WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:01.439 But at noon. 2 00:00:02.799 --> 00:00:06.919 In the studio apartments in Queens, New York, he already 3 00:00:06.960 --> 00:00:10.800 know what it is. I'm not even wanna name. I 4 00:00:10.880 --> 00:00:12.679 guess I'm gonna ask him what he wants to be 5 00:00:12.679 --> 00:00:16.079 re first to ass So that's my first question. What 6 00:00:16.079 --> 00:00:17.519 would you what would you ride me? 7 00:00:17.519 --> 00:00:18.480 Addressed? You ask sir? 8 00:00:19.280 --> 00:00:21.440 Oh man, that's that's really hard man. 9 00:00:21.679 --> 00:00:24.399 Like I told you before, there's a name that I want, 10 00:00:24.719 --> 00:00:28.079 but I have to ask permission from the legendary A A. 11 00:00:28.440 --> 00:00:29.000 Styles. 12 00:00:29.079 --> 00:00:31.480 I actually would love, love, love love to go by 13 00:00:31.519 --> 00:00:32.399 Danny Styles. 14 00:00:32.479 --> 00:00:33.960 But what is Z at the end? 15 00:00:34.439 --> 00:00:40.280 Got got you? But so is Dany the rapper fine? 16 00:00:40.479 --> 00:00:42.560 Dandy the rapper is definitely fine. 17 00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:45.240 I'm also a talented rapper, so that's definitely another one 18 00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:46.119 we can use for now. 19 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:49.439 That's ladies and gentlemen, I'm live my boy danea rapper. 20 00:00:49.479 --> 00:00:51.520 Everybody give it up real quick, one time, one time. 21 00:00:57.359 --> 00:01:09.280 See that the first pomp looking in It feels good. 22 00:01:06.400 --> 00:01:07.599 Cool cool cool. Yeah. 23 00:01:07.719 --> 00:01:10.000 So my boy being the Widows, he's watching it right 24 00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:13.640 now south of Hill. He has something going on in 25 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:17.040 March fifteen, some auditions, so out follow him, followed me. 26 00:01:17.560 --> 00:01:21.359 Repost his post. Check that out real quick. Alright, best, 27 00:01:21.400 --> 00:01:21.840 what's up man? 28 00:01:21.879 --> 00:01:22.200 What's up? 29 00:01:22.239 --> 00:01:25.680 Are you feeling? Talk about yourself? What's good with you? 30 00:01:25.799 --> 00:01:26.000 Man? 31 00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:32.000 I'm feeling great. Today is very uh big day for me. Actually, 32 00:01:32.040 --> 00:01:34.400 I'm actually going to be heading over to a House 33 00:01:34.439 --> 00:01:37.920 of Glory to see what I can get started training. 34 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:40.120 Actually, so I'm very excited. 35 00:01:40.200 --> 00:01:43.040 I'm very stoked, you know, I'm just you know, giddy 36 00:01:43.120 --> 00:01:44.640 and anticipation, so to speak. 37 00:01:45.879 --> 00:01:47.120 I'm twenty eight now. 38 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:51.120 I have been involved in combat sports for over ten years. 39 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:54.519 I have started out boxing when I was younger, on 40 00:01:54.599 --> 00:01:55.640 third half in the Bronx. 41 00:01:56.560 --> 00:01:58.239 I don't think they're there anymore though, you know. 42 00:01:58.239 --> 00:01:59.840 My father used to take me when I was younger, 43 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:02.599 four or five, starting all the way up to like seven. 44 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:05.120 But I didn't never, you know, really like boxing as 45 00:02:05.159 --> 00:02:07.359 a whole. So boxing was cool, but I didn't really 46 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:10.479 like it. I actually did karate for two years with 47 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:11.560 a Beacon program. 48 00:02:11.599 --> 00:02:16.400 Also like pressing boxing. Like pressing boxing. 49 00:02:17.159 --> 00:02:19.319 Uh No, it's not even that. I feel like it 50 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:22.599 was a little bland for me, you know. I felt 51 00:02:22.639 --> 00:02:26.280 like it was a little more. No, of course I 52 00:02:26.319 --> 00:02:29.159 watched boxing. Of course I watched all all combat sports. 