Yeah, right now, get ready. Presentation, ladies and gentlemen on What
is Good Kanye Twitty wt FW podcast here. Uh, this is debut.
This is debut. We're doing our first ever interview video interview. We show
it, but but give well the first Let's get the nonsense out of the
way at WTFW trash on the Twitter, the TikTok, the Instagram. It's
sh boy Kanye Twitty down here. We got mean lion in the building.
I'm mean lion as usual here on the WWE podcasting. H you know,
I'm just this got gotten crazy. We've this is somebody we've seen at independent
shows. I'm gonna let him introduce himself. I'm sir, sir, sir,
sir you yeah, that's a talking head guy, orange shirt guy.
How are you? Greetings and salivation. I'm Drexel, homicidal artist. Uh.
Maybe a deathmatch darling. I don't know. I just I enjoy cutting
people with paper, uh and then stapling said paper to their head. I'm
just a runner mill, you know, just an average Joe. How are
you guys? On this fine Sunday afternoon, I'm questioning my my life decisions
to wake up this morning. I do that all the time. It's amazing.
You know, after a good match and you roll around enough glass and
you take the shower. It's not the death matches that suck. It's the
shower afterwards that that's where you're sitting there and you're just trying to pull out
bits and pieces so they don't get stuck in you because then you get infections
and you got to go to hospitals and that costs money. And I'm an
independent wrestler, so I have no money. But I mean, like that
shower that makes you question all of your choices in life of like how did
I get here? Because you know, at one point in my life I
have a college degree, and I used to be on billboards and I was
a radio star, and somehow I've become Drexel over the last I don't know
that. Eighteen years of my life in pro wrestling. Wow, Wow,
eighteen years. Eighteen years. Yeah, I've been doing this a long time.
I'm really old. I fart dust, don't worry. I think I
gotten to me. Lyon does that too, and he's not old. He's
just well, well, hey, you know you say, you say these
death matches. Have that been a thing like, is that what got you
in the wrestling? Have you been doing it since you've got there? Because
that's all I've ever seen, and you were crazy too. I've I've been
a kind of seer wrestling since I was Oh, we live a little Tyler
and in Detroit I was I was the white kid with the big mouth that
I used to fight a lot. He used to get stopped a lot because
you know, you look like me, You're kind of different. And I
ended up in radio and I was I don't know, people considered a star.
I guess at one point in my life I played basketball with Will Smith
and I smoked pot with Justin Timberlake. So I've done lots of crazy things
in my life, way before I ever gotten the wrestling. But I ended
up in poor Land, in the Rose City out here, and I was
doing a morning show and Portland Wrestling was still on TV. So I contacted
them because why not, and it said, hey, you want to do
a cross promotion. I'm a radio DJ. I'm really good at talking and
stuff, and they said okay, But then they had this whole idea about
if I was going to come in, you know you got you gotta take
full advantage of it. So they said, hey, how about we're gonna
send you to We've got a ring set up and you can learn you can
learn how to protect yourself in the ring because we want to do a little
angle with you and a guy's gonna beat you up and they'll put a snake
on. You're not afraid of snakes, are you? The course, I'm
not afraid of snakes, And and so they sent me down in this man
named the grappler Lendenton, who is a Pacific Northwest legend. He was there,
and there were just a couple other wrestlers who don't even wrestle anymore,
name exile guy named Kane Mathers. They're insignificant and don't even matter. But
but they were there, and for two months, twice a week for two
months, I would go there and Grappler would make me roll and make me
learn how to fall, and he would make me run the ropes, and
they would give me hip tosses and arm drags, and then they would put
me in the corner and they would chop the living shit out of me.
And their number one goal, as I found out, was how many marks
can we put on this radio? DJ so that he will go back to
his show and talk about how real pro wrestling is and see. What they
didn't expect is that I would keep showing up for those two months because they
didn't realize I've been watching wrestling since we lad not many friends. I was
very much I was before the Columbine Times. But later on in life people
said to me, hey, remember you in school. You wore a trench
coat and you had combat boots and you could have been like Columbine. I
look at him like, yeah, I really probably should have, but that's
bad ned. But anyway, I went through that, and then I joined
into Portland Wrestling and my very first show, and I'm getting to do ring
announcing, and I was I was doing backstage interviews and starting to do color
commentary, and they did this whole thing with the grappler and these other wrestlers
came out and like, as as I was going through this search, I'm
a radio dd I'm not. I'm not a wrestler, So they they want
to make reassure me, and they're like, this guy is just getting he'll
he'll booch in the stomach and then he's gonna give you a DDT he's gonna
put the snake kindy and stuff. But I get to the show and this
guy, who is a total predator and a horrible person, has been long
gone from the same thank God, for at least fourteen fifteen years now,
and I'm glad. I'm never going to give him the popularity of saying his
name out loud. But he decides to let me know, Hey, I'm
not gonna DDT you. I don't do a DDT. A DDT is bullshit
that some posts. Now, all right, I do. I do a
double underhook pile driver. I'm just a radio DJ. I'm i'm I'm a
big fan of pro wrestling. I know what the said move is. And
I said, okay, well I've never done that. Could we at least
try it and you can show me what I need to do? It said,
oh yeah, yeah, yeah, no problem. And at the time
before, I kind of ripped a bunch of my hair out in the top
of my head. I used to have long, flowing hair, so I
added a decent amount of hair and he tells me how to hook, and
he picks me up and we go through it a few times and it's all
good. My hair hits the map, but I'm fine, and then they
start rolling and we're doing the We would tape four shows in one in one
day's taping was four TV shows for it. The entire month was all done
in one day. And so here comes my big angle. I'm in the
ring. He gets surrounded by all these heels. This guy boots me,
picks me up, and stuffs me right on the top of my head in
the ring and he puts the snake on me. And they're already planning on
doing the whole stretcher thing to sell it. But in reality, I probably
should have needed a stretcher because as they're they're carrying me out and I get
in the back and they walked me into the locker room with the stretcher.
