Ace Sky

Michael “ MJ” Russo sits with Ace Sky before he goes to the locker room to change for his match tonight. MJ: I am here with Ace Sky. I have to ask, how are you feeling, I saw you limping before you sat down. I know you have been dealing with this foot injury for a while, can you explain it? Ace Sky: Certainly. Really what it comes down to are there’s two sections of my life. It’s split in half between the 29 years before the motorcycle accident and the 13 years since. There is a surgery however I am resisting it due to the long-term rehab. How it happened was my friend gave me this motorcycle which was really just a scooter and I took a crash on it, I take my stupid shoe off and it’s all five toes squished to the side, bone sticking out and I’m like “ I fucked up, this is a disaster.” I was already fucking up at the federation I was at, got suspended for wellness policy use of cannabis and sythenthetic kind which bopped me to get suspended, I wasn’t using it for recreational purposes, it was for my shoulder but the dirtsheets never spoke to me to clarify that. I left that promotion on good terms two years later and still do mo-cap for their video games, the weekend of my release I went to peru for an Ayahuasca retreat. The ayahuasca didn’t work but I stayed a couple more weeks, this wasn’t culty at all, it was all consensual, these shamans are licensed medically and we spend time in the Peruvian jungle learning all the science behind it and they gave this stuff called Wuchuma which is from cactus and that worked in giving me the spiritual rebirth. I went there with knowledge that people take these psychedelic medicines and find out their true purpose in life, MMA fighters take it and come back as pacifists, there was a possibility I could lose my love for pro wrestling however instead the opposite happened, my love for pro wrestling leveled up by 10-fold over what was juiced out of me the past 7 years and since then I have used pro wrestling to spread my spiritual philosophy mixed with my philosophies in pro wrestling and martial arts. What has made this experience even just a little bit tolerable is the fact I have always led a dualistic life due to my personality. I’m ambivert which means I fall in the middle of the spectrum of introvert and extrovert. We know a stable life requires having both solitude and community. Since my spiritual rebirth I work on my own cacti garden, I study astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology , spiritually I study Japanese & Tibetan Buddhism mixed with Hinduism called Dharma. Physically I do strength and resistance training with a trainer, I do yoga in the morning, I study several disciplines of martial arts in Taekwondo which I first trained in and became a black belt in at 10 years old, the other martial arts styles I study are the four karate styles- Goju-ryu, Shotokan-ryu, Wado-ryu and Shito-ryu, a combination of yoga and brazilian jiu-jitsu called Budokan as well as Capoeira . I can’t function without discipline that is what allows me to take things on the fly in the ring as a wrestler, allowing myself to lose my temper as I do have a short temper because it’s all about controlled chaos, you have to be reactionary for safety purposes, mistakes and injuries come from overthinking, to have my worst injury be something outside the ring is pretty ironic. MJ: You are obviously familiar with Mike Dimter, you have faced each other many times by now, what do you think of Cameron Tyler? Ace Sky: This is a championship match it’s for the AWS Parental Advisory Championship, I try to be zen however what sticks in my craw is that this guy has not paid his dues here, he has been out living a different dream as a rockstar and waltzes back here getting a championship shot. He doesn’t take this business seriously, he has a connection to it with his brothers and with this match being a no DQ due to triple threat that means he is allowed to use his favorite weapon of brass knuckles, that’s what he needs to win because he doesn’t cut it in the ring like Mike and myself. It’s really frustrating. I’ve been here for a couple years, I was the first C4 division champion, since I’ve held gold here before I know I can do it again and I will tonight. We’re cleared for take-off baby and I’m going to complete my mission of becoming champion again in AWS!