53 00:02:29.159 --> 00:02:29.560 I love them. 54 00:02:29.759 --> 00:02:31.759 It's just for me personally, I feel like it was 55 00:02:31.759 --> 00:02:34.080 a little less dynamic than you know, karate. 56 00:02:34.479 --> 00:02:37.120 For constance, I was able to use, you know, my arms, 57 00:02:37.159 --> 00:02:37.719 my legs. 58 00:02:37.919 --> 00:02:40.439 Being a smaller kid at the time, you know, my 59 00:02:40.680 --> 00:02:47.639 me punching wasn't really helping. So yeah, I did karate 60 00:02:47.879 --> 00:02:51.680 for two years as from maybe eight to ten, and 61 00:02:51.759 --> 00:02:52.240 I loved it. 62 00:02:52.319 --> 00:02:53.560 I enjoyed it a lot. 63 00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:55.479 And then from there I moved on to jiu jitsu 64 00:02:55.560 --> 00:02:59.319 going into high school, so it was like that was 65 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:01.520 my thing. I love jiu jitsus, the grapples, the whole, 66 00:03:01.599 --> 00:03:04.280 you know, the submissions, that's my thing for sure. 67 00:03:06.120 --> 00:03:08.960 Okay, okay, you see you have a big appointment at 68 00:03:09.719 --> 00:03:12.039 a house of boys later on, right that way, That's. 69 00:03:11.879 --> 00:03:16.199 What Yep, that's why I want to learn to wrestle. 70 00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:19.919 I actually had someone I used to work with say 71 00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:21.360 that that's where he was at. 72 00:03:21.439 --> 00:03:24.240 So it was just like that was a whole new exposure. 73 00:03:24.319 --> 00:03:27.080 Because I'm not gonna lie from when I was younger, 74 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:29.520 I tried to find a wrestling school and at the 75 00:03:29.599 --> 00:03:30.919 time it was only one. 76 00:03:30.759 --> 00:03:31.520 In Long Island. 77 00:03:31.879 --> 00:03:33.840 My parents were not taking me to Long Island for 78 00:03:33.879 --> 00:03:38.639 wrestling school unfortunately, So that's from the Bronx, right, Yeah, 79 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:41.000 I'm from the Bronx, right so yeah, and I was 80 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:42.960 closer to Westchester, like, so I'm at the tippy top 81 00:03:43.479 --> 00:03:45.919 of the Bronx. Yes, I was at the top of 82 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:47.560 the Bronx. They were not taking me over there at 83 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:49.280 the time. My parents didn't have a car or anything. 84 00:03:49.319 --> 00:03:52.360 So public transportation to the Long Island no, No, it 85 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:56.479 wasn't a thing. But you know, as I grew up, 86 00:03:56.599 --> 00:03:59.879 I've tried to find different programs things like that. Unfortunately, 87 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:03.240 high school, I actually tried to start my own wrestling program. 88 00:04:03.319 --> 00:04:06.199 I got my coaches backing, I got a bunch of 89 00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:10.080 petitions signed, and as we are getting the equipment loaded 90 00:04:10.120 --> 00:04:10.919 into the gym, we. 91 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:12.280 Have the match. We have everything going. 92 00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:15.479 This is Greco Roman, you know, for well high school, 93 00:04:15.479 --> 00:04:18.360 not collegiate, but you know for high school PSA things 94 00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:24.720 like that. And they denied it last minute, literally, and 95 00:04:24.759 --> 00:04:26.639 I was like, I felt like that at that moment 96 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:27.639 was my last. 97 00:04:27.439 --> 00:04:29.920 Chance to find something long terms? 98 00:04:29.639 --> 00:04:30.879 And why was it denied? 