Snow informs that he initially trained to become a wrestler at Jim Lancaster’s training school. He remembers Lancaster working a match one time as a heel, and the audience was completely quiet throughout the bout as Lancaster took it to the babyface. Eventually the babyface hit a basic offensive move and the place erupted. Lancaster told Snow after the match that he had the audience in the palm of his hand the entire time because they were sitting on their hands waiting for the babyface to come back.
Snow admits that he was very bad when he first started wrestling. When he stepped in the ring to begin training he still thought the business was real, and Lancaster had to sit him down and tell him how the business worked. Lancaster told him to never say a thing about the way the business worked or he’d regret it, and Snow agreed. He never even told his mother about the business’ secrets for years.
Snow points out that back in those days, the veteran performer called the action in the ring and the younger performers just listened. There was no “getting your stuff in” like you see today. Snow feels that all the matches today tell the same story and feature the same psychology and that’s a problem. He points out that the goal of every match is to get the babyface over, and today’s performers have lost their way in that sense.
