I do that at home, just joking around,'” Hawthorne said.Īfter seeing some of the warmups, Hawthorne said, he asked his friends’ mother if he could join in. “For a lot of wrestling warmups, it’s a lot of forward rolls, cartwheels, handstands, et cetera, and I was like, ‘I can do that. Simply watching the warmups got Hawthorne interested, he said. Hawthorne, an avid World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) fan, said he was first introduced to the traditional sport when he attended a wrestling tournament in which two of his friends were competing.
They let me just play and figure it out from there,” Hawthorne said.Īround the age of two or three, though, Hawthorne started using prosthetic legs, he said. It actually got to a point where my parents…stopped trying to go by the book. His parents are Demond, a tax accountant, and Felecia.Įarly in his life, Hawthorne said, he was given a wheelchair, which his parents wanted him to use. Hawthorne, 25, grew up in Pelham alongside his brother Chase, who is five years younger. In 2016, he won the Alabama’s state high school wrestling championship, capping off a 37-0 undefeated season, for Pelham High School. However, Hawthorne’s disability didn’t keep him from wrestling. It didn’t help Hawthorne that in sports like football, who was born without shinbones and had his legs amputated at three months old, kept breaking his prosthetic legs. At the same time, it was like, ‘I want to go again,'” Hawthorne said. Football was eh, and wrestling just intrigued me because I knew I wasn’t good, and I was getting beat up, and I was very upset about it. Hawthorne started wrestling in the sixth grade after trying a variety of sports–football, baseball, swimming, track–but none of them fit him.
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The Birmingham Times recently spoke to several individuals with disabilities to discuss their experiences and highlight their successes. In Jefferson County, an estimated 16.1 percent of residents, aged 18 to 64, have disabilities, according to research from ADA-PARC, a group of local affiliates of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) National Network. Karneshia Patton is a small business owner and a model.
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