WWE Hall of Famer Teddy Long appeared on an episode of Sportskeeda’s The Wrestling Time Machine to talk about a number of topics, including the value WWE ID will give to their affiliated pro wrestling schools.
Long said, “Those schools are [have] already been up and running. And I think that they’ve produced a lot of great talent out of them. I know… Cody Rhodes and those guys, they produced a lot of guys that went to AEW. Seth Rollins has had a lot of…some nice guys coming out of there (Black and Brave Academy). So these are the four schools that they were modeled from.”
On the program benefiting the schools:
“It adds some credibility there, man. It’s like NXT.”
You can check out Long’s comments in the video below.