How to Start a Small Business (2021) - full transcript

[tense ethereal music]

[logo splatting]

[objects rattling]

[gentle ethereal music]

[audience applauding]

[engine roaring]

- [Announcer] Use of emergency

exit for non-emergency

is strictly prohibited.

Violators will be subject

to arrest and prosecution.

Please use authorized exit.

- [Skyler] What prompted

me to start this

is I was a booking agent,

booking Chippendales

Shows, Hunk Shows,

nightclub entertainment, DJs.

I was at the point

where what I was doing,

I didn't think it was

something new and fresh.

Remembering back then I read

the "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" books

and I was like,

"Call my rich dad."

Rich dad said, you

know, "Do something new,

"do something that

not everyone's doing."

So, you gotta take a chance

and you gotta take a gamble.

- [Announcer] We would like

to welcome you to Las Vegas.

- Morning.

[car engine roaring]

For me, I think it's

a four part equation.

It's called tools,

team, process, recipe.

The tools is the software,

the things that you

need to run a business.

A team is your people,

people that you delegate

to do the work to.

[gentle music]

The process is how

you're gonna do it.

And that recipe,

is something that's

kinda unique.

Recipe is competitiveness

or a niche, you know.

Oh no.

[dramatic music]

All right, fellas, listen,

I wanna go over some

things about the chairs.

I heard people been getting hit

in the heads with

chairs pretty hard.

[chair thudding]

[man yelling]

[audience cheering]

Chaos, is that,

what's going on here?

- Yep, that was my own fault.

- What happened?

- 'Cause somebody

put a heavier chair

along with the other

chair that we bought,

and I went into the ring

and pulled a chair out.

I pulled the wrong chair out,

I pulled the heavy one up.

I pulled it out and I took it.

- All right.

- [Li'l] He hit me

like he always does.

He ain't gonna back off.

- All right.

- Make it looks stupid.

- So you were

actually knocked out.

- I was out cold.

Jaguar was sitting

there yelling at me.

And when I finally came

through, I finished my match.

- Did you wrestle

again next night?

- Yeah.

- Oh my gosh!

- [Li'l] This ain't a kid sport.

- Well.

- This is for men.

- Oh my goodness!

- But I didn't call Chris

and Skyler and said,

"Oh, he hit me too

hard with the chair."

- [Skyler] Right, right.

- But everybody else says,

"Oh, Nasty Boy hits too hard."

[Skyler laughs]

- [Skyler] That's

what everyone says.

- If you can't keep up the

game, get out of the player.

- Get it approved with me

on who's gonna, you know,

hit with the chairs.

I know you've done

this, you, Bow, Rampage.

But like if we get

some new guys in here,

just check with me on that

and let me go with it,

to make sure that he's trained.

- We don't throw them

straight into the dungeon.

[car engine roaring]

- We do something like 100 to

150,000 miles a year by car.

We're always on the road

constantly, constantly,

constantly working,

working, working, working.

And it was territory after

territory, after territory.

There was no win back

in my younger days.

[bright energetic music]

- [Skyler] When I first

started this business,

I didn't know any of the guys.

I didn't have a company,

I didn't have a wrestling ring,

I didn't know any wrestlers.

[bell ringing]

I contacted P.O.D.

bought some pictures,

did a little cut and paste,

and literally started

booking all the shows.

- Started wrestling under the

name P.O.D., Pissed Off Dwarf.

- [Skyler] P.O.D is the man.

P.O.D. gave us some help,

support, got me going.

[audience cheering]

- Skyler got a group of guys,

and offered them a set pay

that was less than

their ego wanted.

And so by doing that,

was able to sell the show for

a very, very competitive rate,

that nobody could top.

Very, very intelligent

move on his behalf.

- [Skyler] I first

started by contacting them

and telling them, "Hey

I'm the best promoter,

"I'm the best booking agent

you ever seen in the world,

"and, you know, I can

lay down so many shows,

"and this and that.

"I mean, we can book 30

in a month if you want."

I'm contacting the guys

and no one's talking to me.

Yeah, they're not

in the phone book.

"There he is.

"There's midget wrestler

right there, let's call him."

So, I started selling

'em and eventually...

- He filled my head

with the right words.

So then I came to Oklahoma

and went to work

for Skyler Ward.

I was one of the

first original six

that created this company.

The original six

members were Nasty Boy,

Short Sleeve

Sampson, Bronx Thug,

Bad Boy Brian, Tiny Terminator,

and the sixth guy's name but.

- What'd he look like?

- He was, well, he was a midget,

and he wore green tights

and he wore a mask.

They called him Little Bastard.

- Check one, two,

check one, two.

Welcome, to the main event.

[audience cheering]

[upbeat music]

- [L'il] Skyler just said,

"We're all gonna make money."

This man is a genius, he

knows how to make money.

He knows what makes money,

what doesn't make money.

♪ Who's you calling

a short stark ♪

♪ I know exactly ♪

- [Skyler] The name

was not my decision.

The name was decided between

about four or five

different names.

♪ Extreme Midget

Wrestling Federation ♪

We had Extreme Dwarf

Wrestling Federation,

Extreme Tiny

Wrestling Federation,

and something I

wanted to brand called

The Little Klondikes

Federation, which was a bomb.

- It's reality, you're not

sugar coating it again.

When you say Extreme

Midget Wrestling,

you know you're gonna

have extreme midgets.

- [Announcer] Are you ready?

"Extreme Midget Wrestling"

is here with us live.

The gravity divine,

ready to slam,

wham, and wrestle

for their fans.

You will not believe your eyes.

"Extreme Midget Wrestling,"

the baddest little

show on earth.

[indistinct chattering]

- [L'il] They didn't

wanna be called dwarfs,

and they did not wanna be tiny.

So, the name that everyone chose

was Extremely Midget

Wrestling Federation.

♪ Of the brave ♪

[crowd cheering]

- My mom's always

been a wrestling fan.

She'd go to the

matches constantly,

watching the big wrestlers,

and when the midgets

came into wrestle,

she decided to take me.

[crowd cheering]

- [Narrator] Li'l Nasty Boy!

- But after I'd seen

the midgets wrestle,

that's when it got to me.

That was, the first

time I've ever seen it.

But as soon as I see the

midgets enter the ring,

that's when I fell

in love with it.

I said this is what I

wanna do for my life,

right then and there I said,

"Mom, that's my

life right there.

"I see my life in front of me"

[audience cheering]

- Oklahoma, how

we doing tonight?

I'm gonna give the mic over

to our host and our MC,

Mr. Mike Crawford.

- I was the head of

security at a nightclub

and then they had

this LaBares dancing,

and Skyler worked there.

[lively cheerful music]

♪ Here we are ♪

- My entertainment

background, oh my goodness!

I was 18, and I went into a club

and I see these guys

that have these women

just hanging on them, you

know, just ridiculous.

So I asked the door guy, I go,

"Man, what's so

special about that guy?

"Who's that guy?"

And the guy tells me

he's a male dancer.

I said, you know,

at the time I think it was,

"Who the hell is

that cheesy guy?"

[dramatic music]

♪ Here we are ♪

Three or four months later,

I entered a best chest contest,

and I ended up in the

business, and two years later,

I ended up running the

business and booking shows.

- So Skyler did that and then

called me one day and said,

"Hey, I got this idea

about some midgets."

- Hey, it's Skinny Timmy

with Extreme Midget

Wrestling, the midget mafia.

I do what I want, when I

want, to whoever I want.

You think your bad?

Step in the ring

and I'll show you.

Mike Tyson ain't got

nothing on me, punk.

[cameraman laughs]

- I'm just looking

for something new.

- I had been in the wrestling

business for a long time.

He's like, "Man, I'm gonna

take these midget wrestlers

"all over the state."

'Cause he did it

with "U.S. Hunks."

He set up shows all

over the United States.

- Skyler got really burned

out on the male dancing.

Believe it or not,

they're kind of flaky.

- [Skyler] What I like about

the guys is their work ethic.

They're willing to

work and do the job,

and how tough they are.

[audience cheering]

- Basically I was

a club promoter,

and the club owner was like,

"I got this call today."

And he's like, "I think the

next thing we're gonna do

"is Midget Wrestling."

