Speaker 1: What's up.
Speaker 2: We're here, coming to you Live from There to a
Speaker 2: Dome Monday Night Raw. You know, over the last year
Speaker 2: I've had the chances down with them amazing WW Superstars.
Speaker 2: WW was kind enough to invite us to Monday Night Raw.
Speaker 2: Coming to you from There into it Dome. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: sit down with a couple of guys tonight and watch
Speaker 2: the show man.
Speaker 1: Make sure you guys tap in right for the kick.
Speaker 3: Evans though matrix like bag stunter right fuck two, get
Speaker 3: it up for the corners.
Speaker 2: Hello, coming to you Live from Raw into a Dome.
Speaker 2: It was one of the newest sensations. Javon Evans.
Speaker 1: Yes, they call you the O G. Huh and what's
Speaker 1: that name? I mean, you're the youngest, but they call
Speaker 1: you the O G. Where's that come from? Man?
Speaker 4: That's what they say. I ain't gonna lie. I was
Speaker 4: doing the independen scene of wrestling. I just needed a
Speaker 4: nickname because at first I had like the Wrestling Prize Eve.
Speaker 5: I was like I need something like, I need something more. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: I just made a post one day and hashtag like
Speaker 4: young OG and.
Speaker 5: I was like I had to beat the thing.
Speaker 2: And it went twenty two years old, recently called up
Speaker 2: from next What has it been like? I mean, you
Speaker 2: be about seven eight months in? What is this journey? Obviously?
Speaker 2: Ww was your dream? Ye you're here now, what has
Speaker 2: it been like? Honestly, it's been insane?
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: I feel like, especially now, like all my coworkers are
Speaker 4: people that grew up watching You feel me. So it's
Speaker 4: pretty wild, and I feel like it's just a blessing
Speaker 4: that I can like go to them and just get advice.
Speaker 4: You feel me, because I feel like I just want
Speaker 4: to be like the best one ever to do this.
Speaker 5: You feel me.
Speaker 4: So now that I have those resources, I feel like
Speaker 4: that goal is going to be easier.
Speaker 1: Have you had like any odd moments?
Speaker 2: I remember my first years in the league when I
Speaker 2: was playing against Kobe and Shaq and some of these
Speaker 2: guys that I grew up watching and I was in
Speaker 2: the on the court with him. Have you had any
Speaker 2: of those moments? Were some of the guys You're like, oh, ship, I'm.
Speaker 5: Here, so royal rumble this year? Of course? You know
Speaker 5: I'm getting beat up.
Speaker 1: You feel me.
Speaker 5: And then I hear Brock Lizard's theme song, and I'm.
Speaker 4: Like, bro like I remember being a kid and like
Speaker 4: like when I hear Brock listener, I remember like, oh, bro,
Speaker 4: something Dad about to have any about to come out
Speaker 4: and break somebody's arm, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Bro?
Speaker 4: And then like I heard his music and I heard
Speaker 4: like Roman's music and Randy were in his music. It
Speaker 4: was just it was it was wild, you know. I
Speaker 4: feel like that was the moment where I was like, yo,
Speaker 4: like I'm living to dream brouh.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: What does it feel like to be stamped by someone
Speaker 2: like Sean Michael? Someone I grew up watching someone who
Speaker 2: was a high flyer, such as yourself. Obviously he's running
Speaker 2: the next program, but that be stunt stamped by someone
Speaker 2: like him?
Speaker 1: What does that mean to you?
Speaker 5: Oh? It's a blessing.
Speaker 4: I mean not every day you could say that one
Speaker 4: of your mentors or like your your top mentors is
Speaker 4: Sean and Michaels. You feel me and but he just
Speaker 4: got so much knowledge in so many years in WW
Speaker 4: and just in wrestling in general. You feel me like
Speaker 4: he's helped me change my mind and my thought process
Speaker 4: about wrestling. You feel me, I feel like that's gonna
Speaker 4: take me very very far in this business.
Speaker 1: You're someone obviously very skilled, but athletic.
Speaker 2: You fly around the ring. Who are some of the
Speaker 2: high flowers that you looked up to when you were
Speaker 2: younger when your dad wouldn't let you watch. Who are
Speaker 2: some of the people you were imitating when you were younger?
Speaker 4: Yeah, bro of course, like Kofi Kingston, Uh, you know,
Speaker 4: Jeff Hardy, try, Raymond Stereo. And then like as I
Speaker 4: got older, you had people like.
Speaker 5: You know, Eddie Guerrero.
Speaker 4: You feel me like just very like old school and
Speaker 4: very aggressive because like in his era, you.
Speaker 5: Had to age. Yeah, yeah, you've been.
Speaker 4: Ruth was aggressive, So like I feel like with the
Speaker 4: hot flying and like Eddie kind of added that like
Speaker 4: edge to it as well, you feel me, So I
Speaker 4: feel like that really helped me, especially.
