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to the Chudu podcast I am back again and unfortunately
this thing is ugly thing is back again with me
Oh my god, I mean just the camera dude I'm trying
to adjust the camera now. It doesn't work He
still looks ugly. Well anyways guys welcome back
to the Chudu podcast episode episode 255 First
off want to say thank you all those who tuned
in tonight. I appreciate you guys a big shout
out also This was last Saturday. I believe right
you we had an interview with Chicano Life magazine.
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But enough about us, guys. Today on the podcast,
we got somebody. who was not only well known
in so many different venues and organizations
here in the RGV of wrestling. This guy, when
I first saw him wrestle with my son here at Club
Suerte, I believe it was through combat cult,
my son was like over the moon by a man. This
guy is one hell of a wrestler. And your son,
he's pretty picky about who he is. Yeah, he's
very picky about wrestlers. So when we first
saw him coming to the ring, it was... amazing
his is uh the the gimmick that he has is freaking
phenomenal this guy every time he comes to the
ring you know you're gonna get freaking entertained
man because you're getting the whole inch in
line everything you pay for when this guy comes
to the ring ladies and gentlemen enough of me
talking we would like to welcome mr johnny How's
it going, y 'all? Yeah, man. Thanks for being
here, man. No problem. This is a great honor
to be here with y 'all and everybody on Facebook
Live. Don't encourage it, guys. It is. Thanks
for being here. First of all, Johnny, thank you
for coming out, answering the call, man, coming
out to join us here on the podcast. We've had
quite a few wrestlers in the pod with us through
New Breed. through uh bat association also with
uh uh uh yeah uh i'm forgetting the other one
i apologize pete come back home come back home
eddie sorry uh you know instead of showing there's
so great wrestlers from every organization i
hear that are you know for every call for pp
yeah we're probably gonna get matter of fact
he's never really no uh but every wrestler has
come in here has been a great interview but this
is the one i've been itching to get in for a
while because johnny You've been doing this for
quite a while Johnny you've been resting for
quite a while But before we get into the whole
wrestling thing in the adventures and stuff you
got into the ring and the battles You've gone
through we want to talk a little bit about you
man where you grew up where you from and what
got you into? the world of Rasslin let's go go
with that well before the world of wrestling
I was born in Edinburgh, Texas in 1984 Since
then was you know? Born and raised, but when
I heard about pro wrestling, of course, I would
watch WWE back in the attitude area. The great
era, yeah, of course, of course. Yeah, the attitude
area. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then, and of course
I'll play the WWF, No Mercy, Nintendo 64. It
was a classic, very classic game. And then from
there, I like a couple of skip gaps here and
there, because of course we all, as kids, we
focus on school. Right, right, right. Other stuff
like that. And of course I remember watching
WWE back in - 2006. And I remember seeing John
Cena with the spinner belt and Triple H. Right,
right, right, right. Having this feud, built
up story for WrestleMania 22, if I'm not mistaken.
Right, okay, okay. It was good stuff, and then
along the way, I remember, what else did I remember?
It was, oh. Couple of more open gaps here and
there right and then when I think there's a lot
of those growing up Then when I first heard about
pro wrestling like indie wrestling here right
in the valley I never knew it existed. Mm -hmm
Yeah, so back in I want to say in 2017 there
was comic -con and both. I remember there was
Lita and all the other WWE wrestlers So celebrities,
right, right, right, right, you know, come and
go and stuff like that. Right. And then there
came upon a wrestling show called wrestling revolution.
Yeah. And that's when I went ahead and, you know,
check them out, see how they, you know, you know,
see how they work, like, you know, live and living
color. Right, right, right. And it was pretty
cool experience because, of course, one of the
matches I remember I remember watching was Pete
Payne. And a triple threat match. And of course,
he freaking crushed everybody. Gee, do you think?
Yeah, definitely. Yeah, man. Yeah, dude. And
from there, that's also curious. I was like,
you know what? I want to give it a shot. Why
not? Right, right. Like, what does it take? Or,
you know, how do I get from here to there, you
know? Right, right. Or how do I, like, you know,
learn the ropes? Right, right. So from there,
you know, After learning more that wrestling
revolution has been doing shows and see no rate
I started going to their shows and then seeing
how they you know how they work the show and
so right right right as well as tear down and
and of course setting up the ring and then All
that good stuff and then of course doing security
as well Okay, so and then from there like that's
you know, it's been like, you know learning experience
for mainly like those that I've learned, not
just myself, but also along with other guys that
I also got to meet on the team. It was also a
good experience too because we're not alone on
this. Of course, we try our best to be the best
that we can, bring the best out of us. Of course,
we learn and learn. Of course, little mistakes
that we made, we learn how to... retrace it in
other words right yeah so things like that we
always look after uh that we make sure to learn
from those mistakes okay and perfect it how the
best way is possible so when you when you uh
first went to your first it was a wrestling revolution
that you actually checked this actually came
into the uh into the whole action itself that
we saw that you wanted to give this a shot um
step it oh great we got comments already i got
uh um jacinto rivera say johnny bay both uh johnny
bay bay salutes to all and really really now
you're attacking me mr bay you gotta do us all
a favor punch you in the face before you leave
really dude really i admire this guy you want
you to punch me in the face great idea dude great
idea the ratings will be amazing i'll apply some
solution while i'm at it oh god please no we'll
get to the solution later So you're out there
in Wrestling Revolutions, you're seeing this
all action, what's going through your mind? You're
like, dude, I want to try this also. I want to
see how I can get into this action. Was there
a certain wrestler at the time during the revolution
that you kind of like, you know, I want to see,
I want to be like that guy, or I want to have
my performance like the way that match was, or
was there any in particular wrestler that you
would like, kind of like... Yeah, exactly. uh
my my perspective uh not so much uh was the one
i would uh uh that kind of caught my eye was
of course one of them was jim justice okay uh
and also another one was richard reason okay
because the way like how their characters work
and how they get the crowd to either love them
or hate them okay okay got you and of course
i wanted to learn exactly like how you know to
exactly like how to like how to interact with
the crowd right right right and then from there
like pretty much it's like okay all this is just
like building up the character right coming up
with the character that nobody else doesn't have
right like when it comes to character you have
to be real like creative like come up with the
best character as possible and make that character
as worthy As worth it as possible believable
and worth is by yeah, I got you and there you
go. I got Hasito saying sorry. I meant you. Thank
you No, you already put it out there though you
fucked up Too late auto correct. I'm correct
You forgot the ch homie, but uh, that's cool
ma 'am. Um, you know Hearing that coming from
you, you know Started it started a young age
you wanted to go into wrestling you saw first
of all you got admire You have to admire the
fact that you got into the raw era You know that
in particular Stone Cold The Rock all these great
athletes that you know the attitude area like
a lot of people say Falling into that era You
know people you see that a lot of young kids
like I want to do that, you know They really
get into it. They want they want to do they want
to be the one, you know calling the shots Sticking
it to the man beating up the other person taking
the gold being number one being the top of the
mountain You know, that's I think that's every
little boy or little girl's dream, you know,
especially if they watch the wrestling errors
and stuff like that and You gotta gotta tell
me how or when? Did you come up with the name?