And I was like,

"Midget Wrestling?"

I was like, "That sounds crazy.

"I've never even heard of it."

So he gave me Skyler's number,

and I called him up,

and he was like, "Well,

we're fixing to go on tour.

"Would you like to

come on tour with us?"

- I'm telling all

the clubs like,

"Listen, I have the best show

you've ever seen in your life.

"Extreme Midget

Wrestling Federation,

"the number one night club

attraction in United States."

- So he was telling me he's

been doing this forever

with the midgets and

blah, blah, blah,

and all this crazy stuff,

and he talked me into it.

He picks me up and he

waits till we get like out

of the state, right,

and then he's like, "I have

something to tell you."

And I was like, "What's up?"

And he's like, "I've

never done this before."

I was like, "What do you mean,

"you've never done this before?"

He's like, "This is my first

tour with the midgets."

- Come on, ref!

One, two, three, down.

- Shoulder's up.

- And I was trying to ask him

questions and stuff like that

and he wouldn't

tell me, you know,

'cause he's paranoid

or whatever.

So, we go and we

go to the airport

and we're rolling up and we

see about six midgets outside.

He's like, "Damn, they

look good, they look good!"

So we pick them up,

and the van

transmission goes out

before we even hit

the first show.

And I remember

Nasty Boy was like,

"Great, this is great."

'Cause we just, we stole

those guys from another crew.

- God bless and good night.

[indistinct chattering]

- [Man] That's when

Nasty Boy left us,

and went to go work for Skyler.

- One again, I wanna

thank everybody,

coming out to the Fillmore

right here in Summer Springs.

[audience cheering]

- Me and Skyler paths crossed

back when we were

doing male dancing.

But when it came to

midget wrestling,

I don't even know when

and how he got involved.

And I'm like, "Okay, this is

a new trend for old strippers

"to become midget owners?"

It was kinda weird, so I'm like,

"Damn, I'm one of them guys now.

"I'm an old male dancer

owning Midget Wrestling."

[Harley laughs]

- It's your night!

[audience cheering]

- "Hey buddy, give me a call.

"This is Skyler.

"Let's get these

midgets going, come on."

I remember like he was

talking about the ring

when he was trying

to sell it to me.

And he was making all this up.

- If you can imagine sitting

there selling something

that you don't have,

I mean, not even just selling

something that you do have,

but you're selling something

that you don't have.

[Skyler laughs]

It was nuts.

- Because I tell it like it is.

[woman cheering]

And this is one thing I

gotta tell everybody here.

Your family lives in Oklahoma,

which is broke, poor,

and also fixed.

- Skinny Timmy, he

is very entertaining,

and he really knows how

to piss off a crowd.

I've had people throw stuff

at me and him all the time.

He's pretty much

almost started riots.

- You don't talk

about how Oklahoma

should be taken off the

face of the United States.

- Yeah, where are you from, bro?

- I'm from a worse state

that you've got, bro.

So I'm not going there.

- Yeah.

- Where was I born and raised?

In a little Mayberry town in

Indiana called Marion, Indiana.

There's hardly anything there.

There's no jobs.

You guys sooner or later

will be mowing my grass.

[crowd laughing]

- Always been an ill.

Well, the ill's the best.

- You show me the proper

respect that I deserve.

[crowd cheering]

- 'Cause they get more

excited, 'cause you're dirty.

And all of a sudden

they'll boo at you!

Then start saying, "Boo,

your dirty son of a!"

[laughs]

To me it was fun, you know.

It's all fun to me anyway.

[crowd booing]

- You know that you wish

your husband had some abs.

I've known ever since,

probably 5 or 6, I

wanted to be a wrestler.

Man, I've been watching

wrestling my whole life,

I knew everything

about wrestling.

I get paid to be a midget

and I'm not really a midget,

but I got to say I'm more

akin to the midgets, man,

because what they

don't understand is,

I've been called a

midget all my life.

Skyler Ward was the only dude

that gave me an opportunity

to be Skinny Timmy.

- Get back into the ring.

- Shut your mouth.

[man groans]

[audience cheering]

- [Mike] Because

it's really hard.

There's not a lot

of midgets out there

that wanna do this profession.

It's, you know, a

big guy profession.

You've got thousands

and thousands,

but you only have a

few select midgets

that wanna get out there

and get in the ring

and hurt their body.

[audience cheering]

'Cause he just get midgets that

didn't know how to wrestle.

He's like, "Man, I need you

to train some of the guys."

- Okay, do this for

me, get the ropes,

take a front flip

when I tell you.

[footsteps thumping]

Front flip.

[man thuds]

Try it again.

[playful dramatic music]

- Roger Littlebrook,

Lord Littlebrook is

the wrestling name,

came into town, and

when I seen him,

I went and spoke to him,

and I've asked him if I could

start wrestling with him,

if he'd train me.

He said, "No problem."

I want to start at the

age of 15 years old,

but he told me, he says,

"Well, you're a little bit

too young yet for this,

"come next year, then you'll

be able to start next year

"at 16 years old."

I said, "Fine," I said,

"I'll see you next year."

So when he came

the following year,

he picked me up.

I went over and lived

with him on the farm

in Havelock, Ontario, Canada,

80 acre farm, and this is

where he started training me.

[rooster cawing]

Roger was very strict.

Very, very strict on me.

It's gotta be done to the T.

- I'm gonna hit you right here.

- Yeah, monkey flip

him out of the corner.

Perfect, that's

what you gotta do.

- [Woman] Come on, Skinny

Timmy, you got this!

- Come on! Let's go.

Pull my hair!

- [Frenchy] Then the

next thing after that,

it's gotta be done

to the T as well.

- Man, that's it,

man, that's it.

- [Frenchy] So when

everything is ramped together,

and everything's put together,

it's done well

and it looks nice.

[man thuds]

[crowd cheering]

For me to train before

I got into the ring,

it took me a year.

A year of training,

every day, yeah.

Before I finally could

step into the ring

in front of the crowd.

[crowd cheering]

I was a pack of nerves

to be honest with you.

[crowd cheering]

[man thuds]

[crowd cheering]

- One, two, three.

[audience cheering]

- [Chris] We were

promoting shows now,

and we're bringing them

to all ages and families

and that audience

and that demographic.

And this is what

we wanna be doing.

So I want everyone to

have their money's worth.

- I don't think you

have a kid's mask.

[Skyler chuckles]

Yeah, you don't

have a kid's mask.

I got a tighter mask over there.

Yeah, come over here.

I think the kid's

masks are on this side.

- First time ever,

yes, it was great.

- I loved it,

it was awesome.

- It was awesome.

- Yes, I came by myself.

- [Reporter] Did you

have a favorite wrestler?

- Probably Fabio.

- Fabio.

- I want Fabio.

- My favorite is Fabio.

- [Announcer] Little Fabio!

[audience cheering]

- [Woman] We saw a poster

and we thought it would be

really cool to come watch.

- [Crowd] We love

Extreme Midget Wrestling.

- And I don't like Skinny.

- [Skinny] No, you don't!

- [Crowd] Yes, we do!

- [Skinny] No, you don't!

- [Girls] Yes, we do!

- No.

So I'm kind of stuck in

between being a big person

and being a midget.

So where do I go?

I don't know where I go.

I know that I'm cool with

the midget situation,

it's made me famous I gotta say.

- No.

- Yes.

- No.

- Yes.

- No.

- Yes.

[air whooshing]

- [Skyler] Our Texas

shows are, you know,

those are nightclubs shows

and I'm not trying to put

down nightclubs shows,

but that's where we started,

but that's not

where we wanna stay.

[indistinct chattering]

We wanna evolve.

We wanna evolve into, you know,

I always say the

Harlem Globetrotters.

Those guys started just

a little basketball team

and they, you know, they

got their uniforms right,

and the choreography,

and they had scripts,

and they were

promoting the show,

and they went from little high

school gyms into big arenas.

And that's what I

wanna see us do.

I wanna see us at the, you know,

the Ma and Pa Redneck

Bar, you know,

and then coming in to the

arenas like we did last night.

- Skyler is always

wanting to improve.

- There's basically two

people in the world.

