TMZ Catches Curtis Penn as he touches down.
Posted by Curtis Penn on 17 Dec 2013
Here at TMZ we love coincidences and coincidentally one of our globetrotting reporter’s was able to catch Defiance’s own Curtis Penn leaving Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. And whether it was the climate in Amsterdam or the air Curtis Penn seemed to be in a jovial mood and did not shove our reporter to the ground or embarrass him in any form, instead he answered a few random questions for us here at TMZ.
I’ve been a wrestling fan since I was 7 years old, I even had a cardboard title and wrestled in a backyard fed in my teens, and as sad as it is to admit I spent my high school years and college e-fedding, yes I was a full blown nerd before I got hired on at TMZ. I even hate to admit that the wrestling feds that I was involved in were not even original, we handled and written real characters, no creativity at all, at one point I was handling an old National Wrestling Alliance wrestler by the name of Tyler Cross in the e-fed called the NeWA! So to say that I’m a wrestling enthusiast would be quite an understatement. So imagine the nerd boner I had when I caught up with Defiance Wrestling’s Southern Heritage Champion Curtis Penn! And it was nerdgasm when he even gave me a few minutes to ask him a random question or three!
[I immediately open up as a stalker before I acted as a reporter.]
Me:
What’s on your playlist!
[A smile almost cracked on his face, however I sensed that it was more of relief that the first question wasn’t “can I have your autograph” or something other fan related question.]
Penn:
Well, before you stopped me I was listening to Eminem’s “The Marshall Mathers LP2”. I’ve always been a fan.
[He shoves his ear buds to the back of his gray hoodie and devotes to me his full attention.Pretty awesome right?]
Me:
Me too, I always turn on something from Eminem when I sit down and write. It puts me in the right mood.
[He nods for me to continue.]
Me:
In Birmingham, England you offered Stockton Pyre a free wrestling lesson, did you feel that all of Defiance’s newly acquired stars are still in need of some tutoring?
[His head rocks back with a small chuckle. I’m starting to feel that Curtis Penn either does not break character or the Curtis Penn we see on T.V. and the internet is authentic.]
Penn:
Defiance has signed, I think, 6 individuals to contracts since we left the States. I think that it’s my duty to put these guys through the paces as the SoHer Champion. Stockton Pyre needed an attitude adjustment; you do not blow off a veteran, a Champion, when he offers to help you the rub.
[I quickly saw the opportunity to be a journalist and not a fan boy when he handed me the opening.]
Me:
What about how Henry Keyes approached you backstage, how are you going to handle that situation?
[His grin fades and his lips form a straight line.]
Penn:
That goggle wearing fuck’s ol’ lady has been lying to him so he thinks that he has a set of balls bigger than he really does. And all I’m going to do is break ‘em and introduce him into Defiance the proper way.
[He reaches back to grab his ear bud; I react a little quicker by asking him one more question.]
Me:
You’ve been wrestling on a worldwide stage for half a decade now, who would you say was your biggest rival?
[He rubs his beard for a long second before he responds.]
Penn:
Well, that’s a question that would be a big surprise to you and everyone else, it really would be, because it started before GEC in Rome or even the WfWA. Picture this, a dojo six or seven guys all tired as fuck because of their trainers putting them through hell and back. One of the trainers happens to be the golden haired God of Wrestling and the other was a pupil that became more than what he was supposed to become, Eric Dane and Mike Sloan. Both guys who I could give a fuck about today, except one pays me to work here, but back then I watched them with stars in my eyes wanting to do nothing more than exceed their expectations.
[I nod to show that I’m what he is saying is intriguing, but I already knew that he was trained by those two.]
Penn:
You had Erik Ledger and Tyson Burke learning the ropes. You had me, as you know, because I just told you. You had a couple of other guys who didn’t amount to anything in wrestling and you had Angus Skaaland.
Me:
That I didn’t know. Angus wrestled?
[He smiles.]
Penn:
Floundered like a fish most of the time, but he knew how to play politics even back then. He managed to travel with Eric Dane back then, even had the chance to break into the industry in a big way as his tag team partner, but Angus sucked. While Tyson, Erik, and I took a few more years before we made it into the industry, Angus has already had his day and was reduced to bag carrying douche that turned into a Team Danger Cheerleader. Now days, well you can hear his contempt for me on every show because I’m doing what he could not. He wants more than anything to still be in the ring running the ropes and being one of the boys in the back, but he’s a pussy and he was pretty much made of glass.
[He pauses as he places his ear buds back into his ears.]
Penn:
You know the ol’ saying “talk the talk and walk the walk.” All he can do is run his cock sucker. Faggot has never had the balls to fight me, so he sits behind a desk and talks shit because he knows that I’m not allowed to touch him.
[He shoots me a smile.]
Penn:
Then again this is Defiance and anything can happen.
[Then, as if he was a ghost, he disappears in the crowd waiting outside of the airport.]
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