It all started when Caster and Max were playing a wrestling video game called "Saturday Night Slam Masters" in the years of 1994-1995. Regular wrestling fans who watched it on TV whenever we could. The game really appealed to us. Now the game was a little exagerated, because it wasn't all wrestling maneuvers cause some guy could fly like an energy beam, but that's beside the point. The game was really fun, and since we were still into action figures, we decided to do something different than usual.

We had a bunch of Marvel action figures (you know, like X-Men and Spiderman and all that). We thought it'd be a fun idea to recreate the guys in the game into these action figures. We took a box and made a ring out of it, made little belts with paper, which by the way look very good and fit around the waists and shoulders of the figures. We had fun at that. In the game.  We eventually created our own guys with their own gimmicks cause we had so many figures.

But seeing as how our childhood years had passed away and we were in our early teen years, we felt we had to change the approach the recreation of wrestling. This is when we both felt the urge to actually start wrestling ourselves...

To kick things off, we decided to start wrestling the same way everybody does when they are young. We put up bed matresses to form a ring and decided to just brawl. Not much skill or showmanship, but hey, it was fun at the time. But it quickly got boring to just fight each other, so we thought, hey, why not practice all those cool moves. Starting out with the simplest moves like holds and submissions and working our way up. It took some time to learn many basic moves, expecially since they were all self-taught. But slowly, we were improving and recruited people to joinn us.

Thus began the organization known as OTW (Ottawa Teen Wrestling). It kicked off allright, except it wasn't much, even for a backyard federation. Caster was self appointed Cruiserweight champion and Max was self appointed Intercontinental champion. The belts were made out of cardboard at the time. Eventually, the name of the fed changed from OTW to UCW (Ultimate Championship Wrestling, which later turned into Ultimate Canadian Wrestling).

Well, even though we had our own fed, we only wreslted from time to time, and not in a very spectacular fashion, until one day, we recruited more people, grabbed a camera, and made a weekly show called Turbulence. We were better than the first days, but still weren't very skillfull. But hey, when you aren't being professionally trained, the advancement can be mighty slow, especially at first.

Now Playing starts to put on more of a show at this point. Wrestling in my basement, filming the shows, making Pay Per Views (events such as Seasons Beatings), and eventually gaining an audience who came to watch on a regular basis (mostly close friends and girlfriend whom didn't want to partake in the events).

But the great indoors cannot compare to the great outdoors, where we were able to practice more spectacular feats and draw larger crowds. What mostly improved from wrestling ouside was our airial skills. Max quicly adapted but Caster took a little more time, but to this point, they can jump off the tops, and in Max's case, off those sheds.

But after a couple of summers, it wasn't too possible for Now Playing to go and wrestle. There were no basements to wrestle in, and many people stopped showing up at UCW's events held outside, so we couldn't do it too much. Then came two days where we were special guests in HCW (Hard Core Wrestling). Now Playing were to square off against one another in the oppening bout, which was of main event status. We definetly made an impact with our superior skills those two days.

But time passed once again. The following summer, we had another opportunity to show boat our skills, but not as much. We still had a lot of problems getting other people to come and wrestle. In early 1999 during the winter, Now Playing and that lowlife TG (Jay Lauzon) were invited to join OCNWO (Ottawa-Carleton New World Order). It was a basement match. They also decided to stick all three of us in the opening card in a triple threat match, which was of main event status as well. We had shocked them all by performing superior moves and showing our in ring abilities and mic skills. The match was taken throuout the entire house, with a couple of bodies flying down the stairs. But this was but a one time event.

The year passed by slowly, until the summer of 99' came. The owner of OCNWO ran into Now Playing on the streets. Communications were made, ane we came to a deal that Now Playing would join his fed, now renamed OWA (Omega Wrestling Alliance). It was quite a summer experience, with five different areas where we wrestled. But unfortunately, Caster was on the sidelines for awhile due to elbow surgery. After a week or so, Caster managed to win the world title through a massive conspiracy, even though he was injured. Thus, Now Playing were the only two ever to win the OWA world Heavyweight title.

Eventually, at the end of the summer, there was no place to wreslte anymore, and we had to trash the matresses for good. This was a very sad moment. But nevertheless, there is always the next step forward. The last day with those matresses, Now Playing was truly formed as a tag team, and since then, we have done nothing but double our entertaining efforts out of the ring, in anticipation of going back in there to show all the fans what is purely entertainment!

In September of 2000, Now Playing were invited to join a fed known as TKW (a cheap copy of the old TCW) which was located in a school gym in Western Ottawa. We had but a one day in there, for the company was badly organized. Not too long thereafter, we joined a more organized organization known as NSW (Never Surrender Wrestling), based within a gym in Vanier. Wrestling there has made us more and more succesfull. We had our pictures taken for the Ottawa Citizen, and some of those made their way into the National Examiner.

Finally!!!!

Caster and Max have made their way to the Battle Ground Academy to train under the tutelage of former WCW and WWF wrestler, Dave Dalton (whom was trained by Ron Hutchinson of Sully's gym along with WWF wrestlers Edge and Christian). Both graduated in May 2002 and have been having both singles matches and tag team matches (sometimes against each other) ever since.

~Roll Credits~