Bodyslam: The Making of a Pro Wrestler

Description: Enter the exciting world of independent wrestling.

Newest Review: ... closely followed by Henderson who it states has been wrestling "since the age of 12". To me the best known of ... more

... these featured wrestlers is Chris Daniels who went on to be very successful with ROH and TNA. We get to see him working with RVD (who was hugely famous with ECW and WWE) and hear him worry about being able to work due to his age (which is ironic as from all the wrestlers featured apart from Cena Chris Daniels is the only one currently still actively wrestling). Heidenreichs life away from wrestling is a job as a bouncer (Jon would go on to work in WWE but never really get a proper big shot), Bassman expresses some ...more

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Bodyslam: The Making of a Pro Wrestler: What makes a pro wrestler (852 words)
by - written on 05/02/09 (Very useful, 48 readings)
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This is an independantly made documentary following the fortunes of Ultimate Pro Wrestling (UPW) run by Rick Bassman (who does several short pieces to camera about each of the wrestlers) and some of its workers at the time. Made shooting from October 2000 until May 2001 many of the UPW roster are featured but the director does eventually decide to focus on Christopher Daniels, Mikey Henderson, Jon Heidenreich and Drzan McBee. This is a good purchase for fans of WWE or TNA as a few of the wrestlers featured will eventually go on to be stars in those federations (in fact Rob Van Dam and Samoa Joe are both featured in the opening few minutes, you will also get to ... Read the complete review

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