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Welcome everyone back to the Urban Wrestling Network. I'm your host for this

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special interview with in my opinion the number two draft pick. It truly is the

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number two draft pick for MLW. The suplex assassin Alex King. How are you man?

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I'm good. I'm ready to give this podcast all this work. Awesome awesome. I love to hear it.

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And the first thing I actually really want to jump into is the nickname. I think the

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nickname kind of caught everyone off guard. The suplex assassin is definitely

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something that you don't just get by being around. How did that nickname come about?

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I actually, I came up with it myself. I did this evolved tryout in my first year

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and I did my tryout match with Bobby Flocko and at the end Gaze Polsky gave us

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feedback. He was like you don't have a character. You need a character. What's your

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character? Whatever because I was just gonna be like the strong the strong dude

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the moha or whatever and I thought that would get me by but it didn't. So I was

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like what I can't be the wrestler I can't be the suplex machine I can't be the

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human suplex machine either because that's a pad. I don't want to be the

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wrestling machine because that's Kurt Angle. But I want to use my amateur

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background in my wrestling. So what am I gonna do? So I was playing one of the

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2k games and I was creating myself in the game or whatever you know trying to

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like put together like an attire and like stuff like that and I typed in I put

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in assassin and then I was like hold on. Suplex assassin. There's never been a suplex

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assassin. I'm gonna be the suplex assassin and then I just thought I just ran with it.

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I was ran with it. That's pretty interesting. I do YouTube and I typically do

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the 2k universe modes so that's pretty cool to see that that's kind of helped

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you know especially wrestlers versus yourself you know get that nickname so

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I thought that was really cool that's the first time I've actually ever heard of that.

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I'd like to really use it's unique. And speaking about you know your early days

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to what actually got you into wrestling is I know it's one of the strangest

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businesses to be in so what was the deciding factor for you? What got me

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into professional wrestling was watching Stone Cold demolition from a DHS

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game like an off-release but it was a chronicle his feud with Kane going into

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Bad Blood. His first blood match with Kane and that Hell in the Cell match and

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I literally watched it every single day and like I think even when I first started

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watching I didn't exactly know who Stone Cold was but the person that I

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bought it from kind of explained to me his character and I was like well this

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this should be exciting. This definitely should be out of the freaking boss every

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every day. Night in the night out we can't not get behind that.

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I think we're all about to do that. Oh most definitely. I walk into work sometimes when I used to shoot

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I'd walk into the work sometimes. I'd have Stone Cold's team song playing in my head

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or when I'd be walking like him or whatever I'd be looking at my boss but no I'm not going to do this today.

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I think we've all had that one. That was that one day.

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I think they definitely try it and spit that so I once asked and since we're

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kind of jumping around here your arsenal and as I've heard has over a

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hundred suplexes in it or more which is insane to me. Now who do you

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primarily take your like where do you draw the inspiration and where does your

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moves take bits and pieces of the rest of this from?

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At first it was Brock Lesnar. That's somebody who AR Fox told me to watch a lot of

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and then there's definitely Taz, there's Kurt Angle, there's Scott Steiner, there's Rick Steiner.

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A little bit of Sheldon Benjamin even though he doesn't do a lot of them. He still does some.

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And then like I just kind of like that took like bits and pieces from everybody

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or whatever so I didn't want to be any of them but I wanted to I guess draw from them.

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So basically it's your own craft essentially.

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Yes yeah.

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All right pretty cool. I want to talk about for you first starting out

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was there anything that you know some people are like naturals in this business

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isn't this business when they when they come out for you was there anything that

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kind of was hard to get used to at first or your first training?

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Remember in spots that was the hardest thing sometimes sometimes it's hard now

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oh that's probably the hardest thing to live like man can I really like

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Fox would like stack like we'd start off at one spot and then he'd add to it and then

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he'd add to it and then add to it and I'm like I don't know if I can remember some of this

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and I remember asking him like do I have to do spots with my matches like

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do I have to do this like I don't want to do this I don't want to do any of it

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but at times got on and I've learned to do things that

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go more in line with my instincts it makes it easy.

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So you may not see me doing a whole bunch of running spots or whatever

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I'm doing for someone else but me myself I won't do it

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but I'll just find ways different ways to get into school practice different ways to

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get into certain situations and I think that's what sets me apart from a lot

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of people and that's kind of what brought me to the

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day.

