Club 520 Podcast - Club 520 - R-Truth on WWE SummerSlam, Netflix doc, becoming a rapper

Episode Date: August 2, 2025

Jeff Teague and the Club 520 guys are LIVE from WWE SummerSlam, where R-Truth talks about his journey through the WWE, from being on the streets, to being a veteran for the WWE. Truth talks about the WWE Netflix documentary, and much more!1:51 - Episode Start2:00 - He's the Real B Hen4:45 - Getting locked up and making it to WWE8:00 - World platform for music9:00 - Walking out to your own song11:30 - Milestone moment13:15 - Music career taking off14:55 - Adjusting to social media16:30 - Netflix wrestling documentary18:25 - Going off script19:45 - Nose bleeding from training21:30 - Getting comfortable in WWE23:45 - Accomplishments to date28:30 - Beloved by peers in WWE#Volume #ClubSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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That's me. You be here now? Yeah, I'm being here, dog. That's the truth, right? I don't know if you want to be here, you know what I'm saying. He wore black forces. He wore white forces. Yeah, I wore the black force with a white light.

I got the black was in the hotel, dog. Okay, I'm going to give you some licenses, bro. Yeah, okay. For sure, I'm going to take care of you. What should you be doing your black forces, you know what I'm saying? Simply those is, you know what I'm saying? Bigby doing it here. My dog.

Must I understand, don't got to be explained. Exactly, dog. Yeah, we're right there all day. But I identify as whites. I got the wife's voice. You feel, man. Hey, we're going to have some fun today. He makes it a shuffle, man.

So I'm right, my dog, your nacho, your team. How you would, baby? I'm good, man. We got a legend in the bill. And y'all know, this is my shit, right here. So I'm excited. Come on, man. Yeah, listen, man, we out here in Summer Slam.

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how did you get into wrestling, man? Obviously, you've been in a part of the century for a very long time period, OG status. How did you get into this realm, man? Well, wrestling was no way, no way on my radar,

do you know what I'm saying? Yeah. I just pitching me coming out of high school. Now, in high school, I was always, like, the class clown, the entertaining guy. But in high school, man, I was a show opening for a lot of artists that came through North Carolina, South Carolina, Quarme, Digital Underground, Tracey Spencer, Chubrock, all those people.

So I'm playing football and all this thing, do my thing. I got locked up, man. A couple of times, more than two or three times, man. I met a guy named Jack Crockett in the halfway house. And him and his brother started professional wrestling in the South with Rick Flair, McNee, The Rory's, all those guys. So it's like, he introduced me to professional wrestle, man. I kind of turned him down a couple of times.

But I was at the point in my life, man, where I was like, I was ready to get off the street. He hadn't had kids. I started giving a down. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You're going to be having that attitude or that. You know what I don't give up, you know what I?

But I started carrying dog and it was like I got sick and tired of being sick and tired. Yeah. So me wanting to be this rap star, man, this big rap legend the whole time. but hitting all these adversities in life, man, and growing up on the streets and doing this and that, man, and just being tired but not knowing what I want to do. So I know what it's like to have that confusion of what I want to do with my life, man.

I'm like 24, 23, 24, 25 years old, back and forth to jail, trying to do it on the streets, trying to. But I justified it because I was playing for the limos. I was paying for me of my dancers' outfits. I was playing for the studio time. I was like, you know what I'm saying? You was for real. I was for real with it, bro.

I was trying to make something happen, though. People from our city don't have dancers. It's just them and they buddy DJ. Well, no, I was taking, I was doing it, dog. I was trying to, like, really move it, man. Yeah.

