, Spears is right there with me. I know, when I was in wrestling school, you had to kick me out of there. I wanted to learn everything possible. It was fun, I wanted to be a wrestler, and now getting to wrestle, I’m soaking this stuff in. I’m a sponge. I’m talking to you all day, I have all these questions. Now, we get a lot of students who just don’t like hard work. They don’t put in the extra. We teach them how to do something, and a week later, we go, ‘are you practicing this?’ ‘No.’ ‘Why not?’
Breeze, who is still currently under contract with WWE, thinks that wrestling’s current landscape today is beneficial for someone willing to go the extra mile at pursuing a career inside the ring.
“If you have any sort of work ethic, if you work hard and say you want to do it and actually want to, there is no reason why you can’t go all the way with it and make it somewhere to where you get to live everything you’ve ever wanted to do. It’s a work ethic thing where you have to put in some hard work and sacrifice upfront to get the reward on the back end.”