99 00:04:32.480 --> 00:04:37.360 The principal said she didn't want to spend money. That literally, 100 00:04:37.480 --> 00:04:37.759 that's it. 101 00:04:37.800 --> 00:04:39.800 But we didn't even ask for funding, you know what 102 00:04:39.879 --> 00:04:42.639 I mean, we already had the equipment. My coach was 103 00:04:42.680 --> 00:04:45.199 a former wrestler, so you know, he had a bunch 104 00:04:45.279 --> 00:04:47.360 of connections that he was able to get things like that, 105 00:04:47.439 --> 00:04:49.160 and you know, we was able to support ourselves. The 106 00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:50.839 kids were getting money from their parents, you know, to 107 00:04:50.879 --> 00:04:52.959 start up the whole thing. And it's just it was 108 00:04:53.079 --> 00:04:55.160 very unfortunate. It was definitely very unfortunate. 109 00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:59.360 Me while I was in high school, right, like a junior, right, 110 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:03.240 like these and like these other these other people, these 111 00:05:03.279 --> 00:05:04.439 other boys I was hanging out. 112 00:05:04.279 --> 00:05:07.240 With, right, Yeah, like we left to play fight. 113 00:05:07.720 --> 00:05:10.879 And also like you know, talk wrestling is that it's 114 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:16.000 all wrong whatever, right, And so because of that, don't 115 00:05:16.079 --> 00:05:19.600 don't do those two things, right, we decided we did 116 00:05:19.759 --> 00:05:21.519 going to sort of wrest like like a wrestling team 117 00:05:21.560 --> 00:05:24.480 for the high school that who that did not that 118 00:05:24.600 --> 00:05:27.399 did not have one, right, So we spoke to the 119 00:05:27.519 --> 00:05:30.399 we did ask spoke to the principal, right, And we 120 00:05:30.439 --> 00:05:34.040 didn't notice at the time before, right, but he at 121 00:05:34.079 --> 00:05:36.399 his previous school was a wrestling coach. 122 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:40.279 The guy bet Wow. So we talked to him, right, 123 00:05:40.279 --> 00:05:40.920 and he was with it. 124 00:05:41.439 --> 00:05:45.439 But you know, we're we're kids were young and undisciplined, 125 00:05:45.879 --> 00:05:49.399 you know, so because of that you know, we never 126 00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:50.639 actually got popping. 127 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:53.519 But yeah, it happened that That's what I'm saying, man, 128 00:05:53.560 --> 00:05:57.439 And it's you know, poverty. We were consistent, so yeah, 129 00:05:57.839 --> 00:06:00.920 right exactly which can happen, you know, especially when you're 130 00:06:00.959 --> 00:06:02.519 not back with funding and a whole bunch. 131 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:04.639 It's a lot that goes into it that I didn't. 132 00:06:04.399 --> 00:06:07.600 Realize as a kid, but you know, I understand that 133 00:06:07.639 --> 00:06:10.000 as an adult now that it's a lot more that 134 00:06:10.040 --> 00:06:11.240 goes into that kind of stuff. 135 00:06:11.279 --> 00:06:16.040 So oh yeah, people having a meeting about starting a 136 00:06:16.040 --> 00:06:18.560 new brustling program and like, yeah, what it came through 137 00:06:18.560 --> 00:06:19.399 for more discipline? 138 00:06:19.720 --> 00:06:22.639 Insane or like yeah, no, for sure, for sure, it 139 00:06:22.680 --> 00:06:24.199 goes a long way, honestly. 140 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:27.480 Uh. The school that I went to, uh it. 141 00:06:27.480 --> 00:06:30.800 Was called Ford Leadership, right and for them, Oh, give 142 00:06:30.839 --> 00:06:32.079 me one second, I think I have. 143 00:06:32.120 --> 00:06:39.959 A package, but right moluntarily I'm sorry about Oh he's 144 00:06:39.959 --> 00:06:41.720 back already, He's still bad. 145 00:06:41.720 --> 00:06:47.000 Okay, yeah, you know right here this is actually uh 146 00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:48.079 my singlet. 147 00:06:49.079 --> 00:06:52.079 Oh look at that open opening. 148 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:54.720 It looks like yeah, but this is my first time 149 00:06:54.759 --> 00:06:56.120 even buying one. I was like, I want to know 150 00:06:56.120 --> 00:06:56.439 how I. 151 00:06:56.360 --> 00:06:58.560 Look in a singlet? 