AJ Styles
Appearances
Insight with Chris Van Vliet
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Again, I remember Jerry Jarrett. I was told that they were doing an independent show. I didn't really know much about it. They were looking for talent. I didn't think anything about it. It was just another indie show and I was getting money to do it. Okay, I can do it. Drive up to Nashville. Me and David Young had a match that
Insight with Chris Van Vliet
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We've had before, just turned it up a little bit because they wanted to see more. That was it. I didn't think much of it. And again, I was at the right place at the right time with the right guy watching. Yeah. And, you know, shortly after that, now I'm with TNA. So I'm going up, I think it was every Wednesday.
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Yeah. I think, right? Yeah, yeah. Well, you know, again, I'm not thinking anything. This is still NWA TNA. Yeah, it's NWA TNA. Yeah, we still had girls dancing in the cages, you know? So, yeah, I didn't think much of anything was going to last. I'm sure no one did. And based on what happened, it shouldn't have.
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lasted, you know, because I think they got, I don't want to say they got scammed or maybe it is, you know, and they were supposed to get this. They didn't get that. Not as many people could see it as we thought. And luckily the Carters came in and kind of picked that thing up. And then after about three months of being on NWA TNA, I was like, oh, I guess this is a thing now, you know?
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And then it kind of grew pretty quick after that.
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Oh, no. Stop being modest. I'm serious. I believe that I could have good matches with anybody, but I felt like there was always someone that I can learn from. As long as there's always someone I can learn from, and to me, if I can learn from you, that means you're a bigger star. And I always felt like those guys were – I was still surrounded by those guys because we had Sting come in.
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And I respect that guy so much. You know, such a nice guy, you know. And I was – thank God he wasn't some of these other heroes that other guys have met. But mine was freaking awesome. That was Sting. And, you know, we got Kevin Nash, Booker T. Like, I learned something from all these guys. And then Kurt Angle as he progressed. These are the guys that I'm in the ring with learning from.
Insight with Chris Van Vliet
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So I just never felt like I was that guy. I think I really felt like I was doing something right as a star when I turned into Lone Wolf AJ. I felt like that was really coming into my own, doing what I wanted to do, being who I wanted to be. I think that one helped a lot because there's a part of it that was very real, so it was easy to get in character.
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Like so many talented, insanely talented people, Chris Saban, Alex Shelley, like all those guys were there. I mean, it, It was stacked. And everybody knew it. And we were doing something special. And even the ultimate X match was special. It was different. It was weird. The six-sided ring was different. It made us different. It sucked as a ring. Really?
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I didn't realize how rough it was on my body. until we got back to a squared ring and i was like oh my god i forgot that these are much better to bump in the ropes or or the actual map the actual map because it's pillars under the the six-sided ring the pillar so you can move them in and out where in a squared ring it's in the middle right that the bounce you know whatever you might get
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You could take a bump right on that pillar, so you can imagine. That hurts. And so there was a point in time where we were overseas, and we're in England, and it was a big show, and Kurt and I were wrestling, and he was going to give me the belly belly off the top. I remember taking that. I go, I'm never taking that again. Don't ask me, Kurt. It's killing me.
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And then, of course, we get the squared ring. He's like, hey, do you mind? I'm like, Okay. And he gave me it in a squared ring, and I was like, oh. I landed, and it was like nothing compared to what it was. I was like, oh, I can take it.
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And right then and there, as pissed off as I was about going to a squared ring and abandoning the six-sided ring, it was at that moment I go, I'm okay with the squared ring now.
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Yeah, because that's who we were. When you saw TNA and you saw a six-sided ring, you knew that was TNA. No one were doing that maybe in Mexico, but we made it who we were. Yeah. And I think they lost their identity to a certain extent when they went to, you know, just a regular ring, just like everybody else.
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Yeah. And they did some innovative stuff. It's easy to know if you've, you know, done something well in another company. If WWE then starts doing like, ah, that's a good idea. We'll do it too.
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You know, and then their production's always better, you know, than, but you know, if I were running a company and you were doing something that translated well to fans, guess what? I'm going to do it too.
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That great. Because we've wrestled each other so much, not necessarily in triple threads, but we've wrestled each other. We know each other very well. It could have been better. No. We went home way earlier than we were supposed to. We got mixed up in a spot. Joe did something. I was like, wait, are we supposed to be going here? Nope. Bam, we did it anyway.
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So we ad-libbed a good 10 minutes of that match. All that at the end is totally ad-libbed. Like, thank God we knew each other so well because we could just communicate and get to where we needed to be. So it could have been really good. It was just good.
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We knew it was good because we pulled out some pretty cool stuff within that match that we hadn't done before. So yeah, we knew it was good, but we didn't know people were going to praise it as much as they did. We know we're just going out there doing our thing. This is what we do.
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Yeah, well, that's a good thing, right? And I think we were the main event of that pay-per-view. So it definitely worked out. And I don't think an X Division match had been the main event until then. So we knew that we had to put on a show, but then again, we weren't stressed to the point where – Oh, God, this is a make or break for us. And I just went out there and did what we did.
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And it just worked out perfect for three guys who know each other. I can call Samoa Joe's moves. I can call Christopher Daniel's moves. I can call all their moves to them. And they could do the same with each other and myself. So we knew each other so well, it almost didn't matter that we kind of went home a little early because we found a way to make it work.
Insight with Chris Van Vliet
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I'm very, very intense. I blow myself up bringing the intensity rather than running the ropes. Because I want them to see this anger. When AJ gets in the ring... It snaps. I'm a different person. I will smile before and after, but when we step through those ropes, I'm going to take somebody's head off. I want you to see it in everything that I do.
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I want you to think, I think this guy's really pissed. He may hurt me. I want them to get the idea of who I am. I've turned up that intensity. Little things like flips and stuff like that, they're cool if they're done at the right place at the right time. I've realized that people don't remember wrestling. They remember moments.
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And I want to make moments happen rather than, you know, the wrestling. And sometimes it's those little thing in between the wrestling that are the biggest spots. Like I want people to watch my match and go, Wow, that was good. And then someone asked, well, what was so good about it? Like, I don't know. It just was. It's because of all those little things in between that make the match.
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Little, slowly but surely, it dawned on me. I remember being at an indie show and... And there were so many great guys at that time that were doing the indies. And by the time I got out there, every flip had been done. I was like, well, I don't know what to do. So I did just a regular house show dive, but really tried to make it as pretty as I can.
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And I got the same reaction had I just jumped over the top rope and done a crazy flip. I was like, wait a minute. If that's all I have to do, Let me make sure that I, you know, make the little things look like they're effortless and beautiful. And rather than do something that could, you know, I could get dropped on my head or somebody not catch me at all. This seems a lot easier.
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And how can I keep doing that and using it at the right time rather than every time?
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I can't do the spiral tap. At all? I can't. I bet you could pull it out. Listen, it's scary because it's a front flip and they end up twisting. And so, you know, if you don't use it, you lose it. That's real. And I'm a little scared that I can't pull it off the way that I have before. And until I get back in some gymnastic place and work on it, it's just not going to happen.
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When was the last time you did a spiral tap? That's a good question. I don't know. Maybe Matt Hardy when him and I wrestled in TNA. Maybe it was Bubba. I can't remember. So 10 plus years ago.
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Yeah, I've lost it. It's a different kind of flip. It's not the same. even when I watch other guys do it, I still don't do it like them.
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That's a better way of saying it. So, yeah, they like to twist themselves as they're coming off. I don't want twist. I want a peak and then turn. So it's a little bit different. So there's a stalling involved to make it look beautiful and then go. But I kind of lost it, man. How did you realize you could even do it? Wow, that's – I remember – so in WCW, I was doing the shooting star to the floor.
Insight with Chris Van Vliet
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Billy Kidman hated me. Hate. He would call me AJ Stills. And I wanted to hurt him so bad. Legit. But he was Kidman at that time. In WCW, you can't be touched. I was like, all right. And so they asked me if I wanted to do shoot and spiral. I was like, no, no, no. I won't do it. Because it's Kidman's move. It's Kidman's move. I'll just do something that he can't.
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So... Yeah, all because Kidman hated me doing the shoot and start press, but at the time he wasn't doing it. So they did come back and started doing it, so kudos to him.
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Yeah, that's something I got from Dragon Kid. I mean, guys in my era of wrestling, we watched everything. Everything. WCW, WWE, old school, Japan, NOAH, All Japan, New Japan, Ichinoku Pro. Like, we watched all this stuff. And so, while we were tape trading, I got one of Dragon Kid doing the backflip catch, and he put you in the dragon sleeper. Right? And I go, well, I'm a big fan of Sting.