There's people that

are being sold to,

and there are people

that are selling.

So, just look at every

situation on what you're doing.

Are you being sold

to the circumstance?

Are you the one

selling while you can?

And that's an important thing.

And the other thing

that you have to do,

is you gotta have

that little formula:

tools, team, process, recipe.

[upbeat music]

- [Announcer] DJ, play

that baby making music.

[crowd cheering]

What else you gonna do?

- I got chewed out over

a situation with Skyler.

- [Kevin] We do this grind

the midget bit with Rampage,

during intermission.

- All the ladies in the contest,

we need you in the ring, whoever

signed up for the contest,

we need you in the ring.

- And it was him

basically picking

females out of the crowd.

They would grind on

him like a stripper,

[crowd cheering]

and then the crowd

would choose a winner,

well then since, you know,

there is that return

the favor motto,

why not let Rampage

grind on her.

[crowd cheering]

- Get it, get it!

- Well, Rampage likes to take

that a little bit too far.

[crowd cheering]

- I love it personally.

I love to see it.

I think it's great.

Skyler hates it.

He doesn't wanna see it,

he doesn't want 'em doing it,

'cause what happens

is girls dance on him,

and then whoever wins,

he gives him the most

craziest lap dance ever.

I mean, he sucks their toes.

[crowd cheering]

I've seen some

pretty nasty stuff.

He would suck toes every night,

different toes every night.

- [Man] You're a

nasty motherfucker!

- Weenie wigglin',

okay, no more of that.

You know, I think

we can do wrestling,

and we can do mainstream,

and we can do, you know,

stuff for the families.

And this is, it's kinda

what I wanna get out of.

- [Rampage] Scream!

[crowd cheering]

- I kept telling the

guys don't do that,

don't do that kind of show.

They went ahead and did

it, and I'm really pissed,

because they did that whole

thing for about 20, 30 minutes,

and then there was a break

and we lost the crowd.

And they think it's great,

but sucking on a

big toe and dancing,

yeah, it's funny and everything,

but I think there's

a lot more we can do.

- [Ref] I wish somebody

could help him!

He's up, we need some help!

It looks like he's getting hurt!

- No one's listening to me.

We are short on the team

and the ref is a pig.

[crowd cheering]

[upbeat music]

- I kept watching wrestling,

and that's all I

could think about,

is how I could

become a wrestler.

Jimmy Superfly Snuka,

and Hulk Hogan,

I idolize them still,

they're still wrestling,

involved with wrestling,

and so am I, 31 years later.

I've wrestled with him,

and of course I can't forget

the greatest idol of my life.

Woo, the nature boy, Ric Flair.

I get excited every

time I see him.

- Nasty Boy, he's

been around for years.

I don't really wanna wrestle him

because he's just, he likes

to wrestle like, I don't know.

He likes to shoot on you.

You don't wanna get somebody

mad that's a shooter.

You don't wanna get cute

with them in the ring.

They'll put a hurtin' on you.

[crowd chattering]

Shooters are guys that really

can tie you up in knots

and hurt you.

I mean, I can't whoop him.

When he gets in the ring,

he gets a little arrogant,

and he's got a

reputation for stretching

and hurting other little guys.

He stretched me one

night in Florida.

That's kind of, I mean,

that's kind of why I don't talk

too much about him anymore.

- [Announcer] One swerve again

that challenge and a spear.

- [Kato] He's big

for a little guy.

He's a big midget, his arms

are bigger than some big guys.

I mean he's big.

I don't know to many little guys

that could take him in the ring.

- You have to give

credit to the bad guys.

'Cause if it wasn't

for the bad guys,

the good guys

wouldn't look good.

- Excuse me, I

heard your stutter.

Sit down and shut up.

[crowd laughing]

[indistinct chatter]

Don't make lay a whoopin' on

you like your momma shoulda.

[crowd booing]

There you go, American

gotta grab a big stick.

[crowd laughing]

- [Chris] I gotta say Nasty Boy

is one of the best

guys out there

because he can just

go over and be hated,

and he works with the crowd.

- You Nasty Boy.

[crowd laughs]

- [Chris] The crowd

feeds off of him.

They hate him,

they start booing.

He's mean, I mean,

he's really mean.

The guy is mean.

- He's little bit

meaner on stage too.

- The reason I am the

wrestler I am today

is because I went through eight

weeks in Calgary, Alberta,

at the Heart Camp.

That was the worst

pain in my life.

And they were known for like

just stretching your body

and making you feel

lots of physical pain,

and making you not wanna do it.

[stick thudding]

That's why it looks like

I can take a whooping

and a beating, and

I can still get up,

when I'm 48 years old and

these guys are 20, 25.

I wouldn't change anything

I did for anything,

because I've achieved

what I set out do.

A childhood dream.

I became who I wanted to become.

And I'm happy doing what I do

because this is me

being an entertainer.

- Ah, stop!

Ow, that hurts!

- Did I get the nipple?

- Yes.

- Yes!

- This is how Extreme

Midget Wrestling gets rich.

- [Wrestler] I'll give you 100.

- Where's your 100?

- It's in there.

- Give it to me.

- Let me see you lick it first.

- Mother fucking [speaking

in foreign language].

- What are you doing?

- Come on! Lick it.

- Give him the nipple.

- Dude!

- I wanna lick your nipple.

- Get it.

[guys laughing]

I will lick your nipple, ah!

- We make 150 a night,

and you guys are doing

degrading things for 50 bucks.

- You make 150 a

night, we don't.

- That's even worse.

- Yeah.

- [Frenchy] The way

you work is contract

or being paid by the gig.

Working that way with promoters,

I've always wrestled by

percentage of the crowd.

- Philadelphia, are you ready?

- An example, if you

wrestle and you ask

for that certain

amount of money,

and there's a big

freaking crowd,

we instead make 100

bucks, guaranteed,

that's what you asked for,

and you get a big crowd where

you could have made 500,

well, you won't get that.

[crowd cheering]

- What inspires these

guys is not so much money,

it's the fact that

they're idols,

[wrestler thuds]

[crowd cheering]

and it's really a

love of wrestling that

they get into this.

So the bumps and all

that that they're doing,

they're doing

because they love it.

[wrestler thuds]

[crowd cheering]

You know, with the

Federation that we have,

they make a lot more

money than they ever would

going to work in any show.

I remember being on the road

and getting gas and

getting food at McDonald's,

and I noticed, you know,

some kids kinda point

and then maybe making

a little bit of fun of,

and then I see him at the show,

where they're on center

stage and on the stage,

they're now a rockstar.

[crowd cheering]

- Daily life, when

you're walking,

like when we're all back home,

and you're walking

through a store

or through a mall or

anything like that,

you don't get the

same reaction you do.

But you did.

- No, you don't.

- They actually pointed at

you, taking pictures and.

- You get a much negative,

different reaction,

when you're back home

living your own life.

- I have a great team,

this team right here.

This is the midget mafia.

These guys are the best.

The bits of feedback

that I get on the road

from you guys is

just phenomenal.

- Skyler, I actually

have a question.

- [Skyler] Go for it.

- Like with all the

bookings and stuff,

are we getting like

a lot more bookings

where to the point

where we can get picky,

at what venues you

should play at,

or are you pretty much taking

anything that's offered to us?

Just a curiosity.

- Are you gonna say no to money?

- [Man] Huh?

- You're gonna say no to money?

- Well, if, no, it's.

- Are you gonna say no to money?

- No.

- That just answered

your question.

- No, what I was

saying was is like,

are we getting over

booked to the point

where we can start

getting a picture.

- Yes, better money.

- Better than a gig.

- Yeah, better money,

better everything.

- But you gotta take

the good with the bad.

It's not all gonna be gravy.

- Yeah.

- That's road life.

- When you're a midget wrestler,

you don't just stay

in one federation.

You're indie, I mean,

you go to all different

types of federations.

[dramatic music]

- [Announcer] Tokio makes a tag.

There comes little Koto.

Little Koto and

Lord Littlebrook.

[audience cheering]

- My father wrestled

for many years.

He wrestled all over the world.

So he'd wrestle for a

month or two with WWF,

there was AWA out

of Minneapolis,

there was NWA out of Atlanta,

and then he would be

in Tennessee wrestling

for the Jared's.

