“I realized that if I’m going to perform alongside the likes of Drugz Bunny and the Stoner Brothers and Dark Sheik and Chupacabra” — pictured, left — “I had to come up with a character that was equally outrageous,” Kirsch said. To create the character, he combined elements from his real life: a stint as a bouncer in the Marina — “San Francisco’s douchiest neighborhood” — plus his college experience at party school Chico State, being a gym rat, and what he assures me is a “genuine love” for Nickelback. Thus, Broseph was born.

“I always grew up knowing I wanted to be a professional wrestler,” said Brittany Wonder, who performed tag-team that night against Chupacabra and Virgil Flynn. “I grew up [in the South] watching it … and I just grew more and more in love with it.

“When I found out there was a pro-wrestling company that trained people in my hometown, that was the end. I hit up the school that day. I saved so much money — they were like ‘girls train for free.’” She laughs at this memory.

When Brittany Wonder first started, she was typecast as a generic “girl” wrestler. “When I was still in training, one trainer in particular was plotting out characters and said, ‘Oh, this character’s gonna be this, and this one is gonna be that … but you’re a girl; you’re just gonna be a girl wrestler.’ And that was my biggest problem in training — what is a ‘girl wrestler’? … I don’t know what the fuck a girl wrestler’s supposed to do. I don’t know what it is to be a female as a personality trait.”