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That doesn't sound as cool, I know, but I think it was the style in DDT. Maybe that's what it was called. But, you know, I had a couple moves where I've told, you know, guys the name of it. They were like, what? Why don't you, like, yeah, they wanted me to name it something else. I'm like, sorry, man. When was the last time you did that? I don't think you've done that in WWE, have you? Oh, yeah.
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I've done it with, but there's guys that, are capable of understanding what it is. Some guys don't know. And so for those who know, it makes perfect sense. It's an easy move for them to take. For those who've never, they don't understand it, it can get sloppy real quick. So you got to pick and choose who you do it with so it turns out right.
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Yeah. Little did I know it was, it was actually worse than breaking it. You know, I didn't know at the time, but yeah, that was like, oh crap.
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Not everybody can do these moves because they've not practiced them. If you came up on the indies, you had to be able to know how to do everything.
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And I think that's why so many of us, you know, in that era of, you know, we were able to do everything. We could take everything. We could do everything. And, you know, aside from Joe, you know, we were all kind of the similar size. You know, we weren't too big. We weren't too small. We were right there in the middle. Yeah. We could work anybody. Joe...
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He's such an amazing athlete that he's not supposed to be able to do the things that he does. And he just is unbelievable. He's unbelievable. So not everybody's a Samoa Joe. There's nobody like him.
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Man, he's amazing. And I remember people being intimidated by Joe. And I was like, have you ever worked him? They go, no, dude. I was like, he is so good. He has scared you. when he hadn't even touched me in the ring. But it makes it look like he's killing me. That's how good he is. So yeah, Samoa Joe is one of the best.
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No one ever really said anything to me. But I'll tell you there was an instance when Christian and Dixie came out and kind of made It was a big meeting. And Dixie came out and said, listen. And basically said something to the fact like, if you don't want to be here, we'll let you go. At that moment, I looked over at Christian to see what he was going to do. What year would this be?
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It's got to be 2009, 8, 10. I don't know. Somewhere around there. But I was watching him. Because I looked up to Christian. He's amazing, too. He's a ring general, for sure. And I was watching him to see if he got up. Because if he had gotten up, I was like, you had to leave during that meeting? I don't know. She expected us to leave. But I kind of felt like she was saying that you can go now.
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And I knew I'd broke it, right? Because if you've broken it before, same foot. Yeah. I was like, I broke it again. And I'm pissed because now I know how long it's going to take to get back. But like, again, little did I know, it's much worse than a break. What was worse about it? Because it's tendons. And my doctor, who is also my friend, was like, do not look this up.
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Wow. And I was seriously, if he would have got up, I would have got up, too. And hopefully he would have got me in the WWE or something.
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Yeah. Yeah. Even there was talks about Japan. But I remember them thinking that, oh, he doesn't want to come here. He wants to do the TNA stuff. I'm like, well, no, his contract's not over.
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Yeah, yeah. And even I think there were a couple months in between. I did Ring of Honor and stuff like that before I went to. It just kind of, the timing kind of worked out. Because Finn... was leaving. And I kind of just, we literally just switched places, you know, except he went to WWE and I went to Japan.
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They hired Hulk Hogan, Eric Bischoff, And I believe Eric was trying to do the right thing to see where we're at, you know, as far as getting people more eyes on us that we're growing. And unfortunately it didn't work out the way it was supposed to, you know, we lost a lot of money. I think I was kind of pissed at Hogan at the time because I was like, why does he talk about TNA?
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You know, why is he not helping us? He's not advertising at all. His book or whatever it is he was writing about him in the shows, he never talked about TNA. I was pissed. But I now realize, I think he was embarrassed. It was embarrassing to him to talk about that. So he did it. And, you know, I think Dixie was trying to do some things, and it was just to keep butting heads.
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So it just kind of fell apart. And when it fell apart, they lost a lot of money. When they lost a lot of money, they expected me to take a pay cut. My contract was up.
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You were the face of TNA. And they didn't say they were going to, well, the dates are not going to be as many. They didn't say that either. Oh, 60% less dates. Plus the same amount of travel and everything. So I was like, it was one of those things. I was like, man, this ain't right. On principle alone, I can't be here anymore. And I think they expected me to stay anyway.
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I remember the day before Thanksgiving, John, what's Big John's last name? He works for WWE now. Sorry, John, I don't know your name anymore. Anyway. Big John. Big John. He called me and goes, hey. I'm over at her friend's house having Thanksgiving. And he says, Hey, we're going to have you drop the championship. You know, the next show I go, okay. All right. No problem.
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Cause I think they were expecting me to go, hold on a second, wait, I'll sign. But I was like, man, I ain't, I ain't, I'm not going to do this with you. You want me to lose? That's fine. I can lose. And then I'm going to figure it out and we're going to be all right. It was a, again, timing was perfect. I didn't know it at the time.
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I was a little scared because now after leaving TNA, if I don't work, I don't get paid. That's how that works. So there's no, I can't get hurt. And, you know, for like three months, I think before I started new Japan, you know, I was making, I was, I was hustling. I was hustling. Um, And then Japan happened and it really blew up. That was, again, timing.
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I'm like, I'm going to look this up. And it's a career-ending injury. And it happens in car wrecks and in professional football mostly. That's usually when it happens. And in football, of course, it's one of those things, depending how severe it is. And I was literally by the skin of my teeth. I was able to, they were like, we can have surgery. We can do surgery on your foot.
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Wouldn't have worked. Wouldn't have worked. I don't think I was sure who AJ Styles was exactly. I don't think I was mature enough to... I don't want to say mature enough. Maybe it was... I wasn't going to be bullied. I promise you that. I think some of that went on. I'm just not that type of guy. I'll take a little bit, then I'm going to start swinging. I'm not going to get bullied.
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I was raised different. I'm not saying everybody was like that, but I've heard some of that stuff goes on. I'm not one of those guys that goes out and drinks with the guys. Nah, I'm not doing that. I don't think it worked out. It would have worked out for me. The time that I spent in Japan And the way that I wrestled there, I just brought that same guy to WWE, at least by the second match I had.
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The first match, I was trying to be what I thought they wanted. And to Vince's credit, he told me what he wanted, and I was like, I know that guy. I know him. I'm going to give you that guy because that's who I wanted to be anyway.
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Well, you know, because if you don't believe in what you're saying, it's hard to get into whatever that character is. Even when I was the Prince of Phenomenal, Like, I enjoyed that as much as people hated it because I was able to show a different part of AJ Styles. Be a little goofy, do a little goofy things, you know, with Christian and Kurt Angle and all that stuff that we did.
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That was good television to me, you know, as much as people hate it. But, you know, turns into Lone Wolf AJ Styles, which essentially is who you got – In Japan, just turned up a little bit more, having a little bit more fun rather than being angry the whole time. You know, that's all that was. What's the scariest moment you've had in the ring? Oh, I can tell you.
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Ultimate X, Chris Saban, myself, and Petey Williams, which I think is a fantastic match. It is. If you ever watch it back. Yep. For some reason, I thought it was such a good idea. If I could hang from the rope and Saban, I knew was very capable of springboarding drop kicking me to the point where I'll do, I guess it's an inside out swing front flip.
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Like when he hit me, I let go and I go, Oh my God. As I'm coming down, I was able to think to myself, I'm about to land on the back of my head and I'm probably not going to get up from this. And I'm thinking about this as I go, I'm going down and I land perfect. And, uh, that I was like laying there selling going, I'm never ever doing that again, ever. We'll do that again. Yeah.
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That was a, that was the scariest time.
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I thought it was, I literally thought it was, if you could see me, I am tucked so hard trying to make sure that I made it. I didn't think I was going to, I thought I was literally laying on the back of my head. I'd have been out cold for sure.
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And it will heal faster. But there could be complications as you get older. We don't know. If we don't have to have surgery, let's try to do some therapy and get it back to where it is. And lucky for me, man, I was able to get that therapy that I needed. It wasn't easy. It sucked. It's so crazy that you have to learn how to walk again to a certain extent. How did I forget how to run?
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I should.
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Not a soul caught me. They fall down, but no one caught me. They didn't catch you. I mean, I just ate the mat. And it was my idea, so you know what? I mean, you're in there with a bunch of guys who, you know, they're getting closer to the end of their career. Do they really want to risk catching a kid that will be fine even if we don't catch him? You know, it's my fault.
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That landing was like, boom, splat. I don't think I hit anybody with my hands. They just kind of fell like a... Like I went bowling or something like that, but I didn't touch anybody.
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I have no idea who thought that was a good idea. It probably was me. But because it was me and James Storm that got up there and started fighting, I believe. Yeah. And I remember James being like, dude, what if we go through it? What if we go through the top of the cage? Like, oh. I hope that didn't happen. You know? So when we go through, you'll see his hands come out like this to grab.
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So if he started going through, he was going to hang on to something, but it worked out, you know, it was fun. That was an, that was an easy bump for both of us. I think.
