| Bryant is rather well known in the regional wrestling circuit,
serving as both a wrestler and promoter over the past fifteen years. He started
his career with humble beginnings, learning the craft while working on a ring
crew for local promotions after his sixteenth birthday. By the time he was
eighteen, he decided to try his hand in a match and, to be as blunt as possible,
was just horrible. One thing that can be said about Dean, though, is that he has
a tremendous work ethic and was back in the ring the very next week, already
displaying signs of improvement. Bryant continued working on local independent
shows before finally getting a shot with a traveling, region organization around
the time he turned twenty. Unlike many of the others his age that lost their
promise to the temptations of the road, Bryant maintained the straight and
narrow and devoted himself entirely to his chosen profession. He became rather
well known in the region and appeared to have limitless promise. In March of 1995, however, his life changed forever in a botched
spot against a wrestling newcomer. Bryant found himself knocked from a ladder
and landed back-first on a ringpost. His back was broken and his life quickly
took a different path. In 1999, Bryant returned to wrestling, this time as owner
and head promoter for Extreme Kentucky Wrestling (later renamed the Southeast
Wrestling Federation), leading a band of hardcore misfits to regional prominence
in the southeast region. He took his approach to the SWF with the same approach
he took to his wrestling career and found himself spending more money and more
time than he thought humanly possible to make his organization the pinnacle of
wrestling excellence. By the time his energy and funding had been stretched to
their limits, the SWF was the prominent organization on the eastern side of the
Mississippi River, rivaled only by the Atlantic Wrestling Association. For a
time, neither organization was in business, but now that the AWA is back, Bryant feels the need to prove once again that the SWF is still the federation that every other federation
strives to emulate. |