He walks up to me and he smacks me on the cheek and goes,
how is your net? Kid? And you know, not wanting to sell
it and not wanting to give in to this because you know, I grew
up in Detroit. I've been beat up a lot. I said a little
stiff, thank you very much, and I shook his hand. And that
was the start of my wrestling career about eighteen years ago. Because when I
started. I was told I didn't deserve to be in this business. All
I was was goddamn radio DJ. I didn't deserve my spot on TV because
I didn't go wrestle in front of five people down at Sandy Bars flea market
every single Tuesday night. And so while all those people like to spew that
nonsense, I continued on and a guy named doctor Luther, who now works
for AW he saw a little bit of talent in me, and Luther Luther,
he kind of took me under his wing and he knew that you know,
at this point, I was thirty years old. I was starting in
the wrestling industry at thirty years old, so like twenty nine and thirty.
So I'm not a spring chicken and I'm a radio DJ. Yes, I
am about five to eleven. But when I trained with Norman Smiley, he
told me, I always say six foot. Now you're close enough. So
I'm six foot and on a good day maybe one hundred and eighty seven pounds.
So Luther knew I was never gonna have a body, but he knew
that I could be really entertaining. So Luther started teaching me in my head
what to do and how to get reactions and how to tell stories because I
was never going to be an athlete like everyone else, so I learned how
to tell stories early on. And then I went from Luther and I in
Portland wrestling fell up and they ended, and then I hooked up with playboy
Buddy Rose, who I am happy to say I am the only student of
Playboy Buddy Rose to never give him money. I worked a small angle with
him on a show where essentially his back was really bad at the time,
and the idea was he was first gonna post me, so I was gonna
bleed for the first time that night, and Playboy Buddy Rose was gonna be
the one to throw me into this post. But Playboy said, my back
is too bad. I trying to push you. It won't look good.
Blah blah blah. He's like, what if you jump up on the apron
and I'll just I'll give you a n tug on your feet and you can
come down. And I said, you had no problem, And when Buddy
touched my foot, I literally went completely horizontal and smacked into the floor and
I made it look like a million dollars because you know, this is Playboy
Buddy Rose. And we got done with the show, and he gave me
a big hug and said, thank you for making me look so good.
And at that point he was just in the process of reopening his school because
him and Colonel de Beer's had been shut down for a little while. And
Buddy said, do not tell anyone, but from this point forward, if
anyone I ask you who trained you, you tell them Playboy Buddy Rose,
and you were going to come to the school and you were not going to
pay for the school, but I just want to pass on knowledge for you.
So then I trained with Playboy Buddy Rose, and then and then I'm
wrestling in the scene, and in this point I'm dealing with asshole promoters,
and I start this little company called DA that is getting ready to do fifteen
year anniversary. This coming September will be fifteen years for DA. And then
from DA, I end up going to Florida down to FCW and I go
do their school and I get to train with Norman Smiley, mister Big Wiggle,
mister Shooter in the real life mister Black Magic, along with Mike Graham's
son of Eddie Graham, and I got to do things like I wrestled in
front of the Undertaker, and I've done lots of crazy things in my life.
So now like after eighteen years, I really feel like I started peaking
about maybe fourteen years where I started officially actually stay making a name for myself
because the Pacific Northwest longer was a black hole, and I'd spent some time
down in Florida, and I'd hooked up with some really cool people, people
like Page and the Night Family and Chris Hero and Ricardo Rodriguez and Sue Young,
and these people became really good friends of mine and then helped me later
on in my career and help me now, like guys like Serpentaco and I
hook back up with Luther and like all these guys they come in, they
do seminars. Because my whole goal now in wrestling is just to build the
Pacific Northwest. I'm an old man, I'm never going to get signed,
but if I can build this Pacific Northwest, so no people are dealing with
the predators, so people aren't dealing with the bullshit promoters of you. You've
got two places to work in this entire area, and we're gonna tell you
your only all you're allowed to work one and all the bullshit that I dealt
with eighteen years ago. I'm helping to make sure that the theory isn't like
that anymore. So, Yeah, I'm middle aged and crazy, and it's
just like Terry Funk says, because I think you take enough headshot, she
has become that way. But yeah, that is the story of Drexel As.
I just sorry, I start to ramble. That's all right, hey,
you know, but you know, some quick quick fires out of some
quick fires out of there, you know, just from the get go.
Uh, you know, congratulations on the longevity of the OA, like like
congratulations for that, right the best that we've ever been. Right now,
we're averaging about three hundred and fifty to four hundred people per show. And
I'm not spending a big budget flying in all these names and stuff. We
might have one flying per show. I am basing an entire show around Pacific
Northwest. I'm basing an entire show around story driven and character driven wrestling,
and it seems to be working because the fans keep coming back. Yeah,
that's amazing, man, Thank you. I also do uh you know,
forgive me if I'm wrong, go correct me. If I'm wrong. But
uh, you know there is somebody that's you know, in DA way there
with you that has been explained to me as your prodigy. And uh,
you know this, this girl is in my mind like she's the strongest woman.
Uh, she is one of the best female And you know, I
don't know me and me and to me and talk about this all the time.
I don't It doesn't matter female to male. That don't matter to me.
She is one of the best independent professional wrestlers I have seen. I've
got to see her inside and outside. I've seen her working shows at the
front door and all that. But you know, KEI tell us a little
bit about a mirror. A mirror is so the way I look at it
because early on they tried to mentor people and I learned really quick that like
you can you can drag a horse to water, but you can't make them
drink. And so I tend not to waste my time with I mean,
I will help anyone that's putting in any effort, and that includes That's why
the DA shows end up having ten eleven matches and things like that, for
the fact that I am trying to find spots for all these people. So
that they can get better and get up to that prestige, that defied level,
get on that level to start flying around and getting out of the Pacific
Northwest because people are so shortsighted they don't realize that if our talent gets out
there, it helps bring more eyes back on us and it also makes our
company look better. And so that's my whole goal with the OA and building
these people up. And so over the years, you know, there's certain
people that I've kind of taken a fancy too as far as trying to help.
And it can go back as far as like Sonico. Prestige essentially married
me and Sonico together at the start of Prestige about six years ago, and
me and Sonico worked about a year and a half feud. His very first
hardcore match ever was against me, and he was very nervous about that and
it was a fault. It was false count anywhere, and I remember him
like, well, what are we gonna do? And I said, we
got this, we got this, we got this, and he's like,
yeah, but what about all the like you just mentioned like seven things.
