UTC’s linebacker Gunner Miller comes off of the field after a play in the game against Austin Peay Saturday at Finley Stadium in September.When you come to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in pursuit of a career in engineering or athletic training – two of UTC’s most renown areas of study – there’s no reason to keep your dreams to yourself.
When you’re Gunner Miller and you come to UTC to get a degree and play football, you might keep your professional wrestling dreams to yourself. But the four-year starter at linebacker never did.
“I’ve wanted to do it ever since I turned on the TV when I was six, but realistically, I guess since college,” said Miller, the former East Ridge High School standout.
The 6-foot-1, 235-pound Miller has told anyone who will listen of his WWE dreams and about half of his posts or retweets on Twitter are wrestling related.
“It’s one of those things, like if you say you want to be an actor, everybody looks at you like, yeah, you can make it; go to Hollywood and try — but nobody really believes in you,” he said. “I think this is actually kind of realistic. I’m actually talking to the head scout and I’ve been talking to him for a while. They seem pretty interested, but it all comes down to a tryout.”