1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:02,560 Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. 2 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:05,400 Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club Morning. 3 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:08,960 Speaker 3: Everybody is the j n Vy, Jess, Hilari, Charlamagne, the guy. 4 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:10,639 Speaker 3: We are the Breakfast Club Law and the rolls of 5 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:12,760 Speaker 3: filling in for Jess. We got a special guest in 6 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:13,200 Speaker 3: the building. 7 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 2: Yes it is. 8 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:16,440 Speaker 4: We have Swerve strictly ladies and gentlemen. 9 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 1: What's going on, Star, Yes, sir. 10 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:21,599 Speaker 4: Former AW world champion. Congratulations. 11 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:24,599 Speaker 5: Yes, first black AW World champion and one of the 12 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 5: last ones in the last decade in the industry wide. 13 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:28,840 Speaker 1: So I'm really proud of that. 14 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:31,319 Speaker 2: Why is the AW so red hot right now? 15 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:37,560 Speaker 5: We had Yeah, yeah, Chouda Mercedes, thank you for coming 16 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 5: in and opening this door for AW to come in, 17 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:41,000 Speaker 5: for me to come and do it again. 18 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:43,479 Speaker 1: But it's our. 19 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:46,360 Speaker 5: Roster, it's our talent, it's our drive, it's our revolution 20 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:50,160 Speaker 5: of the style of pro wrestling. It's also the vast 21 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 5: variety that we offer. And for me, it's like also 22 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:56,960 Speaker 5: the inclusivity. It's the like the top Japanese wrestlers in 23 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 5: the world, the top lucha doors in the world from Mexico, 24 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 5: the top talents from Canada, like of all time, where 25 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 5: you're getting all of it, you know, it's also that 26 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 5: hunger that we have. We're always feel like we're fighting 27 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:10,960 Speaker 5: to prove it, you know, We're always feel like there's 28 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:13,120 Speaker 5: something to prove, there's something to fight for and progress 29 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:17,600 Speaker 5: to every single week, three times a week on television, 30 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:19,120 Speaker 5: TBS and TNT. 31 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:21,120 Speaker 1: So there's a lot to fight for and there's a 32 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 1: lot to prove. 33 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 5: And I think and I feel like you see that 34 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:26,440 Speaker 5: and you feel that in our matches and our promos, 35 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 5: our product. 36 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 4: You know, Now, how did you get into wrestling? Tell 37 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:30,400 Speaker 4: us that story? 38 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 1: What made you say? 39 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 4: You know what, Mom, Dad, I want to be a wrestler. 40 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 1: It was mainly mom. 41 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 5: So I went to the military right after high school. 42 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:39,480 Speaker 5: Was like two weeks after I graduated high school. My 43 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:43,520 Speaker 5: mom literally was my recruiter, and she was also my 44 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 5: sister's recruiter, so she got us. She both recruited us 45 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 5: civilian wise civilian recruiter got us. Both recruited the same unit. 46 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:52,560 Speaker 5: And I went three years after my sister went in 47 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 5: did my week two months, and basic training did my 48 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 5: eight weeks eight months after that, So I didn't come 49 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 5: home for like another ten months after this. I'm sixteen, 50 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:06,280 Speaker 5: seventeen years old, do and this on my own come back, 51 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:07,920 Speaker 5: and I was just like, you know what, Like I 52 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 5: was working a job. 53 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 1: I was. 54 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 5: My first job was at Comcast Cable. I was like 55 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 5: installing cable in people's homes. Then I went to like 56 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:18,400 Speaker 5: I got laid off from that job. Then I went 57 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 5: to just packing trucks and ups at. 58 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:22,600 Speaker 1: Four in the morning. 59 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 5: I was like, you know what, if I'm going to 60 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 5: be doing this, I'm going to be working hard I 61 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 5: want to do. 62 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 1: I'm going to work hard. 63 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 5: At something that I'm passionate about, something that like I 64 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 5: don't think I can do. I want to try to 65 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 5: do something that I don't think I can do. And 66 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 5: pro wrestling was just something I was just passionate about 67 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 5: since I was twelve, and I was like. 68 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:39,079 Speaker 4: He was watching as a wrestling fan. 69 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 5: Oh yeah yeah, yeah, Like it was the video games 70 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:44,639 Speaker 5: that really got me hooked. It was my friend SmackDown, 71 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 5: shut your mouth. 72 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:48,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, I was the one. 73 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:52,080 Speaker 5: It's just like the roster was crazy, like the stories 74 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:53,519 Speaker 5: was crazy, and this is the athleticism. 75 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 1: But Raymonsterial is the one that really got me. 76 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 2: And very underrated wrestler. I think Ray Mysterio is. 77 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 5: He's the greatest loutator of all time, and I think 78 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 5: like his impact is just like crosses over so much 79 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:08,639 Speaker 5: and so big. Respect Uncle Ray. He's still a good 80 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:14,360 Speaker 5: friend of mine. So I would say it was just like, Okay, 81 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 5: I had the military to fall back on if anything 82 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 5: was to happen. 83 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:18,200 Speaker 1: So I have that. 84 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:20,800 Speaker 5: Let me move down to Virginia from Pennsylvania. Let me 85 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:23,800 Speaker 5: start my wrestling career. I called this promoter, Dave McCleod 86 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:27,240 Speaker 5: told me to come through. I moved down Sunday. I 87 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 5: was training on Tuesday. My mom paid my first months 88 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:32,679 Speaker 5: tuition and then I had a month to get a 89 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:34,160 Speaker 5: job to pay for the rest of the way. 90 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 1: And sure enough, that's what That was the rest of 91 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:36,600 Speaker 1: my journey. 92 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 6: So you come from a military family though, right like 93 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:40,440 Speaker 6: your parents both of them are. 94 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 1: My dad was served in Desert storm damn. 95 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 6: So what made you want to get into it just 96 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 6: because your dad did it? 97 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:50,760 Speaker 5: It was some My mom thought it was a good 98 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 5: foundation to start my soda. 99 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 1: Hey yeah, sixteens. Yeah, I graduated at seventeen. I was 100 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:04,320 Speaker 1: like boom. Two weeks later I was on a bus. 101 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, but it wasn't bad. 102 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 5: It was just like I'm actually like at the time, 103 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 5: I was like, man, I want to just go out 104 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 5: and do what my friends are doing. 105 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:13,480 Speaker 1: I wanted to, like you see the world. I want 106 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 1: to like have fun. 107 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 5: Let me at least like sleep on the couch for 108 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:19,120 Speaker 5: two weeks, give me something. But that's what started me 109 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 5: to learn how to be a man and to go 110 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:26,600 Speaker 5: after things, not because like man, oh, this is something 111 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:28,599 Speaker 5: you can kind of put off. No, if you don't 112 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 5: do it yourself, it's not getting done. Like you know, 113 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:33,560 Speaker 5: I gotta learn to shave, I gotta learned to do 114 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:36,160 Speaker 5: my laundry. I got learned to buy a plane ticket. 