Jason Kincaid

PRO SERIES: How To EVOLVE In Six Easy Steps Step 4: KEEP Trying To EVOLVE

In 2002, Gabe Sapolsky changed my life for the better. His founding of, and matchmaking at, Ring Of Honor shaped who I became as a wrestler and as a person. ROH re-trained me and a lot of other wrestling fans…

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PRO SERIES: How To EVOLVE In Six Easy Steps Step 3: Try To EVOLVE

In 2014, I drove seventeen hours and eleven minutes to Houston, Texas, to do a New Japan Pro Wrestling tryout. Eager to make a good impression, I was the first to volunteer for every drill and asked to go first…

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PRO SERIES: How To EVOLVE In Six Easy Steps Step 2: Prepare To Evolve

CHECK OUT PART ONE AT THIS LINK! “So, like, what are you going for with your look?” Chris Hero asked me, in the dressing room of the Nitro Community Center, in Nitro, WV, in 2011. “Well, kinda like a ‘Rollerball’…

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PRO SERIES: How To EVOLVE In Six Easy Steps – Step 1: Resolve To Evolve

Ring Of Honor had started booking me for events that required them to invest a plane ticket in me. Before events, producers worked with me on my entrance. After events, matchmakers used words like “in the future”. All signs seemed…

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PRO SERIES: Becoming A Top Prospect Part V: How Amazingly Weird

After completing the Ring Of Honor tryout camp, it was back to the daily grind in West Virginia. Before heading out to Winterplace Ski Resort, I would email the ROH matchmakers asking for an opportunity. While I was earning a…

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PRO SERIES: Becoming A Top Prospect Part IV: Camp Crystallizes Kincaid

I woke up early to make the hour commute to the Ring Of Honor Tryout Camp: Day Two. As I wove in and out of the Philadelphia traffic, the only stress I felt was the stress of “making it” in…

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PRO SERIES: Becoming A Top Prospect Part III: Destroyed Inside

I had spent three hundred dollars of my wife’s hard earned money. I had driven seven hours and thirteen minutes from my house to the Ring Of Honor Dojo. I had cut a promo that made me stand out from…

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PRO SERIES: Becoming A Top Prospect Part 2: PromO-M-G

  Thankful that my car made it, having driven through the night, I arrived many hours early for day one of the Ring Of Honor Try Out Camp/Seminar. I took the opportunity to nap in the car; setting my alarm…

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PRO SERIES: Becoming A Top Prospect Part One: Finding Me, Bro

In 2003, when I started training to be a professional wrestler, Ring Of Honor is where I wanted to wrestle. It took me 13 years, and a lot of effort, to get there. For most of my life, I had…

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PRO SERIES: Wrestling On The Street Of México For $42.26 Part V: Bawling en el Baño

After thirty seven hours in a car, I want to sleep in, stretch out, and maybe go for a hike, but when my kind friend whom I am staying with says, “Some of the guys are coming over soon and…

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