Club Shay Shay - Club 520 - Jey Uso on Royal Rumble, becoming WWE Superstar, Roman Reigns friendship

Episode Date: February 1, 2025

Jeff Teague and the Club 520 guys get an exclusive sit down with Jey Uso ahead of WWE’s Royal Rumble on Saturday night in Indianapolis. Uso talks about growing up in a wrestling family, becoming a superstar in the WWE, having a lifelong friendship with Roman Reigns, as well as previews one of the biggest nights of the year in the Royal Rumble. 2:00 - Wrestling in AF1s 6:00 - Friendship with Roman Reigns 16:00 - Favorite Wayne album 21:00 - Travel schedule 27:00 - Royal Rumble #Volume #ClubSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The Volume. All right, we back. Another episode of Club 520 Podcasts. I'm the host. My name is DJ Wells. Special, special guest in the building, man. To my left, we're gonna introduce my man. You see what time it is, we'll be on today. But to my far left left I got my dog,

bitch should be here in out the Pearlies. How you what, nasty? What's happening nasty, let's get to it baby. Now Jay listen man, we know you keep your feet right, you got the white ones on right now, but have you ever seen the black forces with the white lasers before? Hey man, it's my first time,

it's my first time and they look cold. Oh you like it? They look cold, come on man, come on now. Just for that though bro, I got you something man. Come on now. Just for that though, bro. I got you something, man. This from me and the team. Yes sir. I wear those.

Appreciate it. I got you some forces, man. Come on, is it them right there? No, it ain't them, but I'm gonna get you some. Man, come on man, I wear these more. Chrissy Weiss. That's my signature lace right there. Okay.

Yep, so. We're about to see these on Royal Roman here. Out the gate. Yes sir. Love, bro. Appreciate it,'re about to see these on Royal Roman. Out the gate. Yes sir. Love bro. Appreciate it. Appreciate it brother. Man, I can't wait man.

I'll put them over to the side for you. If at some point we see Jey Uso out here in the black forces with the white laces, that'd be crazy. That's gonna be crazy. Come on man. What is it? What is it?

Split room here? How do we feel about him? That's the passive aggressive superman in black. It's like he might nicely rob you when he wears those. So simply the black Forces is violent. Those come with a little bit more respect. Yeah. Yeah.

We'll make sure you get a pair of chains. It was hard finding a motherfucker 13. I got one yet though. 13 and the Black Forces? Yeah, that is scream violence for sure. But to my right, got my dog, Young Nacho, Young Tig. How you doing? I'm chilling bro.

Y'all know I'm excited about this one. I'm the only WWE fan in real life. I mean, DJ used to watch when he was younger, but I still watch. So to have a wrestler on today. My boy, happy boy. Oh, my favorite guest so far. We didn't have a lot of great players on here,

but a wrestler and one of my favorite wrestlers right now. I'm gonna let you do the honors. Come on, man. You see the belt right here. We tapped it for sure, man. This man is a champion, man. Tag team champ, Mr. Intercontinental Champion, on his way to be in the world champ. Stream live with Peacock Saturday, Royal Rumble,

we got the one and only, Maynard Vitt J. Uso in the building, Big Dog, appreciate you sliding on us. Uso. Hey, hey, hey, thanks for the intro. Sorry. Hell of an intro, Uso. Feel me?

Yee. For sure, man, listen, we gonna talk about everything, man. But like we said, the foot game, wrestling enforces man, how do you do that? Man, to be honest, I take my ankles up every single match and then I double sock them. So there is no support with the ankles, you know, but man, I just like how they look on TV, man,

just the all whites. And then at the time when we started wearing tennis shoes, like me and my brother were the only ones wearing Air Force Ones. Everybody had to wear boots. It was like a rule. But for us, we got away with it because we was just trying stuff.

