Yes, I was the man to help NWA Anarchy get on the map. Well, one of men at least. I debuted there in October 2005 and was already Television Champion five months later in March 2006. It was a quick push, a really quick one. Looking back, I realize I didn’t really appreciate being champion as much as I could have. So I lost the title a couple of months later and began to treat wrestling as more of a hobby than a career move. I was realizing that I should get back in college and finish up because if wrestling wasn’t going to work out, I needed a back up plan. I just didn’t know what I wanted to study.
I returned to Kennesaw State University in the Spring of 2007 with a better attitude about school and it showed. My grades were better and I didn’t mind attending classes. I did ok that first semester back, but I knew I could do better. I took the summer off from school to try to focus on wrestling and was actually pretty close to making things happen.
Long story short (I don’t want details to come off the wrong way), I was told I was being reviewed by a promotion in Japan and things were looking good but then it just kind of fizzled out. Maybe I should have been more proactive. All I new was that I was going to try, try again. And harder next time. I just didn’t know when “next time” would be.
Not getting Japan in the Summer of 2007 made me realize that this is going to be harder than I thought. But in the long run, it was probably a good thing because I still had a ways to go in school.
In the Fall of 2007, I became an ACADEMIC ANIMAL. I kept up with wrestling as a hobby, but school was where my heart was. I loved it. I couldn’t get enough. I finally realized that knowledge really is power and intelligence is the greatest gift of all.
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Sunday, July 26, 2009
A Brief History: Part One
It’s kind of crazy to me that it has already been six years since I first stepped foot inside a professional wrestling ring.
I was 18 years old and about to graduate high school. Wrestling was my life. It’s all I thought about day and night. I doodled pictures of gimmick logos and the WWE logo and really anything wrestling related in classes. I would lie in bed every night dreaming of the fame I would have one day…
So I kept at it, graduated high school and put my whole heart in wrestling. I started college at Kennesaw State University and really didn't care. Like I said, wrestling was my life and I couldn’t let anything else in for any type of balance. Didn’t care about girlfriends and definitely didn’t care about school. So I half-assed everything in school but I started doing fairly well with wrestling. Or at least I thought I was. I won a title at some crappy promotion in Dalton, Georgia and things were going well where I was training. My trainer Steve is a damn genius, and I think that’s putting it lightly. Hell, Steve kept booking us in shows at a strip club and somehow kept things fresh every week with the same six wrestlers. The owner of the school however = a complete jackass. Needless to say, there was a falling out with the owner in mid 2004 and everyone I trained with parted ways. I kept at wrestling for a while and I even placed 3rd in the TNA Gut Check Challenge in October 2004. However, I think I was screwed with getting 3rd place. The Cobb Galleria still haunts me to this day (not really).
At this time I was 19, with long blonde hair tied back in a ponytail like a young Steven Seagal (yeah I know, Seagal has black hair). About a week after the challenge, I wound up getting a spot in a Saturday night TV taping at NWA Wildside. I wrestled Masada, who had just recently come back from Japan and apparently he was going to make an example out of me using what he learned in Japan. He certainly did. I was coughing blood for about a week after the match and it scared me a little.
So I took some time off of wrestling after the TNA GCC and the Wildside incident. I was still in school for some reason but just screwing around because I didn’t want to be there. I don’t think I had failed any classes up to this point but my GPA was certainly starting to slip. So after about a year out of the ring I started wrestling with NWA Anarchy (Formerly NWA Wildside) in Cornelia, Georgia. I was 20 years old.
I wasn’t really sure what to expect from Anarchy, other than it had some big shoes to fill. And I was the man to help the promotion do it…
To be continued…
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I was 18 years old and about to graduate high school. Wrestling was my life. It’s all I thought about day and night. I doodled pictures of gimmick logos and the WWE logo and really anything wrestling related in classes. I would lie in bed every night dreaming of the fame I would have one day…
So I kept at it, graduated high school and put my whole heart in wrestling. I started college at Kennesaw State University and really didn't care. Like I said, wrestling was my life and I couldn’t let anything else in for any type of balance. Didn’t care about girlfriends and definitely didn’t care about school. So I half-assed everything in school but I started doing fairly well with wrestling. Or at least I thought I was. I won a title at some crappy promotion in Dalton, Georgia and things were going well where I was training. My trainer Steve is a damn genius, and I think that’s putting it lightly. Hell, Steve kept booking us in shows at a strip club and somehow kept things fresh every week with the same six wrestlers. The owner of the school however = a complete jackass. Needless to say, there was a falling out with the owner in mid 2004 and everyone I trained with parted ways. I kept at wrestling for a while and I even placed 3rd in the TNA Gut Check Challenge in October 2004. However, I think I was screwed with getting 3rd place. The Cobb Galleria still haunts me to this day (not really).
At this time I was 19, with long blonde hair tied back in a ponytail like a young Steven Seagal (yeah I know, Seagal has black hair). About a week after the challenge, I wound up getting a spot in a Saturday night TV taping at NWA Wildside. I wrestled Masada, who had just recently come back from Japan and apparently he was going to make an example out of me using what he learned in Japan. He certainly did. I was coughing blood for about a week after the match and it scared me a little.
So I took some time off of wrestling after the TNA GCC and the Wildside incident. I was still in school for some reason but just screwing around because I didn’t want to be there. I don’t think I had failed any classes up to this point but my GPA was certainly starting to slip. So after about a year out of the ring I started wrestling with NWA Anarchy (Formerly NWA Wildside) in Cornelia, Georgia. I was 20 years old.
I wasn’t really sure what to expect from Anarchy, other than it had some big shoes to fill. And I was the man to help the promotion do it…
To be continued…
Thank's for reading!
Let's TWEET!
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