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Brewsers #163- Black Dahlia

Today on Brewsers, we talk to The Chainsaw Queen, Black Dahlia. We talk all about her journey in wrestling, CRPS, and so much more. Follow us on instagram and twitter at Brewserspod. Like, share, review, enjoy and cheers. Sign up for our newsletter! #brewsers #brewserspod #Enjoylife #DrinkLocal #Cheers

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Duration:: 44m
Broadcast on:: 04 Jul 2024
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Get lucky today at luckylandslots.com No purchase necessary. VGW Group void we're prohibited by law. 18 plus. Terms of condition supply. Welcome to Bruisers, a podcast about beer, coffee, booze and bruisers. I'm your host, Rody John, and today we talk to the chainsaw queen, Black Dahlia. We talk all about her journey in pro wrestling, CRPS and so much more. This is such a great conversation and she is for sure coming back on the show in the fall. She has got so much going on. You know, we'll definitely get right into it. But first, make sure to sign up for our newsletter. It comes out twice a week. You get even more information about our guests. You get fun facts and you get to find out what's happening with your favorite podcast. All about beer, coffee, booze and bruisers. So without further ado, here is the chainsaw queen, Black Dahlia. I would like to welcome a show of the chainsaw queen, Black Dahlia. How are you doing tonight, man? Hello, I'm good. How are you? I'm doing well. So for those that are listening kind of paint us a word picture, what's going on around you? Where are you at? I'm at my house right now and I'm just hanging out with my dogs. Here you go, get the same here. Yeah, put it on so you have. I have a terrier mix. She is I believe 12 or 13. Oh, older baby. I have two shits or I'm allergic to animals now, all of a sudden. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, just all of a sudden hit me. Oh my whole life, I was never allergic and now I am. So I have hyperallogenic dogs, one's a shitsu. He is five years old, Winston, and then I have a shampoo, William, and he is three. They're my babies. Yeah, I have a miniature Schnauzer as well and the grooming process, I did not have to do with the terrier and it can get expensive with the, with you actually having to go get your dog's groomed and everything. Oh, yeah, yeah, it's unfortunately a high maintenance to have a hyperallergenic dog, but I love them. Yeah, well, I'm a team dog person, even though I'm allergic. I grew up with cats, but I am also a team dog catcher. Yeah, I love cats. Are we allowed to custom? What is this podcast for either? Oh, yeah, cut us away. Oh, well, cats are assholes, but I respect it. And unfortunately, I'm allergic to cats as well. So like just randomly in my 20s, all of a sudden, it was like dogs and cats. Oh my. It's so unfortunate. Oh, no, it's a tragedy. I've been dealing with it for the past so many years, but it's okay. It's okay. We're dealing with it. You're more of all the person now. Well, I just look bougie because I'm getting hyperallergenic dog. Well, you're not doing it because it's cool because you literally have. I'm not doing it because it's a trademark square. And my first hyperallergenic dog was a rescue, to be fair. So I still went the right route. It's just my second one. I did purchase because I felt bad about my first dog being alone. And I was like, I got to make sure I'm not allergic to it. I do recommend people rescue dogs. That is a thousand percent. Yeah, that's how I got my baby Winston. Yeah, my terrier mix, she was a street dog. And the other one I rescued from a guy who had passed away. So you're a good person for stepping up and taking care of that baby. He's a terror sometimes, but he's also very sweet. So it works out. We love a personality. So I could talk about dogs all day, but I feel like people have a little bit about pro wrestling. Yeah, go for it. What is your earliest memory of pro wrestling? My earliest memory. I'm trying to remember before I got involved with wrestling because I was not a wrestling fan growing up in nowhere. Yeah. And no one in my household watched wrestling and no one was a fan of it. So honestly, when I got involved with wrestling in 2011, I was just the theater kid, the actor. So I mean, I'm talking back in 2011, Vince McMahon could have walked in. And I wouldn't have known who the fuck that was. You know what I'm saying? Like that's back in 2011. The earliest memory of any former wrestler wrestling was definitely probably Hulk Hogan seeing him all throughout his reality show in the early 2000s with his daughter. Like that's my earliest memory is just pop culture with Hulk Hogan and the rock. And then a little bit