Impulse Dossier

Bio

Randall Knox was born in Manhatten in January, 1985 and wanted to wrestle from the time he was 10 years old. He and his friends would 'take bumps' in the street while skateboarding from place to place, but as they got gradually older he was more interested in finding out how to get involved for real.

Fortunately, there was a gym just three subway stops away called Coop's. When he was fourteen he went in for the first time and met the owner, Terry Cooper, and the most famous wrestler that ever stepped through Coop's ropes: Eli Flair.

Flair's manager, Poison Ivy, was more hands on with the kids who continued to show up to try to learn how to be the next King of Extreme, and with her urging, Terry Cooper started to run monthly shows again so his kids could have a place to practice. There was no money involved and no politic involved; just youngsters who wanted to learn the business. None of them were ever going to make any real money, but it wasn't about the money at that age/that time, it was about the experience.

Except for Knox. He was like a sponge, soaking up everything that was taught him, and then some.

When he was sixteen, one of the girls from his school, then - fourteen year old Rosalyn Callasantos - followed him to the gym where she learned some of the basics herself, despite continued chest pain and asthma attacks from smoke-seared lungs.

Knox would quickly eclipse his teachers and routinely closed out the monthly show with a stellar match against his main trainer, non-pro wrestler Johnny Fizzbin. Fizzbin had wrestled professionally very briefly in the CSWA but his heart wasn't in it, though he was described by any who saw him as the most naturalistic wrestler that ever lived.

As he got older, and Ivy McGinnis took a more direct hand in his progress, he would wrestle his first two professional matches. The first would be against his roommate and best friend, Luis Gonzales, as the 'dark match' at the FWO's 2003 Countdown to Oblivion 1 show that ended in a tragic shooting spree/fire. He had left soon after his match and missed it.

The second professional match he ever had would be during NFW Ultratitle Season 1's 'Rookie Match' during their infamous All-Star Week. He would wrestle now-former Tag Team Champion Blaine Hollywood in Blaine's debut.

After that, Knox went to college. He wanted to wrestle, but Ivy McGinnis told him that college was more important, citing the statistic of wrestlers who actually break through and are able to make a living as so miniscule as to defy logic.

Even while studying at Syracuse, Knox continued to wrestle. He took the name 'Impulse' and wrestled for local promotions under a mask for four years, honing the mat wrestling and flying skills that Johnny Fizzbin taught him and the shooting/hooking that Terry Cooper taught him to dangerous levels.

When he graduated, he immediately started sending tapes everywhere he could, but in the midst of the economic downturn, companies were reluctant to take a chance on a 188 pound rookie with such limited TV experience. The only bite he got was from Craig Miles' New Frontier Wrestling, but, coming as he did from such well - known roots, he was looking for a way to get himself over on merit alone.

In Knox's mind, the knowledge that he trained at Coop's Gym, by Eli Flair and Ivy McGinnis personally, may influence the people around him to either suck up to him, or target him to get Eli or Ivy's attention. The only way for him to make it on his own, he surmised, was to do so totally anonymously.

Hence, The Messenger Is Not Important.

For months he wrestled under the mask, gaining experience, gaining respect, and gaining the kind of shot he was looking for - in the Sears Tower match for the NFW Television Championship.

Partly due to the fact that he wanted to differentiate himself from the Impulse imposter, and partly due to the fact that he felt he had come full circle and was ready to be himself, moments after winning the belt, he took his mask off and showed his face for the first time to the NFW fans..

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