We've got an entire like twenty something minute match to plan And said, kid,
we're gonna work, and I helped start teaching him from being someone that
was in the back just calling out an entire match to learning how to work
in the ring. And now like, you can't book that kid without him
going, hey, can I make this hardcore? Because he found the love
in it like and from me, And then you can go from him to
a Jaden and Jaden and his whole development as a superhero is very much you
ask him, and it's very much tied directly to me and helping him develop
this character of not just stealing stealing a hurricane helms, but being able to
take bits and pieces from random cartoons and anime. And you can go from
Jaden to get Banded. I wrestled kid Bandit months two of her career,
and the first time I worked her was down in Vegas and it was for
Super Beast and for Dark Arts and Bandit. I was told specifically teach them
how to work because the first show they did the in month one, I
believe they jumped off like a balcony area and knocked themselves or knocked their opponent
out in stuff. So I went in there with Bandit and and like,
I had never seen someone so unique with their movement being able to incorporate the
the kung fu at oh sorry, I just pulling stuff down. I get
into my stories, but they so like unique in the kung fu and then
also um with their character. But they start calling stuff like I'm gonna do
this into this, into this and this and the and it was really amazing,
and I just kind of stared blankly at them and I said, that's
really cool. I've been doing this a long time. And you lost me
about halfway through that, Like, if I can't even picture it, how
are the fans gonna picture? And so let's take that that all that cool
stuff you can do, and let's break that up into three different sections.
And we're gonna give pauses in here. Why because the fans can only digest
so much, and so you've got the beginning that they remember and then they
see the end. And do you want that whole big middle section of cool
stuff that you've done just to become blah blah blah blah movement movement movement or
do you want to get the most out of it so that they're gonna cheer
and they're gonna pop and they're gonna react the way and so I started working
with Bandit on that, and at that point Bandit had told me that the
southern the so Cal area of California, we're like, no, this anime
stuff, don't do that. That's stupid, that's killing wrestling. And I
said, no, no, no, that's what you are. That is
what you're going to embrace. You embrace your flaws, you embrace your geekiness,
you embrace your love for that culture, and then incorporated in a different
way like don't go steal from other wrestlers. I hate that. Don't go
to steal from another wrestler. There are so many sources of creative influence out
there, from books, movies, TV, music, all across the board.
Whatever you look around, you can find inspiration in the world. And
I tell people to go look for that. Don't go steal from another wrestler,
because when you steal from these outside things, everyone's like, oh my
god, you're so original. Oh hell no. Something Luther told me a
long time ago is there is nothing original in wrestling. You take something,
you make it your own. And so that's what I teach these kids.
Now onto your question of Amira Amiro was trained here in Portland at the Oregon
Pro Wrestling School. That's Ricky Gibson of Midnight. He that Ricky Gibson and
Eddie Pearl she would consider her fathers. They're the ones that raised her up
from a little one. They're the ones that taught her out of work and
stuff in the ring. But I saw someone with a lot of drives that
I met first as a fan. I think her first show was the first
Prestige Roseland show, and so I was probably one of the first wrestlers she
met. And at one point she said I was her favorite wrestler, which
is really cool because I'm just this old weirdo that doesn't really wrestle. I
just go out there and they make moments. See. But I saw her
hard work, and I saw someone with a natural ability the same way that
I saw in Jade, in the same way especially that I saw in Kid
Bandit. And so I told promoters about her. I helped her get out
there, and essentially I said, jump in my car, kid, and
if you like I'm busy every single weekend, if you want to get booked
on these shows, feel free to jump in the car and make these connections.
So I'm doing that with her I'm also doing that currently with the Flaming
Aces because I see something in Zay and Spencer. Both of those kids are
just killing it right now. The Hammer Brothers. Hammer Brothers are phenomenal for
as young of a team as they are, Like Jack's got a little bit
more experience in wrestling with a different a different version of himself, but Jack
and sledge Hammer are killing it here, and I mean it literally, it
fires me to help all these kids now because like Oregon Pro Wrestling School,
it's just phenomenal the kids that are coming out. So yes, Amira her
gimmick, the strong woman gimmick. It's not a gimmick, that's her.
And I try to tell people like, don't tell me, like if you
got a chiche body, don't tell me what a great athlete you are,
because everyone's gonna they know it's boldish. And so Amira is a physical fitness
instructor. She's a queen of Zoomba. She calls herself squirrel Girl. That's
what she met. She's like nah, and she doesn't stop it. She's
like pure caffeine. And so you know she's got that. And now I'm
helping to mold to get that character and get the emotional connection which she already
has this natural ability. I'm just helping to bring it out, and I
want to help her with her promos and things like that. But yeah,
I've taken her under my wing as yet another little protege to help, you
know, just bring a lie and and try to give this this nice mixture
of like, I don't know, it took me a long time to get
to the point where I'm at. And if I can save a whole lot
of years and a whole lot of injuries to people's necks and things like that
that I've dealt with, that I'm gonna do it. Because nothing would make
me more proud is to see these kids get signed and make a whole lot
of money. And if they're at one day someone's like I want to thank
Drexel for what they did for my career, then I feel like I made
Like that that's about the best I could I could do. But for a
guy that started at the age of thirty, that was never an athlete,
I was a radio DJ. I had a gut from eating things like chili,
cheese, dogs and shit at four in the morning, because that's what
you're doing. Radio Yeah, whoever you're getting free food from, that's what
we're eating today. So but yeah, I know that as far as Amia,
she's got a bright future and I honestly, if she's still around here
in a year, I'll be surprised. I'm pretty sure one of the big
companies will end up picking her up. So that's that's, that's what I've
been saying to h you know, Uh, it was awesome, But everybody
else you've named there, you know, uh uh kid bandit is what is
really Uh watch a kid bandit and your match like that? Really? Uh
that's that that that opened my eyes to thank her for that. That was
the most viral thing I've ever done in wrestling was the Indiana Jones spot that
I said, Hey, have you seen Indiana Jones? And she said,
I've seen a few of them. I said, I think it's the first
one. And there's this person. They got swords and they're doing all this
cool and then Indian just pulls his gun and shoot. So we're gonna do
that but with a chair and you're you're gonna do your kendo sticks off And
they said okay. I said, but do you trust me? And they
said yes. So of course they said, you really trust me, and
they said yes. I said, then, I I know head traumat CT
it's bad, but there's an old school way of wrestling, like I learned
from Luther a long time ago that when you hit someone with a chair and
they had, there are certain ways of doing it that's good and reduce the
impact your head and things. And I said, I need to just tilt
your head like that, do not move, and give me the perfect target
and I will land that chair on your head. I and I did,
and it worked really good. And we ended up with like over a million
views for that, and it's the most viral thing I ever did. And
what comes out of that is a whole lot of people on the Internet telling
me that I'm Credos and God of War and I've never even played the goddamn
game. Like I admit, I steal from lots of but that's not what
I've stolen from. So I just I just want that to make that public
because I don't think I've ever actually got a chance to talk about I have
nothing to do with Credos or God of War. I even play the video
game. So yeah, screw you internet troll people. I'm pretty sure that
I'm pretty sure you've been around a lot longer than God of War, so
we can we can definitely get well. I mean, this incarnation with the
red and stuff has maybe been about the last decade or so. A long
time ago. I was just this punk kid with the mohawk. I once
a team with Jesse Neil for a short time. That was in TNA,
Me, Jesse Neil and Christina von Eric. We're known as the Bastards down
in Florida. So I had to do some cool stuff like that with my
mohawks self. But I wasn't nearly as fun to be around as this version
of Drexel Man Man when you know, you know, that's that's just wow,
wow, it's a lots of touch, Jess. You know you've done
some things. You've done some things for sure. And in my life,
like I remember being a child and my whole goal was don't grow up,
like don't have a job, like whatever it takes to not have a real
job. I come from a very blue collar family and like most of my
family worked assembly line bullshit where they did they're they're nine to five, and
then you got to add on a couple hours of overtime. Uh, it's
certain seasons and all that shit, and they they want me to become an
engineer, and I said, that's not really me. Numbers and things and
calculations and being told what to do just really didn't fit me at all.
