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By Lanny Stewart, Westman Journal Reflecting on his younger years, Vern May recalls a decision he had to make while in high school. The yearbook editor wanted to know what May wanted to do with his life. “I knew that just saying I wanted to be a professional wrestler wasn’t going to be palatable for my parents,” he said. At that time, it was what the Souris product wanted to do. It was his dream to perform in a wrestling ring in front of screaming fans. Now at the age of 38 years old, May is no longer performing pile drivers, DDTs and other wrestling maneuvers. How he got his start in wrestling is something he remembers quite vividly. “When I was 16 years old, I was working for the community newspaper here in Souris and mostly it was because a friend of mine had said that if you work for the media, you get a press card, so you get free passes to everything,” he explained. May used the press card to his advantage one night and was able to secure a backstage interview with Canadian wrestling icon Bret Hart in Winnipeg. Little did May know that night, that years later, he booked Hart to headline a wrestling event he was helping promote. “My career really launched with this interview with Bret and then a year later, I was wrestling and then it [career] ended with Bret working for me.
That was one of those experiences that you think, ‘geez, how did this happen?’” May’s love for wrestling grew after that interview and soon afterwards, an independent wrestling card came to Souris. May and a friend of his helped set up the ring prior to the event and that night, May was introduced to the promoter of the wrestling tour. Approximately a year later, May contacted the
promoter and ended up getting connected with a trainer who helped him prepare for the rigors of wrestling professionally. “He had this quonset out in the backyard and there was a wrestling ring in it,” May explained. “It was like right out of Rocky 4. You don’t picture that this is going to be there. It just looks like someone’s garage in their yard and then when you go in, there’s this full-sized wres-
tling ring.” May, along with a few others from the Souris area, trained for approximately eight weeks, learning the ins and outs of what it takes to become a wrestler. “Then they pretty much just threw us to the wolves and said, ‘OK, you know enough’,” he explained. May wrestled out of Winnipeg in his early days and eventually caught on
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with a wrestling tour in the Maritimes. For the next four years, May was focused on “chasing wrestling pay cheques,” he says. He worked in small venues as part of independent wrestling tours and had difficulty scraping by financially. “It’s a tough road to make a living, that’s for sure. When you start out, it’s horrible. I remember the first six months that I continued on page 2
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