I mean, he traveled all over.

Actually the indie circuit now

is more than it used to be.

And the reason

why is 'cause WWE.

Mr. McMahon, he just took out

all the other big federations.

- There's lots of politics and

controversy back in the day

and it became a

derogatory statement to

use the word midget.

- So people just started

doing indie shows.

[crowd cheering]

- [Announcer] He gets a duplex.

He's the strongest midget.

- Once in a blue moon, you'd

actually get a midget match

on the indie circuit

'cause most time,

a lot of your indie

federations have one little guy

who lived close by, that

did know how to wrestle,

but he didn't have another

little guy to wrestle.

[crowd chattering]

Through me getting a phone

list of each one I'd meet

on this federation,

this federation,

this federation, you know, we

started trading numbers up.

- [Announcer] You

need to stop drinking

before you come to work.

- You know, then for Li'l

Nasty Boy, for example,

up in Oregon, needed

somebody to come up

and wrestle him on

that federation.

His promoter of that

federation would fly me

or somebody else in

or somebody else in.

Each month they'd have a

genuine little midget division.

And then we just

started realizing

that we got each other's

phone numbers on,

we could keep the

momentum going.

[comical upbeat music]

The flowchart of

midget wrestling

was like a carnival circus act,

one match, comedic, slapstick,

make everybody laugh.

- [Announcer] They really

need a full lightweight.

- [Skyler] Sky Low

Low, Little Beaver,

on into Lord Littlebrook.

Lord Littlebrook kinda brought

it up to where it became,

people remembered the

midget wrestlers' names

and became somewhat fans.

Then midget wrestling kind of

died off for several years.

[upbeat music]

Then came the Rock 'Em Sock 'Em.

It was a sports circus.

On into Micro Wrestling

Federation, Halftime Brawlers,

on into Micro

Championship Wrestling,

then Extreme Midget

Wrestling Federation.

- [Skyler] Do you know what

I do and it's really hard?

We have to get three or four

shows together at one time,

if we don't, we're in a hole.

It's a gamble each week.

[Rampage snoring]

The way that we're doing it

now is we have to get in a van,

drive sometimes all night,

[crowd cheering]

break the ring down,

do the next city same thing

over and over and over again,

and it wears the guys out.

- Ah, my back!

[gentle uplifting music]

Las Vegas is important to me

in Extreme Midget Wrestling

because we were looking

for a venue to where,

rather than us

going to the people,

we have the people coming to us.

Every week it's a whole

new crew of people

that come in and out,

people that are gonna come in

and possibly buy

tickets for our show.

It's not an easy

town to get into,

you gotta know somebody

just to get in,

somebody who has

contacts, who's connected

with all the casinos'

entertainment directors.

[crowd cheering]

In 2012, we did our

show at the Riviera.

Tremendous success, we sold

out their little auditorium,

had 1,000 people.

We did about nine shows there.

All of them were sold out.

As a test run, I

thought it was perfect.

Has the Plaza had a

lot of shows there?

- Yeah, now they

have a group called

the Fat Pack, I think, there,

it's kinda, but it's not

gonna keep, you know,

it's not a real viable show,

it's not drawing a lot of

people or anything like that.

I gotta take this.

- I got you.

- What's up, Frankie?

No camera.

- [Skyler] You know, it's

not always what you have,

but it's also who you know,

and how much money you got in

your pocket to promote a show.

- [Steve] Yeah, that's.

- I gave you a copy of

that, do you have it?

- [Steve] By the time we pay,

let's say eight performers,

how many performers do you

think we're gonna have to add?

- [Skyler] Eight high paying.

[upbeat music]

- You know, my wife,

she's getting to the point

where she's tired

of being alone.

And you know, I can't

be mad at her, man.

I leave her there for months

upon months by herself.

Man, I've always had a

thing for midget girls.

[crowd cheering]

It's hard to find

a fake midget girl.

It really is, I've been looking,

but I never thought

in my wildest dream

that I would be married

and have a baby.

I mean, I was there

for when he was born,

but then again the road

called and I was gone.

So technically, I

think I'm a bad husband

'cause I put my wife and

family on the back burner.

Wrestling ain't

nothing without my son.

It's been a great

nine years, man.

But I gotta jet on home,

take care of my daddy

responsibilities.

This is Skinny Timmy

saying a farewell.

- Skinny Timmy, ever

since I've known him,

he's been on tour with us

for almost three years.

And I've heard him

say a million times

that he's gonna quit.

But he never quits.

He always calls back, "I'm

ready to come out, man.

"I'm ready to wrestle,

Skinny Timmy."

[crowd cheering]

- Michael Anthony Coletti,

[crowd cheering]

they call me Midget MAC,

'cause that's my initials.

It's just me, it's what I do.

I MAC on ladies.

- [Announcer] Good

evening, Woodrow!

[crowd cheering]

- [MAC] Y'all ain't loud enough!

- Gotti, he's new.

We started the new

guys off as a referee,

so they can watch, they learn,

instead of just

throwing them out there

to get their ass kicked.

- Hey, hey, come on.

[crowd cheering]

Get back in the ring.

- [Interviewer] Did

you go to college?

- Yes, I did go to college.

[wrestler groans]

I went for criminal justice.

- [Announcer] Here's our

little wrestling ranger!

[crowd cheering]

- And at the time, I couldn't

find anything in the career.

So after I went to job

coy for carnie jobs.

I did work at McDonald's,

[crowd cheering]

and they gave me

like a step stool,

but, like, it worked for me.

But everybody else,

they pretty much saw me

as like a hazard in the kitchen.

[crowd cheering]

- Can y'all give me some

feedback on Gotti over there,

the wrestling ranger?

Okay, last time he did

not improve at all.

[crowd cheering]

Gotti, let's see, I did

talk to him about working.

Some guys says it's

gonna take him longer.

So, we work with guys as

long as it really takes,

and it really falls back on us.

That's our responsibility.

- Let's practice that one, okay.

- Okay.

- You wanna give you.

'Cause he ain't

wrestling me every night.

I wanted to look good too,

and that's why I want

him to look good.

So, I'm trying to guide

him, trying to teach him,

and he listen, so that's good,

'cause if you don't listen,

then we gonna have a fight.

Ready, ready, ready.

You know why?

'Cause I don't wanna

look stupid in the ring.

- One, two.

- Just go out there and have fun

and show this place what we do.

One, two, three.

- [Men] Midgets!

[crowd cheering]

- Now, my dad always taught me,

whatever you're doing,

you gotta be 110%.

[crowd cheering]

You gotta prove them

that you can do this,

because you're short.

I was young, it's hard,

'cause they pushed me around,

[crowd cheering]

and I fight back.

Don't push me, no,

don't touch me.

And then they call me midgets.

The midgets word,

it doesn't hurt me.

[crowd cheering]

My dad always says that

you gotta accept people,

they gonna call you

midget all the time

for the rest of your life.

So you gotta accept that now.

So I accept it, I'm a midget.

- Fuck you, you fucking midget!

- Whatever people

says, I don't care.

You know, just brush it

off, you know what I mean?

[crowd cheering]

We went to appointments.

The doctor offered that

they can make me taller,

put an extension in

my knee and my elbow.

And I said, "Let's do it."

You know, I don't wanna

short forever, you know.

But my dad said, "No, you

know, you don't want that,

"because that can

hurt you, you know.

"It can mess up your body."

And I cried, you

know what I mean?

I'm like dang.

For a long time I said, "Why?"

And I kinda like

got mad at my dad,

[crowd cheering]

but I see why, you know.

I see why he said no.

[crowd cheering]

And so I said, "Thank

you, thanks dad."

You know?

- Well, me and

Eddie, we're in a,

we played basketball

three years ago?

- Yeah.

- In Nashville, that's

the first time we met.

But all of us in the same teams,

it's called the statements.

[indistinct]

[crowd applauding]

- [Frenchy] I trained

quite a few of them.

Most of them are

basketball players,

and they trained to

wrestle instead of,

other than basketball.

[crowd cheering]

- [J-Mazing] I learned my

wrestling from Frenchy Lamont.

