Disclaimer – Sometimes you might wonder what the point of the stories are… I’ll be honest, sometimes there isn’t going to be any meaning to what I’m blogging. I just simply want to share these really cool moments I get to experience. I get to experience these wonderful moments because I work in “The Business.” I work in wrestling, that might not mean much to a non fan, but to wrestling fans, being a full time wrestling employee, like I am, is the Holy Grail.

The wrestling business is my full time job, my “shoot” job & this blog details the fun I experience in our wacky world of wrestling… ENJOY!

Let’s get right to it. I worked on 10/27 for Wrestling For a Cause (WFC) in Claremore Oklahoma at the Claremore VFW.

I started by getting there super early to help set up the ring. I have never set up their/our ring there before so I wanted to get there & learn. It wasn’t much different than other rings I have learned to put up since being in “The Business” but there are some small differences between each ring so that’s why I always get to shows early so i can help with everything.

WFC is a unique promotion in that they don’t pay wrestlers (there are exceptions to the rule if someone has traveled from far away and needs gas money, for instance.) Instead, the majority of profits go to either a child who has been diagnosed with cancer or for cancer research.

I don’t want to get into the details too much in regards to talking about WFC’s money because for 1, I don’t know the exact details & I’m not just going to make up shit to sound smart & 2 I’m going to do a profile on WFC & it’s owner, Tim Rockwell.

When Tim & I first met & it was decided that I was going to work for him, the first thing I told him was I was NOT expecting any kind of compensation. I knew what he was trying to do with raising money for kids with cancer & I didn’t want to disrupt that in anyway. So, instead I asked him if he’d just let me work in exchange for knowledge. Knowledge about everything that has to do with wrestling.

Now, when I say I want to learn “everything that has to do with wrestling” I mean “EVERYTHING.” Not just everything that happens in the ring or in front of the fans, I truly mean EVERYTHING. Backstage stuff, booking stuff, storyline stuff, everything.

I want to know everything about wrestling for a couple different reasons.

Reason 1 – I think it will make me a better commentator.

Everyone who reads the blog knows that my main goal is to be a color commentator full time for a promotion on tv.

To do that, I want to have a successful career as a wrestler on the Indy scene so that I can be that color commentator who “speaks from experience.”

I want to be able to say things like “I know what it’s like to be a champion, when i was the WFC HomeTown Heroes Champion, I always had a target on my back.”

I think being able to speak from experience will really help me in setting myself apart from other color commentators.

Reason 2 – I’d like to own a building in McAlester with a ring in it & I could host promotions in it.

I think it would be really cool if I had a building with a nice ring in it & I could have promotions like WFC & HOW come in & do local shows.

Obviously though, to do that I would need to have a vast knowledge of wrestling to be able to help run those shows.

Anyway, that’s just me thinking outside the box. Just me thinking ahead. Do y’all ever do that? Catch yourself thinking way far in advance about stuff like that, for no particular reason at all?

The 10/27 WFC show was our Halloween show. It was full of wrestlers dressed up in costumes, including JD dressed up as Hulk Hogan and by friend and fellow pro wrestling trainee Derek Teter dressed up as Sting.

I got home at 1230am that night & went right to bed so I could get up at 6am to make my way down to Royse City Texas (just North East of Dallas) for Heroes of Wrestling.

If you don’t know, Heroes is where I am the Color Commentator. Prior to the 28th I had worked 2 shows on commentator for our weekly Facebook Live (that’s being picked up by Dish Network BTW) and I had gotten some feedback from multiple people about my performance. Most people said the same thing – “I love WHAT you are saying, I just hate HOW you are saying it.”

What they were saying is that my delivery was shit lol. That might of offended a lot of people but I became an adult in the US Army Infantry, so most things don’t offend me. In fact, I welcome the directness, it’s something that I sometimes think we don’t get enough of in todays world.

But I needed to find a fix to what my problem was. Now, I knew what the problem was, I was trying to just be a normal color guy (think Colt Cabana for ROH) when everyone else wanted a wild, loud maybe even obnoxious color guy (think Jerry The King Lawler when he was with Jim Ross in the Attitude Era.)

With everyone being so direct, it was an easy fix. (See why i like directness? lol) But, I’ll be honest, even with me knowing what they wanted and it being an easy fix, I was still nervous about stepping out of my comfort zone, but at the same time I was excited because my character as a whole will be a bit outside my comfort zone. So this was a great learning situation and also a bit of training for me (for when I start being my character full time.)

I went all out lol. I was loud, I talked too much, I talked shit, I ewww’d and ahhhh’d and described everything a little too loud, a little heelish even. AND IT WORKED!

At the intermission break, I nervously asked my Play by Play partner (who also happens to be the owner of the promotion (AKA My BOSS!) if what I had just done for the first 4 matches was more to what he wanted me to be like.

He replied with “Oh yeah man, you killed it.”

I KILLED IT!!! HOW BOUT THAT, HUH??

I couldn’t of been more happy, I still can’t! It was a ton of fun, I got out of my comfort zone, I got practice on how I want my character to sound, act & react AND it was good enough to get praise from a guy that has been doing commentary for the better part of 20 years.

The only shitty part about the whole thing is that we still have another week or two before those matches will air. lol But I guess people will just have to put up with my straight lace color commentary for another few weeks.

I’m gonna try to put out another blog post this week about how my actual pro wrestling training is going (I’m still working to get in the ring as fast as I can.) But for now I wanted to limit this post to about the two awesome shows that I got to work on the 27th & 28th.

I hope everyone is still enjoying the content I’m putting out. I’m trying to be more artistic in every avenue of my life which isn’t always easy for someone who grew up in a household that didn’t foster feelings of individualism. So, if something I put out sucks, or needs to just outright needs to be “better” please feel free to write in & let me know your thoughts. Like i said earlier in this post, I love the directness.

Stay Strong & Too Sweet

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