I want to be the next empty half-in back then, dog. That's all my time. You said to live off, but he said to dance. But yeah, but I was giving the show, dog. It was like, everybody on the rappers back then. My time was, they stayed. They lane, not staying in mind, man. Mine was more, like what you see me do not,

like entertaining. I like a show, dog. So, anyway, back the story, got jammed up, man met Jack Crocker in the halfway house. Now, the deputies was trying to get someone to invest in my music career. If they got to buy and invests my music career, I become

a big rap star, and they can get out of the jailhouse and be my personal security. That was the plan. But they ran into Jack Crocket, and Jack Crocker was like, nah, I think you should do this. And, you know, he took me to three WCW shows, and I saw Rick Fleur come down the ramp, man, and Crocker's like, see, that could be you. You rapping

and you're dancing, and you get in the ring, and you can mix all the stuff you was doing in jail, with the wrestling and you'd be the first of your kind and you make money and you'd be able to invest in yourself and we need nobody else to invest in you. That's what got me involved, wrestling. Man. Yeah, that's crazy.

You take a different route, brother, get where you want to go to, man. Like, I feel like life, the universe, God, man. We've got resources and tools I here to use, man, but we'd be living so fast and life be life enough. We don't take time to, like, and sometimes we'll get, we'll hit that brick wall where you have to take time

like if some of us don't learn or pick a better play or choose different but I did something I never thought about doing professional wrestling that's crazy and now you get to showcase your music

I'm one of the biggest platform so it's kind of worked out for you never even knew that would happen like that but it's like that's my audience bro I'm like to be able to go worldwide brother I have them singing my song

I wrote what's up in a trailer dog you know what I'm saying like in Tennessee I wrote what's up though so it's like to go to Egypt up or Poland or Alaska or whatever. And these people singing my song, though.

They're down their free promo, bro. You won. You won. It's a win. You're going to put nobody's going to be easy to get to. But you just, man, I'm a living testimony for anybody, bro. Yeah. To like... Keep going. Keep going.

Yeah. I'm saying. In regards to how I look, I feel, you know what I'm saying? You're going to be human. You're going to go through it. Don't worry about the rain, man. Like, most people, like, they don't like to go through the storm or that. how to adjust in that mug, you know what I'm saying? So keep it moving, right?

No, for sure, man. That's a hell of a story. Because that song, Platinum. Like, my nephew was, he grew up a wrestling fan. Before you got in here, he was just like, what's up? Yeah. What's that feeling like you coming down the ramp.

And you leave guerrilla and you come out and everybody's singing your song. Bro, that's like, it's an overwhelming feeling, man. To know where I come from with that, like you telling y'all, man, like me sitting in my My studio is in my son's room. You know what I have it like that. So, I mean, me writing that song, man,

and, you know, filling in a little bit of what I went through with the song. Like, a lot of people didn't even heard. I did look at a listening session last night at a cult of Vinny Lives in New York. And I was letting people know. A lot of people never heard the full version of What's Up, because they just seen me come out of the ring with the WhatsApp. But that speaks about everything I don't did, you know what I'm saying? The adversities and being where I'm mad and they're appreciative of my own.

I've received from people. And if you listen to the full song or what's up, it's in there. I ask the question. Obviously, you come out, you geek, everybody, you play your music, vibes is right. How do you say focus on going to wrestle after that? Because if I walk out to 20,000 people singing my song, fuck with that, I'm about doing it's lit right.

I want to go part of it, but you still got to go on there. I'm locked in. I'm just giving you part of me before I get in there. Okay. You go see the other part of me, what I'm saying? It's different levels of this, you know what I'm going? So it's you locked in, you're focused on. Because same way as Rocko out there

Or Tico or Austin When you hear that Can you smell He's locked in, he's in the thing But he's mad when he out there You know what I'm saying? When you hear that glass break You know what you stay locked in?

What's the hardest part about wrestling though? Like I always want to ask on the out of that Right I would say like Psychology Yeah, you're mental Well no, in the ring Oh

He should be You got to land in that ring I can't know where you had all the time. Okay. I don't care what. Telling a story. Because these people, these already did, there's people that watch this stuff, man,

and keep up with it. It's a soap opera. Oh, yeah, he's. But I'm sure you're like, bro, no, that wasn't supposed to happen. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

A lot of guys being able to learn and be able to tell that story. Okay. Not just so much of doing moves or wrestling fans have seen it all. When you can, like, have that ring awareness, psychology to be able to tell a story.

