Have you ever dreamed of being in the WWE?

[Blujay]

Well, shortly after I broke up with my girlfriend I was kinda screwed when it came to transportation. So in the meantime I would mess around with my brothers and some friends that I used to backyard wrestle with in our ring we bought when we were younger. It was a full scale ring. 20 x 20. We got it from a local fed that went out of business through a swapsheet for about $500. Anyways, a buddy of mine from southern Iowa who had been working the indies for about 3 years said that he had some friends that wouldn't mind coming up sometime and doing a little "show." I asked if the guys were legitimately trained too or just some backyard wrestlers. The misunderstanding came in where one of the guys from IPW, the fed I was working with, thought I was referring to myself as legitimately trained. Which no, I didn't. I'd only been training for a year which I had a strong grasp of the match formula and the basics but I still had a lot to learn but they were still booking me because I had a look they liked. Well he made a facebook post bashing me, telling me rolling around in a backyard since you were 14 doesn't make you a professional wrestler and shortly after the rest of the roster followed suit and showed their real feelings for me. Whether real, or just conforming to save face, I don't really know. That's where the initial meltdown came from, then about a month later, me ex girlfriend started dating one of the guys there. One of the guys I was closest to. So it was another hard blow on my path. I asked my friend about the promotion he worked for and he told me things and then he brought up some of the guys that work shows with them and they were all guys from IPW... I was more or less screwed if I wanted to get back into the circuit because they were all in the surrounding feds one way or another so I would never get ahead. I'd have to move to another region of the U.S. and start fresh and with my daughter now, I just can't swing it. It'll always be my number one dream though. Its a bullshit story indeed but that's the ugly side of the business. Not to scare anyone who is venturing into it, just watch your backs guys.