1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:02,520 Speaker 1: It's crazy to think we are almost at what three 2 00:00:02,640 --> 00:00:06,440 Speaker 1: hundred episodes of this podcast talk about an amazing weekend 3 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:10,160 Speaker 1: of wrestling. Aw Revolution that was pretty awesome, but another 4 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:15,480 Speaker 1: great weekend of wrestling. Coastal Championship Wrestling CCW presents Meltdown. Oh, 5 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:17,079 Speaker 1: by the way, it's Battle. I should have said that, 6 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:19,960 Speaker 1: but you know that I'm Battle. But it's going down 7 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 1: this Saturday at Redcon one Gym in Nashville. Miranda Gordy's 8 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:25,560 Speaker 1: gonna be there, Ganggrel, who's our guests gonna be there? 9 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:29,240 Speaker 1: Oh and yeah, boy over here is gonna be color commentating. 10 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:31,639 Speaker 1: So this should be fun. If you want to grab tickets, 11 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 1: go to Coastal Championship wrestlingfl dot com and if you 12 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:38,280 Speaker 1: use the code battle, you're gonna get a discount on 13 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:41,239 Speaker 1: those tickets. So again, that's going down this Saturday at 14 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:44,240 Speaker 1: REDCN one Gym here in Nashville. You get see Gang 15 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:47,479 Speaker 1: Gral and all your favorite Coastal Championship Wrestling superstars. But 16 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:50,720 Speaker 1: without further ado, let's get into it. This is our 17 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 1: interview with Gang Gral. You can also watch this interview 18 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:57,120 Speaker 1: as well. Please go head on over to our YouTube 19 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:00,360 Speaker 1: channel YouTube dot com. Slash Battleground Podcast. You can check 20 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 1: it out there, and for all things battleground podcasts, you 21 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:06,280 Speaker 1: can go to Battleground podcast dot com. And we've got 22 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:07,960 Speaker 1: some new merch on the way. I'll tell you about 23 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:11,000 Speaker 1: that later. But uh so back relaxing. Well, here's the 24 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 1: theme song you all love to sing, battle. 25 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:17,039 Speaker 2: Why from the Parts Unknown Studios. 26 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:27,600 Speaker 3: Into the Battle Crown, the Battle, the Battle Crowd. Welcome 27 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:31,440 Speaker 3: to the Battleground Podcast, your place for all things pro wrestling. 28 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:39,400 Speaker 3: The Battle the Battle Crowd now making their way to 29 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 3: the microphones, give it up for your hosts. 30 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:49,200 Speaker 1: Welcome you to the Battle Crown. What's up you guys, 31 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:54,040 Speaker 1: Welcome back into another episode of iHeartRadio's official wrestling podcast, 32 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 1: The Battleground Podcast. Tonight's episode, We've got a good one 33 00:01:57,440 --> 00:01:59,080 Speaker 1: for you. I'm gonna bring in my tag team partner 34 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:02,280 Speaker 1: real quick, Eli, And you can always kind of tell 35 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 1: who's gonna be on our show just by looking at 36 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:08,960 Speaker 1: Eli's shirts because every time something happens, Eli always wears 37 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: something to do with our guest shirts on the show, 38 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:14,360 Speaker 1: which is a giveaway right there. And uh, you know, 39 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:16,960 Speaker 1: there's a big show happening in Nashville. We're super pumped 40 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 1: for this show. I think somebody from the Brute. I 41 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 1: guess that's gonna be on our show today. But Coastal 42 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:26,840 Speaker 1: Championship Wrestling Meltdown, it is going down Saturday, March twelfth 43 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:30,520 Speaker 1: at the Red Con one Jim in Nashville, and let's 44 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 1: bring him on. I would say, this dude's a legend 45 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 1: and scared the shit out of me when I was 46 00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 1: a kid growing up. 47 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:37,840 Speaker 2: Gang Grill is on the show The. 48 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:43,160 Speaker 4: Baseball going Down. 49 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:45,680 Speaker 2: It sucks because I'm just like, what am I supposed 50 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 2: to do? 51 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 1: I mean, college baseball is going on, but I mean 52 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 1: there's college that that's about it. 53 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 2: I just there's. 54 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:58,279 Speaker 4: Nothing to watch. They won't make enough money, man. 55 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 2: I guess not. But something really cool has happened. 56 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:03,920 Speaker 1: It's in Nashville, of course, yes, Coastal Championship Wrestling Meltdown. 57 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 2: It's at Red Con one. I'm looking at the card 58 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 2: and the lot stack, so, uh, you know what, what's 59 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 2: the plan for that? 60 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 4: Are you? 61 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:12,880 Speaker 1: Are you you're gonna have a match that night or 62 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:14,560 Speaker 1: are you just kind of showing up and hanging out? 63 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 5: Well, it is Nashville, so I think they'll could just 64 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:20,240 Speaker 5: show up and hang out. 65 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 4: I'm definitely gonna be on the show. I'm definitely wrestling 66 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:26,799 Speaker 4: on the show, working the show, looking forward to it, 67 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:28,519 Speaker 4: and looking forward to the Red Con facility. 68 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 5: It's always great to be a part of the CC 69 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 5: Debut Family Coastal Championship Wrestling as they expand their brand 70 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:36,560 Speaker 5: and product, and it's. 71 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 4: Just bused to be a part of it. 72 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 5: I was teetering around in my own world and some 73 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:43,839 Speaker 5: things keep crashing down and they swooped in and and 74 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 5: it's been a good match and a good foot fit 75 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 5: ever since, and I'm looking forward to expanding it. They've 76 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 5: been in Nashville, They've run a few shows in nash already, 77 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 5: but this is the first show of the. 78 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 4: Red Con Redcon Jam. It called Redcon one. 79 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 2: There is red It's red Con one. 80 00:03:56,960 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 1: And that's what I was gonna say on this the 81 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 1: first show that they're gonna be first wrestling show. 82 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 4: Yeah, so I'm looking forward to it. I'm not sure 83 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:05,280 Speaker 4: who I'm wrestling. 