Former student Velvet Jones bats for mentor Bill DeMott

Bill DeMott

Velvet Jones, a former student of WWE developmental trainer Bill DeMott recently spoke about his former mentor.

“Bill was the kind of guy, where if he trained you and he saw something in you, he did all that he could to get you to see it in yourself and try to pull it out of yourself,” Jones said. “He wouldn’t let you shortchange yourself. He can make you a better wrestler.”

Jones also dismissed the recent allegations of abuse and harassment against DeMott in the NXT circuit.

“His style… it wasn’t discriminatory, it wasn’t abusive,” he said. “It wasn’t distasteful by any stretch of the imagination.”