Speaker 2: Now outside of Sean Michael says, any of like the Vets,
Speaker 2: any of the ogs kind of put their arm around
Speaker 2: you and helped you with the knox of this journey.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, for sure, for sure. Of course, you know,
Speaker 4: like we got Fit Finley and NXT. You know, you
Speaker 4: got Randy Orton. That's like crazy to say that Randy
Speaker 4: Orton is my mentor you know, John Cena, Roman Stelf,
Speaker 4: Like these are guys are like looking over me, you
Speaker 4: feel me, And like I said earlier, right, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: keep on saying it right. Just such a blessing, bro,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. I'm just honored to be
Speaker 4: in this position. I know it's gonna get better and better.
Speaker 1: You caught this quickly, obviously.
Speaker 2: We talked a little bit off camera how you watched
Speaker 2: the backyard wrestling. Your dad had to make you stop
Speaker 2: wrestling that was just your thing. Yeah, but you've really
Speaker 2: only been wrestling for about three or four years. What
Speaker 2: clicked for you and let you know like, hey, I
Speaker 2: really have a chance to make this a profession.
Speaker 4: Well, so, actually I've been wrestling since I was thirteen
Speaker 4: years So I heard you.
Speaker 1: Made the debut at thirteen. Yeah. Yeah, so I read
Speaker 1: about that, but I wasn't sure, So tell me how
Speaker 1: that went. What was that about?
Speaker 4: So? I started training at thirteen years old under Fire
Speaker 4: Star Pro Wrestling, and I it was just crazy because
Speaker 4: not a lot of people can say they started training
Speaker 4: in like middle school, you know what I mean. So
Speaker 4: I had my first natch at fourteen, and I remember
Speaker 4: we got picked up by our Anderson from the Four Horsemen.
Speaker 4: Me and my best friend was at a seminar and
Speaker 4: he chose two people to wrestle for it show that night,
Speaker 4: and he chose the youngest people there.
Speaker 5: And so we get there and I'm like, oh, this
Speaker 5: is fire.
Speaker 4: You know, you got the crowd and then, Bro, I
Speaker 4: was just so nervous, and I remember walking out and
Speaker 4: I saw the crowd and it was just like like instant, like, Oh, that's.
Speaker 5: Why I belonged to do this. You feel me.
Speaker 4: I belong here, Bro, Like this is just something I
Speaker 4: love doing already, you feel me? And Bro, ever since then,
Speaker 4: I've just been grinding and just trying to be the best.
Speaker 5: Bro.
Speaker 1: What's the first thing you bought with that WWE paycheck?
Speaker 5: First thing I bought?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: Okay, well, honestly the first main roster paycheck, I got
Speaker 4: a Tesla blacked out and what I mean you I
Speaker 4: mean got a little tit on there.
Speaker 5: You fear me a little yo. I call it Gotham.
Speaker 4: Okay, So it's all black and then the rims are black,
Speaker 4: and now I'm gonna get like the Tesla logo to
Speaker 4: be yellow. And then when you open the door, I'm
Speaker 4: gonn getting little Batman logo under the door, like.
Speaker 1: The light come on?
Speaker 2: Now come on now, all right before I get you
Speaker 2: out of here. One wrestler you can wish you could
Speaker 2: have wrestled from a prior eraror.
Speaker 5: Man want to wrestler that.
Speaker 4: Oh, either Sean Michaels or Rick Flair. I feel like
Speaker 4: like those two I would have learned so much, Bro,
Speaker 4: And honestly, like their crowds in there in the wrestling
Speaker 4: and how they thought about wrestling was so different back
Speaker 4: in the day.
Speaker 5: I felt like I would have learned like so much.
Speaker 5: You feel me like, Bro, that's a dream match for show.
Speaker 1: So you're your gear, yeah, I mean you're not the basic.
Speaker 2: You come in very flashy breakdown what we got right here?
Speaker 4: So of course we got you know, like the knee
Speaker 4: pads with the kick pads. You know, I don't really
Speaker 4: I'll be trying to, you know, mix it up sometimes.
Speaker 4: But tonight you're rocking the knee pass kick pass. We
Speaker 4: got a little blue, a little pink.
Speaker 2: What was the inspiration behind the color pattern and just
Speaker 2: what you're outfiting because that's a big deal now, yeah yeah,
Speaker 2: what was the thought process behind that?
Speaker 4: Bro? Honestly, I just kind of just go my heart, Okay,
Speaker 4: I just go with my heart. No, But for real,
Speaker 4: it's just I just think about colors or I just
Speaker 4: tell my gear maker, like yo, let's figure something out.
Speaker 5: But I'm down the freestyle.
Speaker 1: You feel me?
Speaker 4: These are actually special because this is the first gear
Speaker 4: I wore in my first MSG match.
Speaker 5: Against got Through and the Johnson the tournament.
Speaker 4: But usually you know, we got to that, boy, but
Speaker 4: I don't see you on the side.
Speaker 6: You feel me.
Speaker 5: We got to logo on the front and on time bot.
Speaker 5: We got the young g on the side and we
Speaker 5: got the Evans on the back. You gotta rock the
Speaker 5: last name. Yall know who I am? Yeah, right, this
Speaker 5: is bro. I ain't no inspiration behind it for real,
Speaker 5: It's just.
