Ladies and gentlemen, I and the anarchist Ashton Blake, and you are listening
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Wrestling podcast. We've got the anarchist Ashton Blake. What's going on, man,
I'm doing fine, brother one. It's an honor to be on this
podcast. This is actually like my second podcast, so well appreciated. Well,
who's the first podcast if you don't mind me asking, It was actually
like this little podcast from this little supporter of mine, uh the two two
five podcast with Chris Chambers. We talked about where I've been coming up in
the wrestling business and what BAN should be looking forward to. Chris Chambers Hm,
I don't have nothing good to say about him, so I'm just gonna
move on. Uh he he is. Uh, you know, got on
my bad side as of late, you know. He yeah, you know
he blamed me for coal Off losing the title. Now coal Off Ranish Trap
the breed one shut him up. That's all had happened. So, I
mean, you know, what else can I say? But but asking this,
it's an honor to have you on the show. Uh. You know
me and you met for the first time about two or three weeks ago with
the Mountain Man Uh fundraiser and um, you and your dad were there,
Austin James, you tagged him with them and uh and then ever thanks,
So what was your experience your first experience like in dc W. I'm just
gonna start there and then we'll go from some other stuff. I gotta ask,
Well, well, my experience in dc W was was actually very awesome.
It was an honor to come out there, put in my time and
do it for a good man, a legend in the Gulf Coach wrestling business,
Mountain Man, and I hope I made him proud. It was an
honor tagging with Austin James and basically half breed my dad and cousin Almer.
It was. It was very fun. The crowd loved it, and I
hope Mountain Man loved it because Mountain Man actually helped me a little bit in
training and that matches for him. Yeah. I thought it was a good
night everybody coming together and doing that show. It was very fun and was
glad to have it happened out. Ashon, I want to get into a
little something here. How did you were you like a wrestling fan growing up?
Like, give us a little backstory in yourself. Well, Uh,
I am a second generation superstar. Uh my dad who is half breed.
He has wrestled all along the Gulf Coast and around the world. Um.
I was born watching him wrestle, and I wanted to follow when the split
steps and start start here in the Gulf Coast and try to work my way
up to try to get to like Awa w r Oh or wherever I could
go to. But most of my training came from him and my uncle uh
T Wolf, who is the chief of the Halma nation in Hana, Louisiana.
They trained me, and I just hope I'm making them proud by going
to going to different promotions, giving my time and trying to prove myself to
the fans and to the promoters that I'm someone that they need on their roster.
And that's the best way to do it, man, And you know,
reach out. Just try to get as many places as you can.
Now, did you have any inspirations growing up? Like did you watch WWF
or ww at the time, because I'm sure, what are you fourteen fifteen
years old? I am actually eighteen eighteen. Okay, there we'll go,
and knew was around that area. Just yeah, I know, man,
I know you hey, and that's good. It's good to get in the
business young. But like, did you have any beside your dad? Because
I mean, I've I've been watching Halfrey my gosh, I'm not even gonna
give my age away here. I've been watching for a long time and uh,
you know, it was good seeing him at the Mountain Man Show.
But did you did you have any favorites like growing up with wwear or anything
like that? Growing up, I used to watch a lot of daywe Um.
My favorite used to be Triple H, Sean Michaels Um Kane Um,
Let's see who else? Oh? Actually, William Regal as well. Oh
yeah, William Regal very good technician in the ring. A lot of people
you know, talked about his wrestling style, which I consider his wrestling style
one of the most brutal wrestling styles in wrestling. Uh he's uh, he's
very good at what he does. Um but yeah, now when did you
get your start? When did you have your first match? Um? My
first match actually started in I believe two thousand and eighteen in Killing, Mississippi
at the old Rack and Roll Pool Hall. It was a benefit show for
an EPW. It was an old promotion that Perfection Sean Black used to run,
and it was it was like a little Battle Royal. They put me
under a mask I used to go as Mystic for people who didn't know who
I was back then. Um so I was in the Battle Royal. It
was actually me T Wolf, half Breed, Justin Stone, J L Three,
Steve O'Malley and I Believe Perfection Sean Black as well. And little did
I know that the last two was going to be me and my dad and
uh so, and apparently I actually won the match. And I was actually
shocked at that moment because I didn't know what to expect because it was my
first match, and what what reaction I was going to get with the crowd.
But the crowd hated me, which I like when people hate me.
Don't you just love when people hate you? Oh dude, you know.
Um somebody asked me one time, They're like, you don't like getting cheered?
I said no, I said, I love getting booze. I love
hearing people just hate on me. I mean, I'll just a sidebar here
for just second. I mean, just past weekend, I had a match.