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Your your in-ring psychologist is one of the things that I personally love about

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you it definitely for me stands stands apart

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because you're able to tell a story really well and

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when did you kind of first start realizing you know I'm actually pretty

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good at this you know like when was that like

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honestly I before you said this like I didn't really think my

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psychology was like great I mean it's good

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but like I don't think so much in wrestling psychology so much I think

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more of what if I was in a fight then like a

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back alley fight that had like wrestling ropes no we'll put it

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like this if I was in a back alley fight and there's a wrestling ring

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and I had to beat this other guy what can I do like how am I going to do this

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how am I going to get across to maybe just people in the alley

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watching what's happening how am I going to get them engaged into

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what's happening because I mean you can watch a fight and not be engaged until

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something big happens I'm going to say block not soft

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but building up to that person getting a block knocked off like you got to have

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like certain proponents in that match but I am I'm delighted to know

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because of my ring of psychology. Yeah I um I that's one of my fair things

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about watching your matches besides the suplex I think that's what everyone

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loves that that's what brings people to the show

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is that you you're very believable and speaking about you know being very

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believable you um you had recently said during an

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interview and I was you know watching at things around since you you're by the

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way if you don't know second number two draft pick here by the way

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you're in the you're in the league and you mentioned the match with Alexander

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Hammers though now before I get to that what are your goals for the league

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the league um continue to uh become the best wrestler I possibly can be

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um that's I guess that's like my overall goal

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Bust heads and win championships. Now you also mentioned Alexander

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Hammers though now would you have uh Evil Ones is a big fan of

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Hammersone and I had to ask out of all people why

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Hammersone. Well so in the interview I said that you for me you go in

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and you punch the biggest dude there in the face yes Jacob Pogtu is

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overall champion but Hammersone has literally been

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undefeated for two years for two years with the open weight open weight uh

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headway championship so if I'm gonna go in there and go out for

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anybody it's gonna be him. That is actually uh it's pretty pretty

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solid not gonna lie uh one of the things I was checking on on

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social media and I was trying to get as much details again doing my research on

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you um the kaiju standard it was really interesting when I saw it because

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I am a fan of mixed martial arts and I do know that that has a lot to do with

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self-defense and um also competition wise that that's that that's

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like martial arts style so I was wondering if you could kind of elaborate on

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being the kaiju standard I was really

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that the kaiju standard was kind of an inside joke between me

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and Oshe Edward um because I wrestled him

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the week before I put that on my Twitter bio um and he's the big bad kaiju

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and since I beat him he passed the torch to me

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which was the beads that I wear now um I was like yo uh because I couldn't because

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like I've always I've been a fan of Sheldon Benjamin so long but I was really

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a fan of him with his gold standard and since I can't be the gold standard I was

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like well you know what I'll be the kaiju standard and I got

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random by him and he was like one with it I was like okay I'm a one with it

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okay I was I was super like and I was like well I got I had to ask

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things I was super invested in that um and speak about mixed martial arts you

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hadn't been part of American Top Team which is

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who trained plethora of talent but all in the UFC and the PFL

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um one of your stablemates Tom although I'm not sure if you guys are feeling

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good or not but when your stablemates Tom Baller he recently just competed in

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the PFL how has that transition been you know you you're

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brought in by it by um American Top Team have you been around the guys

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I mean has there any been any training for you yet with them

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uh no not yet actually um the week of the signing announcement uh I got to talk

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with King Mo and he did say that we would we would get some training in

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with every everything like really opens up um so I'll definitely start

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training there because there is a facility in Atlanta

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so that'll definitely be cool um I'm from I'm pretty familiar with Tom

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I wrestled him at uh paradigm for wrestling

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the match hasn't dropped yet but I can't wait for it to drop

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there you go folks paradigm for wrestling check it out it'll be out soon

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I get all the plugs you know I as soon as as we go and so you're brought in

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personally by Dan Lambert and it's been stated I was reading the MOW uh

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the MOW news and everything you look at someone like Calvin Sankman who came

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in last year made a name for himself you on the other hand

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are on the same path to make a name for yourself but with the guidance of guy

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who literally raises champions mm-hmm so for you

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what is the biggest thing that you want to pick from from a mind of a guy who's

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literally been around nothing but champions

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I mean the simplest answer I can give is to how to be a champion

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um because like I mean it's that's being a champion is more than winning a belt

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I think it's it's a mindset it's a it's even a lifestyle and it's

