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Speaker 1: Here we go. It's an episode one fifty one of

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Speaker 1: the Battleground podcast. We do have a special guest on

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Speaker 1: But real quick, it's called bring your kids to record

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Speaker 1: a podcast day. Right, you gotta talk to them. You can't,

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Speaker 1: They're not going to see you. Shake your head. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it is bringing her kids to during a podcast day.

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Speaker 1: So I've got Liam, my three year old, my twelve

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Speaker 1: year old Christian. He doesn't want to do this. He

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Speaker 1: wants to play Fortnite with his friends. But anyways, are

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Speaker 1: we gonna do a podcast today? What kind of podcasts?

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Speaker 1: A cat cat a podcast? Is it a wrestling podcast? Nay, funny,

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Speaker 1: it's a funny, fine podcast. It is a podcast.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So Session Moth Martina is our guest on the podcast today.

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Speaker 1: Uh from Ring of Honor. We're gonna talk about her career.

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Speaker 1: What letter to Ring of Honor? What are you doing?

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Speaker 1: You can't be doing this when I'm talking. Okay, we're

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Speaker 1: trying to tell people about the show today. Okay, tell

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Speaker 1: him it's a good show and you should listen now.

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Speaker 1: Oh it's not a good show, thanks Liam, tell him,

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Speaker 1: enjoy the show. A show down ute in double Battle Crown.

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Speaker 3: Live from the Parts Unknown Studios. This is the Battleground Podcast.

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Speaker 3: Battle Crown, the.

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Speaker 1: Battle your place for all things pro wrestling.

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Speaker 3: From the independent scene to w W E A, E

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Speaker 3: w R, O, H n w A and Impact Wrestlings,

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Speaker 3: the Battle Buy Hot topics, as well as interviews with

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Speaker 3: some of the biggest.

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Speaker 4: Names in the game playing the game. The Battleground Podcast

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Speaker 4: starts now. Carryer host, come to the battle and Eli.

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Speaker 3: Here we go.

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Speaker 1: It is time for another episode of the Battleground Podcast,

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Speaker 1: episode number one fifty one, and today's episode is going

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Speaker 1: to be a good one because, for one, I get

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Speaker 1: to do this and I'm cracking up in a beer

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Speaker 1: right now as you can barely hear it, because the

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Speaker 1: Session Moth Martina.

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Speaker 5: What is up, Hi? Was that a beer? I heard?

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Speaker 5: I want to pass me one that was a beer.

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Speaker 1: I will throw one through the internet and hopefully it

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Speaker 5: Many on me.

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Speaker 1: This is the only time I told everybody that it

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Speaker 1: is acceptable to drink on our podcast, especially with you

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Speaker 1: being on the show. So we are very thankful to

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Speaker 5: Good. Well, look it's five o'clock somewhere and it's eleven

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Speaker 1: So we are super excited we found out the Ring

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Speaker 1: Ring of Honor's back. Can you talk us through what

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Speaker 5: Unfortunately, because I'm international and I'm here in Ireland, I

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Speaker 5: But yeah, like Ring of Honor have been great, like

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Speaker 1: And you know, we had pco on not too long ago,

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Speaker 5: Well that's the thing. Like it was amazing to see

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, Ring of Honors doing it the

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's been amazing, Like it's amazing. I just the

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Speaker 1: And you have to spend some time in Nashville. We

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Speaker 6: So so let's let's kind of go back to the

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Speaker 1: Right, And you know, I follow you on on Twitter

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Speaker 5: Like it it gets my vision of what Martina is

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Speaker 5: So I've always had the obsession with John Cena because

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Speaker 5: But I was like, no, this is personal, this is

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Speaker 5: Sure that hashta John fancies Martina. That's what we need.

432
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Speaker 1: That's that's the hashtag that we're going to put out

433
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Speaker 1: when we post this show, hashtag Sena Fancy Martina. There

434
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Speaker 1: it is. So you kind of talked to a second

435
00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:28,639
Speaker 1: ago about you know, the dirt sheets, and you talked

436
00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:31,000
Speaker 1: about WW and Ring of Honor, Like how did the

437
00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:34,320
Speaker 1: conversation with Ring of Honor start?

