Born from a medium class family down in Frankfurt Germany Michael has always been a fan of wrestling since his own father was a Pro wrestler, the passion clearly showed that the boy wanted to follow the wrestling path, as a teenager of 14 Michael entered Extreme Wrestling Federation as an amateur wrestler, though strong headed he always came up on overcoming odds and by sixteen he was a two time Heavyweight Champion, he decided to work during half a year to get enough money to Jump to & buy his own place in Miami where wrestling is a life style, there he meet Montel Vontavious Porter who informed him of a wrestling school named ROH, which served as a company both more as a development deal, Michael too Got his shot and managed to get in the ROH school, barely, making it one of Michael's ha