Concussion protocol is way more advanced these days and Ace is actually happy about that, he often feels stupid how despite his IQ and everything he was dismissive towards concussions and science and health related to the brain when it came to wrestling, to attempt a brand new super finisher with the corkscrew shooting star press the only relief is the lack of serious injury. Just flat on face to canvas. Even in defeat Ace has still impressed management, now he gets to face Jamal Payne. Jamal Payne is the antithesis of Ace Sky, a powerhouse with a background in not just the usual of weight lifting and football but also trained in boxing from his father. Jamal. Jamal came into the business as someone who did have to still pay his dues certainly however that process was a lot less stressful for him as it is for cruiserweights and female wrestlers. There is a prejudicial system created by the sayers of the industry, these aren’t wrestlers these are carny businessmen who infiltrated the sport and turned it into a global empire with their own preferences and ideals of what a “ superstar” wrestler is, being “ larger than life” trumped the importance of legitimate wrestling skill if said wrestler who fits all the characteristics and make up inside and out of what a pro wrestler is, they are the species of “ pro wrestler” however they could be now be excluded due to being small and that’s not really a disqualifier unless you have a prejudice, the thing that makes pro wrestling cool is the lack of some rules, that there are no bounds who in size and gender can compete. Pro wrestling isn’t rigged or anything , it is legit competition however there are scales that are tipped and bookers/ promoters can do a lot to achieve certain outcomes. —----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ace POV inner thoughts: When you are starting out and there’s ridiculous hazing in an already insular environment as pro wrestling was back when I was starting there is no way to know if you are being hazed or just bullied. The point of hazing from my perspective is to keep a new person humble and also allow them to ingratiate themselves into the locker room, you have to show you can take some shit and if you’re unfazed and take it you usually earn respect through it, it is very juvenile, sophomoric and reeks of toxic masculinity in today's standards, back then it was the late 90’s. I had thought I had built up all this experience, I was a backyard wrestler which had a big stigma but I also had an impressive background through Taekwondo and amateur wrestling unfortunately that really did not matter. I was the pariah cause I was the smallest at 5’6 and 130 pounds, I was 15 but I looked 9 years old, I was instantly a target of verbal abuse and taunting. Back then I had no idea why they were so mean to me, I had never experienced that, people often tell me nowadays it was probably because they were jealous of me, they saw my potential and knew their ceiling as never getting past a local level. Most of my early matches after I debuted , during or after win or lose they would send someone out to put me through a table. Getting put through a table is wild, first couple times were frightening, wrestling is this battle for power and your own physical autonomy is in jeopardy, especially undersized like myself. What ended up happening to my favor is fans respected me more and more, the real trick I had to figure out was how to literally turn the tables and put the attacker through the table. One time the world champ came in , this Big Brad Bandit 6’8 heavyset greasy long haired biker badass went to put me through a table again after a couple months , I never stopped fighting it and resisting it and this time it just worked, I slipped out of his grasp and I hit him with a front drop kick from behind sending him into the corner turnbuckle, he hit his face on the pad and fell back on the table in perfect position, I rushed to the top of the turnbuckle and hit a moonsault on him which broke the table. From there on out I haven’t gotten put through a table. Promoters will get their message across what they want for their brand, for their business and in a business where you can’t expect anything, it is very chaotic some chaos is controlled by a higher power, any time I was put in a Body slam challenge match against a heavyweight or super heavyweight/monster type, the table match turmoil I mentioned. The powers that be often, the boys( the locker room) even have all at some point wanted to clip my wings since day one, d I haven’t let them. I’ve had to scheme and sneak sometimes and other times I had to kick down the door, break glass ceilings and those doors I had to kick down and ceilings I had to break were not even for a spot at the top, I had to move those mountains to even achieve a spot at the lowest/ started ranking, in some ways I feel that is how it should be, it’s complicated that we have a standard that this business of pro wrestling is where the best are really the best of the best and you are not being judged on those standards of what makes you the best- top tier-technique, professional prime time level presentation, box office draw potentiality, size/ height, gender/sex are superfluous , that is just judgement at a surface level that has is not an accurate system to judge talent on. —-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ace Sky is backstage, hobnobbing with the camera crew and techs—the same backstage staff most wrestlers and higher-ups ignore like NPCs. Ace sits in a lotus pose atop an equipment box, calm and grounded, talking directly to the camera crew filming him. The room is quiet—the words matter. “The first promotion I started at professionally at 15 they used to put me through tables after every match. Sometimes I lost. Sometimes I won. Didn’t matter. I was 130 pounds and looked 9 years old—I wasn’t what they wanted to sell. But here’s the part they don’t want you to think about: If I was a woman, they wouldn’t have bothered with the table. They would’ve stuck me in a bikini and said, ‘Smile for the camera, sweetheart.’” “You think this is just about me being small? No. It’s about anyone who’s ever been told, ‘You’re not marketable. You’re not believable. You’re not worth investing in.’ I’ve seen women get dismissed, sexualized, and overlooked by the same voices that once told me I’d never make it—because if it were up to them, I wouldn’t have. Their criteria? Box office numbers and TV appeal. But none of that matters once the bell rings. Because in that ring, I’m a legit threat. I’ve fought guys twice my size—guys who look like a million bucks but don’t have a dime’s worth of killer instinct. And yeah, I’ve kicked the hell out of them. And honestly? That doesn’t feel good. It doesn’t feel right—to brutalize someone who was set up to succeed but never taught to survive. But I do it. Because they made me this way. They built a system that only rewards the surface, then act shocked when someone like me breaks through and starts burning it down from the inside.” Yes you are exception to that, You came in with the right size and have been doing this for around the same time as me, you qualified not purely based on your looks, I'm sure the opponents of yours before me overlooked you, dismissed you, I'm sure you've had to go through certain struggles with the social -professional-interpersonal labyrinth. That's the odd thing, every wrestler, all of us we experience that crap and it really affects us, it does a lot to our psyche even and these complexes have given us a brotherhood but it keeps us separated because we have been traumatized to use the inner turmoil the business puts on us to prove we belong against each other when most of us know intellectually, literally " this guy is a good wrestler, just like me, now we have to fight" and for what? To entertain hard-working people, that is a thing I believe is good and needed because our stories, our hardships in this industry resonate with working-class people, this isn't a unique process it happens in all art forms and sports and entertainment industries and that's why fans matter because they aren't the masses of savages who just want to see bloodsport they see themselves in us , we know this as children we were fans of this, we all are standing on the shoulders of these giants who made us feel powerful, who fought for what we believe in or at least against something we hated or saw as injustice. “What happens in the locker room isn’t just wrestling. It’s what happens in boardrooms, in studios, in government buildings, even courtrooms. Same games. Same lies. Same people pulling strings behind the curtain, trying to decide who gets to shine and who’s told to wait their turn. But here's the truth: if you're told to wait long enough, eventually, you break down the door—and make your own spotlight.” There is a responsibility as champion to everyone to management to the fans at both a consumer and personal level , I make the case why I should be champion and how I feel I am able to do so. The one thing I try not to do, I never want to promise anything, I never promise I will win, all I can promise is that I believe I can and that just has to be good enough until the last bell rings. "

