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Robert Martyr has been successful pro wrestling for much than a decade and, connected Saturday, he’s looking to adhd a triumph against a "legitimate legend" successful Bárbaro Cavernario.
Martyr and Cavernario’s lucifer is 1 of nan bouts connected a stacked paper that will return spot astatine Pandemonium: Pro Wrestling’s Dismantling Summer arena successful Portland, Oregon. Martyr told Fox News Digital he was a spot apprehensive astir taking nan lucifer earlier committing to it.
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Robert Martyr gets fresh for his upcoming match. (Provided to Fox News Digital)
"I’ve been backmost and distant connected it," he said successful a caller interview. "Like, I was backmost and distant connected nan lucifer erstwhile it was presented to me. You ever get successful your caput astir things. You ever person this level of imposter syndrome. But past I realized, dude, I’ve been doing this 11 years. It’s clip to extremity sulking. I’m doing this 11 years. I’m bully astatine what I do. I’m genuinely 1 of nan champion connected nan indies. It doesn’t matter really often aliases not often I’m wrestling but whenever I do get successful nan ring, I make magic.
"I’m very excited. I cognize very overmuch astir Bárbaro. He’s 1 of nan champion successful nan world. Legitimately has been 1 of nan champion successful nan world for for illustration possibly 10 years. I’m not a alien to Lucha. I was calved and bred successful Lucha. I studied it. That was my first style erstwhile I learned really to do pro wrestling. So, I’m very, very excited. I’m gonna beryllium connected a immense show pinch Pandemonium – astatine this point, my location promotion. The point pinch Barbaro is he legitimately has wrestled successful Arena Mexico. He’s seen everything. He’s wrestled everything. I’m gonna get to acquisition that. I’m gonna opportunity I sewage to measurement into nan ringing pinch a legit legend. And, I’m not gonna lose. I’m not gonna beryllium respectful. I’m gonna beryllium precisely who I americium and I’m gonna win."
Martyr sewage his commencement successful pro wrestling erstwhile he was conscionable a teenager. He said he sewage hooked connected nan athletics from watching aged Lucha Libre tapes that his grandma had recorded.
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While others grew up either watching nan WWE (then-World Wrestling Federation) and World Championship Wrestling, Martyr said he sewage hooked connected Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) and Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL).
"I started doing master wrestling astatine 14 years old. I sewage into it because my grandma was a immense instrumentality of wrestling. She ever recorded wrestling. She had tapes of AAA and CMLL," he told Fox News Digital. "Funny enough, I didn’t turn up connected WWE astatine all. I grew up connected Lucha Libre. That’s each I was watching from possibly nan clip I was 3 aliases 4 years old.
Pro wrestler Robert Martyr nails his force successful nan backmost connected nan head. (Provided to Fox News Digital)
"Eventually, you know, I had ADHD, I’m like, man, I can’t look to enactment still, and my mom was trying to find a athletics and thing was working. And I said, why don’t I conscionable effort wrestling. I don’t cognize if that’s possible. I recovered a school. They made america motion a waiver and nan remainder is history. So, that’s beautiful overmuch what I’ve been doing. I’ve wrestled successful precocious school. I did boxing, Muy Thai. I’m successful music. I do a batch of stuff."
Martyr said his dream was to bring retired immoderate emotion retired of those watching. He wants to make group consciousness each kinds of emotion erstwhile he puts connected his capacity successful nan ring.
Like astir pro wrestlers, it’s taken a while to get location and nan grind wouldn’t beryllium arsenic specified if it wasn’t for chaotic stories astir going connected nan road.
Martyr shared his ain communicative astir being booked successful his first show retired of his location authorities of Florida.
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"The craziest 1 was astir apt erstwhile I drove 20 hours to Chicago to wrestle for 3 minutes. It was rather nan something. Professional wrestler, she’s amazing, Janai Kai, was successful that car. EK Prosper, from NXT, was besides successful that car. We were each together," he explained. "I started pinch those guys. We sewage this booking and we were like, you cognize what, it’s our first retired of authorities booking (based successful Florida), we’re gonna make this happen. We’re gonna go. We’re gonna put each our money together, thrust up there. So, we thrust up location and it’s conscionable a mess. It’s for illustration nan worst tally show you ever seen successful your life.
"Nobody knows what’s happening. The promoter doesn’t cognize what’s happening. Pretty much, he had forgotten that he had booked maine specifically. He had forgot that I was besides there. So, erstwhile I show up, he was like, ‘Wait, I booked you?’ And I’m like, yeah. Here’s nan matter messages. And he’s like, ‘Oh.’ So he books maine successful a squash lucifer and it was virtually for illustration 2 minutes aft a 20-hour car thrust from Orlando, Florida, to Chicago, Illinois, and back. So really for illustration 40 hours for a two-minute squash match."
Indie wrestler Robert Martyr eyes nan pro wrestling ring. (Provided to Fox News Digital)
Martyr admitted he took nan nonaccomplishment connected that travel and whitethorn not person moreover gotten paid for his troubles.
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Moving forward, he said he hoped to triumph immoderate golden successful nan adjacent future. If he does, it would beryllium nan first title he’s held successful his master wrestling career.
Ryan Gaydos is simply a elder editor for Fox News Digital.
