{"id":22267,"date":"2018-07-16T20:17:51","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T00:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=22267"},"modified":"2018-08-11T12:44:05","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T16:44:05","slug":"former-impact-star-guest-coaches-at-wwe-performance-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/07\/16\/former-impact-star-guest-coaches-at-wwe-performance-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Impact Star Guest Coaches at WWE Performance Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indie wrestler <strong>Pepper Parks<\/strong> &#8211; best known to many for his four year run with Impact Wrestling as <b>\u00a0<\/b>until his departure earlier this year &#8211; announced on Twitter yesterday that he spent the past week in Orlando working as a guest coach at the WWE Performance Center.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/BraxtonSutter\/status\/1018615993407561728<\/p>\n<p>Parks got his start in 2000 as a student of the legendary <strong>Les Thatcher<\/strong> with <strong>Heartland Wrestling Association (HWA)<\/strong> in Ohio, where he was a 2x HWA Heavyweight Champion, HWA Cruiserweight Champion and HWA Tag Team Champion. The 38-year old Buffalo, New York native has also spent the better part of the past eight years working with his hometown promotion <strong>Empire State Wrestling (ESW)<\/strong>, where he&#8217;s also one of the promotions trainers. He&#8217;s also competed for the likes of <strong>CZW, Ring of Honor, MCW Pro<\/strong>, as well as Canada&#8217;s <strong>Smash Wrestling<\/strong>, where he&#8217;s currently one half of the Smash Tag Team Champions, <strong>The Well Oiled Machines<\/strong>, with <strong>&#8220;Psycho Mike&#8221; Rollins<\/strong>. His real life wife <strong>Allie<\/strong> still remains with Impact Wrestling as one of the top stars of the company.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hats off to Pepper Parks\/Sutter, or by any name for his week at the WWE Performance Center. A  class young man &amp; proud to say one of &quot;My KIds&quot; Much love &amp; respect.\ud83d\udc4d<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Les Thatcher (@LesThatcher) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LesThatcher\/status\/1018592551283159040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 15, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Alongside their own stellar coaching staff, the WWE Performance Center routinely brings in guest coaches for week long stints, many of whom end up with full time jobs with the company, like <strong>Serena Deeb, Johnny Moss, Johnny Saint<\/strong> and <strong>Steve Corino<\/strong>. Other guest coaches have included <strong>CHIKARA<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Mike Quackenbush<\/strong>, former Ring of Honor manager <strong>Truth Martini<\/strong>, former ECW Superstar<strong> Jerry Lynn<\/strong>, and <strong>The Outsiders<\/strong>, <strong>Kevin Nash<\/strong> and <strong>Scott Hall<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWEMaverick\/status\/1018655202080108544<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congrats you deserve it<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u201cThe Bad Boy\u201d Joey Janela (@JANELABABY) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JANELABABY\/status\/1018707825332113408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 16, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congrats man, Is that Warren Moon?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Konnan (@Konnan5150) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Konnan5150\/status\/1018667927661232128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 16, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indie wrestler Pepper Parks &#8211; best known to many for his four year run with Impact Wrestling as \u00a0until his departure earlier this year &#8211; announced on Twitter yesterday that he spent the past week in Orlando working as a guest coach at the WWE Performance Center. https:\/\/twitter.com\/BraxtonSutter\/status\/1018615993407561728 Parks got his start in 2000 as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":22273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,3],"tags":[567,2605,798],"class_list":["post-22267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-north-america","category-wwe-universe","tag-braxton-sutter","tag-pepper-parks","tag-wwe-performance-center"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}