84 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 5: At what's going on, but I've never had a bad 85 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:10,200 Speaker 5: time in Nashville, and the fans are tremendous and they 86 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:11,960 Speaker 5: go all the fans out there, and I'm looking forward 87 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 5: to seeing all the national fans and hopefully I'll see 88 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:14,840 Speaker 5: you guys there too. 89 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:16,920 Speaker 2: Definitely, you know we will be there. 90 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 6: You went to the last cc W show or was it? 91 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 2: It was at the Granite Store. And I will tell 92 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:26,719 Speaker 2: you this the last time, the last time I. 93 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:28,000 Speaker 1: I got and this is We're not gonna go into 94 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:31,039 Speaker 1: too much details because this is a confidential thing. Last 95 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:33,159 Speaker 1: time Gang Girl was around, I was hanging out with 96 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:36,279 Speaker 1: him at a bar in Hendersonville. It is called Revelry 97 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:41,680 Speaker 1: had a show, was the DJ, and yeah, just at 98 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:43,720 Speaker 1: a show. I'm not going into whatever happened when some 99 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:47,280 Speaker 1: stuff happened with Jase Stevens and some other things. 100 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 5: Locked in the back room for a while after I 101 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:50,960 Speaker 5: was lost some keys and everything else. 102 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:54,680 Speaker 1: There was a lot of stuff that happened. 103 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 7: That that night. 104 00:04:57,960 --> 00:04:59,560 Speaker 2: That night, sure, I. 105 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:01,159 Speaker 1: Mean, I think we all did after that night after 106 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 1: I remember vaguely some of its good. 107 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:05,680 Speaker 4: Thing, I go around snatching other people's souls. 108 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, so let's kind of just talk about this real quick. 109 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:12,120 Speaker 1: You know, for some of those that don't know, let's 110 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:14,720 Speaker 1: go back to the beginning. How did you become Gang 111 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:17,160 Speaker 1: Girl and what led to the formation. 112 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:17,360 Speaker 2: Of the brood. 113 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:19,800 Speaker 5: Well, I don't have to come a gay girl. I 114 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:23,239 Speaker 5: was wrestling as the vampire where since I suppose nineteen 115 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:25,480 Speaker 5: ninety which that spun off of a Lost Boys movie. 116 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 5: I was sitting there having a blowny blowout, blown now, 117 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:30,320 Speaker 5: and she says, you gotta check this movie out. Dix 118 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:32,440 Speaker 5: Slator turned it out into this movie called The Lost Boys. 119 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:34,040 Speaker 5: You need to really watch it. I watched it and 120 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:35,480 Speaker 5: I joked around and said, hey, it'd. 121 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:36,600 Speaker 4: Be cool to wrestle is a vampire. 122 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 5: She said I should do and I said, you can't 123 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:40,839 Speaker 5: do that in wrestling. This is like nineteen ninety or something. 124 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 5: And I ve it up wrestling as a vampire. So 125 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 5: I puttled a round. I was in Puerto Rico's doing Japan. 126 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:50,400 Speaker 5: I did USWA and Memphis. I lived at Henderson for 127 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 5: a while. 128 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember that by one. 129 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:57,720 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you'd lawlor Jared at the time most of 130 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:00,599 Speaker 5: the time and good times, did a great time. And 131 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:03,760 Speaker 5: uh then I had a few triumphs in uh w 132 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 5: w F at the time, and uh they uh, they 133 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 5: said they were gonna hire me. 134 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:11,480 Speaker 4: I'm sorry, things pop up on my phone. 135 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 5: They said they're gonna hire me, and but they weren't 136 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 5: gonna use the vampire character. Uh. 137 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 4: They didn't want nothing to do with it. 138 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:20,280 Speaker 5: They told me I actually had the fangs implanet at 139 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:21,680 Speaker 5: the time, to say get rid of the fangs. 140 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:23,839 Speaker 2: I actually committed. 141 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 4: Yeah, I was an idiot. Yeah, well you are. 142 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:33,200 Speaker 5: You quite know how bizarre I am. I'll obsessed somebody things. 143 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:41,159 Speaker 5: So it's I'm committed, committed, committed to the asylum. But uh, 144 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:44,000 Speaker 5: they say, hired me, I do the hair in got 145 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:47,120 Speaker 5: rid of the fangs. I trimmed down like uh that 146 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:49,160 Speaker 5: was I trimmed down to twenty eight. I actually had 147 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 5: like a I had a little bit of a few 148 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:54,880 Speaker 5: ads in there, and they hired me and told me 149 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:57,039 Speaker 5: We're not gonna use you for a year. You probably 150 00:06:57,080 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 5: won't do anything. You're just gonna sit home. And I 151 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:01,520 Speaker 5: was super bommed. But not even a week later, Ben 152 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:03,080 Speaker 5: s Russo called me up and. 153 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:04,760 Speaker 4: Bro, can you do that bad part of thing? 154 00:07:04,839 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 5: And I'm like, of course this was a Friday night 155 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:09,200 Speaker 5: because you got a flight Saturday out. 156 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:12,880 Speaker 4: I'm like, well, no pressure, no pressure, no yeah. 157 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:15,560 Speaker 5: So I hit the local mall, the golf court of 158 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:19,280 Speaker 5: Golf View Mall from Tampa there ended up, uh just 159 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:21,720 Speaker 5: hit the hot topics up, came. 160 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 8: Out the way and the white puffy shirt and UH 161 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:27,400 Speaker 8: went next door to journeys and picked up a pair 162 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 8: of boots and uh and then I uh, I dug 163 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 8: up some old costume things I had one before, I 164 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 8: didn't have the fang permanently. 165 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 4: And out out the door I went. And then there 166 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:40,760 Speaker 4: that was there became gang grew uh with the entrance 167 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:41,400 Speaker 4: and everything that. 168 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:43,800 Speaker 5: Was all done over a weekend, all done from a Friday, 169 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:45,400 Speaker 5: and a debut on a Sunday night. 