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Not in TNA. I mean, it's pretty, you know, there was a, I don't know, there was a spot where Petey and I, Petey Williams and I were talking. He goes, hey, what if I give you this German suplex and you gut yourself on the guardrail? I'll have you on the apron. And Germans suplex you. You do the flip bump and gut yourself on the guardrail. What a terrible idea that is. We tried it.
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But when I went to jump, I could feel it just yank me back. Instead of up, I went back. And so I just ate that guardrail on my back from a German. Oh, man. I've had some terrible ideas that didn't go as planned, but then I've had some good ones that turned out to be all right.
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Weakest gore ever given, I think. Because I don't know if he was genuinely like, Scared of heights, but it sure didn't look like it. I was okay with it. I'll tell you this. That match, Rondo was scheduled to lose. I was like, he can't fall off this thing. He'll break his ankles. He's too big. I have to lose. I have to fall. We can't let him do this. He's going to get hurt.
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And so that's how that happened. But I thought it was very clever. And Rhino, credit to him, had a lot of these good ideas. It's like, just hide, and we'll have the crowd tell me where you are. And it worked out so good. Again, that's one of those matches that this is going to be terrible. And it turned out to be really, really good, I thought. I thought it was very entertaining.
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Little things like that because I was in a boot for six weeks. And I got six weeks in therapy trying to figure this thing out. It'll mess with you.
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And even just like you, the fans were actually scared for us. Yes. Because it was high. You look back at it, you're like, holy crap, that was way up there. And you've got, what, maybe a foot and a half, two feet at the most? As far as a scaffold to walk around on, it was, yeah. I think for what we had, we made it work better than anybody thought we could.
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What do you think are the prime years of TNA? Prime years of TNA. I just remember 2005.
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really starting i remember uh frankie kazarian going out and it was one of the first matches on the pay-per-view and i was like let's go frankie you know start us off bro and and it was exciting because you knew we were growing spike tv i believe was we were part of that going on and we knew we were growing and that was exciting i thought those were some really good years and then we ended up introduced joe and he's freaking killing everybody and it's just
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Yeah, yeah. Actually. Yeah. Yeah. It kind of all runs together, you know. But it was just some really, really cool moments. Like, we got Christian. We got Kurt Angle. Like, nobody knew about Kurt. Yeah, that was a legit secret, right? Oh, man. Nobody knew. We saw the video. We're all watching. Oh, what is this? And then Kurt... Whoa! Holy cow. So... Yeah, it was an exciting time, man.
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It really was. And we were all, I feel like we were all kind of the way some of the NXT kids are. I see this in them. Where they know each other by their real names because they've been training together and they want to see each other succeed and do well. That's the way we were. We weren't trying to stab each other in the back. We wanted each other to do really, really well. Still the show, man.
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We want you to do it. You know, because it's only going to make what we're doing better. And everybody was like that. It was a really cool time.
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And you haven't lost a step. You know, I think it's one of those things where I'm so afraid of losing a step, I'm doing everything I can to make sure it doesn't look like I've lost a step. Yeah. You know? But it took a toll on me. Like, there's... It's still... Because I go out there and... Listen, I got... Two gears, all or nothing. Is that one gear? I don't know.
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You know, I'm biased though. That's fine. Because I'm going to put my guys on there. The guys that I had unbelievable matches. You know, Christopher Daniels, Samoa Joe. We got one more spot and that's it. I know. See, that's the problem. You know, I think a lot of people would see Kurt because he was there for a long time.
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Well, you know, a lot of people don't know he was in TNA longer than he was in WWE.
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They don't know. I would throw Frankie Gazarian in that conversation, too. I mean, we're talking about low-key. It was unbelievable to see this guy. And there's so many, Chris Saban, James Storm, Chris Harris even. They were a big part of the growth. Think of the moments Elick Skipper had. Beer money. Beer money. I mean, Elick Skipper, I'll tell you this story.
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I remember he walked the cage and done that. Unbelievable. I've never seen anything like that. to that point or ever again. Yeah. And he was going home the next day. And Jeff was like, are we going to really send him home? After that? After he did that? And he thought about it, I guess. He was like, so he looks at it and saying the next day for TV because it was just so unbelievable.
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There's so many guys that made such a big difference I mean, it's hard to put a Mount Rushmore together because everybody has their moment and how they got there and how much they meant to TNA.
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It's Mike today. He's a legend. I mean, right. Like he knew and Don not knowing exactly what to do, but learning quickly did an excellent job. I don't care what anybody says. He made it exciting. And I think partly because he was a fan. He was watching from a fan standpoint, you know, which I thought made it Really well done.
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It's like, yes, that's exactly how we feel. Yes, yeah. I mean, listen, I have a buddy at home that I bounce stuff off of. I have ideas because he's more of a fan, and I'm seeing it from a different – and when you have someone like that to kind of bounce stuff off of, it makes sense. Like, oh, wow, yeah, that's stupid. Or, no, that'll work.
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So it helps having someone like that, and I think that's what Don West gave TNA.
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So I think I just burped. Uh, anyway, uh, so a lot of people didn't know this and, but, uh, Samoa Joe and I are very close. They know that, but they didn't know that I knew that someone may have talked to Shinsuke Nakamura. And we're still in New Japan. Joe tells me, Shinsuke's leaving. I was like, really? Shinsuke's the number two guy there by far. Tanahashi, you know, Shin.
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So I was like, I talked to the boys. I go, I think it's time to Pack up. I think we may have peaked if Shinsuke's leaving. And then we started, I think TNA kind of hit me up. They go, well, what about Gallows and Anderson? And we started talking. We had a meeting with them. They wanted us to sign something. I think we may have signed something to say that it was no problem.
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He couldn't hold us to anything. He was just saying that we agreed to pay this much. And then during that time, Terry Taylor, who I'm close with, Kind of hits me up and just see how I was doing. And I shot him a picture because I was holding my daughter at the time. We just had a little girl. And he's like, what? What is that? I was like, yeah, I don't know how I made a little girl either.
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But the fact that I'm going to go in there, I'm going to give it all, and then after the adrenaline wears off, I was like, oh, now it's sore a little bit. So you might catch me limping afterwards until I get used to this foot, stretching it out, all those tendons and stuff like that. But so far, so good.
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I have three boys, now a little girl. And we just started talking. And then a picture of a dude wearing a hat. came up on the internet, looked like me walking around at NXT. It wasn't me. I don't know who it was. But something started circulating. And everybody thought it was you. Yeah. So I was like, hey, Terry, is there anything to this? Do they want to see AJ Styles in WWE?
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Is this a possibility? He's like, listen, don't let your ego get in the way. I was like, no, no, no. That's not what I'm doing. I'm just saying if there's money to be made, I'd like to make it if it's there. And he goes, well, let me have, let me talk to Triple H. And he had, see if he called. And so, you know, I guess he, him and H talking, Triple H didn't even call.
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Went by, you know, month or whatever. Terry calls, did you talk to Triple H? No. He goes, what? I'm going to call him again. So I remember being at Ring of Honor. I was in my hotel room, and then Triple H calls. And we had a really good conversation, a 30-minute conversation. It was really good. It sounded great. And I was like, oh. And nothing had happened with TNA at that time, nothing.
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So the ball started moving pretty quick. I told him, they said, as me and Triple H were talking, the next time I said, well, I know I've got these two other guys, Gallows and Anderson. And he goes, I don't know if we're interested in them. I just, I think we're okay. Okay. I understand. But then the next conversation, yeah, we're taking all of you. I was like, perfect.
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You know, and then TNA gets wind up, you know, some stuff and they're like, Hey, if you don't apologize, you know, I'm like for what, you know, I ain't telling you nothing. Get out of here, man. Big John again. So, uh, yeah, everything worked out and the ball started rolling really quick.
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Uh, and this, I don't know if this story has been told, but when we decided that we are going to WWE, me, Gallows and Anderson, we were kind of going over a match in new Japan in a room, like, and we were, we were like, we're going to tell them together that we're going to do this. Um, and I looked over and Carl is talking to ghetto. Like, you're like, what is he doing?
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I thought we were going to, and it, cause I saw this, Oh no. And so I was like, Oh no. And so we all kind of let the cat out of the bag there. And it was just kind of a, it was heartbreaking because new Japan was so good to us. So good. Um, But in my head, I thought maybe we had peaked and that maybe it was time to move on and try something new and go back home.
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Nothing but respect for New Japan and everything they were able to provide and the business they did. It was amazing. No better place that I've been to that to that point. Right. But. you know, changes were made and within that, I mean, I wrestled the 6th of January. I believe the 5th was Wrestle Kingdom. I think that's right. 5th and then maybe the same. I don't know what it is.
