10 Veterans Who Would Be Ideal Role Models For Younger Wrestlers

Learning how to wrestle is a very difficult task. There are so many different aspects of this business that one needs to learn in order to be successful: working a match, cutting a promo, bumping, selling, ring psychology, working the crowd, etc. No one is perfect in everything, but there have been a few wrestlers who have excelled in one area so much that younger stars should learn from them.

In WWE, the newest recruits have a lot of assets in the form of the Performance Center. However, when it comes to being trained by actual wrestlers, the names Bill DeMott and Jason Albert aren’t necessarily the best people you want training the Superstars of the future. You want them to be learning from the absolute best in wrestling, from those who have carved great legacies for themselves in one aspect of wrestling or another.

This article will look at 10 wrestling veterans who would make the idea role models for younger wrestlers to study in order to improve their careers. Each entry will cover a different ‘aspect’ of wrestling, with one veteran being the ideal person for the younger talent to look at and tale lessons from. 

These are the people that the new recruits should be watching, listening, and paying the most attention to.

The politics of what happens on the other side of the curtain is a dark, murky area of pro wrestling. It’s very dangerous for most wrestlers, as only those at the top or those with the best connections can navigate this minefield. However, if there was any single person that younger wrestlers, or at least a few of them, should try and emulate when they get older, it would be Kane.

Kane has earned a reputation for being a very nice person backstage, and he has also preferred to avoid the World title picture, instead allowing younger wrestlers more deserving of the spot to have that moment while he works lesser matches to help build future stars.

We saw a glimpse of this when he teamed with Daniel Bryan as part of Team Hell No: despite his legendary status and long tenure with WWE, Kane was comfortable doing comedy skits and putting more emphasis on Bryan to help him become the star he is today.

This is a very useful trait that many (though not all) stars should aspire to emulate. However, if all of them did this, then no one would ever step up to the plate and grab the brass rings and become the big star of tomorrow.

So in hindsight, this trait of Kane’s is one that should be emulated by certain Superstars who know that their careers are winding down, and instead of staying in the spotlight long past their prime, they should step aside and allow someone in greater need of that position to become the stars that they once were.