๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ'๐ด ๐ข ๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ค๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ข๐ฑ๐ฆ. ๐ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ช๐ต. ๐ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ช๐ต.
There's a VHS tape somewhere in my basement of a pro wrestling match I was in.
My body. My moves. My match.
I have zero memory of it. Not a flash. Not a feeling. Nothing.
That's what six concussions and a brain bleed will do to you.
I still live with it today. There is a loud ringing in my ears every single hour of every single day. It doesn't quiet down at night. It doesn't take weekends off. It has never stopped, not once, in over ๐ง๐๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ years.
I'm not telling you this for sympathy.
I'm telling you this because I paid for every lesson I know the hard way โ and I don't want you to pay the same price.
Most wrestlers treat the business like it owes them something. Show up, take bumps, grind long enough, and eventually it pays off.
It doesn't work that way.
The business doesn't hand anything to anyone. You have to build something that outlasts your body โ because your body will give out before you're ready.
Mine did.
That's why I wrote the Pro Wrestling Laws of Success. Not to be an author. Not to put something on a shelf. But because nobody handed me a roadmap, and I paid for that gap in ways I'm still dealing with.
If you're early in your career, read it now โ while you still have time to build right.
โ Donnie
P.S. The paid membership for Pro Wrestling Skool is coming. When it does, Founders will get a special price. The book is where it all starts โ get it first.