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After riding around with them for two years, he began to want more out of
life, so he enrolled in a community college and hoped to play pro football. He
worked out three nights a week with an ex-pro wrestler named Eddie Sharkey, who
led him to an agent, and he began training to become a pro wrestler. After he
was done training to become a pro-wrestler, he got a call from a Promoter asking
him if he wanted to sign a contract- he did. He was then known as Jesse “The
Body Ventura” for the rest of his wrestling career. In wrestling he was always
the bad guy and it was usually his job to loose. He played until his last match
in 1986 against Tony Atlas. During his time as a professional wrestler he was
assaulted several times, once by a 70-year-old lady, and then by a crazed fan
with a hunting knife. He then received an offer to try out for a role in the
newest Schwarznegger movie called Hunter. He got the role and flew down to
Mexico the next day to begin filming it. The name of the film was later changed
to Predator.
During the filming of the movie, he became good friends with Arnold
Schwarznegger and still is today. Ventura later went on to do the Running Man
another film with Arnold Schwarznegger. Ventura got involved in politics while
he lived in Brooklyn Park Minnesota. The city council was being run by a good
old boy system and he was fed up. They were only concerned about re-election,
and not the needs of the citizens of Brooklyn Park. So he ran for the election
for mayor and won and took down the “good old boy network”. That’s how he got
involved with politics, and the victory at Brooklyn Park motivated him to run
for Governor of Minnesota later on. But before his election for governor, he had
his own radio show at KTSP. Two years later he was fired shortly after signing a
contract. Following a large legal battle, the company had to honor the contract
for the next two years by paying him without him working there. He then later
won the election for Governor of Minnesota. I enjoyed reading I Ain’t Got Time
To Bleed allot. All in all, it is a great book.
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