Speaker 1: Yeah, man, what's up?
Speaker 2: What's up? Man?
Speaker 3: So? What's up?
Speaker 1: We're coming from work?
Speaker 3: Nah, I was home. I was home. I was doing
Speaker 3: some study, studying and you know, writing notes, you know,
Speaker 3: and science and paperwork with some That's some personal stuff
Speaker 3: I'm doing. And yeah, has I've been doing?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: Cool?
Speaker 1: Cool?
Speaker 2: One second?
Speaker 1: Mm hm, So all right, but bae, bet, I'm everybody
Speaker 1: with Johnny Vega.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: I saw him last night and I saw a few
Speaker 2: times before. That was for lp W, so I thought,
Speaker 2: should him on the show. And here we are, and
Speaker 2: I'm still getting a block with questions and comments from listeners,
Speaker 2: so stay tuned for that.
Speaker 3: Let's come.
Speaker 1: That's your questions, come up real quick? Roll seit today?
Speaker 1: My bad bet? So how you feeling, man.
Speaker 3: Man, that's feeling good. I'm a little sick, so it throws.
Speaker 3: If I sound a little weird, I apologize. I've been
Speaker 3: having this since last night, but I'm here for it.
Speaker 1: Okay, cool, cool, cool.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you taking time out your schedule to come
Speaker 2: be with me. Of course, immediately after, by way to
Speaker 2: a plug real quick, I got my boy Lenny Cash
Speaker 2: coming on immediately after this interview. He's supposed to come
Speaker 2: on earlier, but he was working. So yeah, so that's
Speaker 2: gonna happen right now, I mean that's gonna happen, all.
Speaker 1: Right, cool cool cool. So for those for those of
Speaker 1: us who don't know, tell us about yourself. All right.
Speaker 3: For those who don't know me, my name is Johnny Vega.
Speaker 3: I'm a former iw Tag Team Champions and unfortunately I
Speaker 3: lost the boats. But I work for iw A Intense
Speaker 3: Wrestling Alliance in New Jersey, and I currently wrestle in LPW.
Speaker 3: If you don't know, it's Legacy Pro Wrestling in Queens,
Speaker 3: New York and Mazurra.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, and that's that's the only place that you
Speaker 1: wrestled for.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: Hey, so so like, so you rus those promotions right?
Speaker 2: Are you like a free agent or you stook tied
Speaker 2: down to them?
Speaker 3: I'm a free agent, so I usually do LPW slash
Speaker 3: iw A on two separate occasions. Most of my time
Speaker 3: has been an Intense Wresting Alliance Madrid of time. Sometimes
Speaker 3: they usually go to Legacy for wrestling, but majority is
Speaker 3: I w A.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, So do you have like so like, do
Speaker 2: you have like independent bookings outside of those two.
Speaker 3: Only bookings that I have, which is like booking bookings,
Speaker 3: which is I w A other than that as you
Speaker 3: get booked from you know, Legacy Pro. But yeah, it's
Speaker 3: about it really, Okay, we.
Speaker 2: Have anything coming up, like anything you should be the
Speaker 2: lookout for, like any matches or something like that.
Speaker 3: January eighteenth, I might I might show up an LPW.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure yet, having having wrestled in Legacy Pro
Speaker 3: since last June, which is the last opponent with those
Speaker 3: who know for those who don't know, is doctor Hilly
Speaker 3: p Wisdom that I beat, I might make my return
Speaker 3: and Legacy Pro. I'm not sure yet. I do have
Speaker 3: another booking in that same day, which is i w A,
Speaker 3: which is another promotion. Of course I plan. I'm not
Speaker 3: even shirts, so I might conflict whether the two that
Speaker 3: I might choose. But I mean, who knows. I might
Speaker 3: return to Legacy Pro or just go to Iway.
Speaker 1: Okay, tell us about tell us about your career. That's fun.
Speaker 3: Well, I've been training for three years. I started training
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty one in House to Glory. I had
Speaker 3: my first booking last April of the thirteenth of this year,
Speaker 3: so I've been training for three years and wrestling for
Speaker 3: six months or so, and man, Bro, it's a long journey. Bro,
Speaker 3: I could even remember like it was yesterday, Like we
Speaker 3: had this open house in twenty twenty one. It's like
Speaker 3: maybe like sixty people you know coming in, coming in,
Speaker 3: you know, wanted to be wrestlers and stuff. And out
Speaker 3: of those sixty, we was like thirty. Out of those
Speaker 3: thirty was twenty five. It's a small class now, very small,
Speaker 3: and I kind of I kind of could say to
Speaker 3: me that I'm proud where I've been, but just one
Speaker 3: of those people where it's like who's scared of their
Speaker 3: own shout? Is Like when I started training, I was
Speaker 3: so scared of a lot of things, taking bombs, skinning, concussions,
Speaker 3: broken bones or whatever. I was. I was very scared,
Speaker 3: like a scared cat. From that time forward, I started
Speaker 3: training more, started like seeing myself progress, and from now
Speaker 3: to then, I can finally feel comfortable on my own skin,
Speaker 3: meaning that I could do and say things that I
Speaker 3: feel comfortable, whether it's in wrestling, whether it's in promos,
Speaker 3: I could do that thing like it's like it's cake. Man,
Speaker 3: it's been it's been a long journey. I can say
Speaker 3: a lot of things about what I've been through, But
Speaker 3: from the post of the cons that I've been I
Speaker 3: could say, like, man, I could make to me. I
Speaker 3: feel like I made it in a way, you know,
Speaker 3: I feel like I made it feel like I've I've
Speaker 3: done the things that I wanted to do. I felt
Speaker 3: like the things that I wanted to accomplish is starting
Speaker 3: to build up in that kind of way.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 3: Cool.