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This is it. I was like, this is it. How am I going to recover again? You know, I was like, this might be it. Really? And it sucked because, like you said, I just came back. I was not hurt, you know, after I wrestled Cody, right, and I quit match. I was not hurt during that time. So I'm sitting at home going, okay, guys, okay. And then, hey, we're going to bring you back in Nashville.
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Is it the 6th or 5th or 6th or something like that? Who knows? We'll find. They'll tell us. Wrestled in Corgan Hall. Kenny Omega and, you know, the rest of the Bullet Club beat me up. oddly enough, maybe it's fifth gals. I think you're right. I think you're right. Yeah. Gals and Anderson also beat me. I'm like, what are you doing? You know what we're about to do? What are you doing?
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You know, like, but that for some reason, Carl couldn't wait to punch me, you know? So, um, but then I think two months after that, they finally show up in Japan or in, uh, WWE. But, Like I said, did we decide whether it was the 5th or 6th? Either way. The first week of January. I came home to Atlanta, the airport. My family came up. We ate at a restaurant. I got back on the plane.
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I never went home to my house and flew to Pittsburgh to get all the medical stuff done. So from Japan to Pittsburgh, never going home. And then I think the next week I had a – independent show in England. I think it was, I didn't know if I was going to the rumble.
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And I believe I said, if I, if I get the opportunity, I'm going to kick some tail, you know, and everybody was like, yeah, I'm not going guys. And, um, sure enough, I was going, I didn't, didn't know what they flew me into Tampa rather than Orlando. So they kind of kept it a secret, which was really cool. And yeah, no, nobody really let it out.
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We, we'd said there was a possibility, but nobody expected it. So it was, it was really cool in 2016 to walk out for sure.
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I'd been in Japan for almost two years. Independence scene. TNA, which in the grand scheme of things, isn't that big. Would they know who I am? I don't know. And it was one of the best moments in my wrestling career to walk out and have them make the noise that they made. Oh, man. That moment I will never forget because I was so terrified that I wouldn't get anything.
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And Vince wasn't going to have me out when I, he wasn't going to have me out third. And he said, nobody knew who I was. And, you know, for me, I thought he's probably right. But everybody else who spoke up for me, who had worked with me previously, maybe in TNA or whatever, they're like, I'm telling you, it's going to work. And man, did it. It was an amazing moment.
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I didn't really talk to Vince about what I should do. I just like, I didn't run to the ring. I just walked and enjoyed the moment. You know, I wish I'd have been more pumped about it rather than just looking at people with a straight face. But yeah, It was a very, very cool moment.
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Like, we didn't think it was possible. You know what was a cool moment, though, is that you, you guys, made so much noise. The folks at home were like, what is it? Who is it? So it was kind of cool that it worked out that way. But yeah, man, that was such an unbelievable moment.
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Oh, yeah. Oh, I just knew I wasn't going to have a WrestleMania moment. I was never going to have one. And I was okay with it. I dealt with that. Like, just because... Someone may say that I'm not successful because I've never went to WWE. That's for them. But for me, I'm successful because I found a way to take care of my family. And at the end of the day, that's what I'm doing.
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It's going to be great.
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hurt myself yeah i was like shoot pissed i was mad like it may look like i was acting i was not you don't curse though so a lot of frickins a lot of freaks you know i was oh it was one of those you're so mad you don't what can you say yeah and so you maybe try to find a beat on the mat and i was like i was so mad you know because this is my moment and i screwed it up but you're back now and i'm back now mind you i say i screwed it up
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If I were paid anything, I probably wouldn't be wrestling. So the fact that I was able to do something I love and provide for my family, that's successful to me.
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Well, I mean, it's one of those things that you're, your body's going to change whether you like it or not. You better figure it out as soon as you can, because for some reason you're going to get wider. and not in a good way, you know, like you're not as slim as trim as you used to be. Like there's different ways of doing differently.
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Like everything changes as you get older and you have to figure it out. Cause if you don't, it's going to take a toll on you and you're going to hate the way you look. And it's going to go, you're going to get the, what they call the, what the hell effect. And, and you're just going to, ah, Frank, I'll just have a piece of cake, you know? And you know, that's what happens. Yeah.
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Yes. Yes. Yes. And you just go down that road. Right. And so my buddy, who I've known for 40 years, and we played t-ball together, he kept telling me to come and get in his cold plunge. I'm like, I'm not doing that. I don't want to get in the cold plunge. He's like, I'm telling you, it's probably one of the best things you can do.
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And one day I just went over there and worked out with him, and it was terrible. Getting in that cold plunge has literally changed my life. I'm a cold plunge guy too.
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But those endorphins you get, when you get out, it's addicting. And that's what happened to me. Now, I will say this. I have a cold plunge. I get in it. If I'm going to work out, I'll get in. Like, I'll get in today. If I work out, I will cold plunge before I work out. And I don't ever want to get in. I don't ever want to get in.
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You know. It just sucks getting that cold water. But anything worth doing is not going to be easy. It's going to suck. But the benefits are unbelievable. So just suck it up. I go five minutes. And I think I only have mine. I don't have mine. I'm at 42 degrees. That's cold. When you get to 30s, your feet start hurting real bad.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, because I was just talking about this today. A couple of my friends have gotten the flu and whatnot. And I've been around them. I haven't. I think it has a lot to do with the cold plunge and the sauna. I'm sweating out toxins. I'm, you know, I think it has a lot to do with that. I could be wrong. That's in my head that I'm building up the immune system, doing the stuff to myself.
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And maybe I don't have to worry about cold and flu and all that stuff as much.
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Well, and that's the crazy thing is everything's out. Everybody thinks I bulked up. I lost weight. I was not any heavier than I was before. But fasting is a big part of my diet as well. I had done a three-day fast, just water. And I'd done that like maybe a week before I came. So I was shredded. I literally just got through doing a six-day fast, just water. That sucked too.
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But again, anything worth doing is hard. All you got to do is sit in that cold plunge. That's all you got to do is sit down. Yeah, you just got to sit. All you got to do in a sauna is just sit there. It's such a mental game. All you got to do is not eat and drink water. These things are easy to do, or they should be. But we're addicted to so many different lifestyles of being easy and nice.
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We're addicted to being comfortable. Yes. Yeah. You know what the worst time to get in the cold plunge is? It's when you're comfortable. It's perfect outside. It's perfect inside. Oh, it's great. And then you get in the cold plunge, you're like, oh. But if you can get used to being uncomfortable.
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Not anybody else. This isn't ballet. This is wrestling. People get hurt. Mistakes happen. And I blame nobody but myself. So just want to throw that out there.
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It's not that hard to be uncomfortable.
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Yes. You've got to challenge yourself, and that's what I enjoy, challenging myself. What can I do to make this a little bit harder? Weight training, fasting, sauna, cold plunge, all those play a part, and it's all up here more than anything. If you can get it up here, you can almost do anything.
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I lift different. Yeah, it's not the same. Just the way that I lift and not so much heavy weight.
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But by the time I get into those last sets, I'm really struggling, right? And that's what you want. You don't want it to be easy. You don't want to be where you're going to hurt yourself because if you get too tired in this workout process, you'll end up doing it wrong. So if you can do it perfectly –
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and there it gets very hard to the last set that's when you grow so it's like to failure every time pretty much like i want to by the the last two if i'm doing sets of 10 by the time i get eight i'm struggling i'm struggling i have to decide especially if i don't have a spotter do i want to try for not because i don't know if i can get it up you know and it doesn't take a lot of weight to do that and you try different ways of working out i don't know if you've had the uh
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or all friends with each other. It doesn't matter if it's wrestling or football. And we went to the Kansas city chiefs and working out there and they showed me those. And it was surely I was like, I need them. You know, it's built for injuries, but it doesn't have to be.
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You can get a good workout with very little weight and, And it's unbelievably hard. No, a lot of people don't know this, but it's unbelievably hard and a lot less stress on your joints. You're right. And that's what it's for. Just still get that same pump, but then all that, you know, damage to your joints.
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No, not at all.
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And his like, ah, I don't know. I'm in like, You know what? Now, I'm pretty sure I wasn't at Raw the next time. But somebody convinced him that it would be a good idea if I came to Raw the next time. He did not care. A lot of people don't know this. He did not like AJ Styles for whatever reason. I'm sure I gave him a lot of reasons. I'm not the tallest guy. I have a southern accent.
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There's several things that he could hate about AJ Styles. I think that Monday I had a match.
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I had imagined that. I was trying to give them what I thought he wanted, a baby face, smiling, doing all this stuff, doing a cool little baby face flip to the outside. I think it was something like that. But he's like, as I came back, he's like, I got a thousand guys that can do what you do. I got all those guys. he said he wanted to see a pit bull. And I was like, oh.