438
00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:41,400
Speaker 5: Well, it's I'm trying to remember I was in Australia,

439
00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:44,680
Speaker 5: which was amazing, Like I couldn't believe it, like, oh

440
00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:47,160
Speaker 5: my god, what the hell is Sessima doing in Australia,

441
00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:51,000
Speaker 5: and I remember I met somebody from the New Japan

442
00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:54,080
Speaker 5: office because they were there just kind of doing stuff

443
00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:57,639
Speaker 5: for their Australian shows, and I'm pretty sure, like like

444
00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:00,199
Speaker 5: the guy in the office was very impressed with like

445
00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:03,200
Speaker 5: the shows they did in Australia, so I'm pretty sure

446
00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:05,200
Speaker 5: he like emailed me and was like, look, I'm gonna

447
00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:07,960
Speaker 5: put you in contact with Ring of Honor. I was like, yeah, sure,

448
00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:10,520
Speaker 5: I didn't think anything would really come of it. And

449
00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:13,280
Speaker 5: then so I had a little bit of conversation with them,

450
00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:17,040
Speaker 5: and then as I was leaving Australia, I got the

451
00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:21,159
Speaker 5: email to do my WE tryout. I was like whoa, Okay,

452
00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:24,600
Speaker 5: that's mad. So then I went and did the tryout

453
00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:26,920
Speaker 5: and everyone just kind of assumed it was a done

454
00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:30,680
Speaker 5: deal that I was going to go to WWE then.

455
00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:33,919
Speaker 5: And then right as I was, I was at a

456
00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:37,480
Speaker 5: show in England and I got an email off WWE

457
00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:42,000
Speaker 5: saying like, oh, we'll talk tomorrow about you know, going forward,

458
00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:43,720
Speaker 5: and I was like okay. And then I landed on

459
00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:45,400
Speaker 5: my flight home and I got an email from Ring

460
00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:47,200
Speaker 5: of Honor be like hey, you're free to talk tomorrow.

461
00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:51,000
Speaker 5: I was like, oh, my God, I'm talking to two

462
00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:53,440
Speaker 5: of the biggest companies in the world on the same day.

463
00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:57,000
Speaker 5: This is insane. Like I don't think I'll ever match

464
00:21:57,040 --> 00:21:59,440
Speaker 5: that feeling of just being like, what is happening? You

465
00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:02,399
Speaker 5: know what I mean? Right? And yeah, So I just

466
00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:04,359
Speaker 5: I did the two phone calls and I just pretty

467
00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:07,400
Speaker 5: much had to measure everything up. And in the long run,

468
00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:10,640
Speaker 5: I found like I just felt for myself that Ring

469
00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:13,600
Speaker 5: of Honor was going to be a bit a better

470
00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:17,040
Speaker 5: suit for me personally, just so where I was at

471
00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:18,720
Speaker 5: in my career, I was like I was having a

472
00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:21,960
Speaker 5: lot of fun in twenty nineteen, like on the Indies,

473
00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,120
Speaker 5: as I said, I was going to Japan. I had

474
00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:27,520
Speaker 5: just come back from Australia, which no one else really

475
00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:29,760
Speaker 5: does not many people get to go to Australia, And

476
00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:32,240
Speaker 5: I was like, I have like so much kind of

477
00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:34,440
Speaker 5: going on, and I was like, I don't really want

478
00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:37,040
Speaker 5: to change anything that much, you know what I mean.