152 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:02.600 You know. I met Kurt at a House of Glory 153 00:07:02.639 --> 00:07:04.319 event and I was just like, you know what, I'm 154 00:07:04.319 --> 00:07:04.839 gonna get a. 155 00:07:04.759 --> 00:07:07.920 Sing yeah, because he was in talent. 156 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:11.319 Yeah at that last House of Glory event. He was 157 00:07:11.600 --> 00:07:13.360 in town, so that was pretty cool. 158 00:07:15.399 --> 00:07:20.639 Yeah, Okay, okay, what time? 159 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:21.000 Yeah? 160 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:22.680 No, right, and it's so cool, Like I was like 161 00:07:23.079 --> 00:07:28.040 knocking on Michael must the Amazon Okay, this is here. 162 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:31.120 I'm assuming these are my other items from Amazon that 163 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:33.000 I have a bunch of stuff coming in. I'm trying 164 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:36.199 to get my gear, you know, going. I feel like 165 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:38.360 that's a little presumptuous, but you know, I'm excited. 166 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:39.879 I'm excited. I don't know if you can. 167 00:07:39.839 --> 00:07:48.160 Tell oh while you're opening it, right, So is it 168 00:07:48.240 --> 00:07:52.439 safe to is it safe to say that, no, you're 169 00:07:52.519 --> 00:07:53.800 hasn't hasn't started yet. 170 00:07:54.319 --> 00:07:57.600 It's no, absolutely, it is just beginning. 171 00:07:58.160 --> 00:08:03.040 Absolutely. So this year decided to take that lead. It 172 00:08:03.079 --> 00:08:06.879 was last year I met my co work, former boss actually, 173 00:08:07.279 --> 00:08:09.439 and he was like, yeah, I'm a pro wrestler dude, 174 00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:11.480 and I'm just like, what are. 175 00:08:11.399 --> 00:08:12.120 You Zirians like? 176 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:14.480 And he's like totally serious about this, and it's just like, 177 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:15.759 how did you get started? 178 00:08:15.839 --> 00:08:16.480 I asked him. 179 00:08:16.839 --> 00:08:19.839 Uh, he's actually not from New York. So that was 180 00:08:20.600 --> 00:08:22.240 another thing. I was just like, oh, okay, that makes 181 00:08:22.279 --> 00:08:23.920 a lot more sense. You know, you came to New 182 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:26.160 York to wrestle, you know what I mean. I don't 183 00:08:26.279 --> 00:08:29.000 see a lot of wrestlers around my area, at least, 184 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:30.480 you know, when I was growing up, it wasn't many 185 00:08:30.519 --> 00:08:31.959 people that I grew up with that wanted to be 186 00:08:32.080 --> 00:08:34.960 pro wrestlers as well. So you know, it was pretty 187 00:08:34.960 --> 00:08:38.279 cool to find someone that you know, has already established 188 00:08:38.480 --> 00:08:40.039 and that could guide me. 189 00:08:40.039 --> 00:08:42.200 To certain things. And it was just like, yeah, I'm ready. 190 00:08:42.639 --> 00:08:43.879 I'm already ready, you know what I mean. 191 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:46.720 At that moment, I hired a per school trainer to 192 00:08:46.759 --> 00:08:50.480 get me back in fighting shape. And you know, I 193 00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:53.000 believe I'm ready now. So now just to actually just 194 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:54.279 go train, that's it. 195 00:08:55.279 --> 00:08:59.919 Okay, okay, well quick before we let me see, I 196 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:02.679 want to ask this one real quick. So bet So, 197 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:04.960 as a wrestler, right, what are you like your your 198 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:06.360 long term goals? 