115 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:37,640 Speaker 5: I got to learn to do all these things. And 116 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 5: I did it because I was in the I was 117 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:42,159 Speaker 5: put in a position that I didn't have the choice. 118 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:44,360 Speaker 5: I had to learn it. I had to be these 119 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 5: I had to put myself in these situations. And so 120 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 5: when I started my wrestling duringey in my career, I 121 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 5: was like comfortable. I was like, well, what's the worst 122 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:55,000 Speaker 5: that could happen? Oh, you know what, let me try that, 123 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:56,839 Speaker 5: Let me do that. And it's like that fear and 124 00:04:56,880 --> 00:05:00,159 Speaker 5: that confidence, that fear went away. My confidence grew and 125 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:02,480 Speaker 5: that's like resonated with my work in my wrestling. 126 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 7: And you entered into WWA at first. 127 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 1: No, No, that came like ten years later. 128 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:10,040 Speaker 7: Okay, so what was the building, like, what was the 129 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:10,680 Speaker 7: journey up? 130 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:16,440 Speaker 5: Like independence? So my first year in wrestling two thousand 131 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 5: and eight. I started training August two thousand and eight, 132 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:20,960 Speaker 5: and my first match was until March of two thousand 133 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:25,480 Speaker 5: and nine. Within that time I was training, I had 134 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 5: the military, so I had to do my drills from 135 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:28,800 Speaker 5: Virginia all the way back up to Pennsylvania. 136 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:31,040 Speaker 1: It's a four hour drive once a month. 137 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:34,240 Speaker 5: Had to get a job, started school, I t tech 138 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 5: and drafting and design and then so all that was 139 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 5: going on. But then later of two thousand and nine, 140 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:42,359 Speaker 5: my oldest daughter was born. So now I was like, 141 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 5: oh that's ok I'm taking on that money. I've taken 142 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 5: on too much at that eighteen. Something has to go, 143 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:54,160 Speaker 5: and so school had to get rid of school, found 144 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:56,080 Speaker 5: odd jobs here and there. My mom got me a 145 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:59,919 Speaker 5: job working at a cemetery and like just doing like 146 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:03,599 Speaker 5: groundskeeper work, picking up on the grass and all that stuff. 147 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 1: And then uh. 148 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:11,039 Speaker 5: Just that's that's really what my daughter being born, my 149 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:13,599 Speaker 5: oldest and I is, that's really what sparked me as like, Okay, 150 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 5: this has to work. 151 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:16,320 Speaker 4: Now, so what are these wrestling matches happening? 152 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:18,840 Speaker 3: Because you know when you google stuff, you see like 153 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 3: wrestling matches in Mexico or Yeah. 154 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 1: That's that's the independence, that's the grind, So that's what 155 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:23,559 Speaker 1: you would wrestle. 156 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:26,599 Speaker 5: So you yeah, I'll do tours in Mexico, Like I 157 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:29,719 Speaker 5: didn't start doing tours so the UK twenty thirteen. But 158 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:32,040 Speaker 5: other than that, like before that, I was just like 159 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:35,400 Speaker 5: I would get a connect that guy would link me 160 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:37,279 Speaker 5: to this promoter, and then I would just go to 161 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 5: the show and just sit and watch the show in 162 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,320 Speaker 5: hopes of like hopefully I can get booked. So I 163 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:44,400 Speaker 5: would help stack put the chairs away. I would help, like, hey, 164 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:47,039 Speaker 5: anything you need, I'm here. I'm like I live like 165 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:49,240 Speaker 5: not that long, not far away. I can be back here. 166 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:51,159 Speaker 3: How do you know who you're wrestling? Because usually wrestling 167 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:53,600 Speaker 3: is like we have to know what we what. 168 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 4: Each other's doing. So now just be like, go you 169 00:06:56,560 --> 00:06:58,039 Speaker 4: just figuring it out. Just figure it out. 170 00:06:58,680 --> 00:06:59,920 Speaker 1: That's part of the that's part of it. 171 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:02,000 Speaker 2: It would you do you mimickan moves you saw in 172 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:02,799 Speaker 2: the video game. 173 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:05,040 Speaker 1: All the time. Okay, when I first got in, I 174 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:05,760 Speaker 1: was just doing like. 175 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 5: I thought this was cool. I thought, like I used 176 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:09,680 Speaker 5: to do this all the time to hit the button, 177 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 5: it would work. So I was like that I translate that. 178 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 5: But then when I started training, I was like really fine, 179 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:16,240 Speaker 5: and I was like, yo, that this doesn't this isn't me. 180 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 5: I shouldn't be doing this. Then, like, but getting in 181 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:22,600 Speaker 5: the ring you find that stuff out. So that's why 182 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 5: I was like, I need to get in the ring more. 183 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:26,480 Speaker 5: I need to get in the ring with people I like, 184 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 5: I don't like that match me, that don't match me. 185 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 5: I need to give people a variety of talents and 186 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:33,440 Speaker 5: body shapes and all this stuff tags this and all that. 187 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:36,160 Speaker 5: So I just like spread my variety of like knowing 188 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:38,280 Speaker 5: who I am and figure out who I am and 189 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 5: then like also understand how to get better and how 190 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:43,760 Speaker 5: to make myself an asset on any show with any promoter. 191 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:47,040 Speaker 5: How do you think they swerve Big Sean man, I'm 192 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 5: a big Big Sean fan. 193 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:53,280 Speaker 8: Oh yeah, so does he know that hopefully hopefully this 194 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:54,880 Speaker 8: gets out there and a big Sean I'm a big 195 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:56,880 Speaker 8: Faniels I actually talked to say it ain't tone a lot, 196 00:07:57,200 --> 00:07:59,040 Speaker 8: and he was the one that helped write I don't 197 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:00,520 Speaker 8: f with you and stuff. 198 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 5: So I'm like a degree away from Sean. I never 199 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:07,960 Speaker 5: met him, but when Mercy came out, that was over. 200 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:09,880 Speaker 5: That was that was hard. I was like and I 201 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:12,280 Speaker 5: was looking for like a nickname. I was like Shane Strickland. 202 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:13,200 Speaker 1: At the time. I named my. 203 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:16,520 Speaker 5: Same myself Shane because I like the the rhythm of 204 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 5: like Shane Strickland. It was like a cool But also 205 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:20,240 Speaker 5: I had a cat named Shane that ran away and 206 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:21,200 Speaker 5: when I lived in Germany, but. 207 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 1: That's another story itself. But it was just like I 208 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 1: need like. 209 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 5: A boxing acronym, like Sugar Shane Mosley something something something 210 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:30,320 Speaker 5: like you know, And I was like swear. I was like, 211 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:33,200 Speaker 5: that's it because it just felt like it was like 212 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 5: a hip hop crossover and it felt smooth and it 213 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:36,640 Speaker 5: felt right big Sean. 214 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 2: So how different is it is it? Stephan? 215 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:39,560 Speaker 1: Yeah? Yep? 216 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:43,760 Speaker 6: How different is Stephan Strickland from Swerve Strickland. 217 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 5: I feel like Swerve Strickland is a persona that's just 218 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 5: my child, like wander just put on display. I have 219 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:54,320 Speaker 5: a lot of things about myself as a child, watching 220 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:56,439 Speaker 5: a lot of cartoons, watching a lot of like anime, 221 00:08:56,600 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 5: playing a lot of these video games, doing like listening 222 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:01,320 Speaker 5: to music, I listen to watching the movies that I watch. 