Huh. His resume is pretty solid. How's
yours?
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Hey everyone! It's Coach Josh Gerry and
today we're going to talk about pro
wrestling resumes. A topic came up on
Facebook and myself and uncle Bob Evans
started chatting about it, hence the
reason I'm rocking the Hangs with Bob
t-shirt, and we wanted to talk about pro
wrestling resumes. I get a lot of
questions about how to reach out to
promoters. What's the best way to put
your foot forward? How do you build a pro
wrestling resume? And it's pretty simple.
You build a pro wrestling resume, as if
it were a real job that you're applying
for. Because you could, should consider
pro wrestling a job. Okay? If you consider
it a hobby, that's all it will be for the
rest of your life. If you treat it like a
career, and you treat it like a job, that it will
eventually it will be your paying job.
Mindset, right? So you want to make it
look professional. So, I have a little bit
of something special here. I have a
wrestling resume, that I received.... many
years ago, from somebody that you guys
may know. Adam Cole. Yes, this is literally
Adam Cole's pro wrestling resume from
2000, and looks like about '11, '12, maybe,
give or take. But it's just to give you
an idea of what you need to put on this.
I show this to all of my pro wrestling
students, so they can pour over it. If you
want a copy of it, send me a message, I'll
send it to you. It's no big deal. But some
of the important information that you
want to have on a pro wrestling resume
is: your shoot name and your contact
information. That's the biggest thing.
Email. Phone number. Website, if you've got
one. Or your social media links if you've
got it. Don't cram it all in the top. Make
it succinct. Make it tight. Make it
readable. But you want to have your
contact information there. Now, this one,
actually has a quote from Les Thatcher.
That Les Thatcher said about Adam Cole's
experience. And so, that's a nice little
addition there. Now, of course you go into
your work, or your gimmick, or your
character, right? That name, billed height,
weight, birthdate, who you were trained by.
And it's not just who you were initially
trained by, but it is who you've worked
out with, who you've had classes
with, seminars you've gone to, camps you've
done. Things like that. You want to put,
just like education on a professional
resume, your professional wrestling
resume needs to have it as well.
There's clinics, camps, seminars. Your pro
debut. And there's actually a tidbit here:
how many matches you've had as a
professional.
If you don't remember exactly, that's
fine. And, of course, you can put it out at
a hundred matches, and by the time
somebody reads, it you've had 200. You can
constantly update it. Which you should be
updating a resume anyway. Any promotions
that you've worked for. That's an obvious
one. And don't just put the alphabet soup
that is what they're known for.
The alphabet soup, which if you don't
know what that means, that's the XYZ, the
ABC, whatever, of the promotion. But then
also spell it out, and where they're
based. Any titles you may have held.
Anything special that you may have done
for some of these promotions. And then, of
course, obviously you want to make
yourself stand out a little more. In particular,
Adam Cole's here, actually has he was in
"The Wrestler", with Mickey Rourke. That's
in there. His appearances with Ring of
Honor. Any media you've done. Podcasts. If
you were in the newspaper for wrestling
related things. If you were on a news
station for something wrestling related.
Any media you've done. Any public
speaking. Anything that will help set you
apart, so that when somebody looks at
this resume, they can go: "Wow, this guy's
done more than just wrestling." Any non
wrestling related jobs you've done IN
the pro wrestling business. You've been a
referee. If you've been a manager. If
you've been an announcer. If you've run
sound. If you've done ring crew, etc. All
that stuff needs to go in there. And then
If you've done any charity. If you've
done charity pro wrestling events, where
X amount of the proceeds was donated to
so-and-so. That's a good thing because
that's a character builder, okay? Any
extra skills, interests,  things like that,
that might set you apart. If you've got
some, if you can speak three different
languages, that sets you apart from
somebody that just speaks English. Now
here's the kicker, you want to make it
neat and nice and everything, but how do
you get it into the hands of a promoter?
Or somebody that has influence on
getting you a job in professional wrestling?
You can do what 90% of all the people
out there in the world do. I've gotten
them. Every promoter in the country has
gotten them. You get the same copy and
paste message: "Hey, I'm just wondering if
you've got any spots. Here's my resume.
Here's links to my matches. Get back in
touch with me."
Everybody does it. Promoters get 15 to 50
of those a week. They're a dime a dozen.
Here's the key to getting your resume in
front of a promoter, or a Booker. And one
of the big reasons that I have the hangs
with Bob t-shirt on: Bob commented and
said, "Here." Hand the resume to the actual
promoter. If the promoter is actually
able to connect a face to this piece of
paper, that does a whole lot more than
just sending a blanket Facebook message,
or email, to somebody. Standing out. How
many people do you know that're gonna
drive 300 miles, to a promotion they've
never been to before, to introduce
themselves, and hand a resume? Not many.
You're automatically gonna stand out. And
on top of that, if you help set up, and
you help tear down, and you're a nice,
decent, hard-working, human being, it'll
open more doors than you would ever
imagine. Building relationships, and
standing out from the crowd, are two of
the biggest factors to success in
professional wrestling. So guys, if you've
got a professional wrestling resume, and
you want to make it better, or you want
some advice, or you want some critiques,
send them to me. Easily available. All of
my links to social media are in the
description.
Connect with me. Send me messages, tweet
me, Instagram me, tag me. Whatever you need
to do. People do it all the time,
and I answer every single message.
Comment in the video comment sections,
down below there. And you never know, I
will look at it and I will give you the
best advice that I can to make it look
as good as possible, but YOU have to do
the work, to get it in the hands of a
promoter. As always guys, my name is Josh
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