Speaker 1: All right. You got your solo camera. What's one thing
Speaker 1: you want to let your fans know? Bro? Well?
Speaker 4: Number one, I want to say I appreciate you all
Speaker 4: for all the support.
Speaker 5: Number two, I'm abouna be the grades of all talk.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 5: You feel me, y'all gonna help me achieve that goal.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you, brother. This is a crazy.
Speaker 3: Cot score to settle.
Speaker 1: Welcome back.
Speaker 2: We're coming to you Monday, not raw from into a
Speaker 2: dumb Welcome to my left is Royce Key, East palou
Speaker 2: Till Native.
Speaker 1: I'm from San Jose, so.
Speaker 2: We basically family neighbors boys growing up football, I'm guessing
Speaker 2: you play a little football player everything. My my big mama,
Speaker 2: When my grandma had me playing football, basketball, baseball, like
Speaker 2: right after after one ended, pop right into the next one.
Speaker 1: That's how we used to go another sports.
Speaker 2: So when did wrestling become a reality for you?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 7: So it's like most people don't know, is my grandparents
Speaker 7: moved from from Hollabird, Mississippi, took a greyhound to San Francisco,
Speaker 7: and they lived right across the street from the cow Palace.
Speaker 7: So they lived in uh a one bedroom right up
Speaker 7: above this little convenience store on the back. They had
Speaker 7: had you get all your groceries there. So every week,
Speaker 7: every other week, excuse me, they will go there. You
Speaker 7: know see Pat Patterson, High Chief, Peter Marvia, Kenji Stevens.
Speaker 7: So by the time I came along, wrestling was already Yeah,
Speaker 7: it was. I was locked in boring into it.
Speaker 2: So you made your debut at Royal Rumble. Explain what
Speaker 2: that was like coming over from a different circuit.
Speaker 1: You're finally here. The dream is a reality now what
Speaker 1: was that first experience.
Speaker 6: Like out there?
Speaker 7: It was crazy because I as soon as I put
Speaker 7: pen to paper, everything was.
Speaker 1: Tell me that journey you took. Could you just told
Speaker 1: me I was crazy? Man?
Speaker 7: So man, I grind it for years on the Independence.
Speaker 7: Sometimes I would wrestle in front of like five people
Speaker 7: flea markets, not in the wrestling ring, but in a
Speaker 7: boxing ring and hard at hell no give, but man,
Speaker 7: WW was always a goal. It was a struggle. Sometimes
Speaker 7: you can get a hot dog for a payout. Sometimes
Speaker 7: you get a good payout of two hundred dollars, you know,
Speaker 7: driving from from.
Speaker 1: Oakland to do a show in Vegas.
Speaker 7: And then driving back making sure you had to be
Speaker 7: at the job about seven eight am in the morning.
Speaker 1: So it was it was a grind man.
Speaker 7: Then when I had the opportunity to to you know,
Speaker 7: live my dream come here to WWE, man, I had
Speaker 7: to jump on it. There was I don't like living
Speaker 7: my life with what if right, I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna go if I'm not one hundred percent or something,
Speaker 7: I'm not gonna do it.
Speaker 2: Athletic Powerhouse who were some of the people along the
Speaker 2: way that you looked up to and then inspired you.
Speaker 7: Mark Henry Rakishi, Stone Cold the Rock, Booker, t.
Speaker 1: Ravishing, Rick Rude, mister perfect. You know, so there's a
Speaker 1: lot of guys back in the day.
Speaker 2: You have any any people who've kind of put their
Speaker 2: arm around you and and mentored ojju and and and
Speaker 2: kind of showed you the dudes and dun'ts in this space.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Man, I look at a man that's in the building
Speaker 7: the night, You're a Kishi fa to He taught me
Speaker 7: a lot of the gang.
Speaker 1: Uh Ezekiel Jackson, Booker t.
Speaker 7: A lot of people I met along the way, especially
Speaker 7: like coming here now, you have so many guys that
Speaker 7: have been to where you want to be. You just
Speaker 7: have to be a spodngge and just shut up and listen.
Speaker 7: Being in and you know, in the ring is is
Speaker 7: one part. But obviously finding out what the crowd takes too,
Speaker 7: and and and kind of your mantra.
Speaker 1: And your your your your.
Speaker 2: How do you figure that kind of stuff out? How
Speaker 2: do you how do you play to the crowd? What
Speaker 2: goes into kind of figuring out how that works out?
Speaker 7: One thing I know about professional wrestling, like the fans
Speaker 7: will know if you if you be right, you can
Speaker 7: tell the real fake Like I'm sure you came across
Speaker 7: some people that was faking the funk, and it's just
Speaker 7: they know what's genuine and real. Like I've had opportunity
Speaker 7: to tell my story, you know, and it means something.
Speaker 1: But just the energy you get off them and you get.
Speaker 7: It back like they they know, like I take my
Speaker 7: real life experiences that all the the trials and tribulations
Speaker 7: and the heartache and stuff I went through. I used
Speaker 7: that as motivation out there because this is gonna tell
Speaker 7: the story.
