The Spiritual Promoter

Last March, I was given the opportunity to manage, or valet, for a wrestler at a different promotion than where I trained at. With the thought of a new crowd and just a fresh new experience all around, I thought ‘Why the hell not?’ This promotion was actually an hour drive there and an hour drive back for me. When I was asked about managing for this wrestler, I assumed that since it was a promotion that paid all of their workers, that I too, would be compensated especially with my lengthy drive. Boy, was I ever so wrong.

While we were waiting for the show to begin, the promoter was bringing around everyone’s pay in envelopes and I was the only one who didn’t get one. I just let it go. When I managed at my home arena/promotion, I didn’t get paid there either. Hell, I don’t think anybody got paid but I definitely didn’t and I was fine with that for two reasons. One, I was training for free so not getting paid to just strut my shit around was perfectly okay with me and two, I wasn’t wrestling or managing to get ahead in life. It wasn’t my job. It was just something to do. I mean, I had a full-time job downtown Indianapolis at Anthem so I didn’t care if my training facility paid me or not. But the show I did in March of 2019, I should’ve gotten paid.

So on my way home after the show that night, I thought of reasons why I didn’t and the only thing I could think of was that they didn’t take me serious, thought that since I didn’t get paid at shows at the other promotion that I’d be okay with doing this show for free or that trying to taking me out on a date would be better.

Yes, you read that last sentence right. The so-called religious man who posted about church on Sundays, put God’s word into the wrestling shows and held the wrestling shows inside of a church was actually not at all what he made himself out to be. Prior to managing a wrestler for his show, he was always messaging on my phone and on Facebook trying to get me to go out with him. I never would because I just didn’t want to date and I didn’t want to date a promoter of a show that ran on the same day as my home base did.

One particular day stands out to me and I finally blocked him, but it wasn’t long after my neck surgery that I started dating my current boyfriend. Well, I received a DM from this guy on Facebook. He told me he was at a wedding somewhere near a beach. He then proceeded to me that I should’ve been there with him. And when I said that my boyfriend wouldn’t like that his response was just ridiculous. But it didn’t surprise me though.

It’s so hard to see advertisements for this promotion’s shows on social media because of me getting gipped on pay for that show and just how creepy the head promoter actually is as he’s parading around as this huge Christian man. Well I know different now. But he wasn’t the only promoter who was creepy.