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Indy Wrestling Exposed
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Apr 9, 2025
Get ready for the ultimate behind-the-scenes look at the world of independent wrestling! In this explosive expose, we lift the lid on the secrets, scandals, and untold stories of the indy wrestling scene. From backstage drama to on-ring controversies, we'll explore the good, the bad, and the ugly of the wrestling world that lies beyond the mainstream. Whether you're a die-hard wrestling fan or just curious about the world of indy wrestling, this video is a must-watch. So, buckle up and get ready to have your mind blown by the shocking truth about indy wrestling!
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independent wrestling independent wrestling has developed a strong cult following over
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the years in North America as well as some other countries Canada Puerto Rico
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Mexico many other places what is the
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lure of independent wrestling for fans for wrestlers for
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promoters just the whole lure of independent wrestling everyone knows WWE
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the World Wrestling Entertainment Vince McMahon and his characters such as Hulk Hogan John
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Cena King Booker Caro The Big Show ECW Smackdown
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everything that is run under the Titan Towers World Wrestling Entertainment umbrella you're looking at the setting
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the setup of an independent wrestling show the ring crews the promoters the
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ring announcers the bookers you're looking at what goes into setting up an independent event you have
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your building rentals you have your advertising booking and contacting your talent you have your matchmaking your
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scripts your storylines wrestlers right here working as ring crew to set up for the event so
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there's much more that goes into being a professional wrestler on the independent circuit than just wrestling
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the wrestlers here they meet and greet family friends as they arrive at the event and start to get set up for the
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event the fans coming in through the ticket takers the children the backbone of independent professional wrestling as
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well as the backbone of World Wrestling Entertainment and NWATNA as well because without these fans there
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would be no independent shows because these fans provide the financial
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support for these independent shows independent shows by and large do
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not make a lot of money so we're going to find out tonight what drives the promoters what drives the wrestlers and
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what drives the fans to continue coming out to these independent wrestling events from the small spaces of the
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locker room that you're looking at right now the small venues they play the many
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miles they travel the wear and tear on their bodies and the notorious load
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chaos for providing or performing their craft in front of generally small
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audiences what is the lore of independent wrestling for the fans and for the wrestlers on this DVD we're
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going to find out as indie wrestling is now exposed
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i'm Don Brower i'm owner of the UPWA what first got you interested in the wrestling business uh I was always a
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fan growing up as a kid um I really enjoyed it and I said when I was in high school I wanted to get involved and
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basically when I moved to North Carolina I met a great man by the name of uh Mark Ash and he got me involved with ICW and
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it's been fun ever since so this something you see yourself doing long term yeah I I really enjoy it it's fun
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it's a it's a break i get away for a couple days and I get to live like a kid it's like you know most kids wanted to be firemen or wanted to be police
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officers or something like that i wanted to be a wrestler and I get involved with the business and I love it
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so is there any real money made in independent wrestling um not casual
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somebody's looking for it just to get into it it's a really up and down business because sometimes you know you
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can only please half the people half the time and you know it's one of those you get a few people who you know love the
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show there's other people who don't and you know you never really make a lot of money i'll never strike like a
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millionaire strike rich how can we uh keep up keep it keep keep in touch with
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what's going on with the UPWA keep up to date we we try to br uh get our information out there as many as
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possible but the main site is uh we have our own site called uh
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www.thupwa.com we always post the the new names coming in the UPWA the um all
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the upcoming shows everything going on and that's that's probably the the best way to get in touch and uh I'd have to
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say Carolina Independent Wrestling has been very good to us too other than that you [Music]
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know
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[Applause]
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[Applause]
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Yeah heat
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[Music] this piece of [Music]
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[Applause]
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[Applause] man once the show gets going and the
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action is in the ring you can see the wrestlers try to react they do their best to get their moves down the way
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they practice them the way they rehearsed them the way they set them up at the same time trying to keep the crowd involved in the
