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Thursday August 10 2017 - Great things come in small packages: NickZ

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NickZ (id 3023) is probably one of the lightest wrestler I've fought, but also once of the toughest. Despite his small size, he is a very strong wrestler with unlimited stamina. His entourage would doubt him as The Wrestling Energizer Bunny because he'd keep on wrestling and wrestling and wrestling and wrestling...

NickZ is also known to be very kind-hearted: he really would greet anyone with open arms and he'd wrestle almost anyone. I first met him at the Oklahoma Rumble in 2009 and in events like this, wrestlers tend to stick inside groups, which has the consequence of isolating newcomers. This is compounded by the fact that most people will only have a match with people who look like poster models, so it can be quite hard to get a match.

NickZ however stood out from the rest and welcomed me from day one. He approached me and said: "Wanna wrestle?" After a brief introduction, he brought me into one of the wrestling rooms set up for the event and we tumbled for about an hour. I was still a beginner, so believe me, one hour was more than enough, because I still remember all the pain and sores I had the next day because I wasn't used to wrestling yet. Despite his far greater and superior experience, NickZ toned it down for me and he always made sure that I was okay. He later introduced me to other wrestlers as well. It's through him that I was able to get to know better the wrestling community.

I fought NickZ a couple more times afterwards mainly through the Wrestlefests in NYC. In all of our matches, I would be lucky to land a submission or two on him due to body scissors, but he would then destroy me with four or five dozen submissions. And to show his versatility and originality, he'd be able to do it with different move, maneuver or submission each time he made me submit. He's like 30-40 lbs lighter than me! Clearly, size isn't everything. For NickZ, he'd use your extra weight as leverage against yourself.

If there were more people like NickZ in the world, the world would be a happier place. He sets a great example on how everyone should be interacting with every other wrestler.

Here's a shot we took during the Rumble. I'm sure you can't tell that he is overjoyed to lock me inside his head scissors:

I was then determined to wipe that smile by giving him one as well.

I can't really tell if this is a headlock or a sleeper, but knowing that this was my first match with NickZ, he was probably nice and locked in only a headlock.

You know, for photos that date from 2009, these are not bad at all. For some reason, I tend to think that cameras that are almost a decade old should be having a horrendous quality and resolution. I am clearly biased and wrong. After checking the details on the original file, I realized that this was taken with an Olympus C750UZ. I had always though this was taken with my Canon Powershot A85 or A95... I don't remember which one anymore. I'm just glad to see that in 2009, we've moved already a long way ahead from cameras with floppy disks.

I posted a long time ago a match with NickZ in Match ID 10 if you'd like to see a bit of history.

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