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kind of a way that you carry yourself

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but then also like I want to learn how to be more efficient

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um in these in these matches and in these fights and I feel like

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watching King Moe King Moe's pretty efficient in what he does they don't

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waste a whole lot of time um Tom Wallard doesn't waste

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as much time or whatever so even though like even now I

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I don't have a whole lot of wasted motion I would like to be able to increase that

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or whatever so there's so there's no wasted motion at all

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and you know speaking about constantly you know being at the best you can be

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in ever since you've been wrestling has there ever been a

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match for you felt that you've taken that extra step

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from you know after that match was done

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um the first time that really happened was my match with Oshia Edwards

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um he really made made me step it up

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and he he made me uh go to that next level so now every not every match after

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that um I kind of got a little bit of chip in my

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show not not like a bad chip in my shoulder a little bit of chip in my

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shoulder whatever you have every single match at that level

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um and sometimes sometimes it works out and other times it doesn't

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but I mean you can try to bring somebody to your level

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but if they can't if they can't deliver then

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is what it is you know the great the greatest

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the diamonds are made from the most pressure so that's it's it's interesting

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though that you said that too um sorry about that I also want to talk about

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your finisher yes and I don't want to say too much about it and I feel like I'd

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give it away because I feel like you'd have more of this since it is yours that

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I feel like you'd have more of a better insight to tell the audience about why

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this is so devastating of a maneuver

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uh so yeah it's uh it's called the as well called something like

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soup like it's also called the Joker play um which I didn't know it's called I

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didn't know Joker from uh from czw even used it

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before I saw it I originally saw it in the video game

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it was a part of judeulac's moveset um and I was like why doesn't anybody use

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it so I'm like well I'm I'm a user it looks it

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looks like death

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uh it looks like that I mean from a working standpoint

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and I keep it to be safe but from a from a performance standpoint it looks

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like death at the time no matter how it's flow

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so you're a guy of when you're out there and

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you have your spots you just look like a complete badass

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the the conference is there you're welcome the conference there and

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how about didn't take you to truly get like a hold to build

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Alex K and the super assassin up to where he is now like how long did it take

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you to kind of finally hit that stride for you

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um my when I really hit the stride was the future showcase

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um that Phoenix City does since the Intermediation will does um

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well I think yeah I think I did I think this is the first one

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first or second um after that triple threat match I had but Nolan and uh

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Jack Gryffin um like that I think that's when I really came into my own and I

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really started to realize that you know I can actually

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like do this I can actually be good at this before I wasn't

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I wasn't working that often um because I didn't really know where to go or

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like where to work um so after being on that stage and

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you know people receiving me and understanding

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like I guess like my motives and my character and stuff or whatever like

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I was able to really like pick it up and run with it and then also

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going back to Oshie Edwards um I got to talking to him after after my

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match or whatever I got to talking to him or whatever and he gave me some

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really good advice as far as presentation though because before

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I used to wear like the the like wrestler like the wrestling wrestling

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thing like the shooter shoes and all that um and he kind of popped the idea

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to my head you like get something custom made I mean my gear before I already

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had my name on it and stuff like that but it wasn't my own design

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to really design something for that that's more me

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um to get like boots and stuff you know just to look just just for that

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presentation look more efficient um because before that I was like I'm

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never gonna wear boots I'm just gonna wear wrestling shoes all the time and

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that's that's just gonna leave me there but the more like the more I wear my

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boots the more I realize it does make me look way more professional

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it's funny you you speak about professional and I remember when I first

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I was like why is this guy looking he's supposed to be in an actual like not the

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squared circle but one where there's a mat and like there's like a reference so

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you're pinned on the floor it's over I was like huh

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I was like weird that as soon as I was like wait this guy is the complete

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opposite of that I was like what in the world

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it really blew my mind and as I kept watching a lot of your matches

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your character work and the work you put in is quite literally amazing by the way

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I really love your in-ring work and I can't just add enough the guy does

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great work um you're now at a prime spot coming in as the number two draft pick

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you now have basically put put a footnote of where you want to be

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are you going to be at Philadelphia? Yes yes that'll be my that'll be my debut

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that'll be my debut that's even better because now the next question I have is

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actually um not from me it's from one of my

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colleagues they are a bit this is they and in their words this is a

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contra podcast and um is there any fear you mean

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you've got contra unit you've got uh El Hefe and Aztec

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Underground you you want to rise up and you want to go for the gold when you

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have two two units like that that are trying to take over the lay of the

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land so to speak is that current is that you know

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create any pressure any fear of extra to move forward in the company?

