a bad choice? me and my friend were talking today and we both are avid fans (hey im on a forum discusssing it so I must be a pretty hardcore fan, pun intended). I was looking at these schols and Team 3D's poped up it is $3,500 or $3,000 if you pay in full up front. I'm really interested in it but for starters im 16 so I have to wait 2 years. Do you think it would be wise for me to pursue it? I'm kinda scared, not scared just un easy about what my family will think, but I've always heard if its what you want then go for it. I know this is spam zone but can we please be civilized here? I need real advice.
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Nate DaMac
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You're thinking of paying Team 3D for wrestling school?
Honestly, only stupid people, or people with no other options in life become wrestlers. You have to be stupid to live that kind of life. Unless you make it to the WWE, no matter what you do in your career, you'll have nothing to show for it.
I'm guessing you don't look like The Ultimate Warrior, so I would highly advise you against it.
I'm guessing you don't look like The Ultimate Warrior, so I would highly advise you against it.
I suggest you work on your spelling first..lol
I wouldn't mind wrestling as a hobby..but if I made it into a career, I doubt I'd get very far. If your dedicated enough then go for it because if this is indeed the career path you plan on going for, be prepared to make some sacrifices dude especially if you plan on going all the way, I hear it can get pretty grueling and tough.
But hey, I'm not gonna talk you out of it.
I wouldn't mind wrestling as a hobby..but if I made it into a career, I doubt I'd get very far. If your dedicated enough then go for it because if this is indeed the career path you plan on going for, be prepared to make some sacrifices dude especially if you plan on going all the way, I hear it can get pretty grueling and tough.
But hey, I'm not gonna talk you out of it.
Take some English classes first, dude.
But, I would only do it, if you're serious about doing it. Not just something you're willing to give up if one little thing goes wrong. At the end of the day though, you're the only person who should make a big decision like this.
But, I would only do it, if you're serious about doing it. Not just something you're willing to give up if one little thing goes wrong. At the end of the day though, you're the only person who should make a big decision like this.
You're trolling, right?
"People with no other options in life"? Do you know how many wrestlers have been to university?
"Unless you make it to WWE, you'll have nothing to show for it"? I can't believe the sheer ignorance in that statement.
Steamboat Ricky
WZCW's Living Legend
I pursued it for one day...but listening to Zach Gowen talk about what it's like made me realize that I didn't want to pursue a life of circus.
Unless you make it to WWE or maybe TNA...you just can't do wrestling as your source of income, man. And unless your name is Maven, John Morrison, Brock Lesnar, or Kurt Angle....you have to start small.
Unless you make it to WWE or maybe TNA...you just can't do wrestling as your source of income, man. And unless your name is Maven, John Morrison, Brock Lesnar, or Kurt Angle....you have to start small.
Steamboat Ricky
WZCW's Living Legend
I had a bachelor's degree and a semester of grad school under my belt when I decided to "pursue the dream." I would have stayed with it if I couldn't see myself doing anything else in life...i.e. having "no other options in life."
Turd Ferguson
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Ask your parents, but make sure you videotape it, put it on Youtube and link it here. I want to see the look on your dad's face.
Better yet, go to college (assuming you get in with your spelling/grammar), earn your degree, THEN tell your parents you want to be a pro wrestler. And then videotape it and put it on Youtube and link it here. I want to see the look on your dad's face.
Wrestlers with their McDegrees in Communications. There is no literal reason to become a pro wrestler unless you indeed had no other options in life. It's way too scummy of a business, you get paid little to no money for years if you even make it to The Show, and you get the shit kicked out of you. There is also NO job security once you do make it to the WWE.
Yes. Wrestling on the indies your entire career and making like $50 a match, assuming you get paid, shows that your hard work pays off.
My advice to the OP is to not bother unless you look like this.
And fucking study.
Jason Scene
Classically Charismatic
Maybe doing it locally as a hobby might be the way to start? See what training schools are around you and start there, not many people make it into even the shadow of the light which is lingering over professional wrestling dude. Especially if you don't have a look about you.
And if you do well, or if you think you're doing well, seek advice from one of the training and ask them if you think you can make it in anyway. Wrestling just doesn't fit for some people.
Also, personally I'd say if you can raise the money look at Ring of Honor's Wrestling School.
http://www.rohwrestling.com/wrestlingschool.php
You can pay as little as $2650.00, and currently the trainers are Delirious and Daizee Haze.
And if you do well, or if you think you're doing well, seek advice from one of the training and ask them if you think you can make it in anyway. Wrestling just doesn't fit for some people.
Also, personally I'd say if you can raise the money look at Ring of Honor's Wrestling School.
http://www.rohwrestling.com/wrestlingschool.php
You can pay as little as $2650.00, and currently the trainers are Delirious and Daizee Haze.