Man, we'd go to champs, get a pair of whites and the black joggers, buy one, get one free. You know what I'm saying? I doubt there was wrestling gear right there. Yeah, I'm saying, that's true. It was so penitentiary, y'all know. Y' I wouldn't get one free. You know what I'm saying? I doubt there was a wrestling gear right there. Yeah, I was like, that's true. It was so penitentiary, y'all know. Y'all was tapped in. Y'all was tapped in.

Come on, that day one ish came, we made a shirt in the middle of the mall loose. You know, we was just trying stuff. The day one ish. That's fire. Me and him, well, we can't say day one shit, right? So ish was the, you know, on the rap song, Ish. Yeah, that's the end of the version for sure.

Yeah, bruh, like we at the drawing board with stuff. Nah, that's hard. For sure. Man, that's crazy. Like, you know what I'm saying, be a superstar. Like you said, the beginnings, y'all just, like regular people, we at the mall trying to figure it out. Well, we used to go to get fresh, get airbrushed,

cop the white horses, all full circle moment, man. But let's talk about the beginning, man. Sam Fran, growing up, crazy wrestling lineage, T. I know you all super talented about that for sure. Grandpa to the father, to the cousins, to everybody. Like growing up in that environment with your whole family has grew up in the wrestling world. Was you inspired to be a wrestler?

Was you gonna do something else? Did you play any other sports, anything else like that? I already played football. Yeah, we were ballers, man. Always wanted to play football, you know how that go. After college, kinda came home, getting the real world writers.

It's like, well damn, this ain't fun. You gotta just go to a regular job, clock in, clock out every night. Three years, start getting big. Athletes, when you come home, it's a different transition, right? Like, you don't know what to do. We was's make a decision. We had kids early. Wrestling was the door to walk through. It was a hard door to walk through though.

Pops wanted to show y'all want to do this. Yes, sir. All right. Took us to a ring. Beat me and my brother's ass for two hours. Damn. That's crazy. And just know, we'll say who Pops is in this situation.

Rikishi is his pops. If y'all don't know, go wrestle Rikishi. Y'all don't know where Rikishi is, like just look him up, man. His hands. There was no easy face. I wasn't no big wrestling fan, but your pops was out of pocket.

That stinky, stinky face. Whatever the fuck. Bro, that's crazy, bro. Come on, man. Hey, bro. Restroom before he fought him. Come on, man. Pops is doing that kind of stuff.

That's like literally the only thing I really remind. He used to do his thing, but I'm like that was like something that stuck out. But he brought the vibes to wrestling though, with Too Cool, they used to do the dancing and stuff. They kind of brought a different element to the game something that stuck out. But he brought the vibes to wrestling over, too cool, they used to be dancing and stuff. They kind of brought a different element to the game at that time though. Sure.

A little disrespectful though, ain't it? That was crazy, bro. How was it like growing up in that world though, bro? Seeing your pops, like was he like a different man when he came home? Like did y'all know how famous he was? Man, no, it was cause to be honest, he ain't hit his, he ain't hit his like famous,

he didn't get a notarization until I kind of got in high school. So I was kind of old enough to know. But as far as like being a kid growing up, we didn't have a lot of money. It was, we was a poor family because he was a wrestler trying to make it. Yeah.

And I remember when he, that, I don't know, you probably remember it was when he ran over Stone Cold. Yeah, I remember. Man, I was out there, me and my brother was fighting like almost every single week, man, because the kids were testing us. Yeah, your dad, your dad sucks. Your dad ran over Stone Cold. Luckily, we was good in football. So that's what kind of like separated us, you know, from being like them, the wrestlers kids right now, let alone we're twins, but we were balling, bro. We, we, my dad would come to the games

and I remember being on the field, and if I see a crowd move, I know my dad's here. Yeah, that's crazy. I would just look like the game would stop for like two seconds. All right, he's here. I would just look like the game would stop for like two seconds. All right, he's here. Cause you can't miss him. You know, he a big Samoan with blonde hair.

So yeah. Y'all was in Florida at the time, right? Yeah, Pensacola. Grew up in Pensacola, man. I was born in Cali and then we moved to Florida when I was like five. So we've been in the South ever since. That's where I met Romanette, from the sandbox.