Speaker 2: So you said that you joined like you said, joined
Speaker 2: the House of Glory slash LPW in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3: Yes, what about I w A like I'll start with them. Uh, well,
Speaker 3: funny story. I wanted to go with my friend. I
Speaker 3: don't know if you know Corey.
Speaker 4: Mack hi right, I just came as came in before
Speaker 4: the problem. I just came from here, like with my
Speaker 4: kids do homework and stuff at library.
Speaker 3: Oh. So, the funny thing is that when I did
Speaker 3: i w A, it wasn't I wasn't booked, Okay, I was.
Speaker 3: I wasn't booked. I was only there to support Corey Mack.
Speaker 3: I was there to support my fellow friend O Sea
Speaker 3: though I don't know if you know who he is,
Speaker 3: the culture bear and the promoter asked me, did I wrestle?
Speaker 3: I said, yeah, Russell, I just wanted to help bring
Speaker 3: crew whatever the case. Maybe I wanted to help at
Speaker 3: least get my name out to networks and networks and
Speaker 3: network And he was like, okay, you want to wrestle? Sure, yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean why not? So it was it was it
Speaker 3: was fast, like it gave me a chance, you know.
Speaker 3: He was like, you want to wrestle, why not come
Speaker 3: on as a booking I'm not gonna decline of booking
Speaker 3: and stuff I was putting in the sixth Way. I
Speaker 3: didn't have I didn't know who anybody was in the
Speaker 3: locker room. The only person I knew that was very,
Speaker 3: very familiar with was t J. Marconi. Oh yeah, big guy,
Speaker 3: big guy. I was like, whoa like seem in person?
Speaker 3: Was it was like seeing Andre and Giant almost.
Speaker 2: Like see people in person, right, like not seeing them
Speaker 2: through like TV something like that. They're much bigger in
Speaker 2: real life.
Speaker 3: Real yeah, very very down to earth the guy. And
Speaker 3: you know, I was what is it? Third match in
Speaker 3: the sixth Way. It was me and some other guys
Speaker 3: kind of kind of messed up a little on the
Speaker 3: Sixth Way. I lost. I lost my debut, but's all right,
Speaker 3: that's all right. This one was this This was April thirteenth,
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four, this year. Yeah, this was in uh
Speaker 3: I think this was in El Nacho, New Jersey. It's
Speaker 3: a restaurant slash wrestling, gotcha, gotch Yeah? Yeah, very very
Speaker 3: very good people, very good crowd that family friendly of course,
Speaker 3: family friendly. And then I think the promoter fell in
Speaker 3: love what I did in the ring. I had a
Speaker 3: character as Johnny Suave, you know, I'm here for the
Speaker 3: Mama Sithas and the and the Mommy's right there. He
Speaker 3: loved it. All the dancing, the charismatic stuff that I'd
Speaker 3: done in the ring. He loved it. And then from
Speaker 3: that time point I just did I did. I did
Speaker 3: idem way throughout.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, So, like I said, like I first saw you,
Speaker 2: the first time I saw you, it was that June
Speaker 2: was June twenty knife lpw assension against Hillary P. Wisdom, Right,
Speaker 2: and tell me about what do you remember about that night.
Speaker 3: That Knight felt It felt very different from me. It
Speaker 3: felt very very different, not because I was facing Hilly,
Speaker 3: but the fact that I don't know that Knight felt
Speaker 3: very very different, like the atmosphere, the energy felt it
Speaker 3: felt good. I'm gonna say that it felt it felt
Speaker 3: very good in a way because it's like man from
Speaker 3: twenty twenty two from I don't know if you was
Speaker 3: there in twenty twenty two for RPS at the time,
Speaker 3: Oh no way, people who do know who I was watching?
Speaker 3: If you do know RPS, that was my first ever
Speaker 3: match was in a triple threat. It was me Hillary
Speaker 3: and Corey Mack and that night on twenty twenty two
Speaker 3: and RPS, I turned my back on Corey Mack by
Speaker 3: low blowing him and joining forces with Doctor Hilly P. Wisdom.
Speaker 3: So for that moment came full circle on that night
Speaker 3: of twenty twenty four in June. That night solidify everything
Speaker 3: from from the bad to the good. From the good part.
Speaker 3: He took me under his wing, and that night solidified
Speaker 3: that I was no more being his number two guy
Speaker 3: as a student for doctor Hillary Pee Wisdom. Such a
Speaker 3: bad dude, right, such a bad dude.
Speaker 2: I've seen him.
Speaker 1: I should get all the show. He's never responsored me. Man,
Speaker 1: he's a meani.
Speaker 3: Point in my ear, like and that night, you know
Speaker 3: what's crazy? That night he usually called it my mother,
Speaker 3: my mother. I remember that.
Speaker 2: I remember that.
Speaker 3: But he got what he deserved that night. He got
Speaker 3: whatever he deserved that night.
Speaker 2: Real quick, before I before I get more into this
Speaker 2: Hillary stuff, right quick? So why did you turn on
Speaker 2: I forgot his name, just said this on Quartermack.
Speaker 1: Yeah, que mac.
Speaker 3: Man. You know it's crazy. You're not the first person
Speaker 3: that asked me why. A lot of people ask me
Speaker 3: why that turned on Corey Mack. Well you want the answer,
Speaker 3: I got you. So it's the first time here. The
Speaker 3: reason why I turned on Corey Mack that night is
Speaker 3: because I felt like he was holding me back throughout
Speaker 3: the years.
Speaker 1: I felt like.
Speaker 3: He was trying to put me as is Batman, Robin
Speaker 3: his psydechic almost and Hilly never saw me as a psydekic.
