Wrestlers Speak on Bill Demott Controversies

Wrestlers Speak on Bill Demott Controversies
Former WWE Superstars, a WWE Head of Talent Development, a former WWE Developmental producer and other talent commentate on controversial former head WWE trainer from the NXT and Deep South Wrestling centers. According to a story in the Washington post Demott resigned on March 6 2015 from his role as WWE head coach amid allegation of harassment & misconduct. Tom Prichard on Bill Demott's WWE training methods interview clip link: • Tom Prichard on Bill D...
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[@TheHannibalTV]

Tom Prichard on Bill Demott's WWE training methods interview clip link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rpS6dahnediXlZI

[@KTtraintowin]

I was a part of deep south at its inception in 2005, and was also mentioned, unfavorably, in bills book. Although bill and I got along very good at the start, we had a falling out after an incident at the school. I made a phone call and, admittedly, wasn't as polite as I should have been. The following day, upon entering the school, Bill handed me a note saying not to come back until I called the office. I called the office immediately and spoke to John Laurinaitis, who told me to go back there at 12 for a meeting. When I went back there everybody was asked to wait outside except myself, Bill and Joe Hamilton (who is a great man). Together we had a phone conference with Johnny Laurinaitis that went my way. Soon after, we were going through up and over and swing-and-miss drills, when I was paired up with Brian mailhot (Palmer Cannon). Brian, who was an experienced MMA fighter, "accidentally" hit me in the face with a solid shot. It was no problem for me, and I simply blew it off and said keep going. I'm sure Brian expected a receipt but I just thought it was an accident so nothing happened. When I got back on line, three of the much more experienced wrestlers came over and said, " Kenny do you realize that was a shoot? " Even though they probably had 20 years experience between the three of them I still didn't believe it. Brian, to his credit, apologized and we moved on. Not surprisingly, bill positioned himself directly underneath the corner that we were in when it happened. Later on, when I became more experience, it made me realize that it was a shoot similar to the way the boogie man had his teeth knocked out in ovw in February of that same year after an argument with Bill. I was there for that and was told a lot more about what transpired with Bill just prior to that incident from Marty. In the fall of that year I asked the office for a transfer to ovw and was denied. Instead, Tommy Dreamer said that if I stayed at Deep South he would bring me up to be a part of the FBI. I declined. Instead, I went to Florida and joined a great wrestling school to continue training. In early 06, I was called from WWE and asked to come to the Royal Rumble where they made me a druid with the Undertaker (that is not Dean Ambrose, contrary to internet rumors :-). A year later I was put on the road for live shows and wrestled many of the guys on the roster at the time, including Chavo Guerrero, Eugene and even have a clean win over William Regal. The following year I was brought to FCW and was mentioned in becoming teamed with Santino in a bodyguard roll. For some reason, that fell through. Bill had mentioned in his book that he had no idea what happened with me after I left DSW, but I can assure you that he did. As a trainer myself for several decades, I could say that bill has the ability to be a great trainer. In my opinion, Bill still wanted to wrestle when he was running Deep South wrestling and was somewhat bitter about being a coach.

[@superstarthomas]

Cool story What was you're ring name in wwe?

[@KTtraintowin]

@@superstarthomas I was in developmental and worked dark matches with my own name. Later, in spring/summer 08, when I did the bodyguard promos and a couple of matches in fcw it was with the character Rocco Cipriano. Al Barone was the other wrestler being considered for The Bodyguard role. You can look it up if it interests you. If I was sent to ovw after my fallout w Bill, I never would've left. No big deal, it was fun.

[@wolfiewolfdog9771]

Cool story but what was your name

[@blasianpersuasion85]

@@KTtraintowinyour name?

[@NoIDAvailable]

I was going to train with Bill after his release, but the heat got to him, so it never happened

[@jessewahwah]

Al Snow looks like he knows plenty.

[@patrickj9061]

Not a Bill Demott fan. But I watched this video and was reminded how much I like Kevin Sullivan, his mannerisms & comments are always golden. Great work as always, Hannibal.

[@gman2015z]

Sullivan is one of my favorite Bostonians.

[@johnst3296]

Bill wrote a book? I want to cry for those poor trees that died for that horse shit....

[@chrissiano82]

Kinda weird to be honest. I’d have been like nah dude I don’t wanna be famous that bad.

