Ring of Honor Wrestling superstar Michael Elgin is featured in an interview with Daniel Donnelly of IMetAWrestler, where he discusses training to become a wrestler at the age of just 14, joining Ring of Honor, training with Rob Fuego of Squared Circle Wrestling, meeting Edge and Christian at a young age and much more.

On how he got into pro wrestling: “I’m the youngest in my family and hanging out with my cousins they were big wrestling fans.One of the first pictures I have as a kid is of me sitting in a wrestling ring with the rubber LJN figures. When I was 14, I found a school that would actually train 14 year olds. It wasn’t the best place but knowing I wanted to wrestle, I jumped at the chance to start training, I was there until I was 16 and then from there I joined Squared Circle wrestling out of Toronto with Rob Fuego, who broke in with Edge and Christian, and that’s where I really began leaning my training.”

On training with Rob Fuego and seeing Edge and Christian walk in: “We would have Edge and Christian come in quit often when they were in town. The trainers I had were just amazing to be able to learn from. The stories just come from the trainers I had the chance to train with.”

On whether his parents objected to him wrestling at the age of 14: “They were very supportive, I do remember telling my mom ‘I’m going to Detroit for the weekend’ and she was all for it, but the day I would leave… she would get moody and nervous when I was getting ready to leave and she would do that often, because at 14 I couldn’t wrestle in Canada because we had an athletic commission.”

On getting in contact with Ring of Honor and joining the company: “I had worked with a lot of people who had worked for Ring of Honor such as Jimmy Jacobs, Jimmy Rave and B.J. Whitmer, all within a span of a couple months. I had asked them how do I get into Ring of Honor and they told me who to contact. Gabe (Sapolsky) in January 2007, asked if I could come out to the shows and I showed up, and Jimmy Jacobs and BJ Whitmer introduced me to him and that weekend I had my first tryout match.”

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