Speaker 3: Hilly saw me as an equal. Okay, right, I did
Speaker 3: what most people who should have done, turning your friends,
Speaker 3: and that's exactly what I did because I felt like
Speaker 3: that night on April twenty twenty two, that Hillary saw
Speaker 3: me as an equal. Whatever we talked behind closed doors,
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna say here, but he told me something
Speaker 3: very valuable that night. He told me that to be
Speaker 3: your own equal, you have to get rid of the
Speaker 3: dead weight anyway. So I get rid of the dead weight,
Speaker 3: and I joined Hillary. That's who became the Philosophy Club.
Speaker 3: And now I'm my own man. Now I'm a man.
Speaker 2: I gotta say I'm a little bit shocked to hair
Speaker 2: love this because like, look at you, You're you're clearly
Speaker 2: a baby face. You was saying, yeah, crazy.
Speaker 3: Most people have told me that I have a babyface
Speaker 3: mannerism and a baby face as a as a person.
Speaker 3: I never I don't give off this bad guy healish
Speaker 3: way because they always tell me, oh, you should grow
Speaker 3: facial hair. I don't. I don't do I don't do
Speaker 3: facial So when you always say, oh, you do so
Speaker 3: good as being a bad guy, I'm a baby face
Speaker 3: like this, what you give on when I give up? Yeah? Nothing,
Speaker 3: nothing that gives bad guy just straight like charming, dude.
Speaker 1: I'm breaking mother's heart. Don't do that.
Speaker 2: No, Yeah, okay, cool, cool, back by so bad. So
Speaker 2: back to our initial conversation point. So that that that night,
Speaker 2: right that match you had right.
Speaker 1: Oh, by the way, I pulled up here while you
Speaker 1: were talking, because where I do I do press?
Speaker 2: I do, like you know, a blog for my website,
Speaker 2: my platforms radio. So I'm on Esperial dot com. It's
Speaker 2: the blog page and I typed in l p W
Speaker 2: and I found the Ascension.
Speaker 1: My Ascension review. M Yeah, Johnny Vega defeated doctor.
Speaker 2: He'll repeat with them three and three quarter stars out
Speaker 2: of five thumbs up.
Speaker 1: All I have here is good storytelling.
Speaker 2: I didn't write.
Speaker 1: I didn't write like a paragraph. I have great storytelling.
Speaker 2: That's that's all I have. A magicals but yeah, I'll
Speaker 2: take it. Yeah, okay, cool, cool cool. And then I
Speaker 2: believe I believe we were also in the Battle Royal
Speaker 2: on this past Saturday.
Speaker 1: Yes, Like that's all You're coming out by mister saying
Speaker 1: like wait.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So funny thing is that same night I was
Speaker 3: in i W A. That's when I defended my i
Speaker 3: W Tag team titles against four of the guys in
Speaker 3: a fatal four way tag match. I lost. I came
Speaker 3: up with a little short so we took me was me,
Speaker 3: Corey and Osito. We took the drive. He's like, you
Speaker 3: know it's gonna b W. I mean, why not? So
Speaker 3: we had an idea. What was talking on the road.
Speaker 3: He's like, you know what what's main event? I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: it's it's a Battle Royal, it's a bat Royal. We
Speaker 3: were going to Battle roy We go to battle. So
Speaker 3: we went, we went, and then later that night I
Speaker 3: went to the back and I asked the promoter. I said, hey,
Speaker 3: can I can I do Battle Royal? I just came
Speaker 3: back from Jersey. He's like, you just came back from Jersey.
Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, I just came back. I want to
Speaker 3: wrestle more. Do you want to do Bartrol? Of course
Speaker 3: I want to do battle personally. I've never done any
Speaker 3: bad roys in my career. So that's my first ever
Speaker 3: Battle Royal I've ever done first one.
Speaker 1: The winner of that boy, we will see that.
Speaker 2: It was my boy. Let's close raim with that right now.
Speaker 2: Putting the wrong order, I think, wait, oh no, that's
Speaker 2: the that's the wrong that's the wrong event. Si. I'm
Speaker 2: still fencing good uncomfromised.
Speaker 1: Here we go.
Speaker 2: The Battle Royal. The Battle Royal is going down, going
Speaker 2: down top shelf. No diamond barago, nochie roach. When you king,
Speaker 2: I you go the lp w uncomp my Battle Royal. Yep, huh,
Speaker 2: I don't remember why if I gave it three in
Speaker 2: a quarter star. Yes, that is right, I give it
Speaker 2: three in a quarter stars.
Speaker 1: I thought I read wrong. I thought three quarterback. If
Speaker 1: three and a quarter.
Speaker 2: Stars, thumbs up, let's wi role here. General manager Corey
Speaker 2: Lee came out to present the Legacy Cup the m
Speaker 2: v P This match with J with J J Pete,
Speaker 2: who will eliminate I believe four guys the most of
Speaker 2: anybody in this match, but gotlimated by Frankie Forms ultimately one. Yeah.
Speaker 3: That man, that man is something.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: He gives me off next gen John Moxley, Frankie Forums, Yeah,
Speaker 3: he gives me He's a death match guy. Man, He's
Speaker 3: a He's trying to be a death match. He's going
Speaker 3: to be a death match. That's the way I've seen him.
Speaker 2: I don't know about him, like not not only did
Speaker 2: he eliminate my my close friend Jordan Pearce, right, but
Speaker 2: he did by cheating.
Speaker 1: He was a freaking was the little rake thing?
Speaker 2: Was it?
Speaker 3: Skewers? Yeahs man, But he's something, you know. I got
Speaker 3: my eyes on him. I feel like we could do
Speaker 3: something in the near future. I got my eyes on him.