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action fans as you see here in the ring a little bit quiet during this match the
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idea the object is to get this crowd riled up as loud and as noxious as you
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can get them while at the same time everyone is doing their job the wrestlers are working their moves to
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their perfection the referee maintaining control and the messenger of sorts for
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the wrestlers from to each other as well as from the promotion end of it we have the ring announcer the timekeeper who
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makes sure that the matches don't go longer than the time frame allotted on the show for them he also plays
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cheerleader keep the crowd anticipated now that we've seen a lot of this stuff we're going to start talking with the
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fans and the wrestlers themselves hey what's your name
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talk loud what's your name brian brian what's your name jordan jordan y'all enjoying the
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matches tonight have you been to one before yes who's your favorite who's your favorite
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tonight you me y'all don't really know who you don't have a favorite who do you
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Who did you not like tonight so far red Bull red Bull you didn't like Red
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Bull who did you not like who did you not like
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sable sable you guys watch wrestling on TV a lot yes
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who's your favorite on WWE john rey john Cena rey Mysterio rey Mysterio who do
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you like on You watch TNA yes yes who do you like on TNA sting sting sting sting
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who do you like big Papa Pump you like Christian you like Jeff Jarrett
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you guys come out to these live events or what yes jennifer what's your name steve how long
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you been wrestling fans dude uh 1980 since 1980 how about you since Hulk
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Hogan since Hulk Hogan socks that's been two days before Dirt who's your favorite
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WWE character i don't know i mean there's a few of
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them it ain't Cena it ain't Cena oh shut up i take it John Cena's your favorite
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cena you guys watch TNA i haven't been with it who do you Who who draws
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your attention the most in Samoa Joe samoa Joe the ultra fat wrestling
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machine yeah he's going to be another Wahoo McDaniel i'm not you're not in the TNA no I mean I watch it but I don't
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have one channels like USA now I know you come out to a lot of live
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events i've seen you many times what What draws you to these smaller independent shows
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first of all accessibility accessibility um I mean it's good that you got something going on in your own hometown
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you know you I mean I don't got to drive to Charlotte or you know takes Arcana or some place i mean I can I can come here
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and you know see some people I know it's a relaxed atmosphere very
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enjoyable and uh I mean I don't have to walk 2.3 miles from the car
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and one thing I've seen earlier on this film you really get into it you bring a lot of signs yeah what what draws what
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what gives you that extra Well I I mean I'm like the only person
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that does this here but uh I see it on TV and a lot of the stuff you put on there is really freaking hilarious and
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it's like this is partly a tribute to those wrestling fans but it's also my way of
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uh kind of bringing that element here because you don't see a lot of people in this area getting too much really real
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passion or excited about things i like to come in here and act stupid and hold up a sign says your mom was good or
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something like that you know well I know we're in Wilmington North Carolina and there's been several promotions around here icw uh NACW UPWA event tonight who
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are who are some of your favorite wrestlers on this smaller
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oh Park Ash Dave Renegade Dark Star Solitude
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who are some of the guys that you really like to get get on their nerves who do you like to aggravate out of all these
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guys prison prison that would be Pete Nixon or the felon
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the one that was like Curly from the Three Studios whatever his name is uh that's probably Pete Nixon the ballhead
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guy yeah well they're both balls but the big fat one that he he's all mouthy
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to the crowd would you have actually you would you say you have more accessibility to actually like communicate meet and talk to the
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wrestlers on this level definitely i mean you you know when you go to WWE
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shows you're going to be able to talk to some of them maybe for two or three minutes but I mean if you really like
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professional wrestling you know and you really like to talk to people that are in the
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business you got to go to uh regional and local shows you got to a lot of
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people don't realize just about everybody from Hulk Hogan on down has started on the independent level and
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worked their way up so you expect to see any of these guys maybe in the WWE ring say a few years down the road i mean
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that's definitely could be happening because um I mean when somebody's got a great talent the word gets around you
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know they there's a lot there's people that have started here or kind of had a
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base here i mean like for instance uh I know Ricky Morning well he's already already famous and everything but he's
