Top 5 WWE Superstars who run their own wrestling schools

#3 Finn Balor (WWE Superstar, current NXT Champion)

Finn Balor and Kyle O'Reilly in WWE NXT

Former WWE Universal Champion and current NXT Champion Finn Balor once ran his own wrestling school and promotion in Ireland. After he toured the United Kingdom and its neighboring countries for the first few years of his career, Balor felt motivated to open the school due to the lack of proper wrestling institutes in his home country.

NWA Ireland, the school and promotion, soon merged with NWA UK Hammerlock. Though this venture was short-lived, Balor found some success as a trainer. He taught "The Man" Becky Lynch and WWE NXT UK Superstar Jordan Devlin.

"I show up to this little gymnasium in a school hall," there's six blue padded mats on the ground. Finn Balor, at the time, was skinny as a rake, big smiley head on him, 'how are you, lads?' And I walked in, that was my introduction to wrestling." - @BeckyLynchWWE pic.twitter.com/rygbRAlYf1

— As Sure As The Sun Will Rise (@kilswtchkimura) June 4, 2019

In an interview in 2019, Lynch spoke at length about the beginning of her career. She reflected on Balor's school, and how it played an important part in her training.

"If you wanted to be a wrestler, you’d have to go off to England or America to train. It was only at Finn Balor’s school that I got the opportunity to learn. We wrestled for three months on just six blue mats on the floor in this tiny little hall at Saint Andrew’s national school. We’d go down there every Sunday and that’s how we learned, on the mats. We’d go across to England and do these summer camps where you’d train eight or nine hours a day in a gym," said Lynch.

Balor moved to Japan to build his own career, but he left behind quite a legacy as a trainer.