Speaker 3: He's like he's like a next gen or I can
Speaker 3: kind of see like a young cz W job most
Speaker 3: you know, and that's the way I've seen Frankie forums.
Speaker 3: But I got something that guy's very something.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, cool cool cool home plus this thing press
Speaker 2: the play by mistake before, but okaya.
Speaker 1: Before, let's.
Speaker 2: Before I move on to another. Before I move on, right,
Speaker 2: what did that match right victory mean for you? The
Speaker 2: one I'm talking talking about your match we had with
Speaker 2: Hillary P Wisdom doctor apologize But then that match meant
Speaker 2: to me it was very very dramatic, very very Yeah,
Speaker 2: this very dramatic, very very what you call it?
Speaker 1: Uh, just told this. Yeah, I was very captivating as
Speaker 1: far as story wise.
Speaker 3: But to me, it felt it felt like the end.
Speaker 3: I felt like the end of most things. It felt
Speaker 3: like two years of leadership, two years of learning, and
Speaker 3: two years of abuse. It felt like the end in
Speaker 3: a good way because I felt like defeating Hillary Pea
Speaker 3: Wisom was was a bittersweet moment because he told me
Speaker 3: a lot of things that nobody has ever taught me.
Speaker 3: He told me things that Corey Corey mag never taught me.
Speaker 3: He told me things that nobody in LPW has ever
Speaker 3: taught me. And come into full circle after like the
Speaker 3: emotional abuse, I don't know if you've seen like the earpool,
Speaker 3: you know, humiliating me in front of me and my mom,
Speaker 3: and you know, I kind of had enough that last straw,
Speaker 3: I don't know. It was the last show prior to
Speaker 3: Ascension where he smacked me in front of people. I
Speaker 3: don't know what pay per view was at. I forgot
Speaker 3: what it was, but that was that was it. He
Speaker 3: smacked me that night. I don't know which paper view
Speaker 3: was it. And I had enough. I had enough to
Speaker 3: smack him and then he low blowed me. And that's
Speaker 3: when it came my own. And that night when I
Speaker 3: defeated Hillary, it felt it felt good. It felt like
Speaker 3: all this weight off my shoulders and I felt like
Speaker 3: it was a new chapter, a new chapter for Johnny Vega,
Speaker 3: a new chapter. What's next for LPW, what's next for
Speaker 3: me going forward?
Speaker 2: And we'll get to that more. You want, get to that,
Speaker 2: get this.
Speaker 3: You're right, You're right. It just felt something. It just
Speaker 3: felt like I'm relieve, you know, it just felt like
Speaker 3: the weight off my shoulders, felt everything took everything out.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I mean you already.
Speaker 2: Gave insight as to like no back then, right, tell
Speaker 2: real quick, tell and I s we're gonna move on
Speaker 2: after this one last question, right, tell us about the relationship.
Speaker 1: With He'll repeaple with them now like now when we
Speaker 1: for nothing.
Speaker 3: I have nothing. I have nothing to talk about regarding
Speaker 3: to him. I think we have no connection whatsoever. I
Speaker 3: think I'm done with him. He's done with me. I'm
Speaker 3: more done with him. I'm more done with him.
Speaker 1: Cool, cool, Cool, I have hair. Just tell me about
Speaker 1: your and your mother.
Speaker 3: I love my mom. I mean, who doesn't love their mother?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: I love my mom. You know, she's always been there
Speaker 3: for me. She's always supported me. What I wanted to do,
Speaker 3: whether it was to be a wrestler, was to be
Speaker 3: like a football player, baseball player, whatever the case.
Speaker 1: The football. Mhmm, you're planking the football.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when I was younger, Okay, yeah, when I was
Speaker 3: young I wanted to do something. So she's always supportive,
Speaker 3: very love and very caring. Of course. I mean, no,
Speaker 3: I have to.
Speaker 1: Tell me about that.
Speaker 3: Thatking about your your football career, however long it was.
Speaker 3: I only did football, like in middle school. I only
Speaker 3: did in middle school. Like I got hurt once and
Speaker 3: then like I just stopped. Yeah, the guy you know
Speaker 3: ran like shoulder boulder whatever it's called in football, and
Speaker 3: then took my one. Now I was like, yeah, football's
Speaker 3: not for me.
Speaker 2: Football is not for me.
Speaker 3: I only did it once just for fun.
Speaker 1: You get hurt.
Speaker 3: I was definitely hurt. I was definitely hurt. I had
Speaker 3: a bloody nose. But I only did it for fun.
Speaker 3: I never was in like an official school team, like.
Speaker 2: Like during recess, like after school, right with friends.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I only did one tryout for football. One tryout.
Speaker 3: I never got it. I never got the gig.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, in my life was like no recess with
Speaker 2: my middle school, my friends and we used to hand
Speaker 2: both of actual football.
Speaker 1: Oh wow.
Speaker 3: But to me when when I when I was when
Speaker 3: I did the tryout, the coach at the time was like, kid,
Speaker 3: you're not very athletic. I'm like, you're right, he wasn't lie.
Speaker 3: I was there very athletic. I was always to myself.
Speaker 3: I'm very introvertic. I've always told my you know, I
Speaker 3: like my things the way I see that I like
Speaker 3: to do, whether it's wrestling, whether it's you know, watching TV.
Speaker 3: I was always to myself. I was very, very, very
Speaker 3: athletic at the time. M hm, do you watch sports. Uh.
Speaker 3: The only sport I've watched was Major League Baseball. Mhm,
Speaker 3: that's the only thing. Not basketball. I used to watch
Speaker 3: basketball like a couple of years back, but only only
Speaker 3: players I originally liked, and the NBA was Lebron uh,
Speaker 3: Derrick Rose and Kamelo Anthony at the time.
