Jaden NewmanMost 15-year-olds dream of getting their learner’s permit, but Jaden Newman just wants to fly – off the top rope.
That is why his grandfather, Bud Higdon, opened Total Wrestling Experience, or TWE, in Red Bank last August.
“He’s loved wrestling ever since he was a little bitty feller,” says Higdon, so when Jaden started begging his grandfather for professional training, he just couldn’t say no.
Since Jaden was so young, his grandfather had him trained for two years in dance until he was 14. Then he started lessons with a trainer in Ringgold, Ga., and spent a year of rigorous work learning the proper and safe techniques of professional wrestlers.
After the training was finished, Higdon knew that most professional wrestling groups in the area would never let a 15-year-old wrestle, so he did the only logical thing: He rented a building and started a weekly pro wrestling show.