You know, it's my second match. Yeah, I'm not I'm not
a match. I'm not a wrestler. I'm a manager. Okay, But
for some reason we didn't have it. One of our tag team partners,
which I'm pretty sure you're familiar with, Ashton Spears, he was not he
he was not able to make it. So me and Joey Abel took on
the Pharaoh of Funk and Jesse Dalton and everything was going good, you know,
until Pharaoh got in and started clotheslining me, and then I had but
I had a backup plan. I had my powder in my sock and I
pulled it out and threw it in Pharaoh's face while the referee wasn't looking.
And then I pushed the referee into Pharaoh, and Pharaoh stunned him, gave
him the stunner, and I knew I had him right where I wanted him
to then because he tried to cover the ref How dumb is that? Wow?
So I picked up my paddle and I was gonna, you know,
knock him in the head with it, and he ducks it and then he
hits me with a stunner and a and the audacity of this crowd. As
soon as I get the stunner put on me, and Pharaoh pens me dumb
luck, by the way, pens me, these crowd starts cheering like they
wanted to see me get hurt. That's why I hate it. That's want
I hate here and cheers. They was cheering me getting my ass whooped.
That's not a good thing. It's not. I mean, I was mad,
but uh, moving on, I mean, yeah, I'd rather be
booed because all these people that come into these buildings, they're out of shape,
they're filthy, they're sweatbillies, and I can't stand them. I don't
want them cheering. I don't want them lifting their filthy hands and clapping in
cheer for me and throwing all their nasty germs all over the building. I'm
a brilliant one. They should be bowing down when I come in at the
presence that I am giving them at that point in time. But they can't.
Nope, nope. So I just I don't want to hear them cheer
me. They can boom me all they want, but I don't want to
hear them cheer because I'm I'm way above their level. Let me actually say
it is the people in Mississippi don't know what hygiene is, yes don't.
They don't know what a toothbrushing too faces, they don't know what they bore,
So we're shampoo or a conditioner is just like whenever I'm in Mississippi,
all I smell is a sewer. I hate that smell. It gives me
chills when I even think about Mississippi or Alabama. Those people, you know,
I mean, they actually think relationships with their cousins is okay, I
mean, that's just wrong. My goodness. You know, I was at
a show one time, and a matter of fact, I believe it was
a dc W show, and I saw a brother and a sister sitting on
the front row and they had wedding rings on. I guess they were married,
you know, just like, wow, that really does happen here.
Yeah, but but to clear my mind speaking of Ashton Spears, and there's
another person I want to ask you about. First off, what is your
thoughts on Ashton Spears and how many times have you been around Ashton? Uh?
Growing up around Ashton speares Um. He he also he he has a
big ego, but that's just him. Yeah, but big is not the
word. I grew. I grew. I grew up around Aston speares Um.
He always took care of me. But whenever it was time to whenever
it was show time, it's business time. It's time to take care of
business. It's time to put on a show. He didn't care what the
fans had to say about him. He just wanted to be himself. And
he is probably one of the most underrated people in the Gulf Coach Wrestling area.
I'll agree with you because you know I managed Ashton. It battles on
and uh, you know Ashton, he can go out, but he's one
of the best are in ring performers I've seen. So I like Ashing a
lot. What about mister Chris Black. What's the relationship like, mister Black,
Oh, mister Chris Black. Who. Um, I had a rivalry
Chris Black. Basically I always say that, I always say this to people,
but Chris Black is one of my greatest rivals. UM. I wrestled
for SCW and uh, me and him had a couple of rounds, like
five or six matches. Um. But the first time running into Chris Black,
um, our first match was a bar show and uh, if I
believe I was semi main event, it was. It was me versus Chris
Black. So I'll walk out people booing me as always and then here comes
Chris Black. The fans absolutely love Chris Black, and at the time I
was still kind of I was still kind of green of being a bad guy
because they turned me like the show before, and so the bell rings,
we lock up. The first thing that he does is bring it to a
corner and chops me. Chris Black loves to chop. But I learned my
lesson that night. Never disrespect Chris Black. Um, and don't and don't
take a toss for granted because if you if you mess up, he'll get
you with one again. But even much harder. It's so true with Chris.