He's also a legend of

being a major wrestler.

[crowd cheering]

I met him in Canada

during a basketball,

and he taught me the wrestling,

and basically

everything that I know.

[crowd cheering]

- He came from the Philippines.

Some of them are

easy than others,

but him, we just kinda

connected, you know?

[man thuds]

[crowd cheering]

He just had that

knack about him.

[crowd cheering]

- College, it was a totally

new experience for me,

because coming up

through high school,

graduating with

honors, you know,

when I was being used to

like being the smart one

and everything, and

then you get to college.

- [Crowd] Fuck Fabio,

fuck Fabio, fuck Fabio!

- [Fabio] And it was just

so much more difficult.

You know, you started

thinking, okay,

maybe I'm not as smart as

I thought I was, you know?

- [Crowd] Stop being a bitch.

Stop being a bitch.

Stop being a bitch.

I never really watched

wrestling at all, growing up.

It wasn't until high school,

one of my best friends,

he'd be like, "No, no,

dude, you gotta watch this."

And he plays out there and

I'll be like, "Yeah, faking."

He's like, "No, no, rewind it."

And he'd like, make it

go like in slow motion

so I could see the

impact of the hit.

And from that moment, I just

became obsessed with it.

I was over at his

house one night,

and Air Paris called

him up and said,

"Hey, you know, we've

got this show going on

"in Cedar County, Georgia.

"I really need to

find a midget."

This guy, he's like,

"Dude, I got one at

my house right now!"

He was like, "Really?

Put him on the phone.

"Hey, how do you

feel about wrestling

"a guy named Skinny Kenny?"

How bad could it be, you know?

His name is, Skinny

Kenny all ready.

[dramatic music]

He weighed probably

400 plus pounds.

I was absolutely terrified.

- [Interviewer] What pushed

you to go through with it?

- Just the love of

wrestling, I guess.

Well, that, and they kinda did

just shove me out of curtain.

Most of the guys that I wrestled

for my first year and

a half, two years,

they were all tall guys.

This was on the independence.

I actually used to work

for a promotion called RPW,

Rampage Pro Wrestling.

They do biweekly

television tapings,

and there was a manager

there, he came out.

He had a big white

suit, you know,

big white cowboy hat,

kinda resembled Boss Hogg

from "Dukes of Hazzard,"

we used to call

him Charlie Cash.

They brought me into the

show to be Pocket Change.

- [Commentator] What's

going on in the ring?

What's going on in the ring?

Pocket Change and Charlie

Cash, they're not wrestlers.

- I was basically his mini me.

[crowd chattering]

Wrestling, I guess is

probably what really got me

to break out of my shy shell.

The thing that

shocked me the most,

is like with the ladies,

[wrestler thuds]

[crowd cheering]

'cause I'm like, "Well, maybe

I am like semi-attractive

"or something, I don't know."

[Fabio laughing]

- It's Fabio right

here with my woman!

He's getting naked in a minute.

- I've heard people be like,

"How much is it for a midget?

"I want that guy over there."

- Every woman's bucket list.

- You might think

you're tall and stuff,

but dynamite comes

in small packages.

[woman laughing]

- There you go,

that's the truth.

She's been after you

guys for a while.

[woman laughs]

- [Woman] I don't even know yet!

[everyone laughs]

- So do we bring you a condom?

- You know it is true

they get a lot of women,

but they don't know

what to do with.

[laughs]

- Ooh boy, it's been a while

since I had a girlfriend

to be honest with you.

[woman shouting]

- Hey?

- How're you doing?

Filipino girl.

- Filipino girl.

- Oh, the Filipino girl.

- When was this?

In Utah, right?

- Yeah, it was in Utah.

- No.

- Like, yeah, it was in Utah.

- It was in Utah.

- Yeah, and she came over to me

and I talked to

her for a minute,

and then I asked her where

she was from or something,

and she said she was Filipino.

I was like, "J-Amazing,

yeah, little tiny midget,

"this one, he's Filipino too."

She's like, "Oh really?"

Then she set out to find him.

- Was she from the

Philippines too?

- Yeah, she's Filipino.

- Me and Mike go way back.

- Yeah, really?

- Like five seconds.

- How far, five seconds?

- She's Puertorican,

I'm telling you.

You don't know?

- Pretty crazy.

- Come on, Texas!

Pick up your A-game, right?

- Where did you come from?

We love you.

- I'm from New York.

- Donny.

- Doony, Emily,

pleasure to meet you.

- Nice meeting you too.

- I haven't really wrestled yet.

But when he brings me out,

I'm called Little Thrasher.

- Why don't we call you gigolo?

- How about, no.

- Just a little gigolo.

- [Emily] Wait, why

are you guys in town?

Here in St.Louis?

- Midget wrestling.

- Don't tell me it's a

dream, are you serious?

You're dream sellers!

- Skyler's talking

shit, I don't gigolo.

- I swear I thought you

had a little black book.

- No.

- Yeah.

- No.

- Seriously.

[Emily wooing]

Skyler, I was thinking

about wrestling in my room.

- Naked?

- Exactly.

- That was how Johnny Flores

will scare a woman

away right there.

Yeah.

- What, yeah.

- Thanks Johnny.

Johnny, they talk

to you and they run.

Have you noticed that?

- Have you noticed

that with Rampage?

No.

- No.

- What did I do?

No.

- You carry that box around?

- What box around?

You've seen my box.

It's full of my shaving stuff.

And stuff to look

pretty for the night.

- See, gigolo-ing.

- I'm trying to pull bitches.

I don't do it for money.

[window bangs]

[crowd cheering]

- From little rock in Arkansas,

you love him or you hate him.

Make some noise

for Li'l Rampage!

[crowd cheering]

- See, I had a grandma.

We always had to sit

there and watch wrestling.

We used to watch every

Monday, Thursday, Sunday.

One of us or her kids,

they gotta make sure that

she has got some KFC chicken,

or some skins.

If she ain't got no skin,

she's not watching wrestling.

If she ain't got no KFC,

she's not watching

wrestling either.

Her favorite guy was The Rock

and that was my

favorite guy too.

[audience cheering]

That's who used to

take care of me.

That's who used to be the mama.

To tell the truth, I

like being the size I am.

I got here, I got a baby mama.

She's like, nobody call

me or her son a midget.

'Cause my little

boy, he a midget too.

I really tried to work

it out with my baby mama.

I thought she was the

baddest chick I ever had.

So, she was a stripper,

I was a stripper.

She was a hoe, I was a hoe.

I'll be honest, I was a pimp.

- We did a show in Little Rock.

So he came out for it

and he did his

little strip thing.

The next day I convinced him.

I was like, "Well, are you

gonna come on tour with us?"

He was like, "Well, we gotta

go to my parents' house."

And I was like,

"Oh my God, dude.

"You're like in your 20s,

"and we gotta go to

your parents' house?"

- Sitting next to mom's

house, living at home.

He was pimping at mom's.

- He wanna come

with the jokes too.

- His whole family's

outside waving goodbye.

They probably had

a party afterwards.

- Rampage.

- Rampage.

- Not a big fan.

- It is what it is,

Rampage's gonna do Rampage.

You know, some guys

come into this company,

you know what I'm saying?

They think they stars

'cause they been on TV.

- He had a very big head

when he first came in

from doing the male

stripping thing.

- They say I'm a whinin'

baby, wanna get my way.

- He refused to sit in

the back of the van.

He had to have front seat,

otherwise he would

raise all kinds of hell.

- He's just cocky.

- Ah, nah, I ain't

sitting back there.

Oh, you can sit back there.

- Everybody in this company,

somewhere down the road,

does not like Rampage.

- It ain't all about

what they think.

- Rampage is running naked

down the hotel rooms, you know,

down the hallways, and back

and forth and screaming.

And it's like

Rampage, calm down.

- You know it's

gonna freak you out

if you get a knock on the door

and you see a little black

midget sitting there naked

just staring at you.

[Rampage laughing]

- Yeah, it's pretty hard

to get fired around here.

- You know, Skyler Ward, I

think he is a good person.

I know I messed up

a lot with Skyler,

like, I blew one of his vans.

Well, actually to be real,

I blew two of his vans up.

