Lets go back to April/ May 2007 you were on the first ever Wrestling Reality Tour. Tell us what was like.
It was an experience I'll never forget that's for sure. It was so much different than touring with Real Action Wrestling, just for the simple fact that it wasn't your average tour, we were shooting for a television series. It was also really great to have a lot of the Wildman Academy family involved in the tour. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity for everyone involved I think, being a part of the beginning of something so ground breaking, we all had our ups and downs during the week but at the end of it we were all sad that it was only a short tour.

What was your job on the tour?
Umm let me think of the fancy title they gave me....Event & Venue Manager or something like that I think it was? Basically I took care of the wrestling side of the events at the arenas, as well as working the door and merchandise as usual, and we had an amazing woman named Marie France who took care of the television aspect of things on our team, so we basically worked together with her to make sure the show went off as smoothly as possible. Chris Madison also helped me out with my end of the job and the security aspect of it. I definitely couldn't have pulled it all off without him and Marie France, so they both deserve mentioning.

For the first time you had the TV cameras around you 24/7. What was that like?
I'm fairly camera shy so it took a little bit of getting used to. The producer Greg Hemmings interviewed me in Sussex I believe and I was a nervous wreck over it haha. Other than that the crew was so great it didn't take long to get used to having cameras everywhere you turn, I just had to get used to making sure I didn't interrupt anything that was being filmed while I was running around doing my job.

Did you change anything about the way you are because of the cameras being around all the time?
I don't think so no. We were all told to be ourselves, and when I was interviewed I certainly didn't hold anything back. Basically the only thing that changed with the cameras being around was not getting in their way while I was doing my job as I mentioned before.

What did you think of the final product that aired on The Fight Network?
I think I can speak for everyone when I say it's everything we hoped it would be and more. The production team we had and the Fight Network did an amazing job putting the episodes together, it was just night and day from the previous pilots that had been shot. Greg Hemming's really got the vision the guys wanted to pull off and was able to get it across perfectly. I think his dedication to learning about wrestling combined with not having previously been a wrestling fan made a great product that can be enjoyed by wrestling fans and non wrestling fans alike.

Looking back at the tour is there anything you would have done different?
I don't think so? I worked really hard as I always do and I don't think I let anyone down in that aspect. I guess I would have liked to enjoy the after parties a little more, but when you're dealing with all the money the events are taking in, it's best you not be hung over while doing it haha.

I recently did an interview with Sidewinder about being sent home early from the tour, what are your thoughts on what he said?
You know that's kind of a hard one to answer, since I don't know for sure if he was actually told one thing by a producer and another thing by Pete. Personally, I like Sidewinder very much but to me the fact that he is under age I don't think he should have been drinking at all considering they were doing interviews in the daytime especially since they were being taped at an establishment that was one of our sponsors. After the shows are over and the whole after party thing is going on, that would have been a different story, but I personally think that unless someone in charge shoved a beer in his hand and demanded he drink before/during his interviews he should have had the common sense not to do so. I do believe he wasn't drunk, but I don't think underage drinking at a sponsors establishment is ok, and I think he should have had enough common sense to realize that. If things happened the way he said they did, I still think he should have gone to Pete and double checked before doing so. Ultimately the production team is looking for good TV, but Pete was very much "the boss" of the tour, and I don't think Sidewinder was thinking of the long term effects that not checking over something like that with Pete could have for him and his career with WR. As those who watched saw, Sidewinder was a guy that Peter wanted to give a big push as things progressed with the series, but if you can't depend on someone to be responsible for their own actions that is something that I know Pete and Rick both take very seriously. I do hope that Sidewinder learned a lesson from the experience, and that we'll all get the chance to see his full potential down the line. I also think that one incident was a very small part in the reason he was sent home from the tour. He let the office down in a lot of ways right from the start, and they just got to the point where they realized the best thing they could do for him was to send him home and hope he learned a lesson from it.