170 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:47,400 Speaker 4: He take, I guess it takes Sunday, I believe. 171 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 2: And that was a hell of a thing. 172 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 1: I mean, that weekend turned into a hell of a run, 173 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:53,120 Speaker 1: as you know, a stament. 174 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:57,000 Speaker 5: Yeah, no, yeah, it was awesome that I pitched the 175 00:07:57,040 --> 00:07:59,760 Speaker 5: brew thing a lot, not to name the Brewed or anything, 176 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 5: but because of the Lost Boys movie. 177 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:05,760 Speaker 4: And kept saying, we're like cool free birds, man, we're vampires. 178 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 5: I said, not that the three Birds were cool, because 179 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 5: they were my favorite six man, I love the free Birds, 180 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:13,560 Speaker 5: but but I was just saying, it didn't matter. It 181 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 5: doesn't matter if you wear you lose every night. Vampires 182 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:18,280 Speaker 5: could get the blood kicked every night as long as 183 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 5: they look cool doing it. You know, they're like, we 184 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 5: don't get it. 185 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 4: I said, it'll it'll work, it'll work. 186 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:26,440 Speaker 5: And then I think the US picture Tom Pitcher, probably 187 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:28,560 Speaker 5: Tom Pitchers a little bit more hip to the hop. 188 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:30,320 Speaker 5: You know, he knew what was going on, and I 189 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:31,920 Speaker 5: think he was in their year and they kind of go, oh, 190 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:33,480 Speaker 5: we'll kind of see what's going on there. 191 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:36,079 Speaker 4: And they did go with the Brew thing, the group, 192 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:39,040 Speaker 4: you know, like and and it was it was very cool. 193 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 5: It was very It just in organtically just happened, you know, 194 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 5: the great interest of my music, and then they put 195 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 5: us all together and it just you know, it didn't 196 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 5: last very long. 197 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:49,520 Speaker 4: It was no more than eight months. It was a 198 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:50,440 Speaker 4: short short run. 199 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:53,080 Speaker 5: People talk about it like it lasted forever. It was 200 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:56,480 Speaker 5: just very special. It's just the right place, the right time, 201 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:59,200 Speaker 5: and everything. The stars aligned in the universe was looking 202 00:08:59,240 --> 00:08:59,600 Speaker 5: down on. 203 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:01,200 Speaker 4: Us that day, you know for sure. 204 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:04,559 Speaker 6: Yeah, and you know, most lightning strikes don't hang around forever, 205 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:06,679 Speaker 6: you know what I mean, They're they're in and out. 206 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:11,000 Speaker 4: So uh yeah, well yeah, well they had plants for edge. 207 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:13,040 Speaker 5: So that that was one of the reasons is the 208 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 5: Brew thing got so popular so fast. Not to cut 209 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:18,440 Speaker 5: you out there, I'm sorry, but they had told me 210 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:20,680 Speaker 5: we're coming in. They go, hey, Edge is our future guy. 211 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:22,559 Speaker 5: We're going to strap a rapet to his room and 212 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:25,280 Speaker 5: he's going to the top, you know, to look out 213 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:27,319 Speaker 5: for one and stuff like that. So the more the 214 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:30,280 Speaker 5: Brude got popular, they soon had to get him out 215 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:30,559 Speaker 5: of there. 216 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:33,440 Speaker 4: You know, it would have just been like Brood grew Brood. 217 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:35,520 Speaker 5: It would have just, yeah, they needed he had to 218 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:39,320 Speaker 5: get on his own. So so that's that's that nice. 219 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:42,080 Speaker 6: Yeah, I'd heard a variation of that before, so we 220 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:44,240 Speaker 6: kind of wanted to hear from the horse's mouth. 221 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:47,360 Speaker 2: You know, in that you mentioned. I mean, you're right. 222 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:49,240 Speaker 6: I mean it was you know, eight months, a year 223 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:51,200 Speaker 6: or something like that, and then it everything kind of 224 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:53,040 Speaker 6: went its own way. But in that time, I mean, 225 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:55,440 Speaker 6: you guys did align with the Undertaker for a little 226 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:57,040 Speaker 6: bit and you were part of kind of the ministry 227 00:09:57,080 --> 00:09:57,800 Speaker 6: of Darkness. 228 00:09:57,520 --> 00:09:59,080 Speaker 2: Which fit fit the vibe perfectly. 229 00:09:59,080 --> 00:09:59,560 Speaker 4: Obviously. 230 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:02,800 Speaker 6: What was it like rubbing elbows with Taker in that 231 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:07,720 Speaker 6: short period and what was the just generally oh sorry. 232 00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:10,280 Speaker 4: Good, no, no, I'm listening to finished. 233 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:12,880 Speaker 6: Oh well, the second part of that question is, just like, 234 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:17,240 Speaker 6: you know that that era of wrestling, especially WWE, kind 235 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:20,320 Speaker 6: of changed the industry forever. What was the environment like 236 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:24,079 Speaker 6: just being in the w w F slash WWE. 237 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:27,640 Speaker 5: Well be a ww F slash w W was amazing. 238 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 5: It was awesome there in that attitude their time. It 239 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:32,559 Speaker 5: was like the wild wild Western wrestling. You know, everybody 240 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:34,200 Speaker 5: was a gun slinger and they were a good gun 241 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:36,280 Speaker 5: slinger and so it was I knew. 242 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:38,439 Speaker 4: That, I knew every tape and they're going for it, 243 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 4: you know what I mean. So that was a blast 244 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:40,880 Speaker 4: in that sense. 245 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:43,160 Speaker 5: I mean the agents would come up and say, hey, 246 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:45,760 Speaker 5: this is what they want from you, uh, and then 247 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:47,640 Speaker 5: they would tell anything else. They just say, hey, if 248 00:10:47,679 --> 00:10:49,640 Speaker 5: it's good, we're taking credit. If it's bad, we didn't 249 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 5: know nothing about it. And you're getting all the heat. 250 00:10:51,559 --> 00:10:54,640 Speaker 4: So so you got a lot of control on like 251 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:55,679 Speaker 4: you know, all. 252 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:57,559 Speaker 5: The way down to the bottom. Everybody had a storyline. 