Lucha Libre is a fundamental part of Ace’s style The Middle Way. The 80’s and 90’s luchadores have been very influential and Ace has even become close friends with these childhood heroes and since he is always as he phrases it “ at the crest of the wavelength” of the business/ industry he is always befriending the rising stars in Lucha Libre in both USA and since Peru is where his guru who is a wrestling/ lucha fan lives whenever he visits his guru they go to shows. Daron Smythe has his hands full with a championship match that night, that gives Ace a bit of a reprieve from that rivalry while his opponent Medico Muerte is all about using his medical acumen combined with spiritual-magic to cripple his opponents. Ace has spiritual skills too for a decade however that is just super speed and clairvoyance, Ace has always had great instincts, that has increased over the years and the wachuma( plant medicine from san pedro cactus, works the same as ayahuasca) helped with that. For Ace it’s all about the work, so he’s at his Skydojo, wrestling school he started in 2019 working with his students on innovating the intricacies in submissions, catch wrestling and pinning variations to be at the top of his game. Lucha Libre is a style that is ingrained in Medico Muerto more than Ace Sky will ever be able to acquire himself, there is an element of that style that is a part of Medico Muerto as he is an actual Luchadore. While focusing on these holds, these unique tricks of the trade, Ace also has to manage to put a promo out. If it was up to him, he would just go out and work, “ talking them into the building” is a fundamental aspect of pro wrestling. We see Ace working with his students/trainees on all these really cool chain/catch wrestling sequences, then he tells them to take a break and we see him sitting on the outside ring apron. Ace Sky: The one mistake a lot of wrestlers make is they get addicted to their work out, going to the gym and yes that is all important to stay in shape however this can also lead to them to forgo working in the ring, if you don’t have every step of every centimeter of the ring under your boot and familiar to you like it’s just the back of your hand, you are going to be in trouble. I have faced so many meatheads who just go to the gym and are better off body-bulding because once they get in the ring it is awkward to them, they have two left feet and even if they are aggressive they can run out of gas quickly. I’m not discounting my abilities and all the amazing stuff I am able to do in the ring however it really comes down to conditioning, to cardio. I really need to work on cardio and my stuff in the ring to face a luchadore and technician like Medico Muerto. I’m psyched about everything with this match, us opening the show is a big deal and perfect we will really get the crowd hot for the show. I am aware of how much I draw, do I have billions of fans, no I have around 174 thousand which isn’t too shabby. It is a guaranteed fact that fans will come back to see me, even though they may not have come to see me at first. They remember what I do, who I am and how I make them feel and that is all it is about. It is easy to be a bad guy and get booed, insult the fans. I have been a cocky asshole at times but I’ve never turned on fans even when they have turned on me. My opponent is a sicko, I don’t know if he’s actually certified medically but he is a certified sicko given what he enjoys doing in the ring and what he is trying to evoke from fans, horror and even disgust. My body is very bendy, so I’m not this pencil he can snap, I’m not going to be a good patient, I will just turn him into a literal patient.

Ace Sky sits in a lotus pose on an equipment box. Ace Sky: Daron thinks he has me all figured out, maybe he does, maybe he doesn't. My biggest threat isn’t my aerial aptitude that is a misconception, you make all these references to me as just a highflier that really don’t apply and are not clever at all, very cliche. I’ve been in this business long enough to know cliches create cash, the easiest hook is just looking at two wrestlers as these extreme opposites, I don't think people are idiots the fans, they turn their brains off and react emotionally , I appreciate that however all I am suggesting is look at what we have in common, go beyond the simple statistics where he is bigger and stronger to me, besides that we actually have a lot in common. We are journeymen, we have our history which becomes our mythos and we are soldiers with our scars as our badges and I am sure there are stereotypes or even other factors he had to deal with from wrestling promoters just as I have over this time. We have seen this business and sport evolve from our generation inventing the independent circuit to replace the territories. We have seen how social media and the internet itself has been affected and affected pro wrestling. I was able to achieve my pipe dream fantasy of wrestling in Japan by 21 years old, that was 2005. Being able to get enough buzz and build my portfolio to get that chance was dream come true. I love wrestling in Japan, I love the culture of Japan and the culture of pro wrestling in Japan. After my time in Japan, mainstream American Wrestling wanted me but they wanted a marketable version of myself, I was in my mid 20’s I didn’t even know myself and that has always been a frustrating experience, even now as I am as self-assured as possible now, due to a decade of spiritual enlightenment however suffer from disappointment and fear of disappointing others besides just myself. I am so lucky to have a loyal fanbase and for the working class to still vibe with me as I do them as we fight the powers that be and all this stuff I stand by and want to stand up for when I often get stomped on. I’ve had some success here, won a championship last year however in terms of “what have you done for me lately” to fans and my employers here that has been less than stellar. You paint me as a forced to be reckoned with and I can appreciate that however I also think it is extremely disingenuous for you as the champion to paint yourself as an underdog. You lost a couple matches? Big deal I wrestle for multiple federations I lose all the time, I am constantly humbled and humiliated that is what makes me thrive, the taste of victory is sweet because the aftertaste of loss is so bitter, that’s the ying & yang of this- the gross humble pie of losses and the sweetness of victory. Ace points to his forehead Ace Sky: Looking through your third eye means looking inward, I have spent the past decade doing so, it is important to look at yourself more than a body, more than a wrestler. I identify with the galaxy because of the vastness, the openness. There's not enough on earth, I seek that out and I seek out the harmonious openness among the people, if we connect as the stars do we all shine. I know many think i'm a looney, a real space cadet and maybe my heads are in the clouds, I have been slammed through the mats, on the ground. I have been grounded and as I mentioned before stepped on , however I always rise back up reborn and rebuilt . I'm a human rocket with the spirit of jaguar, i'm a real live-wire. I am Ace Sky !