Why do you think Emile Dupree does not like the Wrestling Reality idea?
Emile hates every promotion that runs in the Maritimes because he thinks he owns the territory still, simple as that. It doesn't matter if he's not running shows at the time, it doesn't matter if the shows are in towns he doesn't go to, he doesn't like it. Wrestling Reality specifically I think struck a nerve with him because of a few different factors. First of all he's thought Mike Hughes and Peter Smith have been out to get him ever since they started Real Action Wrestling which was originally intended to only run during the winter months when Grand Prix was not running. So anything with their names attached to it I think strike a nerve with him. I also think it didn't sit very well with him that the Maritime Cup 3 in 2006 which was put on by New Scott and Sarah Dunsworth but had the Wrestling Reality name on it drew a great crowd in Halifax, and when Emile got word of that and ran a show there soon after and drew less than 100 people, he wasn't impressed, and insisted they were "killing the business". On that note Emile also has very old school ways about him still, which isn't really a bad thing, I think there's definitely still a market for that kind of show in this area, but everything that Wrestling Reality is, goes against everything that Emile and all promoters that have been running shows since the days before the business became exposed stand for. And finally I think Emile probably thinks that Wrestling Reality is about exposing the business, which really isn't the case. Wrestling Reality sheds a light on the lives of the people that do this that aren't working for the WWE. It shows that there is a lot more to the wrestling business than most people realize. Some people are able to make a good living wrestling without working for Vince McMahon, and on the other side of the spectrum it shows the people just getting into the business with that raw hunger to make their mark on the wrestling world, and it shows that there other options out there for people that don't like what they see when they turn on their TV's on Monday night anymore. Emile is the definition of old school though, so I know he'd have trouble seeing that, as from what I know about him he's very set in his ways.

You had alot of contact with Lance Storm about his comments on WR tell us about that
That was all a little bizarre to me to be honest. The time Lance was spending emailing me back and forth in the debate we had going on was kind of surprising. Because I don't think any of the wrestlers on the WR tour would have spent that much time sending emails to someone he didn't know debating the whole thing. I still think that Lance made his judgment of the series based on some things that just weren't relevant. Our color commentator was great, I love the guy, but he didn't know a lot about the wrestlers themselves, so when Lance Storm sees Tommy Ozbourne coming out and our commentator referring to him as a veteran when he's only had about 100 matches at that point, yeah I get that getting under his skin, but it was an honest mistake on the commentators part. It's been a while since the conversations so I can't remember everything we talked about, but he lost me at telling me that Gary had no right to be training students. It became very apparent to me that in his mind unless you have worked for WWE, TNA, or WCW than you could not be a great wrestler or be qualified to train other wrestlers. I think that was pretty much the end of our conversations as I felt Lance was very biased on a lot of things. Lance Storm of course is familiar with Leo Burke, and before Gary started his school he talked to Leo, and Leo basically gave Gary his blessing that he was talented enough and had what it takes to train wrestlers. I do respect Lance Storm, but I respect Leo Burke a lot more based on who he is, what he's accomplished, the fact that he knows Gary, has trained Gary and knows what he's capable of in the ring, etc. With all due respect I don't feel that Lance has any right to pass that kind of judgment on Gary's ability to train wrestlers, especially since I've heard nothing good about any of the trainees that have come out of Lance's own school. I'll probably get blasted for that but I don't really care. I'm sure there have been some good students to come out of his school, it's not like I keep tabs on it, but being there first hand and watching Gary train his students every weekend for over a year, and seeing the talent that has come out of Gary's school, I think it was an ignorant comment on Lance's part, and it was the end of the discussion for me. He passed judgment on Gary's ability to train students without knowing anywhere near what he would have to know to make the judgment he made. I respect his opinion, he obviously knows more about wrestling than I do, but I'll take Leo Burke's informed opinion over Lance Storm's uninformed opinion any day of the week. While I'm being controversial I might as well be honest and say I think Lance Storm is an overrated wrestler, and I have never even seen him lock up properly. His lock ups are weak. Leo Burke taught Gary, who in turn teaches his students, that it's the little things that make a good wrestler. For example, anyone can lock up, you need to make the lock up mean something, you need to make it look like you are in a fight. It should be like 2 bulls colliding, not like ballroom dancing. Basically the goal is that all the fans know wrestling is fake now, so when a good wrestler steps in the ring he should be able to put on a match in a way that doesn't remind the fans of that fact, to do those little things that make it look like an actual fight, not like something that was choreographed, make every little thing mean something. And that starts with a good lock up.

