1 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:37,580 This is Shane Taylor, CEO of Shane Taylor Promotions and you are listening to the Urban 2 00:00:37,580 --> 00:00:38,580 Wrestling Network. 3 00:00:38,580 --> 00:00:41,600 Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. 4 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:44,100 This is Urban Wrestling Network. 5 00:00:44,100 --> 00:00:47,880 Today is not just like any other day with us. 6 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:49,560 It's a special. 7 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:53,600 I'm running with obviously my man, the Conquito Papi himself. 8 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:59,360 And today he's either left or he's right as the man says himself. 9 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:00,960 I ain't sure. 10 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:09,440 But this man, it ain't none other than Shane Taylor, our await superstar. 11 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:10,440 And that's what he is. 12 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:14,280 He's a superstar people in his own right. 13 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:16,000 He makes his own history. 14 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:19,360 How are you Shane? 15 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:20,760 I'm good man. 16 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:21,760 I'm blessed. 17 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:23,760 Thank you guys for having me. 18 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:24,760 Appreciate it. 19 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:31,440 Oh, I'm super excited when Butcher was like, yo, we're going to have Shane Taylor, the 20 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:32,440 champ on. 21 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:33,440 I was like, get the fuck. 22 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:34,440 Yeah, you know what? 23 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:35,440 I'm going to say what I want. 24 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:36,440 I'm like, yeah, I was bugged. 25 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:37,440 I was like, oh, no way. 26 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:39,160 And he's like, bro, we got him. 27 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:41,680 And I was like, man, we're going to get it in. 28 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:43,880 Butcher, please. 29 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:44,880 You go at him. 30 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:46,600 I got a million random. 31 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:47,600 I don't know. 32 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:48,600 Even if they're really wrestling. 33 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:52,200 I'm like, I'm like, this is Shane Taylor. 34 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:55,040 I've been like, I've got a message in this guy for ages. 35 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:57,640 I actually, I mean, I've been watching you for a while. 36 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:03,440 But I mean, I mean, I'm like, I'm like, well, my message was buddy buddies with Rickland 37 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:04,440 Stevens. 38 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:07,680 And I'm like, I'm like, oh, I'll see if I can be Rickland's friend. 39 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:10,160 I mess, I go like Rickland. 40 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:13,080 And I say, oh, Shane Taylor. 41 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:14,080 Okay. 42 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:15,080 Okay. 43 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:18,560 So I mean, listen, I mean, I know you're you grew up. 44 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:19,560 I grew up in Cleveland. 45 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:24,560 And tell us a bit about growing up in Cleveland. 46 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:32,040 Um, man, where to begin with that one? 47 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:37,920 Um, we have a saying in Cleveland, especially on the East side. 48 00:02:37,920 --> 00:02:39,420 Hold on. 49 00:02:39,420 --> 00:02:40,420 My daughter is screaming. 50 00:02:40,420 --> 00:02:41,420 Give me one second. 51 00:02:41,420 --> 00:02:43,920 You're the only one. 52 00:02:43,920 --> 00:02:46,920 Kids are going to be kids. 53 00:02:46,920 --> 00:02:48,920 Absolutely. 54 00:02:48,920 --> 00:02:54,600 But, uh, nah, man, listen for everybody while we have a little dead spot, I'm excited for 55 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:55,600 this one, man. 56 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:57,480 I mean, this guy's the champ. 57 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:01,440 You know, I mean, he, he's putting him in work. 58 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:06,160 I would put him, you know, to be honest with you, there's not a wrestler in our weights 59 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:07,720 that I can't see him beating. 60 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:09,720 I mean, let's be honest. 61 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:12,680 Dude, this is what I'm going with this. 62 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:14,280 This is what I'm going with. 63 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:16,080 You know, me and he'll do it. 64 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:19,800 You know, me being the best, the best BH ITV. 65 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:21,800 This is like a man I would. 66 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:23,800 I've done to the carpet. 67 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:26,400 I'm fucking with this dude. 68 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:33,000 Listen, listen, I hope he's ready because we're not going to give, uh, that carbon copy bullshit 69 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:35,280 interview that people like to do. 70 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:36,280 You know what I mean? 71 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:39,720 Like, you know what, Conquito? 72 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:42,600 Unlike some, we don't have holidays. 73 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:44,000 We work all day. 74 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:46,600 And you know why we work all day and all week? 75 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:48,560 Cause wrestling never sleeps. 76 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:49,560 Facts. 77 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:51,560 The big old facts. 78 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:54,160 We can edit all that in post. 79 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:55,160 It's cool. 80 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:56,160 Come on. 81 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:57,160 I got two kids. 82 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:58,160 He's got kids. 83 00:03:58,160 --> 00:03:59,160 Right. 84 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:00,160 She usually sleeps. 85 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:02,280 I just am like, why is she screaming right now? 86 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:04,280 All right. 87 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:10,480 Um, we have a saying where I'm from and that is you're either from Cleveland or you're 88 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:11,480 not. 89 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:17,800 And what that means is there are certain things you grow up a certain way and it's different 90 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:18,800 than any other city. 91 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:19,880 You know what I mean? 92 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:24,840 Because Cleveland's sort of this like it's a major city, but then it's not too. 93 00:04:24,840 --> 00:04:25,960 Like it's not a Chicago. 94 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:28,240 It's not an Atlanta. 95 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:31,560 But when you talk about, especially where I'm from, the East side, right? 96 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:38,040 When you talk about per capita crime rate, per capita violence, per capital, per capita 97 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:44,400 drug, you know, all the statistical things that they rank cities in the East side of 98 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:46,680 Cleveland, Ohio is always what they measure. 99 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:48,400 They don't even measure the whole city. 100 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:54,080 They talk about this specific area and it still ranks up there because that's what that's 101 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:55,560 what goes on there. 102 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:56,560 Right. 103 00:04:56,560 --> 00:05:01,840 So coming from that background, coming from that area, seeing the things that I've seen, 104 00:05:01,840 --> 00:05:07,200 things that my friends were involved in, family was involved in, you know, I tell people 105 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:11,200 all the time, I'd probably been to 100 funerals by the time I was 14. 106 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:12,760 You know what I mean? 107 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:15,680 It changes the way you look at the world. 108 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:20,680 And for me, it makes you grow up very, very fast. 109 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:27,640 And for me, I appreciate that now that I'm 35 to go, I grew up ready for the world, you 110 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:29,280 know, at a very young age. 111 00:05:29,280 --> 00:05:31,240 I knew what the world was. 112 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:37,880 I'm not one of these people that is ignorant to how society is, to how the world works, 113 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:39,880 to how different things work. 114 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:42,080 I know exactly what this game is. 115 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:43,080 Right. 116 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:45,840 So that prepared me for that. 117 00:05:45,840 --> 00:05:51,160 And so all of the things, all of the negative, eventually for me, turns into a positive 118 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:56,880 because now when I go to the ring, I get to let people know that I'm from the East side 119 00:05:56,880 --> 00:05:58,240 of Cleveland, Ohio. 120 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:03,440 And what that tells them is that I've been through the same things you've gone through. 