with John Cena, but not too much at that time. But then once I got involved with wrestling, I remember every second of it, every stage. So now, since you've gotten into wrestling, I also love that those were the three tent polls that you're like, oh, I know about her wrestling, but only through these people. I think it's a good insight too, because a lot of people that you probably talked with are either A, wrestling fans or B, wrestlers, AKA wrestling fans that got involved. You know, it gets rare to find an outsider getting involved with wrestling. And I was one of them, you know, I've been involved wrestling for like 13 years now. And my first early stage is I was not a fan. I mean, my family called wrestling trash. They didn't understand it. They thought it was very trashy. And they didn't understand why I was getting involved with it. Now, I mean, growing up a wrestling fan, like you were, if you ever found another one, you were like, oh my God, you also know about this awesome thing that nobody else thinks is cool. Like, yeah, I'm sure that's how a lot of wrestling kids were like. If you saw someone with a wrestling shirt on, you're like, ah, there's one of my people. But like I said, I never grew up a fan of wrestling. So when I got involved with wrestling, I was 18 years old. And I didn't fall in love with wrestling until two years after being involved with the business. What got you in the business then? So I was getting my associate's degree in art. And I was getting a degree in theater. So I auditioned for the New York Film Academy. Got accepted. And I was going down the route of being the typical theater nerd drama major. You know, that bitch, you know what I'm saying? So I was doing that route. And then one of my girlfriends at my college, I was going to. It was like, hey, I know you're a model, you're an actor. She said, this will really be good to add to your resume. And she's like, have you heard of pro wrestling? And unfortunately, I did go to the the slur of that fake shit. You know, like, I didn't say it like that. But I said something like, wait, the stage fighting on TV. You know, I did say something like that. Because, you know, I was ignorant and I wasn't educated on the business yet. And I was like, you know, the fake fighting. So she's like, yeah, so you'd be a ballet. And I was like, so I was like, girl, how the fuck is parking vehicles going to help me with my acting resume? I was like, this girl was on crack or something. Like, I was like, this is insane. I was like, how is parking vehicles going to help me? So then she educated me on what a ballet a manager is in wrestling. And that's when I, it was 2011. And I went on YouTube and I looked up videos of Macho Man and Miss Elizabeth. You know, I studied Scary Cherry. I studied all the old school valets. And I took it very, very seriously. And that's how I got involved with wrestling. It was actually to stand out from the other actors and models. Like how cool would it be to stand out from everyone else and have, I mean, I had a ballet background. I had a year background. I had a 15 year experience with basketball where I ended up landing on the Antoine basketball team. You know, I have like all these different things on my resume. So then I added a ballet to it and it just so happens, I fell in love with it and decided to train as a wrestler and become a wrestler. That's, that's amazing. I love that story because so telling that story again, looking back as an actress looking at pro wrestling is like, isn't it that fake fighting stuff? Isn't it a little ironic now that you're on the other side of it? You're like, oh wait, that was so funny. So yeah, now that I've been involved with the business now that I've fell in love with it, been educated on it, paid my dues, sacrificed. I went through so much as a ballet on the Indies for four years and then as a student for two years and then dealing with my sickness, like, you know, like I've you never stopped paying your dues. But yeah, so being an actor, being ignorant, getting involved with the business to now being still an actor, but an experienced wrestler. Yeah, it's a little ironic, but also I just have such respect for it because it's kind of cool because I was almost bred for this, like with my theater background, but also my athletic background. So I just love it because I'm always like, I'm, I love sports. So it's like, I get to play sports all the time now. Right. So when you were watching these old valets, you've mentioned Elizabeth, scary, sherry. What were some of their, you know, I mean, they're obviously two of the biggest, but I imagine there were so many other that you could, that you pulled as many as possible. Oh, so many. But those are the ones that always stand out because