 Sharpe opened the wrestling school with "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers in 1983, and wrestled part-time until retiring in August 1991.Though Sharpe had trained wrestlers prior to officially opening the school that had significant renown, 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.