The Monster Factory is a professional wrestling school in Gloucester City, New Jersey run by Larry Sharpe. It is considered to be the first publicly available professional wrestling school. He opened his wrestling school with "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers in 1983, and wrestled part-time until retiring in August 1991. The school's first famous pupil was Scott "Bam Bam" Bigelow, whose success brought a lot of attention to the school.
In February 2008, the school was threatened by a fire which had started at the building adjacent to the school, ANA Laboratories, and the building was evacuated by the school trainers. The fire was confined to the laboratory until its roof collapsed however, according to Camden County Chief Fire Marshal Paul Hartstein, only a firewall prevented the fire from reaching the school. The school had been in the middle of drills when the fire broke out although all the students were safely evacuated to the outside parking lot.
The Monster Factory's graduates include:
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