like, when I when I studied in Miss Elizabeth, I loved how Moxaman was so big and with his, not just his presence, but his stage presence is his character, his charisma. So so when Miss Elizabeth was there and she was elegant and silent, I was like, oh, that's fascinating. So that was the art and what I was studying for as a manager. It's like, it's like, when the crowd is silent, that's when you get loud, or when the crowd is loud, that's when you get silent, you don't want to take too much away. It's a very beautiful like dance. They gave you look at the life like managers are just respected to an extent because we're not one of the boys, you know, that's what was always referred to me when I was just a manager. You're just the manager. You're not one of the boys. So it's like, no, like, just like the person that rings the bell, just like the ref, just like everyone has a part to play in the story and in the performance, make sure everyone's safe and healthy and then puts on a good show. There's so many puzzle pieces to it. So as a valet, I learned how to, like, when I studied Miss Elizabeth, she was silent because matcha band was so loud. But then I studied, like, scary fairy and he was the over the top loud one as well. And so I kind of, my early work as a manager, I was a blend of both. I like that. Yeah, because I loved watching them as, you know, watching it live. And Sherry was so different with everybody too, because like you said, for the most part, she's a very loud character. But like, when she was with Harlem Heat and WCW, she was they're so gigantic that she was just kind of the elegant to their, you know, power. And then seeing her transform like that too, it's neat to see her compliment whoever she's with. Right. So when you started actually training and going through becoming a wrestler, who were some of the people that you look to that, you know, I mean, obviously you could probably look to Sherry Martell as well for what she did in the ring, but where there are other, what other wrestlers did you really start focusing in on and kind of taking little things here and there from? I always loved, of course, I mean, it's so cliche, but we got to say, Lita, we got to say Trish, we got to say, we got to say those two, because it's like the epicness of those two together, let alone their individual work. But honestly, I got to say it in Natalia, like, I am such a mark for her work. And I just, I feel like she always wrestled like one of the guys, like the three I just listed always wrestled like one of the guys as opposed to the stereotypical female style wrestling. You know what I mean? So, like, I respect all forms and styles of wrestling, but when I decided to take it seriously and study under my mentor, like Bobby Blaze, and then Chunaki and then Rekishi, like, I wanted to, I said, I wanted to wrestle like the guys I wanted to legit be a wrestler, as opposed to just not. Yeah, so definitely Natalia, she's goals to wrestle too, since she's still active. Yeah, I mean, she has this goal as well, her and TJ, and yeah, she has always been like, and that's what's so great. I know with such a force too. China was such a force. I can't believe it in her, but honestly, she was more such a force, whereas I just, I love the style of like a force, Lita, Trish, Natalia. Well, so when it became, you know, when you're building a character, how did the Chainsaw Queen kind of come together? Like, how much did you kind of take from your theater background and obviously make it even a bigger and better one? Because you come out with the chainsaw, you have the amazing masks, like, and it's obviously a gigantic part of it all. How did it all kind of come together? I believe in professionalism, and I believe in, you get what you pay for. So I am a professional that people pay to see me, people are paying to fly me into these places, people are playing from my hotels, like I better put on a good show, you know, I want to make you money. So, so you, you, I've been in, I, Natalia and I, we invested in the mask, in the, in the saws, like our saws, our golden chainsaw is like $4,000, you know, and we have two of them now. So, and we have 10 chains or 12 chainsaws now. So it's like, it's like, it's, it's, it's larger than life, the gimmick, and you got to live up the gimmick, you know, so, so, so it was more so the theater background was with the Black Dahlia gimmick. So I've been the Black Dahlia when, since I was a valet, and I became a chainsaw queen when I became a wrestler. So, so the more theater background was a play on with the gimmick name, the Black Dahlia. I was the first Black Dahlia professional wrestling. It was 2011. I was 18 years old. I, I didn't want to get stuck with the cliche, sugar kits and rainbow