And in the rest of the business, we say you'd never stop learning, just like in life. Yeah. But you never stop learning, you know what I'm saying? Okay. All right, man, one of our favorite parts of the show, man, Sean Moments. What's that movement like for you? You know what's that movie like, find your footing? What's that first moment?

Like, you get that first check? I know, I'm not, I'm not responsible. Would you go crash out? You went crazy? First big boy check. Man, that first check, man. I stared at that for a while. You know what I'm saying?

I just stared at for a while, man. And they come from, like, hustling on the street, man, and, like, doing all kind of, like, street stuff. There's forces. Knucklebang. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? All of them, right.

You're going from my age, then you go to, you know what I'm saying? Get that part. Oh, and me? Oh, that's right. Wait, not, but, yeah, we. Just kid. Just kid. That's true.

It's tough. It's wrestling. But, yeah, man, that first. That first. Legit, check, dog. Like, from, from a dream to, like, being offered something to going against the grain to, like, going that way to get to a different route, man. And, like, the right way and I got kids, bro. Sometimes you got to pat yourself on the back.

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You put some forces under that? That's hard. Yeah. Now, you put the black forces for that check. If you go get another one. Yeah. Double up. That's going to buy plenty back horses then.

Yeah. That's great. That's crazy. That's a fast forward. But, like, obviously, would you be in the round for so long, the way that resident is, like, evolved, especially with social media and stuff like that, like you're coming out making music.

Now you've got a chance for your songs that go on streaming platforms where you could be an artist dainer indirectly. What's that like, especially with the exposure that you have because wrestling has only grow more and more. Like we've got these dope views that go on SummerSlim, two days now. Like, it's more exposure now than never. Yeah, bro, it's amazing, man.

It's almost like I wrote my own story. We just talked about story. Yeah. And, bro, like, well, I did a country out. And one of the songs on that man is called Momits, right? And it's like, we came in with moments because, like, life, situations, us. We create moments and situations create moments for us all the time. And sometimes, man, a lot of good shit come out of bad moments or a lot of good things come out of good moments.

So, man, it's like we just have to take more chances, man, and take every moment we can get it. When it happens, man, you got to take advantage of it, executed, man, and, like, become that moment. And, like, bro, I just, like, I try to execute every chance, every opportunity I get, man, to, like, Xcel and Xcel. And I feel like I rewrote my chapter when I told you, like, trying to be that big rap star to, like, going a different route, to getting with Jack Crocker to get into professional wrestling. To now, man, we had this era where, like, social media back when I was doing, but I wasn't on social media like that. So it's social media now. And, like, people are more engaging and watching and seeing you. And, like, the moment, the opportunities is their dog.

So it's like, with the music, it's just taken off because my hardcore fans is now being exposed to my music. So it's like, something like a domino effect, man. Things just, it's lining up now for me. Was it easy for you to adjust to social media when it got the popping? Oh, hell no, man. No, that's like, bro, I ain't that old, man.

He's like, he makes it seem like I was dead with him. No, I'm saying. Right with no on the pitch and foot. Now, I just see you on TikTok doing your. your thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I know you're comfortable now. I'm just saying it initially hit.

Did you, you know what I mean? Was you ready for it? I was ready for it. Okay. But I went back from you. You got mail. You know what I'm like? So yeah.

So yeah, I don't know. Yeah, bro. Yeah. Yeah. My son's the first one called Tom. Everybody had Tom at the face. MySpace. Yeah, right?

You had your page. They never met Tom. Yeah, dog. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Remember that?

