Flashback Friday: Guvan (2014)

Thanks to blog follower Paul for bringing my attention to independent wrestler Guvan. And by independent, I mean really independent. Guvan is one of a handful of wrestlers on the (small) roster of Hype Wrestling, a backyard wrestling outfit in Canada which started (and closed down?) in 2014. Yes, Hype is literally a backyard wrestling promotion. To be fair, Hype's wrestlers are more skilled than most of the teenagers who put up a makeshift ring in their backyard and copy the moves of their favorite WWE Superstars. It seems Hype just didn't have the budget to hold their matches in a proper venue. Perhaps they were hoping to be noticed by promoters who would book their wrestlers for their shows, but I don't know if anything like that actually happened. Anyway, back to Guvan. Of course, I know very little about him. He created an Instagram account around the same time he started wrestling, but posted only a couple dozen photos back then including the selfies (thirst traps?) included at the bottom of this post. Hype Wrestling has a YouTube Channel which is still up even though nothing seems to have been added to it since 2014. You can see a few of Guvan's matches there. If anyone has any information on Guvan (his real name may be Tyler Guvanovich, although I can't confirm that), please share it with us in the Comments section. Thanks again to Paul for introducing us to Guvan.