Going for the childhood dream

[uhsumdumboy]

After much consideration (about 10 years of such) I have decided to go for my childhood dream of becoming a professional wrestler. It is a journey I am just beginning. For the last 2 months I have put many hours into building my body to Hoss status, and will continue to develop my physique. Ever since I was little I would roleplay in E-feds and imagine promos inbetween loading times while I played the latest WWF videogame. I have some basic experience in amateur wrestling from high school. All I need is training from a school, all of the good schools I have come across are out of my state. I need to find a decent school in NJ or around the area, and then I'm going to just pay the submission fee and go for it, and see where it takes me. I love pro wrestling, I want to be a part of it when the popularity resurges and it experiences another Golden age. I want to entertain mass audiences as I, along with my fellow ring-mates tell a story.

 

[AKI Man]

Sounds awesome buddy. I am a firm believer in going for what you want and aiming for a single goal in life. Our Gmod here Cowboyvenus is training to be a professional wrestler. Im sure he could give you some pointers and advice? Also as you have a background in wrestling im sure that will lead you in good stead! So what would your goal be in a sense of who to work for once you made the grade?

 

[uhsumdumboy]

Exactly, you have to do what you love, in my opinion.

Any tips or advice would be much appreciated.

Ideally I would work for the WWE, I mean, TNA has a lot of good points but WWE is the alpha (raw) and the omega (smackdown). They produce the biggest wrestling show of the year, Wrestle-mania. They take talented performers and turn them into super stars. WWE offers the biggest paycheck, for those loyal and talented enough. I would hope to be the next Hogan/Rock/Stone Cold/Cena, and I would strive to be much more entertaining than John Cena. This is all saying ideally, I know that the chances of me reaching main event status in the WWE may not be stacked in my favor, but I am willing to work and prove myself so I think that gives me an edge. Hell, I would be happy to be hired by the WWE as a no-name jobber, because at least I would be working in a WWE ring infront of thousands of WWE fans, all with the opportunity to entertain and prove myself as being worthy of being in the low mid card status. And then mid card status. And then upper midcard status. Maybe I'll cruise along upper midcard for a year or 2 before being pushed to the main event. Ideally. What can I say, I am idealist.

 

[Blue Warrior]

Hey, slow down, don't think that you'll get signed with WWE, I mean, I believe that you can do it, but firstly, put some more possible aims, then, if you have enough knowledge, experience and will, go for bigger things and bigger promotions. Nothing comes served on your plate, so you're going to have to work very, very, very hard to achieve something. As tnafan said, ask cowboy, he'll definitely give you an advice.

I believe in you man, just work hard and you should get there

 

[uhsumdumboy]

It would be a pleasure to just work for an indy promotion, aha. I was just speaking from the child in me.

 

[AKI Man]

Yeah man you wanna work for a true indy fed like Chikara. I mean from watching them you dont need to have all the muscle and looks to make it like in WWE. I believe learning a craft in the indies is the best way to build yourself for the big/biggesh time WWE/TNA. Keep us updated buddy.

 

[uhsumdumboy]

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This was my first glimpse of Chikara, I guess I better start working on my moves.

 

[Deleted User]

Honestly, if you are serious about working, Deep South Wrestling is where you want to set your goals, that's the promotion that will elevate you to FCW.

You'll find that a lot of indy trainers and promotions are not exactly the biggest fan of Chikara, because it is a niche federation. A lot of their matches don't use the four sequences AT ALL. "Spot fest" wrestling, and so on.

A lot of Indy promotions have guys that don't have perfect bodies, hell, 90% of 'em do.

Remember that your odds are not the best, but that isn't why you want to wrestle. You want to wrestle because you love wrestling, right?

I would also stress that power-lifting is going to burn you in the end, for a lot of cases. Cardio is where it is at. 99% of professional in-ring wrestling relies on awesome cardio.

 

[uhsumdumboy]

Could you shed some light for me on what the four sequences are?

Of course I am doing it for the love of wrestling, and everything around it. I realize not all wrestlers have the best bodies, but my hope is that in the end I will be picked up by a big-time promotion, and having that physical look of a gladiator I imagine would help. I mean, could you imagine The Miz being successful if he didn't have the physical build he does? Would Brock Lesnar have been pushed to the moon if he didn't have that monstrous build? Would John Cena be where he is today without his experience wight lifting? Maybe, but doubtful.

I'll have to keep in mind that Deep South Wrestling is the bottom of the ladder that could take me to WWE, but I live no where near the south. Any idea of any good schools on the east coast in the jersey area?

 

[Deleted User]

You'll learn the four stages, sequences in school. One thing about wrestling is that you will have to travel, and probably temporarily re-locate. I'm sure that there are wrestling schools in that area, Jimmy Valiant has one, I do believe.

A body helps, don't get me wrong, but cardio helps ten times more. I've seen guys with great bodies quit after two sessions because they get blown out so quickly.

Yeah, Deep South should be your eventual goal if WWE is what you want.

 

[uhsumdumboy]

Gotcya, I'm about to search for Valiant's school. This upcoming month I plan on increasing my cardio and core workouts, as I've only been lifting for 2 month and have become pretty addicted to it. Hoping cardio will be my next addiction.

So cowboy, can you tell me about your experience training? What's it like

 

[Deleted User]

Hard stuff, man. At least, mine was. I have a strict cardio workout for the first hour before we started to even do rolls, after practicing for a couple hours we had ANOTHER workout to low ourselves out.

Within a month I was in pretty good shape.