Ace Sky: I signed with AWS on February 28 2023 , I was the first C4 champion by January 1st of last year, 308 days it took me to win my first championship in AWS and to be the first to hold that championship was fantastic, however very short lived as I lost it after a month , I was victorious and held championship gold in singles and tag team in other federations in 2024, while here in AWS or now I guess it’s IWE, whatever. What i’m saying is here I was not doing well here in the circumstances of win-loss record. Only recently have I earned my spot as a number one contender for the C4 championship. I know the mistake I made and I will not hide from that or try to deny it. Instead of focusing on what a champion should do which is making the championship, not the other way around. The champion makes the championship, I had to pay the price for that, Xander Croft has a been an excellent champion, however I get what I want, I have the universe, the cosmos and most importantly the fans on my side! The fruits of my labor are for the people and unity through community is the best part about this. I will not just represent this federation as a champion, I will represent beyond earth. As a champion I will be transcendent and as usual the terrific trifecta of intellect, intuition and ingenuity!

Ace Sky: Freddie, your resume is impressive with all the championships you have won, you have hit the genetic lottery with your size. You grew up in Los Angeles in the world of milk and self hate. There is an inauthenticity that you reek of, I get confused for inauthentic due to how dynamic I am as a person and wrestler, you are inauthentic because what you desire is manufactured, it isn’t manifested . What you view as “ ravishing” is just what looks good , nothing you say or have done really has any substance, and that's the point with you, you want to be percieved as “ ravishing”, all I see is a primadonna , when you face me you will be put the test, on the mat and in the air, we’ll see how you fair. I suggest you look through your third eye points to his forehead This is the eye that looks inward, a place you never look in because that is where you are the weakest, you’ve fooled a lot of people, beyond the glitz and glamor we will see if you are an actual wrestler, an actual fighter or if it’s all glory no guts.

Ace Sky voice over: Derek Welling is a much needed opponent, he is intensely intimidating , I have my views on the mikitary industrial complex in this country however that has never clouded my judgement of those who serve, I can’t judge that, you don’t need patriotism or natuonalism to appreciate someone putting their life on the line for you. This is what always makes what I view as what I do as incredibly selfish, I became a pro wrestler because both sides of it appealed to me performing for an audience and my competitive nature. My contribution is I have continued to give undersized underdogs someone to look up to, I don’t like to assume but I figure that Derek was in the military before becoming a wrestler, I always have a difficult time with what counts as my start because some people look at the start sometimes as when you “ make it” I made it by 25 years old, I started professionally at 15 but I was 10 years old when I started in the backyard scene, now i’m going to be 42 in March, it is truly wild how time goes by and what one does with that time. I’ve always been weird and wild, I would handspring into my classrooms as a kid, finish my work first and then do backflips for those who dared me, that didn't make my teachers happy at all. I would be mocked for my smaller size, not allowed to play football at recess, I didn’t care though I would just go practice my gymnastics and taekwondo by myself and that drew attention and that pissed people off. I was a smart-aleck so I would fight back with wit and humor until I said the wrong thing. Next thing I know I’m lifted in the air by a big bully, i’m a wrestling fan so I’m able to reverse it with a frankensteiner and then we all get in trouble. I would feel really bad because my intention wasn’t to disturb or distract , people just had an issue with me being myself. When you face condemnation and confrontation constantly you either shrink, apologize too much and hide or you fight back, I fight back, that’s mostly from being a Texan, being “Texas Strong “ is encouraged there. I just always have attained attention to myself now I embrace it, for better or worse I’m always going to be the one to step up, step out and fight for myself and others, in what I believe in. I believe in myself and I’ve bet on myself. I also have spent the past decade bettering myself introspectively through Eastern philosophy, I am open to judgement . Derek is a soldier and commander I do things my way and it works out for me because it is not from a bad intention, just a different mindset. I can be disciplined while still being devil-may care, that’s a distinction which works in my favor. Vignette:

