Aaron grew up to marry his kindergarten sweetheart. They now have a beautiful little girl, Ariana, who will be four in December. His wife, Jamie, stands five feet tall in her stocking feet. Naturally when she became pregnant, the wonder was if the baby would be a dwarf. Since the gene for pseudoachondroplasia is an autosomal dominant, there was a 50/50 chance that she would be a dwarf.
Aaron never seemed to be comfortable in the first jobs he had. Working in telemarketing or running a cash register just bored him to no end. He didn’t like being stuck in place and not being able to move. The sports fanatic in him was driving his dreams.
In a convoluted story that I still don’t clearly understand, Aaron became friends with a guy named Ricky Morton. Aaron impressed the guy with his imaginative ideas for Ricky’s business venture. Ricky Morton, you see, is the ‘Roll’ half of that 1990’s NWA professional wrestling tag team the “Rock ‘n Roll Express”. Morton now works with several of the minor circuit professional wrestling organizations.
Aaron went to work ‘scripting’ for a professional wrestling group that performed out of Lincolnton, NC. One of his high school buddies, BJ, was wrestling there. In just a few weeks, Aaron went from scriptwriter to being BJ’s interfering ‘manager’. The presence of a ‘midget manager’ at the shows began drawing bigger crowds. He was quickly becoming a crowd favorite for being such an interfering and loud presence outside of the ring.
Aaron had taken to training with BJ just to keep BJ in shape, supposedly. This led to Aaron being put into matches in the ring with normal sized guys (and women, at times). He had become “Billy McGee” the Irish midget wrestler. The fans were really becoming fond of him, but this didn’t translate into more money. He wasn’t making much at all for a night’s work. This led to some tension with that organization’s owner and Aaron went looking for other places to pursue his new career.
Somewhere along the way, he made contact with an upstart, but very popular, Midwest wrestling outfit that was billed as “the only all-little people professional wrestling” in the country, the Micro Wrestling Federation. He went to Mobile, Alabama for a tryout (audition) for the owner. “P.O.D.” (peeyoed dwarf) had been in professional midget wrestling for years and had started his own company. Aaron performed well enough to be invited to take part in a show the very next night.
Aaron needed a professional name. P.O.D. thought his moves in the ring were ‘like a blitz’. From that, in his showman’s mind, Aaron would henceforth be billed as “Blixx”. Of course, it didn’t hurt that the Urban Dictionary defines ‘blixx’ as: ‘pertaining to the best at everything’.
He was a big hit with the other performers in the Micro Wrestling Federation (MWF), and has made many long lasting friends there. He also quickly gained a fan following. Aaron was so much of a natural showman that P.O.D.’s four-year old dwarf son was reported playing around the house for days saying, “I’m Blixx! I’m Blixx!”
After seeing him win the MWF World Championship in Akron, Ohio, I asked Aaron how he really feels about being a midget professional wrestler. After all, to the politically correct LPs, the very word ‘midget’ is as offensive as the ‘n-word’.
Being a dad is his first responsibility though. He is very selective of which tour dates he takes part in so that he can spend as much time as possible with his wife and little girl. Though Micro tours mainly in the Midwest, he has periodically wrestled with regional organizations to keep closer to home. With Ricky Morton, he has even participated in some of the “Legends” shows. These are shows which feature some of the ‘old timers’ like Greg ‘the hammer’ Valentine, the Midnight Express, the Iron Sheik, etc.
“Blixx” took part in a national tour during 2006 that took him from New Orleans to New Jersey to Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Texas. He and the MWF wrestlers have performed at that monster of an annual bike rally in Sturgis, South Dakota. He has even performed as far away as the Bahamas
Last year, he was performing in multiple character capacities in his career. As well as keeping up with a busy MWF schedule, he has worked numerous times in Las Vegas as one of Jeff Beecher’s Oompa-Loompas. He also performs at charity events with the “Tiny Trotters”, an all-little people basketball team. Recently, he has performed with a new group, the Midget Chippendales. . He is currently appearing with MWF in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the Harley-Davidson Motorcycles 105th Anniversary celebrations.
It sometimes seems like only yesterday he would be near to tears because he heard people talking about him behind his back. Today, he doesn’t let that bother him at all.
You know, I think the kid is all right.
And so, my friends, I give you my only son…(heaven knows, I tried to raise him right)
