Journal Of Australian Pro Wrestler Ryan Melrose Entry 2

 As Promised I'm back I guess I decided I didn't need a week to write the next entry. Now Even though I had now finally begun wrestling school my journey to become a Pro Wrestler was far from over nor was it easy for me.

I'll say something about having a Backyard wrestling background. Yes you by doing it you do build a wrestling foundation however a very bad one. Yes I was loaded with all these Backyarder bad habbits to the point it took forever for me to learn the basics. How to work a hold a body part and tell the story by working the match. 

Still Pete wanted to give us Rookies a chance to experience what it would be like on the show so he gave us I guess you could say our own segment the Shock Poker game where myself and the future owner of IPW but back then fellow rookie R.I.P, Dexter Logic, The Spider, Kurtis the Dream and Tom anyway so we had to play this game of poker the rules were you leave your seat your eliminated. Then the tagteam Shock therapy made their appearances and started picking us off one by one. All of us getting a beating. I remember getting hit in the back by Violent Berryl's fly swatter ouch! in the end Dexter won the game and wrestled the Lord Of darkness Ashe for the Slamnation championship.

Moments before the knee in the gut and the fly swat!

After that I took a month off over Christmas and used the time for solo training I would practice my basics on an invisible opponent everyday for a month I did this til it clicked. And when I returned for training in the beginning of 2009 

I was put straight in a training match with The Mighty Hercules. And I went for it Pete didn't have to call out to me I could mat wrestle and use my basics and I was working the holds and when the training match was over I was expecting to get yelled at again especially the way Pete yelled RYAN!

Then suddenly he started clapping then the whole dojo of trainees were clapping. Pete said Ryan that is the best you've ever done. needless to say I was so happy. Still it would be a whole other year before I could wrestle on show.

Why is that you ask I didn't have money for Ring gear and there was an incident where I nearly got fired and to be honest I should have been fired which is why I say to you upstarts leave your ego out of it if the boss says your not quite ready for the show listen to him and certainly don't attack the smartass little shit of a trainee with a mouth for poking fun at you for choking the opportunity. In 2009 going under the name Sarge wearing Military cammo pants and war paint I had my first official match a 20 minute tag team match It was Reaper and I vs Mystery and brace yourself for this Toni Storm thats right The Toni Storm the one that made it to WWE and currently in AEW but back then she was simply the greatest female Wrestler in IPW history and only a year active. 

So we tore the house down for twenty minutes working the whole match working on the fly like most of our IPW matches were working off the fly.

Which I always loved made the wrestling feel more Organic I think is the word to describe what I mean.

After that night I'd never be Sarge again that caamo paint got everywhere and on everybody who entered that Ring haha!

So then the next year I travelled Australia and began checking out some other Pro Wrestling organisations could never stick around long after all back then I was working for a living lol But I always use to sneak in the beginner classes I learnt almost every pro wrestler trainer has a different method of teaching different way of doing certain things even different names for some of the moves.

It was an opportunity to see what other pro Wrestling organisations did differently. Got to meet other Australian legends like Mason Childs Miss Nikki Nitro, Matty T Australias most popular referee. 

2010 I made an appearence on PWAQ Pro Wrestling aliance Queensland. Where I was reunited with Mystery and had a one on one match with him. Unfortunately it's off the record. But to me it still counted cuase at the time it was an official match that the owner wanted to post online. I don't know I think the other wrestlers didn't like the fact the match happened at a training session and not the show so it didn't get posted.

Then I did do a show at Club Chermside in Brisbane for PWAQ I appeared in a over the top Battle Royal. Where I can add two things to my accomplishments. 

One most respected wrestler of the night mainly cause I took a series of chops from four or five wrestlers and didn't try to cover up once. Apparently that earnt me a lot of respect aparently most try to cover me nope Pete trained me to take them like a man. And second I bled in the same Ring Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair used when they toured Brisbane

After that I continued on with IPW appearing here and there due to me not having enough money for training fees so I could only train and appear on show if I had them fees that still goes on to this day.

