All Elite Wrestling‘s Brody King knew from a young age that he wanted to become a professional wrestler.
House of Black member Brody King was the latest guest on The Sessions with Renee Paquette to discuss a wide variety of subjects. While discussing getting started at the Santino Brother’s Wrestling Academy, King declared that pro wrestling, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and He-Man were his first loves growing up.
“Pro wrestling was like probably my first love. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, He-Man, and pro wrestling,” Brody King said. “I always used to say I wanted to be a pro wrestler when I grew up. When I was in high school or junior high, people would be talking about whatever, and I’m like, I want to be a pro wrestler. But I never knew the steps to take to get there.
“I didn’t know about wrestling schools, and then when you kind of start to grow up, that kind of goes to the back of your mind, and you don’t think about it as much. That kind of sparked an interest. I was like, whoa, I want to try this just to try it. So we went to a local wrestling show. It was the Santino Brother’s Wrestling Academy, and they were having a Student Showcase. And the next day, I signed up for their beginners class.”
Brody King described his training as very old school and credited his time in the mosh pit for helping prepare him for the physicality of professional wrestling.
“My pro wrestling experience was, I feel like, very old school, my trainer Joey Kaos. He never wants to put out a product that isn’t ready to do an entire match,” Brody King said. “That can’t call a match call on the fly stuff like that. So my personal training was about a year and a half before I had my first match, and even then, I felt like I wasn’t ready.
“I know that there’s a lot of kids that go to like these like three-month schools or whatever, and they’re like working on TV. I’m like, oh boy; I would have been scared shitless. Yeah, those first days were really eye-opening. Obviously, the cardio, the physicality. The physicality was fine as far as like, taking chops, forearms, bumping, stuff like that. I’ve done that forever.
“Like you said, I’m getting hit in a mosh pit, jumping off the stage into nobody. It’s like, i’ll take a bump! When I started learning dives, my Lucha coach was like, ‘Hey, who wants to try it first?’ And I’m like, I’ll do it. I just did a tope con hilo, a flip dive over the top like right away. He’s like, ‘How do you know how to do this?’
“And we started talking, and it turns out that my Lucha coach was actually in hardcore bands. The selling yourself as a professional, all these things I learned from punk and hardcore music. So those lessons were truly invaluable. I didn’t realize at the time that I was learning these things that were going to set me up for the rest of our life.”
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