Initially, he said he wanted to draw the “hipster crowd.”

“I wanted them to come in and be drinking PBRs all night, and just be like this is ridiculous, we all know wrestling is fake, but c’mon, this is entertaining, we’re having fun,” Blodgett said.

Blodgett and his friends started wrestling in the backyard when they were teenagers. They would smack each other with boards and whatever else they could find. He wrestled for the junior high team, but once he hit high school, he quit because he was hazed and had ribs broken.

When he was 19, working as an assistant manager of a Foot Locker, he faked illness to attend a wrestling show.

His original plan was to turn 20 and head to school to be a stuntman. But at that match, he ran into Hype Gotti, a well-known wrestler in the now-defunct Omaha Wrestling Association. Gotti said Blodgett looked like he had it in him to be a wrestler. He took Blodgett under his wing and began training with him at the OWA’s wrestling school.

Blodgett began traveling the Midwest to compete. He’s wrestled on the West and East Coasts, Europe and all over.