479
00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:39,359
Speaker 5: But at the same time as well, the doors that

480
00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:40,720
Speaker 5: Ring of Honor was going to open, like I was

481
00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:44,119
Speaker 5: going to get to travel in America, and like, at the

482
00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:46,640
Speaker 5: end of the day, it's probably one of the biggest

483
00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:48,679
Speaker 5: promotions I grew up watching like once I got back

484
00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:52,000
Speaker 5: into wressling, it was like the Holy Grail of wrestling really,

485
00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:53,840
Speaker 5: and I mean part of me obviously was like, oh

486
00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:55,439
Speaker 5: my god, am I going to fit in there? But

487
00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:58,359
Speaker 5: they seemed to want what I was offering and they

488
00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:02,159
Speaker 5: didn't really want to change anything. They were like, yeah, no,

489
00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:04,880
Speaker 5: we want sessionmont Martina from the Flat. We want beer,

490
00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:07,720
Speaker 5: we want madness, we want funny, we want good wrestler.

491
00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:10,120
Speaker 5: We want what you're offering. And I was like, Okay,

492
00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:13,640
Speaker 5: they've done their research obviously here they know what they're

493
00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:16,399
Speaker 5: getting with me. So that was a big thing. And like,

494
00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:20,639
Speaker 5: I think the adventure as well of just like so

495
00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:22,639
Speaker 5: many places in America, I'll get to go and like

496
00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:27,159
Speaker 5: it's kind of uncharted territory because no one else from

497
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:29,800
Speaker 5: Ireland has been signed to Ring of Honor. And I

498
00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:32,359
Speaker 5: was like, well, a lot of my friends are in

499
00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:36,639
Speaker 5: NX to UK, which is great, but nothing like I

500
00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:39,000
Speaker 5: only know a few people from the UK that have

501
00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:41,520
Speaker 5: ventured to Ring of Honor like Weerk Haskins and Joe

502
00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:45,159
Speaker 5: Henry and I'm pretty sure I'm the only female that

503
00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:48,159
Speaker 5: was ever signed to Ring of Honor from Europe. So

504
00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:49,280
Speaker 5: I was like Okay, this is a bit of a

505
00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:52,760
Speaker 5: Trailblazer way to go. It's like it's definitely a different

506
00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:54,280
Speaker 5: road to go down because a lot of people from

507
00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:56,480
Speaker 5: the UK have been signed at this point at NXCUK.

508
00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:58,800
Speaker 5: So I was like, I'm going to go this way

509
00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:01,320
Speaker 5: and see how it takes me. And I definitely feel

510
00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:02,800
Speaker 5: like it's the right decision.

511
00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:06,040
Speaker 1: Right And I mean you said, like you said, Trailblazer,

512
00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:08,880
Speaker 1: you're the first one in Ring of Honor. And you know,

513
00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:10,840
Speaker 1: the thing about Ring of Honor is what we've noticed

514
00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:13,119
Speaker 1: when we've talked to you know, several people on the

515
00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:15,200
Speaker 1: roster is Ring of Honor lets you get to be you.

516
00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:18,600
Speaker 1: Doesn't give you a ripped and say okay, this is

517
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:20,960
Speaker 1: what you gotta do. They let you have free reign

518
00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:23,120
Speaker 1: of you know, everything that you do.

519
00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:26,359
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that was what the best part was. Like

520
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:29,679
Speaker 5: it was like we want session lot, we want we

521
00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:31,920
Speaker 5: want your videos that you do, we want your humor,

522
00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:34,040
Speaker 5: which is a big thing for me, Like I think

523
00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:37,439
Speaker 5: creatively was the biggest thing because I was having so

524
00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:40,360
Speaker 5: much fun and like my Twitter content was doing very

525
00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:43,119
Speaker 5: well online and so from people, I feel like people

526
00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,760
Speaker 5: like me for that kind of being, you know, that

527
00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:48,720
Speaker 5: little bit more edgy and stuff. Do you know what

528
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:53,080
Speaker 5: I mean. I'm not your typical women's wrestler, and like,

529
00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:55,439
Speaker 5: I know how the wrestling world works, and I just

530
00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:57,879
Speaker 5: I knew i'd have to probably tone it back a

531
00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:00,560
Speaker 5: little bit too much for the reason that made me

