Episode 69: New Generation Declassified: Back In Hollow's Day w/ "Coach" Mike Hollow
Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling Podcast
Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling
4.8 • 356 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
This week's New Generation Declassified is an interesting departure from the featured WWF New Generation programming and television angles and takes a look at what was going on backstage from a former production worker turned trainer to the stars as Chad welcomes, "Coach" Mike Hollow. A product of the infamous training school of WWE Hall of Famer, Walter "Killer" Kowalski, Hollow gives us a first hand look at what the WWF was looking for in up and coming stars in the mid 90s, how Kowalski's school factored into the selection of enhancement and extra talent needed for a TV taping and what it was like backstage during the transition from the massive federation years to our era of New Generation WWF Superstars.
For more on Mike Hollow please visit his website: hollowsstable.net and view testimonials from talent such as Kofi Kingston and Tommaso Ciampa that learned directly from Mike during his days running the Chaotic Training Center.
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| 0:00.0 | The upcoming presentation is a two-man power trip on wrestling podcast production. All right. Let's get it going right here. Right now, this is New Generation Declassified. |
| 0:44.2 | And you're listening to an all-new, new Generation Declassified here exclusively on the TMPC Podcasting Empire. |
| 0:51.6 | If you didn't know by now, my name is Chad. And every single week, we go back in time and we go back and look at the finer days, |
| 0:58.2 | as I like to say, of the World Wrestling Federation era-ish, the mid-90s. |
| 1:02.9 | They called it the new generation. |
| 1:04.5 | We called it life, and we're going to talk about it today. |
| 1:07.0 | As I'm joined by a fascinating, fascinating guest. |
| 1:11.9 | I know him now as the coach, Mr. Mike Hollow, joining me tonight. |
| 1:16.3 | Mike, it has been great to get to know you over the last few weeks, and thanks for coming |
| 1:19.5 | on the podcast tonight. |
| 1:21.1 | Chad, thanks for having me on. |
| 1:22.9 | She'd be excited to talk about all the different things that went on during that time |
| 1:26.3 | period. |
| 1:27.3 | It's fascinating. |
| 1:28.6 | You know, we talked to Brendan, a good friend of yours a couple weeks ago, Knuckles Nelson, |
| 1:33.5 | talking about New England, talking about the New England wrestling scene in the mid-90s and what it was like cutting your teeth and coming up during that time. |
| 1:41.9 | But we'll get to that with you in a few minutes. |
| 1:44.2 | You've got a great story. |
| 1:45.5 | I want to spend a few minutes talking about it. |
| 1:48.1 | Hollow's stable is your current training facility. |
| 1:51.8 | Now, for those of you that don't know about Mike and his background, |
| 1:54.8 | he's trained superstars like Kofi Kingston, Damien Sandow, Darren Young, |
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