stripper name. You know what I mean? Like, 2011, it was a different time period. It was before the Women's Revolution. And, and don't get me wrong, sex sells. I love it. There's a part for it, but not everyone needs to be the push-up for all blonde, you know, we got to have the, this buff person, whereas we got to have the guy that does the porn stash and seduce all the ladies, you know, there's, there's, there's room for the sexual gimmicks. But at the time, as an 18, 19 year old kid, I was just like, I, I want, I'm an actor. I want to, I want to do something and where I'm such a, a horror fan. And I love Halloween. I, I went to the more morbid side and I chose Elizabeth Shorts murder the Black Dahlia. Yeah. So if you, she was an actress, tragic ace of murder, like, I was like, you won't put a stripper's name on me. Gosh darn it. I'll, I'll be a murder victim. Yeah, you could see my child mind just playing out as I say that. How was, how was nobody else done it? Because I know there's a movie. Go ahead. Okay. Okay. Yeah. No worries. I didn't mean to interrupt you. So, so, um, I've been the Black Dahlia. I was the first ever, but I think like for like one year, maybe one girl in England or something tried to do the Black Dahlia gimmicks in like 2016-17, but then she stepped away. But yeah, I was the first ever in, as far as I'm concerned, the only one. And she, and, and what I, I pay homage to Elizabeth because she was a very real person and she was a young woman that was tragically fucking slaughtered. And it's discussing what happened to her. And but when I lived out in LA, I actually found the spot where her body was found. And I like laid there and took photos. It was like completely cool. So I guess, like, I don't know, maybe that's weird. No, what was the energy like? Um, I felt connected with her. And I, I had a little anxiety because it wasn't a park anymore. And it was someone's front yard. So I was like, okay, okay, I'll sit, trespassing. It's a photo here. It's a, it's a subdivision. That's a subdivision bro. I'll show you the photos. I'll send them to you. Please. Yeah. Yeah. So, um, it was good. I mean, you got to think she was just a young girl and she just wanted to be an actress. Unfortunately, she was quoted by saying, I'll do anything to be famous. And everyone is there. Type casted her as a whore or a slut. And it's like, it's not fair. What I think happened to her was she was just a young woman that got with the wrong people and they fucking killed her. It's not, it's not fair what happened to her. There was no justice. It's still an unsolved murder to this day. There's suspicions it was that doctor or whatever, but it still is unsolved. There was no justice and, but it's like the gruesomeness of it. Like her body being sold in half, her being found nude, her, her breasts lit, her nipples like ripped off her, her face. It's lit to a permanent smile. That's not the fucking Joker smile. That was the black doll. And it just so morbid and so fascinating at the same time. So of course, I, I felt like I'd be more taken seriously as, as a wrestler. I guess if I was a murder victim, I don't know. And someone, someone pointed out the other day for the first time in 13 years of being the black doll. Yeah. Someone pointed out everyone goes for the serial killer. Everyone goes for the murderer. No one goes for the victim. And I'm like, Oh my God, how tragic. So yeah, her story is so tragic. And I mean, it's always old as time too. Like I, there's so many other black dahlia type murders that we'll never get solved or you know, and no one knew of it. When I got my wrestling up until just recently, I swear to goodness, no one, I would have to explain to everyone in detail about the black dahlia. Like the people to this day call me Delilah or Delulah, like no one, Darla. And it's like, Oh my God, guys. Dahlia, it's a flower. Come on. Not a hard process. Well, I'm just like, it's fucking, I can still figure it out. So, I mean, like, but to the, but yeah, so I would always have to explain it. No, no one knew of the black dahlia murder. And then now it's kind of refreshing because more people, more and more people actually know of her. And I do correct people on the thought process of her just being a slut or a whore or whatever. And it's like, no, no, no. She got with the wrong crowd. And I have my theories of what happened to her. And then you guys can fuck off, you know, we don't really, she was a fucking child. She was killed. She was a 22 year old kid that was slaughtered. So anyway, that's my passion towards that. But how I branched off into the chainsaw queen. That was a lot to do without it. Riki, she's in with my, my partner Nathaniel. He, um, yeah, like we basically brainstormed out there because