I mean, little league football, middle school, all the way up to high school. Ballin', bro. He went to Georgia Tech, my brother went to Division II, West Alabama. That's the only time we split ways, man. And then it's crazy,, we go through life together. Oh, and now he came back as a,

wanted to be a wrestler and train. And I remember when he told me that, I'm over here tripping like, man, you trying to wrestle? You know, cause it was never, he was never like leaning towards that. And just to see like where he at today, man, like, my, my mom, my hat goes off, man.

Like mind blown, man. That's a Roman Reigns, isn't she? Yeah, yeah. I mean, they are my guys, but they are, they don't know. So they got an action called the bloodline at one point. But we get to where I get to, I'll let you go. Nah, nah, I'm trying to, I'm gonna hear the line. When I say we running it, we running it.

They whole family is like. I mean, shout out to the gang. We whole, the linears. I'm here to learn. The linears, the elite right now. They running everything so. Michelle, you talk about the beginnings of wrestling, I wanna ask you, I know you active on social media,

did you ever see those people who have like the random wrestling matches, like they did the frequent pose on the bar, and they ran and like kicked them over and stuff like that? Yeah. How do you, I mean obviously you had to high up, but I don't know, do y'all see they get abused by that? That's crazy, that's how the beginning is in wrestling,

you just trying to find your way with stuff. Yeah, I mean, I dig it, because it shows them being hungry, they're hungry for it, but it's dangerous though, they need to chill out on it. They be on concrete, they be everywhere. How do you separate the entertainment from the real stuff though?

They were wrestling at a clothes mall. I'm just saying bro, like some of it I know is entertainment of course, but then some of it bro, y'all really be having to whoop a motherfucker ass for real. We'll talk. But like how to- That'd be professional in there though. But there's some homies in there though,

like whoever I'm about to wrestle or whatever. I'm like damn, gotta bring my A-gate with this one. You know, I like if somebody's like working me or you know, let's say they wrestle me tonight, man. I like for them to think, if me and you wrestling moves, I want you to be like, oh I got Jay tonight, easy. Like, you know, it's gonna be night like, oh, I got Jayden light, easy. Like, you know, it's gonna be night on.

Yeah, you know what I'm saying? The movement in there, it's all different loose. You in there was another, if you really think about it, the ring ain't no bigger than this room right here, kind of. And you in there with two big men, just dancing in this squared circle. They gotta be safe with each other. You know what I'm saying?

Like it's a dance. It's an art in there, man. We just not in there just throwing each other around. You know, this is a loss. It's a loss. There's art to this, man. And I look at it like live television, one shot, ain't no re-dos.

You mess up on a microphone, you can't, you know, everything's live. So. Our producer, he used to wrestle. It was real thing, it was no like, they used to fold him up, they used to fold him up. Really? He used to have the Kurt Angle headgear.

Yeah, his name was Freaky Mike. Yeah. That was his wrestling name. He did a real wrestling. Yeah. And he used to wear Jordans when he wrestled. Yeah, they used to go up under each other and scoop each other down.

Oh, this was the champion, he wore white K-Swiss. That was the championship. You got the white fortune, he wore the white K-Swiss. White K-Swiss, yo. We're talking the deal back, we're trying to talk back in, man. Nah, respect. And we dead ass to you so. No for real.

So you didn't wrestle, you didn't wrestle. I did wrestle with fucking Texas. Oh, I'm sorry. That was barefoot, my bad. Respect, respect. Back to J man, back to J. He had a head center on. Like he was a truck driver?

He had the first joint beats. Be was like a truck driver. He had a first-rate beast. Beats about Mike is crazy. He was getting them W's though. You getting them W's. Who was the record? Oh, okay. You were sad. That's a short season.