So I ended up in radio because I thought, of all the entertainment,
maybe radio at that point was the best option. But I don't know.
So I kind of I feel like I have that that blue collar work ethic,
but at the same time, I am truly an artist at heart,
and if I have to work hard to avoid real work, I'm going to
do it. Yeah. That's our new motto to mean, let's work hard
to not do real work. Plug yeah, plug. Well you know what
match in particular because man me and to me and have been we've been waiting
to ask about this because we were at what was it was it was it
Waked the Dead, Yeah, Wakes the Dead and pressy Doe and I haven't
said this yet, um, big from from me personally. One of the
biggest reasons, uh, that we've been really wanted to showcase and put a
spotlight on the independent scene and the independent promotions is because of none other than
Prestige Wrestling. I feel like I'm part of the family. I want to
get William on my show eventually. It's it's like a bucket list item of
mind. Uh, William likes to talk. I hope, so, I
hope. So big shots Prestige for getting the Globe in California as a new
home in California. But me and the me area upset that I'm not on
that show. You can't like this is two Callie show was in a row
where you themed it after Black Flag and then you theme it after Rob's ibby,
And how am I not on the show? Like, I just don't
understand that. I will say this when we got to the Globe. I
will say this because, uh, not a lot of people people know.
But you know I went down to wrestle Many a weekend. Yeah yeah yeah,
but uh you know you linked me up into the show. Uh,
and it was my first time a show in a parking lot with like twenty
people. It was never Circle six. It was the live stream where Circle
six was just running different shows every single hour that were themed out or in
corporation with another company. It was. It was a really fun thing that
just kept going and rolling for like three days straight. So right right,
you know, we get down there and we see that, and uh,
you know, there's some there's some, there's I got introduced to a whole
new I talked to me and to mean about the iguana. Man. Okay,
like I saw some weird shit. Okay, But after that we went
to the Globe, and I gotta agree with you, you know, like
we put everything in fire or trash or lunchbowl terms. And William I gotta
say this, Prestige Wrestling, I gotta say this, where was Drexel?
I saw everybody else that show at Prestige. I saw everybody at Prestige,
at the Underground, No holds Barred, no Ring, murder Mania, I
went to too, but where was Where was Drexel. I'm just saying,
I mean, you should show people want to be Internet drolls. I'm perfectly
fine with you trolling Williams saying that Drexel needs to be on every single Prestige
show because well even the very first show, even I was already booked,
so I couldn't do it. But I sent my valet at the time,
Carolina Gore down with a shirt. She kind of sticks Sonicco in the head
and then put my shirt. So even though I wasn't physically at the first
Prestige show, my face was. And that was the introduction to head into
this feud with me and Sonicco early on in Prestige. But yes, I
feel like I should be on every still every single Prestige show too. And
William tells me he just needs he doesn't want to give me bullshit because after
things like Dave Jerre and he says, you know, I I'm a special
attraction and I understand that, but I feel like I could be a special
attraction doing whatever. So all right, yeah, tell people you want to
see me on all the Prestige shows because I want to be there personally.
We will, we will as one. But speaking of the Danger Aaron show,
uh you know, I mean, I mean, you go ahead and
take this one, Like what do you want to ask about about that?
That that that incredible, insane, stupid, unbelievable trampoline y'all had I'll let
you take this, well, I'll let you take the barb War trampoline,
like like Kanye Twitty was saying, Man, I agree, let's troll William
because uh, you should be honest, you you made that show worth going
to just for that match alone. Um. Yeah, No, it's the
spot, the spots that you do and the the harm you put your body
through just for you know, us fans, and what you do is is
amazing man. So out out to you, and yeah, let's let's thank
you so much. Let's let's get you on every prestige show, every prestige
wrestling more states. And I know they're gonna keep popping up in more states
and if he's not booking me and then I can't cross those states off the
less. So well, you know, speaking of you know, let's do
some crazy stuff you've done. I got a couple of random questions, all
right, So, so what's the craziest bump you've ever taken? And what's
the craziest bump you've given to somebody else? So do you want like crazy
bump that ends badly or do you want crazy bump it because it's like a
spectacle and is what it's supposed to be. I'll give you two, all
right, Year one of DAS So this is approximately about fifteen years ago.
