How did you choose your wrestling name?
My legal name is Allen Sarven. When I was a kid, I had a best friend — his name was Victor Lewis, and Victor was African American. We knew each other from kindergarten on, and he lived in a neighborhood that was primarily African American. I was the only white kid there. We’d go hang out and all the kids started calling me Snow White and Snowball and Snowman, and then it just kind of stuck. 

What was your signature move in the ring?
One of the signature moves I would do was called the Snowplow playing off the name Snow. It’s mechanically like a body slam — I tuck the head and I make it look like I've dropped them right on the top of their head, but it’s actually quite safe. I just hit them more on the upper part of their back.

Is there a wrestler and/or wrestling moment that made you realize you wanted to become a professional wrestler?
I grew up in Ohio, and at that time, between the ’60s and the ’70s, there was a very big regional promotion called Big Time Wrestling run by The Sheik, Ed Farhat. Then there were the Fabulous Kangaroos with Al Costello. I ended up becoming a Fabulous Kangaroo. There were a lot of wrestlers I idolized as a kid, and then we didn’t really have any kind of televised wrestling for quite a while until about 1975 to 1977. When cable television first came to be, there was Georgia Championship Wrestling on WTBS. I was flipping through the channels one Saturday night, and there was a tag match — it was Ole Anderson and Ivan Koloff versus Tommy Rich and Wahoo McDaniel. Dusty Rhodes was supposed to be the special guest referee. I was just blown away. I was captivated. And from that point on, I never missed an episode of wrestling. I was just stunned.

What do you look for in an OVW wrestler?
What I’m looking for is passion, number one. I’m a firm believer that you can do anything you want to do. Maybe I’m weird, but I don’t know how you can fail if you’re doing something you enjoy. There’s an old saying: enjoy the walk instead of the destination. If you’re passionate about doing something, then how do you ever fail at it? And how do you not consider yourself a success because you’re doing it? So, when I’m looking at wrestlers and new ones that come here, I want to see that they really, truly are passionate about doing it. I have wrestlers here that are not — they say they are, but their actions don’t match up with their desires.

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How did you choose your wrestling name and persona?
I’ve always had the same name. I got it in wrestling school. Me and another guy going through the same wrestling school, we were tearing the ring down and discussing names and how we were going to be portrayed. He looked at me and said, “Man, the stuff that you do in the ring looks like money. All right, well, let’s go with that now. What about cash?” Well, it progressed and Ca$h Flo is where it stuck.

What is your signature move in the ring?
Fans like to see me chop people. 

What is the Chop?
A chop is a slap to the chest. That’s all it is. For whatever reason, wrestling fans are bloodthirsty. They also love to wonder whether or not what we do is real. Well, I say if they want to know, then they can come take a chop from Ca$h Flo. 

What do you want people who watch the show to take away from it?
I want them to understand the amount of hard work and perseverance and dedication and pride that a lot of the people they’re watching put into everything that they do in professional wrestling. Wrestling can be a positive experience. It can be uplifting. I hope the stigma of professional wrestling starts to wane, because I look at wrestling as a very positive thing in my life. I hope that other people do the same.

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How did you choose your wrestling name?
I was kicking around the idea of trying to find one word that kind of encapsulates me to the best of my abilities. We wanted to incorporate some sort of body part, too, so we just literally took the S off of the word spectacular and it just stayed PEC-tacular. 
 

What is your signature move in the ring?
Things that showcase my athletic ability or physical prowess, one of which would be a dropkick enziguri. I prefer things that are very impactful, which is why I call my signature move the Adonis Crab.
 

What is the Adonis Crab?
My opponent would be laying on their stomach and I have their legs getting bent back. Imagine the way a scorpion looks with their tail all the way up, but that being somebody’s legs, inside my arms, with my entire physical body trying to pull their legs towards their head while standing up. It’s amazing, because my chest is obviously showcased, my head is up, my arms look great, veins popping out of everywhere. It’s impressive. 
 

What kind of diet do you have to maintain to remain in fighting shape?
I was the youngest natural professional bodybuilder in the country. I did that when I was 20, but it was because of the work ethic that was instilled in me with my upbringing doing chores on a farm — day in and day out. 

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How did you choose your wrestling name and persona?
I wanted a name that no one had used in wrestling. I started there, but then I was also watching a lot of Vikings — [in that universe,] Freyja was the Norse goddess of war. I was like, "Man, that's what I want to embody in the ring.”
 

What made you realize you wanted to become a professional wrestler?
I was wrestling in Alaska and teaching middle school, trying to do both. At some point I realized I couldn’t do everything I wanted in wrestling and still be a teacher. I’d been teaching for eight years and loved it, but at some point I just had to choose, and I can always go back to being a teacher. You can’t go back to being a wrestler. You only can do all of the physical things we do in the ring for so long, and so at some point I was like, “You know what? I never want to have regrets.” 
 

