Spot-light on Steve Pain

To Be Under-Rated
By Steve Pain

Hmm…well Pain..yeah that’s my last name. It’s a big factor in my life. I know you can relate.Underrated, that’s me. 7 years in the indy circuit. I’ve beaten a lot of indy wrestlers, hung with the best. Even pros like Alex Koslov, Ultimo Dragon, Rey Bucanerro & Valdor Jr just to name a few. Those are just my most memorable opponents. I’ve been trained in Lucha Libre, Japanese and American Strong-Styles. I’ve worked for Torymon and AAA out of Mexico City, Mexico & wrestled in front of 20,000 fans in Arena Mexico for DragonMania , that was a dream come true, but like any wrestler you always want more.

I’ve trained at 3 different schools – at the age of 15, I started training in Anaheim, CA with a small time company known as WPW. Lucha Libre was their style. Lil Cholo trained me & taught me a lot of Lucha. I thank him for that knowledge. I was in Ladder matches, Hardcore matches & then tagged with Infernal, quickly winning the WPW Tag Team belts, which we held for about a year! Unfortunately, none of this was recorded as WPW was a low budget company and the owner was pretty shady. I soon grew out of this company after doing all there was to do there. I wanted to learn more and needed better competition. I soon discovered the Inoki Dojo, a Lucha Libre/Japanese style company with an amazing trainer known as Durango Kid….OMG!!! I learned so much, everything from Springboards, Back Flips from any rope or part of the ring, even just standing. I love to back flip all my weight onto somebody. It’s very effective and my aim is dead on. I shot straight up to the Main Event. Main eventing every show. I gained some muscle and learned my shit in the ring. I mean Japanese style plus my Lucha was so much better. After making it to the top of this promotion also, I felt an emptiness and needed more, so once again I was in search of more.

I was soon introduced to Santino Bro Wrestling Academy, the hard hitting, the respect, the love , the heart I felt every time I went to training was like a breath of fresh air! Oh man and did I need that, living under rated and sick and tired of all my actions being unseen or unnoticed. This company loves the spotlight and the spotlight loves this company! And me known for stealing the spotlight fell in love with S.B.W.A. and soon fell in love with its sister company, Evolucha!! I am having some of my best matches that I have ever had in my career………semi main eventing & proving that I am under rated living up to my name, expressing my pain and talent in each fight, knowing I belong in the main events like every other company I wanted to main event for. I shot straight to the one of the top dogs and like the Undertaker, this is his yard. I am talking about the XPW Superstar, the Human Horror Show Supreme…crazy huh? I think smart…everyone on So Cal has a fear of this man, but I have my reputation on the line and something to prove to myself and everyone else!

Stay up to date with Evolucha and find out when this match will take place. Love is Pain…Pain is only me and I want the whole world to love Pain. Steve Pain = Ratingz!

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HeadLock

Side headlock
In this hold a wrestler who is facing away from an opponent would wrap his/her arm around the neck of an opponent bringing them forwards into this prone position.

An assailant will often use a headlock to subdue and pummel a victim who is smaller. They will often move in quickly, wrap an arm around the neck while forcing the victim to bend forward. This will cause the victim to be off balance and at a decided disadvantage while the assailant pummels them in the head. It is also used as a way to choke someone into submission.

Also called a Chancellery.
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Don't try this if you're not professionally trained and remember that even a pro can get injured or can seriously injure an opponent with this move. On more moves of the ,go to

I must start with this confession, there was a time long ago when i thought pro wrestling was a joke.

I must start with this confession, there was a time long ago when i thought pro wrestling was a joke. It wasn't till the 8th grade that i finally gave wrestling a fair chance. My 6 closest friends always played all the wrestling video games that were out and that was my first introduction. Next was WWE Sunday Night Heat. At this time in school i was in drama class and wanted to become an actor. Wrestling seemed to wrap up all the drama, acting, stunt work and entertainment into one great package. I was hooked. Then one night before dinner at my friends house i remember watching ECW. Tommy Dreamer vs. Justin Credible fro the world championship. as the match was reaching its climax... it hit me like a steel chare... This is what i want to do with my life... I WANT TO BE A PROFESSIONAL WRESTLER!