Ace Sky is seated in lotus pose in his gear before his match, backstage on an equipment box meditating, the camera pans closer to his face as his eyes open, his big brown eyes full of boyish-optimism always keep Ace looking younger than he is at 41, despite the crows feet around his eyes and lines of aging on forehead, as usual he also has his bright white teeth that put Chip Skylark to shame with his signature smirk. Ace Sky: I was the inaugural C4 champion last year. Even though my reign was short, only a month long I was able to have a great yeat in other promotions, winning singles and tag gold again with Nick Danger in our tag team The Rising Aces. However I have stagnated here, I was focused on other places that’s a downside of a being a free agent, success varies the more you go. i give a lot, I have actually been avoiding this surgery to fix my right foot injury I’ve had since my 29th birthday back in 2012, it was a motorcycle accident– well actually a scooter, however that led to my spiritual journey , in 2014 I went to the Peruvian amazon for a spiritual retreat and became reborn unleashed my jaguar spirit and since then have used my platform to open the third eye of all, to promote inclusion and ingenuity. I medidate to free my mind of rage, regrets. To rejuvenate, regenerate and reload for my rematch against Xander Croft. I will get my retribution, I will transcend Xander Croft!

Ace Sky : We all start somewhere, Kayleigh has had an impressive start but it’s not like that for all of us January 20th 1997 was when I showed up to Galveston Championship Wrestling for my professional training, 13 years old,, as a backyard wrestler I had 174 matches I thought I could mix it up right away however it soon became apparent that I would be the one they did moves to, they wanted me to be upset but I was ecstatically enthusiastic as a rag doll, a human pinball. It was my first time in a real pro wrestling ring. As a backyard wrestler we started on trampolines and even the grass of backyards, boxing rings which had no give and built our own rings though I found out that we built them with the wrong material ring ropes, that was the toughest for me at 5’6 and 120 lbs hitting the ropes was really tough. Bumping has always come easy, I had mastered landing on my head in a safe way not just from the trampoline to the boxing ring to the self-made ring and real ring but also from my experience on gymnastics mats, Taekwondo/ martial arts mats and amateur wrestling mats. I did not have much ring rust as my farewell backyard match was on September 6th 1996, I made my debut as a backyard wrestler on May 8th 1993. The second week of training I got to show what I would do we had a tag team match- Japanese arm drag add the armbar with the Vulcan shoulder grip, transition into the kneeling fireman’s carry takedown I got from my time as an amateur wrestler( June 5th 1989 to April 12 1993) . I always found it odd and humorous how I would dropkick someone, not even that hard and they roll out the ring in both fear and in a huff. I didn’t do an illegal move, it’s a basic dropkick. After class I was locked in the locker room as a very mean prank, I found my way out through a vent, I drove my father’s car home and there was this new song on the radio that cheered me up, the song was One Headlight by The Wallflowers .

Laura Anderson sits with Ace Sky, Ace is wearing one of his official shirts with his logo and black pants. Laura Anderson: I am here with Ace Sky, what does this championship mean to you Ace Sky: Unlike my opponent I don't view this as a stepping stone. I have had a strong internet fanbase for 20 years. The IWC is one of the reasons why I am as a popular as I am, they've been there for me when I had nothing and they didn't just stay online they came to shows, they bought my merchandise after shows and they have saved footage that is a treat for mainstream wrestling fans to look back and me and my colleagues in our earlier years. The internet championship is important and that just shows how truly horrible Daron is that he thinks he can walk all over the fans and disregard their impact. I'm fighting for the fans, for the championship and since I really want the championship and he doesn't, I should be the one to hold it.

Ace is sitting in his room with his cat Ace Sky: This is my cat Salem. Well congratulations Dale you cut a promo worse than I ever have and my promos are pretty bad. You just said the most generic shit you could about me? If you actually dug deeper, did some research I have had plenty of failures you could point to and many things you could mock me about. I thought you'd seen me wrestle, all these years? We are pretty similar in the ring. I'm dynamic, actually when I looked at your profile and stuff I realized your arsenal is way smaller than mine and I bet that's not the only thing that's smaller. I'm not being coy, you exude little dick energy. The only grimsome thing is your chances in going hold for hold with me, when it comes to lacing my boots, Michael J Fox would do a million times better than you. Yes I am the best highflier in the entire cosmos , however I am also an elite wrestler and that's what is going to happen. I'm not just gonna fly, I'm going to kick your head off and I can even tap you out, hell I have the most tighest, most unique pins you've never seen before I can wrap you up in. After I defeat grinsome, i'ma eat some dim-sum , peace!