Speaker 2: What was kind of your your I made it moment?
Speaker 2: Was it Royal Rumble?
Speaker 1: Was it? Did it hit you later? When were you like, damn,
Speaker 1: I'm really here Royal Rumble?
Speaker 7: Because I don't know how many Royal Rumbles we had
Speaker 7: in my grandparents front yard, throwing each other over the fence.
Speaker 7: So it was just my I was number fourteen, just
Speaker 7: that number being called and then you just walking down
Speaker 7: the aisle and you know, it's it's weird because Royal
Speaker 7: Rumble was like the first p l e that you
Speaker 7: know that started the whole year. You know, he had
Speaker 7: the big four back of the day. So Royal Rumble
Speaker 7: a must watch.
Speaker 2: So this weekend you'll be out of Minnesota summer Slam.
Speaker 2: What should we expect from that? I gotta I got
Speaker 2: a gripe with the bud line.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 7: You know, we we go back about fourteen years in
Speaker 7: that family, so you know it's going down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, you made a mistake. Bro, guess it's bad.
Speaker 1: You know how we get down in the Bay. So
Speaker 1: it's you.
Speaker 7: Know, I'm not the person that will turn the other cheek.
Speaker 2: So it's gonna be a war being a Bay guy.
Speaker 2: Who are some of your favorite Warrior teams? I grew
Speaker 2: up loving Tim Hardaway to run TMC. Yeah, Chris mullin
Speaker 2: rich had Mitch Richmond. I love that We Believe. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's what put our little footprint down.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Like we was just in Oracle on Friday, right
Speaker 7: and they got the we Believe shirt pinned up in
Speaker 7: that hole. That Dirk maid is still in the wall. Yeah,
Speaker 7: it's still in the wall. I walked past. I was
Speaker 7: telling people the story about it. They looking at me like, oh,
Speaker 7: how you know this? I'm like this, Yeah.
Speaker 2: History obviously a very bright future ahead. Do you what
Speaker 2: is your goals in this w W space?
Speaker 7: To be a champion, be a world champion, Uh, putting
Speaker 7: East Palato on the map.
Speaker 1: You know that that's my goal.
Speaker 7: I just I just received this past Thursday, a proclamation
Speaker 7: for Royce Keysday.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 7: So it is either June or excuse me, July twenty third,
Speaker 7: big man. So it was good man. So you know,
Speaker 7: I just I want people to when they think of
Speaker 7: people that struck fear, you know, somebody didn't mess around
Speaker 7: and play like that's be dominant.
Speaker 1: That's that's me.
Speaker 2: Give me one guy from a past era you wish
Speaker 2: you could have wrestled Attitude era Undertaker?
Speaker 1: Undertaker? Yeah, that's a big one. What's undertaking? Like six?
Speaker 1: Is he six eighty sixteen? Sixteen?
Speaker 2: Okay, definitely say I want to see if I'm out
Speaker 2: of eye or not.
Speaker 1: Sixteen? I gotta I got a sun. That's that's seven
Speaker 1: foot your yeah really twenty wow? Congratulations? Man, speak to
Speaker 1: us about your gear? Is it? Is it? Is it
Speaker 1: all you? Is it that people have insight on that?
Speaker 1: Or you were? Uh? Sad?
Speaker 7: He actually designs the gear he works here. But me, Man,
Speaker 7: I always was a fan of the Steiner brothers. Yeah,
Speaker 7: you know they they wore the singlests. I have no
Speaker 7: collegiate wrestling experience. But I was just a fan of
Speaker 7: how they always wore the singlets. Uh got the flames here.
Speaker 7: That was a big Harlem Heat fan growing up. Booker
Speaker 7: T Stevie Ray. They was talking about calling people suckers
Speaker 7: and you know, talking about neck bones and all that
Speaker 7: wearing new rags. That's something I can relate to as
Speaker 7: a kid. And then I got my name on the
Speaker 7: front man. So you know velvet. I'm a big fan
Speaker 7: of velvet.
Speaker 1: You know. So this is a this is a ring
Speaker 1: worn waist keys gear official.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so one you want to tell your fans right here,
Speaker 7: expect the unexpected from me. Man, So you know, I
Speaker 7: get down just I'm just I can't curse, but uh,
Speaker 7: I'm just just just just expect the unexpected of me,
Speaker 7: like this, things gonna be future champ Huh.
Speaker 1: That's the plan. Beature champ Man. Appreciate on star.
Speaker 3: Your course to be erected with him Summer swam.
Speaker 2: Man coming to you live from Monday night, raw into
Speaker 2: a dough you sir. We got a nine one six
Speaker 2: representative right here.
Speaker 1: Come on with it.
Speaker 6: Lincoln Village to be exact.
Speaker 8: Ranch O Condola, Sacramento nine sixteen, The Capitol Cali Babby.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 2: I mean when I was doing a little research, like
Speaker 2: I didn't know Bro was from sack Man. First of all, welcome,
Speaker 2: I appreciate your time before tonight. Your lineage in this
Speaker 2: sport is heavy for those who don't know. Tell us
Speaker 2: some of the people that are just you got you
Speaker 2: know you you're almost like a black family everybody and cousins.