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got a place down here at Shalot man i mean you got a lot of people that um Darkstar was on NWA national
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television wrestling against Ric Flair Tony Blanchard wrestling against other guys and he he was a high school
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wrestling coach you know Andrew Bellamy right here out of uh Wilmington right
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and it does it shock you to sometimes see what these guys do for a living like Dark Stars or waiter Golden Corral i saw
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him cutting me a guy's yard when I was reading water man right he did own his own lawn cutting business like Mark Ash
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correctional officer to a prison um Solitude former Marine which is which is
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his character i mean does it shock you sometime to see what these guys actually do to to make a living well I mean yes
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and no um because you you know that when you're working in the local area you
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know that it's not the this is not like a big revenue area you know you know
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that the guy's got to you got to live especially in Wilmington and the cost of living is through the roof and and I say
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that whatever a man does makes him a better person for developing character working to make ends meet it can only
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serve to enhance his experience in the ring bring more to his character now outside the big crowd and of course
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the big three theatrics with the lighting systems Titan shrines and all that what would you say is the big difference between what happens in the
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ring say in WWE and what's happening here tonight in
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UPWA um I say the one of the biggest things
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is the passion and the fans like it's kind of hard for me to
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understand like there's I know a lot of people in Wilmington like wrestling and you tell them about the local wrestling
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events you don't really see them when they come here they're not that into like you like they should be you know we
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we get excited but you know we can take it to a whole other level i mean y'all put on some great shows in here I think
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you know um another thing is you know maybe the promotion side of it maybe you
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can get some local free time on uh channel uh local access television and
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do promos between the shows because that that will help you with your storyline continuity right the
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media definitely does not jump on our bandwagon as much as they would when WWE comes to you know the local areas and
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right I mean do you think that these smaller promotions being done an injustice
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yeah I mean I think that it would be good I I
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always wonder why the uh sports page of the newspaper didn't feature local professional wrestling they'll put it in
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lifestyle They'll put it in weekend okay they're going to wrestle at Riverfest but you
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know I'm thinking man WCT can come out here with a Red Cross do a blood drive
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hey we're out here here's Mark Cash we're talking to him for a minute mark Ash throws down a promo but then the
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match he's going to do in an hour from now you know against Dark Star whoever he's going to wrestle you know what I
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mean you know I'd like to see media and some other promotions like
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the Red Cross or Make a Wish get together and do
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a live uh you know some live promotion all right well thank you Steve it was good
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time
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yeah
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heat
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yeah heat
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out loud christa did you enjoy the matches tonight yes you did who was your
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favorite one tonight don't know who did you not like
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tonight the black man the one in the last one Dan de Man the one that always
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holler who's the champ you like him how long you been a wrestling
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fan long time you watch WWE on Monday nights
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who's your [Music] favorite john Cena you like John Cena
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who do you not like
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you like Triple H do you like Triple H how about Carito
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you watch any of the any of the TNA with the six-sided ring she didn't watch too
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late it's on too late for you the only person watches did you have fun tonight
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all right thank you thank Priscilla yep did you have fun tonight
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yes who was your favorite one tonight me you didn't like sex and Tyler i like
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me okay who did you not like
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dan the man all right you watch WWE on Monday night I would think who do you like there john
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Cena john Cena who do you not like edge you don't like Edge what about you like
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Edge so um you watch Smackdown on Fridays yep
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who do you like there uh Batista batista yes all right who do you least like
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there uh King Booker who king Booker king Booker you like King Booker how
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about the big show he's all right you like the big show you have fun tonight
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yep you going to come next time hope so you hope so all right well thank you thank you Robert robert did you have a