Your thoughts on Tommy Ozbourne someone that was compared to a young Bobby Roode, and Gary's top student leaving the wrestling business so early
I've got mixed emotions about that. When Jeff originally told me, I think I was the first person he told, and I bawled my head off. Like cried for an hour I'm not even kidding. He just has everything it takes to make it in this business, and it's frustrating to see someone you care about who is up on this pedestal of "this guy is going to be the next big thing here" and then to watch him voluntarily walk off of that pedestal....I just couldn't wrap my head around it. Jeff was always one of the most passionate about wrestling of Gary's students so when he came out and told me that he might as well have told me he liked to kill puppies, I was in disbelief. I'm not even kidding, I think I pretty much went through the 5 stages of grief with it. At first I was in denial, I just thought it had to have something to do with him and Krysta breaking up (Gary is still in the denial stage by the way haha), then I got mad because there are so many people out there that would KILL to have Jeff's natural ability and there he was about to throw it all away because one day it was what he lived for, and the next he wanted nothing to do with it. Then came bargaining, because he wanted to quit before the WR tour as he felt it wasn't fair to take the spot from someone who did want to pursue a career in wrestling, but Gary and I talked him into doing the tour hoping being a part of something like that would snap him out of it, then was depression, I couldn't even watch tapes of him wrestling because it made me too sad that he was giving up on it, and now I'm finally in the acceptance stage. I still don't know what exactly changed for him that made him want to leave the business, but he's a very close friend and I also want him to be happy. Right now he's attending school to become a firefighter and training in MMA. I still think it's sad that he decided not to pursue wrestling, but ultimately I don't think the wrestling lifestyle is what Jeff is looking for, and when you talk to him today about Firefighting and MMA I see that same spark in his eyes that he used to have for wrestling, so as long as I know he's happy I'll support whatever he wants to do 100%.

Your thoughts on the upcoming ECPW show on June 1st
The show sounds like it's going to be one of the best around here in a long time. I'm still not sure if I'm going to be able to get the time off of work to go to it, so I'm kind of bummed about that, but it's clear that North Sydney is in for a great night of wrestling.

At the end of last year there was alot of problems going on the Wrestling Reality site and all of the maritimewrestling.com, why have you given up doing all the websites you have done?
There was a lot going on in my family life at the time, and I realized I just had to cut all negativity out of my life or I was going to go crazy. Ultimately I wanted to cut all ties with wrestling because I realized I was almost being sadistic in a way. The wrestling business is hard on the head, whatever your involvement is in it. And I guess I just realized you know, wrestlers can put up with this stuff because at the end of the day there's a payoff for them, they get to step in that ring and do what they love, and that makes all the bullshit and politics worth it. For me, I didn't have that, so I was dealing with the bullshit side of things, without really getting anything out of it for myself. Especially my involvement with Wrestling Reality. I've never been one to censor my thoughts, and in being involved with WR that would have been something I would have had to do from a business perspective, and I knew I'd never be comfortable with that. So I stepped back and decided to end it there. It was around then that I got to the acceptance stage in Tommy Ozbourne's decision to quit the business haha. I think it was definitely the right choice for me, not having to deal with the drama anymore has been great. I'm much happier and less stressed out these days, I just figured life itself is stressful enough, why would I subject myself to unnecessary stress for absolutely no reason? It was definitely the right choice for me to make, and I'll always still support local wrestling, I just don't want to be involved with it the way I was.

When Wrestling Reality runs again will you be going back on tour?
Very, very doubtful. I don't have a crystal ball and can't predict the future, and never say never but as of now I'd say the chances of that happening are slim to none.

Have you got my Eva Angelina and Jenaveve Jolie DVDs yet?
I'll have some ready for you by Friday night haha.

What is next for Cathy Yetman?
I don't really know haha. Obviously a wedding eventually, but my step Dad suffered a stroke back in January, and things aren't looking good for him, so obviously wedding plans are on hold for the time being as him and I are very close. Other than that I just want to focus on whatever makes me happy in life, and I would eventually like to go back to school to become a paralegal....but I want to pay off my other student loans first. Oh and finding lots of DVD's for New Scott of course hahaha.