Speaker 1: Man, Bro.
Speaker 8: But before we start the whole thing, I just want
Speaker 8: to let y'all know.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
Speaker 8: I mean, Man, it's a pleasure with me sitting here
Speaker 8: tapping in one none the other. Yeah, I mean a
Speaker 8: big brother. Yeah, I mean so man, it's a pleasure.
Speaker 8: I mean, before we get everything started, it's a blessing.
Speaker 8: He man, I think I'm doing all right right now. Man,
Speaker 8: we're up in the smoke thing right now, you feel me.
Speaker 8: But my bad big brother answer the question what the lineage? Yeah, man,
Speaker 8: it's a you know, I have this conversation you know
Speaker 8: sometimes with my wife or it's like, man, I'm very
Speaker 8: blessed to be one man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's just like.
Speaker 8: What you said mansos we samoans. But like what big
Speaker 8: brothers say, Man, y'all justout know, I mean, you feel me.
Speaker 8: But man, to be a part of this, just to
Speaker 8: where it's at. Not only is it very humble, very exciting,
Speaker 8: but I feel like being a part of this family
Speaker 8: and you know the.
Speaker 6: Thousands of us, there's a lot of us, brother, you
Speaker 6: know what I mean.
Speaker 8: But for me to be blessed to actually go through
Speaker 8: with it, but to be blessed to have the talents
Speaker 8: there able to do this, you know, it ain't easy.
Speaker 8: It ain't easy what anybody does, you know what I mean?
Speaker 8: Like it takes a lot, but I feel like it
Speaker 8: just motivated me but also made me want to step
Speaker 8: my game up as well. Not to be known as
Speaker 8: just oh bro, that's just a cousin. Nah Nah, you
Speaker 8: talk about Jacob Fartu. Goddamn it, Bro, You're gonna feel me.
Speaker 8: You're gonna feel the pain. You're gonna feel this hustle
Speaker 8: to struggle, you know what I mean. And this ain't nothing.
Speaker 8: I ain't never been mad over. Oh my cousins?
Speaker 1: Is there?
Speaker 8: Why I ain't there now? Because you know, you gotta
Speaker 8: stay on your own lane. Once you start switching lanes,
Speaker 8: big brouh, you feel me, that's when everything starts young man. Yeah, bruh,
Speaker 8: too much traffic, stay in your lane. So man, it's
Speaker 8: a beautiful thing, bruh. Especially with my father. They say,
Speaker 8: history repeats itself. So back in the day, you know,
Speaker 8: with Hot Cheet, Peter my Via the Wild Smons, and
Speaker 8: then it came in the eighties and it came to
Speaker 8: the nineties, Yokozuna, the Headshrinkers, Fa Tou, the Great Sad Move,
Speaker 8: you know what I mean, My father, the Tongua kids,
Speaker 8: someone Savage all the way to where now it's Roman Rings,
Speaker 8: the Usos, Solo socor Jago far too and you know,
Speaker 8: excuse me, my father used to tag team with Tama
Speaker 8: and Tala Tonga.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean their father excuse me.
Speaker 8: Their father is Haku So and they used to tag
Speaker 8: And when I first won my tag belt Islander, Yeah,
Speaker 8: I mean yeah, bro, that was still in the children
Speaker 8: the bulldog, and then when they took the bootdog.
Speaker 6: They really had to travel with the bulldog.
Speaker 8: Bro, that's crazy. My dad just told me the story. Man, Bro,
Speaker 8: It's just history repeat it soon. So man, for us
Speaker 8: to be here now, especially where we're at, you know,
Speaker 8: I was a cousin. I ain't gonna say that wasn't
Speaker 8: supposed to make it, but yeah, I was a cousin
Speaker 8: where they was iffy, you know what I mean, And
Speaker 8: because I was iffy about it until it was like, hey, bro,
Speaker 8: you know you really want to change your family and
Speaker 8: get this thing and bright in motion, you know what
Speaker 8: I mean, You're gonna have to turn that switch.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously rather lining. But your journey wasn't sweet.
Speaker 1: Your journey was real. Man.
Speaker 2: Finally you know, you finally made it to the big
Speaker 2: show in twenty twenty four. Yeah, after the journeys, the
Speaker 2: ups and downs, what was it like to finally be
Speaker 2: where so many of your other family members have been?
Speaker 2: But just were you, like you said, when you decided
Speaker 2: you wanted to do it, when you finally out there,
Speaker 2: what was it like?
Speaker 8: And it was a good look. It was a good
Speaker 8: look walking into the apartment. I mean, I moved from
Speaker 8: Cali to Orlando, okay, so man, to see my kids
Speaker 8: at the door, just to open up the door, just
Speaker 8: to see them run, you know what I mean. Like
Speaker 8: it was good, signed the contract, okay, checks was hitting
Speaker 8: okay in Florida, Okay, But it didn't really hit me. Bro,
Speaker 8: our first two weeks living out there and in Orlando, man, Bro,
Speaker 8: we slept in the living room together, I mean for
Speaker 8: almost like a week and a half, almost two weeks,
Speaker 8: because that's just how we we were, you know what
Speaker 8: I mean. So I came to a point where I
Speaker 8: was telling them like, ok, all right, y'all got to sleep
Speaker 8: in the room.