121 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:04,960 I've seen the same things. 122 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:05,960 I've been a part of it. 123 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:11,360 I've seen from top to bottom what that city, what that area can do. 124 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:13,400 And I am still standing here. 125 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:16,440 I am still one of the very best in the world at my craft. 126 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:21,320 I am still successful, you know, and if I can do, and I'm nobody special, I will let 127 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:23,040 people know that right now. 128 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:25,160 I am nobody special. 129 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:31,560 But you know, I refer it, I referred to the Jay-Z lyric, you know, he's like, and nothing 130 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:33,640 really to it just had the balls to do it. 131 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:34,640 You know what I mean? 132 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:36,520 That's all it is. 133 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:37,520 You know what? 134 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:43,240 I'm a disagree when you say that you ain't nobody special because not a real talk because 135 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:46,600 on just what you said now, it makes you special. 136 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:50,800 Like we didn't even know your wrestling thing, but you're a productive person and you're 137 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:55,800 giving people a blueprint of how you could be successful and get out of the grit. 138 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:56,800 You just did that. 139 00:06:56,800 --> 00:06:57,800 You know what I'm saying? 140 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:02,880 Like, and my question to you is coming from where you from, I get it. 141 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:08,600 But that moment where you knew that wrestling took you somewhere, what was that moment that 142 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:13,400 you said, damn, all that shit that that fuck with me for years, I made it. 143 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:17,120 And I'm curious what that moment was where you felt you made it. 144 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:20,600 Um, 145 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:25,120 that's a great question because I've been able to do a lot of cool things. 146 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:27,880 But in my mind, I haven't made it yet. 147 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:34,040 Um, and it's because I'm not the ring of honor world champion. 148 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:37,320 I'm not the number one guy I am not the go to. 149 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:41,320 I am not the top of the marquee that to me. 150 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:45,640 Once I reached that mountaintop that only one other person like myself, not your physical 151 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:47,120 right now. 152 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:48,120 Exactly. 153 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:51,880 One other person like myself has ever made the history I'm trying to make. 154 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:55,560 And that's Jay lethal until I'm able to do that. 155 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:56,600 I haven't made it. 156 00:07:56,600 --> 00:08:01,960 And even probably after that, I haven't made it because then I have to go about the business 157 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:04,880 of proving why I'm the guy, right? 158 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:12,240 Of showing the entire world, every wrestling company, every wrestling fan, every CEO, every 159 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:18,360 whoever, why I am undoubtedly the baddest dude in the sport. 160 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:25,160 Um, and to be able to have that goal and more importantly be an African-American male in 161 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:30,760 this sport, given its history and doing it my way, the way I want to do it, the way I 162 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:36,920 think it should be done being as loud and as opinionated as I am. 163 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:43,400 That to me will truly be when I fulfill my potential, when I shatter that glass ceiling, 164 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:50,440 when I submit my legacy is to be able to be that top guy, have that run and do exactly 165 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:53,520 what I said I was capable of doing. 166 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:57,040 It's funny you should say that shattering glass, right? 167 00:08:57,040 --> 00:09:05,280 Because when I first came across you and I seen the attitude, the just the hard hitting, 168 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:16,560 just the way you were, I was like, this is a guy that, he's felt it, he's lived, no 169 00:09:16,560 --> 00:09:19,640 struggles growing up in that sort of way. 170 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:26,120 Now I mean, I've been a wrestling fan for 38 years, 38 years and I've seen people come 171 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:27,120 and go. 172 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:32,120 Now, I think my homie here will say to you, I love heels. 173 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:34,640 I love heels man. 174 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:36,760 You can stick your faces up your ass. 175 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:42,520 I'm interested in that and I'm not really interested in this created. 176 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:45,480 This is what we've got for you right now. 177 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:46,960 Don't interest me. 178 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:51,080 I mean, you're as real as they come. 179 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:56,080 You know, so I mean, when I see you in a ring and I see you telling someone what is going 180 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:57,080 to happen. 181 00:09:57,080 --> 00:09:58,080 I'm like, oh shit. 182 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:01,080 Here we go. 183 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:04,600 That's the funny thing about it too, right? 184 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:12,160 Is so many people who know me from wrestling, look at how I am outside of it and then look 185 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:17,560 at how I perform and they go, oh, it's like you're two different people. 186 00:10:17,560 --> 00:10:23,880 And I go, no, the person you see in the ring is the closest to my real personality that 187 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:26,200 you're going to see. 188 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:28,960 Everything else outside of that is business. 189 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:36,200 Everything else outside of that is me setting up the foundation and the future for my kids. 190 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:37,200 You know what I mean? 191 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:42,040 This is how I build my empire to be able to pass to them. 192 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:43,960 This is a part of the job. 193 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:48,160 What you see when I'm in the ring, I get to turn all that off. 194 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:50,040 I get to turn every filter off. 195 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:56,520 I get to turn every worry off except beating the person's ass that's in front of me. 196 00:10:56,520 --> 00:10:57,720 That's how I grew up. 197 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:01,360 So that's naturally where my mind goes. 198 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:10,840 So the easiest part of this job and the part that I get to closest be myself is when I'm 199 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:12,000 in the ring. 200 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:16,040 So what people see when I'm out there is me. 201 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:21,360 That's why I think it resonates so well with people that come from the backgrounds that 202 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:23,560 I come from because they know that mentality. 203 00:11:23,560 --> 00:11:25,280 They know those looks. 204 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:26,600 They know those mannerisms. 205 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:33,680 They know when the mood changes in a flight or when you're talking to somebody and they 206 00:11:33,680 --> 00:11:38,440 say the wrong thing and you look over there and go, oh, yeah, he didn't fuck up. 207 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:39,440 You know what I mean? 208 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:40,440 Like, no. 209 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:41,440 It's organic. 210 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:42,440 It's organic. 211 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:44,440 What you like. 212 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:49,080 That's the one thing that I try to tell people where a lot of wrestling fans don't understand 213 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:52,360 the separation of wrestling and gimmicks. 214 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:55,840 And then you've got people who come in and you know where they're from. 215 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:56,840 You know what I mean? 216 00:11:56,840 --> 00:12:01,320 Like, like these guys like the low keys or Santana or tease, you know what they about 217 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:03,400 the Kingston's with you. 218 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:09,200 It's the exact same feel and people think, wow, this guy really worked on his gimmick. 219 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:10,680 No, this is him. 220 00:12:10,680 --> 00:12:11,680 Like this. 221 00:12:11,680 --> 00:12:16,800 And I'm telling you now, if you wasn't who I thought you was because I didn't know, you 222 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:19,440 know, until you could talk to you, you know, whatever. 