Big Bouts was founded on August 16, 1967, by Damien Devlin Sr as Tartarus Valley Wrestling. Initially his father, Milton Devlin, founded a small wrestling troupe dubbed Paradise Wrestling Incorporated in 1947 where he utilized former sideshow acts from a carnival that once employed him as a youth. Though the crew traveled extensively around the country, the business failed to drum up enough interest and bring in the needed revenue to stay afloat. Determined not to give up on wrestling completely, Milton sold off many of his personal assets and liquidated PWI, placing the acquired funds in escrow. The terms of such being that upon his death the money would go to Damien, assuming he still wanted to be involved with the business.
Outside of the escrow account, Milton left his son two-hundred grand in a second inheritance, that of which fifty-thousand had to be used to purchase an arena. Then and only then could he receive the cash in the aforementioned account. This sort of locked Damien into the wrestling business, but he made no gripes about it since he was confident he could run a company much better than his father did.
Fast-forward to today where Big Bouts is a household name, and after fifty-four years in the business, Damien has quite an impressive collection of notches in his belt. He took a independent territory and made it a full-blown empire, crushing all rival wrestling federations along the way. With talents such as his son Damien Jr, Midwest Moses, Yesenia Azarolla, KeeKee Joy and Barry Panda in the ranks just to name a few, it's not hard to see why the company won't be crashing anytime soon.
But alas, despite my glowing praise for his business savvy, I can't help but question some of the methods Damien Sr uses. Of course, I'd never say that to his face or anyone else's. It's self-slaughter to even attempt such.
Like, on the real, one would be better off faceplanting onto a bed of rusty nails.
Yikes.
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