My Ambition has been the transmission to my fruition. I combined tradition and novelty to transition from oddity prodigy to commodity in an industry that did not want me. I’ve fought the system that turned this sport into the entertainment empire 104 years ago. I can say without ego, just unequivocally back in the times of the Greeks and the Romans I would fit in among the elite wrestlers. I do not believe in labels however I know of one distinction There are sayers and doers, and the sayers slithered there way through the business side of this and created their prejudiced idea of what a “ Supersta Sports Entertainer was.” All my heroes are undersized underdogs just like me. I joined that revolution of that generation that started 161 years ago with Lucha Libre and combined that with the Japanese style that started 64 years ago. I was born in 1983, I began my journey to become a pro wrestler in 1987. I assembled my athletic resume through soccer, gymnastics, Taekwondo and amateur wrestling. On my 10th birthday on March 16th 1993 I achieved my black belt in Taekwondo and on May 5th debuted in the backyard wrestling scene in Texas, one of the most notable hotbeds of pro wrestling. I was born and raised in Sugar Land. I had my farewell match as a backyard wrestler on September 6th of 1996. I was one of the couple involved in the backyard scene who wanted to do it professionally. I told my parents my plan to basically run away to Mexico or Canada to get trained, they calmed me down and we found an independent federation in Galveston called of course Galveston Championship Wrestling . My parents had always supported me, even though they did not know much about wrestling, they felt I should pay for the tuition myself for the wrestling training class at GCW called “ Fight Zone”. From September to January I accumulated the tuition money from my job as the neighborhood paperboy, odd jobs throughout my neighborhood helping neighbors with mowing their lawns, cleaning their pools and tutoring their older children for the SATS. Plus some of my Bar Mitzvah money too. I began my professional training with GCW on January 20th 1997. I was an outcast right away in the locker room, bitter older wrestlers who were only going to stay stuck in that federation and were twice and even thrice my size. I had a lot of stigmas as I was just 13, 5’6 and 120 pounds- featherweight, twinkle toes, small fry all that classic taunts. and a former backyard wrestler. Even the head trainer Mike Maverick was quite aloof. I wasn’t used to that, as a child prodigy intellectually I was use to praise from adults. I made one friend in the Fight Zone class with Damian who is a couple years older than me, a couple inches taller. He was a tape-trader of Japanese and Mexican wrestling, a human encyclopedia of both styles. We hit it off instantly. Unfortunately his persona side in ring, in a Jeckle and Hyde way was the evil luchador Locuro, the epitome of insanity. Wrestling Locuro was like wrestling the Fun-house mirror version of myself. Without him I wouldn’t have learnt to stick up for myself, he was the only person in the state who saw wrestling the same way I did and we were rivals for 24 years, finally I earned the respect and peace with his Locuro side in 2021. Around my 14th birthday GCW got a cable access show deal, unfortunately due to the regulations with the strict state athletic commission Damian and I were excluded due to being under 18. We would sneak in and train/spar before the tapings early in the morning but we were caught soon by Mike. Shockingly he was cool with it, he appreciated our dedication, we just had to make ourselves scarce during tapings, which were Thursday to saturday and the show would air at 5 in the morning on Sunday. The following year on my 15th birthday for a birthday present to me, he got Damian and I to compete against each other in an exhibition match for three members of the state athletic commission, in order to get licensed pro. They snickered and joked to each other about our size as we got in, our match was standard for nowadays but of course mind-blowing for late 90’s Texas, I won with the shooting star press, I would soon call the Galaxy Leap. We both got licensed and then got additional good news. GCW’s show was becoming live instead of pre-recorded and we were the opening match of the inaugural live-taping. I lost that match to Locuro. On top of feuding with Locuro( while Damian was my travel buddy, drove me everywhere), as we toured wrestling on tour with GCW and for the territories/ independent circuits of Arkansas , Louisiana, Oklahoma and Utah . We formed factions and he had an evil referee who was the head referee, plus two twin luchador-ninjas and the world champion, the main-eventer a super heavyweight biker. I would beat the crap out of the evil ref in matches but he won a lot due to help from Locuro’s goons. Outside of wrestling, in 1994 at 11 years old due to an advanced placement program I was able to graduate/ skip junior high and high school and go to the state university as both a student and assistant professor in the astronomy department. I began selling weed and occasionally psychedelics to the students, as they were on study drugs like ritalin. To get them to like me. Unfortunately , I have had this childhood bully J.T. Douglas had began a career as a sports-journalist and on June 12th 1999 the newspaper article exposed my selling of the drugs. I was let go from the College, luckily I was 16 so still a juvenile, we worked it out that it would go on my academic record, ruining my other goal of working for NASA, plus I had to do some work with/for the DARE program. I’ve always been a fan favorite as a wrestler and now parents hated me, they didn’t want their kids at shows cheering for me. I took it in stride and never turned on the fans, I changed my entrance music from Kids in America by Kim Wilde to When I Come Around by Green Day which fit best lyrically to describe the situation: ‘, I heard you cryin' loud All the way across town You've been searching for that someone, and it's me out on the prowl As you sit around feeling sorry for yourself Well don't get lonely now And dry your whinin' eyes I'm just roaming for the moment, sleazin' my backyard, so don't get So uptight, you've been thinking about ditching me No time to search the world around 'Cause you know where I'll be found When I come around Oh, I heard it all before So don't knock down my door I'm a loser and a user, so I don't need no accuser To try and slag me down because I know you're right So go do what you like Make sure you do it wise You may find out that yourself doubt means nothing was ever there You can't go forcing somethin' if it's just not right No time to search the world around 'Cause you know where I'll be found When I come around No time to search the world around 'Cause you know where I'll be found When I come around Oh, when I come around Oh, when I come around When I come around” Fortunately in my matches I was fighting under and would win them back to liking me again. In 2001 I left Texas with my own RV to travel and live in as I went to work the midwest indies in the midwest and midsouth, living in Chicago, Illinois. I had a job during the week at a rag-tag start up tech company at a stripmall as a coder. I had quickly become a notable name of the generation of early 2000’s independent wrestling, getting internet buzz. However little to mostly no pay still, just enough for gas money sometimes but I was able to learn how to sell some merch, which helped a bit. Unfortunately the following year in 2002 as my wrestling dates stacked up, I was let go from the tech start up. Which was very bad because I still wasn’t making money despite the prominent internet buzz and recognition of the ICW and my peers. My luck turned around in 2004 when I got my first international tour, the UK and England from October 16th to December 27th. It was my first time in well-kempt rings, every ring I had wrestled in at that point, I am still incredulous of how I never got ringworm or anything, plus being a high-flier and dealing with occasionally ring ropes breaking, was common too. My style was dynamic back then too, my technical cruiserweight style worked with the British style. It was actually British wrestling on TV one rainy day that influenced me to start training as an amateur wrestler at 6 years old. When I returned I achieved my boyhood dream of wrestling in Japan. That was my pipedream, wrestling for the biggest company in American wrestling was unlikely due to my size, the wrestlers I idolized who made it there even wrestled in Japan a few years before. I signed a two year deal from 2005-2007 with Toryumon Titans debuting on January 5h 2005. I made a couple excursions back in 2006 wrestling for the first time in the west coast and that is what propelled me to the mainstream American-global level at 25 years old. I earned the respect and friendship of childhood heroes and even though I only got to main event a couple times the veterans and locker room liked me. The labyrinth of the backstage/ business side was very tough on me, I went from a cocky son of bitch( still a fan favorite, never turning on fans) to overly humble, false humility really. My shoulders were fucked up from 10 years of experience, over 10 years counting my frigging backyard days. , three years later on my 29th birthday I got in motorcycle accident, pfft It was a scooter, fucked up my right foot and ankle. They let me heal for two years before releasing me, still on great terms despite a couple wellness violations. That was just totally misrepresented by dirt sheets because nobody knew much about my injuries, I was using cannabis for medicinal reasons , you couldn’t expose your injuries they took you off TV man, I was not a big star but I had consistent status, not stuck in catering like some of my buddies. I was let go but we still have a good relationship, I’ve returned to their performance center to train some up-and coming high-fliers in seminars and I do mo-cap for their video games. I was cleared for a desk job, I couldn’t move like a ninja and I had no confidence plus my love for the business was just juiced out of me. I had lost that passion. Around 2010 I began my studying of eastern philosophy and the benefits of psychedelics, the weekend of my release in 2014 I went to the Peruvian jungle for an ayahuasca ceremony, it didn’t take but I stayed two more weeks and got reborn through what is called “ Eachuma”, same plant medicine just from San Pedro cactus. This is actually all administered legally and medically by shamans. That spiritual rebirth brought back my love for wrestling by 10-fold, started taping up my foot and wrestling on weekends again. Do all the physical therapy I could and just smash that ankle and foot up with the Galaxy Leap, I’m not a man of material possession, but by 2020 I’ve been recognized as one of the top free agent American pro wrestlers and I’m a millionaire. I just use it to tend to my cacti garden and traveling, living in apartments in New York, I have my parents’ house and a home in the same neighborhood as my parents in Sugar Land. I have two residency deals with one for a hotel-resort in Kobe Japan and a hotel-resort in Las Vegas. I have a wrestling school called the Sky-dojo where I train a small but dedicated class in both the arts of martial arts and pro wrestling. I don't know what this pink slip shit is about I won last week, I was the innuagural C4 super junior champ here, this year.I'm