199 00:09:06.679 --> 00:09:06.879 Oh? 200 00:09:07.039 --> 00:09:10.879 Man, that is a great question. I've been thinking about 201 00:09:10.879 --> 00:09:16.279 that a lot. Honestly. I honestly, I hate to sound 202 00:09:16.279 --> 00:09:19.159 it like, you know, arrogant. I really don't want to 203 00:09:19.159 --> 00:09:21.600 sound arrogant, but the confidence in myself. 204 00:09:21.720 --> 00:09:24.639 I want gold, bro I want gold. I want it, 205 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:28.799 oh you know what I mean? Like singles, titles, world titles, 206 00:09:28.840 --> 00:09:30.679 I want it all. Like that's the goal. 207 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:34.120 It's like I want to be established as a great wrestler. 208 00:09:34.639 --> 00:09:35.480 Okay, okay. 209 00:09:36.399 --> 00:09:39.360 A lot of people say that, you know, their endgame 210 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:43.720 is WWE or perhaps Japan or whatever. 211 00:09:44.360 --> 00:09:46.279 It's like, where do you play? Where do you want 212 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:46.759 to end up? 213 00:09:47.200 --> 00:09:52.480 Ultimately, honestly being that, I idolize aj styles. That is my 214 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:56.080 favorite all time wrestler. I want to go everywhere, man, everywhere, 215 00:09:56.240 --> 00:09:58.759 I mean the ND scene. I want to definitely go 216 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:01.720 to Japan. Absolutely. You actually know a little Japan, Like 217 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:03.600 I speak the language to Japanese. 218 00:10:03.639 --> 00:10:05.480 Sorry, I speak the language a little, so it's like 219 00:10:05.879 --> 00:10:07.120 I definitely would love to go there. 220 00:10:07.480 --> 00:10:11.240 Uh no, it's actually I went to Japan and I 221 00:10:11.240 --> 00:10:14.039 have friends there, so you know, I started learning the 222 00:10:14.120 --> 00:10:17.600 language in twenty twenty, so it was pretty cool. 223 00:10:17.679 --> 00:10:22.159 You know, your your Instagram name right is Danny ol'talk type. 224 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:23.919 What does that mean? Old top so. 225 00:10:25.679 --> 00:10:28.840 Old Taku is actually like a geek. 226 00:10:30.120 --> 00:10:33.960 Generally, it's referred to people who are invested in anime 227 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:37.279 and manga, which I am completely I'm a huge nerd, 228 00:10:40.399 --> 00:10:42.639 so that's definitely one of them. Look at this guy, 229 00:10:42.759 --> 00:10:46.440 oh miss you see. Okay, it's pretty plain. 230 00:10:46.519 --> 00:10:48.200 You know. I don't want to be too flashy, not yet, 231 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:48.679 not yet. 232 00:10:51.200 --> 00:10:53.600 If I want to, like be honest, I feel like 233 00:10:53.720 --> 00:10:58.320 my character is going to come through my personality one percent. 234 00:10:58.559 --> 00:11:01.960 I got black and white for a specific reason, and 235 00:11:02.039 --> 00:11:06.200 that is because I feel my spirit animal is. 236 00:11:06.080 --> 00:11:10.639 A honey badger. That is the best way to describe it. 237 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:12.480 Why is that why. 238 00:11:14.080 --> 00:11:17.759 First and foremost? Because it's fearless, and that's the best 239 00:11:17.759 --> 00:11:22.519 way to describe me. I go into every situation. Honey badger. 240 00:11:22.679 --> 00:11:24.039 Yeah, look it up, man, look up. 241 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:28.120 It's a very small apex predator. 242 00:11:29.879 --> 00:11:38.200 Honey badger. Hold on, uh uh all right, cool? Cool, cool, 243 00:11:38.399 --> 00:11:44.799 because that's actually very remarkable because like, hold on, honey badger. Animal. 244 00:11:44.879 --> 00:11:49.840 Let me see what this looks like real quick, okay, small. 245 00:11:49.919 --> 00:11:53.200 Yeah, it's actually it's not you know, tiny, you know, 246 00:11:56.039 --> 00:11:58.360 it's uh, it's from the badger family. It's like a 247 00:11:58.440 --> 00:12:01.200 mongols or a wolverine. It's a smaller version of a 248 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:02.960 wolverine that is from Africa. 