should i try and become a professional wrestler?

You can become a wrestler if you want and follow your dreams but if you're planning to get married; around 70% - 80% of WWE get married more than once or divorced, you'll be away from your family 90% of the time which greatly affects your love life and social life together. Also, Matt Hardy claims on his official myspace page that he never gets enough sleep due to his WWE schedule, and he's not even a top main - eventer on Raw or Smackdown! (Yet maybe)

Instructions Difficulty: Challenging

Training and Conditioning: Challenging

Step 1 Take up a sport other than wrestling. Many WWE wrestlers started as well-rounded athletes playing football or other sports. You don't need to be a world-class athlete, but you should be conditioned as a wrestling match is a strenuous activity. It may be fake and kayfabe but as one of the commercials say, the hazards are real. Obviously you cannot fake falling off a ladder so bear in mind the kind of punishment you may have to endure just to entertain.

Step 2 Take up amateur wrestling in school. Having a background in actual competitive wrestling has never been required, but it will help. Fans are growing more and more to like wrestlers that can pull off actual wrestling moves.

Step 3 Attend professional wresting schools. The WWE does not personally sponsor any schools, but there are many independent schools and some sponsored by smaller wrestling companies. Check online to find a school near your area. You can find some shools here online at Yahoo Answers or just Google it and something is bound to come up.

Step 4 Take acting or speech classes. Remember that WWE wresting is a mix of sports and theater. You need to be an entertaining character as well as an athlete. In WWE, it's usually more about charisma more than wrestling ability or fighting skills.

The Pro Wrestling Ladder

Step A Try out for a smaller, independent wrestling organization. Maybe something like OVW (That was what Randy Orton was in) This is the same as starting in the minor leagues in major league sports. The big difference is you will have to rely on yourself to move upward.

Step B Get a tryout in Ohio Valley Wrestling, located in Louisville, Kentucky. This is the official training ground for the WWE, and almost all their wrestlers come from here.

Step C Move up to the WWE to perform in dark matches. You will first take part in matches put on for the live fans before the televised matches. From this point you may be be moved onto Heat - A show which gives newbes on WWE a chance to make their debut.

Step D Move up to WWE television shows. Your character will be assigned to either Raw, SmackDown or ECW. Raw is meant to be 'The Big Cheese' of the WWE because it is televised live.

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Professional Wrestling is now one of the most popular, exciting, and highest paying sports in the world today. And with that popularity and high pay, there is a whole new generation of aspiring young people who are seriously interested in one day becoming a Professional Wrestling Superstar. Wrestlers are some of the most famous celebrities in the world, and they do make tons of money, and their lives are pretty exciting. But most aspiring wrestlers do not realize that the life of a pro wrestler involves tremendous work, dedication, constantly traveling, and frequent painful injuries. Being a pro wrestler may seem glamorous, but it’s anything but.

Most people only see wrestlers once or twice a week on television and think that’s all they do. What these people don’t get to see are all practices and rehearsals that are not televised. During these rehearsals and practice a wrestler is in the ring every day for hours at a time. And if you thing that’s not hard work, go to a wrestling school and go at it for about 15 minutes.

Here is a typical day on the road for a WWE Pro Wrestler: You wake up at 7:00 in the morning. You get to the airport at 8:30. You take a flight across the country and arrive at 11:00. After renting a car, checking into a hotel room, and something to eat, it’s 1:00. Time to go to a photo shoot. So you drive to a mall and sign autographs until 3:00. It’s time to head on over to the arena. Getting through traffic, you might make it by 4:30. After you eat something and do a short workout, it’s 5:30. At that time you go talk to one of the bookers and he goes over your match with you. If you can find the time, you and your opponent do a quick run down of what’s going to happen. By then it’s 7:00 and it’s time to go on. You wrestle a match and leave the arena at 10:00. You get to the hotel by 12:00 and get some sleep before you do it all over again in the morning. Now find time to workout and keep the marvelous body a wrestler has. And you want some sort of social life don’t you? Good luck.

But if you are determined, it isn’t impossible to become a wrestler. The first thing you must do is go to a local wrestling school. Prices vary between schools, but you can expect to pay a couple of thousand dollars for a good one. Ninety nine percent of people never make it past the school. Imagine high school football, except twice as hard. The trainer doesn’t care if you quit or not, he’s just doing his job. They let you know you’re going to get hurt, that’s unavoidable. Most people walk away from the school after the first week with painful bruises galore, sometimes worse. If you’re one of the truly tough and lucky, then it’s time for the independent federations.

You’ll be working once or twice a week, in front of 100-300 people making $25 a night or sometimes nothing at all. This is to work on your ring skills and your personality. Some guys find themselves in these small leagues for years, others never make it past this stage. Now if you’re strong and lucky enough to get yourself booked in a show and a pro wrestling manager happens to be there, you have a slight chance he might like you. If he does, then you’ll be receiving a phone call or letter asking to wrestle a dark match. A dark match is a match done the night of a TV taping, but is not aired. They’re done to pump up the crowd. So you go to the big company, meet all the wrestlers, wrestle your match, and go home. Nine out of ten times you just wait for that to happen again. If you’re really a lucky one, you’ll get a phone call to come back and wrestle some more dark matches. And maybe, just maybe, you’ll get signed by a major company, such as World Wrestling Entertainment. This is the equivalent of the Major Leagues in Baseball.

So as you can see, being a wrestler is a tough job. Even if you do make it through school and get hired by WWE, will you be able to handle the schedule? That’s something you have to ask yourself before you pursue this career.

Don't Listen To What Any Other People Said About Following Your Dreams! If You Want To Be Successful You Have To Chase Your Dreams. You Should 100% Become A Wrestler If You Think You'll Be Good.

I think only you can answer that. If its something you want to do, and something you love & enjoying doing than go for it. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

You sound fit for job. It's a smart move going to college as a back plan. That is what I'm doing as well. It's a good thing you are prepared & know what you are getting into, that will help you in the long run. Sounds to me like you have as good of a chance as anyone. Good Luck.

Go for it. Ill be your fan too as long as your an awesomely talented wrestler not one of these im so buff ill toss you around people haha

Mate you should follow your dream win a belt or 2 along the way and you'll be wrestling in no time i'll be a fan of yours.

Like jimmy said follow your dreams

guy above me has the best answer.

im not even going to try

No. Ur probaly gay because u want to be a wrestler. See ya.