1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,520 Speaker 1: What's going on? Guys? This is the President and CEO 2 00:00:02,640 --> 00:00:06,320 Speaker 1: of Shane Taylor Promotions, current one third six man Ring 3 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:09,000 Speaker 1: of on a World tag team champions and the baddest 4 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:11,959 Speaker 1: of all time, Shane Taylor telling you that you are 5 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:13,800 Speaker 1: watching the Battlegrounds Podcast. 6 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:20,080 Speaker 2: Why from the Parts Unknown Studios to the Double Battle Crown. 7 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 3: Battle the battle Bound, the Battle Crowd. 8 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 2: Welcome to the Battle Brown Podcast, your place for all 9 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 2: things pro wrestling. 10 00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:39,120 Speaker 3: The Battle Rown, the Battle. 11 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 2: Round now making their way to the microphones. Give it 12 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 2: up for your hosts. 13 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:51,199 Speaker 4: Welcome to the Battle Crown. Ring of Honor nineteen is 14 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:54,800 Speaker 4: going down Friday night. You can watch it on Fight TV. 15 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 4: Of course, it is at nine pm Eastern. It's gonna 16 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:59,960 Speaker 4: be a huge match. And there's the lineup is absolute 17 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:02,200 Speaker 4: amazing and it just so happens that we have somebody 18 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 4: on the show that is involved in Ring of Honor nineteen. 19 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 4: Let's go ahead and bring him in. Welcome Shane Taylor 20 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 4: to the battleground Podcast. 21 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:10,120 Speaker 3: Shane, what's up man? 22 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:12,479 Speaker 1: What's up? Buss? Thank you having me. But if you're 23 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:16,120 Speaker 1: gonna introduce me, man, you can't just introduce me as 24 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 1: Shane Taylor. First off, you're talking to the former Ring 25 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:21,959 Speaker 1: of Honor World Television champion. You're talking to the reigning 26 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:25,760 Speaker 1: and defending current Ring of Honor six man tag team 27 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 1: champions CEO, Shane Taylor Promotion is the baddest of all time. 28 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:31,759 Speaker 1: Any of those would have worked, but you just came 29 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 1: in with the lackluster I. 30 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:36,880 Speaker 3: Gotta let you. I gotta let you do the intro, man, 31 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 3: for when you bring it on back. I could have 32 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:41,760 Speaker 3: said the CEO. I could have said that stuff. 33 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:45,559 Speaker 1: The Battlegrounds podcast or is this Shane Taylor Promotions podcast. Okay, 34 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 1: this is your show. You're supposed to be handling the intros. 35 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:50,840 Speaker 1: You're supposed to be doing this. You gotta let the 36 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 1: people know who you got on here. I can promote myself. 37 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:57,200 Speaker 1: That's that's what I do. You know what I'm saying. 38 00:01:57,560 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 3: I got you, man. 39 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 4: And the thing is, though, is like we're honored to 40 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 4: have you on the show, and I'd like to just 41 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 4: make it a very subtle intro and let you guys 42 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:08,839 Speaker 4: do the talking because we're here for you. 43 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 3: I'm just the guy that this drives the truck. 44 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 1: I appreciate the way you're trying to flip it right now, Okay, Listen, 45 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:19,400 Speaker 1: I grew up with hustlers. I get it. I appreciate 46 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:21,639 Speaker 1: what you're trying to do. But what you're trying to 47 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 1: do is get me to do the work of my intro. No, sir, 48 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 1: that's what we won't be doing today. 49 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:26,799 Speaker 3: Sir, Well, it. 50 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 4: Would it be better if I said, welcome to the show, 51 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 4: the Man, the myth, the legend, and the soon to be, 52 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:34,799 Speaker 4: because I'm gonna go ahead and put it out the 53 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:37,360 Speaker 4: end of universe, soon to be a Ring of Honor 54 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 4: World Heavyweight Champion, because you got screwed. 55 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 3: We'll talk about that later in the show. We'll get 56 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 3: to that, you know. 57 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:45,520 Speaker 4: First off, I want to know about how cool is 58 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:47,840 Speaker 4: this the fact that you now have an Action figure? 59 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:49,960 Speaker 4: Like now many people could say they have their own 60 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:53,959 Speaker 4: Action figure, and you've got some very custom ones from 61 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,320 Speaker 4: Claymore Customs. So how cool was it to see the prototype? 62 00:02:57,400 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 4: How did all that go about getting together? 63 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 1: Simple, just like with the creation of as TP, what 64 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 1: other people won't do, I decided to do myself. And 65 00:03:09,639 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 1: so essentially what that is is me going, all right, 66 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:17,640 Speaker 1: how do I best get these things for me and 67 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:20,760 Speaker 1: my guys? Right? So I reached out to Claymore Customs. 68 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 1: We talked about the ideas, we talked about what we 69 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 1: wanted to do. He saw it as a great opportunity 70 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:31,359 Speaker 1: not only for us, but for himself as well, and 71 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 1: that was the result, you know what I mean. So 72 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:37,640 Speaker 1: it'll be about a month, will do a limited run 73 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 1: of them. Because what a lot of people don't understand 74 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:44,240 Speaker 1: about producing action figures. Right when you work with like 75 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 1: Mattel or these big companies, and you are a huge 76 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 1: company like Wue, because they mass produce them, they're able 77 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 1: to be fifteen to twenty bucks apiece, you know what 78 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 1: I mean, But when you do them on a smaller scale, 79 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:01,960 Speaker 1: they become more expensive. Right. So as happy as I 80 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 1: am to have these, it's a dope first step. We 81 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 1: won't be able to produce that many, but that'll just 82 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 1: make them all that much more special because these will 83 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:17,640 Speaker 1: be like the first and only of their kind. But yeah, man, 84 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 1: just I'm happy for me, I'm happy for my guys. 85 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 1: If there's anything that I can do to help further 86 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:30,440 Speaker 1: their dreams, then that's what I'm here to do. 87 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 4: And I mean when I saw the photos of it, 88 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 4: because I was scrolling through in Twitter, and you know, 89 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:39,360 Speaker 4: of course you can follow Shane at Shane two one 90 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:41,600 Speaker 4: six tailor you could see it right there. I mean, 91 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 4: these things look spot on. I mean, how is the 92 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 4: process going with that? Like did they just send you 93 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:49,240 Speaker 4: and you're like this is it? 94 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:52,039 Speaker 3: Like I'm done? Or like, how is the process of 95 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:52,720 Speaker 3: getting this. 96 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 1: Going the way we did? The prototypes they kind of 97 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 1: break they break it down kind of like piece by 98 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:01,560 Speaker 1: piece and eve like, and so then we send in 99 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:06,360 Speaker 1: like the imaging for tattoos and stuff like that, which 100 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 1: I have one, but con has a million of them. 101 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:10,479 Speaker 1: So I'm sure that was the hell of a process. 