532
00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:03,240
Speaker 5: popular if you get me. Yeah, people like me because

533
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:06,160
Speaker 5: it's your like not like anti diva in the way pages,

534
00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:10,679
Speaker 5: but like anti diva as in, she's wearing pajamas. What

535
00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:12,199
Speaker 5: the hell is she doing in the wresting room. She's

536
00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:16,160
Speaker 5: so drunk she can't even stand, you know what I mean? Again,

537
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:19,400
Speaker 5: it is very over eighteen's content, you know as well,

538
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:22,000
Speaker 5: like drinking and so on. And they have the beer bruisers.

539
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:23,800
Speaker 5: That was a big thing for me as well. You know.

540
00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:25,520
Speaker 5: I was like, well they're okay with that, so I'm

541
00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:28,680
Speaker 5: sure they'll be okay with that. And Ringovanna definitely said

542
00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:31,040
Speaker 5: that they want to like they wanted to open up

543
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:33,560
Speaker 5: their characters. So they were like, yeah, we want you

544
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:34,240
Speaker 5: as a character.

545
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Speaker 5: Can you imagine? I mean working for a Ring of

590
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,800
Speaker 5: Honor alone, Like sometimes I have to pinch myself, especially

591
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 5: this year because it doesn't feel like it, but like

592
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:09,240
Speaker 5: I have to pinch myself, like, oh, I'm a Ring

593
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:10,879
Speaker 5: of Honor. Like when I see my name on the

594
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:14,119
Speaker 5: Ring of Honor Twitter, I'm like, how is this life?

595
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 5: Like this is not real life. I've gone from like indies,

596
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 5: working hard, all this stuff. I just never saw myself

597
00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 5: getting signed. I think because of my character as well.

598
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,400
Speaker 5: Like I was like, okay, like I'm popular on the internet,

599
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:30,000
Speaker 5: like people in the UK and Ireland like me, but

600
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,160
Speaker 5: because of the content I'm putting out, I'm not exactly

601
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:35,080
Speaker 5: Like I just i'd settled in the fact that I'm

602
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:39,400
Speaker 5: probably not gonna, you know, get like on TV or whatever.

603
00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:41,480
Speaker 5: And I kind of like knew, Like I was like, okay,

604
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:43,520
Speaker 5: well you've had You're doing well though, you know what

605
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 5: I mean, Like for that you chose this road, and

606
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 5: now when I see a ring of Honor, like tweeting

607
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 5: my name and all this. It still have to pinch myself,

608
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:52,680
Speaker 5: do you know what I mean? It's such a dream

609
00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 5: come true. But like then, even in the realm, I

610
00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 5: can't even think about it is the idea of holding

611
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:01,120
Speaker 5: a Ring of Honor belt. I mean, forget being the

612
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:03,480
Speaker 5: first woman from Ireland, but to be the first champion

613
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:06,440
Speaker 5: from Ireland in any way, shape or form, I can't

614
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,480
Speaker 5: even I can't even imagine what that would be like,

615
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 5: you know.

616
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 1: Right, and we've said this on the show many times.

617
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:16,840
Speaker 1: Most people that come on this show go to win

618
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 1: the big one sometime in the next several months. So

619
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 1: this is our luck rubbing off to you. I'm red Hair,

620
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 1: so I've got the Irish for me, so I'm.

621
00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 5: Putting it for you.

622
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:30,680
Speaker 1: That's what we're gonna say. You're gonna have.

623
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 5: Attraction, put it out in the universe and it'll come.

624
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 5: So win all the belts, even even the peer title.

625
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 5: I'm over for that.

626
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 1: Hey, that would be phenomenal. I've seen photograph like being

627
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:44,000
Speaker 1: a belt person, like I've got several wrestling belts sitting

628
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:47,800
Speaker 1: here in the home studio in the phenomenal. But you

629
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:50,200
Speaker 1: kind of talk about how your your style of wrestling

630
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:55,120
Speaker 1: is comedic and some other stuff. How would you ward

631
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 1: in depth to our listeners, How would you describe your

632
00:29:57,640 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 1: style of wresting.

