Alliance Blog Podcast: Interviews with Independent Wrestlers and Wrestling Personalities
Sep 23, 2026 · 55 min · 11 segments
It was twenty-four days after King Simms won the vacant IHWE Heavyweight Championship, that he came on to our live stream. That championship is synonymous with modern-day Texas Wrestling luminaries…
So King Sims essentially stemmed from something that my grandma actually had called me when I was younger.
My grandma actually comes from a Indian tribe, and she was considered, you know, a queen.
So she essentially, you know, called me Prince and named me Prince and everything, so that's essentially where Prince has started from.
And I always told myself that, um, once I got to a point of, you know, where I feel like I'm at that point and I, you know, win my first legit, um, heavyweight championship, I wanted to, you know, evolve into King Sims.
So I, you know, and then also just with my dad being a certain mold, you know, King Mabel, Booker T, like, just watching people when it comes to the royalty aspect of it and being able to, you know, just make what you're doing and your, your whole character be that and not just saying it.
That's one of the main things, that was one of my main focuses, is to not just talk the talk, but also walk the walk.
Were there, i- I always hear when I do interviews that there's sometimes, you know, family, family is sometimes the greatest thing and sometimes the worst thing when you wanna be a pro wrestler because there's a lot of barrier of entry where they're like, "No, we don't want you to get into the business.
We want you s- we want something different for you." And then there's some times where the family's like, "Well, just go have fun and have a backup plan." And then sometimes it's, "We don't care, just, just go do what you wanna do."
Coming from a background of, of being connected to the wrestling industry, like, w- how was your family when it came to saying, "Hey, you know what? I, I wanna do this.
So it was essentially, like, just pursuing the wrestling, it was really early on at a early age, but I was also an All-American, um, in sports.
Those are my two, you know, besides wrestling, those were my two, like, main, uh, sports that I did.
So, um, I was, as far as getting into it, before I went to college, I actually had found that there was a wrestling promotion in school, uh, here in Waco, Texas, and I wanted to get into it, but right, oddly enough, as I was going to get into it and start training, that school and that company had shut down.
So then it, it kind of, like, you know, blew my mind because, you know, in certain aspects it's, it's like how can I actually get into doing this without having essentially those tools and trying to do it on your own and not necessarily, like you said, you know, when it comes to family, you don't essentially want to lean on family all the time.
And since then, it's just been the continuous, you know, work, evolving myself, my brand, and making everything, you know- More professional and, you know, it's kinda been all over the place, but just learning how to actually structure everything.
So King Sims essentially stemmed from something that my grandma actually had called me when I was younger.
My grandma actually comes from a Indian tribe, and she was considered, you know, a queen.
So she essentially, you know, called me Prince and named me Prince and everything, so that's essentially where Prince has started from.
And I always told myself that, um, once I got to a point of, you know, where I feel like I'm at that point and I, you know, win my first legit, um, heavyweight championship, I wanted to, you know, evolve into King Sims.
So I, you know, and then also just with my dad being a certain mold, you know, King Mabel, Booker T, like, just watching people when it comes to the royalty aspect of it and being able to, you know, just make what you're doing and your, your whole character be that and not just saying it.
That's one of the main things, that was one of my main focuses, is to not just talk the talk, but also walk the walk.
Were there, i- I always hear when I do interviews that there's sometimes, you know, family, family is sometimes the greatest thing and sometimes the worst thing when you wanna be a pro wrestler because there's a lot of barrier of entry where they're like, "No, we don't want you to get into the business.
We want you s- we want something different for you." And then there's some times where the family's like, "Well, just go have fun and have a backup plan." And then sometimes it's, "We don't care, just, just go do what you wanna do."
Coming from a background of, of being connected to the wrestling industry, like, w- how was your family when it came to saying, "Hey, you know what? I, I wanna do this.
So it was essentially, like, just pursuing the wrestling, it was really early on at a early age, but I was also an All-American, um, in sports.
Those are my two, you know, besides wrestling, those were my two, like, main, uh, sports that I did.
So, um, I was, as far as getting into it, before I went to college, I actually had found that there was a wrestling promotion in school, uh, here in Waco, Texas, and I wanted to get into it, but right, oddly enough, as I was going to get into it and start training, that school and that company had shut down.
So then it, it kind of, like, you know, blew my mind because, you know, in certain aspects it's, it's like how can I actually get into doing this without having essentially those tools and trying to do it on your own and not necessarily, like you said, you know, when it comes to family, you don't essentially want to lean on family all the time.
And since then, it's just been the continuous, you know, work, evolving myself, my brand, and making everything, you know- More professional and, you know, it's kinda been all over the place, but just learning how to actually structure everything.
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