223 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:04,720 Speaker 5: I take all those things and it's combined to make 224 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:06,920 Speaker 5: what Swerve is. And as the years, if you watch 225 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,559 Speaker 5: me from twenty thirteen the twenty twelve, I would say, 226 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:12,319 Speaker 5: it's really when it started taking off. And then thirteen 227 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:17,440 Speaker 5: fourteen fifteen you saw the Swerve persona just mature and grow. 228 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:20,800 Speaker 5: So that's why I'm really proud about what Swerve has become. 229 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 5: Because you saw you've ultimately seen Swerve's age of ten 230 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:27,559 Speaker 5: years plus and now a lot of people are just 231 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:31,080 Speaker 5: seeing it from like twenty and twenty two, twenty three 232 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 5: on now. But if you go back in my career, 233 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 5: you've see and Swerve the origin of that twenty twenty twelve. 234 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:39,040 Speaker 6: You know, I asked Mercedes the same question because you know, 235 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:40,160 Speaker 6: I'm from the era. 236 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:43,199 Speaker 2: Where it WCW and then WWE with everything. 237 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:46,600 Speaker 6: When you see people leave WWE, the go to companies 238 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:49,000 Speaker 6: like ae W. To me, that's unheard of because I 239 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:51,439 Speaker 6: thought WWE was the creem of the crops. 240 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:55,320 Speaker 1: What made you walk away from w W wasn't my choice. 241 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:58,960 Speaker 1: It was just like we got fired. Oh okay, but 242 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:01,520 Speaker 1: it was like my own, my I did something. 243 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:05,080 Speaker 5: It was just a political landscape of things. It was 244 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:08,680 Speaker 5: like the pandemic. People coming out of the pandemic. There's 245 00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:12,160 Speaker 5: a lot of like layoffs going up and down offices talent. 246 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:16,000 Speaker 5: Like you were me and you would have a match Wednesday, 247 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:18,080 Speaker 5: you fired on Friday and like what happened, Like you 248 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:20,400 Speaker 5: were literally booked, So you didn't do anything wrong, But 249 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:22,640 Speaker 5: it's just like these cutting costs left and right. So 250 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:25,000 Speaker 5: a lot of people felt the effects of that. And 251 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:26,560 Speaker 5: it was out of our hands. It was out of 252 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:29,000 Speaker 5: like Triple H's hands. There's nothing he could do. It 253 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 5: was just like it was just so high up. Then 254 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:34,040 Speaker 5: eventually we got drafted to smack down as a group 255 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:36,440 Speaker 5: as hit Row. And that's why I was like like 256 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:39,440 Speaker 5: with the Vince McMahon finally listening to him now and 257 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:40,400 Speaker 5: talking with him. 258 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:41,360 Speaker 1: It wasn't very long. 259 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:43,240 Speaker 5: I didn't get a lot of time up there, but 260 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:45,960 Speaker 5: just that little bit, that little glimpse of that window 261 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:48,600 Speaker 5: is enough to like change my mindset, to make me better. 262 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:50,840 Speaker 6: Is it someplace you would want to go back to, Like, 263 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:53,440 Speaker 6: you know, let me build myself up in aw then 264 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:54,640 Speaker 6: maybe go to w No. 265 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:56,199 Speaker 1: I'm happy with building AW. 266 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:59,320 Speaker 5: I'm happy with building myself in aw AW is giving 267 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:02,440 Speaker 5: me something that I don't think WW could ever get me. 268 00:11:02,679 --> 00:11:05,440 Speaker 5: And I'm really, I'm really proud of that. And I 269 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:11,000 Speaker 5: weighed the flag proudly because Tony Kahan didn't take a 270 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 5: chance on me. You know, he knew what he wanted 271 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:15,240 Speaker 5: from me, and he put me in the position and 272 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:17,440 Speaker 5: he was like, now grow and I'm like, Okay, what 273 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:18,680 Speaker 5: adaman news do I have to grow? 274 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 1: He's like, whatever you want. 275 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:23,040 Speaker 5: There was no parameters, there was no red tape, and 276 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:26,959 Speaker 5: I learned how to just become like a true businessman 277 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 5: on top of just a professional wrestle. That's why the 278 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:34,240 Speaker 5: mobile persona is truly personified in a w It's literally, 279 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:36,960 Speaker 5: let me be my best self as a man and 280 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:37,679 Speaker 5: a professional. 281 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:39,160 Speaker 2: So that's what they gave you. They gave you that, 282 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 2: they gave you instilled entrepreneurial. 283 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:45,840 Speaker 7: It's crazy, you Mercedes answers are basically identical kind. 284 00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:48,360 Speaker 1: Of Yeah, it's beautiful. I haven't even listened to. 285 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:50,200 Speaker 4: Her this morning. 286 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:52,600 Speaker 2: It's dope also too, because it just shows how much. 287 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:55,240 Speaker 6: The game is changed, right, And it's because to me, 288 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:57,360 Speaker 6: that's just a reflection of how the whole world is 289 00:11:57,400 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 6: now like all the non traditional institutions. 290 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:02,600 Speaker 1: It's out of the window. 291 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 5: And like so last night I came in you know, 292 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:09,959 Speaker 5: Kazu shout out cast. He invited me on a B 293 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:13,600 Speaker 5: to the Pollo Theater to watch the unveiling of the 294 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:18,720 Speaker 5: evolution of the Black quarterback. And Roger Goodell was there. 295 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:20,840 Speaker 5: This is like the Pole Theater. Roger Goodell was there. 296 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:24,680 Speaker 5: I'm watching Michael Strahan on stage, Michael Vick, Jalen Hurts 297 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:28,839 Speaker 5: all like all talking about the evolution where they went 298 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:33,319 Speaker 5: all these like struggles that the black quarterback and went 299 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:37,440 Speaker 5: through that like coaches in the league, the infrastructure really 300 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:40,080 Speaker 5: thinking like the black man is not capable of playing 301 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:42,520 Speaker 5: quarterback because they're not smart enough to all plays and 302 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:46,800 Speaker 5: do these things and stuff and talking about like he's 303 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:50,040 Speaker 5: not he shouldn't be paid this wage, he's above market value. 304 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:51,520 Speaker 1: And I'm listening here. 305 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:53,840 Speaker 5: Like, man, there was an article like a month ago 306 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:56,439 Speaker 5: about me getting my new contract, one of the highest 307 00:12:56,440 --> 00:13:00,120 Speaker 5: contracts in wrestling recently, and I'm I'm paid a. 308 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:00,840 Speaker 1: Above market value. 309 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:02,760 Speaker 5: I'm like, these are like fifty years apart and we're 310 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 5: still having the same conversations. So I like, we're still like, 311 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:10,120 Speaker 5: that's what AW is beautiful for, and that's what I'm 312 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:12,320 Speaker 5: proud to be there because it's like we're shaking the 313 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:15,040 Speaker 5: foundation again like they did fifty years ago, and we're 314 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:17,199 Speaker 5: doing it now with pro wrestling. And if I got 315 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:22,400 Speaker 5: to be the person do that alongside Tony Kahn and 316 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:25,080 Speaker 5: we stand strong, I'm like, No, that's our world champion, 317 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 5: that's the lead of our company at this moment, and 318 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:28,760 Speaker 5: he's going to be the face of the franchise for 319 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:31,439 Speaker 5: years to come, and I'm riding with that. It took 320 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:34,160 Speaker 5: a coach from nineteen seventy to do the same thing 321 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:37,360 Speaker 5: for his quarterback, for Doug Williams to win a championship, 322 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 5: and Somedy said at the end of the documentary, it's 323 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:43,680 Speaker 5: on Amazon when you can watch it now. He said, 324 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:48,840 Speaker 5: when Michael Vick asked him, He's like, what's the legacy. 