102 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 1: But they look though, and I think once we get 103 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:18,040 Speaker 1: once we start getting this next run going, we're gonna 104 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:20,840 Speaker 1: do like three D face scans and things of that sort, 105 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:25,520 Speaker 1: just to really make sure everybody's face is on is 106 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:28,640 Speaker 1: on point, get it as close to logoking as realistic 107 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 1: as possible, and be able to get these to the people, 108 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. There there's already been a big, 109 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 1: big surge of questions and in inquiries. That demand is great, 110 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:43,160 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So we'll see what happens. 111 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:47,159 Speaker 1: Probably about a month or so, we'll we'll see what's happening. 112 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 4: Super excited, can't wait to get my hands on a 113 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:52,440 Speaker 4: set of those action figures. So kind of let's think 114 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:55,120 Speaker 4: us back to kind of the beginning a tag team 115 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:57,520 Speaker 4: that you were in the Pretty Boy Killers, you and 116 00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 4: Keith Lee. Had you know Keith before that or were 117 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 4: y'all just kind of like sitting in the locker room 118 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:04,720 Speaker 4: hanging out and you're like, you know what, let's be 119 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:05,440 Speaker 4: a tag team. 120 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:10,039 Speaker 1: I'd known Keith for a year or so before that 121 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 1: moved down to Texas, like end of twenty fourteen, I believe, 122 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 1: or now end of twenty thirteen actually, and yeah, like 123 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:24,920 Speaker 1: i'd been seeing him on his singles run. He'd been 124 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:28,839 Speaker 1: doing his thing, I'd been doing mine. And actually the 125 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 1: goal because the NWA at the time was working with 126 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 1: Noah and they needed more tags teams to go to 127 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:43,800 Speaker 1: Noah to compete and try to win back their titles, 128 00:06:43,839 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 1: their world tag titles. And I said to Keith, I go, look, man, individually, 129 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 1: we'll be fine in our careers. But there wasn't a 130 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:54,680 Speaker 1: tag team on the planet that looked like us that 131 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:59,839 Speaker 1: could do what we do, that could combine our aggression, size, speed, charisma, athleticism, 132 00:06:59,839 --> 00:07:04,120 Speaker 1: you name it. And I thought, what could we do together, 133 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 1: you know what I mean, and that that could really 134 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:11,440 Speaker 1: put this business on its ears, so to speak. And 135 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 1: once we started talking, we realize a lot of the 136 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:18,600 Speaker 1: things that we saw about the sport we agreed with, 137 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:20,960 Speaker 1: and the things that we didn't like we both we 138 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 1: both agreed on, you know what I mean. And that 139 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 1: was kind of the term they're focus on the name 140 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 1: and I had to borrow that from a buddy in Ohio, 141 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 1: Trip Lead, because that's exactly the way we saw it. 142 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 1: There are so many people that have these preconceived notions 143 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 1: about what a superstar can be in this sport, what 144 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:42,280 Speaker 1: they look like, what they dressed like, how they walk, 145 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 1: how they talk, where they're from. You know what I mean. 146 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 1: When you hear someone describe a champion and the first 147 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 1: thing they say is blonde hair, that eliminates a lot 148 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:57,360 Speaker 1: of people, you know what I mean. When you see 149 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:02,520 Speaker 1: an image of you know, like a Rick Flair, they say, 150 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 1: you know, that's what a champion looks like. Cool, But 151 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:10,520 Speaker 1: a champion could also look like me. Yeah, a champion 152 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 1: could also be from the East side of Cleveland, Ohio. 153 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:16,720 Speaker 1: A champion is about what you do, not necessarily what 154 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 1: you look like. And so that was really kind of 155 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:23,920 Speaker 1: the emphasis behind the name was to go, Okay, we're 156 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:27,840 Speaker 1: gonna take everything that you think a champion is, everything 157 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:30,040 Speaker 1: that you think a star is proved to you that 158 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:32,960 Speaker 1: we can be that and more. And by the way, 159 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:37,000 Speaker 1: we're gonna outperform every single person on your roster everywhere 160 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:39,560 Speaker 1: we go, everywhere we go, and there's really not a 161 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 1: damn thing that you can do about. 162 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:42,240 Speaker 3: It, exactly. 163 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:45,839 Speaker 4: And you know, you guys are the part one third 164 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 4: of the Ring of Honor six man tag Champions and 165 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:50,240 Speaker 4: it's you know, that's gotta be a cool thing. And 166 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:51,960 Speaker 4: of course we're gonna talk about that here in a second. 167 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:55,319 Speaker 4: But something a lot of people you don't see very 168 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 4: often is staying with the company for a while. And 169 00:08:57,559 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 4: you've been with Ring of Honor for the better part 170 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:02,160 Speaker 4: of a decade. Now, where do you see the product 171 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:05,959 Speaker 4: in pro wrestling headed and what are the impact that 172 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:07,679 Speaker 4: you're planning for the future. 