Name Association

Tony Armstrong - Tony is a great guy and has been a huge part of Wildman Academy, especially once we moved to Moncton and it became hard for Gary to travel to Halifax as much as he would have liked to. Tony put the students through a very different type of training than Gary has done, in testing their limits and showing them that if a guy his size can pull off the warm ups that he does, there is zero excuse for any of them to not be able to work hard and do the same. He knows how to seperate the men from the boys in that aspect.

Brody Steele - We've kind of had a complex relationship in a way. The first few years I knew Peter I was terrified of him, literally. But getting to see his softer side in his home life with his wife and pets showed me a completely different side to him, and what a big heart he has under the tough exterior. We have certainly butted heads over the years, and I think it's probably because we're more alike than either of us really wants to admit. When two people think they're always right there's bound to be some tension haha. Overall though I have a lot of respect for him as a business man and wrestler, and I'm very happy that him and his wife have finally gotten the baby they've been waiting for, and I know he'll be a great father.

James Mason - I didn't get to really talk to James much during the tour unfortunately, but I was blown away by how talented he was in the ring. It's been brought up before, but I agree that he should have had subtitles on him during the WR episodes, becasue I had no idea what he was saying half the time, and my Mom dated a British guy for around 7 years when I was younger LOL.

Krysta Lynn Scott - Oh I love Krysta to death. She's just so much fun to be around, she lights up every room she's in, and you can't help but have fun when you're with her. She's got so much passion and talent, and I'm so glad that she has made the best out of her time out west, I'm so proud of her. I'm very excited that she'll be back in Halifax for a little while, it's not the same without her.

Purity Saint - It's funny because Krystle and I have known eachother for ummm...8 years now I think? And for no reason that I can remember, I absolutely hated her guts up until she joined the school in 2006 and I was forced to get to know her. Then I was left perplexed as to why I didn't like her in the first place. I love how outspoken she is, she's so much fun to be around, she scored herself one HOT boyfriend out in Alberta haha. And I think what I like most about her is that she knows that she has limitations in the ring due to a knee injury, and she doesn't want to let that stand in the way of her dreams. I hope nothing but the best for her out west, but I also selfishly want her to come home so we can hang out again now that I'm back in Halifax.

Chris Madison - That's a complicated one. For once I'm not going to get into details on what exactly is going on there, because I do respect Chris. All I can really say about him right now is that Gary and I have always supported him, seriously loved him like a family member, and would in a heartbeat bend over backwards to do anything we could to help him out. I just hope for his sake that he truly is happy with his life and the decisions he makes, and if he's reading this I want him to know that no matter what has been going on Gary and I are still here for him and always will be if he ever needs us. All I want for him is to be happy and to not have any regrets when he looks back on this time in his life, so if he's 100% sure that he's happy, he's doing what he wants, and he won't regret any of it down the road, then I can respect that. If things don't turn out the way that he hopes they will, we will still be here for him no matter what. Today, tomorrow, 5 years down the road, we'll always be there for him, and always were whether he chooses to believe that or not. I would also like Chris to know that if he ever wants to talk to us about anything, he knows how to reach us. But we are only open to speaking to Chris, and Chris alone

Mike Hughes - Glad that he's back and involved with WR, he brings a lot to any roster he's a part of.

Jamie Hamilton - Haven't seen the fucker in a while, hope his injuries heal up soon because he's very talented and I think that he's done an amazing job in making up for his lack of size with his charisma and talent in the ring.

Sexton Phoenix - Glad he's letting the hair grow back hahah.

Zero - God I don't think I've seen him since the WR tour? Poor guy had to put up with me, Jamie Hamilton (Dave), Chris Madison, and Tommy Ozbourne (Jeff) in a car for the entire tour. Jeff didn't get nearly as much enjoyment out of me, Dave, and Chris singing Backstreet Boys songs as we did....and poor Zero had to listen to us singing and Jeff begging us to stop. My favorite part of which was was when Jeff said, "Look, it's not that you guys are bad.....you're just really not good". Haha maybe we made him quit the business with our singing.

New Scott - My new best friend now that I am "the porn seller" LOL.