“They usually assume I’d be taller and more tan.”

By day, Taylor Johnson is a chef for a Seattle food truck company. But since he was a kid he's been captivated by the characters and storytelling inherent to wrestling, a pastime with roots in carnival, vaudeville and theater. Mainstream WWE wrestling is huge, but small market operations like 3-2-1 Battle in Seattle have risen in popularity in the past few years, creating space for everyday guys like Taylor to "pretend to be a superhero a few times a month."

We followed him for an evening of sporty entertainment and a feature short with Mode Media.