Rising Stars: Meet Don Cameron of Atlanta

Today we’d like to introduce you to Don Cameron.

Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
This will be for the real fans of Don Cameron to be able to have viable proof to say that they were here before the rocket took off. My real name or “shoot” name is Nicholas Devereux. I’m a Professional Wrestler from Atlanta, Georgia. I have been training for 4 years at the WWA4 Professional Wrestling School in Atlanta by the one and only AR Fox, currently the ROH World TV Champion at the time of me writing this. I hope I can say that. Anyway, I’ve been a fan of professional wrestling since I was a kid. My brothers and I used to get in so much trouble for breaking the bunk beds, putting holes in the walls, and breaking windows. I guess you can say I was starting my career early. I never saw myself being a pro wrestler at first though. As I got older I began to focus on other sports with a clearer path to the professional route like football and baseball. I even went to college at Savannah State University to try and fulfill this goal by playing football. Missed opportunities at SSU led me to realize that football was exactly that, a goal. A goal driven by a father who believes his first son could be so good that he should be the #1 draft pick. A goal driven by a desire to help my mother and provide for my family. A goal that ended up not being accomplished. After the football grind was put on hold, I started focusing more on things that made me feel better about myself and fulfilled me in more ways than football had done. I started focusing more on my music, which I’ve been doing since I was in 9th grade, and put more time into that. I got back into my anime, I’m a 90’s baby so you know I’m with the Dragon Ball, Yuyu Hakusho, and Sailor Moon group. That being said I’m well versed in a lot of the big anime across the board but I also like to watch the ones that no one talks about a lot, I sometimes wait until the hype is over before watching some anime. During my third year at SSU, I would change my life forever by becoming a father in 2017. At the time I thought that my son was going to have the greatest life ever because of the love he was going to receive from not just me and his mother, but from my mother, her mother, and all of the siblings we both had, especially with the 7 siblings I had at home. Little did I know, life was coming with a reality check right around the corner. Not even 3 full months later, I heard my mother let out a cry that signaled the ultimate fear of every older sibling that cares for their younger siblings. 3 days after my birthday, my brother lost his life in an accident that to this day, I wish I could’ve prevented. Not only did I lose my brother, my mother lost a son, my brothers and sisters lost a brother and my son never gets to really know his uncle. After my brothers passing, I was lost. I didn’t know what to do or where to go, it was a blur. I’m still grieving him till this day, but eventually I decided that instead of just grieving, I could be honoring my brother. I attempted to make music my career and honor him that way, but after a few years, the focus shifted again. I was actually going to attempt to play football again, even if it’s semi pro, just to start back living for my brother’s sake. One day I was searching for teams in Atlanta for football and they were scarce, leaving me to think that maybe the athletic days were over. Meanwhile I’ve never stopped being a wrestling fan, and the shared connection between my brothers and I when it came to wrestling would come into play very soon. After I’d stopped searching for football teams, I joked around with my son about wrestling and before I knew it, I was searching wikihow on how to become a pro wrestler. Being that I never thought about actually doing it, I also never thought that it would be as simple as it was to become a pro wrestler. I have a little experience wrestling in my high school days as well as football and baseball so why not right? I was given a step by step list of things I had to do to become a pro wrestler and the very first thing on it was sign up for a pro wrestling school. There were a few at the time when I was doing my research but the very first time I clicked on the WWA4 website, I knew that I wanted to train there. I gave myself 6 months to prepare for something that I know now, didn’t prepare me for anything. I also knew immediately what my name would be. What could be a better way to honor my brother, whose name is Cameron and has Don in the first half of his middle name, than to make it my ring name. Once I had my name down, I knew it was time to train. I started in May of 2022 and I can tell you now, training is hard. Even the lazy days are hard, there is nothing study in that ring, everything hurts, but training is also fun and liberating and an escape and a rush you can’t explain. I came in with a class of talent in the A4 that were overlooked a little bit at the beginning of our days there. Talent such as my partners in crime WWA4 Champion Amarii tha Maestro, the OG of OG’s Reggie Rage, may he rest in power, and our partners in arms QC Too Smooth, and the Young Gun Grayson Pierce. Talents like the Fade Area Militia boss Jay Tyler and his right hand man, or better yet right hand monster, Eddie Hindrixx along with Mr Decatur Travis 3000 and their high flying crash out DJ Bruner. Talents like CB43, ChaynMale, King Cole, Thee O, and so many more. Our class debuted with several members graduating in a different way then tradition, while also honoring the schools tradition in storyline fashion. We showed up and attempted to takeover from the jump, attacking the previous class in the A4 known as the Top Team and other wrestlers who attended school with them. After a couple weeks of run ins, those of us that were picked wrestled at the school’s biggest show of the year at the time, WWA4 Wicked. Eventually I would go on to start hitting the road in 2023 to pay my dues and get on some shows. The rest has been a wild ride that I am still getting started on and am excited to see where it goes.

Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
I’d be lying if I said that this was anything but easy. When you start at the level most of us start from, it’s always going to be an uphill battle. Long hours on the road, multiple matches for multiple promotions in a week, most of which don’t or can’t pay much, balancing schedules between shows, training, work and life outside of wrestling, it can be a lot on the body and even more on the mind.

Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
I’m what you would call a “big man” or a “powerhouse” in professional wrestling, but I like to consider myself more versatile than what those labels come with. Yes, I slam people, some people I slam worse than others, but that’s not all that I can do in the ring. I’m a creative person so I don’t mind pushing myself in attempts to do things I’ve never seen done before. I guess you can say that’s proof that I’m a product of AR Fox and the WWA4.

Is there anyone you’d like to thank or give credit to?
Anybody that listens to me talking about my career will almost instantly hear me praising Fox. When I first met him, the energy he brought at the door had me sold already, not to mention he was a black man coaching pro wrestling. I walked in the door and saw a diverse pool of talent in the ring before shaking everyone’s hand and before I knew it I was ready to train, I was back the following week. Aside from Fox though there are a few people that come in and sprinkle knowledge throughout the 4 from time to time. Guys like Takuri, Aerial Van Go, Alex Kane and others who’ve trained at the 4 and have moved on to bigger opportunities outside of the 4. There’s a real family atmosphere cultivated at the 4. It’s basically culture, no matter who you are, when you join the family at the 4 you’re always apart of it in some capacity. Speaking of family, I was a little unsure of the reaction I would get from them being that I hadn’t done anything like this since high school and it was kept a secret up until I visited the school for the first day. I’m glad to say that I had nothing to be unsure about because everybody in the family supports in their own ways from my mom, to my dad, both grandmas and both granddads, my brothers, my sisters, my cousins, and I can’t forget my number one fan my son. It’s been tough getting everyone together but I know there’s a show coming soon where everyone will be there and we’re gonna blow the roof off the place.

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