Oh, wow. That's crazy. Listen, let's move on. Go to Mike High School. 11th place to be. So, like you say, your early journey, you get going. Pops, how is that situation, like you said, he put y'all through the wringer, now y'all go through the smaller circle

before you become a superstar. How's that ground like? Yeah, hard, bro. Hard. Just do it for little gems. They still do it, it's called independent. But still, homies out there hustling. It's kind of easier now because they got social media and it's easy to get recognition.

So like when I was coming up, we had to like send in pictures and tapes, you know, take pictures and mail them in. And the only way you can get notice is if you get on like big stage, you know, either Monday Night Raw or or SmackDown. Those are the only two. And there's just a lot of platforms now, man. So now you got NXT. Like, so, like, it's dope to be a wrestling fan, man.

If you really watch it, please. Tomorrow's gonna go crazy. I mean. Yeah, bro, I'm gonna come check you out, bro. Yeah, bro, you gonna see? Nah, I showed him one time. I know we getting ahead of ourselves, but I showed him on Raw one time. I mean, you came out and I was like, just watch this. And I kept playing it and that's the,

what was it, maybe two weeks ago. And you had the crowd was still going. You looked, he was like, let me get back on the ropes again. And I was starting to get in the crowd going. And I was just telling him like, bro, it's different. And I don't think you've been to an event before. Like when I was a little kid, bro,

and this is what I was doing, I was just like him like, bro, it's different. And I don't think you've been to an event before. Like when I was a little kid, bro, and this is what tarnished my brain, bro. So they was wrestling, I forgot who it was. And he missed me and the dude just fell out, bro. And it was like, finally I said the cause wasn't real, bro. It kind of fucked me up, bro, very since then. And then with him, once I really got to, you know,

deal with him, you know, bro really tapped into wrestling. He got onesies and everything, you know what I mean? You got me. He got a pocketful. We had half a million. I don't got no onesie, bro. He was telling me like how real it is for real though, you know what I mean?

Like it's a real, real sport, so. I learned from him, you know, he giving me the game a little bit. Yeah, it's like he said it's art. It's still a show. Yeah, that's what I'm saying, it's still a show, but I'm saying that kind of, when I was watching as a kid, bro, I was like,

and then the go, I was like, damn, bro. And it's crazy cause like you said, we all grew up in there and probably you did too. Like I was gonna ask you, I mean, I saw the family, who was you like wrestlers that you like, like they were early, cause we grew up on Stone Cold, The Rock, DX, NWO, like. Ultimate Warrior, bro.

Come on, bro. That's my Warrior, bro. Come on, bro. That's my favorite, bro. I stole his whole, me and my brother with the old face paint. The paint, yeah. That's all Ultimate Warrior. Y'all ain't run to the ring like that, though. Hell no.

He can't run like that, white force is funny. I be getting tired on my entrance now. I be seeing it sometimes when you get on the mic, you be like, you gotta catch your breath. I be like, go, go, go. I be like, man, I can't breathe. Hold up, I can't breathe. The energy be crazy though.

Yeah. And just dope like you and the Swine of the Culture were like, you coming out with Quavo, like that was just fire, like that was a moment, bro. They took my ring. Quavo came out with him. Disrespect, there we go, I'm out of pockets. And I came out when they told me

what was going on with Wayne on WrestleMania. Man, I'm out of pocket. And I came out when I came out when they told me I was going with Wayne on on WrestleMania. Now I'm a big come on man like obviously got a group listening to Wayne. I told him my first wrestling match me my brother walked out to go DJ. My first wrestling match dog. We go DJ and then just to have him walk me out as a full circle. Now we here. We are we Wayne here. What's your we here, we're Wayne Heads here.

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Oh, he gonna wait, man. Yeah. Nah, he don't block his hot. I don't like block his hot that much. Carter, Carter one though. Carter one, he was here. Yeah. Carter one.

He was here. That's the one right there. That's a good pick. That's a great pick. Come on. Man, shout out to Wayne, man. Now, be here, you talk. Little ugly boy, fuck it over.

I said, damn, bruh. It's 11 AM, man. He just took his glasses off. Yeah, bloodshot. I said, ain't living here. Yeah. I'mma walk past him and have all that damn jewelry on. Damn.