223 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:23,040 But if I didn't know this, I would have been like, nah, man, I can't mess with this guy 224 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:27,360 because I don't even talk to people I enjoy, you know, who I like watching and everything 225 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:30,840 that people don't even understand the work you walk in with. 226 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:31,840 You know what I mean? 227 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:35,120 Like that, that street bop that you got, people don't get it. 228 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:36,440 They just think it's a walk in. 229 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:37,880 Nah, this is who you are. 230 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:42,320 Like, and I like, I think you were the guy back in the days because you're a big dude. 231 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:44,840 The other one like, Hey, yo, we got beef over here. 232 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:45,840 You know what? 233 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:50,000 Let's go call up Shane to grab a few dudes up, you know, because he could, you know, he 234 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:51,880 could fight all four guys. 235 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:55,800 So now let me ask you, because I'm a big hip hop head. 236 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:56,800 Right. 237 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:59,240 Are you a hip hop guy? 238 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:00,240 I am. 239 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:04,760 And this and I'm, yeah, give me one second here. 240 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:08,880 You got to feed the baby. 241 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:15,880 I'm curious because leave lens. 242 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:18,040 Hey, family man. 243 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:20,280 This is what it is for real life. 244 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:21,920 Oh man, I dig that. 245 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:22,920 I dig that. 246 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:23,920 Yeah. 247 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:29,440 Like people think like, Oh, you know, you're doing this and that life must be like this, 248 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:30,440 man. 249 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:31,440 This is every day. 250 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:33,120 I live no differently than anybody else. 251 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:38,200 I just have, you know, some extra commas in my back account. 252 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:39,200 But hip hop. 253 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:40,200 Yes. 254 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:43,120 I, I as a person, right? 255 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:46,880 I'm usually behind when it comes to music, right? 256 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:51,560 I'm the guy that while I love hip hop, you know what I mean? 257 00:13:51,560 --> 00:13:55,120 I'm always the guy that like a year after a song is popular. 258 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:56,320 I'm like, Hey, did y'all hear this? 259 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:57,320 And they're like, yeah. 260 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:02,800 That's where I fall at. 261 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:03,800 Right. 262 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:04,880 So a lot of the newer stuff. 263 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:06,640 I don't really catch on. 264 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:13,040 Not because man, these, man, these new cats, I just, I can't keep up with it. 265 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:14,040 You know what I mean? 266 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:19,760 I don't have a lot of weight till something catches me and then I roll with that. 267 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:26,520 But you know, lately as I've been seeing sort of the trajectory of hip hop and learning 268 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:31,000 more about myself, culture, different things. 269 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:37,000 And there's a whole rabbit hole of stuff that we can get down the more I feel as though 270 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:38,560 hip hop needs a reset. 271 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:46,760 It needs something to get back to the original feeling of what it was supposed to be. 272 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:49,920 Because now it's this like corporately pushed. 273 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:50,920 Okay. 274 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:51,920 It was a struggle, wasn't it? 275 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:52,920 Yeah, man. 276 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:53,920 It was a struggle. 277 00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:54,920 Right. 278 00:14:54,920 --> 00:15:02,560 It seems more like a tool to keep the status quo going than it is about art. 279 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:08,520 So when you say a reset, are you talking like Curtis blow and them or are you talking like 280 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:13,120 the Nas, the jiggers and like whatever are we talking about taking a reset? 281 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:19,280 So yeah, I'm talking about like back in the New York, you know, back in the New York ciphers, 282 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:28,280 that type stuff like that, those that that tallib quality feel that most that, you know, 283 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:31,360 getting back to the essence of what this, this was supposed to be. 284 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:33,160 And they're large. 285 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:40,240 And you take a look at the commercial power and the pop culture influence that hip hop 286 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:43,240 has imagined, right? 287 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:50,760 Imagine if it wasn't about creating haters around you, glorifying every destructive aspect 288 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:58,320 of the culture and instead promoted unity, promoted consciousness, promoted business 289 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:03,920 acumen, promoted things that uplifted the community, imagine where things would be if 290 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:06,120 hip hop stayed in that direction. 291 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:07,120 Thanks. 292 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:08,120 You know what I'm saying? 293 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:09,120 Yeah. 294 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:13,280 So to me, that's what I think about when I think about hip, when I think about hip hop, 295 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:19,600 and now that as I'm getting older, what I try to listen to, what I make sure my girls 296 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:22,400 hear me listening to, you know what I mean? 297 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:25,120 Because I'm setting that first example. 298 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:27,120 You know what I mean? 299 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:28,120 Absolutely. 300 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:32,680 I had this and she's pulling out every noisy toy that she can find. 301 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:33,680 My poor butcher. 302 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:35,400 I took us into a different direction. 303 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:37,400 What you got for him? 304 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:40,400 So I'm listening. 305 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:46,200 I'm not sure butcher looks like he got frozen over there. 306 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:50,840 So like when it comes to hip hop and when you said that, I was like, damn, the first 307 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:54,600 thing that made me think of it, and I'm a little older than you are was when Queen Latifa 308 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:57,400 did that you and I T Y joint. 309 00:16:57,400 --> 00:16:58,400 Right. 310 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:03,520 And it's like if more people and I'm not saying everything got to be a positive, but at this 311 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:05,920 point, the message has to be real clear. 312 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:06,920 You know what I mean? 313 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:09,600 And we do got to come together. 314 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:14,240 What was the first title that you won that made you say, you know, Shane Taylor's in 315 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:19,120 the fucking building? 316 00:17:19,120 --> 00:17:21,600 It was the ROH TV title. 317 00:17:21,600 --> 00:17:22,600 You know what I mean? 318 00:17:22,600 --> 00:17:29,320 Up until that point, there had only been two other African American males to win it, which 319 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:35,640 would be Kenny King and Jay Lethal. 320 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:46,560 And then you have me, you know, and I remember that night after I won 90% of the crowd was 321 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:48,040 standing there shocked. 322 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:49,040 Some were booing. 323 00:17:49,040 --> 00:17:52,040 Some had, you know, miles all open. 324 00:17:52,040 --> 00:18:02,400 And I looked to the back and there was about 30 maybe 35 fans there in Toronto who happened 325 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:06,040 to be black and they were just absolutely losing their mind. 326 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:12,880 And it wasn't until that moment that I realized what I had done and the sort of inspiration 327 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:16,040 that I could bring. 328 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:17,040 You know what I mean? 329 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:19,880 And what I always knew. 330 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:27,480 What I was going to represent, it didn't hit me until right at that moment exactly how 331 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:29,280 I could inspire people. 