Bruno the Kodiak

Bruno the Kodiak is twenty-four years old, has been training for eleven months, made his professional debut exactly one year to the day after he vowed he would, and drove home from that debut playing his own theme song on repeat the entire way from Melbourne to Ballarat. He is, by any measure, one of the most purely enthusiastic people in Australian wrestling right now. He sat down with In the Gorilla Position to talk about TNA at his auntie’s place, a vow made in an Uber at two in the morning in Las Vegas, the sleeping bear that lives inside a quiet anxious kid from Frankston, and why he wrote someone’s name on his wrist before he ever stepped through a curtain.*