10 Stories That Prove Wrestling Is The Wildest Industry EVER
7. Dedication To The Craft
Don Callis has put over Kenny Omega's Manitoba upbringing, and it works as a delusional heel bit and a measure of his actual mettle.
Omega plays a crazed caricature of a pro wrestler who happens to be a super athlete. He's a dork who can concuss his opponents with a single knee strike. The tales of his training on the tundras get over because he's a very theatrical performer and Callis, selling fantasy as reality without flinching, is eye-rolling in his bluster.
But an excerpt from Edge's autobiography reveals that the wilderness of the area really is severe.
In it, he regaled readers of the "winter death tour". To make even a semblance of a name for himself, he had to traverse icy lakes in ink-blank darkness to make what few towns comprised the scene, and he revealed that he came not far away from dying purely to work a sh*tty gig.
Alongside Christian, Rhyno and others, guided by lights that showed him where not to plummet to his frostbitten doom, he, with Pantera blaring through the speakers to stave off exhaustion, almost made it across the lake before a "football field sized" hole of water appeared in front of him.
He handed the keys to an intrepid passenger, who, not caring that the foot-heigh water might have got deeper, drove the wrestlers across. Many artists eat sh*t and face rejection before getting signed.
Edge, Christian and Rhyno effectively risked death.