332 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:30,280 You know what I mean? 333 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:36,640 So at that moment, once I had that and I saw the reaction and I raised that title, that's 334 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:43,640 when I was like, okay, now we're we're starting to get to where we need to be in order to 335 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:46,560 leave the sort of legacy that I want to leave. 336 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:47,560 Okay. 337 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:48,560 See? 338 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:50,840 And that's the answers I love here. 339 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:51,840 You know what I mean? 340 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:55,360 Like also, now I know you're a boxing guy. 341 00:18:55,360 --> 00:18:57,000 We can touch on that with a second. 342 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:00,400 But I did hear that you're about to start a wrestling show. 343 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:04,120 Like I don't know if it's real, but I heard that you're going to be a promoter for a wrestling 344 00:19:04,120 --> 00:19:05,120 show. 345 00:19:05,120 --> 00:19:08,360 I'm going to be a promoter for a wrestling show. 346 00:19:08,360 --> 00:19:09,360 Yeah. 347 00:19:09,360 --> 00:19:12,760 That's like something that some random we put on our Facebook page. 348 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:16,320 Oh, like we're going to talk to somebody like St. Taylor and they were like, oh, he's 349 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:18,920 going to be a wrestling promoter and I was like, get out of here. 350 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:22,000 I was like, I've never heard of none of that. 351 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:27,240 No, no, most of my business stuff I play pretty close to the vest. 352 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:35,960 There's a lot of things that I want to do, but promoting wrestling is not one of them. 353 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:40,240 There's a lot of stress that goes in that goes into that. 354 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:47,400 I'm more of someone who would rather work creatively with people than run my own wrestling 355 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:48,400 promotion. 356 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:49,400 You know what I mean? 357 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:50,400 Yeah. 358 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:58,880 The things that I do now with St. Taylor promotions is about promoting talent, not promoting a 359 00:19:58,880 --> 00:19:59,880 wrestling company. 360 00:19:59,880 --> 00:20:00,880 You know what I mean? 361 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:04,240 So that's what this is about. 362 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:11,640 St. Taylor promotions is about giving people keys to success, keys to merchandising, keys 363 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:16,640 to building your own brand, keys to creating your own spot, no matter where it is you're 364 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:19,160 at in the wrestling world. 365 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:25,120 That way, when it comes to these business to business talks that you have with companies, 366 00:20:25,120 --> 00:20:31,360 because that's what they are, it's a business talking to an independent contractor, another 367 00:20:31,360 --> 00:20:39,360 business, and when you sit down at these negotiation tables, if you can build your own spot, secure 368 00:20:39,360 --> 00:20:45,240 your own brand, when they come to you instead of the other way around, you now have leverage 369 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:47,200 in this talk. 370 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:52,920 It's no longer, hey, well, you're lucky to be here, so we can just tell you any number 371 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:58,280 and you better take it because there's a million people behind you who wish they had this. 372 00:20:58,280 --> 00:20:59,560 You're going, no. 373 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:01,720 You called me for a reason. 374 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:04,600 I'm sitting here for a reason. 375 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:11,280 That reason is to be able to, for you to utilize my talent and for me to have your platform. 376 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:13,360 That's what this is. 377 00:21:13,360 --> 00:21:21,560 So that's what St. Taylor promotions is all about, finding people of like-minded individuals 378 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:28,280 with like minds and showing them how to do that and create that no matter where they're 379 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:29,680 at in the sport. 380 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:32,320 That's what's up. 381 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:34,240 Puts a welcome back, my brother. 382 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:41,200 First thing I said to my son was, if you're going to borrow my laptop this morning, if 383 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:45,800 anything pops up, click OK. 384 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:46,800 Click OK. 385 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:47,800 So update for Skype. 386 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:48,800 Oh, cancel that. 387 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:51,800 I just popped my head in his door. 388 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:55,640 I said, you know what's going to be funny in about 10 minutes? 389 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:59,360 He said, well, I said, when your route of resets. 390 00:21:59,360 --> 00:22:00,360 Right. 391 00:22:00,360 --> 00:22:03,000 Why would I do it? 392 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,640 You just messed up the interview with Shane Taylor. 393 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:06,640 Oh, man. 394 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:07,640 It's been going through. 395 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:08,640 I've been running. 396 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:14,440 I've been running, trying to turn off the noisiest toys that my, that my baby has, but she's 397 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:15,440 playing them. 398 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:19,800 I've been like, man, every possible toy. 399 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:21,880 Listen, kids are a blessing. 400 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:22,880 Oh, 100. 401 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:23,880 Kids are a blessing, man. 402 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:24,880 100. 403 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:25,880 What's your got? 404 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:30,880 What's your got for the big homie, baby? 405 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:35,880 Well, 2007, you debuted on the Indies. 406 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:36,880 Yeah. 407 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:37,880 Yeah. 408 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:41,400 Now I can't find a lot of stuff on you in the Indies. 409 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:42,600 Go to your wiki. 410 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:43,960 It's like a big red writing. 411 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:47,320 It's like, no, you can't see it. 412 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:50,800 I found a few things. 413 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:54,160 But I know you were trained by one Raymond Rowe. 414 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:55,160 Yeah. 415 00:22:55,160 --> 00:23:00,280 Tell me a bit about Raymond Rowe because I hate the Vikings. 416 00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:03,760 I love war machine, but I hate the Vikings. 417 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:07,760 I mean, it's, it's, it's the same guys, man. 418 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:13,280 Like, I could literally talk for days about Ray Rowe, about what he's meant to me, to 419 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:17,680 my career, my family, our families couldn't be closer. 420 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:22,960 I mean, you're talking about a guy, you know, blood couldn't make blood couldn't make us 421 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:23,960 any closer. 422 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:24,960 You know what I mean? 423 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:33,480 He's the Godfather to my kids, my, my, my big brother, trainer, rival, friend. 424 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:38,000 He is responsible for me being in this sport. 425 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:39,000 You know what I mean? 426 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:46,680 It's a man to think about everything he's done for me and the sacrifices he's made 427 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:47,680 when he didn't have to. 428 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:53,840 You know what I mean, because a lot, a lot of people will call you brother in this sport 429 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:54,840 or try to be friendly. 430 00:23:54,840 --> 00:24:01,960 And there are very few real people, real genuine people that you find, right? 431 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:08,680 So to be able to have a guy like that who was already making his name in Cleveland and 432 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:12,280 brought me with him, you know what I mean? 433 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:15,480 Was moved down to Texas, brought me with him. 434 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:16,480 You know what I mean? 435 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:18,760 He went to Ring of Honor, brought me with him. 436 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:19,760 You know what I mean? 437 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:24,720 You're talking about a guy who they would say, hey, we can fly you from Houston to Nashville. 