- [Skyler] He was chaos, terror.

- I was hitting the gas

real hard, it wouldn't go.

[upbeat music]

- [Kevin] This drunk

intoxicated person,

decided to pick a

fight with Rampage.

[crowd cheering]

I jumped in the middle of

this and he gets mad at me.

He balls up his fist.

[guys yelling]

- Too damn old for this crap.

- I've tried to talk to Rampage.

It's like talking to a

rock or a wall or anything.

- [Crowd] Rampage,

Rampage, Rampage!

- This is why you need to

talk to Chris and Skyler.

You're the road manager.

- I've talked to Chris and

Skyler, everybody's talked.

- They've gotta do something.

They baby him too much.

[crowd cheering]

- [Skyler] Kevin

Bradshaw, Road Manager.

I give a lot of props to any

manager that has to do that.

- Ow!

- Ah!

- Hey, I'm in the

middle of this!

Somebody didn't

put on deodorant.

Put some fucking deodorant

on in the mornings.

- Six, seven, eight little

people in the van is horrible.

- You want anything, my child?

My cranky little bundle of shit?

- Shut the fuck up, man.

- [Kevin] Hold on, hold on.

- There's gonna be

a fight every day.

Everything is in there.

Like the germs, you know,

the anger, everything.

That van is nasty.

- You start washing

your hands sometimes.

- Keep watching out

for my sticky ass hoes.

- They will drive you crazy.

One guy who wants

to go to Walmart,

one guy wants to go to the bank.

- I call Denny's.

- Let's go see a movie.

- This guy wants to do this,

this guy don't wanna do that,

he don't wanna eat there,

he wants to eat there.

- Are we stopping again?

- [Chris] You can't do

nothing to keep them happy.

One of them's always pissed off.

I mean, you just

can't keep them happy.

- We just ate!

- I said I'm not even hungry.

- [J-Mazing] I know.

- I know!

- [Skyler] I wanna see the

guys in a better vehicle.

You look in the van

and you got six guys,

six to eight guys are sleeping

on the floor back there,

and it doesn't look

too comfortable.

They're not getting good sleep.

And when they

wrestle every night,

they really need to

be in a bed, you know?

Lettin' their legs kind of heal,

and you need a lot

of rest to heal.

And if you're bouncing

around in the van,

trying to get rest that

way, it's not full rest.

♪ Dealing with it all ♪

Woo!

The sun, the life, baby.

- Skyler is a very

paranoid person

because he has been kicked in

the balls by so many people.

- [Woman] Are you

done with your drink?

- Why can't I bring this in?

- [Woman] Can you

drink it outside?

- [Skyler] This is a medicine.

- [Woman] This?

- Yes, medicine.

I have a cold.

Hey, what are you doing?

- [Chris] I got a call today

from the guy in Charlotte,

and he was telling me

that somebody called him,

and they said that they

were a midget named James,

that used to work for us,

and that we were

canceling the show.

- See, that's why

I'm so secretive.

- And a male dancer thing.

You know, girls wanna see

new meat all the time.

They wanna see new guys.

So you can just can't

keep coming back

with the same guy, same guy.

So what we do, we

exchange numbers,

exchange the venues, for a

girl to see different stuff.

But when it came to midget

wrestling, it's top secret.

- It's just bullshit.

It's bullshit in the

entertainment business.

Some little fuckhead calls up

and saying we're

canceling our show.

- But then you got people

undercutting like Skyler,

who would come back behind you,

find out your venue and cut you.

And just to get

the gig from you.

- Nobody likes when

you make money.

- [Woman] That's okay.

- This is a fucking war.

- [Chris] Trying to

fuck our shit up.

It's time to go to war, player.

- That's right, motherfucker.

- [Chris] It's time

to get gangster.

- That's right, bitch,

I like that shit!

Pumpin' me up!

You know, when I first

started the company,

I didn't have everyone sign.

And that's when I

learned about contracts.

I get all my midget

wrestlers kidnapped.

We were this beautiful

family, you know,

me being the Vince

McMahon of Midget Wresting

and them being just

loyal midget wrestlers

and all of a sudden,

about three, four

or so jumped ship

and went to someone else.

- [Man] Who was the macaroni?

- Macaroni.

- Jim Macaroni.

- Fat Jim.

[dramatic suspenseful music]

♪ Fuck you ♪

- [Skyler] I call

him Jim Macaroni.

And he doesn't have

any of my respect

to even say his last name.

We just call him Macaroni.

- This Macaroni guy

booked us in New York.

And soon as we pull up, he

comes out, this Macaroni guy,

and I didn't like

him right away.

This guy was just like rude

as hell and just slimy.

He's a big, fat, slimy guy.

And some weird things

started happening.

Like first, I go outside

and the van won't start.

[engine roaring]

- [Skyler] Macaroni,

sly cat, little weasel.

He unplugs our fuel

pump to our van

so that the van had

ended up in the shop.

You remember the guy

from Buffalo, New York?

- That boy from New York.

- I ain't like him

to tell the truth.

He took us to Arby's.

What kind of promoter

would take you to Arby's?

♪ Cheesy ♪

♪ Sleazy ♪

- Next thing I know,

Rampage is telling

me this Macaroni guy

is gonna start his own company,

and all these guys are

gonna work for him.

I guess some of the guys

they weren't really

happy about pay.

- Things were a little bit edgy.

- These guys, they would just

go wherever the works at.

If you give them 20 shows a

month, they will work for you.

They'll stick to you

and stay by your side.

You give them five shows

a month, they're gone.

- And then the

next thing I know,

Skyler calls me and he's like,

"They all went with Macaroni."

And the only one we

had left was Rampage.

- Rampage not going

was Fat Jim' decision,

and Bad Boy's decision,

and well, Nasty's decision,

and everybody's decision

to be honest with you.

- Rampage would have never

went with him anyways.

Rampage is like the

loyalest guy ever.

- I was promised the moon

and I was not given my moon.

I was given a load of crap.

- [Fabio] We were

sleeping in our tour van

which was this old busted

up ice cream truck.

- [Announcer] That's

cold, Macaroni.

- [Fabio] We had shows at

North Dakota, South Dakota,

where it got to -20 degrees.

And we were just like bundled

up in these sleeping bags.

Basically just

trying to stay warm.

- [Announcer] Ice cold.

- He tried calling one

of my midgets one time,

and I was like, "Okay."

I was like, "Well,

give me the phone.

"I'm gonna pretend

I'm your brother."

So I get him on the phone,

I was like, "What's up, man?

"You want my little brother?"

He's like, "Yeah man,

I like to use him."

And I was like,

"Fuck you, Macaroni!"

I was like, "This is me,

you know what I'm saying?"

♪ Fuck you, Macaroni ♪

And he's like,

"Oh man, oh, man."

I was like, "You just

live with your mom.

"You ain't nothing but a big

fat slimy piece of shit."

♪ Cheesy ♪

♪ Sleazy ♪

I was like, "Fuck

you, Macaroni."

♪ Fuck you, Macaroni ♪

When everyone jumped ship,

we had Rampage and

we had Skinny Timmy.

We got on the phone

one more time.

Call and call and

I found Baby Jesus

and Little Devil out there.

I was accused of taking

my whole team and leaving.

I did not take anybody with me.

- Nasty Boy, we finally

let him come back.

But when he came back,

we treated him like

shit for a while.

[crowd cheering]

- Without skipping a beat,

we just went down the road,

and we're still here today.

Three years later.

- I still had to say,

"Fuck you, Jim Macaroni,

"New York slime ball."

♪ Fuck you, Macaroni ♪

♪ Fuck you, Macaroni ♪

♪ Cheesy ♪

♪ Sleazy ♪

- [Skyler] That's

funny, Jim Macaroni.

Yeah, it's competition.

It's all fair in love

and war and business.

We're Americans.

[upbeat music]

♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪

♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪

♪ Killing all my attitude ♪

♪ I've been on a heavy crew ♪

♪ I'm about to make a move ♪

♪ Walking harder in my shoes ♪

♪ Wait for what

I'm about to do ♪

♪ I'ma walk all over you ♪

♪ Walk all over you ♪

♪ You, you ♪

♪ Dangerous, dangerous ♪

♪ Ride it up, ride it up ♪

♪ Dangerous, dangerous ♪

- Like this job,

yeah, they're harsh

on me, they're mean,

but when I went back home,

my family even told me, "You

seem more of a man now."