I agree to do a flaming table spot where I am going to get super
bombed off the top through a table that's set on fire. The guy that's
doing this with me has reassured me that he's done this spot before up in
Canada, and I say okay, and it goes, no, you don't
want to get lighter fluid. You want to get charcoal fluid. And I,
oh, so that's what they go buy, is charcoal fluid. See,
what I don't realize is that when you pour a table with charcoal fluid,
you go to light, it won't light. So you pour some more
charcoal fluid and you go to light and it won't light. And then you've
covered the entire table with an entire bottle of charcoal fluid. And then you
light and you get this tiny little flame that it's horrible. It's like it's
like negative ten degrees and your balls are shrunk up in that kind of small
it is what we're talking about. It's a little, tiny flame, and
you're like, okay, we just gotta go. And the guy goes and
gives you this big superpower bomb off the top and at that point all the
fluids go to the center and there's a big fucking explosion and like a fireball
shoots up in the air, and the entire ring catches on fire and ends
up burning through the padding and the canvas and scorches the wood underneath. Luckily,
the guy that was getting thrown through there smelled burning as soon as I
hit it, and I shot out of that ring onto the cold cement floor
and I ended up with three, probably about second degree burns about that big
on my back. So originally, at one point I really considered fire bad
because there's other incidents where fire was bad at DA and stuff. But then
on the opposite end of the thing, during COVID, I went out to
do No Piece Underground and it was the Jamie Sengall Show. It was an
entire show that Jamie herself, she got to book and stuff, and Jamie
wanted me to be in the main event. So it was myself versus Zicki
Dice versus Colby Carino. And I'd seen them do this spot I forget with
whom, but they had done a flaming sheet of glass before, and I
said, that's pretty cool. It looks pretty good like you're hitting the glass
fire go out, probably probably not going to set yourself on fire, probably
not. And so I had told Sue Young, Hey, I will totally
do something like that. If she's gonna put me in the main event,
I'm gonna make sure and make a spectacle for that finish of that match.
And so I show up in the Orlando desk squad. Who are the guys
that build all the weapons and stuff down there for No Piece of Underground.
They're like, oh no, we don't got one sheet of glass. Check
this out, and they have like this this like Baker's rack thing in sliding
into it are two sheets of glass and then on the bottom is a door.
And they said, we're gonna wheel this whole thing out and we're gonna
put the light of fluid on the top of all the glass and we're gonna
light all that up. I said, okay, And so No Piece is
a company that doesn't have a ring. So what we did is we set
this whole instrocity up on the floor and then I'm up on the stage and
I tried to throw Zicky Dice off the stage, but Zicky turned it around,
picked me up and just hucked my asspower by me through it and I
bounced off the floor and it was really really cool, and it was a
spectacle and I walked away relatively unharmed because I didn't have big burns all over
my body that I had to keep putting save on for weeks and stuff.
And I didn't end up in a hospital. So when I don't end up
in a hospital and people said, oh my god, that's cool, then
it was definitely a success. So that's probably the craziest bump I've done.
I'm I don't know, I people what crazy bumps that I've given to people.
I mean, I've driven people head first through things several times. Usually
I've recently I have taken to giving pile drivers on pointy sharp things. I
do that a lot. That's probably not one of the smartest things, but
at my point in my career, especially in the Pacific Northwest, I really
am one of the only specialists in hardcore and I'm definitely the only ongoing deathmatch
guy based on the Pacific Northwest, so I kind of find that a majority
of my matches the guys don't have as much experience, so I'm the one
holding hands and trying to up their game and get them to do the more
and more crazy things. Like for me personally, when I watch a Nick
Wayne match, the shit he does with his flip and the height that he
gets. That feels way more dangerous than like me rolling around in some thumbtacks
and like and shoving them in my own head to head butt someone like that
almost sounds like just normal compared to like the cool athletic shit that these other
people do. So well, you know, you know, let speak of
taxi. Noah, you gave me a tack out of your very own head.
You know. I like to give really personal souvenirs. You got some
of my DNA, and I don't know if I think I was in the
rings. So I always try to tell people because normally I'll wait until I
get to merchandise table and then I start pulling things that are stuck in my
body and I handed up to people that are coming up asking for autographs.
But I always got to tell them my DNA's on there. But don't clone
me. You end up a little Drexel clone. You're gonna have to create
train it and it's really it's gonna have a temperament issue, and you just
don't want to have to deal with that. So I just make sure anyone
that gets anything that comes out of my body and my DNA is all over
it to please just don't clone me because I didn't reproduce and I don't think
you should reproduce me either. I have a feeling to mean that, uh
that he still is create trained. I'm a good boy. Well well you
know, uh you know that so much pull away, you know. I
gotta be honest with you. You know, Uh, you are the mad
the main razy mofo you know deathmatch person I've seen in the Northwest, you
know. I mean I've seen some matches that people have done, you know,
uh, like I haven't gotten to see both you a funny bone at
the same time. Um, you know, he's one that I've heard of,
you know, but you definitely take the cake in my mind of as
one of the craziest sons of bitches I have ever seen in the ring in
my life. I appreciate it. I'm really I'm so inspired by the old
school style of hardcore, the FMW or the the old mcfoley Terry Funk.
I mean, essentially, this version of Druxel started as just a ripoff of
Doctor Luther from FMW from his mid nineties early mid nineties running FMW, where
I started out in a white jumpsuit with blood splatter all over it and came
out just chucking chairs in the ring because that's what I saw Luther do on
FMW and like and at that point when this monster version of myself came out,
it was a point where all the indie wrestlers they wanted to be wrestlers.
They had to have their little tights, and they had to have their
kick pads, and they had to be able to do oh, their their
inter get taining and stuff. And I said, I'm gonna go the opposite
way. No one's a monster, no one's doing that. And now it's
crazy because there's so many monsters everywhere. So I don't know, I feel
kind of trend setting, like I was bringing back the old because no one
was stealing from the eighties. Everyone wanted to steal from all the cool indies
and the two thousands and stuff, and I'm like, give me a missing
link and that's gonna make me happy. And so that's kind of where Drexel
developed from that. Yeah, I feel like you definitely helped pave the way.
Hid Kitty, I love animals, Hi Kitty. Yeah, this is
Bill makes an appearance on a lot of the shows, you know, knocking
things over. You know, I closed my door so Sin didn't come in
here because he'll start barking and he gets he gets mad at Drexel. Drexel
gets too loud for the puppy and he gets very up sut by it.
