Pro wrestling star learns what 'land of opportunity' means in US as he details journey from Italy to America

Cristiano Argento has been tearing up opponents successful the ringing for the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) arsenic helium worked his mode up the ladder to get a fewer shots astatine immoderate gold.

But the way to get to 1 of the astir prestigious pro wrestling companies successful the U.S. was agelong and a way that not galore wrestlers person taken.

Argento was calved and raised successful Osimo, Italy – a municipality of astir 35,000 radical located connected the eastbound broadside of the state person to the Adriatic Sea. He told Fox News Digital helium started grooming successful a ringing astatine a boxing gym earlier helium got started connected the autarkic country successful Italy. He wrestled successful Germany, Sweden, France and Denmark earlier helium came to the realization that, to go a nonrecreational wrestler, helium needed to marque his mode to the United States.

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Cristiano Argento performs successful the National Wrestling Alliance (Instagram)

He archetypal worked his mode to Canada to get trained by pro wrestling fable Lance Storm. He moved to Canada, leaving astir of his friends and household down and without a steadfast grasp connected the English language.

"At the time, my English was horrible. I didn’t talk immoderate English astatine all," helium said. "But I was with my friend, Stefano, helium came with maine and helium translated everything for me. I astir apt missed 50% of the cognition that Lance Storm was giving to america due to the fact that I was incapable to understand. I was lone fixed a recap and everything I was capable to see. I’m definite if I was doing it present with a due cognition of English, it would person been a antithetic scenario.

"Eventually, I moved backmost to Italy aft the grooming and I said, OK, now, I privation to spell to the U.S. So, I studied English much properly, and yet I got my archetypal enactment visa that was successful Texas. I was successful Houston for a abbreviated play of time. I trained with Booker T astatine Reality of Wrestling. I got connected his show, which was my debut successful the U.S. That was awesome. I yet got a caller enactment visa successful Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, wherever I presently unrecorded since 2017. Since then, my wrestling career, thankfully, kept growing, growing, increasing and increasing until present wrestling for the NWA. One of the bigger promotions successful the U.S."

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Argento said that his household thought helium was "nuts" for chasing his pro wrestling dream.

He said they were much acrophobic astir his well-being fixed that helium was half-way astir the satellite without anyone helium knew by his broadside successful lawsuit thing went sideways.

"My family, friends, everybody was similar wherefore bash you privation to determination to the other broadside of the satellite not knowing the language, not knowing anybody, by yourself, to effort to go a nonrecreational wrestler? And I was like, well, we person 1 life, I love, and that’s what I’m gonna do," helium told Fox News Digital. "Eventually, my household was truly supportive. But erstwhile I archetypal said, ‘Hey, ma and dad, I privation to bash that.’ They looked astatine maine like, ‘Are you nuts? Are you drunk oregon something? What are you talking about?’ And I said, nary that’s what I privation to do. And they knew I loved this athletics due to the fact that successful Italy I was traveling astir Europe, spending clip successful Canada training, truthful they started to recognize dilatory that’s what I privation to bash with my life. They were arrogant of me.

Cristiano Argento works retired successful the gym. (Instagram)

"They’re inactive arrogant of me. I deliberation much similar the information that you’re gonna effort that, that it’s hard than much similar you’re gonna permission us. The information like, oh, my lad is gonna spell connected the other broadside of the satellite for a six-hour clip quality and we’re gonna spot him maybe, when, like, I don’t know. Not often. I deliberation it was much that. And for maine too, it was truly hard. It was heartbreaking not being capable to spot my household each time oregon each month. Like erstwhile a twelvemonth if I’m lucky. I deliberation that was the biggest portion for them due to the fact that of interest oregon that I was present by myself and if I person immoderate contented oregon immoderate problem, I didn’t person nobody. So they were scared. Like, you get sick, if you person a problem, anything, and they’re not being capable to beryllium present adjacent to me. But they were truly supportive since time one."

Argento is surviving retired his imagination successful the U.S. He suggested that the moniker of the U.S. being the "land of opportunity" wasn’t acold from what is preached successful movies and lit – it was the existent thing.

"I was inspired by radical who came to the U.S. and made it big," Argento told Fox News Digital. "The U.S. was ever similar the onshore of opportunity. That’s however they merchantability it to america and this is what it is. I consciousness like, successful myself, that was existent due to the fact that thing I tried to bash truthful acold I was capable to scope a batch much than if I wasn’t here. I’m not yet wherever I’d similar to beryllium but I spot similar there’s truthful galore opportunities successful this country. Not conscionable successful wrestling but similar successful immoderate concern to scope the goal. I’m truly blessed of the choices I did here.

National Wrestling Alliance prima Cristiano Argento poses successful Times Square successful New York. (Instagram)

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"But my large inspirations were big-time actors who moved to the country, who didn’t cognize English, with nary money, nary enactment system. I had 1 dream, I person to spell close determination to marque it hap and I’m gonna spell and bash it and I’m gonna marque it happen. So those radical were ever the biggest inspiration adjacent if it wasn’t successful wrestling, conscionable however they handled their passion, however they pursued their imagination without being frightened of anything, however acold you are, however unsocial by yourself … You don’t cognize the language, you’re like, let’s go, let’s bash it."

Outside of the NWA, Argento has performed for the International Wrestling Cartel, Enjoy Wrestling and Exodus Pro Wrestling this year.