Tommy Vachon…or Jonathan Six, sometimes its hard to differentiate. But, let us not talk about Tommy for a moment and get into who the man BEYOND the sticks is….
I, Jon, have been a major fan of professional wrestling since…shit, maybe 3-4 years old. One of my most ancient memories was climbing up on my grandfathers lap and watching some old school wrestling, I faintly remember a young Ric Flair cutting a promo…couldn’t tell ya what “brand” or anything. As I grew a little older, in the early 90s I found myself a major fan…leading into the attitude era and ECW shenanigans. So, safe to say I have been following this sport for almost 3 decades at this point and have always dreamed of being a pro wrestler myself. Then, APW found its way into my life…and at a moment I needed something new, fresh…and healthy!
As for some background on myself. I grew up in a middle class home, where we weren’t starving, but we sure as hell could not just buy anything. As I grew, I became a major fan of heavy metal music….remembering my first two cds being Papa Roach’s infest and Godsmacks self-titled CD, bro that chick was hot. Slipknot was always my favorite though. But my interest in music led to me learning how to play the drums…I suck, but I can say I can play them.
Leading into my later teens, early adult life, I had a child…very young, in fact I was 17 when she got pregnant. As time went on I became a father to two more children. Currently, they range from (almost) 18, 12, and 5. However, thinking I was an adult, this caused division in my household and I moved out at 17. Things have blown over and I have a fantastic relationship with my parents (My father, mother and step-father).
However, being a young and very dumb stud that I was, I got myself into some bad things…always having an affinity to the party life. This led to me eventually becoming a dual addict, addicted to pain killers and cocaine. This was a long, hard road….that hurt a lot of people in my life, including myself. I ruined many things in my time and the bounce back was harder than anyone could imagine….but one worth more than anything but maybe my children. I did a lot of things in that time, from selling drugs to racking up debt. Being an all around not great person…yet many had no clue. Now 6 (almost 7) years clean, its hard to believe I even did those things and I did that shit all by myself. Which is something I pride myself on because it was probably the hardest thing I have ever done in this life.
A few years back, my sister and her (now) husband got together that many of you know as Oni. Oni and Adrian have been life long friends…and strangely enough in my youth Adrian and I were friends. So, naturally this brought us all together again. After my years of distance thanks to the drugs and alcohol abuse, I got reunited with my friend of many years. Gave me a new lease on life where I got back into the hobbies I loved in my younger days, including Magic the Gathering, and you guessed it…. professional wrestling (video games in general honestly). Not too long after that Adrian joined APW and asked if I would be interested in joining him as his back up for his match against Demon Dragon himself. And…as you all know…The rest is history at this point.
This will be my last piece here but, I wanted to touch on my reasoning behind creating Tommy Vachon. Growing up, nothing caught my eye quite as The Brood did (besides the Hardy Boyz, who eventually became the New Brood). I created Tommy as a filler character for my own offline universe mode, but his back story was the same. He was Gangrel’s son and was new to the world of professional wrestling, a back story I kept the same when I joined this wonderful universe we have all sweetly created. APW came to me at a time when I was down on my luck, depressed and honestly just kinda “over it”. This place has created a literal monster with the man named Jonathan Six and gave me a spark I haven’t had in years, this is why I hold this place so close to my heart and why Justin (Jack Blaze) will forever be considered a friend from this day forward. As some of you know, I go above and beyond when it comes to supporting this entity. I see the vision, and I want that to come true. It has been the outlet I have needed for a very long time, one that has allowed me to live out a childhood fantasy and one where I have gotten to meet many fantastic, like-minded people such as myself. And for that I say…Thank you APW and all of its roster members.
Love, Peace, and Bloody Cheeks all,
FKA Jonathan Six
