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Retro Wrestling Episode #14: w/Izzy High aKa American Kickboxer


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On this week's episode Gene Jackson welcomes the one & only Izzy High a.k.a. the American Kickboxer to the show! Izzy broke into the business in 1990 and has quite the storied pro wrestling career. An innovator in the ring who helped paved the way to success to many of the guys you see on television every week today. They discuss what it was like breaking into wrestling back in 1990, the pitfalls of trusting carny con artists when trying to get trained for wrestling, being trained and mentored in the business by legends such as Les Thatcher, Tracy Smother, and Bull Pain, the importance of meeting and working with Terek the Great to his career, working in IWA Mid South, meeting and working for ICP and JCW, working with WWE Hall of Famer the Iron Sheik, heading south to work for Kick Ass Wrestling in Memphis, being a musician, doing comedy, and much, much more! Izzy is a great guy and this was a fun and enlightening interview. Do yourself a favor and check it out!

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