Start Your Professional Wrestling Career
If you want to be a professional wrestler, then here's an article outlining exactly what you need to do.
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Steps
- Improve your body. You need to watch what you eat and start an exercise program. Not only will it improve how you look, it will also ensure that you don't blow up (run out of breath and start wheezing in the middle of the ring), and that in itself will go far.
- Go to wrestling school. Going to wrestling school will help you learn everything that you possibly need to know to have the skills to get into the ring. Just remember that wrestling shape and weightlifting shape are two totally different things. Just lifting weights isn't going to make you a professional wrestler, so you'll need to go to wrestling school in addition to lifting weights. The greatest cardio you will get as a wrestler is being in the ring.
- Read books on how to be a professional wrestler. The more books you read, the more you'll succeed in the ring. Don't just read it, apply it.
- Eat a healthful diet. Eat a diet rich in protein, fruits, and vegetables so you'll look good in your wrestling gear and you'll be a better wrestler too. Avoid foods high in sugar and fat.
- Start out by wrestling in a local league. You're not going to get paid much at first but once your skills start improving, you'll start making more money and bringing in the big bucks. The key is to never stop trying to improve.
Tips
- Find entrance music to fit your gimmick.
- Talk to as many different local wrestlers as possible and ask them for tips on how to improve your in ring skills.
- When you get a chance to go backstage at a wrestling event, shake hands with everyone. Not doing this will be seen as an act of disrespect.
- Have another career plan in mind just in case you don't make it into professional wrestling. Many people try to make it into professional wrestling, but very few people make it, so just make sure that you have something else in mind that you want to do if you don't make it into professional wrestling.
- Try to look different. Don't go out looking like Triple H, or Jeff Hardy or any other big name; you'll never go very far like that.
- Make sure you know and understand that being a professional wrestler is a very rough job and takes a major toll on your body. Any wrestler will tell you that making a living as a wrestler is not a good thing.
Warnings
- You may be permanently disabled if you really crush your body in the wrestling ring.
- Make sure that any wrestling school or promotion you get involved with is fully insured.
- Being a wrestler is a very rough job and lifestyle, so you may get really stressed out with the schedule of professional wrestling.
- Wrestlers often get hurt a lot, so you may have to spend half of your career in the doctor's office.