173 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's headed in a great direction, 174 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:16,120 Speaker 1: and I think ro Oh is leading that regardless of 175 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 1: how people feel about it or if they want that 176 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:20,800 Speaker 1: to be the case or not, you know what I mean, 177 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:30,600 Speaker 1: Especially since coming back from the break, because of the pandemic, 178 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:34,760 Speaker 1: and we were doing it before that, but especially since 179 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:39,160 Speaker 1: the return, we've been firing on all cylinders with a 180 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:44,319 Speaker 1: focus on sport and bringing it back to realistic competition 181 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:48,480 Speaker 1: and giving you those real fight feels that are so 182 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 1: exciting in other combat sports, right, Like that is the 183 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:57,960 Speaker 1: point when you watch a boxing match, you are into 184 00:09:58,080 --> 00:09:59,959 Speaker 1: it because of the fight. You are into it beca 185 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:03,680 Speaker 1: because of the emotion involved. Whether you like someone like 186 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:06,840 Speaker 1: Floyd Mayweather or you hate him, you're watching because you 187 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:08,760 Speaker 1: want to see what happens, you know what I mean. 188 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:10,440 Speaker 1: Whether you are a fan of a guy like John 189 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 1: Jones or not, you are watching to see if he 190 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 1: can establish his legacy, continue it or does someone knockock 191 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:20,000 Speaker 1: him off the throne. Like that is what you are 192 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:22,640 Speaker 1: watching these things to see, and that is kind of 193 00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:25,360 Speaker 1: how we've been presenting things. And I think the feedback 194 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 1: that we've gotten is incredible. And I know myself, the 195 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:34,560 Speaker 1: way I perform, the way I speak, the way I 196 00:10:34,679 --> 00:10:39,040 Speaker 1: carry myself lends itself to this type of a production 197 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:43,120 Speaker 1: in this environment. So I see big things for myself 198 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 1: for all of Shane Taylor promotions going forward. And if 199 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 1: I have anything to say, about it. We're going to 200 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:51,720 Speaker 1: continue this charge like only we can do. 201 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:54,360 Speaker 4: Yeah, And you know, you talk about Ring of Honor 202 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 4: and we've you know, we've had PCO on, We've had 203 00:10:57,160 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 4: session with Martina on and the thing that we've notice 204 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:03,000 Speaker 4: about Ring of Honor, and every single superstar that's been 205 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:05,680 Speaker 4: on the show has had nothing but high praises for 206 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:08,040 Speaker 4: how Ring of Honor handled the pandemic. The fact that 207 00:11:08,559 --> 00:11:10,320 Speaker 4: you know, they kept on roll and they kept you 208 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 4: guys on payroll. They didn't lay anybody off. And I 209 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:16,440 Speaker 4: think that's the one thing that most people haven't noticed 210 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:18,840 Speaker 4: that Ring of Honor has done is taking good care 211 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:20,199 Speaker 4: of their roster. 212 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:23,640 Speaker 1: Because that's not what you know, gets the clicks. Doing 213 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:26,640 Speaker 1: the right thing doesn't make headlines, you know. I mean, 214 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:30,040 Speaker 1: we live in this world of where the negative is 215 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:33,240 Speaker 1: the is the first thing, you see what that's the 216 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 1: saying a lie will make it halfway around the world 217 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:39,120 Speaker 1: before the truth can get out of bed and put 218 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:41,360 Speaker 1: it shoes on you, you know what I mean. So 219 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:45,720 Speaker 1: for a while there it was the popular thing was 220 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:50,560 Speaker 1: to disrespect r OH. And now that we're putting on 221 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:54,520 Speaker 1: better shows than anybody, better matches than anybody, we're running 222 00:11:54,520 --> 00:11:58,160 Speaker 1: things better. A lot of people are quiet, now you 223 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:01,079 Speaker 1: know what I mean, Yeah, which which allows the voices 224 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:04,480 Speaker 1: who have been supporting us to be heard. And those 225 00:12:04,559 --> 00:12:08,640 Speaker 1: numbers are growing, which is which is what you want 226 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:10,839 Speaker 1: to see and what you want to hear exactly. 227 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:13,880 Speaker 4: And you know, since the pandemic's hit, like, we have 228 00:12:14,559 --> 00:12:16,480 Speaker 4: thoroughly enjoyed Ring up Honor and there's so much in 229 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:18,680 Speaker 4: the library that they were able to do, like a 230 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:21,240 Speaker 4: best of this person this week and a best person 231 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:23,040 Speaker 4: this week, and then once you got into the Ring 232 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:26,640 Speaker 4: of Honor bubble like NonStop every week has been something 233 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:29,360 Speaker 4: that you have to pay attention to and watch. And 234 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:31,880 Speaker 4: you know, something else that a lot of people kind 235 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:35,160 Speaker 4: of watch and look is that the PWI five hundred. 236 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:37,680 Speaker 4: You coming in at number sixty five for twenty twenty, 237 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:40,160 Speaker 4: which is a great ranking, but I think that wasn't 238 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:42,120 Speaker 4: a good ranking in our opinion. I think it should 239 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:44,200 Speaker 4: have been a little bit higher up in the rankings, 240 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:45,120 Speaker 4: not at sixty five. 241 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:47,560 Speaker 3: But you're on the list and just ahead. 242 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:49,960 Speaker 1: Of I think the year before I was like two 243 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:52,000 Speaker 1: hundred something, So what a jump, you know what I mean, 244 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:53,679 Speaker 1: what a jumper was. 245 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:55,920 Speaker 4: And you're also ahead of names like Jeff Cobb and 246 00:12:55,920 --> 00:12:59,199 Speaker 4: Willie Mack. So do you pay attention to rankings like these, 247 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:01,720 Speaker 4: Like do they feel your performance to keep moving up 248 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:03,720 Speaker 4: to twenty twenty one? I mean, you went from two 249 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:06,559 Speaker 4: hundred to sixty five, and I think I would probably 250 00:13:06,559 --> 00:13:09,320 Speaker 4: say you're gonna be top twenty come twenty twenty one. 251 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:13,200 Speaker 1: I mean it does. I'd be lying if I said 252 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:16,280 Speaker 1: it didn't, but only because I'm the type of person 253 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:19,319 Speaker 1: that's motivated by that. And whether that's a good thing 254 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:22,240 Speaker 1: or a bad thing, I can't say that's just what 255 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:26,080 Speaker 1: I do, right. Other people do different things. I get 256 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:30,439 Speaker 1: motivated by that. I get motivated when someone says there 257 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:33,160 Speaker 1: are sixty four other wrestlers in the world better than me. 258 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:38,440 Speaker 1: There aren't. I get motivated when people, you know, tell me, Hey, 259 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:40,880 Speaker 1: we can't do this for you because we don't think 260 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:42,680 