Speaker 2: But that's more than me. I never I never followed sports,
Speaker 2: you know. Yeah, I know it's weird, but I never
Speaker 2: followed sports. Never into like basketball, football, baseball night that
Speaker 2: I will never really the.
Speaker 3: Sports interesting disdressing, right, yeah, just.
Speaker 2: Wrestling, I don't know, because you know it's uh, I
Speaker 2: don't know, like pretermined, but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I get that and use the florid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, cool, cool, cool, Okay your your expoke on
Speaker 2: dance Uh.
Speaker 1: Okay, real quick.
Speaker 2: Describer experience with lp W, you know, like no like
Speaker 2: no dealing with you know, your contemporaries and the managements
Speaker 2: just being their overall like describer experience being being lp W.
Speaker 3: L p W is different. I think it's different from
Speaker 3: any other promotion out in you. I think it's very,
Speaker 3: very die diverse. L p W has given me a
Speaker 3: lot of opportunities, not just for me, but everyone in
Speaker 3: the roster. LPW has given so much that I can't
Speaker 3: even talk about. It's given me. Hope, is given me,
Speaker 3: the courage, is giving me my confidence. I could say
Speaker 3: that for me. I don't know about anybody else in
Speaker 3: the LPW roster, but LPW is very, very different to me.
Speaker 3: It's like NXT in a way. LPR is like like NXT.
Speaker 3: You see, we got House to Glories like the main roster.
Speaker 3: LPW is like the NXT of LPW. That's the way
Speaker 3: I've seen it. You know. Of course, there are many
Speaker 3: opponents I want to face in LPW. Right, it's just different, bro.
Speaker 3: That's all I can say about LPW for right now.
Speaker 3: It is is different. People who say it's lp W
Speaker 3: is a stepping stone, it's not. It's not to me.
Speaker 3: It's it's to me. I think it's a it's a
Speaker 3: second promotion second, which is LPW first one h og
Speaker 3: main roster. That's the way I've seen it, That's the
Speaker 3: way I visualize it.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I appreciate that because the first one to
Speaker 2: say that I've had I had Jordan Pearce.
Speaker 1: I had what's his name? The champion, uh, the champion
Speaker 1: right now, what's his name King.
Speaker 2: Had they said they had similar they had similar sentiments,
Speaker 2: that's what you're saying right now. You know, it's like
Speaker 2: it's like there, it's like it's like it's their thing
Speaker 2: that that they are part of, that they built together.
Speaker 2: And I'm saying, you know, kind of like an NXT.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm saying, like hashtag we are lp W.
Speaker 2: What I'm saying they should should do the thing one day? Right,
Speaker 2: like have they team lp W first Teamhouse of Glory
Speaker 2: something that I don't know, you know.
Speaker 3: I like that a lot.
Speaker 1: Actually, you know, I'm saying I got ideas.
Speaker 2: You know, listen for those who don't know, right, I'm like,
Speaker 2: I'm currently on the writing team for one division pro
Speaker 2: right here.
Speaker 3: In New York or really interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got ideas too, you know.
Speaker 2: I I'm not I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not tied down so I can know you old
Speaker 1: Ryan Staff, I got you the thing I got.
Speaker 3: I you know what's crazy and you know what's funny?
Speaker 3: One Division. Uh, that's one of the promotions I currently
Speaker 3: want to work for one division. It's it's one division
Speaker 3: and also it's another promotion. I don't know. I'm not
Speaker 3: sure yet.
Speaker 1: Every day, yes, I know that I did not know that.
Speaker 3: That's awesome.
Speaker 2: I don't want to, but I don't want to do
Speaker 2: I want to commit what we call it contract tampering.
Speaker 2: So let me stop talking, right, Yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 3: Don't want to get that season assistment. I don't want
Speaker 3: to get that. But one division is on my it
Speaker 3: is on my radar. And also we Are Wrestling is
Speaker 3: on my radar. I don't know anything about we Are.
Speaker 3: You should go to the uh.
Speaker 2: A lot members.
Speaker 1: That's a similar.
Speaker 3: Those who are my radar. Those two are on my radar.
Speaker 5: Cool cool cool, okay, okay, So about about the management,
Speaker 5: right about what about the people like your contemporary, your
Speaker 5: fellow wrestlers in the locker room, Like, how is it
Speaker 5: like being being amongst them, being with them, working with them,
Speaker 5: cohabitating with them.
Speaker 3: It's good, very encouraging, very encouraging. But some people not
Speaker 3: really I was I would say I don't want to
Speaker 3: give names, and I don't want to give names. I
Speaker 3: don't want to get uh you know, anything that's in troubling.
Speaker 3: But I will say some people have their ways of
Speaker 3: talking things as into politics, you know, getting getting things
Speaker 3: that they want things to fast way instead of the
Speaker 3: hard way, like hard working or putting the effort or
Speaker 3: paying your dues. You know, there's a lot of things
Speaker 3: in the back that you know, things are said closed doors.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of positives. There's a lot of butt kissing.
Speaker 3: You know, there's a lot of things. But I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna say names. Those are some, But for majority in
Speaker 3: the LPW roster, I think the way I've seen things
Speaker 3: as a positive. I think it's very encouraging. I think
Speaker 3: it's uplifting. I think it's it's a it's a brotherhood
Speaker 3: and sisterhood. You know, that's the way I've seen uh
Speaker 3: in the roster. But like I said, there's some negatives
Speaker 3: behind closed door. Again, I'm not gonna say names, but
Speaker 3: there's a lot of things that goes around the LPW
Speaker 3: roster which is politics, butt kissing, and there's a lot
Speaker 3: of things that I just don't like.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, okay, okay. It's interesting to hear.
