Post by acesky on Mar 23, 2023 4:35:42 GMT
Perspective is particularly paramount, often we think back at epic epoch moments as the halcyon days of youth, looking at things through rose tinted glasses so to speak.
Ace has an eidetic memory which is an attribute of his intellectual aptitude. It is a gift and a curse, as he has had the highest of highs and lowest of lowest what gets discounted in that time period is the meandering middle , the calms between the storms of success and failure. November 1999, Disgraced from his college on the day after was 16th birthday, after five years and 13 days but a legitimate licensed professional wrestler for 17 months at only 16 years old and 6 months of age. Went from a dorm room he had just finished decorating over 5 years.
back to his old childhood bedroom with his twin brothers Davey and Ivan who were 14 years and 3 months old at the time. He continued the jobs that he only did to pay for wrestling school training that began on January 20th, 1997 which included not only doing chores around his house but also mowing his neighbors’ lawns, cleaning their pools and tutoring their older teens for the SATs. He did those jobs from Mondays to Wednesday, at 4 in the morning he would travel from Houston to Galveston by his skateboard for 8 hours, to meet at the warehouse of his first promotion where he was also trained at Galveston Championship Wrestling, he would meet up with Damian and they would drive 7 hours and 30 minutes to Oklahoma City, Damian transform in his Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde type of way into his gimmick Locuro, the masked Luchador that is epitome of insanity.
From friends to foes, they would entertain Oklahoman audiences with diets of pop-tarts , fried onion burgers and bourbon with their techniques they studied from Japanese and Mexican wrestling tapes as Damian was a tape-trader with all the hook-ups at the time, in 1999 they’re giving a crazy competitive futuristic style of wrestling that is common place nowadays since the 2010’s in America. Mind you these were not the best rings to work in, Ace is impregnated with incredulous hindsight over how he avoided ring worm or HPB from those rings. In a high school gym, with no matting outside on a basketball court, doing springboard corkscrew planchas and diving moonsaults to the outside, fans evade just in time as he smashes his svelte teenage body through brown folding chairs . Their matches had this formula that never got boring, they started with catch wrestling sequences that was like watching collegiate level wrestling to a cocaine version of it, power rangers style hand to hand combat strike sequences to action best described as
Johnny Knoxville flavored cirque du soleil all in just 12 minutes, luckily, they were the opening match. They would watch the rest of the show and get back in Damian’s car as he is back to his normal self and he would drive to a motel and wrestle two other matches against different opponents on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night.
Damian drop Ace home at 5 in the morning, for Ace to sleep until 2 in the afternoon and pick his brothers up from school by 3 PM while his parents stayed at their science labs from 5 am to 7 PM. They would eat dinner together at 8, Ace would have black eyes and little bruises all over yet remain in this upbeat mood as they ate the brisket pot roast and peach cobbler for dessert, Ace did that for 5 months after wrestling in the Mountain states to continue his journey as an independent wrestler in the midwestern states starting in Chicago, flying there for 2 hours to get in his mobile studio 2000 Van he would live out of for 3 years and 7 months when he got his next big break as his first international tour in the UK and Europe for 2 months. He spent just 12 days from Chicago back to his hometown in Houston, Texas to his parents house to say hello and goodbye again as he headed to work in Japan and debut there on January 8th 2005. Shedding his independent wrestler skin to this new butterfly of an international/ gaijin wrestler in Japan at just 21 and 9 months old.
Now this match is on March 31st 2023, this championship opportunity comes 25 years from his pro debut. He has been in CULT for one year and one month with a third championship opportunity, now at 40 years old since the 16th this may be his final opportunity to become television champion or any type of champion in CULT.
It has been 5 months since his childhood nemesis J. T. Douglas exposed his hedonistic lifestyle which marks this as 5 months of sobriety, he’s abstained from alcohol but in the past 2 months has regressed back into his heterosexual polyamorous sex addiction and using marijuana for pain relief from wrestling for several promotions as the top paid/requested free agent since 2020.