Speaker 1: it's gonna sell, or we do this, or we can't 261 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:45,679 Speaker 1: do this. Those kind of things pissed me off. Those 262 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:48,760 Speaker 1: kind of kind of things only light that fire to 263 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:53,000 Speaker 1: prove everybody wrong. And the last thing you want is 264 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:55,680 Speaker 1: a pissed off and motivated Shane Taylor on the other 265 00:13:55,840 --> 00:14:01,520 Speaker 1: side of you. So I enjoy though too, Right, because 266 00:14:01,559 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 1: there's still a lot of people that seem not to 267 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:07,400 Speaker 1: understand this about me, and so that just gives me 268 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:11,760 Speaker 1: all the ammunition I need to keep doing what I 269 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 1: gotta do. 270 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:15,080 Speaker 4: Yeah, and us here on the show are saying Shane 271 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 4: Taylor is gonna break the twenty spot in the PWI 272 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:18,960 Speaker 4: five hundred and. 273 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:21,040 Speaker 3: Twenty twenty one because I mean, you're having a hell 274 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:21,480 Speaker 3: of a year. 275 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:24,680 Speaker 4: I mean, you're a dominant ROHTV champion, just had a 276 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:26,880 Speaker 4: great match of the world title. You got screwed on it, 277 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 4: which a fan asked a question about that. So we'll 278 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:31,160 Speaker 4: get the fan questions in a little bit. But you're 279 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:34,400 Speaker 4: currently one third of the roh six man tag champs. 280 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:38,720 Speaker 4: Can we safely say that Shane Taylor and Shane Taylor 281 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:42,440 Speaker 4: Promotions are solely focused on championships gold in twenty twenty 282 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:43,560 Speaker 4: one and beyond. 283 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:47,120 Speaker 1: That's always been the focus, you know what I mean. 284 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:50,240 Speaker 1: But it takes time to put all the pieces in 285 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 1: the right place, right. They say, this is chess, not checkers, right, 286 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:57,720 Speaker 1: And so my goal is to be a grand master 287 00:14:57,880 --> 00:15:01,560 Speaker 1: at this game, and sometimes you gotta slow play it. 288 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:06,520 Speaker 1: Sometimes the best thing to do is just lay back 289 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 1: and watch your opponents move, you know, I mean, see 290 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:11,880 Speaker 1: what they do, see how they react, and then move accordingly. 291 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 1: And that's exactly what we did. Ring of Honor wanted 292 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:18,520 Speaker 1: to hand us the Sega expand titles that final battle 293 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:22,600 Speaker 1: because Maxis Squad couldn't make it. But there was no 294 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:24,360 Speaker 1: way that we are going to let that happen, right, 295 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:28,360 Speaker 1: because then there's always an asterisk next to your reign like, oh, 296 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 1: well you're the chance, but you didn't really beat the champs, right, 297 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 1: and we weren't gonna tack that. So we wanted to 298 00:15:33,680 --> 00:15:36,640 Speaker 1: make sure that when we got our shot, we delivered, 299 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:39,440 Speaker 1: and we delivered in a way that nobody would be 300 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 1: able to take it from us. And now we have them, 301 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:46,920 Speaker 1: and now you know, Magsis Squad gets their rematch, which 302 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:50,720 Speaker 1: we are glad to give them. But again, and we 303 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:53,800 Speaker 1: were talking about fuel to the fire, right, so let 304 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:57,040 Speaker 1: let's just keep this in mind, right, Mexic Squad gets 305 00:15:57,080 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 1: their gets their rematch almost immediately for the World six 306 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:04,400 Speaker 1: man titles. Can you tell me when my rematch was 307 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 1: for the World TV title? 308 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 3: I cannot tell you that. 309 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:11,560 Speaker 1: I can't because it didn't happen. So we're talking over 310 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:16,520 Speaker 1: a year later, no rematch for the kid, but Maxis 311 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:18,400 Speaker 1: Squad gets theirs. You see what I'm saying, Like, these 312 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:20,680 Speaker 1: are the things that I'm talking about that I that 313 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:23,880 Speaker 1: I say that people don't understand when I talk about 314 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:28,000 Speaker 1: you know, Shane against the Machine. You know what I mean. 315 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:31,640 Speaker 1: It'd be easy to, uh if I were one of 316 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:34,440 Speaker 1: the favorites to you know, get the things that I 317 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:36,560 Speaker 1: need to get done. But it's a struggle. But it's 318 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:38,360 Speaker 1: a struggle that we're willing to fight because this is 319 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:38,800 Speaker 1: what we do. 320 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:39,600 Speaker 3: Yeah. 321 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:41,800 Speaker 4: And I mean you've got a big fight at ROH 322 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:45,320 Speaker 4: nineteen Friday night, which by the way, nine pm Eastern 323 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:47,080 Speaker 4: you can watch it on Fight and pay per view 324 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:48,120 Speaker 4: against Mexas Squad. 325 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 3: Like do you do you kind of have a game 326 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:51,840 Speaker 3: plan already in mind. I don't want you to spoil 327 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:53,240 Speaker 3: it because if they watch it, I don't. 328 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:54,760 Speaker 4: I don't want to be the cause that you guys 329 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:58,200 Speaker 4: drop the titles. But I mean the guys are coming in, 330 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:00,560 Speaker 4: they get their title shot. Do you think that they 331 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:02,640 Speaker 4: deserve this to come back or do you think it 332 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:03,680 Speaker 4: should be somebody else? 333 00:17:04,600 --> 00:17:05,280 Speaker 1: No, of course they do. 334 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:05,520 Speaker 2: You know. 335 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:08,800 Speaker 1: I mean if you're a former champion, uh, and especially 336 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:12,800 Speaker 1: with the circumstances they had, right, they won them. Uh, 337 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:15,440 Speaker 1: but they couldn't really team together for almost a year 338 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:19,240 Speaker 1: due to COVID. Uh, We're supposed to come back and couldn't. 339 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:21,959 Speaker 1: Then you're then the time you have to defend him 340 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:25,400 Speaker 1: is against the baddest group in ro Oh you took 341 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:28,359 Speaker 1: a l all right, you deserve to regroup, come back 342 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:31,240 Speaker 1: and see if you can try it again. No problems 343 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:34,440 Speaker 1: with that. But the problem that they're gonna have is 344 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:36,560 Speaker 1: we're gonna We're just gonna prove it wasn't a fluke 345 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:37,160 Speaker 1: the first time. 346 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:39,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, And uh, I mean it's gonna be a heavy 347 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:40,359 Speaker 3: hitting match. 