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lot of fun tonight yes sir who did you like the most uh the beast who the beast
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did you like the beast and the ring busters mhm who did you not like tonight the prison guy pete Nixon
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how about John Brower and Playboy Marcus Shields i'm not really sure who they are like him you watch WWE on Monday nights
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yes sir i do who do you like there uh John Cena john Cena all right who do you
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least like caro carito you don't like Carto
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that's not cool all right you watch Smackdown yes sir who do you like that rey Mysterio rey
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Mysterio little Ray Ray who do you not like that chabo Guerrero chavo Guerrero
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how about ECW you ever watch any of that mhm you like Big Show mhm how about uh
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Rob Van no you like Rob Van how about Test what do you think of CM Punk yeah I
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like How about uh TNA have you seen any of that i I really don't like it too much
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the only time I think is over so you don't like that six-sided ring no
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yeah that's a little turn off for me too there all right you have a lot of fun tonight you said come back next time yes
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sir what do you like more about these smaller shows than say WWE they don't cost as much don't cost as
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much yeah we don't have to go all the way out and you get to interact with the wrestlers a little more
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all right buddy i hope you had a good time all right thanks now all right we're talking to Carnage now longtime independent wrestler how long have you
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been going Carnage it was great how you doing how long you been wrestling uh 12
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years 12 years what got you started uh well I watched it when I was a kid when I was when I was like 5 years old I
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started watching wrestling back in the day when I was at WWF back to guys like Bruno San Martino
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superstar Billy Graham uh you know all those major players back then pitch was
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a big compromise would you say uh let's see i started with a small organization
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in Virginia called Ultimate Championship Wrestling uh was a small promotion they trained me and uh that's where I pretty
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much started working so you worked with a lot of big names over the years who have you worked with oh my god the list
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is endless man abdul the Butcher uh The Mass Superstar Manny Fernandez
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uh The Iron Chic all right um damn uh Earthquake Tommy Rogers Honky Tonk man i
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mean the list is endless man endless how long you think you'll keep doing this uh hopefully for let's see 12 years now
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probably i'm hoping for at least maybe another five to 10 I hope all right man good show tonight thank you very much
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take care man all right bud all right now we've got Wilmington zone Son T S T
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S T S T S T S T S T S T S T S T Syler the UPWA Heavyweight Champion tonight son how long have you been wrestling now
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eight years eight years what got you started in the business grew up loving watching wrestling ran
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into a guy by the name of Mark Ash sorry sucker yeah you know I've heard
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some things but hey let him go yeah he got me into business got me started
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now I know you've you've gone a long ways in eight years who all who's some of the bigger names you've worked with oh Lord
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ivan Coloff Rick Link Carnage
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carnage Mark Ash Barbarian Tony Atlas Ricky Morton
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too many to name you've probably been many different areas outside of North Carolina where else have you worked at
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in Ohio West Virginia Tennessee Georgia Florida you think you've been doing this for a while to go i hope so as long as
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my body will let me amen to that brother all right man good match tonight appreciate it pete Nixon how long you
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been wrestling uh roughly about almost 3 years now been training since I was 14 i
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worked my way up the ladder so what what really got you interested in wanting to do this um when I was younger I was a
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wrestling big big wrestling fan and uh when I turned about 13 14 I saw there was a school it's the same town I lived
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and I said "You know what i've always been a big guy and loved it so much that that kind of motivated me to do even better." Well this is a independent show
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down in North Carolina where are you from i'm from New Jersey we're about uh 10 and a half to 11 hours away from here
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so when you actually got got started training who were you working with um I was working with Jersey AllPro and I
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worked uh first setting up their rings then I became a manager for a wrestler named Crazy Eyes and um he brought me
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around to different places and I went to the AWA school in Union City and then I
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went to ACPW school in Lake Hayawa you met who gino Careso cariso and the
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lovely Andrew Anderson and Playboy Marcus Shields yeah who all right
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playboy Marcus Shields how long have you been in business i've been in the business four years 4 years yes what got you interested in wanting to be a
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wrestler uh I was 3 years old running around the house around Wrestlemania 3 my uncle sat me down i was watching lots
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of fantast so when you bust in training wise who
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did you work out with uh you trained with Gino Caruso and Andrew Anderson training