325 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:51,480 Speaker 5: What's your legacy that you want to leave behind? And 326 00:13:51,679 --> 00:13:54,440 Speaker 5: Doug was like, if you write the history of the league, 327 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:58,199 Speaker 5: can they leave your name out of it? That's how 328 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:01,480 Speaker 5: you know you made an impact. Eventually, when the history 329 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:05,840 Speaker 5: books of AW gets rewritten or however that story's told, 330 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:08,480 Speaker 5: you can't leave swear Strickland out of it, and I 331 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 5: feel like that's why I need to be an aw. 332 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:14,960 Speaker 6: You bought your mother's childhood home or your childhood home, 333 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:18,319 Speaker 6: I did in a sense. 334 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:23,640 Speaker 1: Okay, break that down, so a man, no not hear manager. 335 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:27,480 Speaker 5: As soon as we got that contract, we took the 336 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:31,720 Speaker 5: bonus money and we went back to where a spot 337 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:34,720 Speaker 5: where I grew up on where we moved from back 338 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 5: from Germany when I was a military brat, and we 339 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:39,640 Speaker 5: settled on the place and it was like, yo, we 340 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:41,200 Speaker 5: got a chance to actually make a bid for it. 341 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:44,560 Speaker 5: So we make the bid, actually bought the property, and 342 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 5: sure enough it's still in my name. The property in 343 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:50,840 Speaker 5: the land is still in my name. But as you 344 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 5: can see if you watch aw Rival of Mind, that's 345 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:56,360 Speaker 5: we've been going on blood feud for a year now. 346 00:14:56,480 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 5: Hangman page, I despise this man and he hates me, 347 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:01,200 Speaker 5: probably more in real life. 348 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:10,800 Speaker 1: You gotta watch the seat, y'all in Yeah, you're invested. Yeah, 349 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:11,840 Speaker 1: he so. 350 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:16,880 Speaker 5: Went to the contract signing on TV on Dynamite. He 351 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:23,080 Speaker 5: doesn't show up, pops up on the screen. You see that, Uh, 352 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:26,160 Speaker 5: hangman is actually at the house that I purchased, and 353 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:30,280 Speaker 5: it's like, hasn't been remodeled or anything. Yet this man 354 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:33,920 Speaker 5: walks in, pouring gasoline all over the place, all over 355 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:35,800 Speaker 5: the place, and I can't do anything. I don't know, 356 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:38,400 Speaker 5: Like he's there, I'm here. I don't know if it's 357 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:39,880 Speaker 5: a live feet don't know if it happened already. We 358 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:44,400 Speaker 5: don't know if it's pretaped to nothing. Goes in, sits 359 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:46,680 Speaker 5: down on a couch on a like and it's an 360 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:48,680 Speaker 5: old couch. I remember this couch when I was little. 361 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:50,800 Speaker 5: It's an old couch. He sat back, sat down on 362 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:54,120 Speaker 5: on the out on the front lawn lights a match, 363 00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:56,160 Speaker 5: and the match runs all the way around and goes 364 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:58,560 Speaker 5: in the house and burns down right in front of 365 00:15:58,560 --> 00:15:59,240 Speaker 5: me on live TV. 366 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:00,320 Speaker 7: Did y'all playing that? 367 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:06,360 Speaker 1: I couldn't plan that. Yeah, I'm asking the same thing. 368 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:09,000 Speaker 2: You got to turn the snitch script. 369 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 1: I'm asking the same thing. 370 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:20,520 Speaker 2: You got to tell the script a lot. Now you 371 00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:20,840 Speaker 2: got to be. 372 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:24,720 Speaker 7: How did your family feel? 373 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, if you have to talk to my mom about that, 374 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:27,120 Speaker 1: you know, I. 375 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 7: Should call her when. 376 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:31,680 Speaker 5: Like maybe two three weeks ago, maybe any longer belong 377 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:32,560 Speaker 5: three weeks ago? 378 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:34,520 Speaker 4: Have you seen him in the street? And of these 379 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:36,160 Speaker 4: do you have to fight in the in the in 380 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:37,400 Speaker 4: the ring. Do you see him in the street and 381 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:39,360 Speaker 4: just put. 382 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:40,400 Speaker 1: The next time I saw him? Since after that we 383 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:42,960 Speaker 1: had all out the pay per view in Chicago. 384 00:16:42,680 --> 00:16:44,200 Speaker 2: You had the cage match the Cage Man. 385 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:46,400 Speaker 5: That was the last time I saw him, and ten 386 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:49,640 Speaker 5: thousand people sold out. Matter of fact, that was like 387 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:52,440 Speaker 5: maybe what four days between then we were at six 388 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:56,680 Speaker 5: seven thousand tickets sold that aired, we went to ten 389 00:16:56,720 --> 00:16:57,520 Speaker 5: thousand sold out. 390 00:16:57,520 --> 00:16:59,360 Speaker 1: Boom. 391 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:04,040 Speaker 5: We may event an unsanctioned match. Unsanctioned means a w 392 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:06,720 Speaker 5: wipe wipes the hands, cleans of anything that happens. 393 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:06,920 Speaker 1: In this match. 394 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:07,960 Speaker 4: Oh, y'all can kill each other. 395 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:11,560 Speaker 5: We can do whatever we want, and then there's no lawsuits. 396 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:13,480 Speaker 5: So we take we have to take it a little 397 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:16,440 Speaker 5: bit above, you know, the ramifications of what just a 398 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:19,080 Speaker 5: regular street fight, a hardcore regular cage match usually is. 399 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:22,199 Speaker 5: So I have the cage match. I bring out the 400 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:25,439 Speaker 5: center block. I drop him his head on the solence 401 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:28,480 Speaker 5: in the block bow. He power bombs my back on 402 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:32,000 Speaker 5: the center block solid. I still have ciadic nerve damage 403 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:36,399 Speaker 5: on my back from this. Then he takes he pulls 404 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:41,520 Speaker 5: out a from his jacket coat, a syringe hipidermin and 405 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:43,280 Speaker 5: he takes it and pokes it right through my cheek, 406 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:45,040 Speaker 5: stabs me, and it goes all the way through. 407 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:49,720 Speaker 7: Is that why you still getting yourself together? 408 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:53,080 Speaker 1: I'm still trying to figure myself. 409 00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:54,280 Speaker 4: A syringe. 410 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:56,400 Speaker 1: I don't know. I didn't put it in there. 411 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:57,000 Speaker 4: You didn't check. 412 00:17:57,520 --> 00:17:59,320 Speaker 1: How could I check? It came out of this hell? 413 00:17:59,359 --> 00:17:59,760 Speaker 2: You can check? 414 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:06,800 Speaker 5: This stabbed me and then he takes uh uh holding 415 00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:09,400 Speaker 5: metal chair, bashes over my head, goes right through. 416 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:13,040 Speaker 1: I knocked out, completely won. He won. He wants one 417 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:13,840 Speaker 1: my knockout. 418 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:16,200 Speaker 5: But still this day that man has yet to pin, 419 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:19,520 Speaker 5: has yet to actually pin me or make me some miss. 420 00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:21,320 Speaker 4: Questions beat during that your people that they jump and 421 00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:21,879 Speaker 4: ring and help you. 422 00:18:22,119 --> 00:18:24,440 Speaker 1: It's a cage be locked out. 423 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:27,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, so you're not you're still not medically clear. 424 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:29,679 Speaker 1: I'm not medically No, I'm not medically clear. So I 425 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:31,359 Speaker 1: won't be at Grand Slam to night. 