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Nope not at all you step up I'm knocking down I can't knock you down

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then I'll come back again try to knock you down again

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I don't have any fear of anyone I love that the only the only person I

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fear is my mother that's it that is fair that is very fair

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um and to also go on that you are you going to be you're going to be an

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action you're you're you're you're making appearance if you can um and

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Philly? No I'll definitely I mean I don't know

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Zach I know that I'll debut in Philly I don't know

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who I'm wrestling or anything like that but I know I was definitely wrestling

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with Philly um so yeah I definitely know I'll be I know I'm gonna

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wrestle. That's it we love to hear it and I think

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the last like three questions I have I'll go I'll go by one by one

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um you've been you've been in the business business for a little while now

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and about two two and a half two and a half I'm gonna call it a grizzled

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veteran and um so in the two years if there was

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ever a time to where you know this that you're you're finally being seen and

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you're finally being out there what was the hardest change for you what's

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realized right I've got everything in stride people have eyes on me and I'm

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having these great matches what was the biggest challenge of constantly staying

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at that level once you actually got there

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uh like the confidence outside of the ring

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um like not not talking negatively negatively to yourself

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that's that's that's that's a hard thing for me sometimes

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um I struggle with some depression um so really trying to be nice to myself

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um and not um and not be one of those

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I always say that there's a bunch of people in the world

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that probably think you suck don't be one of those people

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so there's probably there's probably people on this planet right now that

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think I suck but I can't be one of those people

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so um remembering just to be nice to myself um and also stay humble

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with where I'm at because this can be taken from me at any moment

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um so the hardest part is whether you just keep kind of keep my head on my

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shoulder uh that is as real as it gets right there

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it's really and um also since you've also learned a lot I mean

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is there any advice you kind of have for other people who think that this may be

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a career they want to get into or you know because they sit on tv and they

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really want to do this um any advice you get possibly given for them just

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starting out um starting out finding a good school

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um the WDGV4 in Atlanta Georgia which is my home school

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uh that's definitely a great place to start um and then like once you get like

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once you get like your training over with and graduate from school

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um travel um like make your money at their shows that are

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going to be seen the shows that aren't going to be seen and that's something

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that I've learned um this last year and kind of this year

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um so like make your money at the shows or whatever get your reps in you know

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try stuff at the shows that aren't going to be really seen

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um and then when you don't like fog up your weekends with those shows like

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when you have a free weekend go if you live in Georgia or even if you don't

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live in Georgia go to like an action or beyond or a limit

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list or whatever and just like travel and network and meet people like

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um once I kind of got out of like

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the like real like southern wrestling of Georgia and I started

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going to action and paradigm and stuff and all these other shows are on the

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on the higher level of indies like those locker rooms

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are filled with people who all want to have the best show possible

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um and like you can ask them questions like most of them have been doing this

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for a for a pretty long time they've been doing it at a pretty high level for a

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long time so like always ask questions like if you if you do end up getting

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a spot on that show and you have your map don't just come back and just think oh

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well you know the crowd was hot uh I did a good job like always go ask

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and see if people watch your match and get critiques

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on that and then with the critiques like really like if you can write that

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shit down or if you have a good memory just remember it or whatever um and then

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and then apply apply what you learned from that match to the next one you know

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and then from that match to the next match that's how guys really get better

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you continue to apply the knowledge that you learned you don't just stay

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um kind of static you're all you're dynamic

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oh that is a gem right there folks and that's what these podcasts are all about

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dropping gems for you guys that's what I try to do which that's what I try to get

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um and last but not least right now you you kind of right now the M.L.W. world is

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your oyster and with that comes a lot of ice

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with that comes a lot of people saying hey I want that guy is there any country

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that you have not wrestled and yet that you'd love to wrestle with?

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I want to wrestle um in the UK um I want to wrestle in Germany

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I want to go to Japan I want to go I want to go as

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as much international as I possibly can that's always been a goalie

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and speaking you actually gave me another question I thought I knew I said

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I have one last one but I have one more here

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that's as many questions as you want I love it um your wrestling style it's

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called shoot style it's a shoot style wrestling and how have you been able to

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kind of because obviously not every wrestler that you that you want to get to

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the same have you been able to kind of or have you ever

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incorporated anyone else's wrestling style in yours to try to expand your arsenal?