Now, I've been around Chris enough to know that you know, you
don't play with Chris and you don't disrespect the business around Chris either. He
will He'll make you pay for that. Yeah, Me and him had a
couple of matches after, But the most memorable match for me was I believe
three months ago in Killing Mississippi. Um. We were we were doing a
show and we had a Battle Royal and the rules was the last two last
two contestants of the Battle Royal. We're going to be going on later on
that night for the SCW's Southern Heritage Championship. So the last two participants was
actually me and Chris Black. And little did I know that that earlier on
at the venue, UM, he told he told my parents that he's he's
gonna make me go over in that match. But I had no idea because
he told me that he was going over, which I respect because because he
is a veteran and it's still not my time yet. And during that match,
he was setting up for his little bad new Pilo driver. So he
gets me in the pile driver position, he tells me, he tells me
push him into the left. I was like, okay, so I push
him into the reff. Reff goes down and here comes my manager, Well,
Vinnie the Narrow If people don't know who that is, another one of
the great greatest managers. I'm I'm not I'm not trying to full tip,
I'm not trying to pull out your hair here, but he is another one
of the one of the great wrestling managers on the Gulf Coast. UM.
So he comes in with some brass knuckles. He tells me stay down.
So Chris gets up and and then Vinnie gets them with the brass knuckles and
push me on top. And at the time I was like, okay,
he's gonna kick out. The referee counts one, two, I'm like,
okay, he's going to kick out now. Then the ref is down for
three. I was like what, like, is that supposed to happen?
But I was like a roller coast of emotions that night because it was my
first title win UM and like I didn't know how to react. I was
like, I was kind of in tears and kind of like very happy because
I worked so hard for this, but it was an honor to share the
ring and share that moment with any the narrow and uh with Chris Black in
that ring because Chris Black actually brought me intesse W and he wanted to see
me improve and I did just that. Man, it is awesome. H
Yeah. And speaking of SCW, that's I have not been able to make
it there yet. I'm going to you eventually, And every time I would
get a chance to go, I'm either booked or somewhere else, you know.
But I'm waking my way down there. Now. We talked about venture.
Now tell me a little bit about your upcoming dates. So where are
some of the promotions you're going to and some of the promotions you'd like to
work with. I love working with that cwum. Like you said, I'm
gonna try to venture out. I'm gonna try to get into Battle Zone Championship
Wrestling. I'm probably gonna get back to Diamond Championship Wrestling if I can.
I am wrestling for the Southern Wrestling Organization s WO out of Poplarville. They
actually have a date on October ninth at the poplar Ville Storm Shutter or Fairgrounds,
whatever you like to call it. October ninth, and on October two,
I'm actually doing a benefit show for this for this family there I belieither
a mom or grandmother passed away. So I'm gonna be there and killing Mississippi
doing it for this for those two Excuse me. Uh, I'm gonna be
doing that show for those people. And I'm looking to fill in more dates
because I'm ready to travel. I'm ready to I'm ready to make more towns.
I'm looking to get booked in Ohio at Future Great Wrestling because yeah,
it's gonna be it's gonna be a long haul because Future Grade Wrestling is out
of Ohio. Um, there's this there's this one guy, me and him
and going back and forth on social media. He does a leather face type
gimmick egoes as evil Nate Hewitt. So I mean here, I've been going
on and off on social media to see if f F GW could get their
eyes on me and try to work out of deal so I could go up
there and uh Nate Hewitt for like a couple of shows. And I'm gonna
try to get to pro Wrestling two to five, Elevate Pro and probably sometime
soon while Wildcat Wrestling. That sounds good, dude, that sounds like a
lot of good deals. Now we're missing to wrap this up before we do.
This is usually where I'm gonna give you the floor. I don't care
what you gotta plug. You can plug whatever you want. Even if you
got cookies to say, you can sell them right here. Man, the
floor is yours, all right. So, any wrestling as any wrestling bookers
or promotions who are listening to this podcast, don't be afraid to reach out
to me. You could d and me on Instagram at real Aston Blake,
or you could try to contact me on my Facebook page which is Ashton Blake
and let's work out some deals. I'm ready to make. I'm ready to
come to different promotions and get get those fans what they're paying their money to
see. And it's an honor to be on this podcast with one of the
great one of the greatest, one of the greatest golf coach, wrestling managers,
a brilliant one, Brandon Turner. Here you go, brother, I
love it, I love it, I love it. We're definitely gonna get
you back on. The journey's just beginning, and you know you're young in
your career. But like I said, before we get out here there,
let me ask you this, M yeah, sir, what what do you
look to get out of wrestling? Where do you look to be? What's
what's your end game in wrestling? My end game is to learn as much
as I can, pass it down to further generations to come and possibly run
run a promotion myself, and I'll try to make it big into this wrestling
business. There you go, dude. Well, I appreciate you coming on.
I appreciate you doing this podcast for little travel, many time production.
What's your thinking, Zoe