![]() The money they offered me was just, I think I was 26 years old, 24 years old, maybe, they were just promising me the world. “I won’t mention any names, but this other office was starting up. He considers his decision to leave the promotion the biggest mistake he ever made. Those guys were serious.”īy his own admission, Wellington had a spot for life in New Japan. It was a fight for your life, let me tell you, every night. They didn’t know anything about our style of wrestling at all. In New Japan, we had to work a lot with the Russians, eh? … They were full shooters. “ showed me a lot of Olympic style and everything. His training with Hase in Calgary would come in handy as New Japan brought in some Russian amateur wrestlers to learn the professional version of the sport. I’ll tell you, that was probably a highlight. We were on TV and something happened in Sapporo, Japan, and they put me and Chris against each other and gave us 15 minutes of live TV. “Actually, one time me and Chris Benoit had a match. That would probably be the highlights,” he explained. I had some great matches with Liger, Jushin Liger. “I did all my best work in Japan, by far. He figures he did 28 tours or so from 1988 to 1994. “But when you had to go make Bruce look like a million bucks, it was kind of hard some nights.”Īfter just a couple of years in the business, Wellington got his first chance to go to Japan. They owned the office.”īut Owen Hart was extremely talented, Wellington will admit, and was destined for big things. “They screwed with Chris too, all of us mid-heavyweights at the time because of Owen. I don’t really care about that,” he said. I still got to work and got the same pay, anyway. “I broke in with them, and in their eyes I was a nobody to them, because they trained me. His only Stampede title was the tag belt with Benoit, and he shared some of his frustrations with the way the Harts ran the promotion. I’ll tell you, it was next to impossible to get a spot.”īiff Wellington (or sometimes the tastier Beef Wellington) grew into a solid hand in Stampede, working as a heel for his first months in the territory, then going babyface all the rest of the way. I was lucky to get on with Stampede when I did,” he said. Out of about 60 guys, just me and one other guy got work out of it. He debuted in December 1986, a year after Benoit. The Harts saw something in him, and gave him a break. It was just something that I wanted to do. He entered the Hart Brothers Training Camp at a young age. Now 39, Wellington has a number of skeletons in his closet, complete with full servings of ‘what ifs?’ It’s great that he’s doing what he’s doing. “As far as Chris, I don’t have any animosity or nothing. … I made some wrong decisions, got steered by some people I shouldn’t have listened to, being young,” Wellington told SLAM! Wrestling recently. ![]()
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