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Following his stay with the legendary Calgary wrestling royalty and various stops as part of the Blackhearts tag team (along with Tom Nash), Heath had cups of coffee with the WWE, Extreme Championship Wrestling and World Championship Wrestling before landing back with WWE and gaining some traction and stability.

“It wasn’t a very long run. It was a short run if you really add it up. I don’t know about my place in history. I’m very proud of Christian and Edge, two fellow Canadians of yours, but I’m very proud of what they did,” said Heath of his time with the largest pro wrestling company in the world.

“They went from that to go on to be great stars and entertainers. As far as my part, I was just happy, a bit like having a wrestling school, I was just there to mostly transition Edge along, so I did that and watching him climb to where he did, it was very rewarding for me.”

Heath now spends the majority of his time training the future generation of pro wrestler at his owned and operated Gangrel’s Wrestling Asylum in Dania Beach, Fla., while taking a variety of independent bookings to fill out his weekends.

That kind of lifestyle is a natural fit for Heath, who took to the independent promotions and molding of talent as naturally as he did to the vampire character that made him famous.

“Within a month of my release, I was in the UK. I was doing six months out of the year in the UK, three months at a time, so it never felt like a really left. I went over there — the houses were big, and wrestling was huge in Europe,” said Heath. “I was just constantly busy and traveling even more so than I did with WWE. It was an easy transition. I had my summers off so I could come over and do a few independent shows around the States here and there, so it wasn’t that big of a deal. I almost worked more away from WWE than I did with them.”