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And that kind of got me excited. I was like, oh, okay. As I said before, I know that guy. That's going to be easy. I didn't tell him that, but I was like, I know that guy. Let me be that guy. And sure enough, the next week, I think I was on Miz TV. Several people came up to me and said, Lay it in. Put it in there. I'm like, what?
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Yeah. Shoot. I'm looking... I've been looking forward to this. I know... I said this before we started talking on like you have had interviews with anybody who's ever done anything in wrestling, especially. And I was like, man, I've got to get with this guy. We've got to do something. And then, you know, like you said, but then I get hurt and then we're like, Oh no, is this going to happen?
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What has Miz done that he's pissed so many people off that they want me to hurt him? And it wasn't just like one higher-up guy. It was a couple of them. And I was like, am I going to beat up Miz? I have no reason to. I was like, nah. I decided... I'm not going to hurt him. I'm not going to do that. But it was very intense, that moment that we had together.
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And I think that's what Vince, it was a test to see if I was going to be
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like a pit bull like just freaking coming after you nothing you can do to stop me i'm getting you and that's kind of what i gave him and it was at that moment which took off and then from there was stuff with jericho right jericho and then into sena uh was it roman was it roman was it roman you you know better than me well it was it was 2016 um was it i want to say uh It may have been Roman.
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Jericho, it wasn't Roman. Because I won the right to wrestle Roman by beating Jericho. And it was a four-way match. And Jericho, I think I beat him to get that opportunity to wrestle Roman, number one contender. So Jericho, Roman, Cena. Beat up John Cena. You know, we tried to get a shirt made, and Vince was like, absolutely not. I'm like, why?
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Yeah. So, yeah. We tried to get the shirt out there. He said, absolutely. I thought it was going to be good.
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That'd be great to see. I would love to have it, for sure. It'd be fun, honestly. I think that there's something about it. You can't explain it. Why him and I, Joe... So well together. I don't know what it is because we're definitely not the same in any kind of way. It just works. The first time I got in the ring with him, it was like, wow, dude, that was cool.
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So, yeah, I would love the opportunity to work with Cena again.
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Just Ring of Honor, actually.
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So hopefully one day that'll come before we both retire.
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Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. I think that's something that definitely could happen. Will it happen? I'm not sure, but it definitely should. I'd like that.
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Yeah, no. I've never, well, I mean, there's things I haven't, like I've never won the Rumble, Money in the Bank, you know, I've never won any of those. So, there's some stuff out there, but, you know, it's, it's not the end of the world. If I, if I haven't, I don't see it that way. I don't, I don't have to win stuff.
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I just have to, I just want to be, you know, a guy like one of the guys I would love to work AJ. Why? Because he's easy. You know, I want to be that guy or he's very giving. Like, I want to make sure that guy looks good too. Cause there's not, if it's not a match where both of us are looking good, you're being weird of your characters. Then what's the point?
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So I want to make sure that everybody looks good in the match. If the match is good, people appreciate the match more. They don't even probably know who wins or loses. It's not important. It's the match and the moments that you make within them.
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Well, it's not true. I've been there. I remember the first time I wrestled Amazing Red at the Super 8, and I didn't know who he was. And if you don't know who Red is, and you don't know how to take his moves, it's going to be lousy. And it was terrible. But after that,
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So no, man, it's a, it's a pleasure to be on the show.
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knew amazing red very well and we had amazing matches after that but yeah there was there was that time when i was like really ashamed of myself there was one time i've had other bad matches don't get me wrong that was that i'll never forgive myself for that one so no i don't know you're one of those guys that when your name is on the card it doesn't matter who it's you versus it's like all right that's that's gonna be great oh i've had i think we've had some matchups in the past where you thought man it's gonna i don't know about this one a perfect example
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No one thought that me and Shane McMahon were going to have a good match.
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Yes. And I thought we did a very good job of making that very entertaining. Had some moments in there that are really cool. I had the opportunity to work Shane McMahon, an awesome guy. Freaking love him. No one is more dedicated to perfection than Shane McMahon. Ask The Undertaker. He'll tell you. And I respect the heck out of that.
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And the stuff that he does, like he's still doing a shoot and start press. Are you kidding me? He beats himself up. Man, so much respect for Shane. Freaking love him. That was a great match.
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Well, it wasn't that he was pitching it. He just wanted to perfect it. Whatever we were doing, he wanted to make sure it was spot on every time. And you've got to respect that. I mean, that's what I want. And then be able to bounce some stuff off of him that, you know, the guy could fight for real.
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So he was able to put a little bit of that stuff that he knew, a little bit of jiu-jitsu that he's taken, and make it work. It was really a fun match, man. Really unexpected, I think, for fans to see us have such a good match together.
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No, never, never a gymnast. Uh, I, I wrestled in, you know, I played sports in high school and I wrestled in college and my wife was a cheerleader. And so she knew how to do the flips and I thought it can't be that hard. And then we hung out after school. I remember there was a pole-folding mat that you could – they just left out there.
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That's a tough one. Are we talking about mine or a moment in wrestling that... The one that you've been involved in. Well, I think it may have been the Shane McMahon match because I'm working Shane McMahon. Who would have thought that AJ Styles would be working Shane McMahon in a match? I believe it was the first match of WrestleMania, which was perfect.
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And to have such a great match and so much fun and be able to get to know a guy, man, that was really, really awesome. I mean, don't get me wrong, walking out in front of, what, 101,000 people your first WrestleMania? Yeah. Is it so shabby?
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But I guess one of the most proud of matches that is probably with Shane. because it was so good, I thought, and entertaining.
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Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I think it would have been really good because just doing that cinematic match that we had, we didn't go over this match or whatever we were doing. We didn't go step by step. We just kind of did it, and we never had to do it twice.
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Yeah. That really was. And it just, we didn't have to do a second take. So for us to have that kind of chemistry, what would it have been like if it were in the ring? You know? So it was fun. I think that it, it happened the way it was supposed to, you know, he got the match that he thought really stuck out and it did. Yeah. That's another, that's another match, man. Like,
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That's a WrestleMania moment, the more I think about it. not a, not a, not everybody likes it. Cinematic matches, you know, usually they don't do too well. And that one was done really well.
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But it was soft to land on, so I was like, I can practice my backflips and stuff. And it kind of came naturally. It wasn't that hard. And she was the one that showed me how to make sure it's right. And then I perfected it a little bit more. And then once you do one back tuck, you kind of figure it out like, oh – And once you can control your body, all these flips become easy.
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Yeah. I mean, it was, it was so much fun. The, the meme of decade, you know? So like that one, that one meant a lot to me too, man. Uh, you know, I'll tell you the one of the coolest things is, is, uh, I was like, man, what do I give this guy as a gift to say thank you? And did you know that was his last match?
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I didn't know if it was his last match, but I thought it could be and that I would have the opportunity to have his last match. And I wanted to give him something. So I ended up signing my gloves that we wrestled and giving them to him. Actually, I asked Michelle, I was like, I want to give him something to say thank you. He's like, give him your gloves, sign your gloves and give them to him.
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Okay. All right. That I can do that. That's easy. Um, well, a couple of weeks after that, his, he had given me his gloves. So I have the undertaker's,
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gloves that he wrestled in his last match and i think that's pretty freaking cool yeah you know um so the opportunity for we you know if we could have done that in the ring what could it have been i don't know but maybe it wouldn't have been maybe it wouldn't have maybe it wouldn't have but you know it's still pretty cool to be able to have that cinematic to have that i was so jealous of other guys who've had those matches and i didn't with the undertaker
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a guy who's only on the Mount Rushmore of wrestling, no doubt. I don't care. He's got to be. So to have that match with him was pretty amazing.
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Yeah. Well, it's just a weird time, right? Because she's like, everybody's dying. You know, what's going on? How do we... you know, come back from something like this. It was a scary time, but hopefully, you know, for however many minutes that cinematic match was, we got your mind off that and you can enjoy wrestling. You know, I think I'm very proud of it.
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Oh, man. I've thought about it a lot, way much more than I should have. I should have been I should have known what I was doing by now, but it's so hard because you enjoy it so much. I enjoy being around my friends. Don't get me wrong. I love being at home, but the opportunity to see them and see them doing well and seeing them smile and seeing them grow.
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Some of these guys, like Roman, for instance, like his selling is on a different level. He's like changed. Jay Uso, Jimmy Uso, all these guys, they stepped up. You know, however, if Roman stepped up, they stepped up with him. I just thought that was so impressive that they do that.
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And seeing him grow into these amazing, these big superstar, Gunther, you know, losing all that weight to get to where he's at. And now he's the heavyweight champion. It's freaking awesome. Cody, just seeing where he's at and what he went to go through to get to where he was at and what he's doing now. He's at that position. He's the guy. He puts the work in.