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did a lot of um worked with Scott uh Fred Samson a lot of lot of
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guys up there scott Pro Crowbar Nunio Crowbar um Dan the Man Jimmy Snook and
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Kamala Kamala so we're talking about legends like Jimmy Snook and Kamala how many of you wrestled in a in a match i
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wrestled I had the honor wrestling uh Kamala in a match and it was the greatest thing cuz it actually let me
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body slam i didn't I didn't ask for it he just let he gave it to me that's a
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gift that can't be given twice and uh I also had the privilege just recently wrestling pro all right now we're going
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to move over to Andrew Anderson uh these last couple of guys have credited in their training how long you been
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wrestling now too long too long what got you interested in wanting to be a wrestler
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well actually I originally wanted to be a rock star because you know it's it's sort of sexual sort of thing you know
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when you see all these screaming naked ladies outside the doors i figured I figured wrestling would have that sort
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of same effect but you know what it actually did dude tell the truth tell the truth you said you wanted to be the juggernaut i wanted to be the juggernaut
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no seriously um I was bouncing in a bar in Jersey and uh
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uh a little fat man with a mullet came off and pretty built guy some Owen fell by
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the name of Jimmy Snooker walked in and uh they said to me u I was I was walking
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out of the bar with a guy who was 6'7 on my shoulder a fireman carrying in New
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Jersey and I threw him out and I turned around and the little Simone fell goes "Brother I want to talk to you i need to
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talk to you brother." So I came over got inebriated with this guy it happened to be Jimmy Superfly Snooker and his little
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uh troll friend the metal maniac a lot of people don't like him i don't know if I still like him i've known him too long
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but um he's all right I guess so they uh brought me up to Lake Haywa where I was
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introduced to Gino Caruso the Kodiak Bear Rocky Jones uh former WWE tag team
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champions the Executioners and I had my first tag team match within four months against the Executioners beat the
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out of me from there I had a my match with um Jimmy Snooker the Metal Maniac a
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tag part of the Metal Maniac i wrestled with probably most of the biggest names from WWE from the 80s gino
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Santana um Tony Atlas uh I wrestled all over the world Hawaii Australia
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I did some stuff for ECW ECBW AWA HIW FY wrestling with Don Morocco uh
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you name it I did it already and uh I had the pleasure of training a bunch of guys training with a bunch of guys i
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don't take credit for training them they train hard they worked hard they trained themselves bill Nixon played by Marcus
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Shields the referee right here to my right so I had pleasure getting away
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with Mark Ash he's filming this right now smile Mark that was a nice backdrop yeah there you go um um Carnage has
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lovely nipples he's standing behind me manipulating his his genitalia so and
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um that's pretty much it uh you know I I had a nice career i just got off working
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test i worked a few shows with um I got I could go on i go on I don't know how
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how much tape he got but I go on forever uh Probar one of my dearest friends worked a bunch of matches with him had
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the opportunity of doing a war games war games match 6 months ago um who's great
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uh I have a a pretty cool manager Doug Devito sports agent i still think he's gay but you know just cuts hair for a
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living so that's an inside joke so let's talk to the referee here greg K
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i'm a little bad with names i don't think I caught yours tonight what's your name man christy Crest christie you got
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into refereeing how long you been doing that uh I've been refereeing for about a year and a half now uh long story behind
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that i actually trained as a wrestler but uh started refereeing about a year and a half ago and did a great job and
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been doing that ever since you think you'll be doing this for a while or you going to move into wrestling uh I'd like to get into wrestling uh I'm just happy
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to be in the business to be honest with you uh I love the business i love being out there uh so whatever I get to do to
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be part of it fine by All right well let's shoot straight here now I know on
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the independent circuit new experience you do a lot of long road hours and very little payoff does that bother you
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paying your dues that way no doesn't bother me at all again I love being a part of everything with just the people uh meeting everybody hey you know it
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really doesn't bother me you're in it for the girls i'm in it for the girls for the girls unfortunately there aren't
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many here tonight not many here tonight not many go after referees either all right good job tonight man thank you
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thank you our fans at the UPWA event tonight what's your name richard Davis richard Davis and from my understanding you work at a local radio station that's
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right news director for Cumulus Broadcasting 980 Wave WQ Country and uh Coast so how long have you been a
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wrestler fan uh my whole life my dad used to build rings for Smoky Mountain Wrestling Jerry Jarrett and those guys