“The ring has always been the place for Ace.” Ace Sky: That’s accurate to say of myself. Most of my life was constantly getting reprimanded by adults for being too loud, too energetic, drawing attention to myself. Apparently even if you finish your school work first, doing a backflip for your classmates was not acceptable. As I was reprimanded each time for an infraction my voice would get higher and higher with each apology, simple “ sorry” or in Los siento spanish class. Ride home on my skateboard doing all types of new tricks, still showing off. I would be able to unwind at home working on his model rockets than needing that social interaction soon and hanging out with his friends playing sports until dark. Despite being undersized in Texas where the love for everything big is not just a stereotype but truly ubiquitous I was able to mostly get along with my peers, had a good sense of humor and quick wit for the most part with it. If I was ever bullied about it I could deflect it with that, but if it was a big bully picking on someone else weaker or even wanting to get in my face too much, I was able to dish out some good ole Texan justice with a rana/headscissors takedown and mounted punches until I was pulled off or just evading attempts at grabbing and attacks able to hit and run. Ace Sky: I’ve always been overly fascinated with subjects. My father likened me to “ the energizer bunny with the brain of Newton”. I never liked the whole” gifted” spiel from adults. I was interested in these subjects- aviation, astrophysics and astronomy due to witnessing the Challenger space shuttle disaster around 2 years old, plus martial arts media and pro wrestling. The latter too influenced by my older brother Arlo( named after folk singer Arlo Guthrie, despite being a staunch pacifist and musical genius he is also a huge fan of Bruce Lee and pro wrestling so he pretty much indoctrinated me when I came home from the hospital after birth and he was 12 years old at the time. 2 years later my twin younger brothers Ivan and Davey were born and joined in loving that stuff too. I’ve always been the only athletic one, as my family are intellectuals and studious. My opponent Sky, she used to sweet and loveable now she’s embraced an obnoxious side which I think works, she’s a great grappler. I want the spotlight, I want to keep progressing. I don’t wanna stay in the lower of the card, lets keep moving and grooving man.

