Is pursuing wrestling as a career

[Slyfox696]

Well, I only have your word for that.

I could send you my IQ test if you want. I mean, I WOULDN'T, but I could. I know exactly where they are located at school.

You know full well that I can't do that.

Then you probably shouldn't make comments you can't support.

Do you? Considering that you've never done it, I'd like to know why you're so "well-informed" on the subject.

How do you know I haven't? Maybe I just don't talk about it?

But I can tell you unequivocally I had a couple of friends who thought it would be a great idea, then found out it was mostly bullshit. I've talked with several former wrestlers on wrestling forums about it. You can read any number of books which discuss it, you could even start with Heyman and the ECW. You can look at the list of wrestlers who have done drugs and do drugs, including the massive addiction to painkillers. Finally, you can just take a look at the list of all the wrestlers who have died young.

Trying to say pro wrestling isn't a stupid career is just asinine, and can only come from one who is looking at it through rose colored glasses.

Wrestlers do get addicted to drugs and/or die young. Many more don't.

But many many do, which is really all that matters.

Ric Flair still works because he has to sure

Exactly. Here's a guy who was the #1 guy in the NWA for over a decade, and he has money problems. A guy who could put down a $25,000 deposit for a prop, can't afford to live without working in his 60s.

Just think about that for a moment.

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.

I assure you, I had the same beliefs about the business long before The Wrestler came out. Good try though.

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?

I'm not telling them they have a shit job, I'm telling Hardcore it's a shit profession. Which it is. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad some people are stupid enough to do it, but it's still a shit job.

So is my job. I get paid in the middle-lower class tier of pay, and have to deal with all sorts of problems I shouldn't have to deal with. I do it because I love it too. I could have done anything I wanted, could have gone to nearly any school I could afford. My cousin graduated from a Tier 2 law school, and I am far more academically inclined than she is. But that doesn't mean I'd encourage people to do my job, just like I wouldn't encourage anyone to be a pro wrestler.

 

[Remix]

Well, I only have your word for that.

YOu don't have to be smart to have common sence. And common sence dictates that being a wrestler is not a good career choice. Hell wrestlers themselves advise people against it. see: here

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.

Yep. But I'd bet on the bilge in tiny companies and shitty ones like CZW being dumb as rocks.

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.

No they're not randy the ram, they're Gary "The Garbage wrestler" Goldman. You think these dumb shits have better things to do with their lives:

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Wrestlers do get addicted to drugs and/or die young. Many more don't.

Oh you'd be surprised just how rampant drug use is "in the back".

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.

And if he hadn't spent his life on the road, maybe all his wives wouldn't be exes.

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.

Nope, it's the grim reality for a wrestler. Wrestling doesn't pay the bills unless you're in a big company, and even then you may need a second job. There are many more guys wrestling for below the minumum wage than there are who can make a living out of it.

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?

Nope, sadly a lot of guys really do have no skills ouitside of garbage wrestling so they have to keep going.

 

[Raven]

Im only 16 right now so im looking to go into college finsh high school etc. but I really want it so I might aply for local indy's & local schools

 

[ROCKY VS CENA OMG]

Im only 16 right now so im looking to go into college finsh high school etc. but I really want it so I might aply for local indy's & local schools

You could be the next Eugene.

 

[Hawkeye]

If you really wanna do it and you have nothing holding you back go for it. Don't live your life wondering what if.

 

[Hyorinmaru]

You could be the next Eugene.

I wish you would become the next Benoit.

minus the double murder.

 

[ROCKY VS CENA OMG]

I wish you would become the next Benoit.

minus the double murder.

I hope you lose your virginity soon.

 

[Steamboat Ricky]

You could be the next Eugene.

You should change your name to Senor Coconut: Part Deux.

 

[Hyorinmaru]

To bad he has no idea what you're talking abotu Ricky.

 

[Arkham Noir]

Up until about a week ago, I was going to become a wrestler.I changed my mind for personal reasons, but I still may do it one day. Just be aware that it is a fucking brutal buisness. As cut throat as MMA is, at least talent and ability will take you to the top. Wrestling is completly fixed, which means guys have do more than be good at it to make it somewhere.

And not to bolster Slyfox's ego or anything like that, but he's right. Pro wrestling is really as primal a buisness as it gets. People seem to forget just how big WWE is compared to everything else. You can look down at TNA all you want, but they really aren't any worse than most wrestling promotions. Your a piece of meat to them, and if you can't handle it, that's to fucking bad because there is always going to be someone else out there who is willing to do it in your place.

But at the end of the day, it's up to you. If you want it bad enough, go out there and be the next Steve Austin. Just realize that you are always going to have to give more than you would ever recieve. And go to Lance Storm's wrestling school. That is the school I was signed up for and I even got J.R. to give it the check of approval. I don't know where you live, but it is worth going to Calgary to have him train you. Proper training is of the utmost importance, and if your going to spend the rest of your life risking that life almost every night, it is worth the money to know how to keep yourself safe.

 

[Slyfox696]

And not to bolster Slyfox's ego or anything like that, but he's right.

Oh, don't worry, my ego is already inflated as it is. Plus, I'm always right, so your statement doesn't come as a shock to me.

 

[El Rev sXe]

Dude it's like you say "I want to be a musician". You need to know that not everything is about luxery, women and drugs. Most of the time before succes comes, is all about sacrifice, sweat and tears. I know that most of the people on this forum doesn't understand what is passion, but if you are willing to this FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE, then you love wrestling. If it's the case, go for it. If not, don't even think about doing it. If you have doubts, enter a wrestling school and see it for yourself if you want to this as long as you live...

 

[J-Dogg]

As someone who is actually in a wrestling school and training 3 days a week for hours it's hard
But keeping focused and determined is the key, you will end up with bruises and sore body but as I have learnt I work through it. Bumping I will tell you first hand can be scary but you cant be a afraid to fall. I'm being trained by a graduate of Lance Storm's school and he and another guy ate considered 2 of the best in australia, in have taken clotheslines, submissions and strikes it's just a
Matter of hard work plus my school really works with you so you get things right. And last week I was called a rookie instead of a trainee and that meant something to me.

 

[Lee]

Im only 16 right now so im looking to go into college finsh high school etc. but I really want it so I might aply for local indy's & local schools

Very few people give a shit about hardcore wrestling now.

Can't you get your buddy raven in your backyard fed to help you out?

 

[J-Dogg]

Hardcore wrestling is pretty much dead except for CZW but that promotion is shit