Johnny Bay, I mean how Because the first I saw
you come out. I like holy crap. This is the David
Hasselhoff the 956 But I mean, how did Johnny
Bay How was he created? How did that come about?
Well before we get to Johnny Bay? There was more
characters than Johnny Bay. Okay, he started
sorry Before Johnny Bay, like that character,
there was like maybe like two characters. Before
him? Before him. Okay. The first one was named
Elijah Storm that I came up with. I didn't exactly
have an actual character, what he would be, but
it was basically, you know, tapping my foot in
the water, as you could say. Okay, okay. You
know, getting the crowd, like it's pretty much
the first interaction I had with the crowd to
see like exactly how they would react, you know,
on my character or how I wrestle. and then usually
like from there like then I'll see like okay
well maybe this if this if this character doesn't
doesn't work then you know we'll scratch him
off right right with another character right
Elijah Storm then I became well of course there
was Johnny Storm okay I got you I'm like this
is a character from the Fantastic Four right
right right but I'll just go with that anyway
right right and you have to go flame on or anything
in the drink It's cool if you could Otherwise,
I would need more sun lotion. No, but it was
basically just still tapping my foot in the water,
trying to figure out exactly what my character
is or how I play a face or a heel, how the crowd's
gonna react or how I wrestle, like I mentioned.
But usually, of course, if one character doesn't
work, scratch it off. Does this one work? Nope,
scratch it off. It's like, Elijah Storm? Nope.
Right. Johnny Storm. Nope. Johnny Bate. Hmm.
Let's give it a shot. Let's see where this goes
from there. And which brings up to that point,
where did Johnny Bate come from? Or how did I
come with that character? Well, one time during
the wrestling revolution, they would have training
at senior array. Okay. I think it was either
a tear down or a set up. Okay. Another way. And
then I remember I was wearing a lifeguard shirt.
There you go. Yeah, a lifeguard t -shirt. It
was a muscle shirt exactly like the one I'm wearing.
Right, right, right, right. It was a white one.
Right. And of course, I was just rushing whatever.
And then I remember one of the guys had mentioned,
hey, that shirt is pretty cool. You should be
a lifeguard. I was like, hmm, is there a lifeguard
or is there a character, a gimmick that plays
a lifeguard? I Google search and everything,
none. None, none. None at all. Yeah, exactly.
So it comes up to my mind, I'm just like, hmm,
why not? Patent it, shit. Patent this gimmick.
Yeah, exactly. So I'm like, all right, what does
a lifeguard use? What does a lifeguard wear?
Right. You know, what do they need? I'll tell
you what they need. They need shades, sun lotion,
a megaphone, fanny pack, a good pair of bade
suit trucks. There you go. A boat. There you
go. Which I don't have. One thing at a time.
One thing at a time. Baby sip Johnny. Baby sip.
I do have a moped. There you go. That'll work.
That'll work. That'll work. Moped's good enough.
There you go. You know what? Jet Ski. Jet Ski.
There you go. Or just have someone like with
the trailer just... There you go. Drive over
to the side, make me look cool. Yeah. And just
like pose with the car. Right, right, right.
And of course, you know, either they're a face,
like a face, of course, like, you know, especially
as a lifeguard, oh, he saves lives. Right. He
gives, he performs CPR. Right, right. Mouth to
mouth. Hesitation. Hesitation. Hesitation. Hesitation.
Hesitation. Hesitation. Hesitation. Hesitation.
Hesitation. Hesitation. Hesitation. And just
stare at the babes. Talk to the pretty girl.
Talk to the pretty girl. Get the numbers. Yeah,
he's all right. He's working it out. Reminds
me about the swimming pool back in Dono when
I was a kid. It's like, don't worry about him.
He's just conquering his fears. He'll get there.
Kid, kid, you're almost there. Yeah, I get that.
So you get Johnny Bay out of the Pandora box.