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and been a wrestler fan my whole life yeah I remember Smoky Mountain i've worked there a couple times myself good stuff so you've been a wrestler fair
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growing up who's been some of your favorite wrestlers over uh Ric Flair Arn and Ollie Anderson the Four Horsemen um
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the uh Texas Tornado uh some of those old guys big WCW fan myself uh The Rock
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Triple H love the Eels all right shoot straight with me not going to hurt anybody's feelings how would you rate tonight's action compared to I say
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definitely definitely a nine out of 10 tonight it was a good show really impressed the hell out of me good deal so you'll be back again absolutely
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december 2nd all right now what's your name buddy my name is the greatest man never on camera well you're on camera
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now so this is a first this is a UPW first so my understanding you work at a
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local radio station also like I said they never see me they never
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see actually people say my looks are made for radio but in the world I let him off the hook i let him off the hook
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the guy behind these looks are definitely made for radio for radio
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got Andrew Anderson promo shot here he's also a plusing the metal maniac the man who discovered me metal maniac you know
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a lot of people don't like him nobody likes also a Michigan fan he's got two more weeks how long have you been a wrestler he's also a Giants fan though
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giants fan we won't hold that against you yeah all right all right all right all right enough enough enough so how long you been a wrestling fan man let me
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tell you since I was around 10 27 right now um that's a lot of math but hey you
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know what this is good luck i feel great i'm in UPW so yeah that's 17 years about 17
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years so who have been some of your favorites over the years man let me tell you uh my favorite of all time would
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have to be and I'd either have to go with Bret Hart or Ric Flair or the great one Rocky
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Johnson so how would you rate tonight's action compared to some of the other stuff you sent
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man my wingman just gave it a 9.10 so I like to do it a little bit better than
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him i'm going 9.5 there you go so you'll be back again I take it you know this all right man glad
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you had fun tonight no question all right thanks sir no question big Dave Renegade we're of course at the
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Independent Show in Wington North Carolina you're definitely a local fan favorite uh how long you been wrestling now 12 years 12 years what was one of
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your inspirations to get in the business i believe was uh actually grew
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up watching back during the day used to have their big matches and uh
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used to love watching [Music]
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light just pretty much just loved watch
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used to play wrestling a little bit but uh kind of found my way into fighting
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and martial arts for years and years and years finally found my way into the ring
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um our very first match uh I went up against this young man called Rusty
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Assassin doing a doing a little show for some old people of course I beat him up
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but that was a long time ago believe his name is Mark Ash
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but Dave you and I we've been we just been around the horn a lot together we've been up and down the road uh
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nobody can tell you about the road as well as as well as uh
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myself of course you uh Viper uh Carnage
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uh James the Beast Night Beasley there's so [Music]
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many through the thick and the thin and the hardships of independent wrestling uh everybody can say what they want to
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about independent wrestling but independence is where so many people cut
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their teeth i've worked with so many people and as soon as you gone to WW WCW
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DCW and I love this of uh watching them and remember the days
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back when we had the time anybody that's coming up through the
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independence learn one word one little word that's called respect respect for
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who you wrestle and what you do and you do okay all right thank you for your
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time Dave a young wrestler wrestles under the name of Red Bull how long you been wrestling now uh probably about 8
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months now about 8 months what uh got you interested in wanting to be a wrestler um basically being able to
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travel uh getting to meet new people see different people uh see different places in the world um the money is interesting
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to me also um couple other guys so they were in it for the girls well maybe that
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too but there's a lot of things you know a whole lot of things that uh appealing to me about it you know being able to uh
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use my physical gifts or abilities to make a living all right of course you
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are a wrestler i'm going to take it you've been a fan for a number of years uh who would you say were some of your favorites growing up uh definitely
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Roadware Hulk and Roadware Animal were two of my favorites also big fan of Sting and also Hulk Hogan you had a
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chance to actually get in the ring with any of the legends yet um no I haven't but the closest I have I've been in the
