It all started in the fall of 1995, when a friend of mine had heard there was a guy running a Pro Wrestling school in the area in which we'd lived, and he had  passed the information on to me, knowing that I was a huge wrestling fan and like most other fans, my dream was to become a wrestler.  Luckily, he had gotten a business card, which he gave to me.I called the number, and the phone was answered by a former Pro Wrestler known as 'The Executioner'.  We talked for a while, and he told me to come down and check the school out.  I trained there with about 15 other guys, a few of them are still working on independent wrestling shows (maybe 3-4 people that I can think of), and the rest have quit wrestling completely, but some come back and do a show or two every now and then, and then they disappear again.About March of 1996, I started wrestling on shows in Barnegat, NJ, where the wrestling school was located.  We only drew very small crowds, as wrestling was nowhere near as popular as it is today.

   After Executioner's school had closed, a few of the other guys who I had been training with had started training at Iron Mike Sharpe's.  It was at Sharpe's where I met a bunch of the guys who had already been wrestling for a few years, and I learned a lot from them.  Guys like Donnie B, SuperNova, and many others.  I was asked to start wrestling for a new league that was just starting to run shows, called EWA,   and eventually became the EWA Light-Heavyweight Champion, and later, the U.S. and Heavyweight titles came my way.

   At this time, I was still wrestling mainly in the Tri-State Area, mostly for NWA, UWC, WWC, and JAPW and many others.  I look back to when I was a kid, watching my childhood idols like Superfly Snuka, Greg Valentine, Andre, and the Road Warriors and wondering if I would ever be able to do what they do.  I may still have a long way to go, but I have already gone much further than I ever dreamed I would.

   After a decade,  I am still going at it. And I'm still having fun.  I just wish the same could be said for everyone else.  So many in the sport forgot what the fun is about as they fight and bicker about the stupidest things, like who is gonna run a show here or there, or people just not wanting to do something asked of them.  People need to get a grip on reality.  I remember as a kid watching wrestling every weekend and knowing "This is what I want to do, and no matter what, I will do it!".  I can't once remember thinking "Well, I'd like to be a wrestler, but only if they let me do this and never do this or that or never work for promoter X and Y."  When people stop taking everything so seriously, they might start having fun again, too.  The trouble with idiots is, most idiots don't realize they're idiots.