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Posted: 6:43 PM Jan 28, 2010
Unique Wrestling Show Stirs Up Excitement, Controversy
Extreme Midget Wrestling comes to Denison DENISON, TX – It isn’t your average sized ring because they’re not your average sized wrestlers. But what these guys do is more than entertainment; it's also something to be proud of.
Reporter: Maddie Garrett Email Address: maddie.garrett@kxii.com |
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DENISON, TX – It isn’t your average sized ring because they’re not your average sized wrestlers. But what these guys do is more than entertainment; it's also something to be proud of.
"It's been an opportunity for me, it's really changed my life, I've grown with it,” said David Hardin, who’s been wrestling with the Extreme Midget Wrestling Federation for five years now.
The group is made up of seven wrestlers, all entertainers, all below four feet, ten inches tall.
"I defy odds everywhere I go, people say you can't do that, I'll do it twice, you can't do that you don't meet the height requirements, there's no height requirements in life, everything's right there in my grasp, I want it, I get it… There's no height requirements," said Danny Campbell, a wrestler for 26 years.
They call their show Extreme Midget Wrestling. But just last year the Little People of America determined the term midget as derogatory.
"I would say that it is going to have some kind of an impact on the way the general public views people of short stature,” said Gary Arnold, the Vice President of Public Relations for the Little People of America.
But for Hardin, who grew up being called a "midget" his whole life, he prefers the m-word.
"I feel more offended with ‘how you like being short?’ I'd rather you say ‘how you like being a midget?’" explained Hardin.
And Campbell feels the same way.
"A little person to me sounds more derogatory. Are you a big person; are you almost a little person? That sounds more derogatory to me than being called a midget," said Campbell.
Arnold says he has no problem with what they do, it's the language he finds offensive, and that is what the LPA is trying to change.
"At an event where they're being referred to as a midget, as a midget, as a midget, it's going to kind of take away from the humanity as a whole of the population of people with short stature,” said Arnold.
But for Hardin and the rest of the group, it's their short stature that's made them a big hit.
"I love it, I wouldn't ask for nothing better. I'd rather be a midget than a tall person… I wouldn't change it for the world," said Hardin.

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