Speaker 2: Tell me about Tell me about I w A like
Speaker 2: working there and you being treated there and know by management,
Speaker 2: by by your fellow wrestlers.
Speaker 1: There about that, about that culture, that environment, that locker room,
Speaker 1: that management.
Speaker 3: The proper grammer a w A is different because I've
Speaker 3: never seen a locker room leader like TJ Marconi. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: he's I could say a lot of good things about TJ.
Speaker 3: But man, he's he's really good at what he does.
Speaker 3: He's very He's one of those things where he's like
Speaker 3: they call him the ring General and iw A. He's
Speaker 3: very very like. He's very he's very respectful. He's very
Speaker 3: respectful in the ways where it's like he lift things
Speaker 3: in the butt fast instead of getting things too out
Speaker 3: of hand. You know. TJ is one of those guys
Speaker 3: where he's like, if you ever need help or advice,
Speaker 3: you always go to him. And me personally, I always
Speaker 3: ask for advice or anything that's helpful, I always usually
Speaker 3: go to TJ. Whether it's my fellow friends or colleagues,
Speaker 3: I go to them last, but majority I usually go
Speaker 3: to TJ. Because his his psychology wise and rusting is
Speaker 3: is good. He's been rustling for years and TJ is
Speaker 3: one of those guys were he knows where to help
Speaker 3: things and nitpick, you know, pick your brains. You know,
Speaker 3: that's where he does in the w A roster in
Speaker 3: the locker room. He's a great guy, very very good.
Speaker 3: But when I see him. He's a ring general throughout
Speaker 3: the roster. He's a ring general in the ring. When
Speaker 3: it comes to action, he's very good. And the promoter
Speaker 3: herself is very you know, very good, very good as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, right, all right, cool cool cool.
Speaker 2: So so just you just said that he also mentioned
Speaker 2: people with some earlier and also you know, mentioned your
Speaker 2: mom earlier. Who else do you attributor who else do
Speaker 2: you attribute on your success to.
Speaker 3: My cousin, my cousin destiny. I attribute everything that I
Speaker 3: do Sally. She passed away on January ninth, twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm, what's older cousin.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's my older cousin.
Speaker 1: Right, somebody died, right, and you like gave a trip
Speaker 1: to them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, if you want to tell me about
Speaker 2: tell me more about that, help you and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: And you know, she alped me through a lot, man,
Speaker 3: And it sucks to see them. She's not here with
Speaker 3: us no more. It kind of sucks. I can't remember,
Speaker 3: like it was yesterday. You know, I just sat down,
Speaker 3: you know, I was watching TV. I get a call
Speaker 3: that you know, she passed away. I felt like it
Speaker 3: was a dream, you know, I just felt like everything
Speaker 3: was a pause. The whole world around me was at pause.
Speaker 3: And everything I do, everything I've do in the ring,
Speaker 3: everything I say in the ring, everything I do which
Speaker 3: is promos, whether I you know, do a suicide dive,
Speaker 3: I do everything because of her. Everything I come out to,
Speaker 3: which is like a wrist tape with her name on it,
Speaker 3: I do it for her.
Speaker 2: This just for how does she influence you?
Speaker 3: A lot of ways?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 3: Just to be different? She was very different. Whether you're goofy,
Speaker 3: whether you're funny, whether you know you surrounding your stuff
Speaker 3: with you know, creative people. She was very different. Man.
Speaker 3: And the music you liked, which was Blink two, I
Speaker 3: think that's one of the coolest bands I've heard. You know,
Speaker 3: she was very different. She was not like the rest
Speaker 3: of everybody else. She wasn't you know, an angry because
Speaker 3: she was always happy. Man. She was always a loving person. Okay,
Speaker 3: all my time, I just say thank you for everything,
Speaker 3: you know, and it just sucks that there will happen.
Speaker 3: I don't want to say too much because it kind
Speaker 3: of hurts me a little bit, but I will say
Speaker 3: she was sure right now. I think she would be
Speaker 3: very proud of what I've done.
Speaker 2: Okay, I felt that.
Speaker 1: I felt that.
Speaker 2: I felt I felt that.
Speaker 1: All right, cool, cool cool, But tell me about your
Speaker 1: tag team partner.
Speaker 3: Kodos Oh, Man, that's the man. That's the that's the
Speaker 3: man right there, that real quick. So my first ever
Speaker 3: tag match was in I think May that was This
Speaker 3: was in Nutley, New Jersey. I w A. We went.
Speaker 3: He was a mystery partner of mine because I had
Speaker 3: to face Leather Jacket Mafia, which is Franko Costanzo and
Speaker 3: Fitz Michaels. At the time, I did not know who
Speaker 3: he was. I did not know who Quotasong was. I
Speaker 3: don't know who he was. When I found out he
Speaker 3: was a Lutra door, I was like, WHOA, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: So we talked things out. We had came up his
Speaker 3: ideas and the first time I ever met him, it
Speaker 3: was like it was a click. It was a great bond.
Speaker 3: When I first met him, it was it was very
Speaker 3: cool meeting him. Man. He has like a lot of
Speaker 3: similarities that I like. He had a lot of interest
Speaker 3: that I'll have, such as like you know anime TV shows,
Speaker 3: you know, different wrestlers that we look up to, and
Speaker 3: we just clicked. We just had like that, that bond
Speaker 3: like brotherhood. Like I first met him, it was it
Speaker 3: was like bro. It was like a click, you know.
Speaker 3: And since that day forward, he was in my tag team.
Speaker 3: He was by my side ever since.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay, cool.
Speaker 3: Like Batman and Robin in a way like Batman and Robin.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, all right, almost there, listener questions, I got
Speaker 2: too much points.