You finally look, research, and you get through
it. Background check in all that good stuff your
first match is Johnny Bay How does the crowd
react man? I mean they have like a mixed reaction
of how right you know how they react towards
me They come out well before I had the this big
-ass megaphone, right? I had the small megaphone
a little small little small one with the bottle
open I've seen that one. That one's awesome.
Yeah, that was awesome. So I had that one before,
and they were just like, oh, this guy is funny.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like mixed feelings and stuff
like that. Right, right. Once they get to know
me a little bit more, they'll be like, huh, maybe
this guy has a chance or something. Right, right,
right, right. So with me, I'm just, you know.
Tapping my foot in the water, you know slowly
but surely, you know, I got you know, I go along
with the waves Right, right. Yeah, you know,
but that's usually like As a performer like,
you know, I get to like once I once the crowd
gets to know me a little bit more They'll have
like a reaction like oh, he's pretty cool or
this and that or I like his character, right?
Right. How did you come up with it? Right? Yeah
things like that that uh that they wish they
could have thought of right no yeah and it's
true like like you said there's that when when
i first saw you come out like i said and i'll
say it again it was like wow this is totally
left field you know what is a lifeguard doing
in a wrestling match first of all and then but
the way you came in with your megaphone and the
way you roll into the ring you know it was like
dude This works. This works. You know what? It
makes sense. It makes sense. It was just so,
it was entertaining. It was entertaining. It
made me even focus more. And like I said, the
most recent match I saw you in was over at Sunrise.
Over in, not Sunrise, Citrus, Citrus Live. The
last one I saw you over there. And you were wrestling,
I can't remember what it was. It was like three.
It was a three way. was JR Stryker, Jonathan
Douglas, and Martin. Yes, yes, yes. It was a
fatal four -way. Yeah. Yeah, fatal four -way.
And by the way, mentioned to Martin, you're not
a champion. No, yeah. It's called delusional,
buddy. He is with NOPS. Yeah. A couple of shots
to the head, made him go. Made him go sideways.
Hey, you can't point it out, dude. I have to,
bud. That is my job. But you were in there, that
time I had senior wrestle again. I mean, the
way you present yourself in the ring, it's not
only that you know what you're doing in the ring,
but you know how to present yourself. are saying,
hey, I'm here. Look at me. I'm the one you need
to focus on. I'm entertaining you. That was so
awesome, bro. I mean, don't get me wrong. Every
other wrestler that's been here, they do a great
job. Just like a Frank the Tank does, just like
Martin does, a great guy. He knows how to pull
the crowd in his area. Mooncat, a little delusion
on jumping off trees. But all these other wrestlers,
they have the way of catching the audience attention.
But yours, I mean, it's... it's something new
it's like luigi a big a big big point out like
luigi if you know who luigi is go to a new breed
and watch the replays on on youtube great wrestler
great guy he's always spinning the pizza you
know i saw him wrestle for the first time against
toxico which will he'll be here next week by
the way um he was his that it was amazing it
was entertaining you know but what You got it.
We're coming to the point where of the question
We you always say we'll get to that a minute
You in do your entrance ring? This is the first
time I ever say you see you do the actual Sun
lotion thing in the ring as the first ever because
like the first time I met you Saw you wrestle
you would just roll in the ring. You started
going and let's go in there the action Commence
it started happening when I first saw you put
that Sun Sun tan lotion and you start stick your
arm out and then you start from at least three
feet, two feet high, you start pointing to your
head. And at the same time, he's giving you a
face, man. He's telling you, yeah. You like that?
See, you treated his dad brain. He's like, he's
wasting it. He's willing too much. He's a too
much mister. Read the instructions. That's irresponsible.
Get off my... No. Keep away from children. Yeah.
So, what gave me the idea of the Suntime Notion?
How did you come across that? And are you being
sponsored by that? If you're not, you should
be. If you're not, you should be, bro. I should
be. You should be. But I'm not. I'm not. Boss,
the sun lotion, where it came from, basically,
what else does a lifeguard wear? Yeah, that's
true. Right, exactly. Right, right. To prevent
the sun from spotting sunlight. Right, right.
And it's exactly what it does. That's what it
does. And when I brought it in, boss, I would
offer it to the crowd. Hey, who wants some sun
lotion, baby? So I was like, oh, here you go.
And whenever I have some residue left, I'll give
some to the referee, to my opponent. Usually
my opponents see a lot more than I do. Because
once they get, of course, they're going to receive
a kick to the face. You've got that coconut skin.
I understand, bro. It's totally understandable.
Of course. Evenly tanned. Thank you, Banana Boat.
What I want to know what made you do I know I
seen you offer the audience the notion but the
whole extension of the hand and just that was
That's gold, bro. That's gold. That's showmanship.
I don't know if some of the wrestlers or yourself
have to talk to Danny or the guy who's running
the promotion that you're about to do that on
a live wrestling ring. Did you ever bring up
the idea to them saying that you were going to
pull out the lotion and do that? The picture
for this episode says it all. But, I mean, did
you have to ask him or he just said, fuck it,
I'm going with it? Pretty much, fuck it, I'll
go with it. They know what they're getting. They're
getting a lifeguard. You're damn right. There
you go. So now applying the sun lotion on your
fans, is that like a kind of like the, I don't
want to go into anything that religious or anything
like that, but is that kind of like a... I mean
this young man to there you're part of the Bay
clan I don't know no it's just for good luck
and of course for me like you know the spotlight
is always on me right yeah this is true you attract
sunlight buddy I'm sorry but yeah you did the
wrestling matches this guy has it's there They're
very entertaining, bro. They, you know, he gets
down to the bottom, especially jumping out of
the ropes the way you do out the middle of the
rope. I haven't seen you go with the top rope
yet. I've seen you go through the middle of the
ropes. Right. And they roll with the top. I don't
know if you've tried her now, you're afraid your
feet might catch the rope by accident. Well,
I haven't perfected it yet. Okay. Just because
of my last incident. Oh. You know, for - Please
do tell. Well, it was during a match between
myself, Matt Wright, and the sergeant. Oh gosh,
here you go. But what's it called? It wasn't
like, I was trying to do like over the top, you
know? You know how I usually do the basalt? Yes,
the basalt, yeah. Well, when I did that move,
I didn't get to adjust my opponent where I needed
to position him. I thought, you know, I got him,
you know, in the bag, you know, right. So when
I, when I stepped into the second row and went
up, I didn't realize my knee pads got caught.
