On a snowy Friday in March, a gathering of worshippers at a church in Cambridge, Ont., took centre stage. But they weren't there for a high power, they were there for wrestling.
On a snowy Friday evening in March, there was a gathering of worshippers at a church in the Preston area of Cambridge, Ont.
“ what we do. They’re not going to try to put shackles on us by any stretch.”“I do all of the booking, I do all of the promoting, I do all of the matchmaking, I do all of the writing of the promos. I pretty much do for the most part,” said Ortmanns, who also steps in the ring for matches. He began to scour the GTA to see what kind of training he could get and signed on with Battle Arts Academy.
Wrestling also introduced him to people from “all different walks of life,” though he’s particularly grateful for three friends he’s made through the sport. “Society tells you, ‘You need to go to school, get a job, a 9-to-5 job, and hate your job,’” the Kitchener native explained. “I was on that track at university, and just really came into kind of a hard time mentally.”
Still a teen when he began, Loveman pursued his dream with every ounce of vigour he had until 2015, when it all came to a screeching halt: he jumped off the top rope, crashed through a table and landed directly on his tailbone. “Luckily, December of 2016, they said you don’t need surgery, but there will be lasting things. You’ll never see me do a leg drop in the ring,” he explained.Cassandra Serafini, who wrestles under the name Laurel CassieD, puts on her makeup at the basement of Knox Presbyterian Church in Cambridge, Ont., before a wrestling match.
Serafini took some time off a few years ago, and when she returned, the 33-year-old developed her gimmick. It’s been a long time coming for Gagne, who began training with the company in 2019 but faced interruptions from the pandemic and life. “I’ve played music professionally in front of people, I’ve worked in media and there’s no performance like being a professional wrestler…. It’s a car crash mixed with acting mixed with so much creativity on the fly that it’s the perfect creative outlet.”
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