348 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:44,080 Speaker 4: I mean you've got STP and Mexa Squad, Shane Taylor Promotions. 349 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:47,600 Speaker 3: I mean it's going to be one hell of a match. 350 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:48,399 Speaker 3: And what's it like? 351 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:49,359 Speaker 4: Uh? 352 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 3: What has it been like leading. 353 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:54,760 Speaker 4: Shane Taylor Promotions with Moses and KHN, Like how did 354 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:58,800 Speaker 4: this all come about? Uh? 355 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:02,000 Speaker 1: Started with my with myself and Ron Hunt talking about 356 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 1: what we wanted to do. Growing frustrations as the TV 357 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:10,120 Speaker 1: champion when I'm watching throughout history seeing so much promotion, 358 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:13,280 Speaker 1: so much hype, so much build up around every other 359 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:17,119 Speaker 1: television champion before me, whether that was Ospray or Bobby 360 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:21,800 Speaker 1: Fish or Kashita or whoever else had the title, and 361 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 1: Jay Leith, for example, when when when they had it, 362 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:28,080 Speaker 1: their names were always on the marquee, their name, their 363 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:30,960 Speaker 1: matches were always denounced, And I get it. And here 364 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:34,040 Speaker 1: it is, thinking, Hey, I've had a breakout year pee. 365 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:37,159 Speaker 1: People are finally starting to see that I'm busting my 366 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 1: I'm busting my ass, I'm working hard. This is my 367 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:44,160 Speaker 1: chance to make history, only the third African American male 368 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:47,560 Speaker 1: to ever win this title. This should be my time, right, 369 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:53,240 Speaker 1: That's what I'm thinking. And then nothing, as the TV Champion, 370 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:56,359 Speaker 1: my matches aren't being announced. As the TV Champion. You 371 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:59,639 Speaker 1: don't even know that I'm on the shows. So that 372 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:03,640 Speaker 1: piss me off, right, just like in the last dance, right, 373 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:05,919 Speaker 1: I took that personally, you know what I mean. So 374 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:11,679 Speaker 1: that's when the frustration grew. And I'm noticing at the 375 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:14,680 Speaker 1: same time, we're promoting every other company that we seem 376 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:18,679 Speaker 1: to be working with. So I said, So, I said, Okay, 377 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:21,520 Speaker 1: if I need to make myself my own company, then 378 00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:23,920 Speaker 1: in order to get the promotion that I need to get, 379 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:28,280 Speaker 1: that's what I'll do. So That's what I did, and 380 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:33,879 Speaker 1: then it became a strengthen numbers thing. Right, So I 381 00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:37,359 Speaker 1: look for like minded individuals that think the way that 382 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:40,760 Speaker 1: I do, that want to see the changes that I 383 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:44,000 Speaker 1: that I want to make, that want to carry themselves 384 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:46,199 Speaker 1: and fight the fights that I want to fight, and 385 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 1: Conn and Moses were a perfect fit. You're talked about 386 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:54,159 Speaker 1: guys from MCW Maryland Championship Wrestling who were in the 387 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:57,959 Speaker 1: dojo system, who were, you know, kind of just waiting 388 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:01,400 Speaker 1: for their chance. Nobody knew what to do with them. 389 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:03,960 Speaker 1: They had a lot of talent, but nobody was really sure. 390 00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:07,280 Speaker 1: So I said, Okay, I'll get them, you know what 391 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:11,000 Speaker 1: I mean. And they're proving now just a little over 392 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:13,040 Speaker 1: a year later. What I saw on them day one 393 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:15,720 Speaker 1: and what everybody else is starting to see and is 394 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:18,400 Speaker 1: that they are the future of Ring of Honor. They're 395 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:22,400 Speaker 1: going to be the pillars of the tag team division 396 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:26,680 Speaker 1: for years to come. Pit like mainstays in the tag 397 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:29,359 Speaker 1: team title scene, mainstays in any title scene that they 398 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:31,840 Speaker 1: want to be in, because they're that good and they're 399 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:35,359 Speaker 1: only getting better every single time out. Every time they talk, 400 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:38,480 Speaker 1: every time they move, every time they do anything. They're 401 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:41,240 Speaker 1: getting better and I get to sit back and just 402 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:43,080 Speaker 1: say I told you so you know what I mean. 403 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:45,680 Speaker 1: And for me as the leader of the group, the 404 00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:49,000 Speaker 1: face of the team, you know, they don't have to 405 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:55,399 Speaker 1: prove to me why they should why they should be 406 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:59,119 Speaker 1: able to follow me. Right. They set examples, same with 407 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:02,440 Speaker 1: Osha Edwards saying with Ron Hunt, I have to wake 408 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:06,040 Speaker 1: up every day and prove to them why I should be, 409 00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:09,119 Speaker 1: why I should be the leader of this right, so 410 00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:10,359 Speaker 1: that keeps me where I need to be. 411 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:14,160 Speaker 4: Yeah, and you mentioned Oshay, which is he's a big 412 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:17,840 Speaker 4: name here in Nashville, and I remember we were at 413 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:19,880 Speaker 4: the Ring of Honor show. I want to say maybe 414 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:22,520 Speaker 4: it was three years ago, maybe four years ago when 415 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:24,520 Speaker 4: I was at the Fairgrounds and kind of pulling back 416 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:26,600 Speaker 4: the curtain and breaking k FOP for a second. I 417 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:30,520 Speaker 4: remember o'sha was a security guard going through a table 418 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:33,359 Speaker 4: that night from PCO. And then now he's lined up 419 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:34,880 Speaker 4: with you, and look at what O'shane's doing. 