Speaker 1: I'm paying right now, you know what I mean. But
Speaker 1: it was a beautiful feeling.
Speaker 8: It was a feeling was like, Okay, the only one
Speaker 8: who can mess this journey up it is me, you
Speaker 8: know what I mean. So it all comes down to me.
Speaker 8: I ain't here to blame. Oh it was there fault whiting.
Speaker 8: That shit don't matter. It don't matter, I mean, but
Speaker 8: it was another push, you know, I think about even
Speaker 8: until today. Come on, man, La California has been my
Speaker 8: independence stopping grounds. So we did a show, you know,
Speaker 8: we in the Oakland stocked in Bakersfield, that we're in La.
Speaker 8: To be here this whole week, it humbled me, big Bro.
Speaker 8: It humbled me. I'm in sack seeing my parents. I'm
Speaker 8: driving around, man, I'm just looking like damn. I came
Speaker 8: from there staying to come back down to Oakland. Oh, Man,
Speaker 8: I mean shout out to the Ya area, man, I
Speaker 8: mean it's still Northern Calf all the way to Stockton
Speaker 8: to Bakersfield. It reminded me of being on the Independence.
Speaker 8: I ran into so many people over here. So when
Speaker 8: they talking about Tupac talking about California love.
Speaker 6: Yeah, brother, it's really Cali love around here.
Speaker 8: I mean to getting ghost bump. But man, it was
Speaker 8: a good look so far. Just for me to be
Speaker 8: able to perform in front of my people, I mean,
Speaker 8: everybody needed tickets, and this time I didn't mind paying
Speaker 8: for him because there's no way I'm gonna be out
Speaker 8: here performing and my people outside.
Speaker 2: And man, I mean you big with you about sixty
Speaker 2: two six one, but you're about two eighty five. But
Speaker 2: you're not You're not a typical. You don't move like
Speaker 2: a typical. I mean your agile, fast, athletics, speed is
Speaker 2: a part of your game. How did you, obviously seeing
Speaker 2: a lot of different people in your family, how did
Speaker 2: you develop, Like you said, first of all, your own style,
Speaker 2: but then your own name on top of that.
Speaker 8: Man, So when it comes to me, like, man, I'm
Speaker 8: a big fan of hot Flying, I'm a big fan of.
Speaker 6: Jeff Hardy, to Jerry right mystereo.
Speaker 8: I mean, man, we're talking and the lucha, the lucha
Speaker 8: libre culture has inspired me and Cali, Mexico's right here.
Speaker 8: I mean, California will be nothing without the Mexicans.
Speaker 1: I mean so well for.
Speaker 6: Us Mexican come on, hey, we're trying to get it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, man, But man, I knew that's how I wanted
Speaker 8: to wrestle. Now, I wish I would have been smarter
Speaker 8: because now I gotta do this.
Speaker 1: Shit every day.
Speaker 8: But I knew because when it comes to love and passion,
Speaker 8: you know what I mean, Because this is what I
Speaker 8: wanted to do. Man, I had to do this, like
Speaker 8: and I feel comfortable doing flips. Not only that, it's
Speaker 8: just I knew it would be for me to set
Speaker 8: myself apart from my cousins in them not saying I'm
Speaker 8: doing flips because it's setting me apart. But man, this
Speaker 8: is Jacob far too. This stops, you know. I mean,
Speaker 8: because when we out there on the block, we posted
Speaker 8: up somebody, I mean out of nowhere.
Speaker 6: Yeah, That's when I'm hitting out of nowhere up in
Speaker 6: the ring.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So yeah, man, most of the things, just my style
Speaker 8: really came from my family. My uncle Wimga, my trainer, Gangrel,
Speaker 8: the vampire Warrior, David Heath. You know, I mean my father,
Speaker 8: the Tongue of Kid, my uncle of Black Pearl Reno
Speaker 8: on Hawaii.
Speaker 1: But uh, it came a lot from my family.
Speaker 8: I do everything with My family does the snapping, the
Speaker 8: but man, big bro, it really came through training when
Speaker 8: they say practice, like how you play?
Speaker 6: Man, Brother. I love being in the ring.
Speaker 8: We're working now, right, But I know we're wrestlers and
Speaker 8: I know stay out the ring. But brother, I can't
Speaker 8: just be on that treadmill doing burples all week.
Speaker 1: Mother fuck.
Speaker 6: I gotta be in the ring because I know me.
Speaker 8: I know Jacob Okay, yeah, that's cool, old take it easy.
Speaker 8: We don't want you to get hurt. I'm gonna get
Speaker 8: hurt anyways. But I need to be in the ring.
Speaker 6: And I love shout out to TJ and Natty.
Speaker 8: They have some called the Dungeon out there part of
Speaker 8: the Heart of Family and every Wednesday they do a class.
