All Pro Wrestling is home of the "APW BOOT CAMP", the #1 Wrestling School in America. All Pro Wrestling was founded in 1991 by Roland Alexander. Mr. Alexander has been exposed to the pro wrestling industry for over 35 years. He learned from the best, the late Roy Shires and Ray Stevens. Headquartered 45 miles southeast of San Francisco, 15 miles south of Oakland and 35 miles north of San Jose, APW is central to all major league cities.

All Pro Wrestling was started with the intention of trying to correct a very serious problem. Lack of talent. If you don't believe there is a lack of talent, take a look at how many times a pro wrestler gets recycled under a different ring name and/or character. At one time, the wrestling world was a world that had many great athletes, some with an extensive amateur wrestling background, while some athletes came from other pro sports such as Pro Football. Guys like Ernie Ladd exchanging their cleats for wrestling boots, was not uncommon. The competition was tremendous. The sport left our great industry sometime after Hulk Hogan captured the imagination of every child. When was the last time you witnessed someone on the mat wrestling, other than the wrestlers in Japan?

Prior to the early eighties, Pro Wrestling was all sport and every pro wrestler trainee was required to be trained for a long period of time. They were trained individually or at one of two wrestling schools. One school was in Canada, the other in the U. S. The students paid their dues and learned to wrestle. Becoming a pro wrestler does not happen overnight. It takes comprehensive, unique hands-on training. When regionalized wrestling became a national pastime, there were many pro wrestlers out of work. Many turned to what they knew best, pro wrestling. They opened wrestling schools. There have been many wrestling schools since the inception of them. Think about it! These schools cannot be doing a good job. Had the schools been doing a good job, the sport wouldn't lack the young talent it sorely needs.

Another problem All Pro Wrestling wanted to address was the necessity of lower weight divisions in our great sport. They have weight divisions in amateur wrestling and boxing. Pro wrestling does have lower weight divisions in Japan, Mexico and Europe. If these lower weight divisions existed, we wouldn't have a need for super-heroe with drug infested steroided bodies. Steroids have been killing athletes left and right and many wrestlers, known to be on steroids, have died in the past several years. We need to clean up our sport. Get rid of the steroids and let the smaller and more talented wrestler compete.

Our first division, the "APW BOOT CAMP" started the ball rolling. We recruit athletes with a wrestling background and if they don't have it, we teach it to them. We take them all shapes and sizes. We develop them with a close eye. We don't train them in 10 days, 30 days, 3 months or 6 months like most of your pro wrestling schools. Hell, you can't be trained to be a cook at McDonalds that quickly. Think about it! In pro baseball, you pick up a bat, ball and glove at the age of seven. You play Little League, Babe Ruth, American Legion, High School and College Ball. If you have any talent by this time, you might get lucky and get drafted by a major league team. Your journey starts over again. You play Rookie League, A ball, AA ball and AAA ball and then if you are lucky you get to play Major League Baseball. In a sport and art as complex as ours, good solid training should be a fact of life. Once you become a pro wrestler, you need to continue to train. Last I heard, Barry Bonds still goes to training camp every year to improve on his skills. It isn't fair to the wrestling promoter to have to shell out the kind of money pro wrestlers make today and not see wrestlers improve their talent from year to year. In the same breath, promoters and promotions need to ease up on the traveling schedule and wrestling schedule in order to give the wrestler time to heal the body and continue to train. Promotions and wrestling schools in the U. S. should stop what they are doing for just one moment and take a look at the success of New Japan and All Japan and learn from them. Learn how they develop their pro wrestlers. Develop them slowly and with discipline. That is why their companies are so successful. Japan then sends their developed wrestlers to other foreign countries to gain experience in the different styles. This makes complete sense. A wrestler is now able to compete with wrestlers of all styles. Why do you think wrestlers like Owen Hart, Chris Benoit, Vader, Jushin Lyger and Eddie Guerrerro can compete in all promotions including WCW, WWF, AAA, New Japan, CWA and UWFI. Once different styles are learned, and some valuable experience is gained, the pro wrestler is now deemed ready for pro action in their promotion and in their country and can wrestle international talent at home or on the road and have the ability to compete.

Back in the sixties and seventies, wrestlers may not have won every match they wrestled. Fortunately, you never heard wrestlers cry and moan when they lost a match. They were smart enough to not cry, but instead, learn from experience. When you step into the ring with a Funk, Brisco, Stevens, Sammartino and DiBiase, night in and night out, you can't help but learn and improve your abilities. Losing can sometimes make you gain knowledge and experience. Wrestling 6 nights a week, 52 weeks a year, eventually your time comes. So will victories and titles. In the meantime, until regional wrestling comes back to groom wrestlers for the major promotions, much improvement is needed at the wrestling school level. At the professional level, we must limit professional jealousy and try to learn from each other and give wrestling fans the kind of competition they crave.

Today with independent promotions, you are getting valuable experience wrestling in front of a crowd but you are stepping into the ring with someone who received a crash course in a sport that takes many years to master. Therefore, we decided our training camp would be 12 to 24 months in duration. In that time our pro wrestlers would wrestle in our second division, All Pro Wrestling, one of the top independent wrestling promotions in the United States. The intention of this promotion is to get the pro wrestlers graduating from our training camp the valuable experience necessary along with the exposure they need to develop into Main Event talent. It was our choice. We had the choice of following in the footsteps of other schools and developing preliminary talent for television or taking our time grooming someone for Main Event status. We chose the latter.

We have been the best keep secret in the industry but in our 5th year, we have been rewarded with insiders calling us the top wrestling school in the United States. Most graduates of pro wrestling schools must ply their trade on the independent circuit, sometimes for many years, before getting the opportunity to wrestle for a major promotion. Graduates from this training camp started wrestling on major cards including pay-per-views co-promoted by Ron Skoler's International Wrestling Council and AAA as well as EMLL of Mexico. Our wrestlers have also been given tryouts by the WWF while current students have gotten some valuable experience by wrestling on WWF television tapings. Back in September 1996, Matt Hyson, one of our top graduates, signed to wrestle as Spike Dudley in ECW. I'd say ...

WE ARE NO LONGER THE BEST KEPT SECRET!