Hey, I'm not a man. My son bigger than him. I that damn jewelry on him. Damn. Damn, I'm so bigger than him. I know Wayne Little as hell. He came to heart bro, so short. All the rappers are little though. Jeezy, that's the first rapper to mess me up that he was short. Yeah. Jeezy, I was like, I just knew he was six four

the way he was talking. I said, he's six four, six five. I seen he was five three. I said, I might be, might be a heart five. I seen he was five, three. I said, I might be hard to get you, bruh. That's why them gun boys had different shows. Be here talking about how you know, saying the show scarred him for life. Have you had a match or a situation

where you like, you know you messed up in? Yeah, man, hell yeah, man. Well, I did, my brother did, but I felt just as bad. When we debuted, it was like the debut was when you first show up on TV. And it's on YouTube too. He, I think we supposed to jump on the top rope and then splash, boom.

He jumped on the top rope and he slipped. He felt like he just slipped, man. So everybody was like, ha ha ha ha, idiot. You know, cause you can kind of hear like the first five rolls right there. They talking. They talking shit.

But yeah, my brother slipped and he was real upset about it. I was like, damn. Cause we didn't know. We were just trying to make sure everything was good. Cause every year, I ain't gonna lie bro, every year I've been wrestling, I thought I'd get fired. Damn, like that's how I think.

But that's how, that's how cold it is, because everybody's trying to come get the top spot. And they bring in the little homies. And I'm on my way out. I've been hit on WWE TV for going 15 years. So I'm in my body, bro. I ain't never ever, I always felt strong. Like body, kind of feel the body creeping up. You know, I'm my man, my body, bro. I ain't never ever, I always felt strong, like body, kind of feel the body creeping up.

You know, I'm 39 right now. Like this is a young man's game now. And I recognize it, I recognize it. I just like, I just like, man, stepping up, like challenging all of them, because they're gonna have to go through me. They're gonna have to go through the top homies to get to take it.

I'm not gonna let you take it, bro, if you're not ready for this. Man, that shit like Tekken. You gotta climb to the top, to be the top dog for sure. And I just seen an article that came out a couple days ago, they was kind of speaking about what's coming up with the Royal Rumble and stuff, and they were just like, you know,

we happy to see J. Uso in this life, but it was just like, we happy, finally got to a point to where they're pushing it. Like he's been the same polarizing figure since he entered this game. Like you said, wait till he was trying to get to the top. I was feeling just like, all right, like I had to go through that gauntlet,

but like it's my time to show who I am now. Yeah, I appreciate it, man. I'm so, I'm so, bro, I'm grateful. Because there was a moment in wrestling where there was no reaction, or I wasn't on TV, or I would just show up to work and just sit in the corner the whole time and just and what do I do? How do I do? So every single night man I treated like, like it's my first time man because like, like you've seen it lose the energy out there is crazy. Yeah, it's crazy. And I really,

I really vibe off that and if and if and if I'm gonna take up time on TV, you know, our segments are slotted out with certain time. Man, if I'm out there and they going crazy, you're gonna have to cut some time from the segment coming after me, because they ain't gonna get no higher than what's going on right now. Yeah, shit, I'm excited for Rumble. I wanna have 20,000 in my handles.

That's crazy. That's fire. I've seen it. It's crazy, because my little nephew was here and he watched wrestling all the time. And I'm like, who your favorite wrestler right now? He used to love Rey Mysterio. So I just knew he was about to say Rey Mysterio again.

He was like, Jay. And I knew you were coming today. I was like, Jay who? He's like, Uso. Yeet. And I started laughing. I'm like, you in and I knew you were coming today. I was like, Jay who? He was like, Uso. Yeet! And I started laughing. I'm like, you in a rude awakening, but boy, you about to be hyped.

So when he came here and seen you, and like I was showing him the energy that all the kids and all the fans got. Yeah. Yeah, there's something special about him. You just feel that energy when I, little kids don't ever come up to you, what up man? Yeah.