426 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:35,000 Speaker 7: So what's the point in doing all of that? Because 427 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:36,080 Speaker 7: then you can't fight right now? 428 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:40,480 Speaker 1: It's passion the money that that case to his crib. 429 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:43,120 Speaker 5: Like I said, I already saw my new contract extension. 430 00:18:43,119 --> 00:18:45,159 Speaker 5: I'm sad, but I still want to do these matches 431 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:46,600 Speaker 5: because I'm passionate about this business. 432 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:47,920 Speaker 1: I'm passionate about my company. 433 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:50,600 Speaker 6: She asked you if the money was good. It's something 434 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:53,000 Speaker 6: something was said about you that I've never heard. They 435 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:56,400 Speaker 6: said people in the w W E felt your contract was. 436 00:18:56,440 --> 00:18:58,520 Speaker 2: Above market price. 437 00:18:58,680 --> 00:18:58,920 Speaker 1: Yeah. 438 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:01,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, I've never heard nobody complaining they got too much money. 439 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:05,199 Speaker 5: They only complain when a black person gets paid. I 440 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 5: won't say that when it gets paid. And that's what 441 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:09,960 Speaker 5: once again, we shake the foundation of things like that 442 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:12,679 Speaker 5: because it's like, oh it snap, wait and it's not 443 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:14,040 Speaker 5: what we would pay. And like, then why are you 444 00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:17,679 Speaker 5: calling me? Why are you asking me? You know, like 445 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:20,360 Speaker 5: if if I'm not your concern, don't worry about it. Yeah, 446 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:23,320 Speaker 5: don't worry about my pockets and our money. We're good, 447 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:25,240 Speaker 5: like you got, you have your talent and you had 448 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:30,040 Speaker 5: like you made your decision with me two years ago. No, 449 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:32,440 Speaker 5: no hard feelings from me, boom. I keep it moving. 450 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:34,160 Speaker 5: I'm gonna figure my way out and I'm gonna build 451 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:34,679 Speaker 5: myself up. 452 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:35,960 Speaker 2: Is it true they tried to resign you. 453 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:40,440 Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, Well it wasn't like the words resign. They 454 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:44,080 Speaker 5: asked about my availability, you know, so that was like 455 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:47,800 Speaker 5: came up. But they never contacted me. They contacted my representation. 456 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:51,679 Speaker 5: And I'm in a stage now which I enjoyed the 457 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:54,240 Speaker 5: fact that I don't have that direct contact. When when 458 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:56,399 Speaker 5: you are progressing and getting higher and you like in 459 00:19:56,520 --> 00:19:58,760 Speaker 5: rooms with guys like like people like you and stuff, 460 00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:00,320 Speaker 5: you got to kind of keep a little of a 461 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:02,760 Speaker 5: space in between these type of conversations because it's like 462 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:06,040 Speaker 5: you can't check my phone. It's never been there, Like 463 00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:08,240 Speaker 5: I never had direct contact. It's always I want to 464 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 5: keep that little space. But it has been. It has 465 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:13,080 Speaker 5: been a communication has been reached out. 466 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:14,080 Speaker 2: Now I've seen the reaction. 467 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:16,520 Speaker 6: I met you in the airport and like just are 468 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:18,000 Speaker 6: stopping to have a conversation. 469 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:21,399 Speaker 2: People was walking by, you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah, 470 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:23,680 Speaker 2: so people. You definitely having an impact. 471 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:25,600 Speaker 5: In New York. It's bigger than I thought. We just 472 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:28,119 Speaker 5: me and my man flash garments. We just did Sneaker 473 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:32,160 Speaker 5: Con in Coney Island like two days ago, and there's 474 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:33,120 Speaker 5: like big names. 475 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:34,600 Speaker 1: Walking around, you know, like Queens Flip walking around. 476 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:36,520 Speaker 5: You got like, you know a lot of like step 477 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:38,000 Speaker 5: On Marbury's walking around there. 478 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:39,560 Speaker 1: But I'm getting a lot of shout outs and. 479 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 5: Like like yo, I watched it all the time, like 480 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:44,560 Speaker 5: we're like they're like oh man, like, oh my god, 481 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:45,280 Speaker 5: I just watch the people. 482 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:45,840 Speaker 4: Are you okay? 483 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:47,040 Speaker 1: Are you like checking on me? 484 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:49,240 Speaker 5: And I'm like there's a lot of people and it's like, wow, 485 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:52,439 Speaker 5: this is like growing bigger than I ever expected, like 486 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:55,880 Speaker 5: the impact. And so it's like, how can you with 487 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:57,960 Speaker 5: that kind of stuff. It's like you can't see that 488 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:01,840 Speaker 5: kind of interaction on social media in Twitter interactions and 489 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:04,200 Speaker 5: comments are never going to show you the impact of 490 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:07,760 Speaker 5: actual person in like giving you that type of love. 491 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:10,840 Speaker 5: And I appreciate that. That's like that's my market value 492 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:13,399 Speaker 5: right there. That explains it to me, because it's like 493 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:16,639 Speaker 5: these these people aren't comment and telling you all this stuff. 494 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:19,000 Speaker 1: These people are here with you in person. These people 495 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:20,240 Speaker 1: are going to show up wherever you go. 496 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:23,240 Speaker 5: These people are going to buy your product and like 497 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:26,199 Speaker 5: are gonna wear it with pride and show like, Yo, 498 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:26,800 Speaker 5: this is my guy. 499 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:28,480 Speaker 1: I'm root for him no matter what he does. I'm 500 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:29,040 Speaker 1: going to be there. 501 00:21:29,119 --> 00:21:29,320 Speaker 7: You know. 502 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:30,480 Speaker 4: That's that What are you getting? 503 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:31,000 Speaker 1: You get back? Man? 504 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:32,760 Speaker 4: When you get in a hangman again? When's that match? 505 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:33,959 Speaker 4: Get back bro? 506 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:36,919 Speaker 1: Soon as I get my medical clearance, man, it's side. 507 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:39,600 Speaker 7: Of my hands right now for another like retry for 508 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:41,360 Speaker 7: the clearance right. 509 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:44,560 Speaker 5: Now, we'll see, like maybe another week or so. I 510 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:46,679 Speaker 5: got to go to La between that time, so I 511 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:48,639 Speaker 5: got some other business ventures in between this. 512 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:51,639 Speaker 1: But yeah, so where man live? Man? 513 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:52,640 Speaker 4: You got to pull up on his crib. 514 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:55,520 Speaker 5: I've been to I've been to his old house. If 515 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:58,879 Speaker 5: you can watch look back. I've literally trespassing. Started this 516 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:01,200 Speaker 5: whole thing because I went to working with the. 517 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:02,840 Speaker 7: Cops because how y'all be doing all this and don't 518 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:03,679 Speaker 7: nobody get locked up? 519 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:06,840 Speaker 5: And I was a bad man, bro, he'd be he's 520 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:08,720 Speaker 5: a bad man. He'd be hot and like he'd be, 521 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:11,760 Speaker 5: he'd be talking his way out. He talks to me 522 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:14,760 Speaker 5: out of situations into him some. 523 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:16,520 Speaker 1: Good, some bad here and there. 524 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 2: What do you want more? You want to you want 525 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:19,080 Speaker 2: to get back on Hangman? 