420 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:39,080 Speaker 1: This is what I'm saying, man, there's there's there's benefits 421 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:41,480 Speaker 1: of being in the mob, you know what I mean? Like, right, 422 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:47,399 Speaker 1: you know, from from action figures to you know, say 423 00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:49,479 Speaker 1: success in and out of the ring. This is what 424 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:51,399 Speaker 1: we do, you know what I mean. This is excellence 425 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:54,800 Speaker 1: I demanded from my guys, and I demand it for myself, 426 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:59,840 Speaker 1: So I won't ask them to work any harder than 427 00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:03,360 Speaker 1: what I'm working. But I'm busting my ass and they 428 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:05,040 Speaker 1: know it, so they know that they're at least going 429 00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:08,560 Speaker 1: to have to match that. And yeah, and this is 430 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:12,160 Speaker 1: and we're on a roll man, there's it feels really 431 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:15,159 Speaker 1: good to be building something that's so organic that people 432 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:20,960 Speaker 1: are getting behind and they understand the message. They understand 433 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:22,800 Speaker 1: what we're trying to do because we don't have the 434 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:25,080 Speaker 1: machine behind us, right, you know what I mean, This 435 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,720 Speaker 1: is just us and I think a lot of people 436 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:30,200 Speaker 1: are just surprised we keep making shit work. 437 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 4: It's obviously working because you've got gold around your waist 438 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:37,000 Speaker 4: and we're about to have more goal by the end. 439 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:39,920 Speaker 3: Of twenty twenty one. So that's what I'm saying now. 440 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:41,760 Speaker 4: Earlier in the day, I sent out a tweet asking 441 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 4: for some fan questions, and there's some really good ones. 442 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:45,600 Speaker 4: And I think me and you, before we started recording, 443 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:47,159 Speaker 4: we talked about one question and this has got to 444 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:50,200 Speaker 4: be a cool moment. This is actually coming from at 445 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,359 Speaker 4: director AMD and he says, I was watching ROH a 446 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:56,280 Speaker 4: few months back and my son, nine years old caught 447 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:58,800 Speaker 4: one of your matches. His jaw dropped and he was 448 00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:01,479 Speaker 4: left or he was in legit all. He looked at 449 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:04,280 Speaker 4: you like how I looked at Hulk Cogan wrestling at 450 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:07,199 Speaker 4: his age. So my question is what drives you to 451 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:09,800 Speaker 4: continue to perform at the level you do? And he 452 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:11,920 Speaker 4: asked that question because you are one of the few 453 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:14,520 Speaker 4: guys in the industry that when you have a match, 454 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:17,560 Speaker 4: it's can't miss and you leave everything in the ring 455 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:19,679 Speaker 4: every time. It's incredible. 456 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:28,000 Speaker 1: Man, that's dope. I mean, this is questions like that, 457 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:34,399 Speaker 1: reactions like that, impressions like that, creating memories like that 458 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:38,160 Speaker 1: are why we do what we do. So first and foremost, 459 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:41,480 Speaker 1: thank you to him and his son for watching, for supporting. 460 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:48,480 Speaker 1: And I think the answer to that question is I 461 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:52,280 Speaker 1: know what happens if I don't. Right, I'm not just 462 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:57,160 Speaker 1: responsible for my career, but I've got four other careers 463 00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 1: that I'm responsible for right now as well. That's my 464 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:01,679 Speaker 1: family and four other families right. 465 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:03,800 Speaker 5: That. 466 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:09,479 Speaker 1: I know this has to work. So I know people 467 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:14,240 Speaker 1: are waiting for me to slip and I trust me. 468 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:16,320 Speaker 1: There are people waiting for me to slip. There are 469 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:19,399 Speaker 1: people waiting for me to lose a step. There are 470 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:23,520 Speaker 1: people waiting to be able to write me off. And 471 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,359 Speaker 1: I refuse to give them that satisfaction. I refuse to 472 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:30,280 Speaker 1: let that happen. I refuse to let them see that. 473 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:36,080 Speaker 1: And so I have myself and I have my performance 474 00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:39,480 Speaker 1: at a standard right now that I'm going to maintain 475 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:42,840 Speaker 1: for as long as I am physically able to, and 476 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:45,600 Speaker 1: that is to go out and just like like he said, 477 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:49,560 Speaker 1: leave everything in that ring every single time and show 478 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:54,800 Speaker 1: everybody every single time out why I am the baddest 479 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:57,800 Speaker 1: of all time and why Shane Taylor Promotions is the 480 00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:00,600 Speaker 1: most cohesive unit in all of professional wrestling. I don't 481 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:05,199 Speaker 1: care what company you're talking about. There's a reason we 482 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:08,840 Speaker 1: all work so well together, and that's because we all 483 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:12,320 Speaker 1: have that target on our back and know what that 484 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:16,159 Speaker 1: feels like. So we all are kind of in this 485 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,640 Speaker 1: position right now where we're all back to each other 486 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,200 Speaker 1: ready to fight the world. And if that's what we 487 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:22,800 Speaker 1: got to do, then that's what we got to do. 488 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:28,000 Speaker 1: But it creates matches like uh, like people are enjoying. 489 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:32,320 Speaker 4: Exactly, man, I guess we just go ahead and Mic 490 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:34,560 Speaker 4: drop the interview now because I mean the answer to that, 491 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:35,360 Speaker 4: I guess we're done. 492 00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:37,280 Speaker 3: We'll just kind of, you know, clap our hands and 493 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:39,720 Speaker 3: call it today. But uh Man, I got it. 494 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:42,680 Speaker 4: There's a couple more other fan questions on here at 495 00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:46,199 Speaker 4: Boston Arman or Arman wants to know. Was winning the 496 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:50,720 Speaker 4: TV title or six man title a bigger accomplishment and why? 497 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:57,440 Speaker 1: Great question as well? With the TV title like like, 498 00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:01,960 Speaker 1: like I said, third ever African American male to win that, 499 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:06,080 Speaker 1: So that's history there. With the SIGG Man titles, we 500 00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:10,120 Speaker 1: are the only and the first all African American team 501 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:13,439 Speaker 1: to win those titles. So we've I've made history on 502 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:20,200 Speaker 1: both fronts. I think with the six man titles that 503 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:22,560 Speaker 1: win is a little sweeter because I got to have 504 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:27,840 Speaker 1: Conan Moses with me. It's that's their first title win, right, 505 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:31,400 Speaker 1: so to be able to not only take the next 506 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:35,400 Speaker 1: step in my legacy but help them establish theirs at 507 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:38,400 Speaker 1: the same time, that's what this is all about. That's 508 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:43,280 Speaker 1: what Shane Taylor Promotions is all about. So I think 509 00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:46,240 Speaker 1: if I had to rank them, the six man title 510 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:48,960 Speaker 1: win would be a little bit sweeter than the TV 511 00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:51,000 Speaker 1: title win because I got to bring my guys with me. 512 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:55,040 Speaker 4: I like that answer because and like you said, history 513 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:57,760 Speaker 4: with the six man tag titles, so that that gives 514 00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:00,000 Speaker 4: you a little bit more up there when it comes 515 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:01,919 Speaker 4: down at the end when you look back at your 516 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,480 Speaker 4: career and you're like, that was one of my defining 517 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:05,840 Speaker 4: moments in my career. 