A teachable moment with Mr. Perry.
Victor Perry is a middle school teacher in the New York City area as well as a recording artist. Recently, he is made rounds in the wrestling world because he started a wrestling club in the middle school he teaches where students get the opportunity to watch matches like Bianca Belair vs. Sasha Banks and the Hell in a Cell match featuring Sasha Banks and Bayley.
Our wrestling club also had to watch our favorite @BiancaBelairWWE do her thing. We love the #ESTofWWE pic.twitter.com/QWyP3Q2Ee2
— Victor Taylor Perry (@wallflowerperry) February 16, 2022
Today’s wrestling club features the best to ever do it. The kids loved this match. They were invested in the storyline of @SashaBanksWWE and @itsBayleyWWE. --
— Victor Taylor Perry (@wallflowerperry) March 9, 2022
One of them told me “I don’t want to watch this…they don’t want to hurt each other they’re friends.” -- pic.twitter.com/7HH90sycaf
Now, Victor, on the latest episode of the Wrestling Winedown podcast, is talking about the experience of starting the wrestling club and The Surreal moments of WWE Superstars reaching out to him to praise him as well as get involved.
“[The biggest name that's reached out] he biggest being Sasha Banks and the fact that she was like she wants to come to our school, trying to make it happen. I want it to happen,” said Victor. “Ricochet, who I love. Of course, my dude, Carmelo Hayes. He sent [the students] personal videos thanking them. We'll send them like — it was the cutest thing. One kid was like, ‘Can I send Carmelo a message?’ I was like, ‘why is that? I want to tell him that I'm ready to take my state test and I don't miss!’
“Big E, although he didn't see the club, he liked the bulletin board that we made. Same thing with Bianca,” he added. “I don't know if she's seen the video yet. But she's also made a video for the school when I met her. TJ Wilson, who produced the Bianca and Sasha match saw the video.”
Victor also talked about how much it meant for him to know that Shawn Michaels has seen what he does.
“It's surreal. I to even know that he like knows of like what I do. It's crazy, and I told my brother and he was like, ‘No way,’ and I was like, ‘Yes.’ I'll never forget when the first tweet went viral. He messaged me and was like, ‘Do you see this?’ I was like, ‘Yeah,’ I was not expecting that. I didn't expect people to like it the way that I like it. So yeah, it's surreal. Like I said, like Randy Orton to my favorite wrestler, and so to see him in person to like, almost touching and be like, ‘Yo, what's up?’ Like, finally, after all these years.”
Outside of teaching, Victor is a singer. You can follow him on Twitter, Instagram, and Spotify.
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