AEW Star Addresses His Wrestling School Being Part Of WWE ID Program

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AEW’s QT Marshall has addressed his wrestling training school the Nightmare Factory being affiliated with the new WWE ID program.

The Nightmare Factory was one of the wrestling schools to receive “official designation” in the new WWE Independent Development program, as announced by WWE itself.

While this partly makes sense, with WWE Champion Cody Rhodes co-owning the facility, some were surprised by the announcement, due to the Nightmare Factory’s previous affiliation with AEW, where the other co-owner QT Marshall works.

Speaking with The TakeDown on SI, Marshall recalled conversations with both Cody Rhodes and Tony Khan about WWE ID.

Marshall explained:

“Tony (Khan) called me the day it was announced about other stuff, and he’s like, ‘Hey, I just got to bring this up because I’m getting a lot of questions’, and I was honest with him. I said, ‘Hey, I’ll be honest with you, Tony, I didn’t really know about this’.

“Cody had spoken to me about potentially signing over the intellectual properties and stuff, and he said he was doing something related to WWE but l kind of sworn to secrecy type of thing, and I don’t want to know. There’s other stuff that’s going on with the facility as well.

“The building that we’re in is like two hours from Cody’s house. So maybe six months ago, I put the building up for sale and he was going to open up his own spot by his house that I would probably come by like once a week and train and do the same thing we were doing by me, but he wanted (the gym) to be closer to him because he does all these interviews, and he just wanted his own compound type place.

“When Cody explained it to me, he was very smart about not putting me in the press releases. He didn’t want any kind of drama for me. And I told Tony, Cody has his own camps. It’s always been like that where I’ve been a coach but these are his camps. These are all his kids. They’re from scratch.

“I’ve always trained people for the most part in a night class with Billy Gunn. And before Billy, it was just myself. But I like more of the experienced guys and girls, whereas Cody likes to get them when they’re like brand new. So it was a little weird at first when he went to WWE.

“Now, I mean, of course that the WWE is involved, I don’t understand what is going on. I didn’t look into it as much. The reason I want to look into it is because I have every single student we’ve ever had has been messaging me, but I don’t know the answer. So I don’t know what their whole deal is, what that involves. I read the press release as well.

“But I know when I spoke to Cody like, ‘Hey, you’re going to be doing your own thing. Maybe I could run a night class in there if we lose the building here, if we sell the building and stuff. But obviously, with AEW and the conflict of interest, I’m probably not going to be a part of this thing.

“He’s like, ‘Yeah, of course, that makes perfect sense, stinks because you are 50 percent of the Nightmare Factory. More than 50 percent because of the coaching that you bring. But at the end of the day, of course, if it’s going to make any kind of difficulty at work, you know, and that’s the biggest thing’.”

Marshall told The TakeDown that he will be taking a break from coaching due to his travel schedule. It was noted that this decision was made months ago, before the WWE ID deal was announced.

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