Name: Shawn Arctic
Hometown: Nanaimo, British Columbia
Height:5 foot 11 inches
Weight: 191 lbs
Face/Heel: Neither, I am just Popular
Finisher: Popularlize (Superkick) Cold Shoulder (Krypto Crunch)
Style:

2. Where did you receive your wrestling training and how long have you been in the professional wrestling ring? What promotions are you currently working for?

I was trained in 2003 by Vance Nevada in the ECCW house of pain wrestling school in Vancouver. For the last 6 years I’ve wrestled out west for Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling under the name “Ice” where I gained exposure by creating the pop group known as Pop Culture! I currently relocated to Toronto where I am now going by Shawn Arctic in preparation of making my mark known to the Ontario market. Sometimes its better to leave a legacy to start a new one and I am looking forward to the Era of the Arctic (Its got a nice ring to it)

3. Who do you consider your greatest influence in professional wrestling?

I would say Michelle Starr. Without him being so hard on me while I was trying to break into professional wrestling I wouldn’t have had the attitude I have now towards the business and respect it the way that I do. Starr is a great wrestling mind and has done a lot of wrestling on the west coast, gave a lot of guys their starts and has a million stories that are just waiting to be told. If it wasn’t for me wanting and being determined to prove him wrong I don’t think I would be able to be sitting here reminiscing on my nearly 7 year pro wrestling career and for that I say Thank-you!

4. What do you consider to be your strengths in the ring?

Whether you love me, whether you hate me I will always make you remember me. I pride myself on giving everything I have in front of whomever shows up to watch us wrestle. It doesn’t matter if it is 5 people or 5,000 I will give the same amount of effort and have the same match regardless of the gate. It was something that was trained in me during my training that will stick with me forever and am very thankful of. You see a lot of people changing their match after looking at the crowd – with me, you know I’ll ALWAYS give 150 percent and the fans will go home happy! Why? Because I can!

5. What do you consider to be your weaknesses in the ring?

When I find it, I’ll let you know

6. Can you tell us what you feel was your best match and why you believe it was your best work?

I would have to say my series of matches with Kyle O’reily over the NWA Canadian Junior Heavyweight Championship last year. He and I are very different styles that meshed very well. We wrestled over the span of nearly one year and at least a dozen times before finishing our feud with a best of 5 that ended in a Last Man Standing match. The fans voted that series and the final match as Match & Feud of the year, which is why I would consider it to be one of my crowning moments.

7. Can you tell us what you feel was your worst match and why you feel this was not your best work?

There is never a worst match, just a match where you can work and create an opportunity to get better and improve on your skill.

8. Of all of the matches you have had, which of your opponents would you consider to be the toughest you ever faced? What advantages did he (or she) have during that match?

I would have to say taking on the Cremator in a severe hardcore series of matches which coming off a very different style program with Kyle and starting up a tag team was a change in atmosphere and something that I had to adapt to, very quickly. We did a body bag, several hardcore matches and topped it off with a “Circle Of Fear” Barbed wire match. I was out sized, out classed and everyone was coming to see Cremator make me a bloody mess so needless to say the nerves were on. The nearly 400 fans that piled into the Bridgeview hall that night saw a different side of me that they didn’t know existed. I bled, Cremator bled and the barbred wire ropes and boards cut and pierced our flesh. I may not have won that match, but my goal wasn’t to win – it was to give the fans something they will never forget.

9. Wrestling fans love creating fantasy matches. If it were possible for you to create your own fantasy match, which wrestler would you choose as your opponent? Why this particular opponent and what do you think the outcome of your fantasy match would be? Don’t hold back, add stipulations and make sure you give us the finishing move.

I would love to travel back in time to wrestle Bret Hart as a heel when he was first breaking into the WWF. Watching some of his old stuff is pretty damn amazing. I would also like to be able to step through the ropes and take on the young Hart Foundation (Brett/Anvil) along side my tag team partner in crime, Cole Bishop. That match would be something that would not only be a treat for us as wrestlers, but for any wrestling fan that would be able to be live in attendance, regardless of the outcome!

10. And, finally, all professional wrestlers have goals they wish to achieve. What is your ultimate goal?

My main goal is to gain exposure as much as possible in Ontario by building a steady fan base and by working my way up the rankings of not only PWA but also some of the best promotions Ontario has to offer. I would also like to get into working matches in the US. Its something I’ve done out west and the crowds always seem to appreciate wrestling and Canadians.
For right now, I will continue to make people POPULAR and doing what I do best until I can’t do it anymore. I am the Larger Than Life Superstar, the most popular man you’ll ever see in professional wrestling. If you don’t believe me - the next time you see my name on a card come check it out for yourself, you won’t be disappointed!

By the way, if you think you’re popular – www.wearepopular.ca is the place you NEED to be! Why? …you know the rest!