{"id":29389,"date":"2018-10-25T12:21:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T16:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=29389"},"modified":"2019-06-10T13:37:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T17:37:48","slug":"the-saint-of-nxt-uk-johnny-saints-legendary-career-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/10\/25\/the-saint-of-nxt-uk-johnny-saints-legendary-career-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"The Saint of NXT UK: Johnny Saint’s Legendary Career (VIDEOS)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The WWE<\/a> is quite used to utilizing former wrestling superstars as General Managers for their brands, as names like Mick Foley, Paige, Kurt Angle, William Regal, Drake Maverick<\/strong> and Teddy Long<\/strong> have all stepped up to take authority figure roles on the various shows for the company. Earlier this year, they went to the well once again for the newly launched NXT UK brand, but outside of the British Isles, the name Johnny Saint<\/strong> may not resonate with the same recognition as Mrs. Foley’s baby boy. But in the United Kingdom, the original “Man of a Thousands Holds” is a legend in the truest sense of the word.<\/p>\n

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An amateur boxer in his teens, Johnny Miller was looking to avoid the same doldrum life of working in a factory that had been his father’s lot in life in their hometown of Manchester, England. But thanks to his mother’s choice of hair salons, working on the industrial lines was not to be his final destiny. As chance would have it, his mother’s hairdresser had a husband who owned a gym in the blue collar city and their son was one of the country’s top pro wrestlers, Billy Robinson<\/strong>. Robinson had started wrestling in 1955 and took the young Miller under his wing in 1958.<\/p>\n