I'm going to leave it there for now and be back when I tell you my continous reign in IPW that lasted three years non stop.

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Journal Of Australian Pro Wrestler Ryan Melrose Entry 1

Journal Of Australian Pro Wrestler Ryan Melrose 

introduction

and my first day of training

This may just be the closest thing I ever write to an Autobiography. To be honest you might question whether or not my Pro Wrestling career is something to write home about. However my story is far from over for I feel the sport of Pro Wrestling isn't quite finished with me just yet.

My name is Ryan Melrose I now reside at Gold Coast Australia and I have been wrestling Professional for five years and have been involed in Professional Wrestling for over 15 years.

For me my interest in wrestling came when I was 12 I had to spend my 2002 September holiday vacation at my schools Vacation care program basically where divorced over working parents dumped their kids so they wouldn't run wild unsupervised.

I walked in on an older kid he was watching the 2001 Royal Rumble on VCR. I decided to watch it with him and was instantly hooked. I especially loved watching Kane dominate the Royal Rumble match that year. My interest in Pro Wrestling didn't fade and in 2004 I was reintroduced in to the content of WWE where my interest in this incredible sport grew but I suppose thats the case in many aspiring Pro wrestlers.

Well as my High school years went on I had decided the world of Pro wrestling was out of my reach. I figured only America and Japan and countries had the sport.

Then 2006 happened my interest in becoming part of Pro Wrestling was reignited once again. Not because of a WWE Superstar I admired like everyone else. No It was two things you see I was not a good school student too many other kids for teachers to concentrate on plus they were boring as heck sorry to say. So rather than focus that time on subjects that I just couldn't despite my efforts pay attention to I started focusing on how I could make my dream of becoming a Pro Wrestler possible. 

It was then I became aware of another young man like myself and like me he started out wrestling in his backyard on a trampoline. This kid would become the man The high flyer, The risk taker, The daredevil, The dangerously Amazing Danny Danger.

Even as a backyarder he had talent soon he was trained at LVW and BWO I believe the companies were called. I decided if he could do it then so could I.

Earlier yes I admitted I was a backyard wrestler so were many other Pro's Personally I don't have a problem with Backyard wrestling as long as they were like myself being safe and responsible no dangerous spots or hardcore wrestling. No me and my guys we were TWE we wouldn't even do snap suplexes without proper training. It was a fun way to spend our weekends.

Others may not approved but atleast I wasn't joining gangs and doing drugs with a bunch of low lifes. Which if I'm being if wrestling hadn't have found me thats probably where my life would have ended up.

Even in High school we were those wrestler guys at lunch breaks we went at it. Before school we went at it. After school in the afternoon we went at it. You get the point!

Still there was a problem of where to learn how to wrestle professionally here in Australia. By chance Jimmy one of my dads former bosses mentioned there was a Pro Wrestling school right there in the Gold Coast.

When I got home I began researching and found out about 4 Pro Wrestling Organisations PCW located in Melbourne I use to binge watch their clips all the time Daniel Swagger's feud with The Pitbull. Years later I would have online converstaions with Trikki D who helped me out with some pointers later in my career when I showed him clips of my wrestling. AWF located in Sydney run by a man known as TNT. PWA and finally the one on the Gold Coast IPW Australia the school I would pick and glad I did.

The year was 2008 6 months after graduating I turned 18 so now I could make my choices and to hell with the nay sayers and family members who said I couldn't do this. Myself and a friend of mine travelled all the way from Brownsplains to the Gold Coast by public transport 2 hour plus travel To the IPW Sweatshop.

Well we weren't prepared to bring Training fees however the head trainer and promoter of IPW Pete The Hawk Ball decided to give us our fist lesson in the ring for free after one lesson I was hooked. Learning to lock up with Aussie Icon Jackaroo and just watching the other more experienced wrestlers go at it and training. I remember taking my first bump taking strikes from the other wrestlers around. I remember having this big crush on one of the Women Wrestlers I won't name names in this particular case.

Anyways when the first and free session was over I knew I was definitely coming back. More on that next time the next entry will be up next week