Riki, she was going on on one character and gimmick, obviously. And so, um, when we came up with a leather face style gimmick, we wanted to be different than everyone else because I'm Victoria Cash. Thanks for calling the Lucky Land Hotline. If you feel like you do the same thing every day, press one. If you're ready to have some serious fun for the chance to redeem some serious prizes, press two. We heard you loud and clear. So go to luckylandslots.com right now and play over a hundred social casino style games for free. Get lucky today at luckylandslots.com. No purchase necessary. VGW group, boy, prohibited by law, 18 plus terms of condition supply. Every, there's a lot of people with respect. There's a lot of people that do the chainsaw gimmick, whether it's a Texas chance on master gimmick and they're over in Japan doing it and all the different legends that have done it before us. Like, or if they're not doing the Texas chance on master gimmick, they're doing, I'm just carrying chainsaws or, or there's people that do at-game gimmicks with the human flesh and which inspired the Texas chance on master, but they just don't do the full shtick. Like, there's people that straight up go off of Amazon and just do, oh, I got a howling costume of the movie and they're doing leather face style gimmicks and that's all cool, but it's all been done before. So, so it was like 2016 and Nathaniel and I were out in LA and we're brainstorming and Nathaniel was a big Texas chance on master fan and so am I. So we're like, we want to incorporate this, but have it original. So me as a female in general was the first ever woman to carry a chainsaw to the ring. So that was pretty cool. That is cool. Yeah, yeah. So 2016, I'm the first ever female in professional wrestling to be not only the chainsaw queen, but to carry a chainsaw. Congratulations. Thank you, making history. It's pretty cool. So, but besides that, to make it original, we became the urban legend hunters. So, it is a play on Texas chance on master ed game. Yes, but it's we're urban legend hunters. So, our whole gear is human flesh, but those are, oh, we heard of serial killers. We heard of these urban legends. We went down and hunted them and that's the human flesh that we have, like the mask and the best, right? That's cool. That's a nice little spin on that. But it gets further. Okay. Well, we heard of the urban legend of his alien spaceship crashed. So we actually have alien flesh and mass just like our human flesh and mass in the best. So we have human, we have alien, we have Bigfoot. There you go. We have all the cryptids. We have Bigfoot. We have, let's see, we're doing windy goes. We have Mothman that's been made. So, we're going through all the cryptid zoology. So it also makes us the first ever cryptid zoology gimmick and professional wrestling. How much fun are you having with just learning about all these? Well, it's kind of, so like I said, that was in 2016 when we invented this, but it's kind of a, it's the old thing of stick. It's a work, but also stick to realism and, and shoot. So like, I am a morbid curiosity person that's into unsolved murders. Okay, Black Dahlia. I love Halloween and all that shit. Texted to the master. One of my favorite films. All right, let's do that gimmick, but we'll make it original. Oh, I love how funny would it be if Leatherface went down and was a vigilante and was hunting down all these urban legends. I love cryptid zoology. I know Bigfoot's real. I know aliens are real. How funny would it be if I went down and hunted these gimmicks? Oh, awesome. What to play on reality because whenever I go to all these different wrestling shows, I Google what's popular at these places and say I'm in Kentucky. Well, there's the Waverly Hills Sanatorium and it's one of the most haunted places in America, a little in the world. So I'll go after wrestling that night, I'll go ghost hunting in that sanatorium. Or, or I last summer, I had to go out to Arizona. And on the way, I passed through Roswell, New Mexico. And I did ask, went through all the alien museums. And I was like, Oh, you know, so, so it's actually a play on reality. I love this shit. So do you know about the Chupacabra? Yeah, it's gonna be one of a you can tell me what you know about it. But it's on the list of of the cryptids we're hunting down as well. It is a Texas legend. And it is it's like a evil jackalope for the most part, I think. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They like drain the blood of the chicken. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Did you know that it's actually proven to be it's real? Like they found. Oh, yeah. I think people have had like, well, there are little cameras in like trail cameras and they've seen it. Yeah. Yeah. Nathaniel said there's dog man as well. What is a dog man? It's like a wolf man. Nathaniel, tell them about dog man. There's a dog version of the Chupacabra, the giant lizard He said there's a giant lizard version of the Chupacabra as well. Oh, and the dog version. I'm not looking at this. We're into this shit. We we we we okay. So there's like a there's like a werewolf, but then there's also the dog man. Oh, like, hey, what part of Texas are you in? I'm in North Texas. Uh, the DFW. Oh, you're in the North Texas. Nathaniel. What's in Northern Texas besides the goat man bridge? That's in Dallas. What do you think of all those cows like getting burnt? Um, it is interesting. I don't know. Tragic, right? Or was that what? Yeah. Well, we all yeah, we also have a giant hog problem in Texas that you need to get solved. But Oh, wait, were they not cows? Was it pigs? No, I'm just saying we also have a giant like the pig population is wild pigs are taking a conspiracy theory. Tell me, was that like intentional? I'm pretty sure someone dropped them somewhere. Like the same way certain animals get and take over a state. So maybe. Yeah, but I love conspiracy theories. I love the idea of Illuminati and all that. Well, I don't call it. There's a different way of thinking is the way I always think about it, because like conspiracy theory now I like this weird connotation. Like it has its own weird connotation to it. So I like the thing. Well, I mean, some people make it. Okay. Well, if there's proof to me, it's not wrong. It's wrong or prove to me it doesn't exist or whatever, you know, like I'm open minded and I know there's two sides of every story and I just want to hear it all. Exactly. And also you're, you know, as you learn different things in life, whatever you believe, you know, sometimes changes because you find out other things. You're like, Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, a thousand percent. I think people just need to be more open minded and like, like, because like, I don't know. I definitely believe there are creatures out there. There has to be like, of course, some people, some people fake it. Obviously, some people want attention, some people want money or whatever, but they're it just takes one of them to be the truth. Exactly. Cool. Fooky. We love it. So what are some horror movies that kind of inspired some of, you know, whatever evolution of the character that you kind of have been going with? Nice. I always refer to my childhood where I watched TCM and every Sunday they would have like, they would have the silent films. And a lot of the films, I love Halloween as well. Like, during the, if I haven't said that five times already, but during October, like, they would have all the different spooky films. And I would have to say, from the early stage, like the silent films into the, into the, let's see, in the 1920s, 30s, 40s, 50s, monsters, like, I loved Neuss Faratius. Yeah. I loved Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde. I don't know. I always loved the vampires. So think how Dahlia portrayed an evil version of Miss Elizabeth. I definitely feel like the vampire films really, really helped with that. But also, the Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde always stuck out to me because I loved that gimmick. And then you can also mix that with like a Harley Quinn, you know? Yes. And so, so when I brought out the scary Sherry side in my gimmick, it was more like that, more like a Harley Quinn. We're like, okay, now you're getting Mr. Hyde. That's so cool. Yeah. In the same way, like, uh, man counter McFolly was for mankind's was so inspired by signs of lambs and obviously the Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde as well with what we've seen with Bray Wyatt. So exactly. Yeah. I love method acting and I love, um, the more schizophrenic multi personality play on a gimmick. Yeah. I think that I think we need more crazy in pro wrestling, but I guess it wouldn't be as special because everyone would just be crazy. I love when everyone's different. Like I said, we can have the big tip blonde over here, then we can have the buff China girl over here, then we can have the guy with the porn stash over here. Like there's a room for everyone. Exactly. I mean, my, I always say it, the wrestling is and should be a buffet, a little bit of everything for everybody. It gets so bland when it's all the same, all the same bullshit, whether everyone's doing high flying or whatever. So, so with me, like when I wrestle, you'll see me doing more. So gimmick character and like Greg and Roman style, like I'm like more, would it be in a fan or would it be more southern? So yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I just think like that style because I feel