[@phillynott6811]

Nothing to do with being famous just to do with avoiding training while hung over

[@AlexBrovo]

This isn’t very Hugh Morris

[@JMaxwell85]

Gotta love how Tony Schiavone would flat out pronounce his name “Humorous,” I guess for whoever missed the joke. 😆

[@jeffreyb6165]

TRANSLATION FROM AL SNOW: I don't wanna throw my buddy under the bus. The donut thing was totally uncalled for, and first of all I'd refuse to take part, and if it was a situation where if you didn't do it you would be thrown out of TE and I would end up naively doing it thinking that if I didnt I would lose my opportunity, then make no mistake if it's the last thing I ever did I would get even some day. A ballbat, a lead pipe, or whatever, but Bill Demott would regret the day that he ever did such a thing to another human being.

[@phillynott6811]

Nobody made anyone do it, Cardona came up with the idea to avoid training while hung over

[@johnst3296]

Never cared about that jobber one way or the other.

[@glenn5517]

Dude was the most generic boring wrestler ever just absolutely bland

[@puckutubesux7356]

@@glenn5517 Really? He was one of only like 3 300 pound guys (along with Vader and Bam Bam) to do a moonsault.

[@hydrooxy84]

Right

[@hydrooxy84]

@@puckutubesux7356 eh moonsault big man was only important when vader and bam did it by time Hugh Morris did it wasn't big deal no more

[@isitoveryet9525]

Fans calling wrestlers “jobbers” in an attempt to insult them will always be funny. It’s like when wrestling fans calls other wrestling fans “marks”. Goofy af

[@GiantArtProductions]

"JEEEZUS h Christ, what the fuck is that?! WHAT IS THAT PRIVATE PYLE!!!???" "Sir a jelly donut sir " "A JELLY DONUT!??!"

[@ChaosTheory9]

"Are you on heroin right now?" "Yes...am i trouble?" "Well no you told me the truth!" - Kevin Sullivan...great boss! LOL

[@necessaryevil7777]

He said hungover?

[@Mrsmassflex]

He was drunk.BFD

[@necessaryevil7777]

You junkies need to get that heroin out your mind smh they never mentioned heroin smh

[@joedavis8980]

Yea I rewinded it twice. Heroin was never mentioned

[@toiletsoup1999]

Absolutely insane.

[@andrewatuahene3234]

I can't imagine this Imagining Poor Zach ryder doesn't want to be reminded off this lol.

[@LumpyAdams]

You sound like a Zack Ryder fan.

[@rickschaefer7415]

Bill DeMutt (yeah, I meant to spell it that way) was never anything more than a glorified jobber. He knew it, and was bitter about it, so he took it out on people he trained. He was a bully, just like JBL, who never should've been champion as long as he was. They both sucked IMO

[@Ayyem93]

I love when marks like you use the word jobber as if it completely invalidates a talent and they don't know how to wrestle. At the end of the day, a jobber still has a job 🙄 Someone can become a jobber for any number of reasons, and if you're honest with yourself you'd acknowledge that even Hogan or Austin could've ended up jobbers if Vince really wanted them to be, because it's up to the promoter and booker. Now good day

[@puckutubesux7356]

He worked his way up to upper mid-card, so this isn't remotely accurate.

[@clarker89]

Never watched WCW or ECW as a kid but obviously all I remember about him was when he got to WWF and Austin made him look like a fool

[@phillynott6811]

What are you talking about? Hugh Morrus debuted november 95 with WCW, Austin was fired in June of 95 so they never interacted at all in WCW

[@clarker89]

@@phillynott6811 sorry I was talking about wwf during the invasion

[@phillynott6811]

@@clarker89 Ahhh well then you were correct lol

Somebody should have shot DeMott. Vicarious scumbag.

[@adamsmithisgrand]

Demott was a terrible wrestler

[@tomd9555]

Not saying Bill was given a fair shake or not. But I honestly can not remember a single match of his in either WCW or WWE.

[@TheHannibalTV]

I remember him putting over Goldberg that's about it.

[@donaldjtrumpisobamasdaddy5536]

Hugh Morris?

[@MortonT1958]

“The Laughing Man” Hugh Morris and General E. Rection are the characters I recall.

[@phillynott6811]

I remember a bunch but that doesn't mean they were good lol, most people remember him for being the first Goldberg victum and for the terrible Hugh G Rection gimmick at the end of WCW

[@robbiefitzsimons6173]

@@phillynott6811 Smh

[@peaceandlove1216]

Bill Demott = Pat Patterson light

[@Ayyem93]

Not even close but okay

[@peaceandlove1216]

@@Ayyem93 He had dudes that wanted to make it in the business wrestle in the nude for his entertainment. So not exactly the same as Pat, but definitely close.