Speaker 3: That I want to want to dress, bringing out, bringing out.
Speaker 1: So what's next for you? Yeah?
Speaker 2: So moving on?
Speaker 1: So what's next?
Speaker 2: And you have your site to set on what's next
Speaker 2: for you? We have your site set on.
Speaker 3: What's next for me? Well, what's next for me? I
Speaker 3: want that LPW World Champion from Annie King. That's what
Speaker 3: I want and ship. However, it's not gonna be easy
Speaker 3: and it's definitely gonna be hard. I think Annie King
Speaker 3: is one of the a stronger competitor I have my
Speaker 3: eyes on because I really really do want that LPW.
Speaker 3: But if I can't get it, that's okay, because I
Speaker 3: have my eyes on bigger things, larger than things than
Speaker 3: LPW then LPW World Championship. I do want to travel
Speaker 3: the world. I do want to go to Japan. I
Speaker 3: do want to go around the world that I do
Speaker 3: want to wrestle in different places I'd never been before.
Speaker 3: Whether it's one Division, whether it's we Are, whether it's Progress,
Speaker 3: whether it's you know, New Japan, whatever it is. Those
Speaker 3: are my sites. Those are my goals I want to
Speaker 3: get to. But most importantly what's next is I'm going
Speaker 3: to keep putting the work. I'm going to keep training,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna keep wrestling. And my eyes are still on
Speaker 3: the lp W World Champion.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, it's put on my place. Uh oh, here
Speaker 1: you go.
Speaker 2: Okay, is there anybody like on your radar, like anybody
Speaker 2: that anybody in particular that you that you want to target.
Speaker 1: The air that strong your eyere?
Speaker 3: I got five. I'm gonna I have like ten, but
Speaker 3: I'm gonna name five.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: So I got Noah Katano Okay, I got Mantequiya, Okay,
Speaker 3: I got Robbie Eagles, I have Raheem Royal okay. And
Speaker 3: the fifth one I think I wanted to happen, but
Speaker 3: I'm not sure it's Brian Excell.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: And okay, So for for for sporting reasons or for
Speaker 2: personal reasons both okay, both? And when I say personal
Speaker 2: like I mean like no like like like personal to
Speaker 2: you because you want it, or like bad blood.
Speaker 3: Wise I want to say bad blood just yet I
Speaker 3: would say because I want it.
Speaker 2: Okay, it cool, cool, cool, Now it is that time,
Speaker 2: all right, for insurance purposes, I have to warn you
Speaker 2: ahead of time.
Speaker 1: But now it's time for listener questions. Okay.
Speaker 2: Now these people have truly have no filter, no chills.
Speaker 2: So even after I filter them out, you might you
Speaker 2: might just pete the paper that's up to you, let me.
Speaker 1: Know you're ready.
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Speaker 1: Comes to questions to myself and my guests.
Speaker 2: So that's what people have been here social media, to
Speaker 2: the hotline, and I comprise a list of questions and
Speaker 2: comments to read to you that you want to respond to.
Speaker 1: All right, here you go.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm kind I kind of want to say
Speaker 2: this first one because they're gonna edit, make it to
Speaker 2: a drop and play as.
Speaker 1: A parody, and I quote, you're cute? How old are you?
Speaker 3: How old I am that? This person? How old do
Speaker 3: you think I am? Let's let's get that first. How
Speaker 3: old do you think I am? Me?
Speaker 1: Personally, I'm looking at you right now, remembering you, seeing you,
Speaker 1: I would say, you see you starting? Say you started
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, right, I would. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: You look twenty two like a baby.
Speaker 3: I think, oh, bingo, right, twenty two. You look young?
Speaker 1: All right, Okay, so we answer that question. Okay, I
Speaker 1: have money, cash coming on in a few minutes.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: This person asks anything to say to any cash?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Okay. I think he's on his own thing. You know,
Speaker 3: I got nothing, nothing but respect, no beef on each
Speaker 3: other side along. He's staying in his lane. I stay
Speaker 3: in my lane.
Speaker 1: How This next person asks, how did you become a
Speaker 1: Rustling fan?
Speaker 3: How'd you become a Rustling fan?
Speaker 1: How did you become a Rustling fan? I got you
Speaker 1: into it?
Speaker 3: Well, I think it was December two thousand and ten,
Speaker 3: December twenty fifth, okay, December twenty fifth ten, Christmas. I
Speaker 3: was flickering channels. I think it was like six or
Speaker 3: seven o'clock at night and flicking channels, you know, looking
Speaker 3: for cartoons. Then I spot like a blue logos to SmackDown. Okay,
Speaker 3: oh what SmackDown? So I just stood there and the
Speaker 3: first restler I've ever caught my eyes on was raymas Stereo.
Speaker 3: I kild notot it was Raymisterio. It was raymss Stereo
Speaker 3: versus oh Man a Jack Swagger. I think it was
Speaker 3: Jack Swagger or the undertake at the time m hm oh.
Speaker 3: He had his colorful pants with his mask. I was
Speaker 3: truly amazed. I was amazed. I was like, whoa, what's
Speaker 3: what's this? And all these acrobatic stuff he was doing,
Speaker 3: like the six one nine and the frog spot. I
Speaker 3: was like, whoa, that's pretty cool. And then the next
Speaker 3: Russ came in. I think who it was. I think
Speaker 3: it was oh Man, John Cena, Yeah, it was. It
Speaker 3: was definitely John Scene At the time. The music, I
Speaker 3: was like this song at the time, it was very cheesy,
Speaker 3: very very cheesy song at the time I went out
Speaker 3: with like the orange shirt and everything. He came up
Speaker 3: with this. I was like, whoa, running down the ring.