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um I I've I've learned over the past couple

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weeks that I'm pretty good at arm drag so I might I might make it a little lucha

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um outside of like like doing springboard and stuff like that

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but like I'm trying to uh incorporate like more a little bit a little bit

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just a little bit of high flying stuff like like some frog splashes

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I was working on this like uh just 350 spin

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spot uh frog splash um that I'm still working on but at some point I'm gonna

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bust it out um um but like I mean I would like

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to keep everything on the mat but I also want to be able to adapt to any

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situation um and ultimately have fun and do some

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new shit like yes I throw I can throw sweets like I can do it well but

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I can also bust out a nice arm drag or or dive on somebody you know like I mean

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I'm not limited to just wrestling and it's um it's I'm going on another one

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but um one of the key things I feel that isn't necessarily dead

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today in pro wrestling but I feel is very undervalued

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it's technical wrestling that wrestling because I feel that right there

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tells a whole story but I want to get your opinion on the aspects and how

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important it is for tech wrestling for you um I like when I first started

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um I didn't I didn't I didn't really I didn't understand pro wrestling technical

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wrestling so much um but as it's kind of gone on I've

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realized the importance of it um and I noticed like a lot of guys watching

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matches like they just kind of like blow through it I would

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never like they don't need time to work anything or whatever or like get

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anything out of the training the chain wrestling is going on

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they're just trading wrist locks or trading hammer locks it's kind of just

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like at that point I'm I'm out I'm taken out of the

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match like I I just walk away at that point um because I feel like when you

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don't take the wrestling part of wrestling and you're just

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trying to get to the first running spot or something that that kills everything

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or whatever because like going into a match okay this is gonna

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most of my most matches are probably are pretty tense or whatever so you're

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building this tension you're building tension you're building tension or

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whatever and then you just you just shit on the

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wrestling aspect of wrestling like grab something hold it

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you like you don't like the crowd doesn't always have to be up I think that's a

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lot of people why I like to blow through the technical

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aspect of wrestling because they want the ooze and the odds but if you if you do

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the technical part of wrestling well people not maybe not everybody comes up

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people are gonna people are at least gonna give you a

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outstanding ovation or whatever like oh that is really cool

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oh you have you have a little bit of scramble in your break

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that was really cool but you guys are actively trying to wrestle and then when

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the wrestling when wrestling is working more then you get to the other stuff

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let me throw a punch a strike or you throw a slam or something but

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you got to do the wrestling part first you have to do that well

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because you know you're a guy who has a multitude of holds that I've seen

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especially and you do a great job um so submission wise which

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from the ones I've seen you don't play out too much but when it does it seems to

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do a significant amount of damage to your opponents

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so how when did the first day of you know adding that submission style to your

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game first kind of take hold for you um I started working with uh one of my

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buddies named Damian Tengra um he's he's got like a jiu-jitsu like

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Muay Thai background um and just to kind of watching him and working with him

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training or whatever like he's pretty he's pretty damn good at

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submission um and like I was trying to think of

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more ways like like in between me throwing somebody like how can I

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inflict more damage on this person without having to exert too too much

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for so I can put I can I can tie you up like a like a

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pretzel and put you in something um and that's again like expanding my arsenal

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like sometimes sometimes my matches aren't all suplexes sometimes I might throw

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a neck breaker or a backbreaker in there somewhere

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or whatever but it all everything kind of still leads to that suplex

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I'm softening you up. Perfect for the big moves.

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Yes for the big moves yes. You know story tongue and

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here's a good one I was just thought of so for storytelling purposes um has

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there ever been a storyline that people may not necessarily know that you've

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been in that you know you've built to the the pinnacle so to speak of the

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boiling point there you go of a rivalry to where you've had a

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crowd investor at least some of some of them invested um how does that feel

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now that you've got people on the edge of their seat

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wanting more from from what you guys are doing you know that culmination of a

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story that is probably the greatest feeling on the

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planet I don't get I don't get put in too many angles

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as far as with some of these promotions that I work at

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the the angle I was just in with Isaiah Bronner

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that was really good um the because throughout that taping

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for the UWFI contenders like we had to cut promos after each match

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um and like before then I I mean I cut like some

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like in like in my over here with my green screen stuff

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but never really anything like like had like some