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They're not very hard anymore, you know, once you experience it. Because it's like a cart. If you want to do a standing tuck correctly, it's you jump straight up. And then you turn. Like the cartoon, right? Just like that. Feels really weird. But once you figure that out, everything else becomes easy, I think.
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It's really cool to see those guys hustle as much as they are and beat themselves up as much as they have and still doing well. I like seeing that, man.
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No. I like seeing that. I take... I don't know. What's the word I'm looking for? It's just really cool to see people do really well. And I think I'd rather see them do well more than myself. I want to see you guys. Oh, man. Dominic Mysterio. So freaking good to see where he was, to see where he is now. Easily, easily, in my opinion, top heel. Like, you can't get heat like he can.
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But to see where he was when he first came, that's freaking cool. And I like seeing that. That's what I'm going to miss when it's over, right? Just seeing people do really well and find a way to get to the top.
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That's correct. I keep saying that for, you know, I've said this, I've said this, but I will not wrestle to 50. I promise you that.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. Well, you know, it's like Sean, you know, he was done until it wasn't, you know, sometimes money talks. But you haven't lost a step. That's the thing.
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Very much, yes. So, you know, things aren't as easy as they used to be. You know, the first thing that you lose as you get older is your stamina, right? That's the first thing to go. You've still got that power, but the stamina. So I really try to make sure that I find ways, knowing where I'm at in my match, if I'm going to do something crazy, that I have enough energy to do it.
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You know, I don't want to be tired trying to, you know, do a 450 or something like that. So, yeah. I make sure things are at the right place at the right time so I can do it as perfect as I can.
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It was my call to change it too because as a bad guy, I thought my song was a little too cool. Everybody loves that song. I love the song, but that's not who I was trying to be. I wanted you to not like that you despise me. And I thought, well, if I change the song up, people are going to hate it. Perfect. Right. If they do perfect.
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Um, and then when I know it's coming back and I'm going to be the good guy again, I was like, I want my old music back. And nobody said anything. They're like, yep, that's fine. So yeah, that was my decision. You've had a lot of cool theme songs over your career. Yes. Oh yeah. Um, a lot of bad ones too. You know, if you watch the first TNA show, Oh, man. It's terrible.
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What did you think you were going to do for a living before you found out about wrestling? I really didn't have a clue, to be honest with you. As a kid, you're like a basketball player, football player, something. What was your sport? We didn't have football in elementary school where I was at, so I played basketball. That was my sport, baseball.
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I can't even remember what it's like, but I was so embarrassed walking out to it. So you'll have to go back and listen to that. It is terrible.
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Listen, Grits, the guys that done that song for me, awesome guys. I don't want to hear that song ever again.
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My sons love it. They're like, Dad, you came back because TNA's working with WWE. You came back to get ready. I'm not coming out with that song, guys. I'm just not doing it. Not because I hate it. I just had listened to it for so long. I don't want to come out to it anymore. So unless somebody sneaks it in on me, I'm not walking out with that song.
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I don't know. I'd like it to. I think it'd be fun to do something like that. Like a one-off. I would definitely do it.
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Oh my God. It would, wouldn't it?
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Weenominal One.
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So I went up and visited as they were in Atlanta, maybe a month or two ago. Frankie Cazaro was there, so I was able to hang out with him. But there were so many other people there that I was like, oh my gosh, oh wow. Gail Kim, Christy Hemme, those are my guys. But Eric Young, also there. But it was really cool to see. I thought it looked really good. I think they did a really good job.
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And I know they don't have a lot of money to work with, but for what they had, I thought it looked really good. And I was like, man, these guys are really doing something. So it's exciting to see. And I hope that we continue to work with TNA, WWE, and help them as much as they're helping us. Because NXT talent being shown on TNA and vice versa is good for everybody.
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Oh, man. How could you? Because we were all conditioned to believe that nothing other... Then WWE existed. If you were in WWE, nothing existed. That's, that's the thing is that Vince had no idea who I was. No clue.
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I promise you. He's never watched any matches outside of WWE because nothing else existed except for WWE. I'm sure, you know, when he was first trying to start WWF and get everybody he wanted, I'm sure then maybe he saw matches. But once he's rolling and it's WWE, I guarantee you he'll watch nothing else.
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By the time I got to middle school, I just was playing basketball. By the time I got to high school, it then turned into wrestling and track and football. And then settled down to just football and wrestling as I graduated. So, I mean, I was into everything, but I knew I wasn't going to be a football player. I knew I could go to, you know, and wrestle in college, but then what? Never really knew.
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Yeah, I think he had a better idea of who guys were and girls and bringing them in, I think. But that's what we need. You have to, you know, I don't know, just like evolve. And a lot of people think, oh, he's just picking and choosing what he wants. But...
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if you're a TNA or something smaller and someone has the opportunity to go to the WWE, how many people are going to want to walk, work for TNA to maybe get an opportunity? And that just helping TNA get, you know, bigger stars and whatnot, maybe get more money in the long run. It just helps everybody. Um, people are going to go where there's an opportunity to better their lives.
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I left New Japan, which I thought so much of. I really loved that place because, you know, I was coming home and I had the opportunity to make more money, you know, was there. People were going to do that. You couldn't, you're not going to stop them. unless you're able to offer them somewhat closer to that money or something. So I think it just benefits everybody with TNA.
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Noah, being able to work with him. Omos was just in Noah. And he's going to learn over there, and he's going to bring that back to WWE. And it's going to work well for him in WWE, the things that he did in Noah. You learn different styles.
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So the time that I was not hurt, but at home.
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Getting up and walking in the morning, getting a couple miles in. Who knew you could burn 700 calories walking? I didn't. Going to breakfast in the morning, which is nice, with your wife. Spending time with your kids and going to a baseball game that they're playing in, the wrestling matches and stuff like that. Or nothing at all. Maybe it's just going and spending time together. I'm not afraid.
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I think it's going to be great once I get there and I'm able to go, I did it. But for me, it's doing it correctly. The retirement, doing it correctly. Something that I'm confident like that was it. That was the one. I hope that's what The Undertaker felt. That was the one.
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It's a final match, but it's the story that led up to it. I hope you have an opponent in mind. Nope. No opponent in mind. Um, an idea that, that I will not share with you that I thought if I could get undertaken, get in the ring with me that I wanted to do. Uh, but, uh, there's an idea there that I think kind of sums up who AJ styles is. And we'll see if it happens.
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You'll know it if it does, but, uh,
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Yeah, I'm okay with that. I'll tell you the reason why I hope to have a good storyline that leads up to the retirement. So that NXT, you know, the folks down there, Oh yeah, that was, they were so invested in the story. They know who AJ Styles was so that they will respect what I'm trying to tell them to help them get better.
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So that I could share this information that I've learned throughout my years, not to hoard it to myself, but to give it to you. And so that you respect me enough to use it and know it could work for you if you just use it. Like I'm offering all this information for you to get better because I don't need it anymore. But if you don't have respect, they may not listen to you.
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You'll have a lot more time to play video games. That's true. I just got to find some video games that are out there that I'm in. You have every video game. But I find myself playing retro games. Like what? Some Street Fighters, you know, just old Street Fighters. Street Fighter 2 is my favorite. Yeah, I don't like the juggling. I don't like the Tekken and the juggling and the combos.
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I don't want that. Just give me the old school stuff. Some old games and consoles that... I never got to play as a kid. Let me see if I can beat this game on TurboGrafx-16. Wow. Stuff like that. Deep cut. Yeah. Deep cut. So that's what I'm interested in. I find myself playing those games and enjoying them.
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Ken. I can answer that pretty quick.
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Well, I mean, the Dragon Punch is more of Ken and the Shoyuken is Ryu, right? I just Chun-Li with the kick. The cheap kick. Oh, yeah. Everybody does that. Everybody does that. But that's the thing. Video games, I think, have slowed down because it takes so long to make them.
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Honestly, I was kind of lost there for a minute. When I started training, I was a bottled water delivery guy. The big five-gallon jugs, I was carrying them in and doing that. That's what I did. Luckily, I think wrestling found me. Once I thought that there was a chance of being able to make money in wrestling, going, this is a good idea, didn't matter anymore because I fell in love with it.
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And it takes so long to learn them. We got AJ Styles on the show before GTA 6. Listen, I've never been a GTA guy because I just don't think that I can play that game and my kids walk down and see what's going on.
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You know, there's a lot of things, but I'm interested in this next one coming out, bigger and better than any of them have ever been, right? I'm interested, and I may have to pick it up and just jump on that bandwagon and play just like everybody else. But just not let your kids see it, because that's probably not a... Well, they're older now, so I think it might be all right. I might.