Speaker 3: That was cool. I think at the time, in that
Speaker 3: time well really made me a fan was Ray Mysteria.
Speaker 3: At the time, it was just Ray Mysterio. If it
Speaker 3: wasn't for Ray or John Cena, I would never have
Speaker 3: been a resting fan at all.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, what hold on?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 2: This person asks, are you worried? Are you worried that
Speaker 2: if Corazone will ever turn on you?
Speaker 3: No? Unlikely, unlikely. I don't. I don't think so. I
Speaker 3: think me courtA Zone are very very like clicked together.
Speaker 3: I would never think like that, like him turning on
Speaker 3: me or me turning him. Never.
Speaker 2: The same person also asked, who would win your Corazone?
Speaker 2: He's trying to start some ship.
Speaker 7: But okay, okay, mere Courtoison. I think neither neither. I
Speaker 7: think the only way we could win it's about.
Speaker 3: Hugging it out. That's it. Hugging it out. What are
Speaker 3: they trying to do? Trying to split us already? Come on,
Speaker 3: I don't know who this person is, but they're trying.
Speaker 3: I don't know, they're trying to start something, just trying
Speaker 3: to start something.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 2: Because there's one last third question, who would win? You
Speaker 2: are cash Grab? I guess, I guess you're I guess
Speaker 2: I guess you and court Zone us cash.
Speaker 1: Grab because they're a team.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna lie. That's an interesting tag match. I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna lie to me. Personally. The world may never know.
Speaker 3: We'll have to see when it happens. But whoever ask
Speaker 3: that question, very good because I think that match will
Speaker 3: will be very good. You know, Colna Swabi versus cash Grab.
Speaker 3: I don't see why not. I don't see why not,
Speaker 3: but the world may never know until it happens.
Speaker 2: Okay, and the last question I have here, well, not
Speaker 2: with a question, more for request. Tell me about your
Speaker 2: life and interest outside of wrestling.
Speaker 3: It's very simple, man, it's very simple. I'm not I'm
Speaker 3: a very simple person. I like small things, but outside
Speaker 3: wrestling stuff I like. I like to travel, I like
Speaker 3: to I like to go to the stores. I like
Speaker 3: to look around. I like to watch anime. I like
Speaker 3: to watch movies. I'm very simple. I'm not very like uh.
Speaker 3: I guess you could say a boring person the way
Speaker 3: I'm very boring in the way. What do you what
Speaker 3: do you watch?
Speaker 1: Watch anime?
Speaker 2: Moved?
Speaker 3: What do you watch. Yeah, I watched like I watched
Speaker 3: Tiger Mask V. That's like a arresting anime of Tiger Mask.
Speaker 3: I like watching Hunter x Hunter, I like watching Soul Leader.
Speaker 3: Like those, those three animes are my favorite. I like
Speaker 3: watching them. Besides, like micro Academia yards, so I feel
Speaker 3: like those to me personally, and who was gonna hate me?
Speaker 3: I think they're overrated. I think they're overrated for that.
Speaker 3: But those animes I just mentioned, I think those are
Speaker 3: the cool animates to watch. They're very cool.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, best best, real quick plugs, no anything else?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: Do you take independent book to you plug that out
Speaker 2: of context bookings, real quick plugs.
Speaker 3: Sir, So you want to contact me? I have an Instagram,
Speaker 3: I have no Twitter, I have no YouTube. For my Instagram.
Speaker 3: It's Johnny x Vega own word or yep, the one
Speaker 3: we have right now, Johnny x Vega, Johnny with two
Speaker 3: ends and a Y Yes, sir, but the x v
Speaker 3: E A Vega. I'm taking bookings, whether it's Jersey, whether
Speaker 3: it's Japan, whether it's Korea, whether it's England. Baby, I'm
Speaker 3: available whenever you need I'm available if you need me.
Speaker 3: I got you I'm available. I bring my partner courtA Zone.
Speaker 3: Let's make some Let's make some money, man, Let's make
Speaker 3: things happen. Let's wrestle Real Quick Plug Cortzone, Real Quick
Speaker 3: Quota Zone is Quodo Zone. It's at Cordo Zone. Wrestler
Speaker 3: on Instagram. Righty, yes, all right?
Speaker 1: Sorry boy? So I COEO R A z O N
Speaker 1: wrestler w R E S T L E R all
Speaker 1: one word right, yes, sir? Okay?
Speaker 3: Bet? Bet?
Speaker 1: Bet?
Speaker 3: What else? That's everything we have?
Speaker 2: Like I set up another guest coming on immediately after
Speaker 2: you alwaso if anything? Last thing worth to say? It's
Speaker 2: been a pleasure having you. You're welcome any Tom. We're
Speaker 2: gonna run back. You'read No, I'm gonna ask you. We're
Speaker 2: gonna runs running back.
Speaker 1: Baby.
Speaker 3: You know I'm ready whenever you ready. You know I'll
Speaker 3: be in New Jersey b N L p W. You
Speaker 3: know you need me.
Speaker 2: I got you, bet, bet, bet so bet, I'm at you.
Speaker 1: Quick question? What do you what do you hear your
Speaker 1: podcast on?
Speaker 3: I listen to my podcast on YouTube, Spotify or Apple Music.
Speaker 2: All right, bet one, when I'm done finalizing the eland
Speaker 2: you on the link on Spotify, right.
Speaker 3: Fire Bro, appreciate you. Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 3: It was a pleasure and it was an honor. Thank you, everybody.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned, Stay tuned. Wait, what time is it right now?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: We got people stuff all right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm about to cut the website stream, but yo,
Speaker 2: I'm muta be lowed on YouTube in a few minutes.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have money cash on for that, alright, I'm
Speaker 2: going nowhere, alright, bet all right, cool h