STORM MAVERICK BIOGRAPHY
Written by Storm Maverick
When I was a 5 year old I would watch wrestling all the time and listen to music with my parents. My favorite artist at the time was Michael Jackson and my favorite wrestler was Hulk Hogan. I believe one day I will prevail in being an artist and a wrestler one day. I would daydream and fantasize what it’ll be like to do either one of those careers. I just didn’t have a clue how I would get there. Back then it was 1990 and there was no such thing as the internet. I saw that there was a phone number to be a wrestler and I will tell my mom to call the wrestling school so I can go. A 5 year old becoming a wrestler? She told me when I got older and I stuck to it.
That same year my grandpa from my dad’s side of the family named Benedicto gave me a Fisher Price acoustic guitar. I started to strum on it. Didn’t know how to play it, but my family watched me playing a sweet song since I was put on the spot, but I enjoyed my first concert not knowing at the time how to play the guitar. I didn’t learn how to play until I was a teenager when my youth pastor at my church gave me a chord book and then I started learning my chords. When I was a teenager I would start to write songs, but I was writing really depressing stuff since I was trying to get used to my parents being divorced. However, my outlet became music during my teens. I also learned how to do audio engineering at my church and was able to work on a 32 channel mixer. That was fun too.
Fast forward to college, while I was getting an associate degree in automotive technology. I saw an acquaintance using an app called FL Studio. I told myself I am going to buy myself a laptop after I get a job which would be after I graduate college. I did exactly that. In February of 2009 I bought my first laptop and the first thing I did was download FL Studio. I struggled a lot to make songs like any producer starting out. Luckily I was working with a producer that taught me distribution and also how to produce. His name is Cam Goodie. Thanks to Cam Goodie I was getting better and better with my music production.
In 2010, I was looking up wrestling companies in my area to see if they could teach me how to wrestle. They told me to go to one of their wrestling indie shows. This promotion is named GOUGE Wrestling. I went and was amazed by what they were doing. Count Grog was the promoter and he was a great boss. They told me to meet up with a guy named Seymour Snott that will teach me wrestling, but it had to be before the wrestling shows that they did once a month. I went every month until Jimmy Jack Funk Jr., Seymour Snott and I were hanging out and they decided that I should join 5 Dollar Wrestling. I decided to join.
That year I got my gear and was about to have my first wrestling match. My opponent would be Raider Rock. My promoter would be Manscout Manning. Commentators would be Colt Cabana and Marty DeRosa. It was at a show called This Many which I believe is still available on Highspots TV. I had my first wrestling match and backstage I felt pretty emotional I had my first match. I’m glad Jimmy Jack Funk Jr., Seymour Snott and Jesse rode with me. It was a great feeling to have wrestled my first wrestling match.
As the years went by I kept wrestling for GOUGE and 5 Dollar Wrestling. I also was making a ton of music and was getting streams. I only wrestled for 5 years and I decided to continue music and being a DJ and playlister while working. I was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2017 and wanted to come back to wrestling, but I was getting dizzy all the time and being dizzy in the ring is dangerous. At least, till I decided to be an author, I was doing music till 2024. The reason why I don’t do music anymore, and I did it for 16 years, is because I am running out of ideas for songs making over 300 of them. I’m thankful for the millions of streams and also being, in music, an Akademia Hall of Famer. So now I am an author. I also did podcasting which was fun. Podcasted solo as well as with Ben Jordan and Vito Thomaselli. Vito also refereed with WWE. Proud of him.
This is my story up till now. I am glad that I followed my 5 year old dream to become a wrestler and an artist. I just want to say thank you for everyone that ever supported my journey in whatever endeavor I got myself into next. Thank you.