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Diego Hill Reflects On How Wrestling Helped Turn His Life Around

Diego Hill shares how professional wrestling gave him purpose and direction in his life.

Diego Hill is among the latest wrestlers to sign with Major League Wrestling. However, such dreams don’t materialize instantly. With nearly ten years of wrestling experience, Diego notes that professional wrestling has given him a clear sense of purpose.

In a recent interview with Jeremy Lambert and SP3 on Fightful Overbooked’s In The Weeds, he shared what motivated him to pursue a career in professional wrestling.

“I started wrestling in 2018-19, but I was still in training at the time,” he said.” What led me into wrestling was, I graduated in 2016 and was looking for a job. It was hard to keep a job, and you try your best to stay out of trouble, but around folks who get you into trouble. I was caught up in those situations at a young age. My older brother saw that I was getting into trouble and he was a pro wrestler. At this moment, I didn’t want to go back to college, I was struggling to find a job, parents almost gave up on me because they thought I was doing nothing after I graduated.

“It was times like that where I was stressed and didn’t know what to do,” he continued. “[My brother] came along with me and was like, ‘I’m giving you a hand, but I need you to do this for me. I want you to try wrestling. You’ve been watching wrestling since you were a boy. How about you give it a try.’ I thought about it, and I didn’t know, but I had nothing else to do with my life, so I had to do something to achieve greatness.

“As soon as I went there to give it a try, I realized it’s a great and athletic sport. Wrestling is all different styles, which is what made me love it. When I first started going to training, they looked at me like I have done this before because I’m a super athlete. Before I started wrestling, I grew up doing soccer and basketball. If it wasn’t for my brother, my father, and other people close to me, I wouldn’t have been a wrestler.”

Now, he is achieving his goals and has signed with a major wrestling company in MLW. Learn more about his goals moving forward at this link.

Check out the full interview with Diego Hill embedded at the top of this page.

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