Not so. Barrett has a BSc in Marine Biology and had a good career in recriutment when he was wrestling in the UK. Ziggler's finishing off his law degree online. Swagger's got an accounting degree. Striker was a teacher. McIntyre's got a degree in criminology (which he aquired while he was wrestling in the UK) and Gabriel's got like five diplomas which would get him a decently well paid job in a gym. Not all wrestlers chose their career because they had no other options. Some of them chose it because that's what they REALLY wanted to do with their lives.
As a career? Are you joking me? I'm thinking about getting it as a part time job. A 100 a night sounds spiffy given how I make about 250 in 2 weeks, but that doesn't change the fact that I wake up feeling like shit every morning.
Great past time, horrible career. It's like trying to make your life on martial arts alone. There's a reason they become actors.
Great past time, horrible career. It's like trying to make your life on martial arts alone. There's a reason they become actors.
Jason Scene
Classically Charismatic
Chris Jericho has his diploma in Journalism. I'm almost certain that's what he said before on a radio show.
Michelle McCool and Matt Striker are both former teachers. Hell, John Cena has a degree in Exercise Science believe it or not.
Michelle McCool and Matt Striker are both former teachers. Hell, John Cena has a degree in Exercise Science believe it or not.
No, not at all. I'm just smart.
Give me a percentage of wrestlers in the business (not just WWE) that have a college degree.
You're joking right? Do you have any idea how cutthroat the indy wrestling scene is? Do you have any idea how little they get paid? Do you have any idea how much damage you have to do to your physical being, how much risk you're in working with a bunch of hack, and how difficult it is to avoid the hazards of working in the business?
There's a reason so many wrestlers get addicted to drugs, and there's a reason so many wrestlers die young. There's a reason Ric Flair still has to work at his age, and there's a reason a movie like "The Wrestler" exists.
The only ignorance here is you, which seems to think living the life of a pro wrestler is glamorous, when the truth is it's a hard fucking life, where only 5-10% of the wrestlers even get a sniff of the big time.
Turd Ferguson
DA-DA Da Da Da Bah Da Da DADADA
It's one thing to earn a degree. It's another to be able to apply your degree in the work force. Also, in the case of Matt Striker, he had no other career options after he lost his job for wrestling in the first place.
Paying team 3D is only a slightly better idea than becoming a wrestler in general. In fact, the only idea that could be as awful as becoming a wrestler is becoming a wrestler without any formal training.
To get anywhere in the wrestling industry you have to sacrifice your time, your well-being, your health, your money, your other interests, and basically devote your life to wrestling. If you're willing to do that, go ahead, but you better be damn sure that it will make you happy.
To get anywhere in the wrestling industry you have to sacrifice your time, your well-being, your health, your money, your other interests, and basically devote your life to wrestling. If you're willing to do that, go ahead, but you better be damn sure that it will make you happy.
Barrett did, I'd put money on Gabriel doing some personal training on the side when he was in England, Ziggler accepted a WWE job before he graduated and could have got a job. Swagger had a job when he graduated, but chose the WWE offer over a banking job (IIRC). McIntyre didn't, but then he was wrestlign before, during and after he got the degree, so that's not surprising.
And he CHOSE to go to Japan while being a teacher and he still had other career options.
I admit, most of the indie garbage wrestlers are dumb shits who don't have any qualifications whatsoever, but not ever wrestler chooses it as a last resort. If I may go back to Barrett, he decided he wanted to be a wrestler while he was at uni, bulked the fuck up, got a job as a lab tech and went to wrestling school, changed jobs and worked the indie scene on weekends. Sheamus did much the same. He had a good job but flew over the UK on weekends to work shows and slept in airports. Neither of them had to do that, but that's what they wanted to do and their real goal was to be in WWE (which Sheamus was confident that they would (alond with Drew)).
Also, MsChif.
Well, I only have your word for that.
You know full well that I can't do that. How about you give me a percentage who don't? I could rattle off a list of names, but I couldn't give you figures. Because, y'know, they don't exist.
You're joking right? Do you have any idea how cutthroat the indy wrestling scene is? Do you have any idea how little they get paid? Do you have any idea how much damage you have to do to your physical being, how much risk you're in working with a bunch of hack, and how difficult it is to avoid the hazards of working in the business?
Do you? Considering that you've never done it, I'd like to know why you're so "well-informed" on the subject. You may have this idea that if you don't work for WWE or TNA, you're pretty much Randy "The Ram" Robinson. You're wrong.
Wrestlers do get addicted to drugs and/or die young. Many more don't. Ric Flair still works because he has to sure, But I'm sure he loves doing it. He also needs to pay ex-wives and shit.
Hmm, you seem to think I'm some kid who thinks the life of a wrestler is like something from the Evolution titantron. I know full well that it is not. It may be a hard life, sure, but I think you're letting "The Wrestler" go to your head.
Wrestlers wrestle because they love it. Whether it's WWE or some indy in Georgia. Who are you to tell them that they have a shit job?
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