[@phillynott6811]

@@peaceandlove1216 ? What cause Patterson was gay its the same as hazing? And he didn't make Gallows and Cardona do that, they volunteered to get out of training and it was Cardona's idea. Don't confuse Pat Patterson with Terry Garvin

[@lukenochance993]

Was Bill lieing when he said it was a bet

[@phillynott6811]

Nope it was suggested by Matt Cardona (Zack Ryder) so he didn't have to train while hung over, if you don't believe it watch any video of him or Brian Meyers talking about it, a deep south tradition was make a deal (i think) fridays where the wrestlers would find a way to make themselves look dumb to avoid training. Watch any clip of any deep south trainee talking about it

[@330wiz7]

Yea everyone calling him a piece of shit? It doesnt seem like a big deal to me. Dudes just wanted off early on friday.

[@11sdownie]

Daniel Puder seems like a decent guy

[@AndrewNewZealand]

He was Hugh Morrus, Hugh G. Rection(Captain Rection for short), Hugh Morrus again and finally Hugh Jass.

[@savagecatgt]

I'm so sorry that you had to witness that and that those people had to go through that. Hazing is just a word abusers use to validate the abuse. I'm genuinely disgusted. Imagine if this happened at your work or school... Just, fuck, what a horrible person.

[@bink]

@Jacob Kork What do you expect, everything's funny to him, his name was Hugh Morrus in WCW ffs

[@mikemarek6243]

there have been alot of violent trainers. holly beat the shit out a guy for smiling.....yet everyone understood why it happened

[@winstonsmith3370]

He’s now a motivational speaker

[@bryanowings2044]

Withwho? Dunkin donuts

[@mikemarek6243]

he still did it to himself. his job is to train

[@ig3104]

Are we talking about Humorous? Or General Erection?

[@anguslewis23]

That's Sexual Assault!!!!!!!!

[@Ayyem93]

Not quite but okay

[@JonathanGutierrez-em1up]

Sexual harassment

[@wolfhurricane897]

Honestly I thank Nathan Jones in his debut for beating up DeMott. If only he was still around to beat Bill DeMott again for that training.

[@phillynott6811]

Gallows was Dorian "Deacon" Deville in deep south then the freaking deacon.

[@jeffreyb6165]

Question Hannibal: if you were in a position to where Demott was trying to make you do the donut thing, what would your response be?

[@TheHannibalTV]

Taking a stink face is not something I would do in wrestling unless there was a lot of pay involved or it was an attractive diva doing it to me.

[@jeffreyb6165]

@@TheHannibalTV good answer 😄

[@rickschaefer7415]

THE HANNIBAL TV hell yeah!

[@phillynott6811]

@@TheHannibalTV Yeah but you are a super decorated amateur wrestler while Matt Cardona was a kid who would do anything to wrestle (and came up with the idea according to Brian Meyers and Matt Cardona)

[@denisdegaspari9723]

Zack ryder e luck gallows 😂😂😂😂😂a ciambella 🍩☕☕☕🍩😂😂😂

[@jonbourgoin182]

🍩 🍩 🍩

[@Billkeys123]

Lol

[@Ayyem93]

I believe Bill wholeheartedly.

[@cindybronwell3144]

Ok mark

[@Ayyem93]

@@cindybronwell3144 How am I a mark for someone who doesn't get in the ring? I guess you're part of the outrage mob that doesn't require anything other than an accusation to wanna destroy a person in every way.

[@phillynott6811]

@@cindybronwell3144 Suck it up, the only people that hate Demott are the people who failed, the doughnut thing was not something he made anyone do it was a deal to get out of training

[@waylonmercy8405]

Look at you waffling hens 😆

[@advtgbgbq1237]

Liv Morgan should be the face of the raw women’s championship she looks good in leather and is attractive. Plus she is young only 24 years old

[@bryanowings2044]

I want to do the jelly things with Liz

[@johnharnett5360]

Al Snow Bob Holly Taz I would have no issue with as they earned their stripes and paid dues.Crazy life on the road eating instant noodles so for those guys they have imput and deserve respect.There was no pg era sacrificed there bodies for no money at times.So when you are training guys whom think they are entitled and privileged it would make anyone mad most of these guys would not cut it in E C W or the Attitude era fact they see it as of entertainment and not a art form