Oh, when I went up and went like, Oh, and he
could even see the video off of YouTube somewhere.
Oh gosh. It's pretty bad, but somehow I still
got up from it. And it's like, dude, like I even
told myself I'm like, that move could have just
killed me. Somehow I still got up and finished
the match. Because that's all that matters, you
got to finish the match. So I did, and that was
the only incident that I had that type of accident.
That's crazy man, especially when you're at that
moment and you see that it's about to happen.
For me, if I'm doing that, I go in panic mode
real quick. I'm like, oh shit, okay. First of
all, I got three tenths of a second to decide
how the hell am I gonna fall or how am I gonna
prevent myself from breaking my neck or breaking
a leg or an arm or a wrist. I mean, every key
point to wrestling that I've interviewed all
you guys is having the trust on your opponent
when you're doing a maneuver. like that, over
the ropes, jumping off the top rope, you know,
flying through midair. I mean, that's called
trust. I mean, who would you say that you, I
mean, when you've had quite a few matches, you
have quite a few, but in a total, more or less,
if you can count them. I can't. Because I've
had matches from here to San Antonio, to Corpus.
What are the crowd reactions when you leave the
RGB and you go up there? It really depends how
the crowd, or how the booker, the promoter, how
they want me to come out. Not character, but
if they want me to become a face or a heel, how
they want to work the story. Because, of course,
the fans are there for a reason, for the story.
They want to know where this is going to go.
Not just like, oh, this is wrestling. OK, that's
it. It's just guys hitting each other. That's
it. no it's nothing like that usually like it's
basically like if it's about like a title or
like a rivalry like you know they both got beat
like two or even like four guys uh four four
opponents have like beef uh amongst herself and
they got to deal with it somehow and that's why
they have to keep building the story like every
week right or every other weekend or whatever
the the promoter decides to book the shows and
to see where it's gonna go and how the crowd's
gonna react. Okay now as far as the promotions
I know you've wrestled in Combat Colt and I know
you've wrestled in New Breed. Do you feel the
fan difference? Do you see the traditional fans
show up for your matches that come watch you
or is it just it's half and half you know you
have your fans over here and you have your fans
over there? I mean what are your what would you
call like the the higher performance number as
far as like fans being there to watch you wrestling
yeah because I see mainly the the traditional
like the ones that you know I remember them back
in you know wrestling revolution right right
right that or even from other shows but it's
like a half -and -half as well because there's
new faces and there's there's a lot of new people
that are curious of, you know, oh, there's wrestling.
Let's go check it out. Right, right. Or, you
know, oh, I'm curious, you know? Right, right.
Those type of people that are kind of like, you
know, or some people still don't know like what,
like that there's wrestling exists here in the
Valley. Right, right, exactly. But yeah, the
traditional ones like that always like come and,
you know, watch us. They're more like the regulars,
you could say, or, you know, they've always like,
support indie wrestling and live pro wrestling
as well. But no, it's an honor to perform in
front of them and to show we take the business
very seriously and our characters as well. Right,
okay, okay. I'm gonna put the noise here. Maybe
that might cut off the little ringing thing.
I don't know why I still hear it. Yeah, we're
going before the full start. I heard like a loud
humming in the background. But guys, we gotta
pay some bills because this is gonna get even
more interesting later down the line after the
commercial break. I wanna ask Johnny some more
questions on his best matches. and his worst
matches and the toughest battle. You know, we
want to get down to the nitty -gritty on this.
We're going to get right into the nitty -gritty
because I know Johnny has some good stories,
man. And I'm going to take off my leg and see
how he does. You might get lucky and get a suntan
load, baptize that bad boy. He's reaching into
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in the pocket with Johnny Bay We were talking
but he whooped up the actual spray lotion. I
did sprayed on a Johnny we were talking about
best matches ever What do you consider? Yourself
as one of the best matches ever that you've ever
had man I mean that you would say you know what
this is the one that's but this is the bar I
have to surpass this bar. What's what would you
say is is right there? That's a pretty tough
question which I still question myself, but one
of the best matches I've had so far throughout
my entire career in the wrestling biz. Most one
of them would have to be with Pete Payne. Okay.
Tough, tough, tough guy. Tough opponent, yeah.
And the only reason why is because he's the one
that's been training most of the guys and would
help each and every one of us to bring the best
out of us. Right, right, I hear you. And because
of that, it helps not just the... the uppercumbers
but also the newcomers as well and to learn from
our experience of what it's like you know working
you know along with guys like Pete Payne and
and other people like from Combat Cold and Newpre
Wrestling as well. That's good, man. I mean Pete.