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I don't know. Who knows? But I have my own little area at this point where I can just shut the door. And to the point where my daughter, who's 10 now, she's sneaky. So I've got my headphones on. And I'm playing a game and I hear, I don't hear anything. It's, God, geez, stop doing that. And so I put some lights in there. So it's like, Oh, so you can see shadows. No. They'll come on.
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They're so sure. There's motion. Motion sensor. And so when the light comes on, I'm like, ah! So, yeah. Are you talking trash to people when you're playing? No, not at all. I don't. I don't talk trash at all. I don't. I usually just play by myself at this point. I'm playing PUBG or something like that. You know, a game that took forever for me to learn how to play.
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That's where I'm at.
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That's a good question because I'd like to think none of them hurt. Okay.
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I remember I apologized to Kofi the first time I did the springboard 450. I was like, man, I think I came down a little hard. on that, I apologize. And he's like, oh, no, it's fine. Because Kofi's awesome. But I thought it was a little tight. But I tried to over... rotate a little bit forward a little bit on my four 50 so that I can just roll off of you. So I'm not murdering you with it.
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So that's my thing. Uh, but you know, there's always going to be mistakes. So you're just hurting yourself. Yeah. Yeah. Well, if you try to take care of them, some, you know, if you try to take care of someone so much, you'll end up hurting yourself. That always happens. So you've got to have a happy medium to do that.
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I wanted to ask Dominic, like, Am I rough, dude? I'm snug. I will say that. I don't like there to be any space into what I'm doing. I want you to think that I'm pissed off. So it may be a little snug depending where we are. It'll be more snug. If we're outside and we're by the fans, it's coming.
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So for the longest time when I was wrestling John, I was murdering him with forearms because that's the way you throw them in Japan because they don't make any noise. You can hear them. Loved it. You can't hear anything in WWE. All these fans making all the noise and I'm murdering John. And then one day I was talking about, I was like, yeah, everyone.
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Then I realized nobody could hear me hitting John. So I stopped hitting him so hard. He goes, yeah. Oh, he finally said something. So he, but he, you know, that was the only time he said something. He never said, don't hit me hard anymore. Don't do it. He never said a word. And I was, I was, they were in there. I promise you. So yeah, I wonder, I wonder sometimes how snug I am.
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Oh, yeah.
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Isn't that crazy? Yeah. Oh man. It's, it's a crazy world, man, to see how both we've, we've come both of us, you know, who is the, I know this isn't, I'm not, maybe I'm not supposed to be asking you questions, but here I go. Oh no. Um, When was your first interview like this and who was it with?
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Yeah. Yeah. Uh, I had some friends who said that they were going to go to a training, you know, somewhere to train. I go, Oh yeah, right. I bet you are. And sure enough, they found a place about 30 minutes from the house. So I was like, okay, I'll meet you guys up there. We'll, I'll check it out with you. And, uh, and I took that first bump I was hooked. I knew I could do this.
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Oh, yeah. The thing about most, I would think most wrestlers It's like, oh, this guy knows what he's talking about. And we kind of talk about, because we're fans too. Sure. And then we just have this great conversation about wrestling. And the next thing you know, it's a 30-minute conversation that was only supposed to be 15 minutes.
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You know what I mean? It's so true. It's so true.
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It happened to us so many times where, you know, we'd go to a radio station. That very same thing happens. You're like, well, and we have our radio.
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don't you can't say it's got it can't be a wrestler but the biggest star you've ever i guess i guess batista is up there right the biggest star that you've ever interviewed would you say is it batista rock it means rock bigger but yeah but he is he's a wrestler yeah but this is that your way in is because they're wrestlers or so i i've interviewed rock uh 10 times not that i'm counting i
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So yeah, I'm going to take that, put that in my pocket and make sure that I do that. When I'm doing an interview or talking to someone, make sure that... It's us. So I just learned something. So I want to make sure I think I do that, but I want to make sure that I do that.
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I don't know what it was because it wasn't a pleasant, you know, bump, right? It doesn't feel good. Most people think it's trampolined. It is not. Not even close. But it was at that moment, I was like, I can do this. And then you, like, I was obsessed with it. And you couldn't have told me any different. My girlfriend, bless her heart, you know, on the weekends, we're supposed to be spending time.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I am... as a believer, I am grateful for the relationship that I have with my heavenly father. And I got to remember who I'm talking to when I pray and, and be thankful for the things that I've been blessed with things that I don't deserve things that I shouldn't have because I know me, I see myself. When I look in the mirror, I don't see a good person. Um,
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But despite of me being this guy who makes mistakes every day, my Heavenly Father loves me for who I am and sees something in me that I don't. And so for me to be, I can be better every day than I was yesterday. So that's what I'm grateful for, that I have the opportunity to do that and take care of my family while having one of the best jobs on the planet.
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I'm grateful for so many things, man, that we take for granted. And, you know, for the little things that not many people think of, you know. I'm just like you. I'm grateful for so many things. And I know you're more than grateful for three things, but you got to make sure these are the ones. And I get that for sure.
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And they're different things every day. Yeah, right? Everything changes. Like you don't realize, man, I'm so thankful that The grass is growing in the yard.
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That we have a car to drive. Yes. You know, that there's so many beautiful things on this earth that we take for granted. I'm grateful my kids are healthy. Yes. Yes. That, you know, you get to be in their lives. I'm grateful I get to be a father. Freak yes. Yeah.
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I mean, I am thankful that I have a daughter who lets me know that no matter what I do, I'm still her dad and she still loves me because I am. That's it. I don't, with my boys, a little bit different. You know, they, they may be like, Hey dad, love you, man. What is it? What'd you do? You know, or my daughter would tell me she loves me just because she does. And you can't beat that, man.
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The kids, you know, I have a, I'm, It's one of those things where you love them so much that you want the world to know. So you get a tattoo on your side with their initials and their birthdays. And they'll probably, as they get older, go, what a stupid tattoo, Dad. You're so old and wrinkly, and that's on you. But there's so many things, like you said, to be grateful for.
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We're going to independent matches, you know, in little barns and terrible looking places and armories. And I had to tell her, like, one day, this is going to pay off. She still ended up marrying me, by the way. I don't know why. Yeah, thank God. We've been married for, I think it's 24 years now. You think it is? 2000, is that right? 24 years. August will be 25, so we're doing good.
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And I'm grateful for so many things, but first and foremost, I'm grateful. my heavenly father, man, that I have a good relationship with him. You know, that's, and then that leads to all these things that, that he's provided for, for me, things that mean right place, right time, right person watching, like how many times has that got to happen? So I am blessed, dude. I think we're blessed.
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Thank you so much. I appreciate you, man.
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Hell yeah. All right. Let's do our interview.
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That might be the only thing I actually was right about, is one day this was going to pay off. Luckily, it did, because it was torture to her. Go on a date to an indie show? This sucks. Was there a point where it didn't feel like it was going to pay off? I don't know. I feel like things happen pretty quick. I mean, I got in the ring way before I was supposed to because I could do flips.
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And, I mean, a month into training, I was already in the ring. That's way dumb. But the opportunity to learn from guys in the ring while you're wrestling is, I think, the best way to learn. You better learn quick or nobody's going to want to wrestle you. So I was a sponge, man. Anytime someone told me something, they only had to tell me once. I was going to make sure that I remembered it.
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And it just kind of took off from there. And then we had a kind of a developmental with WCW at the time. We had some big, that was the first time I met Bob Sapp. He came in and became friends with him because he was doing his thing for WCW. And a lot of the other guys were there from WCW.
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And so while they were watching their guys, they were able to see Air Paris and myself wrestling and having decent matches and doing some crazy stuff. And that's how we got our opportunity in WCW. What was the first big break for you? I think that was it. That was the first big break. It was like, wow, I get a chance to wrestle. I mean, before that, I'd done extra stuff in WCW. But...
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but it was that, that chance to get in there and, and do it in a WCW ring in Baltimore. As a matter of fact, they gave us a trial in Baltimore, air Paris and myself, and kind of busted out the shooting star to the floor in that match. And, other things that I'm sure I'd hate now watching, you know, but that was the, you know, we were only into, that was, I started in 99 by 2001. I was in WCW.
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Wow. That's kind of quick.
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You know, so I was at the right place, the right time, the right guys watching.
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I don't think it was close at all.
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It was after WCW went under. I'd been under contract with WCW for five months. Johnny Ace calls me and said, WWE's not picking up your contract. It freaking broke me. I went to and felt sorry for myself for about a good week. That was like, all right, here we go. I I'm trying to think how quickly it happened.
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See, I want to say that at that moment, I believe the NWA was having their 53rd anniversary, and I believe that was in Petersburg, Florida. Does that sound right? Peterburg? Anyway, somewhere down in Florida. And some Japanese guys were going to be there. And I was like, I'm going to go down there. I'm going to wrestle. They're going to want me. I'm going to go to Japan and wrestle.
