LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — KLFY reporter Zane Hogue will make is pro wrestling debut May 31 inside the Cajundome Convention Center.

Hogue as Adam Zane, will be wrestling in LWA’s Heartland Heat against Masked Grappler III.

As Houge prepares, he says being able to talk and create ideas; the hardest part is moving around in the ring.

“The hardest part has been getting conditioned and getting in here and learning how to do the moves, learning the sequences, learning your timing, just learning the chemistry you need to have with the people you’re in the ring with. It’s been a mixture of informative, but also it’s is a challenge,” he explains.

Hogue says his experience in other avenues helps him inside the squared circle.

“I found wrestling when I was eight years old, so everything from the age of eight onward was ‘I want to be a wrestler,'” he recalled. “I wanted to get there somehow and having no blueprint on how to do that. I started working out when I was a sophomore in high school, and I joined the wrestling team when I was in high school. And I was like, okay, that’s athleticism, that’s conditioning. I can use that.”

Hogue would continue working towards his goal even after he graduated high school.

“Transitioned from wrestling to cheerleading in college,” he said. “And while cheerleading was its own rewarding thing in the back of my mind, I was like, wait, this is crowd work. This is having to be in front of a bunch of people and doing feats of athleticism and not dropping, not failing, like just being able to entertain and keep that energy going for very long periods of time. And then, of course, the news in the back of my head was like wrestlers talking to a camera with a live microphone. I had a live camera and a hot mic and no room for error.”

You can purchase tickets to Heartland Heat at the link here.

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