I'm not gonna lie you man having Pete in the
program He's talked about a lot of wrestlers
that he's put under his wing and you know showed
a little bit of the ropes here And there with
him, you know, and I've seen I've seen the process
man. I mean I've seen the outcome on it He's
got quite a few people under under his wing that
he's helped out quite a bit Big shout to David
Garcia saying yo, what's up? What's up, Dave?
Hey man, what's going on? I hope your sales went
pretty good over there at that uh, what was that?
Uh conference you had I think two weeks ago a
week ago I think it was hold everything went
out and I got jose martinez says the living leg
you damn right the living legend himself Thank
you the man with the sunscreen sauce Yeah, man,
dude, you got a fan bitch you got a following
man, this is so awesome, dude I like that. I
like that when people stay by your side through
thick and thin man when it comes to matches like
that man you know even though it's a bad Mac
but they stick with it so pee -pee would be your
top tier one of your one of your the bar right
to surpass one of the worst ones you've ever
had that you're like oh my god never again or
something just went totally wrong and it just
went totally off sorry to say off script that
wasn't supposed to happen well I can name a few
But I'm gonna name one of them at least Both
there was a promotion in the valley. Of course,
you had wrestling revolution, which is not the
the one I'm gonna be talking about. Okay another
promotion Along with that it was called Valley
wrestling matches. Okay, so basically it's it's
basically like a knockoff version of new breed
Except they had like a 20 by 20 Feet long ring
and the ring and the rope the ring is stiff oh
wow the ring is stiff like birdie any paddings
on there and of course the ropes oh real wide
open gaps oh really yeah was it boxing or what
maybe like a boxing ring yeah yeah yeah but it
was had made uh by someone like around that that
lives around far or somewhere okay but i still
i still enjoy bumping it during that time but
now like Now I'm at that age, I'm like, I don't
know if I would bump that. But no, one of the
worst matches was basically with some, basically
like, I guess when I was first getting, you know,
my foot wet, you know? Right, right, right. You
know, wet, you know, along the way. So basically
the beginning of Johnny Bayes, as you could say,
in his journey. So one of the matches, I could
say of course usually it's like the the Battle
Royale matches and it's just like There's like
there's really nothing to talk about they just
all right Just get tossed over the ropes and
that's it. Yeah. Oh shit, and it's just like,
okay Is there gonna be like a story with that?
Oh, yeah These two guys are gonna be the last
The last opponent standing. Mm -hmm. Okay, so
it's like, okay, I guess whatever, you know,
right, right, right It's like is there like anything
else want to add on to it? No So I'm like, okay,
whatever Wow okay there was like a battle royale
like it wasn't even like like a like a traditional
like 30 man right right 20 man it was four people
then the last two to be there so uh make you
look real enough to uh yeah just them two like
oh okay i would have just tripped myself oh my
leg it's gonna go climb over the ropes and yeah
that's it for me exactly exactly no it was just
And it was just like not very much crowd either
like broader interaction. They were just saying,
you know, like sitting there That was it. Just
like just going through the motion like you're
like you got all the other wrestlers yelling
out like Come on or something like that, right?
I paid you to go Holy shit. Wow. That's the only
worst matches I could think of. Wow. At this
point, it was basically just the battle royales
and pretty much that was it. Sometimes it's fine,
but sometimes not so much when it's like very
little crowd interaction. Right, right. I hear
you. I hear you. I got Jose Martinez saying,
saying, LOL, I've seen that ring. And then he
says, it looks. It's scary looking. That's what
I'm saying right now. That's the best way to
play. It's scary looking. Now, there's so many
years that you've been wrestling so far. You've
gotten, you're basically, you're in the pool
already itself. You're in there with a mixture
of all the other wrestlers that have been doing
it for years now. Has there been a point in either
promotion where they've said, hey, Johnny, guess
what? We're going to go and make a run with you.
We're going to make a run with you. You're going
for You're going for the big one? Yeah. Let's
go. Is that happened before? And how did it,
what was the outcome of it? Well, this didn't
really happen in the Valley. Okay. At first it
happened, it happened like a couple of years
ago. There was this promotion called Victory
Pro Wrestling that was located at Corpus Christi.
Okay. And it was like, it seemed pretty legit
at first and it was like, taking place in a gymnasium
and they also have a YouTube account as well.
So I looked into it. It's a pretty small ring,
but it's still good to work with because the
ropes like they're a little flimsy, but still,
you know, and the you'll be able to like hit
the ropes, you know, back and forth, right. Taking
the bumps on it even like it still hurts. But
once you get used to it, it's a little bit more
comfortable because of the cushion. Yeah, it's
workable. But yeah. But at first like when they
told it like and this was like at my tag team
run as you could say, okay, cuz it was myself
and Jordan or Jovan, okay say it's cuz during
that time I was I was at this Faction called
the bold and the beautiful. Okay. All right.