438 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:31,640 And he said, no, I'll drive the 18 plus hours because I'm going to ride with Shane and hopefully 439 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:34,920 I get an opportunity to show them what I can do. 440 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:37,560 That's the kind of guy he is. 441 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:47,600 So you know, my hope and all I've ever wanted to do since I got into the sport was make 442 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:53,960 him look like Nashtradamus when he told people about me for them to go, damn, he is every 443 00:24:53,960 --> 00:25:00,120 bit as good, if not better than you advertised and sit back and watch the grin that he gets 444 00:25:00,120 --> 00:25:04,560 on his face that that cheesy rose smile where you can't see their eyes. 445 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:11,040 It's a weird one, you know, because I've seen interviews with the guy. 446 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:12,040 Yeah. 447 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:19,880 You know, I've seen him and Hanson backstage and the way the way they do things in a WWE 448 00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:23,240 and I see him having fun with the other guys. 449 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:27,560 And then like I said, I came across them as war machine. 450 00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:28,560 Right. 451 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:38,560 And like you say, no facial expression is still and you watch them just do their business. 452 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:44,680 And I don't think I've ever seen a tag team so intense. 453 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:48,880 Man, they're hard hitting. 454 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:51,800 They are just strong style. 455 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:59,080 And everywhere they've gone, they fit exactly where they needed to be. 456 00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:00,080 Right. 457 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:06,720 In ROH, they fit in perfectly to the tag team spots that they were in matches with the briskos 458 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:10,040 matches with weather matches with me and Keith Lee. 459 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:13,160 You know, they're they're incredible. 460 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:14,160 Right. 461 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:16,840 And then you see their run in New Japan. 462 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:18,280 Right. 463 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:24,520 And from all the intensive purposes, the stories that I've been told that wasn't necessarily 464 00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:27,760 them going to Japan wasn't necessarily supposed to happen. 465 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:31,680 It ended up happening and look at what they did with it. 466 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:32,680 You know what I mean? 467 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:35,680 They made the most out of that opportunity. 468 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:36,680 And that's what they do. 469 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:37,680 You know what I mean? 470 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:40,480 They're one of the best tag teams I've ever seen. 471 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:45,480 They're one of the most dominant tag teams, I think, in at least the last decade plus 472 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:46,480 that we've seen. 473 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:48,240 I would say that. 474 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:52,080 I would say that I was gutted when they went to WWE. 475 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:53,080 I was. 476 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:59,920 I was really gutted because I think not particularly for them because I think, you know, if the 477 00:26:59,920 --> 00:27:04,160 pay is good, then they should go and get it, you know, and things like that. 478 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:11,760 But I think when I was watching them, obviously, go through ROH to New Japan, I just felt that 479 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:17,640 them to then two promotions solidify do they work? 480 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:21,760 You know, the hard hitting in New Japan. 481 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:22,760 Right. 482 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:29,320 But the thing about that is the companies don't solidify who they are, right? 483 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:32,080 They solidify who they are, right? 484 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:36,640 So any style that they have, they can translate to any company. 485 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:43,320 Right, but when you're talking about WWE for them, I think they reached a point in their 486 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:46,280 careers where they had checked every box. 487 00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:47,280 They done everything. 488 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:49,080 You know what I mean? 489 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:54,080 Like it would have been great to have them in ROH for another 10 years or whatever the 490 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:55,080 case may be. 491 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:56,320 But they've been there. 492 00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:58,480 They've done that. 493 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:02,080 And both Ray and Todd are both very goal oriented guys. 494 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:06,240 So they look across the landscape and go, okay. 495 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:10,440 We've won everything there is to win, except over here. 496 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:12,760 It's like full circle, isn't it? 497 00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:13,760 Absolutely. 498 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:14,760 They're coming back home. 499 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:18,040 You know what I mean? 500 00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:22,560 It's going, hey, there's this one last mountain that we have to climb. 501 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:23,560 Let's go climb it. 502 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:24,560 And they did. 503 00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:26,360 You know what I mean? 504 00:28:26,360 --> 00:28:28,360 So I got a question. 505 00:28:28,360 --> 00:28:34,360 Yeah, man, I got a question because I'm more curious on when do we get a block bully faction 506 00:28:34,360 --> 00:28:38,640 from Shane Taylor, bringing in a bunch of street guys and just running over people? 507 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:44,280 I want, I want like a, not a gang culture, but I want a bully like, but it's got to feel 508 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:46,240 like it's from the block. 509 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,720 And I really want that so bad. 510 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:53,400 And I think that the other guy who could not only cut a promo on talk, but you'll mean 511 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:54,400 dude. 512 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:55,560 And I think it'll look official. 513 00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:58,280 So when do we get a block bully faction? 514 00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:01,720 That's the West. 515 00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:03,600 I mean, here, here, here. 516 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:05,560 Here's the thing, right? 517 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:13,400 We're going to have, there, there are different elements to STP, right? 518 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:19,680 There is that element because that's where most of us are from, but we're also all college 519 00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:21,760 educated men. 520 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:22,760 We're all intelligent. 521 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:27,520 We're all, we all have, you know, we all have a savvy business acumen. 522 00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:38,600 We all have grown and progressed to the point where it's not being from the block isn't 523 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:39,600 scary. 524 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:47,120 And it's not scary because people assume that's who you are already, right? 525 00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:48,120 That doesn't scare them. 526 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:54,040 They know how to handle you in that frame of reference from that perspective. 527 00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:57,920 What's scary is guys like Jay-Z now. 528 00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:03,920 What's scary is guys like Diddy now who have money, who have power, who have influence, 529 00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:07,760 who are able to move the masses with their words. 530 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:13,280 Those guys are scary now because those are guys that you have to be on a level playing 531 00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:14,280 field with. 532 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:15,280 You can't put them in a box. 533 00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:17,960 You can't say, Hey, these guys are from the block. 534 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:18,960 So they're here. 535 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:20,720 No, you have to look at them as peers. 536 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:25,640 You have to look at them as a threat because that's what they are, right? 537 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:27,200 They're a threat to the status quo. 538 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:36,280 So for me, I think in, again, going back to the same message that I'm trying to deliver 539 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:45,200 and my argument with where hip, where hip hop is, I have to look at who's watching us. 540 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:51,600 Not only my peers, not only my contemporaries, but the generations after us, what are they 541 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:52,600 seeing? 542 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:53,600 Right? 543 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:58,160 I want them to know that we're from where you're from. 544 00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:01,920 And there's nothing wrong with being from there, but you don't have to stay there. 