So everyone's like, why don't you bring your dog to wrestling? And I
was like it'd probably just end badly. And he's there in cartoon form at
my merchandise table and that's good or no, as you know, well,
hey, you know what do you have because I mean this episode, this
this is gonna air here on Wednesday, so you know, if you got
something coming up, you know, I want people to know, you know,
I mean you could tell him with I mean maybe you want to give
him your home address or your Twitter or well, I don't know how you
do it. You know, if you gave me a home address, I'm
not coming. I'm telling you that right now. They can find me on
social media pretty much. Just look up the Devil Drugs well d R e
x L and I Devil Drugs. Will you find me on most social media
platforms that way, And then like as far as shows this coming weekend,
I got Vancouver Island pro so I gotta take a boat to a show where
I got to drive up into Washington, and then I got to get a
ferry to go to Vancouver Island and I got two shows up there. And
then the week after that is the next Prestige roseland where it's me and Effie,
me versus Daddy. I have a play date with Daddy, and I
believe we're gonna do some really left up ship to each other. Did you
did you see man Swarner and Effie and they stapled their tongues together. Yeah,
but I got a date with Daddy. I got a date with Daddy,
and that's color out. That's gonna be really fun. Huh. Yeah,
you've been trying to kiss me ever since we met. I just got
the paper cut. Eli ever flies tongue. He's got that really cool tongue.
That's like, oh, and I got the paper cut it that was
really fun. It's it's the little things that entertain me. Last night,
a kid from Canada, Judas Icarus. He's part of a tag team called
Satan Sinners. They're really good. They're from you up there, and and
he wrestles barefoot and I got to paper cut his toes, and I love
I've only got to paper cut like three different people's toes. One of them
was Jacob fat two. And every time now that I see Jacob fat Tow's
family and they say see me, they're like, oose you you paper cut
at oos his toes that was and I say yeah, and I'm like,
I'm glad you remember I did my job. But those are alchemic da.
We got some shows coming up in Portland on not single to my day after
May six, and then on May seventh, there'll be some really good stuff
going on there. And then I I just my normal spots, my normal
haunts, and I'm sure some other cool stuff will be coming up. I
life is kind of a blur. I feel like I wrestle every single weekend.
So if you check my social media's you'll see where all my upcoming appearances
are, because that's pretty much what you find on my social media. You'll
find some pictures of my dog, and then you'll see where I'm wrestling and
maybe me spouting off about something. But yeah, I don't give out my
home address, and yeah it's probably just added badly or people wanted to take
my toys. I got my toys all over and stuff, and I don't
want them take them. I'm not asking. I'm not gonna. I'm not
even gonna ask next time. You know we're gonna this is something like I
said, you know, you are the first interview we have gotten to have,
uh you know, from the actual industry on the WTFW podcast. And
by the way, I think that should be a type of match. You
could take that with da. I think there should be a w TFW match
where everything you do or everything you think of has to be something that ain't
nobody else done. It's the whole point of the matches to get people say
what speaking of that, I want to do something that doesn't get done here,
and no promoters will let me have a Piranha tank death match. I
want one in there all like no Peter, and people will be offended.
And in what I said is that that we're feeding piranha fresh blood. I
promise I'm not gonna crush a Piranha. I just want to take someone's body
or even my own body and bleed all over and get shoved in that parana
tank. And and they're starting nibbling and it's like fresh meat for them.
We're not harming the Piranha. So I want to start a petition to allow
me and like a promotion to do a Piranha tank deathmatch out here in America
before I retire, because that just be really fun. I look, actually,
I am a list here. It is things I want to fight or
be fighting around. And there's a bunch of crazy stuff on there. But
number two, there's Piranhas. I mean there's also bears and robots and mutants
and zombies and and Klingons and Justin Bieber fuck him and Godzilla and and the
Sawyer family in Santa and the ship my monster. Yeah I would totally fight
a ship monster from Dogma. But yeah, it's a whole list of things
I want to fight. You Wow, were we talking about? I don't
know, I don't know, I don't know. Well you know, uh,
here's here's the thing. We got something new for everybody comes on the
show. Like I explained to you off air, you know everything about wtfw
uh oh one more time. You know we are on the w w E
podcast. Big shout out to our boss man Um for for allowing us a
platform for our show where we we we we spotlight whatever it is, and
uh what, Since you're our first interview, we wanted to make sure we
do this from now on. The Meanings gonna have a list of five things
for you. And it's a simple answer. One it's one or the other.
It's the fire or track. Have you ever had a porkypine quill shoved
in your head? No? No I haven't. Oh sorry, mean to
mean, mean to mean, Go ahead and take this one. You know
you got your list? Yeah, yeah, all right. So so all
we want to know is if you think it's fire or trash, here you
go ahead, fire, trash or a lunchable. Let's let's just start off
real quick about this podcast. What you know, let's go let's start with
that. I'm gonna say fire. I had fun. I had fun spouting
off my ruttoric and you guys just let me ramble. So that's always fun
when I like talking about myself because I am an artist. You know,
I do have a little minute ago. I do vanity checked myself on Google
occasionally. Fire. That's all right. Um, the UFC used to be
fire, now lunchable. I really was a fan of the UFC before,
but now they've just made. It's so difficult. You have to buy so
many different things to be able to see what the hell is going on.
And like they've become too greedy for a company where they want us to pay
all this shit. But then I hear the fire fighters talking about like I
ain't getting paid dick. So you know, I believe UFC at one time
was fire I've gone to live shows. The very first show they did in
Detroit, I think it was like a number fifteen or sixteen. I'm front
row. You can find this weird purple haired guy with kind of long hair
that has a shirtlesses riff, and I worked at that radio station. I'm
in the front row, and I believe the main fight for that was Ken
Shamrock versus Dan Severn. So I'm an old school fan, but like I've
just lost interest. I don't even know who half the fighters are anymore because
it's too difficult to be able to keep up with the product under their current
platform. Once I agreed, I agreed, I'm just saying go ahead.
I know, go ahead, go ahead ahead, that's fair, that's fair.
Um, So let's see hip hop music current hip hop music man kind
of trash. I'm not a big fan. I'm much more of an old
school guy. Give me a real MC and not some guy that just rhymes
the same word a word over and over again and the mumble hip hop and
all that crap. Doesn't it doesn't entertain me. Give me a true lyricist.
