CM Punk’s Trainer Ace Steel Reflects On Time At WWE Performance Center

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Former AEW coach and producer Ace Steel has reflected on their time working at the WWE Performance Center.

In November 2019, Ace Steel joined the WWE Performance Center as a coach. However, the former ROH star and AEW producer was part of the furloughs in April 2020 during the pandemic.

Steel eventually returned to his role at the WWE PC in October 2020 and remained with the company in January 2022.

Speaking to Rip Rodgers, Steel was asked about wrestlers seeking advice from him during his time at the PC. He answered:

“Some. Some. There are still some that hang onto that. Percentage wise, I really can’t throw that at you because every place is different. I coached at the PC a couple years ago, it’s been about a year. You had a lot of sponges.”

“I had a group of…I was blessed to have…I had some newbies, and then I was gifted a lot of guys who had been working a long time.”

“They had an idea of who the hell I was versus a football player who had no clue that I had experience who ‘That’s my coach’ and I was coach Guy.”

Steel continued on to explain how it was a mutual learning experience for him, saying:

“To these guys, I’m Ace Steel because they came from the independents, and those guys were an open book.”

“Still, to this day, I’ll comment to them or will reach out, ‘Hey, that was a great match.’ I’ll see a guy debut on SmackDown and kill it.”

“They’ll throw praise right back. ‘Hey, coach, thanks for helping me out along the way.’ They come, they ask, they want to know. Those are the true workers. They do exist.”

“They do exist. It’s just…something happened to our art and I hope we can rectify it. You can’t change the world, but there are some good nuggets out there,”

After being released from WWE, Steel signed with All Elite Wrestling where he worked as a producer until the backstage altercation at AEW All Out 2022. Ace would return in a remote capacity until he was let go in September.

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