Did You Know Joaquin Wilde and DJZ Are The Same Person?
Did You Know Joaquin Wilde and DJZ Are The Same Person?
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Joaquin Wilde and DJZ are the same person. It's OK if you didn't realize that, because some other people are finding that out now, too.
Joaquin Wilde (real name Michael Paris) may be part of the LWO these days, but he'll always be Zema Ion or DJZ, for instance, to TNA fans. Wilde, 38, (once again) made it known that he and Zema Ion are, in fact, the same person.
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The RAW superstar responded to a fan who claimed to have recently found out about Wilde's alias, Zema Ion, despite growing up on wrestling. Wilde even said he's not bothered by the 'Today I Learned' moments, because it's something that fans mention to him all of the time.
Check out the tweet below:
Joaquin Wilde designed the original ROH logo
Before he kicked off his career as a pro wrestler, Joaquin Wilde created the original Ring of Honor logo. The former two-time TNA X-Division Champion told Ryan Satin that he won a logo creation contest at 15 years of age for ROH.
'So, Ring of Honor, they put up a thing on the Internet saying 'Design the Ring of Honor logo and win five free wrestling tapes.' Back in these days, this was when tape trading and VHS tapes were a thing. I was very much a tape trader when I was a teenager. And I'm like five free tapes. That's $100 worth of tapes, and they're masters. 'I could trade these masters for like 2 or 3 dubs each.' I'm like, 'I could get a lot of tapes for this,'' Wilde said.
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'And the thing was, my brother, it's so funny now. My brother was interested in graphic design at a super young age, because I was 14 or 15 when this Ring of Honor thing happened. So, my brother would have been 12 or 13. He had already purchased Photoshop for himself at age 12. He spent his birthday money on Photoshop. We're talking 2001, 2002. It's just so strange. It's like what 12-year-old takes their birthday money and buys Photoshop in 2001? This doesn't happen.'
Check out his full comment here.
Joaquin Wilde was most recently part of the six-man tag team match against American Made and El Grande Americano on RAW. Fans can check out WrestleZone's full coverage of the show here.
The post Did You Know Joaquin Wilde and DJZ Are The Same Person? appeared first on Wrestlezone.
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