Yeah. But tonight, bro, when, what, TikTok is So being now, like, in the pandemic, when I can't, bro, I just, Matt Hardy, I got to thank you on. Matt Hardy got me into, like, social media. YouTube was the thing first, right? YouTube started, like, and Matt would do these videos,

and he was like, bro, you should do videos on your music. And I'm like, I'm like, oh, okay, Matt, you know what I'm saying? Like, Matt was putting me on game with it, and that was before social media was popping like that. And it just got my interest in my, I became this grind, you know what I'm saying? Like, so I'm like, sure. I need to get into Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube,

any and everything that's popular, man, as a social media, man. I gravitate to it, man, because that's a way, a direct way of reaching your audience, man, and just almost like reinventing yourself. Facts. Adapting and evolving and just keeping that shit moving, right? Yeah. Can I ask you a question, like, being a fan of wrestling, growing up, I didn't know the backstories of wrestlers,

or I didn't know how the nuances of wrestling. But now, like, having a documentary on Netflix with that. they talk about what's really going on behind the scenes, like letting us know about the refs talking and kind of guiding the matches and things like that, would you ever think it to get to that point where, like, they alleged people win like that? Oh, what you mean as far as, like, knowing?

Like, they let us in, like, the fans. Like, now we know all the scenes what's in David Coppinfield. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, see that with the rabbit. Yeah. It doesn't bother me, though, But the fact that, like, we know those movies aren't real right. We know there's a director and they got, shit, we know that.

But somehow we blocked that shit out. And you want to pick this apart because, you know, but still you have to give the ref, the production crew, the producers. There's so many hands and there's so many ingredients it take to make this cake. You know what I'm saying? And when you make that cake, brothers, like, a lot of people can't be executed. And they know that And you know

You can be the referee But that referee job Is so important That referee is keeping us In queue with stuff The referee is listening To the truck And that referee is listening

To the cameras on there Yeah, that's great So how many Hables can't walk With you gum At the same time You know what I'm saying And you got to listen

To this crowd right here So all that is Playing the element Everything So even though Everybody's in to know Sometimes people Don't know how to

You know what I'm saying But like And then putting the match together It all, bro, like, when you put all the McGrady's together, man, everything got the, it got to move on on every cylinder. Nah, yeah, I was telling them about that earlier, like, how, how tough it is to put a match together.

I'm like, man, I would forget step B, step, like, man, he jumped off the top rope, so I might still be over here. I was the best of the match. Is that ever happened to you? Oh, what's that? Or you, like, kind of jumped off the script or whatever. That happens. Yeah.

If we got, like, a, say we got a 10-minute match. But you got to put in time for you to go out there. You got to put in your commercial time. And when you go to commercial, bro, you're still working. Yeah. You're still working. Sometime the match before you might go over. So everything you talked about you're going to do out there,

squire that, we've got to change that. So you've got to go on the fly. Yeah. And you got people watching you, and you got the rep telling you, and they're telling them, okay, we got like them, we've got four minutes. So you got to know exactly what you can do, how you can deliver, execute it in four minutes.

You don't want to go overtime as money. Yeah. So it's like a lot of people can't work under that pressure and, like, you should be able to go to that ring and we know what the finish is and that's it, bro, we're going to call that out in the ring. Ain't know what. I'll be terrible at wrestling.

And the referee is giving you times. She's giving you that all she's giving you the time. And so you got to like, it's a combination of stuff that works together and you'd be surprised the people that will pick it apart. Be like, oh, man, I think about that stuff and that. A lot of people can't wear them boots, bro. That's a fact.

I don't feel me? They didn't know. The aspect of it. It's so crazy. Oh, bro. When I first started, man, when I first started training, I was seriously.

Brow was sitting there and go to sit down to get TV, brough, and my nose would just start bleeding. Like that you fuck? Just from, like, weeks of training, following my back,

following my back, the roles, the physical aspect of of learning the formula. It's a formula to rest of me. Yeah. Yeah, it ain't just no, yeah,

so it's sitting there, chilling your nose get to bleed. He just trickles down, baby. Yeah, dog, don't. But listen, I know you play football. I know that's the best, but that's the different time of the game. But I got out of football because I got tired of injuries. But you got to understand, I said I was a willing vessel.