545 00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:03,840 You don't have to have the same mentality. 546 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:05,520 I think it should shift. 547 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:06,520 Right? 548 00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:10,800 Now, when it comes time to getting down and doing what we got to do, that's always going 549 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,480 to be there because that's who we are. 550 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:15,680 You know what I mean? 551 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:23,760 But to establish that growth, to establish that path, I think is the primary concern and 552 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:24,760 responsibility. 553 00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:25,760 I couldn't. 554 00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:26,760 You know what? 555 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,880 I don't even want the BlockBully group no more. 556 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:31,880 What he just said was absolutely phenomenal. 557 00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:35,520 That was some real freaking gems out there. 558 00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:37,240 You know what I'm saying? 559 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,440 Real talk, that was fly right there. 560 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,560 I want to know. 561 00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:45,560 Do you pronounce it Khan? 562 00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:46,560 Yeah. 563 00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:47,560 Khan and Moses. 564 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:54,240 Who came up with SOS and these two? 565 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:57,920 I look at these and I'm like, holy shit, man. 566 00:31:57,920 --> 00:31:59,960 These two look bad. 567 00:31:59,960 --> 00:32:04,280 I saw them in Maryland. 568 00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:06,280 They had already come up with the name. 569 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:08,320 They were already doing their thing. 570 00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:16,640 I saw them at Maryland Championship Wrestling, Ron Hunt pointed them out to me. 571 00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:20,360 Saw them at the ROH Dojo. 572 00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:28,360 For me, I knew especially after I had left the rebellion, I had been mentored by Kenny 573 00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:31,360 King and Rhett Titus and Caprice Coleman. 574 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:37,640 I knew the next step, the next evolution in my career and how I was going to grow was 575 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:43,080 to be able to do for somebody else what they did for me. 576 00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:46,720 You know what I'm saying? 577 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:52,480 Once I started to take those steps, I'm like, okay, this sport is a numbers game. 578 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:58,520 You have to have the numbers on your side, but synergy is everything when you talk about 579 00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:01,200 building a championship team. 580 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:02,920 That's how I see STP. 581 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:08,480 I don't see this as guys who work for me or me being better than them or anything like 582 00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:09,480 that. 583 00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:10,480 This is my team. 584 00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:15,120 I just happen to be the quarterback of the team. 585 00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:22,200 When it comes to having guys like that who have similar goals, not only career goals, 586 00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:27,200 but outside of the ring when dealing with the community, understanding how they want 587 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:31,600 to represent themselves, who they want to be seen as, what they want to build their 588 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:37,880 legacies to be, all of that stuff is very important when you're building a team to have 589 00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:44,360 not only similar short-term goals, but long-term goals. 590 00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:47,880 That's what I saw in them as well as being immensely talented. 591 00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:51,720 I'd been saying it for almost a year. 592 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:57,400 Then finally, I was able to make that plan come together. 593 00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:06,600 We walk out in Columbus ready to rock and roll and immediately put the ROH roster and 594 00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:08,960 the rest of the wrestling world on notice. 595 00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:15,680 Then fast forward one year later, they went from being guys at the dojo that people knew 596 00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:22,000 were talented, but they didn't know what to do with, to guys that now everybody is damn 597 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:29,680 near universally recognizing as the future of the ROH tag team roster. 598 00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:32,160 They should be because that's exactly how good they are. 599 00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,760 I think they're real. 600 00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:42,720 I watched you all walk out in them, the jackets, and I was like, oh, shit. 601 00:34:42,720 --> 00:34:44,240 It was a powerful move. 602 00:34:44,240 --> 00:34:46,120 That was a powerful move. 603 00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:48,120 I was like, wow. 604 00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:51,880 I ain't seen anything like this in wrestling in a while. 605 00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:58,360 It was weird because it was funny because I was saying to others, I've been working 606 00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:04,440 with Rob for a few months and with the last people I worked with, I was saying that for 607 00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:08,760 a while, we really need a group. 608 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:10,560 We've got the new day over here. 609 00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:12,160 No, I don't like the new day. 610 00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:13,440 I don't even like it. 611 00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:21,880 When I want a more kind of, you can relate to us type of thing, and that is the kind 612 00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:24,200 of like the way you put yourselves across to me. 613 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:30,680 I was like, wow, this is kind of like heartfelt, light felt, you know, we're from this place 614 00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:35,600 and we're going to make everyone's life miserable until we get what we want. 615 00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:37,640 I mean, and that's the thing, right? 616 00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:46,840 Like where I'm from, the nice guy stuff doesn't work. 617 00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:47,840 You know what I mean? 618 00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:49,920 It simply just doesn't. 619 00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:52,520 If you're nice, people think you're soft. 620 00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:55,560 If people think you're soft, they think you're weak. 621 00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:59,760 If they think you're weak, they try to get over on you, right? 622 00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:04,080 And in a lot of cases, that means you're getting robbed. 623 00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:08,920 You know what I mean? 624 00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:09,920 Or you die. 625 00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:10,920 You know what I mean? 626 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:13,800 Like it's none of those options are good. 627 00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:18,160 So where I'm from, you have to make your point clear. 628 00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:24,240 You have to make your point often, and you have to make your point with as much sincerity 629 00:36:24,240 --> 00:36:27,640 and as much intensity as possible, right? 630 00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:32,640 Because you have to let people know from the gate, this is not going to be something that 631 00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:34,360 they want to mess with, right? 632 00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:37,200 So that's what we did, you know? 633 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:41,840 And we took some of those aspects that we just talked about, that bully block mentality. 634 00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:48,280 We took some of that and applied it to who we are now and transition that into wrestling. 635 00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:50,680 Because again, this is business, right? 636 00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:56,040 So my thing has always been, okay, this is a dirty game. 637 00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:58,640 But I'm going to learn the rules of the game. 638 00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:01,280 I'm going to master the rules of the game. 639 00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:03,600 I'm going to play the game better than you. 640 00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:05,960 I'm going to make those rules work for me. 641 00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:10,400 I'm going to change the game, and then I'm going to make the rules. 642 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:16,280 So you basically, you're playing chess while the other people are playing checkers. 643 00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:19,440 I think a lot of people are trying to play chess. 644 00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:22,480 I'm just trying to be a grandmaster at the game. 645 00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:23,480 You know what I mean? 646 00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:25,440 Like we can both be playing chess. 