526 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:19,400 Speaker 4: More? 527 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:20,640 Speaker 2: Are getting your title back? 528 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:24,480 Speaker 1: M M. That's a good question. M hmm. 529 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:27,960 Speaker 5: Maybe one day it might be one and the same 530 00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:30,719 Speaker 5: because Hanging is on a streak right now. He's like 531 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:34,320 Speaker 5: on a war path in a lot of ways. Him 532 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:38,840 Speaker 5: him pressing me has made him better, and I brought 533 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:43,200 Speaker 5: out something great in him that eventually, with my absence, 534 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:45,840 Speaker 5: he probably will be a world champion again. So maybe 535 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:48,000 Speaker 5: at that time I'll get both. I get my get 536 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,760 Speaker 5: back in the World Championship at the same time. But 537 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:54,320 Speaker 5: that's the effect of what Swerve brings to this roster 538 00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:57,960 Speaker 5: of All Lee Wrestling. I make your guy better and 539 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,520 Speaker 5: in turn, he makes me better. So it's almost like 540 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:03,080 Speaker 5: we're slinking each other. Like he pulls me up to 541 00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:04,560 Speaker 5: the main event and I become this main event and 542 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:08,359 Speaker 5: I make history, first Black aw World Champion, first Black 543 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:11,040 Speaker 5: World Champion to main event Wembley Stadium ever in history 544 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 5: of that building. And then boom cage match. I can't 545 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:18,159 Speaker 5: do nothing with him. He takes me out. My body's wrecked. 546 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:21,000 Speaker 5: He becomes better, bring I bring him back to the 547 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:25,080 Speaker 5: main event scene. So it's like it's it's we're killing 548 00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:27,840 Speaker 5: each other, but at the same time we're bettering each 549 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:30,199 Speaker 5: other at the same time in the product. And you 550 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:34,520 Speaker 5: do music tour, yes, sir, you wrap up? Yeah yeah, okay, okay, yeah, yep. 551 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:40,120 Speaker 5: I got three albums out with my group members. Swart 552 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:44,880 Speaker 5: in Swarft City, Mantizi he's been signed with Rough Rider 553 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:46,520 Speaker 5: back in the day when he was like seventeen years old, 554 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:49,159 Speaker 5: and he taught me everything I know about rap, and 555 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:51,760 Speaker 5: then me and my man flash garments, like last month 556 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:54,960 Speaker 5: put out a project Motion Sickness, and he's took me 557 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:57,000 Speaker 5: to another level because he's been on the writing team 558 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:58,959 Speaker 5: with Kanye West on the Donda album. 559 00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:01,560 Speaker 1: You know, we went to the Grand he Is together two. 560 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:05,760 Speaker 5: Years ago, watched our producer Prophet win two Grammys for 561 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:07,919 Speaker 5: the songs that he put out. So I'm in a 562 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:09,919 Speaker 5: great team and window with these guys. 563 00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:12,360 Speaker 1: You know. So I'm learning front. 564 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:14,760 Speaker 5: I'm learning at the later stage of my life, but 565 00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:17,000 Speaker 5: I'm learning the right way rather than trying to go 566 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:18,520 Speaker 5: ten years of doing it wrong wrong. 567 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:19,200 Speaker 1: Wrong, wrong wrong. 568 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:22,359 Speaker 5: So yeah, we're doing great stuff with music right now. 569 00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:24,160 Speaker 5: We're going to continue to do more. I have songs 570 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,480 Speaker 5: with Benny the Butcher, west Side Gun's been on our records. 571 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:31,159 Speaker 5: West Side big wrestling fan, Big Big. I just know 572 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:34,480 Speaker 5: that he's a big wrestling hilarious dude, fun dude. Bunn 573 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:37,400 Speaker 5: Bee is a mentor of mine, becoming a mentor who 574 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 5: kids hosting our records. You know, did you it walked 575 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:46,160 Speaker 5: out of something? Yeah, yeah, yeah, Wembley Wembley Stadium. Yeah, 576 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:47,879 Speaker 5: We're doing We're doing a lot of great stuff. 577 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:49,600 Speaker 2: Man, how'd you connect with them? Just all just through 578 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:50,080 Speaker 2: the wrestling. 579 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:55,600 Speaker 5: Oh yeah, my man Albert until he's he's honestly the 580 00:24:55,600 --> 00:25:00,240 Speaker 5: one that really personified the mogul character, the person zone 581 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:03,280 Speaker 5: of what Swerve is is when I first came out there, 582 00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:05,760 Speaker 5: really started getting motioned to tag team Champion and stuff. 583 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:09,040 Speaker 5: He brought Kevin Gates and we had Kevin Gates two 584 00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:12,000 Speaker 5: something on the show. We brought Rick rosson he'd done 585 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:15,399 Speaker 5: something on the show fabulous. Came out with us on 586 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:20,399 Speaker 5: Grand Slam two years ago in New York. Recently had 587 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:26,240 Speaker 5: Jim Jones do my intro man you name it like lash, 588 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:29,000 Speaker 5: brought Floyd Mayweather to sit front row in Vegas when 589 00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:30,520 Speaker 5: I did my world title match. 590 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:33,800 Speaker 2: How important did the merge culture with wrestling? 591 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:38,720 Speaker 5: It's really big because people don't know what it is, 592 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:43,160 Speaker 5: what wrestling truly is, until you like or I would 593 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:46,560 Speaker 5: say support it. You gotta like something, whatever it is. 594 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:48,840 Speaker 5: You gotta see what you like, and then it becomes 595 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:50,520 Speaker 5: then you start supporting it. But you don't know what 596 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:52,840 Speaker 5: you like if you don't watch it, and something has 597 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:54,040 Speaker 5: to attract you to like it. 598 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:55,640 Speaker 1: And so doing all these. 599 00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:57,720 Speaker 5: Things like oh that's a familiar face, if he's there, 600 00:25:58,000 --> 00:25:58,720 Speaker 5: let me peek at it. 601 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:00,320 Speaker 1: Let me just check it out. And if it out, 602 00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:01,800 Speaker 1: you're like, oh, you know what I do like this? 603 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:04,800 Speaker 1: You know when does the show come on? When the 604 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:06,320 Speaker 1: next time they in town? I got the kids, I 605 00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:08,800 Speaker 1: got my girlfriend, I got this, like I got my friends. 606 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:11,560 Speaker 5: You just get You got to pique that interest a 607 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:14,160 Speaker 5: little bit, just just enough to get people to like something. 608 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:15,919 Speaker 5: Then they when they like it enough and they want 609 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:18,639 Speaker 5: to see it again, then it becomes an investment. Investment 610 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:22,000 Speaker 5: becomes like a group. The group becomes a community, and 611 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:23,880 Speaker 5: then the community community. 612 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:24,240 Speaker 1: Becomes a fandom. 613 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:28,840 Speaker 5: And that's slowly but surely, how like you kind of 614 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:32,560 Speaker 5: grow a product, and it may take two weeks, may 615 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:38,840 Speaker 5: take five months, may take three years. But my philosophy, 616 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:43,080 Speaker 5: my personal trainer now shout out to him. He tells me, like, 617 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:45,720 Speaker 5: when we started training a year and a half ago, 618 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:46,800 Speaker 5: I was like one ninety three. 619 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:48,199 Speaker 1: Now I got up to two twenty. 620 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:50,640 Speaker 5: He got me to two to fifteen, two hundred fifteen 621 00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:53,320 Speaker 5: pounds and three months, he said, one percent a day. 622 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:57,159 Speaker 5: It's three hundred and sixty five percent a year. So 623 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:00,159 Speaker 5: just move one percent a day in a year, you're 624 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:03,440 Speaker 5: gonna triple your investment. But you gotta just move one bit. 625 00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:07,800 Speaker 5: And that's my philosophy everything I do. Music, just get 626 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:11,280 Speaker 5: one new fan, just get one new stream and wrestling, 627 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:13,480 Speaker 5: just get one new fan. Just get one guy to 628 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:16,960 Speaker 5: buy one shirt, just one and you know, you just 629 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:19,920 Speaker 5: move something forward every single day. 630 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:20,879 Speaker 7: You got this, you drop it. 631 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,000 Speaker 1: Sneakers down right, yes, yeah, Actually that's why. 632 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:25,080 Speaker 7: You're a sneaker car. Yeah yeah, okay, So with the 633 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:26,560 Speaker 7: you have them forgot to. 634 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:30,320 Speaker 5: Get you in beside, he never takes me back about 635 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,720 Speaker 5: we brought him in last, brought the big pressures right here. 636 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:34,520 Speaker 1: That's my logo. 637 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:37,280 Speaker 7: So is this too just a part of you know, 638 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:42,080 Speaker 7: understanding that like even fashion as culture connect. Absolutely, Okay, it's. 639 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:43,639 Speaker 1: Fine, yeah, and that's what it's about. 