I wanted to do anything to get off the streets, dog. I was ready to like, I had to take care of my kids, though. I had to be a man. I had to, like, I had to step up to the plate. So he was like, man, I'm going to got out of football, but he offered me this wrestling all right me go up in there and bro i got bit by the bug and injuries was just they became injuries yeah i don't have like c6c7 vertebrae both shoulders dislocated i had three broke ribs one cracked over here i had my chest arm crack dislocated hip uh patelotininin

surgery uh quad tendon when i first came back yeah um three metal torso bones broke my foot broke that orbital. So, yeah, you get, you get the injuries, brother, but... Seam their AI, Kerry. You know? I'm like, I'm going to be... Oh, that's a little-fucking get to say the air for her. What?

I mean, I'm about to... He's down the A-I-Cats. He's straight-up. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So what? Okay, man. He was going for a nosebleet.

I don't even know why a nose bleakling. Yeah, that was just a start. Yeah, so that, but when did you, what year did you get comfortable in the WWE or whatever? Like, it was comfortable? Yeah, like, when you was like, all right, I'm here now. Oh, when I signed that call, I got that check. You was that?

Yeah. When I first, you know, you had to go through developmental. Yeah. You know what I get that call, you know, to A, hey, we want to sign you, but be like, oh, why don't I'm going to WFD that? Then you had to go to Memphis So I lived in Memphis man For like a year

But when they tell you You know I'm just I'm that Not mature guy from the street Now you know I got the contract I'm happy

But I'm doing some difficult I'm ready to go Send you to Memphis Learn how to wrestle Our way Now we're going to teach you that psychology We're going to teach you that ring awareness Wrestling ain't just wrestling

But it's a whole It's a business So me learning that Learned that I heard We're going to have you out there for six months You can be on TV That's stay locked in my head, dog.

Don't stay locked into your set plan or whatever because plans are subject to change. So it's like six months came, bro. I wasn't out of there, young guy. Relationship at home, man, they ain't going right. I'm going to, like, this mental stuff. Like, I'm like, and I'm doing good in Memphis. I'm doing something totally different.

I'm on the contractist and that, but I was just in my own head, man. And I remember my contract was coming up. And, bro, I wasn't going to resign it. Didn't know. What I was going to do, I was going to go back to Charlotte, They didn't want to re-sign it. And now a road dog came down there and saw me. And that's when he was like, hey, man, you want to be my partner, tag him in Billy?

I said, man, I'm about to quit, dog. I did this ain't for me, dog. I tried, man. He said, bro, what are you talking about? He said, bro, you're just like me inside your head. You can have it. Just give me a couple months, man. I had you up there with me.

Can you do that, brother? Yeah. And bro, I just, like, forgot who I was. And we forget who we are sometimes. So, man, like, a dude like him just stepped back up, bro. And I did it for, you know, I was on WWW in New York. That was reinvented, yeah. The road dog.

The road dog, brooddle, yeah. What's that feeling like, you know what I'm saying? You started off in this situation because, you know what I'm saying? You want to provide for your family and now your kids get to see you grow as the same time they're growing. What's that like now to see the reception of who you are, to respect you get from the community. And then to see, like, you're accomplishing everything in real time. Bro, I pat myself on the back, though. Yeah.

And I hope I can be a living in the walk of testimony for not with my kids, but for everybody, bro. You know what I'm saying? Like, I get toast to me in time by people, man. Not just people of color, man, but like all race nationality, man. Like, inspiring and encouraging and just making them feel like that. Bro, that means more to me than anything I'm done. Yeah. You feel me?

Where the nickname come from? What's their name? Or a truth. Oh. As is what about. Yeah. What are you talking about? I ain't know.

