CARNDUFF - Carnduff’s Levi Day, who performs under the name of Levi Night in professional wrestling circles, is a homegrown, local legend in the making.
On May 7, he was a part of the Hostile Takeover Tour with Canadian Wrestling Elite at the Fast Centennial Arena in Carnduff. This was their second stop on the nine-event tour.
Day knew the answer when he was asked what he wanted to do in 12th grade. It was probably a surprising answer to many, certainty not a common one, but it was his dream. Day wanted to go into sprofessional wrestling. “I want to wrestle.”
This was a passion that he got from his father and in high school when his dad had offered to get him a car; instead Day asked if they could build his own ring, which they did. Friends would come over and they would practise all the moves and take downs on each other.
“We would make our own federations on the trampoline. Then we would record them and play it for people at school.”
Right after high school he went to train in Calgary with Lance Storm who had been a professional wrestler with WCW and WWE.
“At some point he sits you down and tells you if he thinks you can make it or not.”
Thankfully Day was one of the few that got the approval from Storm. His class started with 16 people
“But I only know four or five that are still in it.”
Since his training he has done over a 100 matches and besides working in his home province has been on tours in Alberta and B.C. Though it is physically demanding he knocks on wood when he says he hasn’t sustained an injury yet.
What draws him to it is the experience of 小蓝视频 in the ring?
“It’s pretty fun just to be there in front of people. You feel the best when the crowd is responding like you want them to. You know that you did good when at the end the crowd is so loud.”
And it doesn’t even need to be a positive response he is looking for, it can be just as fun to play the villain.
“It is sometimes easier to get people to hate you. As long as you are getting the response you are going for.”
On match night Levi Night is the dancing guy.
“It helps me get out there in front of people. Wrestling is a lot different from other sports because of the contact you can have with the crowd. I can yell at them, dance, high-five them, when they scream ‘do it again’. I can and then they get to feel a part of it.”
A highlight of Day’s career so far was last time they were in Carnduff when at the end of a match, his opponent grabbed a chair to hit him with it. But his dad stepped in from the audience, taking the chair and then joining his son in the ring.
The other was when he was in Winnipeg, fighting against Dustin Rhodes and Keith Lee in a tag team match in front of 8,000 people for All-Elite Wrestling’s YouTube channel.
“I’ve seen Dustin on TV since I was nine and here I was in the ring with him.”
The key to getting matches is catching the eye of the different promotion companies and earning the love or hate of the crowds.
“I’m trying to entertain you. If they are not caring at all that is the worst thing. I really gauge the room and if I have to I’ll switch it up, if it’s not entertaining then there is no point because that is what it is about,” explains Day.
On Sunday in Carnduff, Day was up against multi-time Ring of Honor tag-team champion Jimmy (The Zombie Princess) Jacobs. Day was dancing and engaging the crowd when Jacobs took the microphone and said “There was no dancing in wrestling” to which Day declared a dance party.
Jacobs took a cheap shot and they brawled outside the ring. It looked like Jacobs had Day.
“But then the crowd willed me back up and I started making a comeback, I hit him with my signature move The Ginger Snap and won the match.”