253 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:00,480 Speaker 5: Everybody had an angle. Everyone and lost min some so 254 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:02,600 Speaker 5: no matter what, you felt like you were a part 255 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:05,280 Speaker 5: of something and you meant something and it mattered. So 256 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:08,000 Speaker 5: that was super cool. Now going along with all that 257 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:11,040 Speaker 5: being said, uh, win losses and everything meaning something and 258 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:13,840 Speaker 5: stuff like that. Uh that they undertaker in the ministry 259 00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:16,280 Speaker 5: Now when I sit back. I think it was cool 260 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:19,160 Speaker 5: because it gave me like a different level of clock 261 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:20,880 Speaker 5: oh here in the ministry, because a lot of people 262 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:23,840 Speaker 5: really weigh things up to the ministry undertaker was you know, 263 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:28,520 Speaker 5: legit chopped off uh me at the time. And Adam 264 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:30,640 Speaker 5: tell you, I said to him, I said, this isn't good, 265 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 5: you know, like, because what do you mean? I go, 266 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:36,520 Speaker 5: because Una, there was no there was no more gray 267 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:38,360 Speaker 5: area com me, it was black and white. You started 268 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:41,120 Speaker 5: seeing business for what it was. So I said, the 269 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:43,400 Speaker 5: brew thing was going too good. You're gonna they put 270 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:45,240 Speaker 5: us in the ministry here to slow us down. And 271 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:48,360 Speaker 5: add to that, and I said, you've got to be 272 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:50,080 Speaker 5: careful here. And then one night we went out on 273 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:51,640 Speaker 5: the stage and you know how you would do like 274 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:53,480 Speaker 5: the curtain call, all the ministry would come out. I 275 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:56,080 Speaker 5: don't know if you remember that we were sitting far left. 276 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:59,080 Speaker 5: We were stage left, house right that night, so we 277 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:02,720 Speaker 5: were the far left in the age, and uh. 278 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 4: It was bruize. 279 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:05,960 Speaker 5: But then the bruiz turned to brood, and then it 280 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:07,360 Speaker 5: went brood brood. 281 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:09,040 Speaker 8: While I was standing out there in the ministry, the 282 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:10,199 Speaker 8: whole building started channing. 283 00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 4: I go, Uh, I think we out of the ministry. 284 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:13,840 Speaker 4: He goes, what do you mean. I go, you'll see. 285 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:16,439 Speaker 4: It wasn't even a week later. I said, hey, we're 286 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:19,079 Speaker 4: gonna split you up if you do you with the ministry. 287 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:21,480 Speaker 4: And then when that happened up, I told him the 288 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:23,160 Speaker 4: bruode's done. I said, yeah. 289 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:24,760 Speaker 5: I said, it was a short run, it was a 290 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:26,920 Speaker 5: hot run, and it was a lot of fun, but 291 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:27,319 Speaker 5: it's done. 292 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:29,600 Speaker 4: He goes, no, you can't be and I said, you'll see. 293 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:31,560 Speaker 4: And then and eventually it was done. You know. 294 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:33,600 Speaker 9: They came to me and said, hey, you know, David, 295 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:37,440 Speaker 9: you're the brood. You know right, Yeah, But it was just, 296 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:40,200 Speaker 9: you know, I need to go up and wrestling. I 297 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:42,560 Speaker 9: started when I was seventeen. This is I'm going September 298 00:12:42,559 --> 00:12:44,960 Speaker 9: of be my thirty fifth year of wrestling, and I 299 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:45,679 Speaker 9: did very blessed. 300 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:46,800 Speaker 4: I started retailing. 301 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:49,640 Speaker 5: I got to get my toes, have a couple of 302 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:52,920 Speaker 5: coffee and Calgary stampede down, spend a lot of time 303 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:55,520 Speaker 5: in Puerto Rico, all Japan when I first started, for 304 00:12:55,559 --> 00:12:57,560 Speaker 5: a couple of tours and I did I don't know, 305 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:00,760 Speaker 5: like fifteen tours with the smaller companies Japan and stuff, 306 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:02,600 Speaker 5: and then finished up and I gave it my life 307 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:04,280 Speaker 5: going all Japan, just as Dave heat. 308 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:07,959 Speaker 4: What as the ended up becoming gang growing. 309 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:10,560 Speaker 5: So I spent time in Memphis is the tail end 310 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:13,400 Speaker 5: and stuff all started wrestling up in Canada, so I 311 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:16,439 Speaker 5: was very very blessed to experience the territories and stuff 312 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:18,200 Speaker 5: like that. So you started learning. You kind of see 313 00:13:18,679 --> 00:13:20,920 Speaker 5: patterns and you started learning what's going on. And then 314 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:24,600 Speaker 5: with Luna smarting me up growing up in the wrestling business, 315 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:27,720 Speaker 5: I was like, yeah, we're definitely you just see it 316 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:29,600 Speaker 5: when when you see it going down, you know what's 317 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:30,760 Speaker 5: going down pretty much. 318 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:32,400 Speaker 4: You can do about it sometimes. But it was a 319 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 4: great run and I was grateful. It was the Man, 320 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:36,080 Speaker 4: it's the best time of my life. 321 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:37,440 Speaker 5: And it's still the best time of my life because 322 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:39,280 Speaker 5: I get to put my boots on every weekend. I 323 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:42,040 Speaker 5: still wrestle Friday, Saturday, Sunday. I'm here in the school 324 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:44,040 Speaker 5: Monday through Thursday. I'm doing what I love. 325 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:46,400 Speaker 4: I am so grateful and so blessed with life. 326 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:49,200 Speaker 5: You know, I'm just I'm just I'm just over you know, banging, 327 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:50,199 Speaker 5: the banging, and that's what I'm saying. 328 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:55,560 Speaker 4: Get up and grind that day. Out promise tomorrow. 329 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:58,600 Speaker 1: And that's the thing is like, of course c CW 330 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:01,760 Speaker 1: presents Meltdown. It's going down Saturday, March twelve, eight pm 331 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:03,599 Speaker 1: at Redcon one, Nashville. 332 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:04,000 Speaker 2: Uh. 333 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:06,320 Speaker 1: And that's the thing is like you see some people 334 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:08,720 Speaker 1: that that get out of wrestling and then they're just done. 335 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:12,720 Speaker 1: And but from what you're saying is like you're still 336 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:16,120 Speaker 1: You're still out there doing it, like you go to school. 