Meet BK Westbrook – Pro wrestler who has battled obstacles to become rising talent on the scene

The pro wrestling scenery is filled with galore talents looking to interruption done and marque a sanction for themselves. BK Westbrook is 1 of those wrestlers chasing that brainsick dream.

The roadworthy hasn’t been easy. Westbrook started to bid astatine a wrestling schoolhouse successful North Carolina successful 2018 earlier it yet closed down. He started having his archetypal matches astatine Carolina Wrestling Federation (CWF) Mid-Atlantic earlier the promotion came to an abrupt extremity successful 2019.

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BK Westbrook is 1 of the rising pro wrestling talents connected the independents. (Provided to Fox News Digital)

He past suffered different setback – the COVID-19 pandemic. But overcoming 1 obstacle aft different was each a portion of the journey.

"I've had that similar aggregate times wrong wrestling and it's brainsick erstwhile I saw my schoolhouse closed down, I was getting my car's lipid changed, was waiting for it, and past adjacent happening you cognize I get this connection saying we're nary longer going to person shows and past I had to think, I didn't conscionable get into wrestling to conscionable wrestle astatine this 1 spot adjacent though similar this is atrocious this sucks," helium told Fox News Digital. "And past COVID happens, again, it's similar OK, good I can't bash my thing. close present and this is really, truly annoying and I'm conscionable I'm annoyed that I can't bash that and yet led to maine conscionable continuing to enactment my sanction adjacent much places and I felt similar this can't beryllium the extremity for me. I can't fto this small this brainsick time, this unprecedented happening with the pandemic,

"I couldn't conscionable fto that get maine down man. It was a small hard due to the fact that surviving successful North Carolina, it was a small less, I mean it was inactive strict, but if I was going to spell wrestle somewhere, I'd spell determination wherever the states didn't attraction arsenic much, similar Tennessee oregon South Carolina oregon thing similar that, adjacent Georgia. But erstwhile things started benignant of opening backmost up and things started to get normal, it was like, OK, we're going to deed the crushed running."

For Westbrook, the imagination was ever pro wrestling.

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BK Westbrook got his pro wrestling commencement successful North Carolina. (Provided to Fox News Digital)

He said helium grew up watching it connected TV but truly grew to emotion the athletics watching it connected YouTube. The premix of athleticism and amusement was the existent draw.

"It was conscionable falling successful emotion with it online increasing up," Westbrook said. "Growing up being a YouTube kid, being connected a computer. I discovered it connected TV first, but conscionable uncovering a emotion for autarkic wrestling and what I'm doing present benignant of grew connected maine conscionable loving what wrestling is astatine its core, what you spot connected WWE oregon AEW oregon whatever, I conscionable benignant of recovered adjacent much of a deeper liking for it.

"But it's conscionable I don't know. I conscionable deliberation it's thing that if you're a wrestling fan, you get it, and you recognize benignant of wherefore you're drawn to it. To me, it's casual for me. I similar sports, I similar entertainment, I similar them some benignant of together. It's conscionable it's antithetic for everybody, but for maine it was ace elemental to similar to get into conscionable due to the fact that I emotion the diversion blend of competition, and also, conscionable the storytelling facet of being capable to usually archer the communicative of bully versus evil oregon conscionable adjacent beyond that. I conscionable deliberation wrestling is specified an astonishing creation oregon mean for creation and I get a accidental to bash it connected the weekends. Hopefully much than conscionable the weekends. Hopefully, you know, each the time."

Westbrook has been putting successful the work. He’s wrestled astatine immoderate of the apical autarkic promotions close now, including Pandemonium Pro, Game Changer Wrestling, Limitless Wrestling, Deadlock Pro-Wrestling, TBD Wrestling and respective others. He adjacent made an quality for All Elite Wrestling.

Recently, helium battled Amira for the Pandemonium Pro Championship. Though it was a losing effort, Westbrook came distant with a fewer bruises from the women’s wrestler.

"My archetypal clip wrestling Amira, similar you said past period successful Portland, and she's been benignant of moving it implicit determination for a portion successful the Pacific Northwest, specifically that Portland area," helium told Fox News Digital. "My archetypal changeable I deliberation I ever adjacent heard of Amira was successful the Portland area. I was wrestling for Prestige Wrestling and that was truly chill and to spot her growth, she's been doing tons of stuff.

"My fianceé, Ella Envy, she was capable to bent retired and get a accidental to cognize Amira from similar the Lodestone worldly that that Bayley was doing wherever she was putting connected for women's wrestling. And I deliberation she's doing truly bully work. I got a accidental to wrestle her. She hits truly hard, but different than that, she's got tons of talent. And if I wasn't going to beryllium the champion, I'll accidental she's astir arsenic bully arsenic it gets for being a champion representing implicit there."

Westbrook volition beryllium a portion of Pandemonium: Pro Wrestling’s "JoJo" lawsuit connected Aug. 2. The wrestling showcase volition grant the precocious Jordan Saint, who died successful a car clang connected Long Island, New York. The proceeds of the lawsuit volition spell to Saint’s family.

Jordan Saint performed astatine Shooting Star Fest successful Las Vegas, Nevada, successful April 2026. (Provided to Fox News Digital)

He volition beryllium going up against Epidemius Jr. While helium vowed to triumph the match, helium said it was an grant to beryllium a portion of the show.

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"I'm excited for the match," helium said. "I'm excited for the show. It's going to beryllium an unthinkable event. It’s ace bittersweet astir the passing of Jordan and I conscionable I hatred that. And I cognize that everybody is looking to person an awesome amusement successful his memory.

"Outside of that, for Pandemonium to tally this lawsuit with each the proceeds going to his family, it does it helps knowing that his radical volition beryllium taken attraction of aft that. It’s chill that wrestling is simply a mode and a mean for that to beryllium capable to happen. Unfortunately, that his passing did occur, but it is bully to cognize that we tin marque a quality successful that respect and I'm excited to person a kicka-- lucifer successful his representation and besides successful the sanction of Pandemonium Pro."