This one was Speedy or what? You know what? That was the name in the street. No, doc, my name is speaking with Roahide, dog. Roahide, go figure. Respect. We're tapping, like. That's what a Patriot.

Yeah, dog, yeah. Poor conversation. Yeah, so, real, I'm, like he said, I'm the one I watch wrestling faithfully. So, I know you went through a. contract thing, whatever. I don't know if that was part of the show or whatever how I was going to go. Yeah. But when you got released and everybody was mad, like Art Truth, y'all let our truth go.

What are we doing? What are we doing? Then you come back. You make this miracle comeback and it's great. You show up on the show. Everybody's going crazy and you cut the dreads. You do all that. Was that planned?

Like, the whole thing. No, no, I know. I'm saying like the whole thing. Did you really get released? Oh. Now, see, because you put it like that dog, I like. I like this keeping people in suspense. No.

That's good. We're talking about David Copperfield and exposing raffles and that. Like, nah, I can't let you see what's inside the hat. No, you're speaking of that. Right? Yeah. I mean, I was mad.

I'm like that. And that's what I'm like, bro. Again, I'm a walking testimony for people, though. Yeah. Bro, I've never had that much. I'm talking about on all my social media, over a hundred million people, bro. Dang.

A hundred million. That's not all just wrestling fans. Yeah. Yeah. Not just my peers, my employee, my like that, they gave me an S for my chair. I always call myself the Suntan Superman, but, well, son tan, Superman. Oh, I like that. Yeah, dog, dogs, but I see a guy.

Yeah, dog, yeah. They didn't know that. Yeah. Oh, man, that's a. Oh, man. But that love, man, like, bro, a hundred million. thought it wasn't expecting that, though. It's like, that's never

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Bring your brain. Listen to Now You Know with Noah DeBarossa on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. On one thing, we agreed on one thing, dog. Everybody, 100 million people agreed on one thing. Like, why life can't be like why we can't be like that whole of the time? That was deep with me, though.

That was, and my son looked at me, though, in the garage. He was like, Daddy, it wasn't a waste. And that, to me, went for all the brain of this business and any kind of business. You're going to sacrifice. Yeah. And time, you know, you got to make time for time. Like, I miss so many, I miss anniversary, birthday parties, graduations,

inductance. I miss so much stuff, but to help create and leave behind and give stability to, you know what I'm saying, make a foundation for us. So it's like, that right there, man, that appreciation, bro, was like, it paid, it made up for everything and the reason why I do this, you know what I'm saying? Like, I never had to, I never been to. WW World Champion, I never had no big, but I've done and taken what I was given

and made what I could make out of the dog and made the best out of it. I became it, I rolled it out, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. And people that have invested their time with their grandparents, their fathers, their aunts, their uncles, they grew up watching me.

They invested so much into my character into me as, but it was the impact. And that impact was, but it was so received and filled by me, dog. It was, bro, I can't tell how many time I cried. Just, I was like, ain't nothing wrong. I ain't sad. I ain't worried about nothing.

I'm good for, nothing. Like, it was, damn, that much love? No, for sure. That's my joy. No, it was crazy. I mean, everybody was mad. I'm like. But every.

And I was like, man, dog. Yeah. I'm talking my mad, dog. Damn. Like, steaming mad. Yeah. I was like, like, true? Like, what are you doing?

Yeah, though. Because you give such a different view on it. Like, you come in, you get that comedy of relief. You joke with everybody, but you can tell everybody in the locker room love you. Yeah. Like, I'm like, everybody rock on him. And it's kind of like, you remember, I'm funny that y'all really, like, rocking together because you remind me of y'all.