647 00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:27,840 I'm just going to play chess way better than you. 648 00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:28,840 Yeah, yeah. 649 00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:36,680 And I think that's the dopest part of it is, like me, obviously, like I said, I'm older 650 00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:37,680 than you. 651 00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:41,400 So I want to watch on TV something that brings me back home. 652 00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:42,400 You know what I mean? 653 00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:47,080 Like I don't have, listen, I got two kids once in college with the wife, 21 years, like 654 00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:48,680 I'm going to older G you're ready. 655 00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:54,160 But like I enjoy watching home, you're home, you represent home. 656 00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:58,720 So I was like, man, I'm really going to dig this guy and have him talk his shit. 657 00:37:58,720 --> 00:38:04,640 So when you started talking about changing the game and then being a boss, I think that's 658 00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:09,280 the dopest part about this is you're saying, yeah, I've been through that. 659 00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:10,280 You know what I mean? 660 00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:14,760 Like, and you do know, you know, back in the days where if you looked at somebody and you 661 00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:17,400 caught a nice girl real quick, it's on a pop it. 662 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:22,040 But right at this point in life, you talking about starting your own promotion stuff, helping 663 00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:24,000 people out in business, you know what I mean? 664 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:25,000 Your focus. 665 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:26,000 Right. 666 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:30,040 You're 10 steps ahead of people and I think that's freaking phenomenal. 667 00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:32,080 Like real talk, I salute you on some real shit. 668 00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:34,040 No, no podcast gimmick stuff. 669 00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:37,240 Like everything you're doing, I think is nothing short of amazing. 670 00:38:37,240 --> 00:38:39,240 It's looking after life. 671 00:38:39,240 --> 00:38:40,240 Yeah. 672 00:38:40,240 --> 00:38:41,600 Think about it. 673 00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:42,600 He's winning. 674 00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:45,600 Like people like St. Taylor don't win. 675 00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:46,600 They don't. 676 00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:47,600 You know what I mean? 677 00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:51,520 Like it's it's such a small number and I don't want to use the word statistic, but that's 678 00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:52,720 what it is. 679 00:38:52,720 --> 00:38:56,400 And right now we're talking to a guy who we're watching on TV. 680 00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:58,920 We're talking to a guy who's strapped up. 681 00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:02,280 We're talking to a guy who's doing his thing and starting his own businesses. 682 00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:06,280 Like we're talking to a man that's beaten every challenge and they're still going to 683 00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:09,560 be Roblox and he's still going to knock them down. 684 00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:10,840 And I think that's so sick. 685 00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:13,640 Like on some real shit that's it is fire. 686 00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:14,640 Amen. 687 00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:16,040 I that that means the world to me. 688 00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:17,040 You know what I mean? 689 00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:20,600 And that's that's all I wanted to do because a lot of people, right? 690 00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:27,400 And I've heard this from a million different people and they all have every right to think 691 00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:33,000 this way and they say, you know, wrestling is supposed to provide an escape for fans, 692 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:34,160 right? 693 00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:37,000 And that's true in a lot of aspects. 694 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:46,920 But when I think about every demographic of fans, right, especially from where I'm from, 695 00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:48,920 we don't get to escape anything. 696 00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:53,920 At the end of the day, at the end of that two hours, we're still back in the same stuff 697 00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:57,640 that we were in when this came on, right? 698 00:39:57,640 --> 00:39:59,000 There really is no escape. 699 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:03,440 And especially when you're an athlete, an African American athlete in the sport, there 700 00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:07,880 really is no escape because now you're dealing with it 24 seven. 701 00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:13,040 So for my thing was I don't want to provide an escape. 702 00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:15,320 I want to provide inspiration. 703 00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:19,760 I want you to know that I know exactly what it is that you're going through because I've 704 00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:20,760 been there. 705 00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:21,760 I've seen it. 706 00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:23,000 I've done it. 707 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:28,800 And while you're watching me, you can see yourself overcoming everything that I'm overcoming. 708 00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:30,360 You know what I mean? 709 00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:37,920 And if that allows even one kid, even one of my peers, anybody who's older to get through 710 00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:43,640 one of their issues because they saw me do it, then that's that. 711 00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:45,040 Then I've done my job. 712 00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:48,760 It's not about providing an escape, at least in my opinion. 713 00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:50,640 For me, it's about providing hope. 714 00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:52,240 And that's what I'm trying to do. 715 00:40:52,240 --> 00:40:57,240 That's what we are all collectively trying to do. 716 00:40:57,240 --> 00:41:02,520 And again, like you said, there's going to be a million roadblocks still that we still 717 00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:04,720 have to crash through. 718 00:41:04,720 --> 00:41:09,280 And with me and my guys, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. 719 00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:12,680 So we're going through everything. 720 00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:15,480 I don't even know how to ask any more questions after that. 721 00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:28,560 I just want to know two years, two years between 2017 and 2019, that elusive television title 722 00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:32,480 evading you for so long. 723 00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:39,840 And then one of the worlds, I seen the way that that match was put up on the card and 724 00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:46,280 I was like, holy shit, dude, this is going to be smashed from out. 725 00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:49,480 We got Shane Taylor, we got Goat, we got Jeff Cobb. 726 00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:53,960 And I'm like, oh my God. 727 00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:58,360 I was just, I'm like, he's going to come out with the bells. 728 00:41:58,360 --> 00:41:59,360 Man. 729 00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:01,760 I have a journey like that. 730 00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:04,520 And I have some of the people you went up against. 731 00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:07,040 And I was like, please God. 732 00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:13,680 Man, and the thing is coming off both losses to Cobb, right? 733 00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:19,400 And really, I feel like ROH didn't want me to have another shot, but I had been running 734 00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:24,840 my mouth for so long that they were like, okay, shut up, we'll give you the shot. 735 00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:26,160 Just don't say anything else. 736 00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:27,160 You know what I mean? 737 00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:29,760 Like just shut up. 738 00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:32,600 But that's all, I mean, it's all a part of the plan. 739 00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:33,600 You know what I mean? 740 00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:36,160 Like, I knew, okay. 741 00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:39,280 If I want to get this done, I'm going to have to be strategic. 742 00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:45,400 I'm going to have to be as, you know, just as intelligent as I am violent. 743 00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:51,000 So you watch the match go, you look for your spot, you look for your opening, you capitalize, 744 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,520 boom, new TV champion. 745 00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:58,600 I make history, you know, in a match with, you know, three of the best performers in 746 00:42:58,600 --> 00:42:59,600 the world. 747 00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:02,600 I mean, most of them are 100%. 748 00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:03,600 100%. 749 00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:04,600 100%. 