Superstar Billy Graham
After receiving his post-graduate degree, Groothuis moved to Phoenix to help his mother and aunt with expanding their business. By this time, he decided to begin training at a wrestling school. He was originally going to train at Shawn Michaels' Texas Wrestling Academy in San Antonio, Texas, but instead chose to study at Bill Anderson's "School of Hard Knocks" school in San Bernardino, California after meeting Superstar Billy Graham.