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ring with a former WCW wrestler so um you enjoy working independence
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yeah there's some there's some things traveling is kind of uh tedious at times you know but uh of course the notorious
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low payoffs yeah definitely definitely that but you got to have you got to start with the end in mind i mean you
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can't think about it right here right now you got to look at that years down the road and you know you got to make
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sacrifices if you want to become something great so I understand that all right man we wish you the best of luck
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okay thanks a lot thanks buddy one of the members of the UPWA ring crew what's your name brian Gordon brian Gordon so
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I'll take it to you a wrestler fan to get involved in this end of the business who Who would you say some of your
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favorites hulk Hogan hulk Hogan stone Cold Steve stone Cold how do you like the uh feel
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of let's say the smaller independence like you were at tonight as compared to uh you've been to a live WWE event so
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how would you how do you like the feel of the small independence compared to the larger scale i like you can see a
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lot more a lot more interaction with the wrestlers so do you see yourself uh becoming a
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wrestler in the future i'd like to be you'd like to be uh give me some good advice find a good trainer and listen
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well all right but before you ring out Sir Constant Wilder
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what got you involved in wrestling well I've always been a fan of wrestling since Mid-Atlantic had came along and uh
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my favorite two wrestlers when I was growing up was Rock and Roll Express and I loved you know I always hated I'm a
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co-op and and those guys but every Saturday afternoon at 3:00 I was sitting in front of the TV watching it and even
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after I got married you know the Mid-Atlantic right before it became WCW and all that it was coming on late night
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so I had a couple channels you know that was poor TV cable and all that but I loved watching it and then when I got
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the opportunity to become a referee um I started doing that and and you know
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after a while we decided that I was a little bit too tall for some of the matches so then I got involved in in
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ring announcing which I love being part of the show i mean it's like an adrenaline rush i mean we've tried I've
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tried myself to get out of the business about four or five times and it's like you get the bug and you come back in and
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and you it's like forget it you you're you're you're it's like in your system
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and it's like your white blood cells or your red blood cells you can't get it out so you got to keep right on going so
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I have a wonderful time and I work with a great group of people including Mark Ash yeah I know what you mean i've tried
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to walk away two or three times myself so you think you're hanging around a while yeah we're not I'm not I used to
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promote uh Coco promote with my husband and my my son-in-law and got out of that
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it's just a lot of work you just Some people do not realize how involved it is
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just to run a wrestling show i mean because you're working 2 or 3 days prior
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to the show like 8 hours a day getting posters ready signs ready name tags
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making sure everybody's booked and then you got to get there set up the ring and tear it all down and and I'm at a point
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in my life where I like be able to take my suitcase and walk out the door when I'm ready to i ain't got to worry about
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somebody putting chairs up or taking a wrestle ring down and you can just sleep you know tell everybody goodbye and have
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a good time all right thanks a lot mark will tell you what goes on behind the scenes and if it's fake or not well
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wrestling per se is I fake is not a good word to use okay do we know who's going
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to win or lose before we get in the ring yes we do um as you can see last match guys when you guys are at I broke a
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broke a bone i mean so it's not fake somewhat just with a scripted ending
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um because average person couldn't get up and take the beating that we take it's just they just couldn't do it um so
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there's a lot of hard training in it now behind the scenes you deal with people's egos you deal with people i mean it's
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it's just like anything like anything else there's there's backbiting there's backstabbing there's then there's people
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that are easy to get along with there's you know the camaraderie the family atmosphere sometimes i mean it it all
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varies there's just But behind the scenes it's just like behind the scenes of anything else there's there's the good and the bad the rules of this match
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first month are there are no rules that for no choking with the with the chain
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and the winner has to touch all four corners consecutively [Music]
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huh no more sorry
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how [Applause] about this the winner has took all four
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consecutively dragging their opponent
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i'm not sure about
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[Music] Uhoh i'm scared
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boy [Music]
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almost this guy right here i take his hand
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on 2 3 4
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