like it needs to be a build because and Nathaniel said it's, uh, it's more like a lot of our coaches describe it as I'm a worker. That's awesome. Yeah. Yeah. I'm proud of it. And you should be. So if people have never seen you wrestle or even be a valet, what are three matches they should go out of the way and watch? Okay. So everyone, uh, a lot of my stuff, like I said, I've been involved in the business for a very long time, but all my matches were with my schools. So I have none on the matches online. I took my schools very seriously, Ricky, she made us on a contract, but for knock, he was more free and open at the time. But during my two years of training, I wasn't allowed slash didn't take any bookings on the Indies. I took it 100% seriously. So I ended up in my wheelchair and developing CRPS. So I haven't been on the Indies wrestling, but you guys can see a lot of my content as a valet when I was out on the Indies. And now that my doctors monitoring my sickness, hopefully you guys will see me wrestle this year. Well, for those that don't know what your sickness really is, can you can you touch on that for us? Yeah, of course. Thanks for, uh, thanks. Uh, so CRPS guys. So basically, uh, after I did all these crazy stories of slipping out of my vehicle, training for years, sacrificing, I was injured in the ring and put in a wheelchair and I couldn't walk. Um, basically, uh, CRPS is complex regional pain syndrome, and it's a sickness of the nerve nervous system, and there's no cure. And what happens is when you get injured, you develop the sickness. And so when I was injured in the ring, it activated the sickness and this disease. So there is no cure and it is labeled the most painful pain a human can fill. And guys, it's, um, it's very scary. It spreads throughout your body. I have it in my, it went from my feet all the way up to my kneecaps now. So my doctor's making sure it doesn't spread anymore, but basically, uh, complex regional pain syndrome is nicknamed the suicide disease because, um, there's so many death rate. Like the death rate is very high. Um, when it is labeled the most painful pain in the world, it quite literally is. If my doctors pulled out the pain charts and, um, cancer was on that, women going into childbirth without any medicine was on that kidney stones, back surgeries, um, medical emergency amputation without medicine. And then CRPS is on there and it is at the very top of the list. It is the most painful pain a human can feel. Wow. Uh, yeah, it's pretty intense guys and wrestling, wrestling activated this disease, wrestling, I was robbed of my first match, you know, I became a wrestler. I, I, I sacrificed everything. I did what you were supposed to do to become a wrestler and then to be hurt and crippled the rest of my life and deprived of my first match, uh, it was tragic. So now that I'm educated on this disease and now that I've taught myself how to walk again and now that I'm relearning how to run, I'm also now being monitored by my doctors and learning how to wrestle again. And, um, yeah, yeah, it's pretty emotional. It's pretty cool. We've been documenting it. I had a guy with the disc. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. I had a guy with the Discovery channel come out and film. Um, we're pitching certain ideas for pilots. Nothing's been green, what lit yet, but, um, the whole goal is to bring awareness to CRPS. It's like, I don't want people to pity me. I don't want people to be like, Oh, she's just using her sickness to whatever. No, it's, I would have rather have been wrestling this whole time. I would have rather have not been facing the most painful disease known to mankind without any pills. Like, like, I haven't been medicated this whole time. Like, I went undiagnosed. It's it. I went through 13 different doctors throughout all these years of being in that wheelchair. I, uh, 13 doctors did not know what CRPS was. And this is far worse than cancer. And doctors don't know what that is. Yeah. So now it's like my life mission to make sure that every single doctor knows what this is and every single person knows what this is. And no one goes undiagnosed. I lost years of my life. It wasn't just I lost years of wrestling. I lost my life to this disease. And and doctors are like, wait, you've had the sickness for all these years and you haven't been given pills. No, you haven't been diagnosed or given any liquid, like people with this disease are hooked up to IVs and pumped liquid opioids. So because it's so painful. And here I am raw dogging it. And everyone's like, how are you doing this? And I'm like, I don't fucking know. I'm poor. I didn't know any better. I was like, I knew I was in pain, but I didn't know that was the worst pain a person could feel. I