Hello everyone.
Hope everyone is enjoying the series of posts regarding the wrestlers who will compete in SETUP Thailand's Uprising Series Tournament. The event will begin with the EP21: Double Cross show on March 22nd.
In the past few days, this blogger shared some information on Kru Pol and Kevin Weng. This fan knows that many reading this know their background from the shows attended and social media. The blogger also knows that there is a new audience of people reading this that are new to the Southeast Asia pro wrestling scene. In any case, hopefully all of you are enjoying this.
The next wrestler to be mentioned in the upcoming tournament is no stranger to the Thailand pro wrestling scene. His name is Flame Drake.
From my conversations, Flame Drake is definitely a huge wrestling fan. Along with SETUP Thailand's P'Suchart (or Mr. Suchart), both, as fans only, attended SETUP Thailand's first wrestling show. Both Flame Drake and P'Suchart are long time friends and have encouraged each other over the years.
The event was back in January 2020 called Bangkok Showdown. The event was a joint effort with Wrestle Square, a promotion from India. Also, some wrestlers from throughout Asia helped the event be a huge success.
Flame Drake would begin training at TOP Dojo under Golem Thai and P-Nutz while P'Suchart went to SETUP and began training with the promotion.
Flame Drake would win his first pro wrestling match for TOP Dojo (Thailand Origin Pro Wrestling) back in December 2020. He would win a singles match at an event known as Battle Royal. It took place on a mat, very normal for professional wrestling in Southeast Asia. The venue was the Motorway Dojo.
He would continue with the promotion, event through the Covid pandemic that affected pro wrestling everywhere. Flame Drake continued with the promotion until November 2024. He would defeat Golem Thai, someone who helped train him in his professional career. It would be the first time defeating him. The victory is a statement to wrestlers never to give up! Flame Drake would announce that he would be leaving the promotion for a new chapter in his professional career.
In November, at SETUP Thailand's event, Year End Climax, Flame Drake would make his SETUP debut in the 20 person rumble match. It ended up, after watching the You Tube video, that he was #20 entering the Battle Royal. It can be seen on SETUP's You Tube channel.
In January, Flame Drake would be in his first tag match at SETUP, teaming up with Blick Drewz against long time friend, P'Suchart and Anont Alonzo for the IWA Japan SETUP World Tag Team Championship. Blick Drewz and Flame Drake would renew acquaintances as tag team partners for the match. Flame Drake mentioned to me that Blick Drewz was his senior wrestler with TOP Dojo back when he was started. Today, they are both wrestling with SETUP.
It will be interesting what the future holds for a wrestler that I enjoy watching on video. He's fast, agile, definitely has wrestling skills, has been trained well both on the mat as well as ring action. The fans who have seen him at shows such as The Circus Studio rally behind him. Like everyone that is taking part in the Uprising Series, I would not bet against him!