633
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:04,000
Speaker 5: Well, I like the thing I do like is say,

634
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 5: with my home promotion in OTT, I started out obviously

635
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 5: as a character doing comedy, coming out with a bag

636
00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 5: of hands and doing like a lot of comedy spots

637
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 5: because that's my niche. Even I remember my friend saying

638
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 5: to me before, like, name another female comedy wrestler in

639
00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:22,120
Speaker 5: the world, and I was like, you, guys, exactly, that's you.

640
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:25,600
Speaker 5: It's your niche. He's like, you are one of the

641
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:28,959
Speaker 5: only comedy female wrestlers, so that's what's going to make

642
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:30,760
Speaker 5: you stand out and make you be a star. And

643
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:33,600
Speaker 5: he's right, Like it worked because there's not many, you know,

644
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 5: And I was like, yeah, so I'm going to run

645
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 5: with this. And so I did it in OTT for

646
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,120
Speaker 5: a while and obviously it paid off really big so

647
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 5: but then over time in OTT, you know, you're there

648
00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:45,840
Speaker 5: so long that you start having to like mix it up.

649
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:49,480
Speaker 5: So I would start doing like serious storylines where I'd

650
00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 5: seriously wrestle, and then I do like a lot of

651
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 5: intergender wrestling at OTT and very serious matches and some

652
00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,240
Speaker 5: of them very like high paced and stuff. I think

653
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 5: one of the last matches I had for OTT wrestle

654
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:03,239
Speaker 5: Mark Askins, which is like, we all know he's a

655
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 5: phenomenal he's one of the best in the world, and

656
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:08,760
Speaker 5: like he wrestled me like a guy, Like he wrestled

657
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 5: me as if he was wrestling anybody else. And I

658
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 5: gave everything, you know what I mean. There was no

659
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 5: comedy in that. But then I kind of feel like

660
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,760
Speaker 5: whenever I'm going somewhere new, I kind of want to

661
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 5: start over again. So it's like I'm going to introduce

662
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 5: you to the character of Martina first and then we

663
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 5: have something in the Piggy Bang for later. It's longevity

664
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 5: in my regard, like this is what made me last

665
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:33,600
Speaker 5: so long on the Indies and the UK and Ireland, Like,

666
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:35,600
Speaker 5: so I'm going to do this in America. So I'm

667
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:39,040
Speaker 5: going to go in comedy and then let my wrestling

668
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 5: skills peep out as we go along until we get

669
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 5: to a big, big match, and then I'm going to

670
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 5: bust out everything. So I like to do that every

671
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 5: time I go somewhere new, because at the same time,

672
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:51,240
Speaker 5: like on the Indies, if I get flown to Australia.

673
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 5: Let's say, I don't want them just to see, oh

674
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 5: we're seeing session mat Martina. But I don't want them

675
00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:58,520
Speaker 5: just to be like, oh, it was just another match,

676
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:00,240
Speaker 5: you know what I mean. I have to I want

677
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:03,239
Speaker 5: to bring that something where it's a different because I

678
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:07,720
Speaker 5: am a different character. I'm something like I have the beer,

679
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 5: and I have the dancing, and I have the all

680
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 5: that little bit working for me. So it's like I

681
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 5: want that person to be like, oh, we got the

682
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 5: full session up. So it's like I'll do the wrestling

683
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:19,200
Speaker 5: and I'll get to the wrestling and we'll do we'll

684
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 5: try out as good of a match. But I like

685
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 5: to add my comedy in there because the way I say,

686
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 5: it'll be different to everything else in the.

687
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 1: Cart right, And I mean watching your matches there, you

688
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,800
Speaker 1: bring that joy to wrestling. It's it's like you said,

689
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:34,960
Speaker 1: I mean, you're gonna get a good wrestling match, which

690
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 1: you're also going to have fun and enjoy it.