Speaker 8: And brother, it's a small warehouse high it was just
Speaker 8: running in one hundred and five degrees weather. But that's
Speaker 8: the type of that's the type of look I need,
Speaker 8: that type of shit we came up on. I don't
Speaker 8: need the AC none against the pay PC everybody over there.
Speaker 8: It ain't nothing but beloved, trust me, I'll be over
Speaker 8: there too. I ain't shitting on it. But when I'm
Speaker 8: trying to say, is Bro, we need to go back
Speaker 8: to the foundation.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
Speaker 8: Because Bro, me being up in that little gym, me
Speaker 8: being in that warehouse driving an hour and a half,
Speaker 8: I don't need to, but I want to because I
Speaker 8: know if I get comfortable.
Speaker 1: That's when all this shit gonna stop.
Speaker 2: Man, what was your Obviously, signing the contract made it real,
Speaker 2: But what was your real welcome to the WWE moment?
Speaker 1: Was it a match? Was it a meeting somebody? Was
Speaker 1: it the situation? What was it?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 8: It was probably the real welcoming was probably my debut
Speaker 8: walking over here to receive the love first off from
Speaker 8: the OG's, my uncle Umaga, my uncle Orkeishi, and my
Speaker 8: father to see all the ogs.
Speaker 1: I was here.
Speaker 8: You know, the way how they gravitated towards me was awesome.
Speaker 8: I got a lot of good advice outside.
Speaker 1: Of the ring on.
Speaker 8: You know when it comes to like, you know, saving
Speaker 8: our money, paying our taxes, you know, because man, that's
Speaker 8: how our family, I mean, lost everything. Br you know,
Speaker 8: but they didn't have the guidance, you know what I mean.
Speaker 8: But now now I'm here, you know what I mean.
Speaker 8: It's a thing called uncle Sam man irs so.
Speaker 1: Alone. Man.
Speaker 8: Hey, but you know like when my brother, I know,
Speaker 8: we funking it right now, but like when my brother
Speaker 8: Solo said, hey, bro, throw it there, Bro, We're gonna
Speaker 8: make it right back, you know what I mean. So
Speaker 8: the biggest thing is now. And like I said, I
Speaker 8: had my uncle, I had like forty ten uncles up
Speaker 8: in here, and my father and everybody who's wrestled here
Speaker 8: before us that had got let go or fired.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
Speaker 8: We ain't going to sugarcoat stuff. Yeah, y'all know this
Speaker 8: more dynasty. But I take what happened to my uncle
Speaker 8: and my father and them as a learning experience. Okay,
Speaker 8: my dad didn't pay his taxes. Okay, they they't do that. Okay, Hey,
Speaker 8: make sure you go there. Hey, don't miss no flights.
Speaker 8: Like and it sucks that happened to them, But I'm
Speaker 8: also thankful because now I know what to.
Speaker 2: Do and what you got a lot of great examples
Speaker 2: of what to do and also what first hand.
Speaker 8: Yeah, especially for me, especially for Jacobs because now and
Speaker 8: this is what I went back to, like, you know,
Speaker 8: the other person who can mess this up is me.
Speaker 8: But man, my real welcoming moment here is when I
Speaker 8: fucking arrivee June twenty first, twenty and twenty four.
Speaker 6: Broh Chicago, shout out the shahrag man.
Speaker 8: I mean, man, they been number right to me on
Speaker 8: my independence all the way to my debut, you know
Speaker 8: what I mean.
Speaker 6: So, man, it was there. It was talking to Randy.
Speaker 6: Randy lights me up.
Speaker 8: But uh man, being out there, especially with solo, especially
Speaker 8: with my brother, you know what I mean. So the
Speaker 8: welcoming was that because I felt like everybody knew me.
Speaker 6: But like when Michael Hayes said, all that shit don't
Speaker 6: mean nothing. Go out there and wrestle like nobody knows you.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Man, man, we did it, and I mean to tap
Speaker 8: in so we here though, I man, so give me
Speaker 8: one person from a different era back in the day.
Speaker 1: You wish you could have got a chance to wrestle.
Speaker 6: Oh oh, man, man, I ain't gonna lie.
Speaker 8: Bro mister Perfect and Eddie Garrel, Bro, mister Perfect, Eddie
Speaker 8: Garrell and uh, probably.
Speaker 1: Dying of my kid.
Speaker 8: Okay, you know what I mean, shout out down to
Speaker 8: my kid. Man, he's been my dad talked good things
Speaker 8: about him.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 8: But yeah, definitely that Don and my kid, Eddie Garrell
Speaker 8: and mister Perfect.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
Speaker 6: I want Jeff Hardy too, but I already said that.
Speaker 2: I mean, next weekend in Minnesota, six Mans, you slam
Speaker 2: you Egg Team. We had Royce in your early that's
Speaker 2: your guy. But that's who you got to get down with.
Speaker 2: How big is it to wrest on some of these
Speaker 2: bigger events such as Summer Slam.
Speaker 8: Man, come man, it's a whole lot better than wrestling
Speaker 8: in the parking.