- Mr. Perez here was telling me

that you guys are

kinda mean to him.

What's going on?

- I think it's just

like the hazing

that I haven't been

in the ring yet.

[Skyler laughs]

- The hazing?

- Jonny, a lot of your

stuff that comes to you,

you bring on yourself.

- How so?

- You can't go out there

and be Mr. Arrogant Cocky.

I'm the new guy, I'm.

- Almost a fruit loop.

- I say you test the water.

- I thought we took

it easy on you.

Yeah.

- Really?

- I'm gonna hit you.

You ready?

[indistinct]

[guys laughing]

- Hit him.

- I'm gonna hit you.

- No.

- I'm gonna hit you.

- No.

Enough's enough.

- Come on, come on.

- I ended up with a ribber.

All wrestlers get that.

That's a great tradition.

That's the way we get blessed.

Because it's like

a gift in a way.

It's like a gift.

It's something that

you never forget.

I don't care how old you are.

[Fabio laughs]

- It's like Harry

fricking Potter.

- Some jokes are good.

Some jokes are bad.

Some ribs I don't believe.

I don't believe in,

because they're too.

It becomes another bit no more.

- You look like a fruit cake.

Fucking jackass dude.

- When you green, green

as grass, you don't know.

- Get on the ground, bitch.

- Get on the ground?

- Get on the fuckin' ground!

- Oh my shit!

Oh my shit!

Oh, oh, oh shit!

Who's going on the ground?

Who's going down,

what's the guy?

- [Fabio] Am I gonna

get to see any punches?

- This is some funny shit.

- Gotti, don't be a pussy.

- [Rampage] He about

to be in a minute.

Y'all wanna bet?

- [Gotti] So just, hey,

throw him back on the ground

and pull your dick out again.

- That's what I'm about to do.

- [Gotti] It's still neutral.

Here we go, here we go.

- [Gotti] Oh, swing on.

- [Fabio] Quit playing grab-ass.

- But I'm watching you

there squealing there, dude.

- Get off of me!

- You good, you good?

- You better move

before I punch him.

Wait till we out the van.

- We're family.

Like you said, we're family.

[everyone laughing]

- You're gonna have to become

Rampage's bitch tonight.

Get on the ground, bitch.

- Shut the fuck up.

Shut the fuck up.

Say another fuckin' word!

- Another fuckin' word.

- Say another fuckin' word!

- Another fuckin' word.

- [Gotti] Uh, oh.

Uh, oh.

Uh, oh.

Stop it right there.

- Stop the van!

- [Gotti] Dude, that's

the best view right there.

- Just go get the

fuck out my way.

Before I hit you on your

motherfucking face too.

- [Gotti] He said stop, so.

- Stop, nigga, if you don't

get the fuck out of here,

I'm gonna bust

your fucking face.

Don't play with

me like that dude.

- When I was in high school,

there was this bully that I had.

And then he comes up

and tries to pick on me,

and then tries to

pick a fight with me,

and then you know how kids are,

they pull out their

camera phones,

and once I see like

three camera phones out,

I just thought to

myself, "Great,

"if you let him

beat your ass now,

"you look like a pussy for

the rest of your school year."

So I just had to do

something about it,

and then, yeah.

- [Woman] What'd you do?

- F'd him up.

And he didn't look at

me in the eye ever again

till the school year was over.

Left me alone, like.

- That's a beautiful story.

- [Rampage] Hey, you

wanna be my bitch?

- [Jonny] I was just asking.

- Hey, do you wanna be?

- I was asking.

- You wanna be?

- No.

- Do you wanna be?

- No.

- I was asking.

- Get out of my face.

- [Skyler] I stay out of it.

I call myself the mother of

10 illegitimate children.

- What you major in?

- History and political science.

- One day he's gonna be

teaching our youth of America.

- Show y'all what

it's all about.

- Are we playing for money?

I need $5 so I

could eat tomorrow.

- Let me get two

all the way down.

He about to be out of $5.

Ah!

Drop that money.

- $10.

You and me, $10.

All right.

- All right.

- You got $10 right now?

- [Jonny] I don't, but I'll

pay you back if I lose.

Swear to god.

- Break them up.

- All right.

- Ah!

Good game, dog.

- Yeah.

[indistinct]

- [Rampage] Hey, it's

better honey than anybody.

Anybody see that, what

the fuck was that, dude?

- You gotta hit the ball.

- Skyler, he loved the guys.

It was like having a

bunch of, you know,

brothers that work together.

- I know, I know.

I realize that.

Don't yell at me,

you little bitch.

- Let's go to this other bar.

- What other bar?

- It's got naked girls

dancing on the bar,

and free food, and

drinks are half price.

- [Deedra] You know, he

really loved the guys.

He took a big interest in them.

- I see why people

pick on you now.

- Why?

- You got a little

bit of a mouth on you.

[upbeat music]

- [Deedra] It didn't seem like

it was just business

to him anymore.

Like it was his little family.

He wanted to give them work

where they could make a living.

He had promised them

the sun and the moon

at the beginning,

to get them just to

pay attention to him.

Skyler wasn't very

close to his family.

Sometimes he's a closed

book on a lot of things,

and he doesn't show

emotion very often.

It was definitely not

good on our relationship.

- [Skyler] I am on

the market right now.

I just got out of a

10 year relationship.

Business definitely

plays a part of it.

To run a business, you

have to be dedicated.

I mean, I remember,

hey, it's Thanksgiving.

I can get in here and

get some extra work done

to get ahead.

I have a joke about wanting

to write a book called

"Why not to start a business."

And tell them all the things

that you're gonna

have to sacrifice.

- That man was a working fool.

Driving down the highway,

he was on his computer, on

his phone, making us money.

- I liked to tour when

he was like that though.

'Cause if anything happen,

he gonna make sure it's

done, right then and there.

Flat tires, guys

don't got no money,

you hungry, right there.

Now one of us going back there,

we'd be two hours

sitting in the desert,

like we got a flat,

we gotta wait two hours guys,

till the trailer get fixed.

- No sweat on my back.

I mean, I got dirt

on some people.

I just don't talk bad,

and I don't sling mud.

- You have to let us know.

I went up to Rampage and

asked him, I was like,

"Hey, do you have

some guests coming?"

And he's like, "Yes,

I told Skyler."

I was like, "Why didn't

you not let me know?"

He goes, "Because

I let Skyler know."

I go, "Skyler is not here."

He started blowing up in my

face, calling me a bitch.

Here you go, take a break.

You're off for tonight.

- Someone being derogatory,

or they just trying to

act like they're the man?

- I believe because you black.

I'ma dock you, buddy.

I'ma dock you.

- Someone's docking you

'cause you're black?

- No, it ain't because of that.

But, I don't know

anyone he docked.

- [Skyler] So you're

saying you're the only one

that's been docked?

- [Rampage] Yeah.

- And other guys

haven't been docked?

- [Rampage] No.

- Do you remember me sending

Nasty Boy home for two weeks?

- No.

- Two weeks, it was a month.

- I'm out here to make money.

- We are all out here for that.

- I mean right here.

- I wanna to point out though,

is you think like you're the

only one being picked on,

there's other people

who've been disciplined,

and there's other people

that have lost money.

But what I'm saying

is, you know,

I'm gonna be honest with you,

your name does come up a lot

for controversy and drama, so.

- I'm Rampage, it's

gonna come up a lot.

- Okay, I agree with you.

- If the company could

be better without me,

hey, oh, well.

- [Skyler] Alrighty.

- [Rampage] That's

how I feel about it.

- [Skyler] All right.

- Rampage, you're going down.

I hope you quit, man.

If you wanna go home and cry

because you're not

gonna get your way,

you gotta put your

big boy pants on

and go home and check it out.

- One thing in business, you

never embarrass your boss.

Never.

- [Kevin] Hey, Rampage, Fabio,

you're gonna like this one.

I even paid him an

extra 20 bucks, too.