518 00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:08,879 Speaker 3: So at and I'm not. 519 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:10,520 Speaker 4: I don't know how to say his name on Twitter, 520 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:13,960 Speaker 4: but his name is googling. Ryan wanted to know, and 521 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:15,919 Speaker 4: this is an interesting question because I want to know 522 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:20,240 Speaker 4: will we see Shane Taylor go after Kenny King after 523 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,119 Speaker 4: costing him the R O H World title? And I 524 00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:25,240 Speaker 4: could see it right now as you crack your neck, 525 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:26,640 Speaker 4: I know this is going to be a good one. 526 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:32,000 Speaker 1: Man. Here's this is the thing with Kenny and I'll 527 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:37,439 Speaker 1: address this soon. It's just do you have brothers or 528 00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:39,040 Speaker 1: sisters like like like you have. 529 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:40,040 Speaker 3: I have an older sister. 530 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:42,680 Speaker 1: Yes, you have an older sister sister, right, so I'm 531 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:45,320 Speaker 1: sure your entire your entire lives. Right, You guys have 532 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:48,960 Speaker 1: had ups and downs, but if you had if you 533 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:52,639 Speaker 1: had to choose someone to have your back, it'd probably 534 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:57,200 Speaker 1: be her, right more than likely, right, same thing with Kenny, Right, 535 00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:59,520 Speaker 1: I'm I. I come from a place where we don't 536 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:01,480 Speaker 1: trust a lot of people. I come from a place 537 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:05,000 Speaker 1: where I could probably count the number of friends, real 538 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,840 Speaker 1: friends that I have on both my hands, right, and 539 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:12,800 Speaker 1: Kenny was one of those. So losing an opportunity at 540 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:16,640 Speaker 1: the Ring of Honor world title, okay, to have him 541 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:21,480 Speaker 1: be the reason that I lost changes things a bit, right, 542 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:27,320 Speaker 1: And everything in me wants to get revenge, wants to 543 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:31,520 Speaker 1: find him, beat his ass every single day, have him 544 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:34,359 Speaker 1: be paranoid looking over his shoulder at the grocery store, 545 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:36,439 Speaker 1: wondering if I'm going to get him, and that's what 546 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:38,640 Speaker 1: I want to do. But he knows me well enough 547 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:41,160 Speaker 1: to know that's what I want to do. Right, So, 548 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:44,120 Speaker 1: like we talked about, this is chess, not checkers, yep, 549 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:49,800 Speaker 1: but also right, so say so you have that. I 550 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:53,800 Speaker 1: definitely want to pay him back for that, because nobody 551 00:28:53,840 --> 00:29:00,800 Speaker 1: gets over on me like that. But I promised fans change, 552 00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:07,440 Speaker 1: especially change in how African American men, African Americans in general, 553 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:11,080 Speaker 1: but especially African American men are viewed in this sport 554 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:13,960 Speaker 1: and are viewed in society. And competition is one thing, 555 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:18,200 Speaker 1: revenge is another. On every media platform. You can see 556 00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:21,920 Speaker 1: us hurting us, US, US killing us everywhere you look, 557 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:28,920 Speaker 1: right from TV to movies to music everything. Yep, nothing 558 00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:31,320 Speaker 1: that I want to do about Shane Taylor promotions. Do 559 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:37,560 Speaker 1: I want associated with those stereotypes? So that now presents 560 00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:40,200 Speaker 1: a quandary between the guy that I used to be 561 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:43,960 Speaker 1: and the man and the leader, the mentor that I'm 562 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:48,600 Speaker 1: trying to be. Now there are children watching me, now, 563 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:51,640 Speaker 1: there are grown men and women watching me now, looking 564 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:55,040 Speaker 1: at me the way I looked at some of my heroes. 565 00:29:56,520 --> 00:30:02,720 Speaker 1: Do I want them to see me focused on achievement 566 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:07,840 Speaker 1: or focused on revenge? Yeah, So that's where I'm at right. 567 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:13,880 Speaker 1: So to answer the question, I don't know there's that, 568 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:18,000 Speaker 1: but I do know that the old me and the 569 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:20,440 Speaker 1: new met can't exist at the same time. So the 570 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:24,040 Speaker 1: question is which is gonna win out in the end? 571 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:27,640 Speaker 4: Yeah, And that that's like you said, I mean, that's 572 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:29,280 Speaker 4: gonna be the tough decision because you don't want that 573 00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:31,920 Speaker 4: to play out on TV, because I mean, every time 574 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:34,400 Speaker 4: you flip on the news, it's like you said earlier, 575 00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:35,720 Speaker 4: it's it's everything. 576 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:37,720 Speaker 3: You can't not see. 577 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:41,760 Speaker 1: It exactly, and I can't bring the change that I 578 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:45,560 Speaker 1: want to bring and be that leader while I'm feeding 579 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:50,640 Speaker 1: into the same thing. It can't happen. And Kenny knows that, right, 580 00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:54,160 Speaker 1: So he's he's not He's not a dumb guy. He's 581 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:58,640 Speaker 1: very smart. He knows that I'm gonna have to make 582 00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:04,120 Speaker 1: this choice and in a shitty way. Either way he wins, 583 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:07,680 Speaker 1: right because either I give in and give him what 584 00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:13,560 Speaker 1: he wants and compromise what I'm doing now, or he walks. 