Ace Sky( voice over): It took me 12 years to accomplish my boyhood dream of wrestling in Japan. That was my pipedream, the ultimate goal. My goal was never to be a superstar level wrestler in America, that seemed impossible. It is wild to put it in perspective. If you just count starting from my professional care er debut on March 29th 1998 it was 6 years, 9 months and 10 days. In 2004 I got on my first international tour of the UK and Europe from October 16th to December 27th. Got back and got contacted through Myspace of all places the offer to work for Toryumon Titans , a company which worked with all Japanese cruiserweight federations to create one federation. I was one of the few select foreigner/ American wrestlers chosen. My time there was two years, first match on January 8th 2005 and last match on January 8th 2007. I took a couple trips back to the states to work on the West Coast. I went from child prodigy from Sugar Land Texas, expected to be the next Isaac Newton, to just killing it in Japan by 21 years old.

cruiserweight vs giant/super heavyweight progressive leftist vs far right conservative ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ace moved out of his childhood home in Sugar Land, Houston Texas at 18 years old on April 1st 2001, to live in Chicago, Illinois in his own RV . 8 years after he became a black belt in Taekwondo 7 years and 11 months after he started backyard wrestling 4 years and 6 months after his farewell backyard wrestling match( where he met Damian who became his rival Locuro ) 4 years and 2 months after his first day of pro training 3 years and 16 days since he became legally licensed pro 3 years and 3 days since his pro debut One year and 9 months after the scandal of him being kicked out of state college as both a student and assistant professor for selling drugs to students. After attending college for five years. He had made a name for himself In the territories/ independent circuits of the south Texas, Arkansas , Louisiana, Oklahoma and Utah. During the week he work as a coder at a fledgling tech start up, competing on the midwest independent circuit on weekends. It was an odd turn of events in his life- The middle child of two physicists, an astrophysics prodigy with an IQ of 190 known statewide for not just his academic accomplishments but known locally for his success athletically in martial arts and amateur wrestling. He had become a legit professional wrestler at 15 and by 16 was subject to infamy and controversy with the whole college scandal. Instead of playing into the controversy as a villainous martyr , Ace continued to be himself and he won over hesitant parents and elders with his prodigal prowess in the ring, he was able to remain a fan favorite despite that controversy, not out of any conscious effort from Ace either , he just remained himself ,he always moved to the beat of his own drum. After the move to midwest, Ace got his first international tour in 2004 from October 16th to December 27th, debuted in Japan on January 8th 2005, had a few excursions back to America in the West Coast in 2006 and moved back to the US to the West coast in 2007 where he became a globally known superstar level wrestler by 2008 at 25 years old, due to injuries in ring and out of the ring, plus his medicinical usage of cannabis in a time and places that were not acceptable led him to a depressive state of mind, in 2014 he was able to embark on a trip to the Peruvian jungle to an ayahuasca retreat where he became reborn and in touch with his “ Jaguar spirit”, since then he has combined his spiritual ideologies of eastern philosophies with his philosophies in martial arts and pro wrestling, using his notoriety as a revolutionary visionary to spread an inclusive message of self-expression and civic-disobedience to unjust laws and corporate evil. Ace remains a paradoxical enigma as he is eager to encapsulate equanimity while also being a hedonistic-hippie. Since March 30 of 2020 he has been the most requested and highest paid free-agent American wrestler —------------------------------------------------------------- Ace arrived at the arena, he would always spend time with the backstage staff and crew members, who were mostly ignored by the talent, in return they filmed him for his promo: Ace is backstage in an area to himself, he is seen stretching then climbing up on an equipment box in a lotus pose, as the camera crew focus on him. Ace Sky: What Derrick Kane has rambled on about, just factually isn’t true. That’s par for the course with him and his fans. they even think the election was stolen so that’s the kind of person I’m dealing with I am intellectually superior, however our in ring IQ are both high but from different experiences. He is 7’ft tall, he was probably scouted for this business, I had to scratch and claw, sneak and slither my way into this business as a cruiserweight. His promo is just so inaccurate, it’s like how do I respond to that? His promo was basically like trying to argue with someone who says they believe the earth is made of cheese, how do you respond to that shit? There’s no argument to be had, there’s no reasoning with a person like that. You are threat with your size and you have success from your experience but you’ve already lost intellectually and you will lose physically and mentally. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------