750 00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:10,520 And, you know, I mean, and that again, and the crazy thing is I've lost singles matches 751 00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:12,040 to each of those three guys. 752 00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:13,040 Yeah. 753 00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:17,120 But somehow we were all in a ring together and I came out on top, you know what I mean? 754 00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:19,480 So that just goes to show, you know what I mean? 755 00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:25,680 On any given day, as long as you put the plan in, this is what I tried to do now. 756 00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:31,080 I mean, I could say 40 year old man, watched wrestling, you know, 38 years. 757 00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:32,080 Right. 758 00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:38,720 And I think the last 15 years, I've taken a completely different direction in wrestling 759 00:43:38,720 --> 00:43:43,200 from watching, you know, only WWE, WCW. 760 00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:52,760 And I literally just ventured away from all that I knew into places that I was just unknown 761 00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:58,600 to, you know, our awaits have been watching since 2004. 762 00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:02,640 Coming in and out mostly because of, you know, we couldn't get it in the UK. 763 00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:07,000 We had to rely on certain channels to get it. 764 00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:09,400 New Japan was relatively new to me. 765 00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:12,120 2010, I started watching that. 766 00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:15,680 But it opened so many avenues. 767 00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:22,920 And, you know, your mindset just changed, you know, these big giants over here. 768 00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:27,880 That doesn't represent just wrestling. 769 00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:28,880 Right. 770 00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:34,920 There is so much to them letters and that name. 771 00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:40,680 And, you know, I think all I've got to say is, you know, is really thank you to people 772 00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:44,760 like you, you know, and that is it in a nutshell. 773 00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:51,000 You know, when I see people like you and, you know, be a Brodie Kings, you know, Rick 774 00:44:51,000 --> 00:45:00,240 Kings, Mark Haskins, it just kind of like makes you just go, wow, you know, you don't 775 00:45:00,240 --> 00:45:07,880 have to be John Cena, you know, and I've all this big money put behind you to actually 776 00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:13,000 stand out, you know, I mean, it's it's it's that. 777 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:18,000 But I mean, let's, Cena's put in work, man. 778 00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:23,560 You know what I mean, so let's let's not, and I'm not saying you are, but to anybody 779 00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:31,440 that like tries to discredit what he's like, he put in work and earned the machine doing 780 00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:36,520 what they did, but that's 99% him, you know what I mean? 781 00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:42,800 But, you know, I mean, I what I love most about ROH is kind of what you just hit on, 782 00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:43,800 right? 783 00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:50,720 I love that spirit of professional wrestling that there is more out there than just one 784 00:45:50,720 --> 00:45:52,960 big company, right? 785 00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:57,800 And there was and there is a lot of pride, especially when people like to talk about 786 00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:03,640 the golden era of of ROH and you're talking about your Danielsons, your Joe's, your punks, 787 00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:06,080 your McGinnises, all these guys, right? 788 00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:14,800 There was a era of sort of rebellion with with them with the fan base to go, look, y'all 789 00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:17,800 may be the biggest names, but we're the best wrestlers. 790 00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:18,800 Yeah. 791 00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:25,320 I mean, we, regardless of size, body type gear, move set, whatever it is you want to 792 00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:28,600 judge wrestling on. 793 00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:32,920 A lot of times if you were Ring of Honor World Champion, you were synonymous with being the 794 00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:34,640 best wrestler in the world. 795 00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:36,640 That's it. 796 00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:37,640 Yeah. 797 00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:38,640 Yeah. 798 00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:44,040 And for me and a lot of the guys now and the ladies as well, that's what we are striving 799 00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:46,320 to get back to. 800 00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:54,480 And for me, I think I embody that spirit because I'm all for I'm all for growing the company. 801 00:46:54,480 --> 00:47:00,480 I'm all for it being as big as it can possibly be as long as we stick to the essence of who 802 00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:07,800 we are and we keep the soul of what we are, and that is to continue to be that rebellious 803 00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:13,400 group that knows that we put out the very best product possible, put on the best shows 804 00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:15,160 possible. 805 00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:18,720 And I would argue again, you could take any company's top 10. 806 00:47:18,720 --> 00:47:24,560 I don't care who it is, line them up with our top 10 in the ring or out of it. 807 00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:26,200 And we're the best. 808 00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:28,200 You know what I mean? 809 00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:29,200 So, yeah. 810 00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:34,080 Like that's so, so thank you guys for continuing to support us. 811 00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:41,160 Thank you guys for, you know, reaching out to guys like myself and and and allowing us 812 00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:45,920 to have these platforms to speak to you guys and get the messages out that we want to get 813 00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:47,840 out. 814 00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:50,240 Because that's that's that's what this is all for, man. 815 00:47:50,240 --> 00:47:55,520 You know, I mean, we all work collectively together to help build something that people 816 00:47:55,520 --> 00:48:01,760 can, you know, use to get through their day and just trying to help, you know what I 817 00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:02,760 mean? 818 00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:03,840 Shane Till, man. 819 00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:08,040 I know for Butch, for myself, for everyone listening, man, we want to say thank you for 820 00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:09,040 your time. 821 00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:10,040 True. 822 00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:11,540 I mean, real talk. 823 00:48:11,540 --> 00:48:15,920 This to me was probably one of the dopest interviews I've ever been a part of. 824 00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:20,800 And your message is such a special point of it. 825 00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:25,880 Is there any please plug social media is how they can find your promotion stuff like so 826 00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:29,040 we can get up out of here, but have all your stuff done right? 827 00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:30,840 Yeah, man. 828 00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:37,120 Twitter and Instagram at Shane to one six Taylor Facebook dot com slash notorious Shane 829 00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:39,120 Taylor. 830 00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:45,120 If everybody's if anybody's in the merch buying mood, I know it's been a crazy 20 20 and the 831 00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:48,240 New Year's not any easier. 832 00:48:48,240 --> 00:48:54,800 Go wrestling tease dot com slash Shane Taylor or our wrestling dot com. 833 00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:58,480 Check out the Merchant Dye Store plenty of great merch there. 834 00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:04,240 Shane Taylor stuff, Shane Taylor promotion stuff, soldiers of savagery stuff, all kind 835 00:49:04,240 --> 00:49:05,680 of great stuff there. 836 00:49:05,680 --> 00:49:10,600 Again, it's been an incredible 13 years that I've been doing this so far. 837 00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:14,280 Looking forward to, you know, another 10 20 more knows. 838 00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:19,880 But just thank you, thank you, you're going that way, you're going all I'm looking forward 839 00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:23,280 to is our ways bringing their asses back to the UK. 840 00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:24,280 Amen. 841 00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:25,280 We're trying. 842 00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:26,280 We're trying. 843 00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:27,280 We're trying. 844 00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:28,280 We're trying. 845 00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:31,280 With the front row with the biggest banner. 846 00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:32,280 It's coming. 847 00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:39,280 Hopefully I'm hopefully I'm hopefully I'm carrying that world title when we do. 848 00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:40,920 Yes, you will be. 849 00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:45,920 2021, last the last and Shane Taylor. 850 00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:46,920 Yes, sir. 851 00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:53,280 Ladies and gentlemen for myself, the champion, the baddest heel in the business. 852 00:49:53,280 --> 00:50:13,560 We out of here one.