News Photo by Mike Gonzalez Hot Rod kicks Disco Dom in a wrestling match during a Micro Wrestling Federation event at the Alpena County Fairgrounds on Thursday.

ALPENA — The Micro Wrestling Federation — a professional wrestling group from Tennessee — took the stage at the Alpena County Fair on Thursday.

Despite some rain that delayed the show from its original start time of 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., the wrestlers still managed to step into the ring and put on a show.

Courtney Krentz, Alpena County Fair Board president, the fair board heard about the popular group at a fair convention this January and wanted the federation in this year’s lineup of events.

“Just a year before, they started traveling to Michigan fairs and they had great success,” Krentz said. “As a Fair Board member you don’t really get to see too much of the events, but we’re super excited to have them here.”

Micro Wrestling is a group that has performed with WWE and has 1.2 million followers on TikTok. Little Ozzy, a member of the group, traveled with Ozzy Osbourne and performed many songs of Osbourne’s career at Thursday’s event.

Two audience members of the Micro Wrestling show, Alexandra Perrot and Kyle Reynolds, knew the wrestling group from TikTok videos and came from Ossineke to Alpena to see the four matches.

“Well, Kyle just got his wisdom teeth out a week ago,” Perrot said. “So I decided that, ‘Hey, this would be a good little pick-me-up, and I bought tickets as a surprise. It’d be really great if they did this again or if they went to more fairs. It’d be kind of nice to see something like this in a small town and get people out more.”

Jacob Brooks, also known as Lil Show the Redneck Brawler, said Micro Wrestling performs about 500 shows a year. To wrestle in more fairs, they have two teams of wrestlers performing across the country.

Brooks has been in the wrestling business for 20 years, ever since he was 13 years old. He said he joined Micro Wrestling six years ago and loves everything about the sport.

In 20 years, Brooks said he has gone through five knee surgeries, broken noses, and his face going completely black on one side from bruising.

Despite all this, he said he will never stop wrestling.

“I sleep and I breathe this business, and I bleed this business,” Brooks said. “There’s nobody that loves this business more than me, and every night I go in there, I give it everything I have. Whether it’s five people or 1,000 people, I will give them 120% of what I’m capable of doing.”