691
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like my entrance is probably like sometimes that's my shine,

692
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 5: you know what i mean, because I'm like I come

693
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 5: out and I'm dancing and I grab people in the

694
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 5: audience and I get them to dance with me and

695
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 5: stuff like that, and it's just it has a lot

696
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:53,800
Speaker 5: of energy, and it's it exhausts me. But I like

697
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 5: it just to be as like well as if you

698
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,080
Speaker 5: were in a nightclub and you're just up and you're

699
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 5: absolutely paced and you're just dancing, having the time of

700
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 5: your life. And I swear to God every time I

701
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 5: do it, I'm just in heaven because I'm having so

702
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 5: much fun myself. So I like people to kind of

703
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 5: do it with me and dance with me and just

704
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 5: interact with the fans. That's one thing I'm very worried

705
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 5: about after COVID because of obviously so much like we

706
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 5: don't know where we're going to go with this, Like

707
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 5: how much restriction is there going to because I like

708
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 5: dancing with my fans. I like going up to them

709
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 5: and like getting them to grind with me and just

710
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 5: like have a laugh as if we were in like

711
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:27,320
Speaker 5: a mush pit. Right like now, no, I'm gonna have

712
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:29,560
Speaker 5: to do it from two meters apart, you know, But

713
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 5: like we'll deal with that as we come to it.

714
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 5: But I do hope eventually we can get back to

715
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 5: some sort of just the fun, the fun of.

716
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:38,200
Speaker 1: Wrestling, right, and that's what we all hope here is,

717
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:42,160
Speaker 1: you know, because the last the last show that we

718
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 1: got to see on as a group for the show

719
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 1: was Honor in Nashville. That was our last show that

720
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 1: we got to go to, and that was February.

721
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:53,560
Speaker 5: Yes, amazing, like that was Did I wrestle? I didn't

722
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 5: wrestle on that one, didn't I know?

723
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 1: I don't believe. So you written ounced for February night

724
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 1: was your first match, right I did?

725
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:06,239
Speaker 5: I did say the next the next day, but I

726
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 5: was there in commentary, right, but like I'm watching that

727
00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:11,319
Speaker 5: show and I was like, this is just like this

728
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:13,279
Speaker 5: it was still so new to me, Like every I

729
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:15,240
Speaker 5: was like this my second time here. I'm still scared.

730
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 5: But it was just so much fun. I love Nashville.

731
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 5: I got to go down into the town during the

732
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 5: day and like walk around and take over the photos.

733
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 5: So I was like so happy to actually get to,

734
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 5: you know, see somewhere. It was switching it like all

735
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 5: the cars going around but people drinking in them. It

736
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:33,120
Speaker 5: was such a good atmosphere.

737
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:35,720
Speaker 1: It is it is very weird right now in Nashville

738
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 1: because I can tell you this. I can drive down

739
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:41,760
Speaker 1: Broadway in there's nobody there, and the people riding around icicles,

740
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 1: the pedal taverns drinking, none of those are there at

741
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 1: all either.

742
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 5: Oh it's so sad, isn't it. It's so sad.

743
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 1: It's a crazy time. But I know we're all ready

744
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:52,799
Speaker 1: to get back to some normal sea and are ready

745
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 1: to be you know, sitting there on the Ring of

746
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 1: Honor metal right there in front of us at ringside,

747
00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:00,920
Speaker 1: and you know, yeah, to get back and too.

748
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 5: I have high hopes for next year that like everything

749
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 5: I dreamed for this year, of all the travel and

750
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:08,960
Speaker 5: all the places I got to go, I have high

751
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 5: hopes that we'll get to do it all next year.

752
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 1: That's what I'm hoping. And we'll put that out there

753
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:15,479
Speaker 1: that twenty twenty one will be a better year and

754
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:18,560
Speaker 1: twenty one we'll have Ring of Honor back in Nashville.

