Carlos Ruiz
(Madrid, 1997) played soccer, like most of the children at the Padre Mariana de
Entrevías school
, in the Madrid neighborhood of
Vallecas
.
He was a small and thin boy and the ball was not too bad for him, but one afternoon, on an internet blog, he discovered a sport that would change his life forever.
He convinced his parents to go try it out and he liked it so much that on the second day, when it coincided with a soccer game, he called his coach and announced that he was leaving the
team.
I had
10 years
and what he surely did not know is that his career as a professional wrestler had begun there, the beginning of the anonymous child, '
A-Kid
'"I had been delighted and my parents were not so scared, so they left me," he explains to EL MUNDO.
"
Soccer was what you had to do
, what my friends practiced and I felt a bit of obligation.
It was comfortable, but I discovered that wrestling fascinated me. "The young man, who knew wrestling from a video tape of the famous Mexican '
Mystery King
', began training in a gym in
Goya
, after in
Vallecas, Carabanchel, Colmenar Viejo
... Improved with exercises
MMA
thanks to one of his teachers and with
15 years
He made his debut in a wrestling match at the Tabacalera room.
"That's when the public called me an anonymous child. I liked the name, but it was long and it was not going to be understood very well internationally, so I decided to change it to English and shorten it. That's where the A-Kid thing arises." , began to gain some fame and attracted the attention of the
Wwe
, the great organization of the
professional wrestling
, who offered him a multi-year contract for the show '
NXT UK
', the brand's UK division.
There, Carlos, A-Kid, achieved what no one in our country had achieved:
a Spaniard in the WWE world circus
.
"The contract only allows you to train, then if they want to use you, they use you. They put me on television, they give me opportunities ... And all under the name of WWE and with producers as famous as
Triple H
(show legend) ".
"There is a director who has everything in his head"
To their
23 years
Carlos has taken advantage of the minutes they give him on screen so well that a few days ago he won the '
Heritage Cup
', one of the brand's biggest events in the British Isles.
A trophy that
can open the doors of the United States
: "It would be something very big and I think it is not very difficult.
My dream is to travel the world with WWE
.
Japan, Mexico, Spain ... Imagine how special it would be for me to fight in Madrid, where as a child I would go to see my idols. "
how much of that victory in the famous 'Heritage Cup' is up to A-Kid and how much to WWE
?: "I think that's the part that I like the most. We are telling a long-term story, maybe that I win is bad now but it means that it is important for the future.
There is a director who has everything in mind, the whole idea of how things are going to unfold
and you are one more actor.
It is not a 100% real fight nor is it a play.
It's something in between and they train you in everything, "he sums up. And among those training sessions, the importance of knowing how to take blows:"
In MMA they teach you to avoid them, here you have to get the rival to hurt you in the best possible way
.
I remember a fight, the first big event I had, that I injured my number after five minutes and
then I couldn't walk
.
I remember him being scared and telling myself that I had to be more careful. "Normally, WWE wrestlers' careers are longer than those of athletes from other, more 'real' formats.
Undertaker
, another legend, just retired with
55 years
.
"The movie
The fighter
try that.
The mental problem that we have in our head to sacrifice our body for what we love.
AND
it's a change I'm willing to make
.
The good thing about this sport is that
we have control over what happens
.
We talk before we fight
we can design the matches
and protect our body if we have any injury.
We are athletes, actors, acrobats, film specialists ...
all a mix
".
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