Speaker 6: Lot on Independence. Yeah, the fuck y, y'all.
Speaker 8: And when you go out there and wrestle, you're only
Speaker 8: wrestling in front of the people who set up the ring.
Speaker 1: Hey, but them.
Speaker 8: It's the type of things that make you humble a hey, listen,
Speaker 8: And I'm grateful for those hard times, brou I'm grateful
Speaker 8: for wrestling like that in front of nobody. I mean,
Speaker 8: because it's so easy for us to do it now
Speaker 8: in front of everybody, you know what I mean? And man, bruh,
Speaker 8: for the people who ain't wrestled now on the Independence.
Speaker 1: It's all right.
Speaker 6: It's different journeys, different time, different eras hell.
Speaker 8: I don't want nobody to wrestle on the parking lot.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't want nobody to have that feeling.
Speaker 8: But man to wrestle now at a stage like this, Man,
Speaker 8: big bro it is I still trip out. I go blank.
Speaker 8: I can't hear nothing. I mean, because man, and once again,
Speaker 8: I just have this weird.
Speaker 1: Thing in my head. Every day.
Speaker 8: I always think about what I came from. I always
Speaker 8: think about Damn Roachus. I always think about, you know,
Speaker 8: our neighbors shooting. I always think of I think about that.
Speaker 8: So I get a little emotional before I walk out
Speaker 8: I do, Man rob, especially before the big shows, I get.
Speaker 6: Emotional because it's like, damn, I'm here now.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 6: My wife, my kids are happy, especially my kids as.
Speaker 8: Long as they Gucci and Cabana with it, you know,
Speaker 8: I mean, I mean, I'm all in adult with it,
Speaker 8: you know what I mean. But it's a beautiful feeling.
Speaker 8: One of the first ones was in Cleveland. I did
Speaker 8: one with Roman and Clash to Italy. That crowd was great. Man,
Speaker 8: it has been nothing but a good experience and man,
Speaker 8: if you talk about things ain't possible, bo man, big brother.
Speaker 8: And how you start, bro, it's how you finish. I
Speaker 8: mean now the thing is like can we keep up?
Speaker 1: Now? Yeah? Now we're here the journey I mean enjoy.
Speaker 6: And shout out my son, man, my son named journey.
Speaker 6: I man, got on my arm. Sorry to jack it off,
Speaker 6: you know, I man, but shout all seven on my kid,
Speaker 6: my beautiful.
Speaker 1: What's you got? Seven? What's what's your age group? What's
Speaker 1: the age old man?
Speaker 8: Twenty seventeen, sixteen, fourteen, thirteen, nine and four?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm all in the dollar. Seventeen twins, fifteen I
Speaker 1: was you got twins? Yeah, the boys?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so seventeen twins, fifteen daughter, thirteen sons, twelve son,
Speaker 2: seven son, and then a twenty one twenty month old.
Speaker 8: Oh br you, oh br you really are lover brother.
Speaker 8: As I know he was for real bro, because he
Speaker 8: didn't say a year. I would have just said a year.
Speaker 8: He said no, twenty months, twenty month.
Speaker 2: Before we get out of here, right here, into your
Speaker 2: solo camera, talk to your fans.
Speaker 1: What should it be expected from you? Hoder?
Speaker 8: Before I do that, I want to share it so yeah,
Speaker 8: who was at the Netflix. You don't know this, brother,
Speaker 8: It's totally fine out. We was at Netflix. You might
Speaker 8: remember he's at Netflix baseball game San Francisco, right, you
Speaker 8: and the dugout or something?
Speaker 1: You standing up. I don't know if you remember me.
Speaker 8: I was the crazy dude was up like I didn't
Speaker 8: know bro, put that in my head.
Speaker 1: I forgot like, oh, bro, you don't know me. But
Speaker 1: I mean he was either see you were like it.
Speaker 3: Was this crazy.
Speaker 1: I was like, right.
Speaker 5: Number, love that number.
Speaker 1: I see you.
Speaker 8: And then I sat back in my chair and Jaco.
Speaker 6: But it was good though.
Speaker 1: It was good, you know what I mean. But man,
Speaker 1: look at we're here now. It was a good look.
Speaker 1: I thought it was funny. Brother. No, that's why I
Speaker 1: love that. My bad from not showing too much. You
Speaker 1: were busy. It was what was going on. I got
Speaker 1: a happy one. I seen dude.
Speaker 6: I'm shout out, big brother.
Speaker 1: That's that nine one six love. You know what I mean.
Speaker 8: Man, We're gonna tap in Summer Slam two days. It
Speaker 8: ain't none other than the usos in five to two
Speaker 8: Royce l a solo Bolo, Come on, man, solo, you
Speaker 8: know where you gotta come at the end of the
Speaker 8: day and you know what time it is. We really
Speaker 8: gotta say anymore. If y'all really think this is gonna
Speaker 8: be a mess, I don't know, but the dog walk
Speaker 8: his ass all right. But until then, tap in love
Speaker 8: and respect.
Speaker 1: You're Jake. Yeah, that's the right