The 1-2-3 Killam
Mid-Card Championship Winner
A bit of an "About Me" section, if you will.
I'll be 25-years-old in January. I started sending in bi-weekly editorials to Wrestlezone in 2011 when Chris Cash was in charge of the website. I was at a private university in Michigan trying and failing to get a degree in theology, watching wrestling on a weekly basis, and figured the extra creative outlet would be a good way to help me unwind.
I've always been a terrible student. Doctors pumped me full of Ritalin and other drugs when I was a kid because I had zero focus. As it turns out, I was just like every other kid that didn't want to sit still for 9 hours every day. Most of grade school I was reading and writing two or three years above my friends, and I couldn't have cared less about other subjects; a trend that kept with me through high school and into college. It's always been incredibly difficult for me to apply myself to things I find meaningless, which is 90% of public education. I almost dropped out of high school after filling in random bubbles on the science portion of the ACT test (I somehow managed a 28 despite that...).
At some point in my second year of university, I became an agnostic and dropped out of college. I transitioned into doing news at Wrestlezone because it was paying the bare minimum of my bills, and I had no safety net. I don't come from money, and while I managed to pay off my first year of school completely and a year of community college prior, the school just won a lawsuit for $18,000 over me, for money that banks wouldn't loan me. I'm looking into bankruptcy at 25-years-old, because I don't have any other way to put a dent in that number.
I'm sort of at a cross-roads in my life. I obviously don't want to work part-time doing wrestling news for the rest of my life. The whole industry is full of entitled douchebags that think they're part of the business, and those that actually ARE a part of the business aren't much easier to work with.
With no college degree I'm trying to use my contacts in the wrestling world to branch into TV production. I had an interview with an NBC affiliate in Portland earlier this year, as I know the Ring of Honor owner who put in a good word for me. Unfortunately, that was the same week I broke the news about Spike TV not renewing their deal with TNA. I've never told anyone this before, but I was also writing for Vince Russo's website at the time, and an official from TNA actually called him to have me fired. They also put me on a "do not hire" media list which flagged me in the NBC interview. I was told by the GM of the affiliate that I had a great recommendation, and they'd love to intern me, but "didn't want the drama I had created with Spike TV". So that's the short story of how the people in charge of TNA are so self-conscious, they made Vince Russo fire me, then fired him, then ruined my chances of getting a real world job.
I'm going to try again next summer. I figure if I put some distance between me and anything newsworthy for awhile, I have enough recommendations to get me in the door somewhere. I just can't believe how unbelievably petty the people in charge of TNA are. Right hand to god, that's a 100% true story.
In the meantime, I'm going to keep writing for Wrestlezone as they continue to pay my rent, food and phone bills every month. I've started doing website management for a few people to make some extra cash. I recently bought a Wii U and have been really enjoying my experience. I want to try my hand at making YouTube videos about games, if even just to give me a new creative outlet to pass the time. I have a capture device for old A/V systems, so I might start doing some Let's Plays of PS2 games, Top 10 lists, reviews, etc.
So that's my life story over the last 3-4 years. I figured I'd been around here for long enough, somebody may as well know some personal stuff about me.
I'll be 25-years-old in January. I started sending in bi-weekly editorials to Wrestlezone in 2011 when Chris Cash was in charge of the website. I was at a private university in Michigan trying and failing to get a degree in theology, watching wrestling on a weekly basis, and figured the extra creative outlet would be a good way to help me unwind.
I've always been a terrible student. Doctors pumped me full of Ritalin and other drugs when I was a kid because I had zero focus. As it turns out, I was just like every other kid that didn't want to sit still for 9 hours every day. Most of grade school I was reading and writing two or three years above my friends, and I couldn't have cared less about other subjects; a trend that kept with me through high school and into college. It's always been incredibly difficult for me to apply myself to things I find meaningless, which is 90% of public education. I almost dropped out of high school after filling in random bubbles on the science portion of the ACT test (I somehow managed a 28 despite that...).
At some point in my second year of university, I became an agnostic and dropped out of college. I transitioned into doing news at Wrestlezone because it was paying the bare minimum of my bills, and I had no safety net. I don't come from money, and while I managed to pay off my first year of school completely and a year of community college prior, the school just won a lawsuit for $18,000 over me, for money that banks wouldn't loan me. I'm looking into bankruptcy at 25-years-old, because I don't have any other way to put a dent in that number.
I'm sort of at a cross-roads in my life. I obviously don't want to work part-time doing wrestling news for the rest of my life. The whole industry is full of entitled douchebags that think they're part of the business, and those that actually ARE a part of the business aren't much easier to work with.
With no college degree I'm trying to use my contacts in the wrestling world to branch into TV production. I had an interview with an NBC affiliate in Portland earlier this year, as I know the Ring of Honor owner who put in a good word for me. Unfortunately, that was the same week I broke the news about Spike TV not renewing their deal with TNA. I've never told anyone this before, but I was also writing for Vince Russo's website at the time, and an official from TNA actually called him to have me fired. They also put me on a "do not hire" media list which flagged me in the NBC interview. I was told by the GM of the affiliate that I had a great recommendation, and they'd love to intern me, but "didn't want the drama I had created with Spike TV". So that's the short story of how the people in charge of TNA are so self-conscious, they made Vince Russo fire me, then fired him, then ruined my chances of getting a real world job.
I'm going to try again next summer. I figure if I put some distance between me and anything newsworthy for awhile, I have enough recommendations to get me in the door somewhere. I just can't believe how unbelievably petty the people in charge of TNA are. Right hand to god, that's a 100% true story.
In the meantime, I'm going to keep writing for Wrestlezone as they continue to pay my rent, food and phone bills every month. I've started doing website management for a few people to make some extra cash. I recently bought a Wii U and have been really enjoying my experience. I want to try my hand at making YouTube videos about games, if even just to give me a new creative outlet to pass the time. I have a capture device for old A/V systems, so I might start doing some Let's Plays of PS2 games, Top 10 lists, reviews, etc.
So that's my life story over the last 3-4 years. I figured I'd been around here for long enough, somebody may as well know some personal stuff about me.