249 00:12:03.480 --> 00:12:03.720 Yeah. 250 00:12:04.519 --> 00:12:07.279 Yeah, and this is the same animal that. 251 00:12:09.919 --> 00:12:14.000 It fights lions and hyenas for a territory, you know 252 00:12:14.080 --> 00:12:14.440 what I mean. 253 00:12:14.559 --> 00:12:17.639 So as small as it is, it is fearless. Absolutely. 254 00:12:17.679 --> 00:12:20.440 It feels it walks this planet Earth and everything is 255 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:23.080 designed to serve it. And I think that's the perfect 256 00:12:23.080 --> 00:12:26.200 way to describe me, you know, super confident. 257 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:29.039 You know, I have things in my arsenal that make 258 00:12:29.080 --> 00:12:29.879 me this confident. 259 00:12:30.320 --> 00:12:33.559 So it's like, yeah, me and me and a honey badger, 260 00:12:33.799 --> 00:12:36.080 we go together, real bad That's that's my spirit animal. 261 00:12:38.240 --> 00:12:41.000 It's not because this is actually quite remarkable because like, 262 00:12:41.559 --> 00:12:47.360 so I first met you at One Division Pro reunion, right. 263 00:12:47.480 --> 00:12:52.840 Yes, so I So when I first saw it, I thought. 264 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:53.879 You know, I was doing I was, you know, like 265 00:12:53.919 --> 00:12:56.960 talking to a fan. I didn't know that you're like 266 00:12:57.000 --> 00:12:59.399 on the perifree of no wrestling? 267 00:12:59.480 --> 00:13:03.120 Is that there this that? Right? And yeah, like no, 268 00:13:03.320 --> 00:13:05.159 I'm woking around with my camera man, right, and we 269 00:13:05.279 --> 00:13:07.840 do like no like like what you call it, like 270 00:13:08.919 --> 00:13:11.799 spot on live like live on the Street type of deals. 271 00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:15.919 Right that it was thoughts on the show pre posting 272 00:13:16.039 --> 00:13:20.080 during right, and you know you'll say, oh him on Instagram, 273 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:24.039 you know Instagram, Danie Rapper, this that third. I had 274 00:13:24.039 --> 00:13:25.799 no idea that you were like, you know, trained to 275 00:13:25.840 --> 00:13:28.200 become a wrestler. So that was kind of cool, type 276 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:30.120 because I want to have more fans. I want to 277 00:13:30.159 --> 00:13:31.720 have wrestlers on the show, but I want to have 278 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:36.360 more fans interactions. Wellness platform is that, you know, So 279 00:13:36.399 --> 00:13:41.360 that's kind of cool knowing that you're both with that said, so, like, 280 00:13:41.519 --> 00:13:42.720 how'd you get into wrestling? 281 00:13:42.799 --> 00:13:43.480 Like as a fan? 282 00:13:44.200 --> 00:13:44.399 Oh? 283 00:13:44.559 --> 00:13:48.240 Man, I actually have been watching wrestling for as long 284 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:51.320 as I can remember. My mother actually worked at Madison 285 00:13:51.360 --> 00:13:54.639 Square Garden. Oh that is where we went to a 286 00:13:54.720 --> 00:13:57.720 bunch of events. So her working there was like a 287 00:13:57.759 --> 00:14:00.480 pipeline to me going to w W almost every single 288 00:14:00.519 --> 00:14:03.960 show at that time. This is around I was four. 289 00:14:04.039 --> 00:14:07.200 My little sister was born in two thousand, so my 290 00:14:07.279 --> 00:14:10.679 mom was pregnant around nineteen ninety nine. Around from nineteen 291 00:14:10.759 --> 00:14:13.000 ninety nine all the way to two thousand and four, 292 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:15.480 I was going to wrestling shows every time they came in. 293 00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:17.159 And how old you been? Like, well, five? 294 00:14:17.879 --> 00:14:20.720 I was, yeah, around five, going maybe going on five, 295 00:14:20.759 --> 00:14:22.639 I want to say, because my mom just got pregnant 296 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:26.440 with my younger sister, so it was like really really cool. 297 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:29.360 I actually was speaking to my mom yesterday because