Matt Bloom, Matt Riddle, And Others Talk The WWE Performance Center

ESPN has put out a feature on the WWE Performance Center. This covered the new age method of pro wrestling training and got quotes from head coach Matt Bloom:

“I’ve had the privilege to work with many teams, and this is by far the best team I’ve ever been around,” said Bloom. “We have coaches [with a combined] hundreds of years of experience — but they’re all humble. They understand that we don’t know everything; together, we know everything, but individually we know important it is to [rely] upon each other.”

They also spoke in-depth to Matt Riddle about his transition into WWE:

“When I first started, I lived in Vegas, because I was fighting in the UFC and I was still fighting after the UFC,” Riddle recalled in an interview with ESPN. “When I started training, there was only one [pro wrestling] gym [in Vegas], so I moved out to Pennsylvania. There were a lot of gyms, so I could get a lot of different looks… I started training at the Monster Factory, started training at CZW’s dojo, and I started training at the Ring of Honor dojo.”

“I moved my family down here, I’ve got three kids and a wife, so it’s nice,” Riddle said of the change of pace, in the month since he’d started at the Performance Center. “I just wrestle in Florida every weekend. We occasionally do tours or TakeOvers, but for the most part, now I get to spend more time with my family. I’m more local, and it’s great.

“The training here is top-notch,” Riddle continued. “Where I was, I was lucky to even train three times a week, because my schedule was so insane — and I didn’t have the coaches or amenities to do [much more than that].”

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