It was dispersed to the middle so that actually makes it quite weak in the middle so I wouldn’t really be cleared to bump again. Due to complications, Marek has had to go without that middle screw and even when he works out now, there are still those flashes of pain in his neck when the workout gets intense. It was pretty devastating and unfortunately, that happened on a Monday. We had an event scheduled for that Saturday, an outdoor event but the venue sustained a whole bunch of damage. I’m not even — I’m cleared to lift again, but with restrictions to where if I ever feel like a little bit of pain in the neck or discomfort in the neck, I’m supposed to stop immediately and unfortunately, every time I go to lift, I do get the pain in my neck and I have to stop what I’m doing so, I can’t really stay in the physical shape I need to be to be a performer at the level I would expect from myself, and I wouldn’t be able to go in the ring and do these epic, 30 minute, one-on-one, main event-style matches and these big blow off feuds that I’m so used to doing and that people would expect of me. I don’t even understand how he’s able to do it and I’ll look over at Seth and I’ll be like, ‘Man we thought we were the high-flyers coming up. He’s still so young, he’s 22-years old. Marek Brave can be found on Twitter and Instagram @MBrave13 and the full interview and be watched via the player at the top of this article or on the Andrew Thompson Interviews YouTube channel. Students will then have the potential to participate in the shows when sufficient skills have been acquired. I talked to him this morning and it seems like there’s some very big things in the works for him. I played sports, high school football and that’s really big in our area so in a way that was performing as well. We’re cool now. The 2019 class schedule has been released and spots are filling up fast. “Oh yeah, absolutely. When Seth and I were coming up, we were like the high-flyers of the Midwest region and sometimes I’ll see Ben at training or even just kind of messing around in the ring before training and he just pulls off a sequence of things that blows my mind. But every time they would go to put the third screw in, it would separate my vertebrae just a little too much and it actually caused my entire body to seize on the operating table so after trying that a handful of times, they just realized it wasn’t possible so they had to leave that third screw out. So I have a top screw and a bottom screw but I don’t have a middle screw, which means all the pressure from the strong part at the top and the strong part at the bottom goes to the middle where there is no screw. Another Black and Brave graduate that Marek is proud of is Benjamin Carter who’s been regularly featured in Game Changer Wrestling, Beyond Wrestling, Black Label Pro and recently did some work on AEW Dark. We had a — I’m not sure if you’ve heard of it but there essentially was what they call a land hurricane in Iowa. So, at this point, it doesn’t feel like it’s something that I’ll be able to come back to in my future. Marek Brave and Seth Rollins are currently training students out their school along with Matt Mayday and everything involving the Black and Brave Wrestling Academy can be found on their Twitter and Instagram pages. You gotta be willing to be a problem-solver. He detailed the surgical process and said there were complications during the surgery, specifically when the surgeons tried to insert a screw in the middle of his vertebrae. In 2017, Marek Brave formally announced his retirement from pro wrestling via a detailed statement on social media. In July of 2018 we opened our own private facility for the Black and Brave Wrestling Academy. Like I said, pivot to different avenues of content creation and that’s what we’re trying to do so, we’ll see where it goes.”. His performances have apparently gotten him the attention of “a few places” that are pursuing his talents right now, according to his trainer Marek Brave. We did take, gosh… our last event before the pandemic was like March 7th and that was when things were like — news [was] kind of trickling out about how dangerous this could be. $400-500 value). var custom_ad=patreon_ad;var google_ad='';var rotatingAd=document.getElementById("rotating_ad");var x=Math.floor(Math.random()*10);if(x%3===0){rotatingAd.innerHTML=custom_ad;rotatingAd.parentElement.style.height="272px"}else{rotatingAd.innerHTML=google_ad;(adsbygoogle=window.adsbygoogle||[]).push({});rotatingAd.parentElement.style.height="250px"}. Again, with very different restrictions, social distancing, mandatory masks. After returning to in-ring competition, the independent wrestling veteran shifted his focus to providing knowledge to the younger members of the wrestling community. Contact … I think he’s got a couple different avenues and a couple different places that are kind of pursuing his talents right now. Marek shared that there was once upon a time when he was considered to have a leg up on Rollins potential-wise and jokingly mentioned that had that followed all