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That's how I'm going to make it back. Wow. I went down there. I wrestled Christopher Daniels for the first time. First time we met, first time we wrestled. And we connected, man. It was perfect. Our timing was the same. Everything was, you know, and Christopher Daniels at that time. It was like, if you can't have a good match with him, you might as well quit. And we gelled so well.
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Yeah, it was a week, $500 a week to move to Cincinnati. And I'm sure you've heard this story before, but like, I was like, wait, so I have to move to Cincinnati for, and I'll make $500 a week, the same amount of money I was making at my bottled water job, you know, and I'm going to have to pay a lot more taxes on that $500 that I'm making. And I'm just thinking all this stuff in my head.
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My wife can't move with me. She's in college about to finish. She's going to be a teacher. And I was like, this just doesn't sound right. And I believed in my heart that I was making the right decision. And I even told Johnny, as much as I'd love to come up there and train, I just could not have my wife moving with her parents. I didn't think that was right.
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My job is to take care of her, not the other way around. Which is crazy to think. You were saying no to WWE at that time. I said no. I mean, I said no to a developmental that's never promised, right? It's true, yeah. HWA was the developmental back then. But you know what? Not only was it the best decision because TNA would happen shortly after that in 2002, but...
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HWA stopped being a developmental for them shortly after that as well. So I am guaranteed to not have made it through that cut again. You know, like I wouldn't have made it. I mean, I wasn't a big guy. What did I have to offer him? There was no, you know, smaller guys really that did anything in WWE that time. So I think it worked out pretty good based on what happened.
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Well, I feel like it's me and the rest of the country wanting to hurt Logan Paul. So I'm just trying to do everyone a favor and get it done as quick as possible. Get him out of our ring.
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Es ist wie, wenn du deinen Kindern alles gibst, was sie wollen, bevor sie überhaupt für etwas arbeiten. Sie sind versperrt, richtig? Und ich würde sagen, dass es das gleiche ist wie bei Logan Paul. Er denkt, er kann einfach zu einer WWE kommen.
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independent wrestling ring like the rest of us had or maybe at least the the pc to train a little bit he has done none of that and thinks he belongs in our ring we've paid our dues we've done what we've had to do to get to where we're at logan paul has it so we're gonna find out how bad he wants it i'm gonna stay on him i'm gonna stay on him until either he's gonna fight back and do something about it or he's gonna leave
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Der Typ ist ein Athlet. Aber es gibt viele Athleten, die nicht in unseren Ring gehören. Wie gesagt, wir mussten unsere Schuld bezahlen. Wir mussten etwas zerstören, um in diesen Ring zu kommen. Ob es Zeit ist, ob es Schmerz ist, oder beide, oder alles. Wir mussten so viel zerstören. Und dann gibt es einen Mann, der denkt, er kann einfach in unseren Ring gehen und alles tun, was er will.
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Er sagt, was er will. Er sagt, er ist der größte Star. Ich meine, ja, er hat viele Follower. Vielleicht ist Triple H froh darüber. But he's going to have to earn his spot on the WWE roster.
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Freaking Andrew is awesome. You know, dude's hilarious. And the fact that he come out here to support the WWE is, you know, music to my ears. This is what we do. This is why we do it. You know, celebrities come in and support their wrestling. WWE, that's what it's all about.
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Du musst etwas geben, um etwas zu bekommen. Und er hat nichts gegeben. Ich kann den Fakt, dass er so etwas tun will, respektieren, weil wir alle das tun wollen. Aber wir mussten es in der richtigen Weise tun. Wir mussten es in der schwierigen Weise tun. Und ich fühle mich, als ob der rote Koffer für Logan ausgelöst wurde. Und es ist, was es ist. Und wenn wir ehrlich sind, warum ist er hier?
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Weil er einen Star gemacht hat mit seinen Podcasts und all den anderen Dingen, die er gemacht hat. Ich meine, die Jungs, hör mal, ich sage nicht, dass er kein klüger Kind ist. Er hat es herausgefunden. Ich glaube, das ist es, worum es kommt. Wo er ist und er in deinem Ring zu sein. Das Ring, das du, wie du gesagt hast, so hart gearbeitet hast, um es zu erreichen.
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I didn't start this.
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I'm just going to finish it. You know, we're going to find out how bad he wants it. If he wants to be in a WWE ring, how bad do you want to be in it? It's not easy. If it was easy, everybody would do it. So let's just take him to a point where he might break. And if he doesn't, well, maybe he belongs. And I'll respect that. I don't have to like him, but I can respect it.
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Ich habe andere gewonnen. Vielleicht ist es ein Match. Vielleicht ist das, was es sein muss. Und so ist es. Lass uns ein Match haben. Ich kümmere mich nicht darum, wo es ist. Lass uns es machen. Lass uns sehen, was du hast. Lass uns sehen, wie schlecht du es wolltest. Wie viel Zufriedenheit bist du bereit zu nehmen? Aus welchen Schmerzen bist du bereit zurückzukommen? Lass uns herausfinden.
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Keine Ahnung. Keine Ahnung. Das ist ziemlich cool. Das ist großartig, weil er so lustig ist. Er ist so ein toller Kerl.
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I don't think anyone is aware of what happens in a ring. It sets me off. It's one of those things, when I step through the ropes, it's a different human being altogether. And Ich kann mir nicht vorstellen, dass so viele Dinge mir in diesen Tagen kommen, was jemand von mir sagt. Ich habe es alles gehört. Aber wenn ich in einem Ring bin, in dem ich vielleicht nicht gehöre... Ich weiß nicht.
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Es bringt mich einfach zu einem anderen Ort. Und ich mag es. Wenn ich in diesen Ring stehe, durch diese Räume... Ich will in ein anderes Land gehen. Das ist, wo ich lebe. Das ist, wo ich die meisten meiner Karriere verbracht habe. Das ist, worauf ich mein Leben gebeten habe. So I like that space and I'm going to enjoy it as long as I can.
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Everyone. Hold on. Everyone's capable of being humbled. Everyone. There's not a guy I don't know if Logan thinks he's gonna get humbled I was gonna say on that note
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Well, I can't imagine something like that's gonna happen. But if he does, then maybe he deserves to be here. Maybe he's done something to prove that he deserves to be in the WWE. Listen, Logan Paul, we can make excuses of why he beat other guys, because he has. One of the greatest luchadors in the history of professional wrestling got beat by Logan Paul. Anyone can lose.
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Es ist nicht das erste Mal, dass ich mit jemandem verloren habe, den die Leute nicht dachten, dass er mich schießen könnte. Ich sage nicht, dass ich mit Logan Paul verlieren werde. Ich habe keine Pläne, mich bei jedem, was ich tue, zu verlieren. Aber an jedem bestimmten Punkt kann man sich schießen lassen. Jemand kann sich schießen lassen.
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But if Logan Paul is going to beat AJ Styles, he's going to have to go through hell.
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You know, when I broke my foot Er wurde für ein paar Monate verletzt. Ich habe entschieden, dass ich etwas ändern musste. Ich musste etwas tun. Ich musste meinen Körper kümmern. Ich musste alles tun, um an einem Niveau zu kommen, an dem ich gesund war. Und das ist das, was es angefangen hat. Ich... Ich spreche immer mit Leuten über diese Kohle-Punches und wie es mein Leben verändert hat.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
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Aber es ist nicht nur das, es ist auch das Essen gesund zu essen. Jeder denkt, dass ich bis zu 200 Kilo gewachsen bin. Ich bin immer noch das gleiche Gewicht, was verrückt klingt. Ich habe nur in den Plätzen geschliffen, in denen ich es brauchte. Also, sag, was du willst. Ich glaube an den Cold Plunge, ich glaube an die Sonne, ich glaube an das Essen gesund zu essen.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
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Wenn du all das kannst und du kannst all die Shortcuts nehmen, die du kannst, die dich zum nächsten Niveau bringen werden, also, dass es Bio-Hacks gibt, die du machen kannst, um dich da zu bringen. Es ist wie, wenn du Cold Plunge machst, ich werde mich auf diesen Harp machen. Ich Cold Plunge, bevor ich umgehe. Und ich brenne mehr Kalorien, wenn ich das tue.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
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So, that's why I cold plunge, because my body's trying to heat up the whole time. So I'm trying to find these little biohacks like that and do all those. If I hear about something, I'll try it. I fast all the time. I fasted before I got here. You know, I do all these things to try to, you know, get whatever in my body working, working better.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
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If there's a chance that it happens, if it happens 1%, then that's more than what I had. So I'll try it.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
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Nope, did not. My soul does not belong to him, I promise you that. I don't think it's mine to sell. His soul belongs to the Cold Plunge.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
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Me too. Thank you, man. All right, guys. Appreciate it. Thank you, dude.