337 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:20,160 Speaker 5: Like there's well, I just started with MLW, so I 338 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:21,480 Speaker 5: got dates through the year with them. 339 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:24,920 Speaker 4: Now that's a yeah. 340 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:26,680 Speaker 2: That's that's pretty dope. And I gotta go. 341 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:28,040 Speaker 4: I just did the show. 342 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:29,880 Speaker 5: I'll be out in Dallas for the Aztec and the 343 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:32,680 Speaker 5: regular show and plus yeah, so I'm. 344 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:34,760 Speaker 10: Still busy at cc W. I don't think you can 345 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:37,040 Speaker 10: see this board behind me. These duds got like one 346 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:39,120 Speaker 10: hundred and fifty states on here for the year. It's 347 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:41,520 Speaker 10: like insane, and they keep trying to take me down. 348 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:43,880 Speaker 10: And between me working there and here and here, I 349 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:45,280 Speaker 10: work more now. 350 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:45,920 Speaker 4: Than I have. 351 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:50,400 Speaker 5: I'm so so flipp and blessed man, I'm so blessed 352 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:52,760 Speaker 5: to be a part of CCW. Uh be a part 353 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:55,440 Speaker 5: of Wrestlingsville, and blessed there's wrestling fans out there that 354 00:14:55,520 --> 00:14:57,560 Speaker 5: still love wrestling and they come to it. So I'm 355 00:14:57,600 --> 00:14:59,280 Speaker 5: so look before to getting out in the Nashville for 356 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:00,760 Speaker 5: CCW redcom one. 357 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:01,560 Speaker 4: It's the first show. 358 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:04,320 Speaker 5: I hope everybody comes out, man, and we have a 359 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:05,840 Speaker 5: good time. I know I'm gonna have a good time. 360 00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:06,760 Speaker 4: So yeah, there's. 361 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:08,640 Speaker 5: Five people, are five thousand, I don't know how many 362 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:10,760 Speaker 5: holes in there. I'm not sure, but whatever it is, 363 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:12,000 Speaker 5: we're gonna have a good time that night. 364 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:14,000 Speaker 1: And this is gonna be interesting again because like we 365 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:15,760 Speaker 1: said at the beginning of the show, this is the 366 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:19,200 Speaker 1: first wrestling show ever here, and so I'm trying to 367 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:21,520 Speaker 1: figure out, like how it looks because the last time 368 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 1: was there, they did like this whole big meat and 369 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:25,600 Speaker 1: greet and Kenney Omega was there because he's a redcun 370 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:28,480 Speaker 1: One athlete, and I mean there's a lot of room 371 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:30,120 Speaker 1: in that place. So it's gonna be fun to see 372 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:33,240 Speaker 1: how these wrestling shows go down. And uh, you know 373 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 1: the thing that we go back to the brood because 374 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:38,640 Speaker 1: I sit here and think about that entrance and how 375 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:43,240 Speaker 1: amazing it was, Like I remember growing up watching because 376 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:45,160 Speaker 1: I was in the Adjudar, so I was young when 377 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:47,600 Speaker 1: you guys came out, I legit had like a few 378 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:50,680 Speaker 1: nightmares where my parents were not letting me watch wrestling 379 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:53,880 Speaker 1: because like, I woke up and I had a nightmare 380 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:55,720 Speaker 1: that I was in the ring and I got dowsed 381 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:58,960 Speaker 1: with the blood and I started panicking and I woke up. 382 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:01,280 Speaker 2: My mither says his bloodbath. 383 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:03,840 Speaker 1: So and I woke up and my mom's like, you're 384 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:05,840 Speaker 1: not watching wrestling or we're turning it off when the 385 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:08,160 Speaker 1: Brood comes on because you're not having nightmares anymore. 386 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:10,760 Speaker 2: And so I was just like, what the hell happened? 387 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:13,840 Speaker 2: And you know, speaking of the Brood, I mean, it 388 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:15,400 Speaker 2: seems like we got very. 389 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 1: Very close to the possibility of that reunion happening. Of course, 390 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:21,400 Speaker 1: Edge and Christian were both in the World Rumble, and 391 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:24,200 Speaker 1: you know, there was that time and you said this 392 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:27,120 Speaker 1: in some other interviews that, uh, you know you're gonna 393 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 1: do something with aw and then they brought in they 394 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:31,520 Speaker 1: did the Brewd thing with Edge and that kind of 395 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:32,520 Speaker 1: nicked some stuff there. 396 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:33,600 Speaker 2: Would you have. 397 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:36,560 Speaker 1: Welcomed like a full on Brewder reunion in WW if 398 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:37,680 Speaker 1: that had been presented to you. 399 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:42,200 Speaker 5: Oh, hell yeah, man, I love to relive, you know, 400 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:45,400 Speaker 5: that magical moment. Probably wouldn't have been as magic as 401 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:47,880 Speaker 5: it was the first time around, but it would have been. 402 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:50,120 Speaker 5: It would have been amazing. It still would have been amazing. 403 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:52,080 Speaker 5: Edge is a great guy. He politics for that. He 404 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:55,320 Speaker 5: told me he politics for like two and a half months, 405 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 5: possibly close to three to get that what they call 406 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 5: the brood bath instead of a bloodbat now because the networks, 407 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:03,200 Speaker 5: he said, the networks didn't want red, they wanted black. 408 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:06,760 Speaker 4: Blood, and he tried to get me but that didn't 409 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:09,080 Speaker 4: go down for whatever reason. So in there so he 410 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:11,320 Speaker 4: was looking out for me. So he's always trying to 411 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:11,640 Speaker 4: look out. 412 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:15,000 Speaker 5: Before he resigned, we were trying to put together before 413 00:17:15,080 --> 00:17:18,760 Speaker 5: Christian went to a w a bruder union where we 414 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:21,199 Speaker 5: just went around together, did signings, you know, just strictly 415 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:22,200 Speaker 5: rude and stuff. 