I was the fourth member of bold and beautiful
There you go. At first it was Rob Love. It was
I forgot his name Joey Romero and then Jovan
well, of course it was Basically, the originals
was Rob love and Jovan. Okay, and along with
that was Joey Romero and then that's when my
I guess you could say the beginning of my Johnny
Bay came along because that's when Guys like
Rob love they they kind of saw something, you
know, I guess the good looks and all that's right,
right, right, right Hey, this guy's good -looking,
you know, there you go. Why don't we just give
him a shot, you know, right, right? So working
with the rest of Revolution, that's when I like
learn the process of how to work the crowd and
all that stuff. How to be safe in the ring, pretty
much. And then that's when I got this message
from the promoter from Victory Pro Wrestling,
which is in Corpus. and then of course I would
tag team with Jovan so we went there for a show
and we built up a story okay against the tag
team champions which is the victory pro wrestling
tag team champion okay of course like at first
like you know we we got the crowd or we got the
crowd what they wanted pretty much they wanted
a they wanted a heel they got one And they really
enjoyed it, especially like the hatred that they
have towards us. because of our character, what
it was like. And it's like, you know, you gotta
build it up and get them to hate you as much
as possible. And surely enough, we did. And make
them look as good as possible. Make them look
as, you know, mighty strong. Right, right, I
got you, I got you. And of course, this rivalry
that we had between them was like a couple of
months along the way, the more we build up to
it. the more the crowd was like, oh, we want
more, we want more. Right, right, right, right,
right. And then, of course, this is one of my
favorite matches. There was a conclusion. One
of the matches where the second match that we
had with them was the tag team match. And of
course, there was this point where at the end
of the match, Got my opponent up to my shoulder
for a fireman's carrier. Okay, and my partner
He had him for the figure four or he it was like
a fig Yeah, he had him for the figure four. Okay
his opponent for the figure four. Okay, surely
enough Suddenly I started flipping and landing
on my head. Oh, so So the referee pins one two
three, but at the same time our opponents tap
out from the figure four Which was first which
was first or who won, right? So we're just like
getting the crowd to debate. Hey, we won Hey,
the bold and the beautiful baby. They won the
match right right, but no there was like a conclusion
like oh, it's gonna be a draw so it's Bullshit
so no, that's why I think we got to keep building
up the show more people to come and more people
to be like, all right, what's going to happen?
Are they going to keep the titles or are they
going to take away the titles? What are they
going to do? So that's when they brought up the
Steel Cage, which was pretty cool because I enjoyed
those type of matches where, especially when
you build up a story and you make it worth people
wanting to come and watch. So when we did that
Steel Cage match, it was pretty cool. to of course
like we use weapons and all that stuff I use
the sun lotion of course got the whistle you
know and all that good stuff so from there on
uh then you know uh that's when the legos come
out and I was like oh no oh so I tried to of
course I avoided the legos as much as possible
you don't know how lethal legos are man Legos
over thumbtacks. I'd rather take the thumbtacks.
I think I'd take the thumbtacks, man. I don't
know. Legos, I mean, I'm not going to lie. My
kid one time left them out in the middle of the
living room. And I, for some reason, woke up
in the middle of the night and had to go to the
restroom, so I had to walk. Through the living
room to go to the restroom and sure enough. I
stepped on one bro That thing cut my foot open
die. Jesus. I was on the ground crying bro. The
tack once it's in I mean it's in you know, but
the the lego It's still like just rolling around
Exactly. It's still rolling around doing its
business. It's doing it's fucking you up. Yeah,
and it's non -stop painful. Exactly. Yeah, it
is non -stop painful man. Yeah, dude. So so you're
doing this So this whole storyline you do in
the steel cage What happens to what's the what's
the final who takes who takes it? So after that
or when I was about to take the the bump the
Legos instead of me taking it my My partner job
on he saves me from getting you know thrown into
the mat along with the Legos instead My opponent
took the bump and the leg goes right on his back.
Exactly. So from there, that's when I was able
to escape. Right. And my other opponents was
handcuffed, couldn't do nothing at all, which
was a good thing because that's how we got the
win. Right. And we took the titles home and just
like that. And that's how we built up a story
for for us to take the titles and come out on
top. There you go. Number one tag team in Corpus.
There you go, man. That's awesome, dude. That's
a great story, man, because like I said, I mean,
down here, I've seen you, like I said, I've seen
you wrestle a couple of times, and I'm always
thinking, when is he going to get his singles
run, man? I want this to happen for this guy,
man, because it's a great. character man I love
it it's awesome I did had a singles before but
this was like during the pandemic okay so there
was a show well you know I mentioned Valley Wrestling
matches right right right well I did this show
it was for they call it the danger zone and it
was taking place in an entire shop behind a tire
shop okay where they the VWM wrestlers they they
train and stuff like okay okay okay if they train
of course right but no that's where we did the
pandemic and surely enough if you look at the
views there's a lot of views in that and it's
on facebook still really it's probably like maybe
if i'm not mistaken maybe like 2 000 views or
something like that i could be wrong to be honest
but I did a match, it was myself against still
Dempsey, the reality realtor. That was for the
RGV Lucha champion or something like that. But
now we did that match and of course there was
no crowd interaction because we were going through
tough times. And the sickness was something very
serious. and not worth getting everybody contagious
or sick to avoid the spread of the contamination.
So during that time, that's the only time that
I had my singles room was with the VWM, RGV,
Lucha Champion, I guess that's what they call
it or what they used to call it before. My picture's
on the Instagram. There you go, there you go,
there you go. Yeah, you'll probably see me posing
either like this or like this. The three famous
poses, bro. There's three famous poses. Classic.
Yeah, exactly. So I didn't have not just tag
team, but also singles as well. Right. But of
course, I haven't had that much singles title
as often. Because of course, for me, to me, what
matters is that interacting with the crowd, giving
them the best. match entertaining match as you
know as possibly can and leave home happy yeah
yeah if given a choice johnny what would be your
dream match any wrestler dream match to just
be sitting the foot in the ring with that one
person and go at it who would it be like in the
valley or anywhere anywhere it can be a big time
wdb aew in the valley outside the valley anywhere
shoot Well, the only one I could think of, of
course, would be like AJ Styles, you know? But
of course, that's like fantasy right there. It
could happen. It could happen. He could be watching
right now. He could be watching right now. I
want this kid. Definitely, definitely. I want
this kid. And that's the phenomenal one we're
talking about. Yeah, I'm going to be badass because
I want this kid on South Padre Island in a sand
beach. And there's other guys too, like throughout
the past, like Eddie Guerrero, Chris Ben Wong,
you know, all those top wrestlers. William Regal
was one of them. Yeah. And we'll see you name
them. There you go. All those like from the past
or even from the new generation, you know. Even
like Bad Bunny? There you go. You're pushing
it, Johnny. You're pushing it. I know, I am.