640 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:47,000 Speaker 5: Like it's still light very These are the shoes I 641 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:51,439 Speaker 5: literally won the world championship in Jordan's that it's on purpose. 642 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:54,919 Speaker 4: I designed it and then I hadnake it. 643 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:55,840 Speaker 1: Shout out. 644 00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:57,960 Speaker 4: She's a legendary. 645 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,399 Speaker 5: Yeah, he's designed shoes and put him in like his 646 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:03,680 Speaker 5: design shoes for like step On Diggs he wears on. 647 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:05,840 Speaker 1: The field and stuff like Curry, like Lebron. 648 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:09,520 Speaker 5: He's given like these designs and shoes and mixed them 649 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 5: all up but I'm the first wrestler to have his 650 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:12,040 Speaker 5: own brand shoe. 651 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:12,360 Speaker 1: Wow. 652 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:17,119 Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, that's why I didn't text you. That's what 653 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:18,680 Speaker 6: That's literally why I got to text you. I don't 654 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:20,600 Speaker 6: think you should text another man after his shoes. 655 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:22,639 Speaker 2: Eleven. 656 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:29,000 Speaker 7: You know you got your That's that's an eleven he needed. 657 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:36,160 Speaker 2: So I'm bigger than you. Oh wow, okay, okay, he's. 658 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,800 Speaker 7: Bigger than you. 659 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:42,840 Speaker 6: So Emery, we got biggest Jones sneakers up there and 660 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:46,640 Speaker 6: chop you said, Joe. 661 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:47,320 Speaker 2: Oh fat Joe. 662 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:50,400 Speaker 5: Okay, okay, that's a that's a huge honor to be 663 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:52,720 Speaker 5: up there with these guys. I was and I was 664 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 5: at rolling Chopper Drop drop the shoes and. 665 00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:58,560 Speaker 2: The song dope. Can they order these? 666 00:28:59,080 --> 00:28:59,240 Speaker 1: Oh? 667 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:01,000 Speaker 5: We got to be dropping a link very soon. But 668 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:03,720 Speaker 5: Mas is gonna have. It's gonna be it's gonna be lit. 669 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:06,320 Speaker 5: We have a we have like we had like seventy pairs. 670 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,400 Speaker 7: Speaker World Embrac's. 671 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:11,640 Speaker 5: It's still new and it's fresh because it's like this 672 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:13,840 Speaker 5: is like an all purpose shoe. It's like you can 673 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,320 Speaker 5: play basketball them, you can dance on them, you wear 674 00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:19,520 Speaker 5: them as fashioned. I've literally like had multiple matches on 675 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 5: pay per views and TV and main eventded with these shoes, 676 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:24,200 Speaker 5: and they had like the most comfortable shoe I've ever had, 677 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:26,520 Speaker 5: and I've rustled in fifteen years. It's probably the most 678 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:29,280 Speaker 5: comfortable foot where I've ever had in the ring. So 679 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:34,280 Speaker 5: we're gonna start bringing them out more. Because we had 680 00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:36,800 Speaker 5: to get like branding, we had to get the trademarks 681 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:39,120 Speaker 5: and logos. We had to like do a sample then 682 00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:42,040 Speaker 5: bring it back you know, how the production works. 683 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:43,880 Speaker 1: But now it's ready and Jody. 684 00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:44,840 Speaker 4: For people that want to buy them, how can they 685 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:45,640 Speaker 4: buy them if they want. 686 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:47,520 Speaker 5: We're gonna be it's gonna be two fifty and we're 687 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:50,120 Speaker 5: gonna be bringing them out solely one by one, like 688 00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:52,440 Speaker 5: by a link. And when we're gonna drop that link 689 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:55,400 Speaker 5: very very soon, So be ready and when that when 690 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,560 Speaker 5: the link drops, as soon as you click on make 691 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:00,040 Speaker 5: the order, it's coming to you. 692 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:01,080 Speaker 6: You know, I want to ask you one more question 693 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:03,080 Speaker 6: if you go, how big of an influence with Sean 694 00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:04,680 Speaker 6: Michael's on you huge? 695 00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,360 Speaker 5: Growing up watching him. I had to go back and 696 00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:10,800 Speaker 5: look at his tapes from like his prime years, but 697 00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:14,760 Speaker 5: he was huge and he still to this day, like 698 00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:17,880 Speaker 5: he'll text me like happy birthday, Happy Father's Day and 699 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:19,840 Speaker 5: I'll text him back Happy Father's Day and stuff like that. 700 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:24,920 Speaker 5: We still have a good, a good relationship. He was 701 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:27,800 Speaker 5: the influence on when I really took off in my 702 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:30,680 Speaker 5: w W NXT era, because I was just like stuck 703 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:33,880 Speaker 5: and like hitting this wall over and over again weekly, 704 00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:37,000 Speaker 5: and like I was having these conversations with Triple Age, 705 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,320 Speaker 5: I was getting this run around. I wasn't really getting anywhere. 706 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,000 Speaker 5: Then I got a promotion one day, and I was 707 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:43,560 Speaker 5: just like not happy about it. I was like, I 708 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:45,840 Speaker 5: don't feel like I earned the promotion. I feel like 709 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:48,240 Speaker 5: you're just paying me to keep me here rather than 710 00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:51,600 Speaker 5: like paying what I earned, you know. And so like 711 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:53,160 Speaker 5: I spoke out about it. I was like, I want 712 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:56,800 Speaker 5: to be learning undershawn. It's like, well yead YadA YadA. 713 00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,440 Speaker 5: Matt Bloom was like saying, yeah, yad YadA YadA whatever. 714 00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:02,080 Speaker 5: But his officer over there, I'm like, oh bat. 715 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:04,080 Speaker 1: I walked over to Sean. I was like, hey, can 716 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:05,360 Speaker 1: we can we do tape study? 717 00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:09,280 Speaker 8: I didn't know you could do that me neither, But 718 00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:12,320 Speaker 8: it was like, but like but that's those little unwritten 719 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:13,440 Speaker 8: rules that's like it's there. 