What’s it like being a woman in the world of professional wrestling?
Women in wrestling are just seen sex objects — a side attraction. When people say wrestling, [they mean] men’s wrestling, with a women’s match. But we do everything that they do. We’re all taking the same falls, we’re getting kicked in the face and putting our bodies through the same physicality as them. 

In the last couple years, women’s wrestling is really getting recognized more and it’s being put in a different light, which is really great. We don’t want to just be a side match. People will pay to come see us just as much as anyone else.

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How did you choose your wrestling name and persona?
I originally wanted to be Hollywood Haley J, because I have it tatted on my chest, and Hollywood was my nickname in high school. Then we did a show, and at the meeting we always have after the show [wrestler] Ian Rotten was like, “By the way, you’re not bougie enough to be Hollywood. You’re way too ghetto for that.”

What is your ultimate goal as a wrestler?
I’m going to go to WWE and become top dog there. That’s my plan. It’s always been my plan. This is helping me learn, it’s my stepping stone. My goal is to go to WWE and become the face of the place. I give it about three years. Give me the opportunity and I’ll be there.

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How did you choose your wrestling name and persona?
Mahabali Shera means “big brother lion.” When I step in the ring, I have a big responsibility to represent people all over who are watching, to make them believe in who I am.

Is there a wrestling moment that made you realize you wanted to become a professional wrestler?
When I was back home and I would watch wrestling, I never knew I was going to wrestle. I just have a really big, big passion about sports. I wanted to represent my culture in India, to become something iconic for my country. In 2011, I was selected for the Ring Ka King show, and that was my first step toward getting to the ringside. I dropped everything, because this is who I am. 

What do you want people who watch the show to take away from it?
I think they’re going to see passion and desire and hard work. And if I did it, they could do it. I want whoever watches the show to believe in yourself, have faith, and if you have a good mindset, you can achieve anything in this world. You just need to trust yourself.

Is there anyone specifically you’ve looked up to?

I’m a huge, huge Arnold Schwarzenegger fan. Growing up, I started bodybuilding because of him. When I looked at myself, I was so skinny, but I posed like him, and then I felt like I could look like Schwarzenegger one day.

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Is there a moment that made you realize you wanted to become a professional wrestler?
I literally started wrestling because Haley told me to. That’s no lie. Haley was about eight or nine when she was like, “You know you want to. You should do this. You know this is what you want to do.” And I just started training and off we went. I always loved wrestling, always wanted to be a part of it, but being a young mom and being in trouble and stuff, wrestling saved my life. It gave me a place to put all that anger. 
 

What is your ultimate goal as a wrestler?
My goal in wrestling these days is just to help the younger guys succeed. My knees failed me a long time ago. The only reason I’m still in the ring is because of my daughter, Haley, so we can do some stuff together. I’m OK with stepping back and being backstage and helping. I just want everybody to succeed. I want Haley to succeed first, but I want all these guys that come in to feel like I’m trying to help them pursue their dreams. 

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We know that the wrestling universe boils down to babyfaces and heels. How does it feel to be the heel of OVW — or do you consider yourself to be a neutral party?
I don’t necessarily think of myself as the heel, but I’m an outsider. Almost every single person in this building has wrestled. I don’t just mean the wrestlers, I mean the people backstage, the people selling concessions — everyone’s wrestled. So, here comes a guy who’s all of a sudden in charge and he hasn’t wrestled. And I came in kind of guns blazing — probably too much, too soon. That combination, I think, got me off to a bad start. And first impressions are everything. 

How do you feel about your health becoming a focus within the series?
I’m nervous for my mom. My mom’s never seen me have a seizure, so I’m nervous about her having to watch it. Besides that, I’ve come to terms with the condition. I’ve had it for 20 years. I’ve had multiple incidents in public. One in 30 people have epilepsy so there’s going to be a lot of people who can relate to this. I hope it shows that you don’t have to be embarrassed of it.

What do you want people to take away from the show?
I want them to realize that these wrestlers are not like cartoon characters. They’re human beings, and they’re people who have the same hopes and dreams that everybody has. It’s just that theirs is in the world of wrestling. Wrestling is an art form, but it’s just like any other business in the sense that these people want to make it.

Wrestling’s very easy to mock, especially on this level. But I think one of the reasons these folks do it is that when they walk through that curtain, whether there’s 150 people in here or 400 people in here, for those moments, every single person in here is going to be watching that individual. For that moment, those people matter. And all human beings just want to matter, right? You just want to matter. They matter. And I hope people see what I think is the beauty in that.

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