416 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:24,680 Speaker 4: So we're good to do. So I know that he's 417 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:25,760 Speaker 4: always he's a great guy. 418 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:27,480 Speaker 5: He's the kind of guy if I text him two 419 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:28,920 Speaker 5: minutes later, I'm gonna get a text back. 420 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:29,800 Speaker 4: How you doing, buddy. 421 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:32,280 Speaker 5: He's an amazing human being. I'm so happy for him, 422 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:34,280 Speaker 5: so that I would have been honored and grateful to 423 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:36,360 Speaker 5: do that. It would have been cool to be able 424 00:17:36,359 --> 00:17:37,080 Speaker 5: to do my entrants. 425 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:39,640 Speaker 4: But but I know Edge. 426 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:41,960 Speaker 5: And from his heart what he was doing with all that, 427 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:44,720 Speaker 5: so that that was amazing too. And hell I have 428 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:47,879 Speaker 5: a I have a little podcast now, so that that 429 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:49,960 Speaker 5: helped push my thing. I had just started it, so 430 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:52,320 Speaker 5: I pushed my numbers into words, making money and doing 431 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:55,760 Speaker 5: cool things too. So it was all good. So yeah, yeah, 432 00:17:56,119 --> 00:17:57,920 Speaker 5: that would have been great, but but that was good. 433 00:17:58,000 --> 00:17:59,600 Speaker 4: The way things went down to that was cool. 434 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:03,000 Speaker 2: Well, if you got a second, give us tell us 435 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:04,479 Speaker 2: at us w ST. 436 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:09,000 Speaker 6: I'm I'm from Jackson. So my growing up was Memphis Wrestling. 437 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:12,159 Speaker 6: I watched Memphis Wrestling every Saturday morning. I watched the 438 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:14,840 Speaker 6: Jerry Lawler Show every Sunday morning. I mean I I 439 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:16,919 Speaker 6: that was my thing. So give me, you know, it 440 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:19,359 Speaker 6: doesn't have to be anything crazy like the Hendersonville store, 441 00:18:19,359 --> 00:18:24,919 Speaker 6: but give us, give us the us WS. 442 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:29,760 Speaker 4: WULA every night. But we had no money for a night. 443 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:32,840 Speaker 5: I know one time Lula and myself we had to 444 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:36,040 Speaker 5: we had to pond a spare tire just to make 445 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:37,600 Speaker 5: it to get gas to make it to the town 446 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:38,160 Speaker 5: to get a. 447 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:40,320 Speaker 4: They bought gas. 448 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:44,159 Speaker 5: But and she was we had money. She was actually 449 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:46,399 Speaker 5: and w w F I believe at the time. But 450 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:48,080 Speaker 5: I just refused to take any money from it. 451 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:51,639 Speaker 4: So it was me that pondit. But uh uh, I 452 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:54,399 Speaker 4: love us Wulay. When I first moved down there, I 453 00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:58,280 Speaker 4: went in, uh and they had me. Uh they suggested 454 00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:05,000 Speaker 4: I stay were pres also, Uh so that's the way. Yeah. Unfortunately, Yeah, 455 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:06,680 Speaker 4: he just passed away. It didn't go somewhere. 456 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:08,439 Speaker 5: I loved Bird, but I couldn't stay there. You know, 457 00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:10,600 Speaker 5: I would go on the road and come home and 458 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:13,080 Speaker 5: there's a fellow like Zebra Canon be wearing my clothes 459 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:13,760 Speaker 5: and stuff like that. 460 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:16,640 Speaker 4: And took this probably like shorts and underwear. 461 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:21,800 Speaker 5: Community, some boundaries and stuff. So then I ended up, 462 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:25,000 Speaker 5: you know, going from there because you made forty dollars 463 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:27,280 Speaker 5: a night, you know, every count forty dollars a night, 464 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:30,120 Speaker 5: scept for Mixtile Coliseum. And then I was blessed enough 465 00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:32,360 Speaker 5: that I was getting into a program of lawless. 466 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:33,560 Speaker 4: So then after after the. 467 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:36,159 Speaker 5: First month, I was working lawlor in the coliseum, so 468 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:38,359 Speaker 5: I started making enough money. I was actually after I 469 00:19:38,359 --> 00:19:40,560 Speaker 5: moved out from birth, was actually sleeping in my car, 470 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:43,800 Speaker 5: showering in the hotel at the hotel. But yeah, school 471 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:46,080 Speaker 5: where we wrestle at the buildings and stuff in the 472 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:48,520 Speaker 5: gyms they train, you know. I keep a membership at 473 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:51,199 Speaker 5: the one Jim Town, so I have a lot of 474 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:55,000 Speaker 5: crazy stories besides dealing with PG thirteen and Brian Christopher 475 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:56,560 Speaker 5: all the time because those guys. 476 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:59,040 Speaker 4: Are viving me and stuff like that. Like, but it 477 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:00,359 Speaker 4: was just really really good times. 478 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:03,439 Speaker 5: Learned a lot, Like every time I come in, I 479 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:06,400 Speaker 5: get in trouble because every time Luna came in. Every 480 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:08,960 Speaker 5: time Luna came in, I got in trouble because she'd 481 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:10,639 Speaker 5: come in. One time she came in and beat up 482 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:15,520 Speaker 5: Miss Texas Jackie, you know. Another time Waller would be like, hey, 483 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:17,439 Speaker 5: if you sleep with dogs, you get fleas and what 484 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:19,320 Speaker 5: are you talking about? You'll find out? And of course 485 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:25,879 Speaker 5: are hanging out with Samantha Dundee. I was, so I 486 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:29,000 Speaker 5: was pretty boring. Actually it was just whatever she came 487 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:29,880 Speaker 5: into town to visit. 488 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:32,440 Speaker 4: I was always in trouble. But I don't have to. 489 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:36,200 Speaker 1: That's usually what happens when you get with your significant other. 490 00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:38,840 Speaker 1: Somehow you get in trouble and it's your fault, not theirs. 491 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:41,760 Speaker 4: I mean, the only thing I know was like I 492 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:43,720 Speaker 4: can tell you this, we got time real quick forget 493 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:48,200 Speaker 4: that Scottie came in. How how do to whatever? How 494 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:49,520 Speaker 4: do you too? Scotty? Scotty too hot? 495 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:52,720 Speaker 5: He was there and h when I first came in 496 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:57,080 Speaker 5: and my debut that I attacked Lawlor with Brian Chris forher. 497 00:20:57,119 --> 00:20:58,520 Speaker 5: He called me out. I attacked him and they sent 498 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:00,920 Speaker 5: a bunch of people in and he was one of them, 499 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:03,120 Speaker 5: and I threw everybody. 