720 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:16,080 Speaker 1: But it's like, oh, I could just do this? 721 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:17,880 Speaker 5: Why am I not? But there's no rule of saying 722 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:19,720 Speaker 5: you can't. But there's no rule saying you can. There's 723 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:22,080 Speaker 5: no there's no push to give you that. You got 724 00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:23,560 Speaker 5: to find it within yourself to be like, you know, 725 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:25,960 Speaker 5: I am good enough. Let me take that leap, and 726 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:28,640 Speaker 5: worst case scenario, I'm right back to square one where 727 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:30,200 Speaker 5: I was. So I just took the lead and I 728 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:31,760 Speaker 5: was like, Sean, can I watch tape with you sometime 729 00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 5: like an hour? 730 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:33,280 Speaker 1: So I'm like that. 731 00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:35,560 Speaker 5: He's like, give me three matches, email them to me, 732 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:37,720 Speaker 5: and well, I'll pick one and we can watch it 733 00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:40,200 Speaker 5: on on Tuesday. Sure enough, he was up lived up 734 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:41,840 Speaker 5: to his word. We watched a match of like me 735 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:43,840 Speaker 5: on the Indies from like four years ago. He's like, 736 00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:45,800 Speaker 5: I want to see the reason you got here, what's 737 00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:49,040 Speaker 5: the reason that we signed you to this contract to 738 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:49,360 Speaker 5: be here? 739 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:50,320 Speaker 1: I want to watch that. 740 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:54,240 Speaker 5: So we watched these stuff and he's like he's quiet, 741 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:59,000 Speaker 5: just watching, watching, and like guys like that, they're not 742 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,560 Speaker 5: gonna go oh ah no, they're just gonna watch. Like 743 00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:05,200 Speaker 5: William Reegal was very much like that too, and he's 744 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:06,640 Speaker 5: just like matches over. 745 00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:09,160 Speaker 1: He stopped. He's like, I know exactly the kind of 746 00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:10,280 Speaker 1: performer you are. 747 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:10,640 Speaker 2: Now. 748 00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:12,560 Speaker 1: Now I know who you are. Now I know what 749 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:13,240 Speaker 1: you can offer. 750 00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,680 Speaker 5: Next thing, you know, he's in meetings talking about TV 751 00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,040 Speaker 5: the night before and he's texting me. He's like, Okay, 752 00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:20,520 Speaker 5: they want to see you get a little more aggressive 753 00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:22,160 Speaker 5: and stuff like that, so bring it next match. 754 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:23,320 Speaker 1: I'm like, that's it. 755 00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:24,480 Speaker 9: That's all I gotta do. 756 00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:25,440 Speaker 1: Next match. 757 00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:28,200 Speaker 5: The hell out of me and Bronson reed going back 758 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:29,960 Speaker 5: and forth. He comes back and he was like it 759 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:31,480 Speaker 5: was like a football coach. After the match, he was 760 00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:33,280 Speaker 5: like smacks him and the like that's what I'm talking about. 761 00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:33,800 Speaker 5: There you go. 762 00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,280 Speaker 1: Yeah. So I was like, yeah, I got that from seawing. 763 00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:39,560 Speaker 5: Next thing, you know, North American Championship match happened. Next 764 00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:42,160 Speaker 5: thing you know, TV, I'm getting the microphone to talk 765 00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:45,800 Speaker 5: now live, I get to show my personality more, because 766 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:48,160 Speaker 5: anybody can just be a wrestler, but show who you 767 00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:51,400 Speaker 5: are and be comfortable on the camera to really like 768 00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,959 Speaker 5: flash or stuff like I'm wearing. I'm wearing like T 769 00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:58,360 Speaker 5: shirts that aren't even a WW approved. I'm wearing like 770 00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:00,120 Speaker 5: my friend's shirt. 771 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:01,160 Speaker 1: From back in the day. 772 00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:02,880 Speaker 5: I'm like, I don't know, I'm getting away with this, 773 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:05,000 Speaker 5: So I'm gonna try some more stuff. When you get 774 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,720 Speaker 5: like that, you get comfortable. Then when you're comfortable, the 775 00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:11,200 Speaker 5: crowd's comfortable, right, And when the crowd's comfortable, the crowd's having. 776 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,200 Speaker 1: Fun, and then they're having fun with you. Now it's 777 00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:13,600 Speaker 1: a vibe. 778 00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:17,360 Speaker 5: It's like a concert, a comedy show if comedians having 779 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:20,040 Speaker 5: fun and joking. I'm comfortable enough to laugh with this 780 00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:22,920 Speaker 5: guy the stranger. I'm comfortable enough to get. 781 00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:25,040 Speaker 1: Loud yell back hey yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. 782 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:27,720 Speaker 5: You gotta open them up like that. And when that's 783 00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:30,040 Speaker 5: where I really start opening up. And that's what got 784 00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:32,800 Speaker 5: me ready for a w to do it in stadiums 785 00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:36,240 Speaker 5: weekly in the arenas. It got me to do it 786 00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:40,120 Speaker 5: with black audiences, white audiences in Canada, got me doing 787 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:42,360 Speaker 5: in UK, got me to do it in like all 788 00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:45,080 Speaker 5: these other places. Now it's like I can just own 789 00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:49,200 Speaker 5: a room and be comfortable in it, not like that 790 00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:52,000 Speaker 5: feeling of anxiety because I can overtake you. But now 791 00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:54,720 Speaker 5: like I shut that down and I'm zoned in. So 792 00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:57,520 Speaker 5: but all that started from those tape studies with Sean. 793 00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:00,320 Speaker 6: The reason I love that is because you know, a 794 00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:03,640 Speaker 6: lot of times folks will just be like, either they're 795 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:05,880 Speaker 6: not gonna give me no mentor ship, or you know 796 00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:06,800 Speaker 6: they're not gonna want to. 797 00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:08,600 Speaker 2: Talk to me. But close mob, don't get faid, just 798 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:11,080 Speaker 2: the fact you win. Then hollered at him. He was 799 00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:12,720 Speaker 2: willing to share information. 800 00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:15,279 Speaker 5: And I think he respected the fact that I was 801 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:17,239 Speaker 5: like looking dead in the eye as a man like 802 00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:19,440 Speaker 5: I want to get better because I know I can. 803 00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:25,960 Speaker 5: As like, if you're coaching a football team, you want 804 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,000 Speaker 5: to put people on the field that you that know 805 00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:29,640 Speaker 5: they can win. 806 00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:30,160 Speaker 6: That. 807 00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:31,839 Speaker 5: You don't want people that are like I don't know. 808 00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:37,160 Speaker 5: You hire, and that translates to regular life. You don't 809 00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:42,480 Speaker 5: want to hire the plumber that's like I might. 810 00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:45,359 Speaker 1: Be able to fix your toilet. I'm kind of, but 811 00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:45,799 Speaker 1: I don't know. 812 00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:47,600 Speaker 5: No, I'm like, I'm the best plumber in the freaking 813 00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:51,360 Speaker 5: he's Western hemisphere and out south of the Mississippi. 814 00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:54,000 Speaker 1: You want people that know that they can do the job. 815 00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:56,440 Speaker 1: And and if you know. 816 00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:57,920 Speaker 5: That you can do the job, you're gonna pay him 817 00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:00,000 Speaker 5: whatever price because I need it done. 818 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:02,560 Speaker 1: I needed done well then, and I need it done 819 00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:06,279 Speaker 1: fast right now. All Right. It's gonna cost you, though, 820 00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:07,280 Speaker 1: but it will be done. 821 00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:13,440 Speaker 5: You know, what here's a tip that's market value. 822 00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:14,920 Speaker 4: Strickland, Ladies and gentlemen. 823 00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:17,560 Speaker 1: That's right, we appreciate that swerve. 824 00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:21,120 Speaker 5: Confident on all social media platforms, Man myself, flash Garments. 825 00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:23,360 Speaker 5: We got the Motion Sickness album out that has the 826 00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:26,120 Speaker 5: big Pressure Trill remix with Bumbee and Westside Gun on 827 00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:29,600 Speaker 5: there with who kids hosting the entire album. 828 00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:32,160 Speaker 9: Let's play it, play it, please play the Love of God. 829 00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:34,920 Speaker 9: Play that you got a clean version, Crestball, Let's play it. 830 00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:37,680 Speaker 9: Not to mention the night at Grand Slam Man or 831 00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:40,600 Speaker 9: Grand Slam author Ash Stadium this Wednesday. 832 00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:43,080 Speaker 4: It's going on with the swerves Strickland. It's the breakfast Club. 833 00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:45,760 Speaker 4: Good morning, wake that ass up in the morning. 834 00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:46,920 Speaker 1: Breakfast Club.