By Andy Furman
NKyTribune staff writer
How about that. Beck Reeves says he never considered himself a great athlete.
“I didn’t play football, or wrestled in high school,” the Dixie Heights High School grad told the Northern Kentucky Tribune. “But I did start watching wrestling when I was about 13.”
And he was hooked.
“I just loved the theatrics and backstage stuff,” he said.
Reeves is no longer backstage – in fact he’ll be front and center for Summer Sizzler, Saturday, August 16 at Thomas More Stadium.
“You can say I was a late-bloomer,” the 29-year-old Reeves said. “I saved some money after college; applied to a training facility camp in New Zealand – I was accepted but didn’t go.”
In fact, he was so close to moving – he quit his job.
“Maybe I was just thinking too far ahead,” he