Detroit Red Wings legend Darren McCarty is still fighting, 16 years after his retirement from the NHL — only this time in a different ring.
McCarty is taking his fighting know-how from the rink to the classroom, as the former NHL winger has bought The House of Truth, a wrestling school located in Center Line.
He plans on rebranding the school as The Grind Time Wrestling Academy. Michigan wrestler Schwartzy will serve as general manager of the academy under McCarty's leadership.
"I’ve always had a deep respect for the physicality, showmanship, and heart it takes to succeed in professional wrestling,” McCarty said in a release Friday. "Our goal is to develop hardworking, safe, reliable, respectable athletes, educated in all aspects of professional wrestling, both in and out of the ring."
McCarty is no stranger to pro wrestling, having appeared at a TNA Impact event in Windsor in 2023 while wearing a Red Wings shirt.
.@bullyray5150 just powerbombed 4-time Stanley Cup winner @DarrenMcCarty4 THROUGH A TABLE! #Sacrificepic.twitter.com/LL2nR6WmPs
— TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) March 25, 2023
McCarty is a four-time Stanley Cup champion — he scored the Cup-winning goal for the Wings in Game 4 of the 1997 Stanley Cup Finals — who continues to be a community figure in the Metro Detroit area. He accumulated 288 points and 1,477 penalty minutes in 758 career NHL games, all but 99 of them coming over 13 seasons (1993-2004, '04-07) with the Red Wings.
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