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Nicolaus Martin has always loved wrestling. Everyone called him Nicky. As a child, he and his brothers would wrestle around as they watched the WWF, WCW and NWA. Nicky and his family were very poor. Every winter there was at least a month with no electricity at their home. No matter how poor they were, wrestling seemed to make them forget about it, even if it was only for an hour.
In the midst of everything, Nicky and his brothers had quite an imagination. They made the championship belts out of cardboard and aluminum foil. Mostly, they played around except for the few wrestling matches they had in a little town in Illinois.
Nicky was bullied starting at the age of thirteen. The more people picked on him, the tougher he got. By age seventeen, his toughness got him noticed by a small wrestling organization. Before he knew it, he was wrestling in Japan for $50 a night. Now this was not entertainment. This stuff was real. Nicky broke his nose several times and was on the injured list more than not. He got to the point that he would not let on that he was in pain.
Nicky fought for a championship title three times and lost all three times. Two of those times were after he was sprayed in the eyes with a green mist, by the champion.
Now, Nicky was back in the States broke and broken. He heads back to the gym to see if he can resurrect those dreams of being in the big time on national television and pay per view as a professional wrestler.
