Your Life as Every Level of Pro Wrestler

What does the road from bar bouncer to WWE Hall of Famer actually look like? This video follows one wrestler's complete journey through nine levels of the business — from $11 an hour and a folding chair in Youngstown, Ohio, to the main event of WrestleMania and the podium of the Hall of Fame — and the man who humiliated him at the beginning is still in the story at the end. You'll experience the five hundred flat-back bumps before a single move is allowed, the thumbtacks in a gas station bathroom outside Dayton, the viral dive that started a career and wrecked a neck in the same landing, the developmental grind where the paycheck is real but the roster spot isn't, the Royal Rumble number two that finally makes one man look up, the belt lifted in front of eighty thousand people with an empty seat in the front row, and the bent steel folding chair that was never really about the fight. Subscribe for more stories about the long way up — and the people you find waiting at the top. #ProWrestling #WWE #Wrestling #WrestleMania #HallOfFame