1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Mark's Injuries From and Away From Wrestling - September 28th, 10:25pm

Episode Date: September 29, 2022

Mark's Injuries From and Outside of Wrestling-Mark suffered a C7 spinal fracture as wellAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

You're listening to One-on-One with DP, sponsored by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul, on 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticket FM.com. Welcome back to one-on-one. We appreciate Mark Canterbury hanging out with us on a Wednesday night. Mark, yeah, I know that One Nation under Roo takes you back to the dance floors at Wakefield. I know it does. I know it does. I know it does.

I know we want to talk about the Mount Rushmore. I want to push that back for a second. Because in Harrison was just being curious during the break. And we were talking about the matter of trust in a professional wrestling ring, what's required for a wrestler to get into the ring with another wrestler and trust him with his well-being. You can tell these stories probably as well as anybody. Of course, there's the incident with the road warriors,

and I know you hold no malice. but trust is an important thing because when things go wrong in a professional wrestling ring, it goes wrong, right? So how do you deal with that? Can you go through the Road Warriors injury falling on your head? Can you tell that story? Oh, yeah, I can tell that. And, you know, Hawkingen on another big good wrestling team.

you know, rest of peace, both of them, good guys. But, yeah, we were in Bainton, New York, doing live TV, Monday Night Raw. Heard, you know, I was going to be in the state of the line, so that it was going to be the other step, instead of us going down together, of course. And he had been in something that by, I was comfortable with the condition he was in, but I didn't stood you about that.

You know, we talked to the office. Mark, you're breaking up a little bit. You're breaking up a little bit. Can you hear me? Yeah, there you go. Okay. Yeah. You know, I was taking the doomsday advice.

And while we talked and I said, we talked and I said, I wasn't comfortable doing it. And I didn't change nobody out and just said it wasn't comfortable doing it. Uh, Philly had got to say he, he had taken it before

and he said out and they come back and said, no, they want Henry to take it. So sure not, I took you there and broke my neck.

He had to be a out. I'd have walked to the back. And they told me to pull my overall is down, some and lay on the floor, and they took me to the hospital there in Bainton, and I had cracked my C-7. But so it is, I mean, you really got to be coming. You really got to have a trust there. Because like you said, when something goes wrong in the ring, it's usually pretty major.

Through your ability to tell that story, right? That it is important when people talk. talk about pro wrestling and go, okay, for what it is and what it isn't, the impact that it has on the performers is legitimate. I mean, this is what you put your body through is nothing short of amazing. I'll ask you to tell the story of the infamous car wreck. Like, your survival, you're a walking talking miracle, Mark. Like, there's no other way to say that, right? Yeah.

I was, you know, cracking your C-7. If I, you know, he said an answer to another way, could have been totally different. I'd probably be in a wheelchair. And, you know, I was supposed to take, you know, I'm a man, I'm a dumb that sometimes. All it's are, when we're full of pissing vinegar. Yes, sir.

Love what we're doing. Yes, sir. Right. So, you know, I was supposed to take 14 weeks off and just lay around and ice and bingo have another MRI.

Well, in six weeks, I was ready to climb on the walls and I thought I was getting better. So I went back on the road and started wrestling at seven weeks and I wrestled for almost another seven weeks. And Vince had a trainer with me

on the road and worked on me after and I thought, well, that's not too bad. And then it just started compounding and getting worse. I was doing 90-pound dumbbell press. It was my left for him and couldn't do a 20-pound dumbbell with my right arm. So I knew something wasn't right. And so I come back to, we were living in Hidger Forge, Tennessee at the time.

And with, you know, my mom and dad were helping me with my boys because I had full custody of them. So, you know, it just got worse. and I probably had to come off the road spinal fusion done C6, 7. Me and Stone Cold had the same surgery, you know, just once apart. But yeah, it's a big

trust thing. And you feel sort of I don't know, let down when you're a trust of it. You know, it's a big thing. It's a real thing. Through that, let's talk about one of the better moments, right?

I mean, you and I have talked about it, but I'd love for Harrison to hear about the pen match, the hog pen match, because he's never heard the story. And even as, he's like, man, okay, now I've got to go back and watch this. Who came up with the idea, and then what was your thought on it? You're breaking up again.

Can you hear me? Yep, there you go. All right. Yeah. Somebody in office that mentions the vans, and he sort of runs it, and he pits the idea of a man, hunter, what he wanted. You know, he wanted live hogs, and he wanted a hawk pen, and then he wanted us, well, you wanted it to set about, I don't know,

skiing 70 feet from the ring, the wrestling ring. Wow. And the objective was to get the other guy into the hog pin. with all the right elements that have been working there all day you know the farmer brought them in at like I don't know

two or three and put a bunch of dirt in there and then by the time we ended up having a match it was like eight ten minutes of this dirt and shit so I watch that but yeah but me and Hunter

come up with the whole man And we were new up there. We've been up there a few months, and we've been working each other, and this just sort of put it in our lap and we'd run with it. And, you know, after the match, I just posted a picture a couple months ago about the rib after the match that night or before.

I can't remember if the Owen Hart had let the pigs out and got him to vent his office. So that was funny. And, you know, we had the hog pen, we had one of those panel farm gates up. And Hunter threw me into it first. And I hit it so hard, I just bent the gate. So when I threw Hunter into the gate,

it had a sharp edge. And he had it. Because my If he wants that you can You can see him His back bleed Yeah Yeah

I pressed him And I didn't know it And I'd press him Oh my head Walked around I don't know With him in that stone He was good at

Some This is crazy This is crazy Mark At At WrestleMania I was teasing I mean, you know, about how I was scarting for life.

And, yeah, I love her. And since that's me. It's a good. We got a bit of the raveling of Undertaker's statues. So, yeah, me and Hunter got a lot of history. It's all good. But it's a great match. It's one of the most famous matches in history.

Hey, we'll throw it to break. We'll come back. We'll close out. But I want to get to Mark's Mount Rushmore of Pro Wrestling. and his favorite moment. We'll talk about that when we come back. Download our app by searching 93.7, The Ticket in your app store.

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