Like, everybody loves him when we back home because he had comedy relief. He joke with everybody. It's like the same feeling. And I know I looked at everybody, but they was tweeting. I was like, yeah, they're hot. Yeah, man. And I'm talking about not even just for my colleagues, man, like, uh camera crew production

catering like it's just like the whole brother it was just so much love man from the the crew that put the ring up to like you know what I'm saying because if you pass me and I grew up

whatever arena we end I don't care if you with us show it without it's show dog you get some doubt from me you know what I'm saying everything worked together bro oh that's fine when that album dropping me uh August 12th dog

it's dropping dog Okay. Yeah, it's country. It's country, dog. Then my rap stuff is out there. A lot of people didn't know I got the rap album out. Go check out Legacy, dog. I will.

Check Legacy out, but The White Album, man. That's the countryside. So he's going to be wearing them. Is that on the, he's wearing them on the album cover or? No, I got country boo some out. Hey, and I got one country boo that's an Air Force One. That's a lot. I'm a fucking man.

I ain't dead serious, dog. You got a kid. It's an L4-1 boot, dog. I even had the t-shirt of the dog. You got to get us a picture of that. I got a t-shirt of a daughter. Air Force one. What you wear?

Who? You're wearing D, right? No, I ain't wear that. If they black, he ain't got you. The black horse on the ground. Oh, boots on the ground. Hey, me'll look. Them help?

No. That's not. I can't crusade of boots. I'll folk with them, though. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. These jobs are, like, right here, me talking about that.

Okay. Okay. I think all of them's a real, those real food real deal. Now, here, this is a real deal. Yeah, these, these real. You, you're wild. Yeah. You're wild and true.

You know. On the album, every color of boots are. different side. For real? Yeah. So it's like, it's funny with story, man.

That's hard, though. You need to see what? No, hell yeah. I want to ask you a question. Obviously, been a part of many moments, many matches. What's one of your favorite matches or a crazy moment in a match

to sit-out to you that you remember still to this day? I can't pick one, man. Oh, you go crazy. Crazy moment? Mm-hmm. Damn. What's a crazy moment, man?

Talk about one of them injury. How are you going to say you? You didn't broke everything. That wasn't funny, though. No, he's all crazy. You didn't expect to get hurt or a crazy match. Yeah. Or a city you pulled up in like, I know it was going to be lit like this.

I didn't ship myself before. Oh, what? Can you say that? Yeah. Somewhere the hell you want. In a match? Sudo or whatever, yeah. Yeah.

Didn't a lot come out. Did not a lot, dog. I was young, dog. Oh. I was young. I was young. He was young. He was young.

How old? Shit, man. I was like, what, 30? They were They're all some 30-year-old Yeah, I probably done shit that he said before He was like They put in the camera

Y'all, you're out there What it's like because you did a move? I came off the top road with a lay drop And I had the flu that week Oh, man I was sick So y'all continued to match I already had bubble guts

Yeah, bro, dude you got to keep doing it It's a show, bro Oh, you know, you run to this shit Yeah, that's, I want to look, I'm running to the fact. Yeah, but y'all, y'all, y'all don't know it? No, we don't know it in the ring, we know. The first note, I didn't send them to them to them after the match. Why?

Brat's going to throw the whole rhythm all. You know what I'm not going to tell you around this shit myself. They're like, he got a job to do, ma'am. I respect that, but they. That's the worker. So when you told him, what was his response? He's like, like, what's going on? I laughed, dog.

Like, okay, now look, I'm asking right here. None of y'all have ever, like, fart it, past gas, pushed it out, and shit it. Like one or two drops and shit come out. One or two spurts. True. One or two. Am I right now? Have you?

No, I know my. You never been sick. I know. I've been sick, but I know my body, though. I was going straight. I said a bad. I know my mom. Y'all ain't never pass gas or push it out and shit it.

Oh, bro, y'all line. You never had COVID. You never had COVID before? Yeah. I have flu. That's what it is, right? The shards. You never shot it?

I know. I said, I won't admit it, though. I probably have. You did it while doing it. I probably have. Yeah. Now we're coming out more now, right? I'm saying with you.

The real, don't say, John. I'm saying, but he's coming out more, right? I know, I'm trying to be at one. You know, like, I'm thinking you at home. I'm saying, like, I'm thinking you at home. Okay, you're going to blame me. And I'm trying to, like, I'm trying to think I should be at home in bed. Yeah.