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to it um but with those tapings and like really being able to

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really like feel myself um and not have to like center myself

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but hey like I'm not like when I cut promos like I'm not trying to like

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curse the entire time but if I if I need to if I need to say an

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expletive I need to be able to say an expletive um

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and just like the promos that me and him had back and forth like that had like

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that real like I really felt the passion or whatever and I really

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felt like the anger and the intensity um and like

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by the time by the time the all the episodes aired like people were like

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yo we really need to see this because it was really it was it was a match with

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the two top prospects he had he came out on top which is fine cool great awesome

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um but uh people were really invested in what was going to

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happen nobody they didn't know if he was going to win that he

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know five is going to win but they knew the match was going to be a

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better so you know and speaking about promos has has it ever been

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difficult for you like you know going up there and just cutting a promo just like

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harry hey i'm gonna say this yeah it's um it's

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it's still hard um sometimes but like i've found that you kind of have to give

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yourself even if like the promoter or something

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doesn't give you bullet points to be kind of cause of what you want you

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could give yourself bullet points so you can get to the point as quickly as

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possible because somebody wants to hear i'm not the rock i can't i'm i'm not

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about to entertain you for five minutes so being able to like give

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yourself bullet points give you give yourself uh you know

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little points to hit um that makes it easier and then sometimes just going

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off the dome and just really feeling those are my best

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from when i'm just speaking i'm not trying to i'm not i'm not trying to be

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something i'm just speaking to you and what i'm feeling right

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going to make and um another one i wanted to ask

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was obviously any wrestling match i'm not too sure i'm gonna ask this and hoping

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that you can kind of clarify it too um there's a great deal of mixed martial

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that also goes in into wrestling though at least for certain people

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i'll start again so you know i believe for you and a few other people mixed

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martial arts does place semi-heavy into what you do now

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yeah yeah yeah so having to learn essentially two different sports

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was that ever complicated in trying to like you know mix them together and

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measure and make it you know float float in your arsenal was it just kind of

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as much came naturally it kind of came naturally i mean mixed martial arts

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as the basis it's wrestling and then you add in the strikes you add in the

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submission and everything else so i mean trying to i mean adding in

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strikes wasn't difficult and adding in submissions wasn't wasn't too hard either

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um trying to hold them together can sometimes be a little tricky

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but um but yeah for my style it works and i feel like everybody should have

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some sprinkle of either rest either like mat wrestling or learn some or catch

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wrestling just something or whatever just to

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um

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kind of help them stand out a little bit because that everybody's gonna do it but

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but that smaller people that are gonna do it can help you

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all right awesome awesome and um my last one i can guarantee it's the last one

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so it's like twice already in terms of kind of separating yourself and how

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important is marketing marketing is extremely important

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it's extremely important like i myself have my own theme

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right i don't a lot of guys use youtube music or something that i have my own

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theme um and that i'd always tell people if you

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have if you have your own theme music it has your name it has your gimmick

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it's catchy it has some cool lyrics in it that is going to do the job for you

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before you even step up on the stage like my when my music hit and i hear the

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people in the crowd singing the song

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my job's already done everything else i do after that is actually

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there you go folks that is the ultimate gem this was an amazing time

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thank you so much for being with us ladies and gentlemen the mlw

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actually before i say that jib anything you want to plug

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um follow me on twitter at alex underscore k and 11

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i like having more followers it's always nice

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um buy my merch some pro wrestling teas just type in alex king it'll come up

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i'm the only alex king in professional wrestling

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so definitely do that uh my theme song is on

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andora spotify all the major streaming platform

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once you hear it you'll fall in love just just go stream

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action wrestling game over on june 25th uh the uh

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rogers fencers community center that's gonna be it's gonna be a lit one so make

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sure you buy your tickets for that one i don't i don't think we're gonna be

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live so definitely if you're around the area you can

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that's the end of my plug all righty so with that being said guys

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also buy our merch at urbanwrestlingnetwork.com

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we also have a website urban wrestling network follow us on youtube twitter

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instagram facebook you name it urban wrestling network what are you waiting

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for thank you so much for your time the suplex assassin one more thing one more

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thing absolutely the coolest thing happened today

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my friend said it to me but somebody made me entire pro wrestling world

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on steam that that shit was dope i've been a video game now guys

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but it's a video game now moving on up in the world there you go that's how

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freaking it ends thank you so much for watching stay off the hook everyone