the way through, maybe their wrestling school would be called the [Marek] Brave and [Tyler] Black Wrestling Academy opposed to the other way around. Thankfully that didn’t happen and cooler heads prevailed and he called to apologize later in the evening and everything was cool after that and he ended up graduating and he stuck around for a little while and then went off and did his own thing and he’s achieved some pretty good success and I’m very proud of him. He’s had an incredible journey. “My persona and my character and my standing within the company [AAW] just grew from there and so did Tyler, so did Seth and we actually ended up really, at the time in a very heated rivalry with each other in storyline and kinda outside of storyline a little bit too just because we always wanted to one-up each other and be the one to have the better matches and so on and so forth and people will laugh when they watch this but Danny Daniels always said I was better than him until I had my neck injury so, maybe it’d be called the Brave and Black Wrestling Academy,” Brave laughed. At least until it got canceled. I asked Marek if he would ever consider returning to the ring, having seen the advancements in technology and medicine over the years and while he did compete in 2019 in a match that did not require him to take any bumps, Marek is not interested in getting back in the ring if that means he can not give those in attendance the performance that they paid for. Sports & Fitness Instruction in Davenport, Iowa. I might’ve been having a bad day too and I pulled him aside — actually I didn’t even pull him aside. He gets real mad about that.”. Wrestling; Paige; Jeremy Lambert; MAR 12, 2020; 5:21PM EDT; Share this Article through Social Media: Students from the Black & Brave Wrestling Academy, and many others were set for the WWE tryout this weekend. Open Now. Check it out for the latest releases! We’ve had to do a whole bunch of different things but, it’s certainly been a task and then the thing with these outdoor shows is that you’re not just battling Coronavirus or the pandemic, but you’re also battling weather because you could have this outdoor show scheduled and you got people driving in or flying in from all over the country and then all of a sudden, the day happens and it’s raining and you can’t have an event and then now you’ve lost X amount of dollars due to transportation and flights and different things and unfortunately, you can’t have an event when it’s pouring down rain so, we’ve had a lot of issues. He’s actually from Jersey on the Channel Islands which is a chain of islands in between England and France, which is a territory of England so he has a very thick British accent but we always joke with him that he’s French, not British since the islands are closer to France. Matt Mayday joined the Black and Brave Wrestling Academy in early 2015 as an Assistant Trainer. Colby Lopez (who performs as Seth Rollins in World Wrestling Entertainment) is a top-level superstar who has held numerous prestigious titles in the wrestling industry. So I’m not gonna give anything away. I have a great team of editors and camera people and all different types of stuff that are willing to help out. He was in a pretty successful band and still is before arriving, so he always kind of had that stage presence about him and he was always quite the entertainer. Thunder Rosa: I might be taking a little bit of time from wrestling so I can focus on my fight camp, AEW Dynamite notes: Stipulation added to Full Gear tag title match, BUY IN match, WWE NXT notes: Pete Dunne aligns with Pat McAfee, Priest & Shirai get special entrances, Omega vs. In July of 2018 we opened our own private facility for the Black and Brave Wrestling Academy. Colby Lopez (who performs as Seth Rollins in World Wrestling Entertainment) is a top-level superstar who has held numerous prestigious titles in the wrestling industry... We have partnered with Blackcraft Cult clothing to bring you official merchandise of Black and Brave Wrestling Academy. I was kind of the one dishing out most of the punishment so I did it in a safe manner. BxB official apparel is only available on the web at blackandbraveapparel.com. Matt has had a successful independent wrestling career for over 15 years. With the on site training facility and open ring times, students will have every thing they need at their disposal to become the best that they can be. As long as it’s safe and we can kind of structure it safely, there’s always an opportunity for something like that but as of right now, I would say it’s pretty unlikely.”. If you go back and watch it, you’ll realize I didn’t take any bumps or anything like that. They put a screw in the top, they put a screw in the bottom and then when they went to put a screw in the middle to make it a nice strong plate on my spine, I was hooked up to all these neural sensors and whatnot, since I was passed out and I wouldn’t be able to tell them what hurt and what didn’t. Paige's Brother, Many Others At Canceled WWE Tryouts, Including Black & Brave Graduates.