One of Kauai’s aspiring pro wrestlers got his first win of his career.
Noah Gusman of Lihue, aka “The Kauai Kid” Noa Kaho’omana, participated in a show by Oahu-based pro wrestling promotion Action Zone Wrestling last Saturday.
“I feel like I’m getting better,” Gusman said Thursday. “I feel like I’m progressing a lot, actually. I’m watching. I’m getting good advice from all the guys that I work with. The guy I worked with, really cool guy. Just really knows what he’s doing.”
At the AZW show called BattleClash XIII at the Waianae Boys and Girls Club, Gusman took part in a tag-team match.
He partnered up with AZW veteran “The Nightmarcher” Makena Cruz and took on the tag team of The Final Solution and Ahuna.
Gusman connected with a his finishing move — a splash from the top rope — and got the three-count pinfall for the win in front of a crowd of about 200. It was his fourth match in the ring and second with AZW.
“Opposed to a singles match, you’re working with a partner. You have to use teamwork, as opposed to doing your own stuff,” Gusman said. “We did a double-elbow. Then, we’d help each other out because (The Final Solution) is 350 pounds. It’s hard for a low-200 guy to just move him.”
The day ended well for The Kauai Kid, especially considering how the day started.
Like everyone else in the state last Saturday morning, he was greeted with a message on his phone warning of oncoming missiles which turned out to be a false alarm.
Before flying out to Oahu, he prepared for the worst.
“Me and my fiancée made a shelter in my bathroom, and we started packing canned goods and stuff,” he said. “Man, it was crazy. … We were still on Kauai. Our flight was in, like, an hour after the thing was done.”
Gusman added everyone at the show talked about the false alarm.
“A story I heard, a military family made a makeshift shelter in a safe in a grocery store. I was like, ‘Whoa, really?’” he said. “One of the wrestlers told me he got locked out of a hospital when he tried to get in. … He just had to find shelter, and he was near a hospital, I guess. They locked him out.”
Gusman hopes to wrestle again sometime in March on Oahu.