I should be at home. But I'm trying to, like, fulfill my job and go out and perform for y'all. You know what I'm saying? No, I respect it. And just somebody, I got to bubble gusts a little bit, and I come up to top rope. And you moved instantly it was over with. Oh, bro, I knew immediately. Immediately.

It wasn't even a lot. I had on a tight box, but it wasn't even a lot. It's a simple fact of... That motherfucker got mushy because of that leg drop, you're sitting there, bro. No, it happened. No, that's not one of the wild. I wasn't expected that.

That's the crazy moment right there. That would get you, right? Yeah. Man, what a moment. I mean, injuries, dog, you just keep going, man. I got, even with my patel attendant, dog, I was running. And a lot of people don't know, like, a patella injury is just

you can just simply be running in that it pops. Yeah. And I have a move I do. I go run and I do up and over out of the corner and a back flip. Before I even got to the corner,

as soon as I touched the apron, I felt the pop. And I'm already in motion up in the air. So I had to come down on one foot. Then I did the back flip. When I tried to stand, you know, the patella, there was nothing there. I collapsed.

Then I tried to stand back up. But you got to, it's a hole right there in your knees. So it was like, it was done. Quad tenant, and that happened on NXT, wrestling Grayson Waller. And it's, again, running, though. And most of the injuries not from, like, hard, definitely impact.

It's the simplest stuff you do, though. We're in tear. That's always tell people, like, you feel how you want to do about the production aspect of it, man, for you to be an athlete to do wrestling consistently and as much as y'all wrestle, especially with y'all traveling schedule, the way you have to take care of your bodies

and be on the road consistently, not staying at home, different hotels. Yeah. It's a number of respect for y'all. Oh, I appreciate it, man. That's it, crazy. Yeah, it's a grind, it's a hustle, man. It's demanding.

It's, um, I mean, you got to commit to it. How many off days do you say you have? Now we have a lot more. Okay. Now it's totally different. It's different than I used to work 280 days a year. Well, that's what it was, though. Like, what I say,

a missing old birthday, the anniversary, that's when we was working Friday. Saturday, Sunday, Monday. No, it was Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday. I would go home, be home Tuesday and Wednesday, though, and that happened, like, year-round. I'll be home two days. Occasionally, we'll get that third day home,

but other than that. Yeah. And a lot of times, them, like, I don't know, it wasn't always flying sometimes. They had to drive a different city? Four hours, two hours. Usually anything over, like, five hours, they drive their flyers.

But that's like, yeah, one show Thursday, Thursday night, Smitedowns. I used to be on Thursday. Then we do a Friday, then a Saturday live event, then a Saturday live event, Sunday, and then a Monday row, and then, you know what I'm saying, fly home Tuesday. You're home Tuesday, you sleep home Wednesday,

then Thursday, you're right back out again. Yeah, so, and you have to do that for a while, and I've been doing it for so many years, man, you get, you get adjusted. You get, it's routine to you now. Yeah, yeah, so it's... What years is this for you? Shit, man. You're talking about this total?

Yeah. when I was in the 98. Man, damn. 98? You, oh, gee. Super. Ooh. What's that?

20. That guess out? It's going to fall in a year. Yeah, you're almost 13. Yeah. Salute to you for the longevity, man. We say a lot of people

come and go on these situations. Some people get around, not even long enough enough. Some people get around, not even to be a lot of that, there'll be an impact. Like you said, this has happened a couple months ago,

and the nation is still rifle with you. Everybody is still rocking with you. Yes, no. Yes. I'm more strong. I'm more popular. than I've ever been in my career, dog, than I've ever been. And that's, what, 27 years, she said?

Yeah. I'm more popular now, though. It's crazy. But it'll work. It's just all there with time. Everybody journey different. Yeah, I mean. Yeah, man.

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