Draven Blaze returns with a closeup of indy newcomer Ed House.

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Highlight: Ed House!

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EGW Newcomer, Ed House, has made big waves QUICKLY in the EGW locker room, and in one of the biggest feuds of EGW this year: Nitemare’s chase for the EGW Heavyweight title, and Manslaughter, being the Champion, trying to defend it. House came in at the last EGW show, his debut show, and attacked Nitemare, voiding his chances at the championship that night. I interviewed Ed House to find out who he is, and where he came from…

Draven Blaze (DB): Tell me about your training (where, who, when and for how long before your first match)?

Ed House (EH): I started training April 15th of 06 with the Mest brothers, Troy and Mark. I found out about the school through Troy’s stepson’s friend who I had Spanish class with back in high school. Shortly after meeting him I met Brock DeLong, Troy’s stepson, and found out as much as I could about the school and where it was and how much it was, and at the time it was close to 2000 dollars. I was broke, so needless to say I wasn’t training any time soon.

While I was getting my BFA from Kutztown University I was taking a photography class and we needed to shoot a location for a project, and I remember thinking that we were all gonna shoot crap that was around campus. Football arenas, dorm room, things like that. I still had the card that Mark and Troy had given me for their school so I called them up and asked if I could shoot the school, he said yes, I showed up, shot the school then started talking with Troy about if they were still running and doing shows and stuff like that. The whole time I’m talking I’m really just stalling until I can ask him how much it is to join, finally I do and he tells me that it is not 2000 dollars anymore. I remember thinking ‘oh my gosh its like five grand, I knew it, they jumped their prices to join everybody else’s. That’s when I hear the one thing I didn’t expect to, 500 dollars.

I went home that day and scrounged up everything I had and handed it over to the school the following Saturday, signed my contract and started on this crazy elevator ride.

I was lucky because I kinda got some of the little things down right away and they all made sense. I was also lucky because right from the start Mark and Troy told me to ‘take’ everything, meaning to make it look real, that I am the one doing the move, and the other guy isn’t letting me do it to him. A few weeks in I started meeting some of the other guys who went up there and I jumped in with them, got my ass kicked and learned a hell of a lot of stuff very quickly.  Later on guys like Creamator (I dare not use his real name, wait a tick, Creamator IS his real name) Nitemare, and Captain Rick Adams started working with me in the ring while Mark and Troy observed. Later on Rick Adams started to ‘polish’ me so to speak, making sure that I was creating a flow with everyone I worked with in the school. Three months later Rick made the call to put me on his July 30th show and I got a taste of what this whole thing is about. I think there were 8 or 10 people at that show and my dad, brother, and girlfriend at the time were three of them, but it didn’t matter because I had talked about doing this for the longest time and was always told that it would never happen so everything is pretty much a dream come true.

DB: What is Ed House’s character all about?

EH: The idea for the gimmick name wise came from the TV show House, and that kinda is the beginning and end of that.

The look, however, is a combined effort with myself and my trainer Rick Adams. Show time was approaching and I needed something to wear, and I had seen a few indy shows and I didn’t want to just go out there and try to sell myself as something.  I think that too many guys try to do that and they all look the same. Everybody was in the mode of wearing black with some other color; black and red, black and blue.

I wanted to go as far away from that as possible. So I had some stuff laying around the house from previous Halloweens and I spent a lot of time in the girly stores like Clairs and Icing and became quite comfortable in my sexuality to say the least. I wanted to do something that people would react to one way or another, good or bad because I knew that in time I would be able to play it both ways (no pun intended). What we ended up coming up with was this cross breed of Willy Wonka and some flamboyant elements, with a splash of aggressiveness thrown in. The look of the gimmick has changed a little throughout the soon to be two years, but it changes because I change as a person. I’ve slowly picked up on that everything I do affects the character: If I let my hair grow, if I get a tattoo, if I gain weight, if I lose weight, if I cut my hair. But I like where House is at right now, Is comfortable, and an easy transformation.

DB: You have just made your debut in EGW, and I see that you work for PCWA as well, what other promotions do you work for?

EH: I haven’t really been around as much as a lot of the other guys I meet. I’ve done some work for CCW out in Harrisburg working J-Money at his request, which has been a great learning experience for me. He kinda took me in a little bit and gave me a shot, so when we work I feel that I owe him more then my best.
I’ve been around the Philly area with ACPW/WPW. I’ve worked a lot of great guys down there too; Bash, Shaka, The Gemini Trojans. I’ve also gotten to know a lot more about the business of professional wrestling with that company.

More locally for me, I’ve been with the CFW right from the start, working John Cabin, my trainers Mark and Troy Mest, Vyrus.
I have also done a few shows for PCWA, and my biggest match for that company was working The Patriot, but I was so nervous, holy crap. Over all I just realized that they love him, so my job was easy, it could of been the pope wrestling him and they would of hated him just as much as me… well maybe not, but you get my idea. I actually just did a show for them last night and Kras Van Tassel and I worked together and that was amazing, nice crowd, blood pumping about a million miles an hour, and then a chair shot to stable me out.

I just started working for EGW, which is great because I’m getting to meet a lot of new people, and still see some familiar faces all at the same time. I’m scheduled to work for CCW, PCWA, CFW, AND EGW all with in the coming months so I’m very much looking forward to it.

DB: So far, what has been your most rewarding wrestling experience, as well as your most regret in wrestling?

EH: I think the best feeling is that bond you get with people after beating the hell out of them, and vice versa of course. The feeling of knowing that you and somebody else gave it 100 percent in the ring, and aren’t hurt is the best.

DB: Where did you grow up, and how were you as a kid growing up?

EH: I grew up in Hamburg PA, did all my schooling in the Hamburg Area School District. I was always kind of quiet as a kid, I liked my alone time, mainly because I was embarrassed to have other people watch me playing with my action figures. I also liked to draw a lot, but back then I was drawing the Power Rangers, Spiderman and the X-Men for a girl I liked, even though she would throw them away as soon as I handed them to her.

DB: Of course, just about every pro wrestler out there has dreams of making it to the WWE or TNA, besides that, what do you wish to accomplish in professional wrestling, as a person, an entertainer/athlete and a professional wrestler?

EH: More than anything I want to stay true to myself and not forget where I started, as a kid eating fruit roll ups on my couch watching wrestling on tv. I really don’t want to turn into some big fake ass for lack of a better word. Wrestling has helped me in many ways both work related, and school related through my art. I think that I’d really like to pay it forward some day though and open a gym and be on that side of the business.

DB: What can the wrestling world expect from Ed House in the future?

EH: Improvement, I haven’t been doing this all that long and I want to be the best, so I’m looking forward to working with a lot more people and learning as much as I can.

DB: Do you have any advice for people just getting into the business?

EH: Be patient and don’t expect things to come overnight.

DB: If you could change one thing in your career so far, what would it be?

EH: Nothing. I’m very into the tracks of things happen for a reason, so if I were to change the bad that’s happened, I would have to change the good, and wrestling has brought me the greatest gift that life may not have given me and that’s the person I want to spend my life with, and I’m not so sure I would change that.

This guy is good talent. He’s got a lot going for him, and I can’t wait to see what he can offer the wrestling business.

Blaze out…
Draven Blaze