500 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:05,359 Speaker 4: Out, and then UH did a few more things with Scotty. 501 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 5: And then one day, like this is a couple of 502 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:10,040 Speaker 5: months and UH going down the road and I see 503 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:11,920 Speaker 5: him broke down in his car and I'm like. 504 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,160 Speaker 4: He needed a ride? No, man, I don't need a ride. 505 00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:19,840 Speaker 5: And that could figure why he was upsetting. He didn't 506 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:21,520 Speaker 5: want to get a ride. He finally took the ride 507 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:23,280 Speaker 5: from me, and then I go, man, you are right, 508 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:27,120 Speaker 5: he goes, Then you're killing everybody, beating everybody up. I 509 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:30,200 Speaker 5: was like opening mind shopping everybody. It's just really rough 510 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:34,280 Speaker 5: because I went. I went from from South Florida, which 511 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:36,439 Speaker 5: I was trained by Borison going Aroussia Brooks, and I 512 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:37,400 Speaker 5: was training the right way to work. 513 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:39,399 Speaker 4: But I also trained with the shoe guys you w 514 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:40,840 Speaker 4: F But I went from there to. 515 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:44,159 Speaker 5: Calgary, which was a very stronger style and fast, and 516 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:46,320 Speaker 5: then from Calgary went to All Japan and All Japan and. 517 00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:48,160 Speaker 4: Went down to Puerto Rico for a year, and from 518 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:50,320 Speaker 4: Puerto Rico went to Memphis and nobody. 519 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:52,600 Speaker 5: My style of work slowly changed to it was a 520 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:56,600 Speaker 5: very aggressive uh uh you know, very substyle. 521 00:21:57,040 --> 00:22:01,080 Speaker 4: So yeah me man Scottie boded. 522 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:03,199 Speaker 5: After that moment, though, I was like, I had no 523 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:05,080 Speaker 5: idea that all of a sudden, I never know the 524 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:07,359 Speaker 5: wrestle again. I was like, I could figure out what 525 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:09,440 Speaker 5: Jeff job and hope me had me hold him in 526 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:11,359 Speaker 5: the headlock for my heat for fifteen minutes in a 527 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:13,760 Speaker 5: match I'm likes, then. 528 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:14,959 Speaker 2: You figure it out what happened? 529 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:19,480 Speaker 5: I go, oh, okay, so that makes sense, now, okay, 530 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:21,120 Speaker 5: I just thought I was literally boring here. 531 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:25,480 Speaker 6: Well and I think I read and this might have 532 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:27,080 Speaker 6: been Wikipedia, so it may not be right, but I 533 00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:29,679 Speaker 6: think they said got it too hot. He was your 534 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:38,320 Speaker 6: your first TV match, uh man you have yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 535 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:40,800 Speaker 6: that's that's all. And he's he's he's going back out too. 536 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:43,679 Speaker 6: He's uh, I guess he left w W. He's wrestling again. 537 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:48,399 Speaker 5: And yeah that was weird, and yeah, He goes, how 538 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:49,240 Speaker 5: you doing out there? 539 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:52,560 Speaker 4: This was like a month of telef to go that 540 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:54,560 Speaker 4: super busy. Everything's great. He goes Okay. 541 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:59,240 Speaker 5: About a month later I read that he leftis and. 542 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 2: That's why he was playing that sea when you're that's something. 543 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:02,520 Speaker 4: He'll be good for a while. 544 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:04,920 Speaker 5: He hasn't been out there, he's not oversaturated, and he could. 545 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:07,760 Speaker 5: I'm assuming he's still wrestling. I think his back's okay. 546 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 5: He was in great show. 547 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:12,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, of course. Uh CCW presents Meltdown. 548 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:16,560 Speaker 1: It's happening Saturday, March twelve, eight pm at Redcon one, Nashville. 549 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:18,280 Speaker 1: And we know we don't want to take up too 550 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:19,920 Speaker 1: much your time, but I want to kind of talk 551 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:23,080 Speaker 1: about banging and banging your podcast. 552 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:24,880 Speaker 2: What what was it that made you decide? 553 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:27,439 Speaker 1: Because I mean, every wrestler has a podcast now, everybody 554 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:29,719 Speaker 1: does that, but I will tell you, after listening and 555 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:32,919 Speaker 1: seeing videos and watching your stuff, you're not just a 556 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:34,080 Speaker 1: normal wrestler with. 557 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:36,800 Speaker 2: A podcast like this podcast is good shit. 558 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:40,480 Speaker 4: I don't know. Thank you. Though I didn't want to 559 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:41,240 Speaker 4: do a podcast. 560 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:44,600 Speaker 5: I don't match that work had approached me to do 561 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:47,080 Speaker 5: one and if the money was good, and I didn't 562 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:47,480 Speaker 5: want to do it. 563 00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:49,359 Speaker 4: I didn't want to be obligated. 564 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:51,680 Speaker 5: It's a lot of work to show up every game 565 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:54,640 Speaker 5: and produce this stuff and get it done and get it. 566 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:55,160 Speaker 4: Out in time. 567 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:58,760 Speaker 5: Like like, I still haven't nailed getting it out on time. 568 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:01,399 Speaker 4: My guy, it'd be out on a Sunday one day, 569 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:02,880 Speaker 4: it's on Wednesday. I think today it comes. 