mean, I would have told you it was the worst pain, but I had other people telling me, Oh, you're sucking up. There's people in worse pain than you. There's people that are dying. And then it turns out, actually, I'm dying. I mean, we all are, but you're, yeah, you're doing it in a more painful way than anybody else. It's like I'm actively dying. And I'm feeling death every second, even talking to you right now. I am actively in chronic pain. And yet I'm supposed to know, sell it and be desensitized to it and and just continue. If you Google my sickness, the RPS, it literally says the things that you can do to combat this is what are the treatments? Find a support system, seek a therapist. And you know, dead ass, this is like, what can I do when you Google things to medicines to help this? It literally says therapy, close loved ones, stay strong. Here's the health number. It literally, there's nothing that can be done except here's some pills. Don't kill yourself. Right. Well, so here I am, like, I'm trying to do it the organic way. I've gone to everyone's like, why not just start doing pills? And it's like, well, I haven't done pills this whole time. So why start now? Exactly. Yeah, that's no shame. It's no shame to the people that do pills. There's no shame at all. But I see my fellow CRPS brothers and sisters, let alone other people in chronic pain. And I see what the pills do to them, like the long term effects it has on their organs, let alone the stereotype of what happens to people when it comes to opioid addiction. So like, like, I've been doing this this whole time without pills. So I might as well not start now. So it's kind of like my doctor and I are looking into like, we're right. Basically, I'm organically writing a book about battling CRPS, bringing awareness to it, becoming a wrestler. I've been patenting the name wrestling with CRPS, actually. That's like my brand. So it's kind of like a pun. It's like, I'm a wrestler with CRPS. So I'm actually actively wrestling with this disease. But I also am mentally and physically battling wrestling with this disease. So it's a cool pun. I love it. Well, thank you for bringing the attention to that. Because again, like you said, if Dr. Thomas mentioned most other people don't know about it. Yeah, thank you for giving me an opportunity to talk about it. Make sure you guys that are listening, tell someone about CRPS today. Like, it really helps. Like, there's no, like, we hear about cancer. You everyone clutches the pearls. Everyone knows someone that has battled cancer died of cancer. We know about cancer. Well, why don't we know about CRPS? This is worse. Like, like, hello, like, like, I'm not being dramatic. Like, why the doctor charts are there, the science charts are there. These are doctors and scientists saying this. Why don't we know about this? There's no reason why I should have wasted away so many years of my life in that wheelchair battling this when I should have died. This is nicknamed the suicide disease. And the people that are killing themselves have been diagnosed and have been given pills. And they're still offering themselves. So how did I survive? I'm the very lucky statistic. And there's so many people out there that are not lucky enough, like, or I'm not going to say they're not strong enough because they're very fucking brave and strong. But not, they're not gonna have the same outcome as me. So we have to bring awareness to this. And it's so much awareness to us that maybe we'll find a cure, you know, right? We're almost out of time. Can you tell us your social media so people can follow you and your journey on this and they can learn more about it as well? Yeah, guys, you guys can find me on social media under page. You guys can find me black dolly 47, but it's having me have like my shoot name as well. But yeah, definitely go give me a follow. Show me love. And you guys will see me do this crazy journey and get back in the ring this summer. Thank you so much for your time. And I really want you back on the show because I want to know how your journey is going in the future. Totally. Like definitely reach out like come this fall at the earliest. Okay. Perfect. Thank you for having me on guys. Thank you so much to black dialy for being on the show. Again, I didn't know anything about CRPS. I didn't know that, you know, how unfortunate it is for everybody who is involved in, you know, who has it and obviously incurable. But she's doing amazing things. She's on the road to recovery. And I can't wait to see what that documentary looks like. And I also can't wait for her to be back on the show. So definitely go follow her on the social media, follow her journey, see what she's doing. 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