Especially somebody like me. So for him to do that, he's got something special. Special. Nah, for sure. Shout out to Special Carter. That's what I call him special. Carter. Shout out to Carter.

Yeah, that's crazy man. Hey listen, you know so much about the wrestling lineage. You got any questions for my mans right here man? I just wanna know what it was like when you had to, not let's say break up with your brother, but they separated you as a tag team. I think at the time it was needed. Yeah.

Because you know I was going through the whole angle with Roman and that kind of like, like let me blossom a little bit. So it was perfect timing man. I do miss my brothers though, cause I don't see them cause we're on different shows now. So like the, rides and the airports, they change the game,

because I'm used to us always being together. May travel like real easy. Yeah. Yeah, we did. Most definitely. You talk about that life, man. What's like a typical year like for you, how many days you on a road?

How many days are you performing? Yeah, I was telling him like 273 is the dates. 273. And I was complaining. 82 games, like shit. And 41 at home. Damn they're a baseball player, bro. Nah, it's worse.

How many baseball players? I mean, but they moving. Yeah. Every day, they don't stay in the- We drive ourselves. we in the airport, we ain't driving no, we do rental cars. I'm in line like everybody else. That's what makes us different

because we're always in the, we're still in the trenches and we're with people, regular people. I'm literally standing behind your ass in national rental car, trying to get my rental car and it's me, it's them, you know, six, seven brothers behind you. And they're like this, oh my God, are you guys a team?

Now, everybody always try to be covered up. Yeah. You know, sometimes you just don't want to be bothered like that. And this is the most I've ever been recognized. I go to Publix everywhere. When I'm eating with my kids, there's somebody, which I appreciate it, but it's just sometimes, man,

you just wanna be normal and have lunch with my kids instead of being the martyr. It come with the game. How do your kids like it? Are they excited like pops? I got a 19 year old, he goes to Morehouse in Atlanta. Out the gate. Academic scholarship.

Oh, dope. Yeah, his name is Josiah. He was gonna be here, but yeah, he in school. Freshman, he loving it. He don't wanna go home. Atlanta, he in school. Freshman, he loving it. He think it's a hate troll. Atlanta, shit, I just talked about, what the fuck is like you, boy? Have a time, boy.

I can't, when I call him, man, I'm like, just call me back, man. Like, he don't hit me back till like all day, man. Just hit me and just call me, man. I grew up in Atlanta, too. I was 19 in Atlanta, turned into a, yeah. Shout out to him. Good times out there.

Then my little one out there, he over there, dad how old I gotta be to wrestle? I'm like 18. Five more years, I mean you gonna be like Dom and Rey Mysterio. Oh, that's lit. That's hard. That's hard, bro.

That's hard. He's so into it, man. I'm gonna ask you that with the lineage, you know what I'm saying? Growing up with that family being around there, is that something you would like, hope for the kids? Like, y'all can just do what y'all want to,

but you wouldn't have had a next generation, new souls. Yeah, bro, I feel like if he wanted to, like, yeah, I'd let him, cause it is hard, but man, he gotta be all in. Man, but man, I got like nieces and nephews, Uso, like ready to go, 15, 16, 17, six, five, 300 pounds, like big Simone ass kids, Uso.

Oh, no, nieces and nieese is slim, but she's tall. She's like 5'10". We got some big girls now. We got some big ones now. What? I'm like, like you said, Jeho, fam, like your little brother, for him to make a way in wrestling

and become a star too, what was that like seeing him grow? Man, great, man. Cause, man, his story, man, he really, he was a baller too. He played at Dickinson State. He was in North Dakota, because he grew up in Sacramento.

So that's where he went to school at. But man, he used to install cabinets. But he would do that and then go wrestle. Do that and go wrestle, man. No money. I would help him out, but I'm trying to tell him, man, like this is the grind mode. This is it right here.