I'm like, 298 00:14:29.639 --> 00:14:33.159 I wish we had pictures and everything to like capture 299 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:37.080 these moments that I remember so vividly. Man, I remember 300 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:43.279 Stone Cold picking me up. Yes, so I remember everything 301 00:14:43.320 --> 00:14:45.279 that happened that day. Man. We were in the tunnel, 302 00:14:45.279 --> 00:14:49.440 they're coming back, and the security for WW were being 303 00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:51.759 you know, they were doing their job. I hate to 304 00:14:51.799 --> 00:14:53.799 say they were being a holes, but you know, they're 305 00:14:53.799 --> 00:14:54.320 doing their job. 306 00:14:54.320 --> 00:14:54.879 At the end of the day. 307 00:14:54.879 --> 00:14:57.480 I do security now, so I also understand. But it's like, 308 00:14:57.559 --> 00:14:59.799 I'm a five year old kid. I'm gonna like go 309 00:14:59.799 --> 00:15:02.279 her Stone Cold, Steve Alston dude, like I'm just saying hi, 310 00:15:02.759 --> 00:15:06.960 you know, And Stone Cold turned around because he heard 311 00:15:06.960 --> 00:15:09.639 me speaking and calling his name. He told security, hey, man, 312 00:15:09.639 --> 00:15:11.320 it's all right, and he's like, let me pick him up, 313 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:15.200 and he picked me up. I remember that so vividly, okay, cylvividly. 314 00:15:15.639 --> 00:15:18.399 And my mom just reassured me after we spoke, She's. 315 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:20.679 Like, yo, do you remember this. I'm like, yes, I do. 316 00:15:20.840 --> 00:15:24.360 Actually it was really cool, and so like that cemented it. 317 00:15:24.360 --> 00:15:26.120 Man. I was like, I want to do this, man, 318 00:15:26.159 --> 00:15:28.080 I want to do it so bad. I was close 319 00:15:28.120 --> 00:15:29.519 to the ring and I'm just like this is such 320 00:15:29.519 --> 00:15:31.080 a surreal feeling, you know. 321 00:15:31.759 --> 00:15:36.960 So WWE TNA, Like what else have you been into? 322 00:15:37.240 --> 00:15:40.519 Oh? Man? So WW is where it started. 323 00:15:40.519 --> 00:15:42.960 Of course, as I got older and you know, wanted 324 00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:46.879 to know more about professional wrestling, I actually started watching TNA. 325 00:15:47.519 --> 00:15:50.480 And the reason I started watching DNA was. 326 00:15:51.960 --> 00:15:52.840 So when was this? 327 00:15:52.919 --> 00:15:53.000 Like? 328 00:15:53.039 --> 00:15:53.840 What? 329 00:15:53.240 --> 00:15:53.279 What? 330 00:15:53.639 --> 00:15:54.679 What period was this? 331 00:15:56.039 --> 00:15:58.879 How old was I? I want to say, maybe ten, 332 00:15:59.519 --> 00:16:00.000 maybe ten? 333 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:04.879 Or like what you putting? Five? Six? What year was this? 334 00:16:05.279 --> 00:16:07.360 So if I was ten, this was. 335 00:16:10.519 --> 00:16:13.720 Two thousand two, five. 336 00:16:14.080 --> 00:16:17.559 Six, seven eight? Yeah, no, around like two thousand and 337 00:16:17.679 --> 00:16:22.039 nine ish maybe I think. Don't quote me on that 338 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:24.879 because I'm not too sure. I'm not really good with timeline. Bro. 339 00:16:27.240 --> 00:16:30.240 What I remember was it was a specific action figure 340 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:32.600 that came out with the Octagon ring. 341 00:16:32.960 --> 00:16:34.960 Actually, I believe I told you this story. 342 00:16:35.559 --> 00:16:37.600 Me and my little brother had some gift cards to 343 00:16:37.639 --> 00:16:40.840 go get toys, and I think they only had about 344 00:16:40.840 --> 00:16:43.279 twenty five dollars on it, but the toys were twenty 345 00:16:43.279 --> 00:16:47.200 four to ninety nine and plus tax wouldn't have enough. 