Bad Bunny could be... I'm trying to make this
podcast interesting. Oh, we got to respond to
Bad Bunny. Bring it! No, but what were you going
to say, Chu? Were you going to say something?
No, I was just going to ask him like who are
his mains right now? Like who's his favorite
that he's following right now? Like favorites
as in you know, a W current AEW roster or you
know WWE roster also follow like WWE roster TNA,
of course, especially like they're working with
NXT. Yes Yeah, which is a pretty big opportunity
for for TNA to take advantage of you know of
the spotlight And of course like it's different
from NXT right to TNA and of course you got a
W as well That's one of them or Ring of Honor.
There you go. Which of course, they're both the
same company. Right, right, right. But they still
make a good show. Regardless, even GCW as well.
There you go. You can name a few, but that's
the only thing I'm going to name at this point.
All right, I got you. Fair enough. Now, through
your rest, so far your rest, you say you started
in 2017, correct? Yes. 2017, so far the last
couple of years that you've been in it, which
would be what? Was that eight years already?
It's been eight years. Eight years? Yeah. How
do you see your wrestling career at this moment
right now? How would you rate it? I could rate
it at this point is like an eight out of ten
But I know I could do more than that just to
show more improvements and you know try to like
You know keep myself at the best shape as possible
right and of course, you know I've also been
going through some personal problems as well,
right? Throughout, you know my wrestling career
because I know I've retired from new breed. Mm
-hmm But at the same time I just been going back
and forth due to my personal issues, right? Right,
right, right. Of course, you know as a single
parent, you know I got kids of my own that I
got a support right, right, you know show So
that's why like I know family is usually important,
right? Especially especially when it comes to
like wrestling as well Yeah, because of course
like we as like me as you know you know myself
Johnny Bay you know I try to you know be both
parts you know yeah a father figure and as well
as a pro wrestler right I got you I got you yeah
is this one thing we say when we when we do our
podcast we try not to get too too far into the
personal thing because that's their private life.
We don't want to splash it onto our show and
talk about anything. That's their thing. That's
their prerogative. But we've also been very lucky
that they've been willing to share that. We don't
like to push the button that hard. But as far
as your career, man, that I've seen so far, I've
seen the replays on Facebook, on YouTube, all
the great plays where New Bree Plus is on, there's
a combat called. They've been great matches.
They've been great matches. entertaining, fun
to watch, even better when you're there live
to watch them in action. That's the best part,
man. When's the next big match for you? Well,
I got a match this coming Sunday. It's going
to be myself, GK Caballero, and Mr. CYA. And
not only that, it's going to be for the New Breed
Heavyweight Championship. Oh, here we go. And
also, it's gonna be in a steel cage. Oh, look
at that. We were just talking about that. Look
at that big smile on his face right there. Watch
out, everybody. And bring in the sun lotion.
I bring the chair, apply some sun lotion, best.
There you go. Just like that. There you go. That's
awesome man. Well, good luck to you. I know there's
a lot of Interesting matches that are happening
this Sunday. You might want to go guys because
it's gonna be one to remember I'm gonna try to
make it out there if possible cross fingers out
there Sunday to watch all the matches in person
Johnny I were coming up to already 56 minutes
in the podcast It's a great podcast. I mean finally
finally get to talk to the guy man Watching him
wrestle it actually, you know, I was we're talking
on the way up I hope you enjoyed the way I commentated
your wrestling match. Because I know the announcers
that we were commentating with. They're professionals,
man. They're awesome. They're great guys. But
it was funny seeing them giggle the way I was
announcing you in the ring, what you were doing,
printing around like a flamingo flying out like
a flamingo in the middle of the Florida Bay area.
They were just cracking up. They couldn't stop
laughing. I go, bro, the way I feel about Johnny
Bay, man, he's a badass. There you go. He's a
badass. Thank you. It's an honor coming from
you all. It's awesome, bro. It's awesome to see
you wrestle. It is. Hit him with a chair next
time. Shut up! Sun tan lotion. Whistle. But all
I want to say is thank you, man, for taking the
opportunity to come out here and talk to us,
play with us for a little while, give us some...
actual background, because that's what's so important
about these podcasts. You know, a lot of the
fans that dip in to watch the podcast, not now,
but they'll tune in later on or go to YouTube
to watch the replay to get to know who the, I
mean, yeah, you have your wrestler, you go and
watch them wrestle every week or when you can,
you know, man, great wrestling, but to know who
they really are behind. the curtain behind the
fourth wall, just a little bit, just to give
you a sneak preview. Now you're going to get
everybody from Edinburgh. Now that they know
you're from Edinburgh, everybody from Edinburgh
is going to be showing up. Here comes the fan
base. Hey, you remember me, right? You remember
me. But yeah, man, I mean, it's good to know
the backstory and a lot of these wrestlers that
wrestle down here. And like you mentioned, we've
already interviewed a CYA on the podcast. There's
another great honor of having him on here. And
we'll have Kike Cabello also on the podcast.
Not next week, but the following week. So this
whole month is going to be all wrestling. It's
going to be a lot of fun. If you don't see him
with the title? You don't know why. There you
go. Because this Sunday, I'm going to take it.
