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The professional wrestling landscape is filled with many talents looking to break through and make a name for themselves. BK Westbrook is one of those wrestlers chasing that crazy dream.
The road has not been easy. Westbrook began training at a wrestling school in North Carolina in 2018 before it eventually shut down. He began his first matches in the Carolina Wrestling Federation (CWF) Mid-Atlantic before the promotion came to an abrupt end in 2019.
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BK Westbrook is one of the rising pro wrestling talents on the independents. (Provided to Pakinomist Digital)
He then suffered another setback – the COVID-19 pandemic. But overcoming one obstacle after another was part of the journey.
“I’ve been like that several times in wrestling, and it’s crazy, when I saw my school shut down, I got my car oil changed, I was waiting for it, and then I get this message saying we’re not going to have shows anymore, and then I had to think that I didn’t just get into wrestling to just wrestle in this one place, even though this Pakinomist is ugly,” he said. “And then COVID happens again, it’s like OK, well, I can’t do my stuff right now, and this is really, really annoying and I’m just annoyed that I can’t do it, and eventually it led to me just continuing to put my name in even more places, and I felt like this can’t be the end of me. I can’t let this little, this crazy time happen, this crazy time.
“I couldn’t just let it get me down man. It was kind of hard because living in North Carolina, it was a little bit smaller, I mean, it was still strict, but if I was going to break somewhere, I’d go somewhere where the states didn’t care as much, like Tennessee or South Carolina or something like that, even Georgia. But once things started to kind of open up again, it started to pick up again and things went well again.”
For Westbrook, the dream was always pro wrestling.
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BK Westbrook got his pro wrestling start in North Carolina. (Provided to Pakinomist Digital)
He said he grew up watching it on TV but really grew to love the sport watching it on YouTube. The mix of athletics and entertainment was the real draw.
“It was just falling in love with it online growing up,” Westbrook said. “Growing up being a YouTube kid, being on a computer. I first discovered it on TV, but just finding the love for independent wrestling and what I’m doing now, it kind of grew in that I just loved what wrestling is at its core, what you see on WWE or AEW or whatever, I just found even more of a deeper desire for it.
“But it’s just, I don’t know. I think it’s just something that if you’re a wrestling fan, you get it and you kind of understand why you’re drawn to it. For me, it’s easy for me. I like sports, I like entertainment, I like them both. It’s just different for everybody, but for me it was super simple to get involved in the competition because I also love to like, the storytelling aspect of usually being able to tell the story whether good versus evil, or just beyond that, I just think wrestling is such a great art or a medium for art, and hopefully I’ll get more than just this weekend.
Westbrook has put in the work. He has wrestled at some of the top independent promotions right now including Pandemonium Pro, Game Changer Wrestling, Limitless Wrestling, Deadlock Pro-Wrestling, TBD Wrestling and several others. He even appeared for All Elite Wrestling.
Recently, he battled Amira for the Pandemonium Pro Championship. Although it was a losing effort, Westbrook came away with a few bruises from the women’s wrestler.
“My first time, I fought Amira, like you said last month in Portland, and she’s kind of been riding it over there for a while in the Pacific Northwest, specifically that Portland area,” he told Pakinomist Digital. “My first shot I think I ever heard of Amira was in the Portland area. I wrestled for Prestige Wrestling and it was really cool and to see her growth, she’s done a lot of things.
“My fiancee, Ella Envy, she was able to hang out and get a chance to know Amira from like the Lodestone stuff that Bayley did where she was doing women’s wrestling. And I think she’s doing a really good job. I got a chance to wrestle her. She hits really hard, but other than that, she’s got a lot of talent and if I’m going to say she’s got to be the talent. about as good as it gets to be a champion that represents over there.”
Westbrook will be part of Pandemonium: Pro Wrestling’s “JoJo” event on August 2nd. The wrestling showcase will honor the late Jordan Saint, who died in a car accident in Long Island, New York. Proceeds from the event go to Saint’s family.
Jordan Saint performed at Shooting Star Fest in Las Vegas, Nevada in April 2026. (Provided to Pakinomist Digital)
He will face Epidemius Jr. While promising to win the fight, he said it was an honor to be a part of the show.
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“I’m excited for the game,” he said. “I’m excited for the show. It’s going to be an incredible event. It’s super sad about Jordan’s passing and I just hate it. And I know everyone is looking to have a great show in his memory.
“In addition to that, for Pandemonium to run this event with all proceeds going to his family, it helps to know that his people will be taken care of after that. It’s cool that wrestling is a way and a medium for that to happen. It’s unfortunate that his passing happened, but it’s nice to know that we can make a difference in that regard, and I’m excited for his name, too, and I’m happy for his name. Pandemonium Pro.”