- Basically, special Kev payed

me a little extra tonight

to make sure your

Rampage stays in line,

get the job done.

- You need somebody like me

that makes sure you

guys stay in line.

So, how many are ready

for some midgets?

[crowd cheering]

This is not Rampage Extreme

Midget Wrestling show.

I've been waiting for this

match all night, you guys.

You think you can say,

do, whatever you want,

just because you're a midget,

and on top of

that, you're black.

You can't play

those types of cards

and think that you can

get in life like that.

The cards you need

to play are the ones

that you don't burn any

bridges, you build them.

[dramatic music]

And you know, you're not

gonna take any advice from me,

or any lessons, or

anything I wanna teach you,

I'm gonna ignore it,

and you're gonna be

put on the back burner,

and I'm gonna forget about you.

These heads will rock, I

like it to be a sponge.

He could soak in a

lot of information.

He could be smart,

but he chooses to be,

[laughs]

I'm just gonna leave that one

blank for people out there.

[crowd cheering]

[crowd cheering]

- I'll be feelin' in, baby,

no different than

any other match.

- [Woman] And how about

Rampage, how's he doing?

- He got the worst of it.

- [Woman] So, are you

guys cool with each other

after a match like that?

- Being the first match

you gotta, you know,

you really gotta start the

show off with a bang, you know,

to keep them into

it, get 'em into it,

'cause you wanna leave a good

first impression, you know,

when the show starts.

- [Woman] You pissed?

- No.

- [Woman] Are you all right?

- [Kevin] We all fight like.

- What'd you think?

- It's all resolved and over

with at the end, we just.

- We're finished.

- Well, there's some things

that have to be done.

I mean, we don't like doing it.

No, but it's some things

that just have to be done.

- [Rampage] I think

Nasty Boy's great,

'cause he trained with me,

you know what I'm saying?

But, I'm not close

to him that way.

They all turn on you, you

know, like Skyler said to me.

- You know where

Moneybags buyers is that?

I remember, yep.

Let's go back over

what that meeting was,

'cause right now they're

not really seeing it.

- And they don't wanna

give us the ballroom.

Then I don't know

that they have a space

for us to work there, you know.

If he's not making money

or at least breaking even,

and getting the big

drop in the casino,

he's not gonna stay

with it either.

- [Skyler] Right.

- [Steve] And a deal

is not a good deal

unless it is a win-win.

And it's not gonna stick

or last if it's not, so.

- [Skyler] We were looking

for another place to play,

and Steve Moneybags, he

decided not to invest.

He dropped out and didn't

want to go through with it.

So he's just playing it safe.

And that's cool.

[indistinct chatter]

- Hey, man, I've been

up here for five hours.

Can I get something?

Guess who's back?

Skinny Timmy, 62 days, man.

[crowd cheering]

I can't be away.

I'm Skinny Timmy.

[crowd cheering]

- [Skyler] The appeal

is everybody loves

midget wrestling.

I mean they really do.

- [Men] Midgets.

- [Skyler] Here's the thing

about using Extreme

Midget Wrestling,

we can use that and it's

bold and it's to the point,

you don't need any explanation,

and it's the midget word,

and that's gonna help sell.

So on one point,

it's a great thing.

- [Reporter] Tell us what

we're gonna see tonight?

- If it ain't bolted down,

somebody's getting hit with it,

you get to see midgets flying

around all shapes and sizes.

- [Announcer] Tickets are

available at Flavor Vapor,

32 East, Cherokee Avenue

Downtown Mcalester.

- [Skyler] On the second point,

is Budweiser gonna sponsor us?

Is Red Bull energy

drink gonna sponsor us?

No, because there's

gonna be a little bit

of friction there.

There's gonna be somebody

complaining, you know.

- [Announcer] Dwarfanators.

- [Skyler] On the other hand,

if we go over here and

we use Dwarfanators.

Look at that word.

It's brandable, not

been used, it's new.

We have no friction.

And I'm a businessman.

I wanna sell shows

and sell tickets.

So, I don't see it being

a loss using Dwarfanators

over Extreme Midget Wrestling,

and I think we can sell

the same amount of tickets,

and I think we can have

better sponsorships,

make it like WWE and

see what happens.

But in America in 10 years,

we're gonna have

to change that word

'cause that's gonna be bad.

Yeah, we got a few

new guys out here now.

That happens.

I think the thing was

is Kevin really rubbing

the guys the wrong way.

So, once I came back,

got on the road,

seeing what was going on,

kind of realized that

Kevin really needed to go,

and all the guys came back.

- [Kevin] Dammit!

- [Skyler] And Rampage,

Rampage is sitting out.

- Somebody said I was fat.

Someone say I'm overweight.

They look fat theyselves.

[crowd cheering]

- [Skyler] Guys like

Fabio, he went up to Canada

and started working

with some big guys

and he ended up

hurting his knee.

He's doing some refereeing,

lettin' the knee rehab

a little bit longer,

probably wrestling

within a week or two.

- Woo!

- [Skyler] Nasty

left, came back.

- Selling out everything.

- I turned my back on

my childhood dream.

Tried the real world jobs.

You cannot perform at your best

if you just don't like

what you're doing.

You just won't perform.

So, I said, I can't retire.

I gotta go back to

what I was born to do.

Politically correctness

could have hurt

the industry really

bad, and wiped it out,

but nothing gets

wiped out totally.

It can get down to

the last molecule,

and it'll start

building itself back up,

and that's what

we've done today.

[crowd cheering]

- [Man] Old man, whoop his ass!

- I miss the ring, I

still miss the ring.

I'll always miss the ring.

What I miss the

most in wrestling

is the fans, the love, always.

[upbeat music]

- One, two, three.

- [All] Dwarfanators!

- [Announcer] Everybody give

it up for Frenchy Lamont,

he's been the wrestling

world champion, WWE.

- Wrestling is

like a bad disease.

[Frenchy laughs]

It's like cancer.

Once it's in you,

you can't get it out.

- [Skyler] Now we got an RV.

We wanna make the

guys more comfortable.

We're gonna be touring in that.

We're gonna have

advertising on it.

I think it will help the

venues get more people

to the show.

When we drive in and

it's a billboard.

And, you know, we're

excited about that.

Being in business is kinda

something that is in my blood.

I'm a businessman,

and I wanna continue

running businesses.

I can't say I've done

everything right.

I made huge mistakes.

You get kicked in the teeth,

people are gonna

steal your money.

Do you know what?

I get back up and I keep trying.

I follow the process.

Process is not quitting.

I think that's what

makes you successful.

I'm Skyler Ward,

small business owner.

[upbeat music]

- [Announcer] Ladies

and gentlemen,

don't ever call

them little people!

They are the Extreme Midget

Wrestling Federation!

♪ Who you calling

a short stack ♪

♪ I know it's not me ♪

♪ If I can be a midget ♪

♪ I would drop you

at your knees ♪

♪ Me and my homies, we'll

sweep across the nation ♪

♪ Extreme Midget

Wrestling Federation ♪

♪ I'm not a mini me ♪

♪ I'm not a leprechaun ♪

♪ Dare you to say

it to my face ♪

♪ 'Cause my fist is cocked ♪

♪ We got the baddest show

on earth, better trust me ♪

♪ Step into the ring and fight

you real, I'm the trustee ♪

♪ Got chairs, trash

cans and broom sticks ♪

♪ Might be a midget, but I

still am kind of big ♪

♪ Heart is beating in my

chest, better hold this ♪

♪ Might pull in and watch

your face gettin' smashed in ♪

♪ Grab the thing and

my boys will drop in ♪

♪ Gonna kick some

ass and take names ♪

♪ Past the extreme,

engine must slay ♪

♪ Half the size,

twice the thunder ♪

♪ Grab the thing and

my boys will drop in ♪

♪ Gonna kick some

ass and take names ♪

♪ Past the extreme,

engine must slay ♪

♪ Half the size,

twice the thunder ♪

[dramatic music]

♪ Ass kicking, droppin'

niggas, here we go ♪

♪ Boom ♪

♪ Ass kicking, droppin'

niggas, here we go ♪

♪ Boom ♪

♪ Ready to rumble ♪

♪ Ass kicking, droppin'

niggas, here we go ♪