Summary

Adam Brooks says a recent week at the WWE Performance Center gave him a look at parts of the business he had never worked in before, including guest coaching, producing and sitting in on how things are handled behind the scenes.

According to Brooks, the opportunity had been building since WWE held tryouts in Perth in February 2024 around Elimination Chamber. He said Matt Bloom pulled him aside there and brought up the idea of returning someday as a guest coach rather than only as an in-ring prospect.

Brooks added that the visit was originally meant to happen in January 2026 before WWE's schedule got in the way. He said the timing finally came together when he returned to the United States and was able to spend the week in Orlando.

Quote from Adam Brooks

"It was an incredible week. Just an incredible week of just learning all these aspects of not being a wrestler. I’m still wrestling, I’m still doing my thing. But yeah, I was brought in to be a guest coach, and just shadow and learn and help produce and get on the headset and listen to how everything’s done and it was awesome. Very, very rewarding… This has sort of been in the making for quite a few years actually. My last tryout with WWE when they came to Australia in February of (2024) when they came to Perth. They did a big tryout, I was part of that, and I was pulled aside by coach (Matt) Bloom, and I’m thinking, oh, here we go. I’ve got it. It’s happening, it’s happening, it’s happening, and then, he mentioned, ‘You look great, your work’s great. Everything’s great,’ all this stuff. ‘Have you ever thought of coaching?’ And I was like, ‘Well, no, not really because I’ve just been so focused on my wrestling,’ and then he mentioned, ‘I’d like to maybe bring you in one day as a guest coach and see how you like it and get a vibe of the place and all that.’ So yeah, we just kept in touch over the years. I update him with everything that I’ve been doing, and yeah, we were able to just make it work. Visas and stuff all sorted, and yeah, I hit him up and it was actually meant to happen the last time I was in the States back in January. But, I think they just had this big tryout and then I think they were doing stuff in Saudi. So that one fell through months ago but then I said to him, ‘Hey, I’m gonna be back between these dates. I’m free between these weeks. What works?’ And he said, ‘Right. Let’s bring you in this week and then, we’ll sort you out’ and yeah, so that’s kind of how that all came about. Just very unexpected but, I’m still wrestling, but it was so cool to go there and just learn a completely different aspect of the business that I’ve never done so, it was awesome."

Brooks later went on to say:

"I was lucky enough to be just shadowing at NXT TV. So just seeing how intricate and detailed stuff like that is, you know? Cameras and placements of props and stuff like that. Seeing that environment but then also helping out at the live event on Friday, it’s like television and then it goes back to pro wrestling. A completely different environment and watching the athletes working in a TV environment, then a live event pro wrestling environment, it was very interesting, very different… Structure. I like that there’s a structure there, you know?"

What Brooks' NXT week could mean next

Brooks getting time inside the WWE system as both a guest coach and a producer suggests the company was interested in more than just his in-ring work. That matters because Brooks said Bloom first raised coaching during the 2024 Perth tryout, which points to WWE keeping tabs on him over a longer stretch instead of making a one-off invitation.

It also gives Brooks another layer to his resume while he continues wrestling. Even if nothing immediate comes from it, spending time at NXT TV and a live event puts him in a better spot for future opportunities that could involve either wrestling or behind-the-scenes work.

Sources

Adam Brooks on The Magic Of Wrestling