570 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:04,760 Speaker 5: We did it this morning, and it'll be out at 571 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:07,919 Speaker 5: six thirty tonight probably right now. It's coming out. So 572 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:11,760 Speaker 5: he's he was a former student, and he said, hey, 573 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:13,720 Speaker 5: can you stop. I want to talk to you. And 574 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:15,639 Speaker 5: I said, hey, listen, I know he does that kind 575 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:16,680 Speaker 5: of stuff. I said, I don't want to do any 576 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:18,600 Speaker 5: podcasts he said. He said, hey, just. 577 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:18,920 Speaker 4: Just come by it. 578 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:21,320 Speaker 5: So I went by on the way to wrestling class 579 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:23,199 Speaker 5: before training, and I talked to him. 580 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:24,200 Speaker 4: I said, no, I don't want to do it. 581 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:26,359 Speaker 5: He goes, can you just do like a test test video, 582 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:28,280 Speaker 5: just say hey, this is banging a Bang or gang 583 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:31,919 Speaker 5: girl and whatever, just a funeral teaser things, because I 584 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:33,240 Speaker 5: just want to show you how'm good at the look. 585 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:36,119 Speaker 4: Right. So I did that. I said, go ahead. The 586 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:37,919 Speaker 4: man I left, I was with a T shirt and 587 00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:40,160 Speaker 4: he sent it to him. He goes, oh, I set 588 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:41,800 Speaker 4: it up. We gotta think he just he just kind 589 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:44,359 Speaker 4: of did it, put it out there and said so, 590 00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:46,600 Speaker 4: and I was kind of I was upset, but not 591 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:49,440 Speaker 4: upset because I figured I could walk away from it 592 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:52,439 Speaker 4: any time. But thirty nine episodes later, and I'm still doing. 593 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:55,600 Speaker 1: It, and it's it's it's a slow it's a slow 594 00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:57,639 Speaker 1: climb when you're doing those podcasts. 595 00:24:57,680 --> 00:24:59,399 Speaker 2: And but I'm telling you good stuff from you. 596 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:02,760 Speaker 1: I've listened to it, and I mean just just hearing 597 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:06,760 Speaker 1: the inside of everything, and I mean great stuff. And 598 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:08,679 Speaker 1: I'm glad that you've got that out there because I mean, 599 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:10,800 Speaker 1: like I said, I mean there's wrestlers that have podcasts 600 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:13,960 Speaker 1: and some of them are just kind of eh. 601 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,120 Speaker 2: I'm not saying anybody's names, but you. 602 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:19,119 Speaker 8: Know, I'm glad you're enjoyed. 603 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,000 Speaker 7: I hope you hear about it, because I didn't know 604 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:25,760 Speaker 7: if I like the podcast every morning, I don't even 605 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:28,080 Speaker 7: watch wrestling. Half the time, I'm like, oh, crap, I 606 00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:33,080 Speaker 7: don't know what happened on Raw. Yeah, I'll be asking 607 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:35,159 Speaker 7: the guy that's producer. I said, do you know what happened? 608 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:39,320 Speaker 2: Like sometimes I figure out what happened on social media. 609 00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:43,200 Speaker 2: That's how sometimes we get our recaps. Oh there you go. 610 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:46,680 Speaker 5: Yeah, I figured out after when I'm doing cardio and 611 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:48,440 Speaker 5: I go, oh, man, I should have looked at this 612 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:49,280 Speaker 5: this morning. 613 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:54,080 Speaker 2: All right, but I mean we're not. 614 00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 1: I want to take up too much your time. Again, 615 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:58,400 Speaker 1: we do appreciate you stopping buy on the show. Looking 616 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:02,240 Speaker 1: forward to it. C CW Present Meltdown, Saturday, March twelfth, 617 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:04,480 Speaker 1: eight pm at redcom One, Nashville. 618 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:07,600 Speaker 2: Make sure, uh, you'd be there at the show. We're 619 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:09,480 Speaker 2: gonna be there. Get girl's gonna be there. 620 00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:13,480 Speaker 1: Uh. Last time I went, somehow, I ended up drinking 621 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:15,600 Speaker 1: and I ended up with one of the wrestler's crowns 622 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:17,199 Speaker 1: from a hardcore man. 623 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:20,119 Speaker 2: I don't know how that happened. But it's always a 624 00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 2: good time at a CCW show, for sure, I can 625 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:23,040 Speaker 2: tell you that much. 626 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:26,240 Speaker 5: Yeah, they're good people, man, A bunch of good times 627 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:28,560 Speaker 5: there I could take, Yes, sir, of course. I always 628 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:30,560 Speaker 5: used Chase too, but he's not in town that weekend, 629 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:31,720 Speaker 5: so I don't worry he's at. 630 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:34,240 Speaker 2: It so well, who knows, we'll find out. Maybe he'll 631 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:36,600 Speaker 2: like randomly show up under the rings somehow or something. 632 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:38,120 Speaker 2: They might say he's out of town. 633 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:40,920 Speaker 4: There's Friday Night and there's also after the show, so 634 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:42,000 Speaker 4: the show. 635 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:44,879 Speaker 1: Anytime there's an after show, that's where we know we 636 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:45,680 Speaker 1: can find Jason. 637 00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:48,800 Speaker 4: Yeah. I think it's two days extra days to get 638 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,800 Speaker 4: home after that. That time I saw you, it. 639 00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:54,000 Speaker 1: Was I mean I remember waking up the next hay 640 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:55,280 Speaker 1: and I was like, what happened? And I had to 641 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:57,639 Speaker 1: look on my phone and there was like a photo 642 00:26:57,800 --> 00:26:59,960 Speaker 1: of me, you and my buddy. Because my buddy was 643 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:01,840 Speaker 1: so scared to talk to you. He's like, it's a 644 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:03,840 Speaker 1: gang grill and you had your fangs in and he 645 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:04,760 Speaker 1: was like freaking out. 646 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:07,080 Speaker 2: And I was like, bro, just go say hi. I'm 647 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:08,560 Speaker 2: a fan, Like that's all you have to do. 648 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:11,680 Speaker 4: Yeah, man, I'm an easy person to talk to you. 649 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:12,520 Speaker 4: I love a good time. 650 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,240 Speaker 1: So the fun stuff again, Gang Grel, it's been honored 651 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:16,520 Speaker 1: to have you on the show tonight. We don't want 652 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:17,760 Speaker 1: to take up too much your time, and we look 653 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:20,639 Speaker 1: forward to seeing you on March twelfth at Redcon one 654 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:22,440 Speaker 1: when CCW presents Meltdown. 655 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:25,280 Speaker 4: Yes, sir, thank you guys, love that shirt, thank you 656 00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:27,040 Speaker 4: for having me on. Thanks what the time was on 657 00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:28,040 Speaker 4: the podcast, and thank you. 658 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:32,320 Speaker 7: Get all the fans on this peace please, Buddy, We 659 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:35,200 Speaker 7: hope you enjoyed today's episode of the Battleground Podcast. 660 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:37,840 Speaker 2: Make sure you give it five stars and a nice review. 661 00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:40,399 Speaker 2: To stay up to date with the show, follow them 662 00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:42,600 Speaker 2: at Battleground Podcast on Instagram.