5 things you didn't know about NXT Superstar Lars Sullivan

#1 His girlfriend dumped him because he loved WWE more than her

A 20-year-old Lars Sullivan featured in WWE Magazine

You’d be forgiven for thinking that Lars Sullivan is just another athlete-turned-wrestler who knew little about the crazy world of sports entertainment before signing for WWE.

However, it turns out he has been a huge wrestling fan for much of his life – such a huge fan, in fact, that a hilarious story about him and his girlfriend, pictured above, featured in WWE Magazine in 2008.

If your reading device can't zoom in enough to read the article, then fear not. Here it is in print:

DYLAN MILEY, 20, OF ARVADA, CO. EXPLAINS WHY NO WOMAN, NO MATTER HOW HOT, CAN COME BETWEEN HIM AND HIS LOVE OF THE SQUARED CIRCLE

“I was the high school football jock and she was the very sexy, 5’4, 120-pound cheerleader. We were together for two years and matched up perfectly. We both liked sports. I attempted to get her into WWE by bringing her to live events. She didn’t like them, but they were my treat, so, she came anyway.

“I would go to her high school volleyball games. That was our compromise. The only thing that tore us apart was my obsession with wrestling, and her dislike of big, oily men smashing each other with steel chairs.

“Things finally came to a head when I travelled to New York City for ECW One Night Stand in 2005. Her birthday fell on a day of the trip. Of course, she took it as an insult. She said, ‘If you go, then it’s over’. Honestly, I didn’t care, ‘cause I was never gonna miss One Night Stand. After I returned home, I tried to smooth things over. I even gave her a present for her birthday; it was an ECW shirt. We haven’t spoken since.”