Greatness, I think, is endeavoring to give your all to another, without design of personal benefit, and achieving an end by which the intended recipient realizes recognizable and significant gain, and you yourself gain in strength of character. I am too busy to think of it at the time, but I’m chasing greatness for Extreme…
I receive a cold call from Bruce Prichard, then second-in-command, to Jim Ross, of WWF’s Talent Relations Department. Although we will later become pretty close, and partiers-in-arms, I do not yet know him. Bruce has heard that we are doing good things in Southern California. He explains to me that WWF is about to start…
September, 1999, UPW at Mission Viejo High School. In a fundraiser for the school’s student council and its wrestling team, we pull out all the stops. It’s the first time we’ll videotape vignettes in advance and project them onto big screens. The vignettes –or “pre-tapes” as they’re called in the industry—set-up stories, so that spectators…
After a few successful shows at Extreme U, I get ambitious. I cold-call legendary rock and roll impresario Gary Folgner, the owner of equally legendary Orange County clubs The Coach House and The Galaxy Concert Theatre. After a conversation in which we share anecdotes about everything from my days booking Motley Crue and The Dead…
Hi All- I made a commitment –to my Business Partner, to my awesome Social Media Team, to myself, and most of all—to YOU, to post consistently and right on-schedule, when I started with this on-going series of Professional Wrestling & Mixed Martial Arts blogs. Who knew that I’d end up rushed into major back…
Hi All- I made a commitment –to my Business Partner, to my awesome Social Media Team, to myself, and most of all—to YOU, to post consistently and right on-schedule, when I started with this on-going series of Professional Wrestling & Mixed Martial Arts blogs. Who knew that I’d end up rushed into major back surgery? …
Hi All- I made a commitment –to my Business Partner, to my awesome Social Media Team, to myself, and most of all—to YOU, to post consistently and right on-schedule, when I started with this on-going series of Professional Wrestling & Mixed Martial Arts blogs. Who knew that I’d end up rushed into major back…
I HAD to police things at my gym, Extreme University; taking as much pride in it –if not more– than anything I had ever done. We have an up-scale, paying membership, while simultaneously training classes of Wrestlers and Fighters that are probably the best and the most colorful in the US at that time. The…
At the time production of The Smashing Machine begun, the four of us had just become neighbors. And we were ALL going through it. But…the only one that got “caught” (well, on camera at least) was Mark K. As a small example of the nearly-daily mundane, we attend a very strange after-hours party at a…
While at UFC 13 in Augusta, I had met and begun to bond with Randy’s manager, the legendary Rico Chiapparelli. Rico’s would be one of the most important relationships I would form in the MMA world and would come to be characterized by a deep respect and genuine affinity for him. Shortly after the epic…
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