I was a freshmen in high school and we didn't have a wrestling team but we did have drama class and tv production, so that's what i did. Later I joined the track and field team and spent just as much if not more time in the weight room as I did on the track or the field. After graduating I remained active in track and field as well as cross country by coaching for the high school. In Jr College i conditioned for the decathlete. I never ended up competing in an event do to the fact that my heart just wasn't in it. I considered returning to Hopkido and began sparing with my close friend who was training for MMA.

As 2004 started to come to and end one of my good friends, who also shared the dream of professional wrestling, got a flyer for a small inde show out in Anaheim for a WPW/PCW show.
It wasn't the same as what we had been religiously watching on tv. This was a hole new style, LuchaLibre! After the show we asked around and found the promoter. We told him we wanted to learn and he told us when to show up... so we did. And when we went back i was unexpectedly reunited with an old family friend i hadn't seen in ages, Steve aka Steve Pain. We all trained together 3 days a week. Alan and i helped with the shows on Sundays while Steve did his thing in the ring. I finally got the chance to wrestle a show. I had no real gimmick or story. Just on the card to fill time. My first match was an over the top battle royal. Didn't win it but didn't care. My next match the week after was in a tag match, my first win. But this would all come to a slow fade when my training and road partner and good friend Alan would need to stop wrestling to go in for knee sugery on his ACL.

I began to re think my game plan. I got back into school full time and cut out the wrestling shows. The hard part about that was paying for all the units. So i got a second job to help. I still went to training but things just didn't feel the same without my friend there. Steve and i kept in close contact and he would make me find time for us to hang out together. Every time we talked he would tell me to not let the fire die out. I would remind him that wrestling as still and always would be number one in my life. We went out to the first RevX show to help ring crew and i got the itch. I got the opportunity try to help a start up company. It was called Ocean City Wrestling and i worked with The Young Bucks and Diablo but it didn't last long. From the end of 2005 through 2006 i wrestled for MWF, and there in east LA CLAYBOY was born, even wrestling Christmas night and on Jan 1st. I quit my first job and eventually dropped out of school (not cool). And just as things started to get hot... i was popped with the biggest cut off of my life. I had a hernia and needed sugery.

It was 2007 and I felt low and alone. Alan had moved for school and Steve was traveling fare and wide for wrestling. After my surgery the doc told me no physical activity for almost 6 months do to the area of the hernia and slight risk it could re surface. I thought of starting back up in school again but knew i didn't have the money. So to kill the time i spent too many of my nights under the dirty lights of Hollywood. I found that i had picked up a "Side Job" at a few clubs as i got way to mixed up in the music money and women. Had i lost sight of my education and dreams... before i could see it myself i once again had an unexpected run in with the Under Rated SuperStar himself... my friend Steve Pain.

Steve and i had a lot of caching up to do the only way we knew how, be hitting every club and party scene as hard as we could. Naturally the topic of wrestling came up and Steve told me about this new place to train. It didn't take long but i could see why Steve wasn't all that happy with wrestling at this point. I got the feeling that we really just didn't fit in with the way this dojo like facility was being run. So in 2008 we hit the road to Norwalk to find ourselves in the hands of The Santino Bros! On January 17th i was reborn as the heart breakin ass kickin money make'n jaw droppin PLAYBOY CLAY MOTLEY!

Here in EvoLucha i feel home, i feel better then ever. This year I've proudly done most of my work with EvoLucha, even going toe to toe with my mentor Steve Pain. Together we've done shows with L.L.I.I. in Ocean Side and HPW. With everything that we've seen and experienced in all these companies and feds here, we want the world to know that someone who is born in SoCal wrestling isn't limited to the west coast. Clay Motley wants to take his dream of Professional Wrestling all around the globe, and it starts here. In the long run i'm preparing for the larger big time companies such as Ring Of Honor, TNA and eventually the one and only WWE. I believe in hope, i believe in discipline, i believe in sacrifice and i believe in myself. I AM THE PLAYBOY AND MY MANE IS CLAY MOTLEY! Are you ready for the after party?

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