You can drive your ass three hours ago, wrestle for 20 bucks. You have to go do it because that's what you're supposed to do if you're trying to make it. And as soon as he got his foot in the door though, like I know he was gonna go to NXT, and I knew they were just gonna bring him up. And when they bought him up,

they dropped him like right on top of this, you know? Bought him in as, you you know Roman's hitter. Yeah. And then he took off. The character the character part of you know Paul Heyman. Yo you just don't say shit. You just stand there and look big. So now we just painted him a whole character. He didn't say nothing. He wasn't gonna like die his head or shave his head. Like a bald, a big. Yeah, big bald. Yeah, they like the blonde hair.

Everything's detailed. It was like from what you look, how you look. Everything's character. He funny though. Like he like a funny rest. Like he do some funny moments. Like when he about to get powerbombed or something, he'll be like,

man, he funny for real. Yeah, he hilarious. I'll be watching him like, yo, he be clowning for real. Like he having a good time. My brother Jimmy funny as hell though. Y'all should have had him on here too. I didn't know it was going to be like this. I wish I would have bought him.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We would have been in this thing. Oh, yeah, this ain't tradition being here at all. I mean, I try to, I got a lot of stuff to do today with the media, and I'll do this all day. Yeah, we be chillin' man. I love bro. Appreciate it. For sure.

What's your signature move bro? You, I don't know your daddy, shout out to OG. Oh man, Stink Fade. Oh, Splash, Superfly Splash, that's the original name from Jimmy Fly Snoopy. Damn, I love that name. Literally just lay on the floor

and I would jump off and bam your ass. Superfly Smash. Superfly Splash, that's the original name. You know, yeah. SFS, okay, yeah. Ain't no hit you one of them super kicks too though. Yeah. What is that?

I just kick you in the face. Like Shawn Michaels. All right, so he came here to one of them super kicks too though. Yeah. What is that? I just, I just. Kick you in the face. Like, like Shawn Michael. All right, so he changed music to one of my- In the force? Yeah, in the force. And you just gotta go like this. Yeah.

What the hell? Y'all crazy. It's color. Yeah. Yo. Yo. Good talk. Nah, that's dope bro. I can't wait. I'm gonna pull up, man. It's crazy, like you said, especially when we out of the same age, we're growing up,

everybody was into trying to wrestle and stuff like that, main events and stuff like that, so like Royal Rumble, that's a crazy, that's like one of the pinnacles. It's right there where we wrestle many of us, man. How would that be a part, that's like one of the pinnacles. It's right there with WrestleMania for us, man. How would that be a part of this special moment, man? Fire, man. I'm excited, man. I get it. Like I'm already, I'm just excited

because my brother's in there. My cousin's in there. Jacob Fatu's my real first cousin. He's a beast. Yo, he's a beast. He got show homie, man. He a beast. He be whooping people, bro.

He really from the streets, too. He really whooping. He's a beast. He got show homie, man. He a beast. He be whooping people, bro. He really from the streets, too. He really from that. But just all of us being in this big match together, it's like, it's iconic, man. Yeah, the Royal Rumble was always fire, man. Yeah. Like some of my, what's like some of your favorite Royal Rumble moments?

I mean, they just showed it with my dad dancing with Too Cool. Yeah, I was like, yeah. Yeah. And then he got rid of them both. I'm gangster. Like my favorite moment, I got a couple of them. I mean, Kofi Kingston did a lot of stuff in the Rumble that I thought was exciting. But Shawn Michaels, when I first seen him tap the one foot,

pull himself back up, that's when I first fell into love with the Royal Rumble. I'm like, ah yeah, it's a vibe. That was like, I need something. Yeah, so I'm excited to see what's gonna happen at this Rumble, because there's a lot of great people in this Rumble. Like, you can have Cena in the Rumble and stuff like that.

Who you think gonna win it? Oh no, I gotta tap in, I got, you what? Bro, man, there's are marines in there though. I know. He eliminate least. 20 to 20. Yeah, I'm like, he got 20 getting out of there on his own. So I know it should be exciting, man.

