Maven Huffman is a renaissance man. Look at that title again. I think it's safe to say that he has experienced a lot of lives. I'm going to take you through some of his lore, if you lend me your eyeballs for these upcoming minutes.
Maven Huffman was born on Nov 26, 1976. In 1978, when Maven was a toddler, his mother passed away tragically. He thinks that her cause of death was suicide, but a section of his family thinks otherwise. The body of Maven's mother showed three gun shot wounds, and one of which was on her hand. This is considered a defensive wound. Maven's mother wrote a note before her passing, which contributes to Maven having the take that he does.
From what he understands, Maven's mother conceiving him was the result of an affair. He'd also heard that his father, who had a wife and kids, didn't want to be present for him. After the passing of Maven's mother, his aunt and uncle would become his guardians.
Maven went to college to play baseball. He found a spot on a semi-pro baseball team called the Corvallis Knights (known then as the Aloha Knights).
Since he was no Shohei Ohtani on the field, Maven sought a path different from the baseball one. More specifically, Maven became a middle school teacher. "Mom look! Mr. Huffman just got chokeslammed!"
After saving some money during his time teaching, Maven would leave the profession to participate in a reality competition series called WWF Tough Enough. Being on the series only supplied him $300 a week. Nevertheless, the series would come to be the starter logs and lighter of his professional wrestling career.
One might consider Maven's professional wrestling resume to be slept on. He was the first wrestler to take a televised F5 from Brock Lesnar. For non-wrestling fans, Brock Lesnar does a cool finishing move, and Maven was the first to receive it. Maven is a multi-time hardcore champion, and he wrestled CM Punk in Punk's first televised WWE match. In one of his coolest moments, Maven single-handedly eliminated The Undertaker from the 2002 Royal Rumble Match. Well, double-footedly. A final achievement for you is that he was named PWI Rookie of the Year in 2002. His resume isn't John Cena filled to the brim, but it's not completely empty either.
Rather than working his way up for years in the independent wrestling scene, Maven practically went from winning Tough Enough to being in televised matches. To put the physical toll of professional wrestling into perspective, running against the ropes is painful. I've actually done it, and it isn't just sunshine and honey buns. Those ropes'll bite you. When you get into the WWF how Maven did, you're viewed as having skipped years of professional wrestling. And to skip years of professional wrestling? That is to skip years of pain. The higher-ups of the company actually told a number of their guys to lay it on Maven. Hurt him without injuring him. It was considered to be helping him pay his dues. Despite enduring pain, Maven would be with the company for almost four years.
Maven was released from the WWE in 2005. He was fired for not progressing in his in-ring ability. After being released, he started working for the Home Shopping Network. He was invited back to the company a few years after his release, but he declined the invite. Why? Money. At the time, Maven wanted the Home Shopping Network money. The HSN bag if you will. However, he recently claimed in a YouTube video that he should have returned to the wrestling biz.
Maven is transparent about his past with drug abuse. In 2012, his addiction was full-blown. He was arrested and charged with one count: doctor shopping. To explain, he went to multiple doctors to get painkillers, and was caught doing this. Maven's arrest served as a slap to the face for him, and he would get clean with the help of a Suboxone program.
After being presented with the idea of making wrestling-based videos with a style like that of Mr. Beast's, things would change in Maven's life. Maven just passed 500,000 subscribers on YouTube, which comes as no surprise to me. His channel looks like a search history. What I mean by this is that his videos answer questions that people want to know the answer to. Things that people Google. Some of those videos could introduce phenomena to viewers. I had never heard of wrestler's court until a Maven video, and I was a wrestling megastan.
Regarding a future comeback to the WWE as a full-time professional wrestler, Maven would entertain the idea under certain conditions: the WWE has to guarantee him a paycheck even if he is out for injury, and they need to give him time to get his body in shape. He comes back I'm marking out.
We learn from Maven's AMA that wrestling played a role in his life growing up. I doubt that he ever expected all of what happened, to happen. The same could be said about 2044 you! I didn't expect to make it to the NBA 20 years ago. Come to think of it, I never did make it to the NBA. I didn't even make the ninth grade team. My point remains that life takes twists on us. I remember that tryout. It broke me down. They done had me running like Charles Robinson.
Written by Giuseppe Amato, @giuseppevalentinoamato on Instagram
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Big ups to DJ Vlad for his Maven interview, from which I obtained a large portion of this blog's info
Also, Maven's YouTube channel was a huge source for this blog, thank you Maven
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