755
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:24,279
Speaker 1: So what can we expect from session moth Market as

756
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 1: soon as the pandemic is all over? What do you

757
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:30,880
Speaker 1: want our listeners to learn and remember about you?

758
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:34,880
Speaker 5: I don't know. I guess like the one thing I

759
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 5: will take away from like COVID and you know your

760
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:42,160
Speaker 5: time inside was I definitely learned, like it's definitely good

761
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 5: to take a break and off focus on like Twitter

762
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:46,880
Speaker 5: and stuff like that. But I feel like I definitely

763
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 5: tried to use my Twitter positively throughout the time. Like

764
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 5: I was very aware that I needed to like stay relevant,

765
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:56,440
Speaker 5: so I would just try and as I said, it

766
00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:58,319
Speaker 5: all about having fun, not I tried to use the

767
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:01,879
Speaker 5: COVID time to like most funny stuff and make people

768
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:04,839
Speaker 5: laugh and you know, just have a bit of crack

769
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,160
Speaker 5: really on Twitter, because Twitter can be such a negative

770
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:10,720
Speaker 5: place and it can send people into spirals and stuff

771
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 5: like that. So I really try to use my Twitter

772
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:15,759
Speaker 5: for just come on chat to me. We'll have a

773
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:18,120
Speaker 5: laughful joke about how drunk we're getting, you know what

774
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:21,200
Speaker 5: I mean, Just try and keep a bit of positivity.

775
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 5: So I guess like my main thing during this is

776
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:28,840
Speaker 5: trying to stay positive, trying to like find something fun

777
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 5: in all this misery that we're going through, and like

778
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 5: just not to lose complete hope, because I know I've

779
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 5: thought there's been points, there's been days where I'd feel

780
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:40,799
Speaker 5: this is never going to end, and I'm never gonna

781
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:42,839
Speaker 5: get back to Ring of Honor, and this is gonna

782
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:46,399
Speaker 5: this is all like over. But you have to kind

783
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 5: of not think like that, So I just keep focusing

784
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:52,719
Speaker 5: on where I like, I'll look back on this time

785
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 5: and go, god, yeah that was a crap time, But

786
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:58,000
Speaker 5: look at me now, you know, right. So I think

787
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 5: my main thing is like, because things are moving so

788
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:04,360
Speaker 5: slow here, I just want to get back training really

789
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 5: and I want to get back even doing just like

790
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 5: the odd show in Ireland, even like the empty arena stuff.

791
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 5: But ideally I will feel like I'm back at work

792
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:17,840
Speaker 5: and I'm back doing something when I get to go

793
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 5: back to Ring of Honor whenever that might be right. Yeah,

794
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:23,879
Speaker 5: that's just get back to Ring of Honor. That's that's

795
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 5: the only goal.

796
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 1: That's the main goal. And you talk about training and

797
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 1: real quick our friends over it makes Tag kind of

798
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:30,840
Speaker 1: asked a question because we put a thing out on

799
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 1: Twitter about fans and many questions and they kind of

800
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 1: wanted to know. They said, there's no exercise like vic

801
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:41,000
Speaker 1: cardio being in the room, but which exercise gets the

802
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:45,319
Speaker 1: closest of being in ring for you, especially during quarantine.

803
00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:48,359
Speaker 5: You're definitely asking the wrong person with this because I'm

804
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 5: in no way the fitness grew that I should be

805
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:54,359
Speaker 5: I just do the best I can. Like that's the thing,

806
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 5: like the I before the pandemic, Like we lost our

807
00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:00,239
Speaker 5: trainings goal right at the start of the pandemic. Oh

808
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:02,359
Speaker 5: and we haven't managed to find a new one even

809
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 5: though we can't get back training, so we're trying to

810
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:07,880
Speaker 5: find a new school. So but like, absolutely nothing prepares

811
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 5: you for a match, Like my cardio is actually surprisingly

812
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:12,960
Speaker 5: very good because I train a lot and I do

813
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 5: a lot of that, so I'm very used to it.