Yeah, I'm happy. This shit about to be crazy. I can't wait for you to see it bro, like live out there. Yeah, like I'm with you. Five minute crowd hoops. I can't wait for you to see it, bro, like live out there. Yeah, like I went to- Five minute crowd, Ups. I'll be up there somewhere. I'll know where our tickets are. Hope we ain't got to look that hard. Grabbed the mic.

Be here! I'm like, Ups, this is for you! We did the podcast together. That's funny! I had the black one. That's a good head. He just got hold of some black voices. Yeah, I see it too. No I had the gay one. He just go home with some black horses. Yeah, I see it too.

No, that would be crazy. You know what's funny? You talk about how you can hear all the people in the front. Have you ever been to a part of a show where one of the fans run in the crowd? Because I know they have notorious mixtapes of wrestlers beating their sleeves off the fans that come in the crowd. Hell yeah. That's a rule, bro. Like if anybody ever hops in the barricade, we're allowed and supposed to fuck them up.

Yeah. So why do people want that? I don't know, why do people want that? I don't think people realize how big the wrestlers are. Like I didn't know that at first either. Like when I first seen, took my nephew, my oldest nephew backstage one time and we met John Cena and these guys

and I looked at his forearm and I was like, yeah, let me stop talking crazy because these dudes is way bigger. Like him, like I ain't know you was that big of a person, Puzzle. Pop out like, no, he big, bro. They're all big, who's? I'm like, it's crazy. Shit.

Yeah, when I first seen Kevin Nash, I said, oh, he's allowed to powerbomb people? They should be dead, bro. Yeah. It's crazy. Did you ever powerbomb people? They should be dead, bro. It's crazy. Did you ever powerbomb anybody, Mike? No. No.

How does that move go? He's looking. I'll show you. I'll show you. Is that on or off the court? Anybody using powerbomb off the bat? Watch out. There's something wrong with him, bruh?

Like, y'all crazy. Oh, for sure, man. But listen, I know you've been to Indy a couple of times, man, how's the wrestling energy, man? How's the crowd here, man? I know they're pretty excited about it here. Anytime we have a big event, Indy always show up. Yeah, always fire.

I think every city that's got a sports team, man, football, basketball, all that, man, they always show up man. And this is the perfect, rumbles are just gonna be lit man. Like, it's the perfect crowd when they're in. They say they Indianapolis, I'm down. I just don't, I just don't do cold good.

From Florida man. Man. When you caught a great weekend, if he was here last weekend, you would have been mad. It was negative. It was like negative five. Why? I asked my mom and dad why they stopped here all the time.

But it is what it is. For sure, before we get up out of here, Jay, in those sports you still follow, man? Like I said, you grew up loving football. You still as happy in? Yeah, man. Big nine is fan, dog. Me too.

That's how I knew he was good people. We had a struggle year, but it's all right. Yeah, man. But I'm pretty, man. By pretty, man. Super kick your ass. I'll do my quarterback like that. Oh, man. Super kick and by pretty would be great content.

We had too many injuries, though. Deebo was out. Kettle was out. Everybody was hurt. Yeah, man. I don't wanna hear no complaining from y'all. Night of the Spaniards. Y'all have great seasons every other year, man.

True. It's only fair, man. Coming from a Cowboys fan, y'all bless. Shout out to Deion, man. Who you got in the Super Bowl? I mean, damn, I don't want them, but it's gonna be Chiefs. Yeah, again. They old, man.

Come on, man. What's... Nah, Eagles gonna win, bro. I kinda want the Eagles to win, but I feel like the Chief, so. I never want good things for the Eagles. Shout out to Pat McHulms. I mean, you can kind of compare with that.

Y'all had, don't say the superstar quarterback's a long time, Joe Montana, Steve Young, you know what I'm saying? Y'all was blessed. Yeah. Jurgler. Stay loyal, you gotta stay loyal. Yeah, loyal to the soil. Listen, man, live on Peacock Saturday,

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