Jody Hamilton (director) Paul Orndorff (manager) DeWayne Bruce (lead trainer) Debrah Miceli (trainer) Bill Goldberg (trainee)
Owner
WCW
Parent
Time Warner (1996–2001)
The WCW Power Plant was a professional wrestling school in Atlanta, Georgia, owned and operated by World Championship Wrestling (WCW).
The school was founded by wrestler Jody Hamilton, who opened the training center in 1989 in Lovejoy, Georgia. In 1991, it became the official school of WCW and relocated to Jonesboro, Georgia. By 1995, the school became known as the WCW Power Plant and relocated again, this time to Atlanta where Turner Broadcasting (the parent company of WCW) was headquartered. The school closed in March 2001 when WCW's assets were sold to the World Wrestling Federation (now known as WWE).
While the school had several successful trainees—including Bill Goldberg, Kevin Nash and Diamond Dallas Page—it was not a highly regarded training center in the wrestling industry.[1][2][3] Wrestler Bret Hart, who was injured by Goldberg during a match, characterized the training at the Power Plant as dangerous to your opponent.[4] Journalist Dave Meltzer wrote in 1999 that the school was "a total flop" because of their training emphasis on physical appearance over personality.[2] In 2001, wrestler Molly Holly told Live Audio Wrestling, "the Power Plant focused on push-ups, running, sit-ups, squats, and people yelling at you."[3] Other trainees, including William Regal and Bob Sapp, had positive experiences at the Power Plant.[5][6]
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appearances in World Championship Wrestling (WCW), where he held the WCW United States Championship and WCW World Tag Team Championship. He is the son of...
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2007. Deep South was owned by Jody Hamilton, former director of the WCWPowerPlant. Jody Hamilton and Bill Behrens founded Deep South Wrestling in 1986...
in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as Gorgeous George, the kayfabe manager of "Macho Man" Randy Savage. After WCW, she worked for Extreme Championship...
team dissolved after both men got brought to WCW Monday Nitro. Upon his graduation from the WCWPowerPlant in 1998, Funk was moved up to the main roster...
dissolved he was hired by World Championship Wrestling and sent to the WCWPowerPlant to train alongside Bill Goldberg, Lodi, Chuck Palumbo, Mark Jindrak...
Cain notified Siaki that the WCWPowerPlant was holding tryouts in early 1999, Siaki attended the tryout and was awarded a WCW developmental contract. He...
Torrie Wilson, Stacy Keibler, and Nora Greenwald (Molly Holly) at the WCWPowerPlant, she left the company in 2001. On March 28, 2015, she was inducted...
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Championship Wrestling after being trained by Paul Orndorff at the WCWPowerPlant. He debuted later that year at a house show on September 3 under the...
alternative to his fledgling football career and began training at the WCWPowerPlant. Training under the tutelage of DeWayne Bruce, he made his debut as...
Sytch on the April 26, 2000, episode of WCW Thunder, winning with a DDT. Following The Artist's release from WCW, Sullivan began valeting for Kwee Wee....
such wrestlers as Curt Hennig on an episode of WCW Thunder and WCW Television Champion Rick Steiner on WCW Monday Nitro. He lost both matches but wrestled...
Adams challenged for the WCW World Tag Team Championship while feuding with The Four Horsemen. Hogan also participated in a WCW Thunder battle royal for...
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advertisement for the WCWPowerPlant (the professional wrestling school owned and operated by World Championship Wrestling) on an episode of WCW Monday Nitro...
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