Oh, take it? I'm going to shine it up real nice
with my nice sun lotion and everything. I'm going
to shine it up and make it mine. Shine it up,
turn that sumbitch backwards, and put it on my
shoulder. I'm going to use it for the spotlight.
Oh, dude, that would be so awesome, dude. You
get entirely coming out there, putting those
in, just lay down on the ring and put it to study.
Sunday. I'll pop up the chair while I'm at it.
There you go. That would be so awesome, dude.
Oh my God. The possibilities, people. The possibilities.
But Johnny, the first thing I want to say, thank
you so much. Like I said, once again, coming
out and playing with us, man. I appreciate you.
Keep doing what you're doing. Know sometimes
people go through dark times and they're live
and there's some you know There's always a light
at the end of the tunnel man and just just keep
going don't stop. Don't stop Don't stop keep
going man. Keep trucking keep trucking things
will get better Wrestling career or your personal
life you keep going, you know, cuz there's there's
only one way that's up and you feel that you're
down There's got to be another way you got to
go up So you will get there and the way I've
seen the matches you've seen you in man. It's
nothing but but an A game and you're going just
for going up the ladder itself. Thank you once
again for coming out having a good time. I know
you brought something for us to hang on the wall.
I did actually. Holy crap. This is the shirt
of Johnny Bay. There you go. There's what's going
on. Ladies and gentlemen, Johnny Bay is donating
that little bad boy and signing it. It's going
on the wall. It's going to be amazing, bro. It's
going to be amazing. So he's wearing it for us,
dude. So now that we have his DNA. Those triple
B's are going to be so chill. It's like, you
want my DNA? Here it is. You know what? That's
going behind you. Never mind. You can have it.
You know what, John? Just toss it over there.
Nah, man, Johnny, I appreciate you, man, coming
out here. I hope you enjoyed. Social media is
real quick. Okay, sounds good. That's it? Social
media, what can they look for you? They can find
me on Instagram at the moment, because of course,
that's the only fan base that I have with Instagram.
That's where I usually post my social media and
stuff like that. And I recently... I recently
put in TikTok as well. There you go. There you
go. I'm still working on it. I'm still building
up, you know, the posts that I do and stuff like
that. Right. Pictures, the videos, you know,
all the other good shots that they got of me.
There you go. There you go, man. That's very
well put, man. Guys, if you guys are interested
in following Johnny Bae right there on the screen,
you can see the QR code. Click on that bad boy.
We'll take you straight to his Instagram. follow
him trust me you will not regret it it's a great
great page to see all the great stuff that he's
done the past up to now follow him give him give
this man his his flowers man he's doing great
out there doing his thing uh johnny like i said
once again man appreciate you coming out play
with us for a little while man oh yeah thank
you please put oh he's uh he's uh getting it
ready there buddy Ooh, he's nice and shiny now
on the camera. Look at that. Kids, this is a
PJ show. Just watch it. Just watch it. Smells
good, too. You like that? You like that, Chew?
You want some of that on your arm? It feels so
good from over here to right here. There we go.
There we go. There we go. Too much shine. Too
much shine. You know what John we're good Let's
keep it that way Thank you so much Johnny Johnny
may come out of the podcast. I appreciate you
coming out man, you know, nothing but luck to
you man. Keep doing what you're doing Guys, we
are one hour two minutes of the podcast I want
to say thank you to everybody that tuned in this
week to watch even this thing right here across
from me Join us again. Hopefully next year next
week, too. Yeah, we're got Toxical coming into
the podcast and I got some questions for him
because I believe he lost his belt I heard that
he might have lost his belt. We're not gonna
ask him that we're just gonna point it out Nikki
Fuego. Yeah. Yeah Based on a true story. Oh I
got massive questions for this kid man. What
is going on? No, no, no disrespect to Nikki Nikki
you a badass But Doc Segal, you know, you had
the talk. You didn't have the walk. What's going
on, man? We got to talk to you next week. You
know, it's weird. Nikki Huego won't return my
calls anymore. Something happened. Something
about a restraining order. But again, he's ghosting
you, bro. There you go. You heard from Johnny.
Yeah, that's the thing now. You're being ghost,
buddy. I'm being ghosted. It's OK. We'll see
about that. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so
much for tuning in with us this week. Next week.
730 we have talks to go on the podcast here.
It's gonna be good another side shot also to
Armando Reyes and cacahuate buddy We're here
for you, man. You ever need anything reach out
to us. We'd gladly help you out man Supposed
to be he was supposed to be with us today. Unfortunately,
he couldn't make it something happened. So We're
there for you buddy, we're there for you with
every step of the way god bless you, man He's
joking. No, I'm not. No, I'm not. No, I'm not.
I'm totally out. No, ladies and gentlemen, thank
you so much. What, you gonna say something, Johnny?
I don't know. Oh, you're gonna say something?
I was gonna say something. No, I'll let it go.
Stop the show. I wanna go home. Ladies and gentlemen,
thank you so much. We will see you next week
at 730 p .m. on Thursday night. Oh, by the way,
don't forget, Fresco is around the corner, guys.
Absolutely. Fresco is around the corner. I can
hear him. You're going to start hearing those
beats when we start interviewing, so hang in
there. It's going to be a good one. Chew, any
last words? I'm about to take my leg off. All
right, sign us off, Chew. I've been Chewing.
And I am ooh. We will see you next week, 730
p .m., Thursday night. All I can say is, ladies
and gays, peace out. Bye, everybody. Bye. baby.
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