585 00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:16,440 Speaker 1: You know what I mean? So I don't know. 586 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,200 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's one of It's a double ed sword for 587 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:25,040 Speaker 4: you on this situation. So now that kind of we 588 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:28,000 Speaker 4: see a lot of other wrestling promotions working together. Is 589 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:30,640 Speaker 4: there anybody that Shane Taylor would like to have a 590 00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:34,040 Speaker 4: match with, or maybe Shane Taylor Promotions as a faction 591 00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:37,200 Speaker 4: like to have a match with from anywhere you could pick, 592 00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:38,120 Speaker 4: who is it going to be? 593 00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:43,600 Speaker 1: Man, this is and I'm glad you asked that because 594 00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:47,520 Speaker 1: there are at least thirty to forty people in the 595 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:51,240 Speaker 1: Ring of Honor roster right now who are dying for 596 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:56,760 Speaker 1: an opportunity that aren't getting it right simply because there's 597 00:31:56,760 --> 00:32:01,400 Speaker 1: just not enough time in the day. Yeah, So for us, 598 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:08,800 Speaker 1: we want our challengers to be those guys because we've 599 00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:14,560 Speaker 1: beaten all the main eventors. We beaten them, so nobody's 600 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:18,360 Speaker 1: gonna fight you. Like the guys that are hungry, that 601 00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:21,440 Speaker 1: are starving, that are waiting for their opportunity, They're going 602 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:24,800 Speaker 1: to give you their best shot. Like remember when you're school, 603 00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:27,280 Speaker 1: I don't know if you played sports, but like we 604 00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:31,360 Speaker 1: played football, and we would always scrimmage like a lower 605 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:36,760 Speaker 1: class team in the summer just to get exactly right. 606 00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:41,120 Speaker 1: To us, it was a scrimmage. To them, it was 607 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:45,280 Speaker 1: everything right because it was their opportunity to show that 608 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:47,760 Speaker 1: they deserve to be on the same field as us. 609 00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:50,600 Speaker 1: And that's what you have in Ring of Honor right now. 610 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:54,680 Speaker 1: You've got a whole roster full of people dying for 611 00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,600 Speaker 1: an opportunity, dying for their chance to be a champion, 612 00:32:57,720 --> 00:32:59,920 Speaker 1: dying for their opportunity to be in the main event. 613 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,600 Speaker 1: And the six man titles are the only ones with 614 00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:07,880 Speaker 1: no ranking system, so literally anybody in everybody that wants 615 00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:11,320 Speaker 1: a shot has the opportunity to get it. So we 616 00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:14,320 Speaker 1: don't have to fight anybody from any other company. There 617 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:16,360 Speaker 1: are plenty of people for us to fight right here 618 00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:19,240 Speaker 1: in ROH and we welcome them all. 619 00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,480 Speaker 4: Man, and so are you are you suggesting are we 620 00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:24,960 Speaker 4: throwing this out there that Ring of Honor should start 621 00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:27,400 Speaker 4: a ranking system for the six man tag. 622 00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:32,400 Speaker 1: Yo. No, I like the fact that we're the only 623 00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:36,960 Speaker 1: champions that don't have one, right, because then we don't 624 00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:40,960 Speaker 1: get the benefit of scouting three, four or five opponents ahead. 625 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,040 Speaker 1: Whoever shows up to fight is who we fight. That's it. 626 00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:46,600 Speaker 1: And if we're going to be the baddest group in 627 00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:51,640 Speaker 1: our roh, that's what we have to do. Any style, anybody, 628 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,800 Speaker 1: any team, I don't care what the variables are. We 629 00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:57,360 Speaker 1: will walk into your house, beat your ass, eat your food, 630 00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:00,040 Speaker 1: and put our feet up, because that's what we do. 631 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,440 Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying. Oh yeah, body else can 632 00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:04,640 Speaker 1: you know? I mean they can scout ahead and well 633 00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:07,000 Speaker 1: the top three and all this cool have that. I 634 00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:10,600 Speaker 1: don't care. We we line up and fight whoever is 635 00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:11,880 Speaker 1: across from us, come get it. 636 00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:13,520 Speaker 3: And that's that's what you want. 637 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:17,920 Speaker 4: You want a hungry championship team, and you welcome all comers. 638 00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:21,440 Speaker 4: Shane Taylor of course, Friday night, Ring of Honor night, 639 00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:23,680 Speaker 4: and you got a big match against the Mexican squad 640 00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:27,200 Speaker 4: getting their opportunity to get the to attempt to get 641 00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:30,080 Speaker 4: those titles back. I said that that ain't gonna happen. 642 00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:33,560 Speaker 4: We all know that that's not gonna happen. Come Friday night, Shane, 643 00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:35,279 Speaker 4: it has been an honor to have you on the show. 644 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:38,680 Speaker 4: Real quick before we let you go. Is there anything 645 00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:40,520 Speaker 4: else you like to tell listeners? Where can they follow 646 00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:41,560 Speaker 4: you out on social media? 647 00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:42,400 Speaker 3: All that stuff? 648 00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:46,400 Speaker 1: Appreciate it And of course, as we mentioned at Shane 649 00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:49,000 Speaker 1: two one six, Taylor t a y l o R 650 00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:54,839 Speaker 1: on Twitter and Instagram, beyond the lugout for those action 651 00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:59,320 Speaker 1: figures in about a month, beyond the logout for hats 652 00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:03,200 Speaker 1: jackets as well, will be working on all of those, 653 00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:07,560 Speaker 1: getting you all your custom STP merchandise. And that's when 654 00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:10,640 Speaker 1: I thank you guys for the support. It's been incredible 655 00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:16,640 Speaker 1: to be not necessarily the un underdogs, but the group 656 00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:21,560 Speaker 1: that is succeeding in spite of some people's best efforts. 657 00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:26,439 Speaker 1: I want to say thank you guys for believing in us, 658 00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:28,640 Speaker 1: for supporting us, for following us the way you do. 659 00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:31,680 Speaker 1: We are going to continue to give you exactly what 660 00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:34,799 Speaker 1: you want to see out of us, which are the performers, 661 00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:40,319 Speaker 1: the leaders, and the examples that we can be not 662 00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:44,600 Speaker 1: only for my generation, but all future generations going forward. 663 00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:45,520 Speaker 1: So thank you guys. 664 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:48,360 Speaker 4: Shane, once again, it's an honor to have you on 665 00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:50,440 Speaker 4: the show. We're looking forward to you getting those hands 666 00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:53,640 Speaker 4: raised on Friday, so Shane, Tannel Promotions can keep the 667 00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:56,440 Speaker 4: six man tag Championships and of course once again Ring 668 00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:59,759 Speaker 4: of Honor nineteenth Friday night, nine o'clock Easter. You watch 669 00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:02,719 Speaker 4: it on pay per view and fight and Shane, it's 670 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:03,640 Speaker 4: not gonna have you on the show. 671 00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:07,640 Speaker 1: Thanks, ma'am, Yes, sir, Inchila, and still we. 672 00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:11,080 Speaker 5: Hope you enjoyed today's episode of the Battleground Podcast. 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