814
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 5: But during the pandemic, I've just been running. But because

815
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:20,320
Speaker 5: I haven't gotten in a ring now in six months

816
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 5: with Gens, which is the longest time in ten years,

817
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:25,879
Speaker 5: I wouldn't have been in the ring. I don't know,

818
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:29,400
Speaker 5: like how if the running is gonna have helped me

819
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:31,239
Speaker 5: or slowed me down, you know what I mean. So

820
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:33,920
Speaker 5: that's the most that I could do. My gym is

821
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:36,080
Speaker 5: back open, so I'm back doing weights and stuff like that.

822
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 5: But yeah, running was the only cardio I could really do.

823
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 5: And I suppose, like you know, seeing how many cans

824
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:45,000
Speaker 5: you can chunk in him in a period is kind

825
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:48,120
Speaker 5: of the equivalent of my wrestling, So it was my training.

826
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 5: I was like, I can't slack on my beer drinking

827
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:53,239
Speaker 5: throughout this quarantine. I can't get lazy. I have to

828
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:54,879
Speaker 5: put away at least ten at night.

829
00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't. You can't just come back to the

830
00:38:58,080 --> 00:38:59,360
Speaker 1: Ring of Honor and they just look at you and

831
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:01,279
Speaker 1: yell and put her two or three and they're like,

832
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:02,360
Speaker 1: what happened to you?

833
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 5: You know, did you go sober or something? What the hell?

834
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 1: What happened? Where'd she go? The burden that we know

835
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:16,640
Speaker 1: from the beginning of the year. So where where can

836
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:19,120
Speaker 1: I guess? People keep up with you at? Where's the

837
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:21,719
Speaker 1: best place social media to or Instagram? What's your where

838
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:23,240
Speaker 1: do you want people to follow you at?

839
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:27,400
Speaker 5: Well? Obviously Twitter is my Twitter is my home so

840
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:30,600
Speaker 5: at moff in the Flats, and then my Instagram is

841
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 5: ask Session Underscore, Moth, Underscore Martina. That's pretty much is

842
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:38,280
Speaker 5: They're the two I use.

843
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 1: Boom there it is. And of course make sure you

844
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 1: get Session Moth Martine's official Ring of Honor T shirt

845
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:46,440
Speaker 1: and get at r o H Wrestling dot com. And

846
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:49,560
Speaker 1: I gotta say it's very handy. Look into the shirt

847
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:51,920
Speaker 1: right now, it's uh, it's a very good shirt. You

848
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 1: see the r o H logo just kind of spray,

849
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 1: paying a couple of letters on there and boom, it's

850
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 1: your shirt.

851
00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:00,200
Speaker 5: They had that made. As soon as I said in

852
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 5: my contract like somebody made that, and I was like,

853
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:05,400
Speaker 5: this is so dope. I cannot believe this. This is amazing.

854
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:07,600
Speaker 5: Like as soon as I arrived at Ring of Honor

855
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:09,560
Speaker 5: I had a shirt. I was like, this is bliss.

856
00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 1: That is the most amazing thing. So one final thing

857
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 1: for for Ring of Honor fans out there, what do

858
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 1: you want to tell them that it's listening right now.

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Speaker 5: We will be back and we will be better never

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Speaker 5: and we will have lots and lots and lots of

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Speaker 5: beer to celebrate when this is all over and we've

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Speaker 5: moved on and we are wrestling and drinking again.

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Speaker 1: There it is our guests on the show tonight with

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Speaker 1: Session Moth. Martina. Thank you so much for taking the

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Speaker 1: time out. I know it's late where you are, so

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Speaker 1: we're going to let you get some sleep and next

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Speaker 1: time we'll talk to you during the day.

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Speaker 5: Yes, that would be fantastic, but it wouldn't be as well, Ken,

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Speaker 5: But thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 1: Thank you as an Honor.

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Speaker 5: Thanks.

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Speaker 2: We hope you enjoyed today's episode of the Battleground Podcast.

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