IL Cognito (originally born in Australia) has lived most of his life moving from town to town, he was born into a Circus family, and was trained to be a clown, but his true passionw as professional wrestling, he would spend a lot of time between performing as a clown watching wrestling from Mexico, Japan, and the main stream promotions in America. His dream was to be as good as his heroes which brought him to Rick O'Shea's gym in Los Angeles, California, and he would train there and then was left off to travel the world.