The pro wrestling landscape is filled with many talents looking to break through and make a name for themselves.BK Westbrook is one of those wrestlers chasing that crazy dream.The road hasn’t been easy.
Westbrook started to train at a wrestling school in North Carolina in 2018 before it eventually closed down.He started having his first matches at Carolina Wrestling Federation (CWF) Mid-Atlantic before the promotion came to an abrupt end in 2019.COMPLETE PRO WRESTLING COVERAGE ON FOX NEWS DIGITALBK Westbrook is one of the rising pro wrestling talents on the independents.
(Provided to Fox News Digital)He then suffered another setback – the COVID-19 pandemic.But overcoming one obstacle after another was all a part of the journey."I've had that like multiple times within wrestling and it's crazy when I saw my school closed down, I was getting my car's oil changed, was waiting for it, and then next thing you know I get this message saying we're no longer going to have shows and then I had to think, I didn't just get into wrestling to just wrestle at this one place even though like this is awful this sucks," he told Fox News Digital.
"And then COVID happens, again, it's like OK, well I can't do my thing.right now and this is really, really annoying and I'm just I'm annoyed that I can't do that and eventually led to me just continuing to put my name even more places and I felt like this can't be the end for me.
I can't let this little this crazy time, this unprecedented happening with the pandemic,"I couldn't just let that get me down man.It was a little difficult because living in North Carolina, it was a little less, I mean it was still strict, but if I was going to go wrestle somewhere, I'd go somewhere where the states didn't care as much, like Tennessee or South Carolina or something like that, even Georgia.
But once things started kind of opening back up and things started to get normal, it was like, OK, we're going to hit the ground running."For Westbrook,...