I long for the days of the of the Andre three thousands and stuff
like that. So hey man, I love that. So Luke there,
read again, Yeah me and come here a little bit old school ourselves,
so we'll both agree with you on that one. I feel the same thing
about rock music, like I love the accessibility of digital recording, but at
the exact same time, they've sucked all the soul out of music because there
is no slight flubs, there is no change is It is all just completely
pitch perfect and it's just record that little part and we're just gonna loop it
and don't worry, Like, just let's eliminate any of the soul out of
the music and the feeling out of it. And that's kind of my problem
with all modern music, say, like finding a modern song that actually makes
you really feel something. I sometimes think maybe it's my age and my cold
black heart and all the head trauma. But you know, I can watch
it. I can watch something on TV and cry like a little baby.
So it's not that like I still feel things, but I have trouble feeling
for modern day music. Give me something with a little bit of balls or
a little bit of soul that actually is speaking and saying something and not just
trying to to I can't even sell, say, sell albums just trying to
get views anymore. So message right, right, right, all right?
What's number four? Number four? Pizza fire? I mean, hey,
there is trash pizza, but I don't go to those places. I give
and you know, I'm I'm a fan of all different types of pizza and
Detroit. It makes me laugh now that everyone has a Detroit pizza and I'm
like, okay, so just the the the the greasy, real thick dough
just kind of like bacon in a pan. It's got those crispy cheese edges,
which are pretty good. All right, Now, that's a popular thing.
I'm okay with that. I like New York. I'm a big fan
of Chicago deep dish when done correctly, the problem is that most people don't
do it correctly because you need that sweet sauce. You need the really sweet
sauce, and you really need that thickness in the build. And literally that
that pie crust is now a pizza crust. It is damn near a pie
crust at it and when done correctly, I love a good Chicago deep dish,
but it's really hard to find anywhere. Agreed, Agreed, and at
last one, last one. Video games, I am kind of lunchable.
I I mean, I appreciate video games, but I don't have enough time
to play in my life. And sometimes I feel when I do have time
to play, for some reason, I get the stigma in my head that
tells me, no, you're being you're being a kid, and you're not
getting shipped done. You're playing a goddamn video games. And maybe it's because
I used to get yelled at about playing my goddamn video games all the time
as a child, so I don't get to play as much as I want.
And then also sometimes like when I do sit down to relax, I
want to sit down in the rocks. And modern day video games they're kind
of stressful, they're kind of hard, and I gotta put way too much
effort into it. And like I was a big fan of the Telltale games
when the tell Tales were coming out, which was essentially like a choose your
own adventure but in video game form where I could pay attention. But it's
essentially like I'm saying, what, all right, Yeah, he's gonna say
this, now, this is gonna happen, and maybe I gotta hit a
button here or there, but it's not that like doing two joy sticks and
sixteen buttons and trying to pay attention and like in everything. And so I
do play a little bit, but it's not a big part of my life,
so I gotta go with lunchbowl. Raz of recently, I do have.
I don't have the new WW I got last years and I made it
through the Creative Player Males storyline and about halfway through the female storyline right now.
And then I've been playing Friday in the thirteenth, that one that came
out a while ago. I've been playing that, and that's in preparation.
I also got Evil that and I've played that a few times, but not
as much as I would like to. But I do want to play the
new Texas Chainsall Masker when that does come out. That looks really fun and
I'm just I'm so attracted to those characters, and there's some of my favorites,
especially getting to be the Hitchhiker is what everyone can be, Leatherface and
other things, but getting to be the hitch Hiker with his little switchblade knife
and stuff. I'm really hoping that Choptop, who is a huge, huge
inspiration towards Drexel, but Choptop, if they end up with him as a
downloadable character to be part of the family, then I'm in hog Heaven.
And that's gonna be one of those points where I just check out for like
a weekend, and like I just stopped responding to people on on phone or
anything, and and my wife has to come find me and just bring me
food because I won't leave the TV. I will just play for like two
days straight. And yeah, kind of a little obsessive. I'm legit.
That is legit. Well well wow wow? Uh yeah, I mean you
got anything to add before I, you know, take us out of here,
you know, And uh no, I don't think you could. I
don't think I could have asked for anymore. Man. It was great.
No, no, this is this is exactly what we want to do.
It said you know, because here at WTFW, you know, Yeah,
the channel we're on is the WWE. You know, they have the review
shows, they talk about w and all the big you know, major emotions.
But you know, I'm gonna say it again, Prestive's changed my life.
And and and and the and the professional wrestlers that I've seen through there
and now up in so Os. Now you got it, ad Oa,
you know, Defy Um. You know, Big Timber Pro Wrestling. You
know it is just down in Eugene. Yeah, it's opened up so much.
And you know, I like the big I like the big you know,
big promotions, Yeah I do. But there's just something different about,
you know, seeing what you guys do. You know, at the level
that you do it at such a high level. I mean it is there's
some amazing, amazing professional wrestler I've seen. It's part of the beauty of
the life of life right now as far as on the creative side and being
able to to have so many different things at your fingertips and at your disposal,
and with independent wrestling, it gives you that alternative to as far as
storylines, if you want something's a little bit more on a or maybe like
the stuff on TV. Because you've got little ones, maybe that is a
little too edgy. And then there is the family friendly companies and stuff like
I had a company come up to me at Crimson Crown down in during many
a week and he said, hey, we're very we run a company down
here. It's a smaller company, but we're very family friendly. And he's
like, I I saw you yesterday at the Relentless show or the Pandemonium show,
or he said, the owner of the company saw me the day before
at Pandemonium and Relentless, then he saw me at Crimson and he said the
owner was just he was so enamored over that papercut stuff that you do,
and he just like it just brought such emotions. We want to bring you
in, but we are family friendly. And I said that fine, because
that's the beauty of wrestling. Is like when I get hired by a company,
what do you want from me? Because I can take it to the
extremes and I could offend almost anyone, but I can also go out there
and I could be the the scary monster to scare the child, or I
could be that child scary monster that he sends underneath the bed to take care
of the Boogeyman. So I whatever the part that needs to be filled,
I'm here to fill it. That's like I am filling in a twinkie so
good I could eat that all day. There's a sound bite for the for
the twinter right the twinkie because that's fire. Twinkies are fired. Uh,
well fried twinkies, that's where it's really. I had a deep fried twinkie
down in a Venice beach when I was at WrestleMania week. I will say
that it was amazing fire. Yeah, you did try anything, and it
just makes it better, yea, like a true athlete. Now, well,
you know, like I said, man I am I'm I can't thank
you enough for coming on the show, Like for real, you know it.