346 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:50.159 So I was like, hey, why don't we get this 347 00:16:50.240 --> 00:16:52.279 toy right here? It comes with a ring and an 348 00:16:52.320 --> 00:16:54.600 action figure n a belt. We didn't know who this 349 00:16:54.679 --> 00:16:57.759 guy was or what it was, but it was pretty cool, so. 350 00:16:57.679 --> 00:16:59.519 We grabbed it. I brought that one. 351 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:03.039 I believe it was only twenty bucks and I'm like, 352 00:17:03.080 --> 00:17:05.799 who is this? It said AJ Styles. I'm like, oh, okay, 353 00:17:05.960 --> 00:17:08.680 this is pretty cool. I go on YouTube to search 354 00:17:08.720 --> 00:17:11.759 it up and this guy is amazing. I'm like, whoa, 355 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:14.599 I've never seen anything like this. You know, that was 356 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:16.720 when he had the X Division belt. It was the 357 00:17:16.880 --> 00:17:21.119 X Division edition AJ Styles clean biker shorts, and. 358 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:23.079 That was his prime. 359 00:17:23.960 --> 00:17:27.880 Once this dude was, my eyes opened up that day. 360 00:17:28.599 --> 00:17:30.680 I was so hype on summ In w for the 361 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:36.000 first time, right you But but like, eh, I'm not 362 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:38.839 gonna lie. I just people get older and they have 363 00:17:39.440 --> 00:17:42.079 just the stare, right. 364 00:17:42.480 --> 00:17:45.680 But yeah, I'm this, I'm this. 365 00:17:47.880 --> 00:17:50.880 Uh you know, younger Adi Styles, because that's what he was. 366 00:17:51.000 --> 00:17:52.000 You thought he's now. 367 00:17:52.759 --> 00:17:56.519 Yeah, absolutely, I can. I can totally understand. I actually 368 00:17:56.599 --> 00:17:59.119 was just rewatching his match against Christopher Daniels. 369 00:17:59.720 --> 00:18:04.680 Uh uh yeah, playing specific Yeah, listens, I am at 370 00:18:04.720 --> 00:18:05.640 matches last week. 371 00:18:06.319 --> 00:18:09.920 This is when they both was part of Fortune and 372 00:18:10.160 --> 00:18:12.079 I can't remember if it was a p l E. 373 00:18:13.720 --> 00:18:17.240 I think I think it might have been Destination X 374 00:18:17.359 --> 00:18:21.359 because I believe before their match, Alex Shelley won the 375 00:18:23.519 --> 00:18:24.720 X division the X. 376 00:18:25.440 --> 00:18:29.960 Oh my goodness, come up, Brian Kendrick eleven. 377 00:18:31.680 --> 00:18:33.720 No, no, no, no, this was definitely remember this. It 378 00:18:33.799 --> 00:18:36.000 was on YouTube. It was it was Alex Shelley. He 379 00:18:36.160 --> 00:18:40.200 was against Amazing Red. Uh who else was in that match? 380 00:18:41.240 --> 00:18:45.440 Alex Shelley, Amazing Red? And what's this guy? Rob? Not 381 00:18:45.559 --> 00:18:48.519 Robbie E. He looks like he looks like Zach Ryder 382 00:18:48.559 --> 00:18:50.759 a little bit, but I can't remember his name, Robbie. 383 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:55.240 Robbie wasn't Robbie Robert Stone from from NXT, but it 384 00:18:55.319 --> 00:18:59.599 was Robbie from yeah before he was Robert Stone and NXT. 385 00:18:59.759 --> 00:19:03.079 He was like rock like like a Jersey shore game 386 00:19:03.240 --> 00:19:03.720 type of dude. 387 00:19:03.799 --> 00:19:06.519 Yeah exactly, yeah, exactly that. It was that match. 388 00:19:06.640 --> 00:19:09.240 So it had to be Destination X for suore Aj 389 00:19:09.559 --> 00:19:12.920 and Christopher Daniels both part of the Fortune Fashion and 390 00:19:13.319 --> 00:19:16.720 they had that match for I believe the number one 391 00:19:16.759 --> 00:19:17.359 contended spot. 392 00:19:20.559 --> 00:19:22.400 I remember vividly. I think it was just like no, 393 00:19:22.640 --> 00:19:25.039 like a like a like a respect match, like a 394 00:19:25.079 --> 00:19:25.960 friend friend match. 395 00:19:26.240 --> 00:19:26.920 Yeah, it was. 396 00:19:27.039 --> 00:19:29.240 It was along those lines, you know what I mean? 397 00:19:29.279 --> 00:19:31.119 Because Christoph Daniels had came back from injury. 398 00:19:31.160 --> 00:19:33.640 If I'm not mistaken, you know, he was like he 399 00:19:33.759 --> 00:19:37.480 came back to help the baby basis, help help Fortune 400 00:19:38.440 --> 00:19:41.880 fight off Immortal or right exactly. 401 00:19:42.079 --> 00:19:42.279