This is a neat experience and you know it's gonna bring you to a
whole other audience. You know, who knows. Maybe maybe you'll inspire another
little crazy psychotic kid to do some crazy psychotic We don't want to have to
be crazy. Just think for yourself, be creative and develop that character that
speaks to you. I tell everyone, embrace your flaws. When you embrace
your flaws, that is what the wrestling fans are really gonna get emotionally invested
into because most of the wrestling fans, we're not athletes. We're not a
curt angle, We're not an Olympic athlete. We're not spending six days a
week in the gym working out and have the best body and looking absolutely amazing,
Like I'm an Adonis. And if I walk in through a bar and
I do this, everyone comes running. I'm the most popular person in that
place. That's not how most people live their lives. Most people live their
lives as an underdog, especially in today's reality, and most people feel underappreciated.
And so if you can give them something that they can relate to where
they understand it could be some weird, weird quirk with your your anger in
the wrestling ring where something just set you off and you, as a fan,
you understand because that one little thing, someone says that one little thing
and you just snap and you understand that. And it's those flaws that make
us connect to the fans. And I'm trying to. I want to I
want to embrace your flaws, and I try to teach that to people,
and a lot of look at me like I'm crazy, but it's worked for
me. Yeah. No, that's amazing man. Yeah, well yeah,
you know, you know I got nothing else this is. This has been
absolute fabulous, you know, like this is fine. I've been an honor
man. I love absolutely fabulous. That was a fine, fine show.
Like I can remember at one point in my life I used to party like
those two crazy women I've done. I've done a lot of crazy things in
my my life, but absolutely fabulous, fine, fine show. Awesome.
Hey, you know, you know from for from us to you, thank
you so much for coming on the show for real, uh, you know,
and for being everybody show you don't know. I was recording this all
too in my head. So you guys were on the Drexful Show today.
Awesome, awesome, awesome, you know, everybody out there listening and for
the first time you'll be able to watch this, uh you know and see
the video. I am Kanye Twitty, that is the homicidal maniac artist.
Doesn't like a long time ago being crazy man something Nowadays everybody's crazy. But
I am the only fully functioning homicidal artist of pro wrestling, and I prove
it each in every week. And that is facts. That is facts.
Make sure all you listeners out there go follow this man on social media,
get your butt to a show you see ye to it soon be I could
die. I'm really old and I'm really stupid. So if you want to
see me live, you gotta do it pretty soon. Because Laura knows what
could happen. I mean, like I said, me and Fie are gonna
do some really messed up stuff to each other, and who knows. Like
if it wasn't in Oregon, I'm sure if it happened in another state,
we could get arrested for some of the ship we might do. I can't
wait to see it because I will be there. Got my tickets today,
William, got my tickets today. Get on our show. Drags on every
Presty's show, especially in California right now, all right, I mean,
I'm a ring announcer. I'm a hell of a ring announcer. We have
an Evie though, like I got a lot of fight Evie. We will
fight each other, except when we have Japanese starts because I can't speak Japanese
so we need them for that. But it maybe I got it. I'll
just apparently cripple Evie and then I can drag them out like a puppet,
and I'll just shove my hand up recklesly and I can control. I mean,
he can speak in the Japanese to do the introduction, but I'm gonna
do the rest of the introductions. And Evie's gonna be my muppet. He's
gonna call me Jim Hedson. Oh but it's been Evie, it has been
laid out. The challenge has been either there's gonna be a match happening or
you're just gonna be turned into a muppet. Either way, I can't wait
to see it, Evie Muppet time. All right, all right, well,
hey, this has been fun. This is our our love show.
I got these allergies and these casts driving me bonkers, but uh hey,
thank you. It has been an absolute honor from from us to you,
like you know you want, We're gonna have to bring you on here again.
I think there's gonna be a part two to this at some point.
Sure I'll talk about whatever. Well then a from from Tanye Twitty and mean
the mean line. This has been the Drexel experience, the homa or whatever
those fancy words are. We're gonna we always try to figure out the title
for the show, and it's gonna be something like that. But come at
at us at WTFW, trash on the Twitter, the Instagram, the tickety
tack, and uh, you know, be be prepared because we got more
interviews come along the way. I know there's some people that you know personally,
uh you know, and and if and like I said, if I
remember on an interview with one of these guys and you want to call in,
I won't stop you. You know, we do got referee, the
skinny ref brad Lee coming up getting into the fine fine weapons builder. I'm
gonna give brad Lee like he's very good at I've I've kind of mentored him
a little bit on how to build things correctly for these matches. And I
will give him credit that that amazing barbed wire trampoline that was all Bradley's construction.
He headed that up. It was my idea, I said, I
wanted to do it. I made William go buy all the ship, but
then I sent Bradley over there and he made it better than I would have.
I probably the way I would have done it, I probably would have
snapped it and fell through it. But it supported me and a car and
we bounced, and it kind of sucked to the whole bouncing because every time
we kept it kept going hey baby, but it was really cool looking.
Well. Also, we got we already just talked about him, and uh,
yeah, there's gonna be some challenges. I think a few just started.
On the WTFW podcast. We got Evie coming on the show from Prestige
and one of my favorite ring announcers of all time. He'll be coming up
here on the show. And then, uh, we also got a young
girl, a young professional wrestler from up North that I'm actually rocking the shirt
right now. Nine kid. I like her. She's a good kid,
Murphy Mattson. She's actually on the road right now on her way home and
she's going to be hitting me up. We're gonna get that interview on the
way too. So I saw her yesterday. She's a good kid. I
like her absolutely. So Hey, that's it. That's how it is.
And this is the w t f W podcast out you can you got anything
left to leave him with Drexel It says the floor is yours, send him
home with it. Don't wish where you eat. I remember that that's just
a rule in general. I know the Pacific Northwest needs to learn that right.
Accurrently, don't wish where you eat. And that's that's the that's the
advice of today. All right, goodbye, y'all past yeah me posing control,
I got a pussing control the baby.