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back. Episode. 283 we are climbing that ladder
man getting close to 300 283 like once they thank
you first everybody tune in last week With a
James Blackhart great episode man. I've been
I get a lot of great feedback everybody tuned
in last week Thank you for all the comments the
questions We actually welcome that every single
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enjoys it so much because he gets to interact
with you guys on the screen But anyways guys
on tonight's episode a first -timer First -timer
actually on the podcast. We've been wanting to
get him for a while on here, man But this guy's
this guy's all over the place man. He's constantly
busy He he has other things going on his life
and bullshit. He just didn't want to be on the
show. No, no, no But anyways guys tonight on
the podcast we have Matt Ryan LaFontaine! Oh,
what's up, guys? Welcome to the show, man. It
was an honor to be here, honor to be here. Wow,
man. Love the setup, beautiful setup. Thank you.
Thank you. Yeah, man, we got a couple of your
buddies that are part of your promotion, different
promotions we got on the wall here and there.
If you look around, you'll see some stuff like,
oh, I know that guy. I kicked that guy's ass.
I was noticing. I wasn't saying that. I was definitely
thinking it but I wasn't saying it. but no man
welcome to the show man first time on here man
we've been itching to have you on here for quite
a while we try to do our our merry -go -round
with all the talent in every promotion and you're
one of them that we hadn't reached out yet oh
and then here you go Danny already timed in So
we haven't had you on the program for the first
time. This is something that, you know, we want
to get to know you, bro. I mean, we've seen you
in the ring. We've seen the way you perform out
there, man. It is literally all hell's loose
when you go in the ring. I've seen the matches,
bro. They're You bring the show for sure. Yes,
you bring the show. I think that's what sometimes,
most of the times, you are in part of the main
events at the very end of the night, because
you bring the show, you bring the ride. I definitely
try to bring something different each and every
match. I definitely try to show the Valley that
we're not just a spot on a map. We're bigger
than that. We are the RGV. We are the Rio Ren
Valley. We are La Raza. We are... Making a name
for ourselves little by little starting from
now. We have a football team here in the in the
Anyburg area now, we're making a for ourselves
I just want to make sure that I make sure that
RGB is just as proud as I am to be part of it
That's good. Well said man. So let's start from
the very beginning man Tell us where you're from
where you grew up and how you got it all here
and he released one more from Amanda You're saying,
woohoo, we love you, Matt. Oh, here come the
ladies, man. Here come the ladies. If I know
one thing, Matt brings the ladies, bro. So let's
start from the beginning, brother. I'll tell
you where you're from, where you grew up, and
how we got into the wrestling world. Go ahead,
Tom. Well, that's kind of a long story where
it all started. Two crazy people had... pre -marital
sex back in the day, and unfortunately I was...
What? What? What? What? What are we gonna show,
bro? What are you saying? Pay bills for the rest
of my life, which I appreciate, y 'all, if I,
uh... Let's see, I'm born in Corpus, raised down
here in the valley at a very young age. That's
why I say I'm from RGV. I mean, anytime I'm down
here, I do say I'm from Corpus, but it's just
a little pick and choose at the RGV community,
because I know I'm from born and raised, but
definitely raised RGV. This is kind of where
the car broke down. Easiest said and done. I
come from a big family. I'm the youngest of five.
Oh, there you go. There you go. All my brothers
and sisters are way ahead of me. Sister just
retired out of the Army. Thank you for your service.
Thank you very much, Ma. I don't know. I was
always the... The black sheep of the family,
I was always the quiet one, always the one that
was just a nerd, get picked on all the time.
I got left behind is how I say it. My family
even called me FedEx sometimes. They said they
dropped me off at the doorstop one day and they
just didn't turn back and they couldn't turn
me back in. No return labels. I don't know, growing
up, kind of a nerd. was really into wrestling
actually growing up until someone broke that
little F card for me and I was like, I don't
know, I don't know, I don't know if I could do
this. I don't know if I'm gonna continue watching
this, but I just, I don't know. The big timers,
I was in The Rock, The Stone Cone. Pretty much
the attitude era is what you're talking about.
The best era, I feel like that was one of the
golden era I feel like for me. And I don't know,
I just, I always saw wrestling as part of my
life. more of like my family, like my family
would watch it. I remember one of the most like
iconic things I remember is we were gonna watch
one of the WrestleMania's and of course back
in the day we didn't have DVR, you know what
I mean? So we had this big ass 10 foot camera
that we had set up next to our 15. Pound I mean
1500 pound TV that we had there Just sit there
and watch the matter after we paid for the pay
-per -view. Oh, yeah And we couldn't watch it
that weekend because we were going to I think
to another I think we're gonna visit family and
Alice or in Corpus area So we could we had we
were gonna miss it So, of course, we let it record,
set the battery, the battery was gonna die out,
we didn't care as long as it recorded. So lo
and behold, we come back and we're like, how
exciting, you know, we're about to see WrestleMania
that we paid like, I think that day was like
80 bucks and 90 bucks. Why do I feel this is
gonna go south real quick? Oh, it went south.
So we were like, yeah, so we put on the VCR and
we could hear everything. It was the greatest
audio, but we could not see a thing. So I don't
know if it was my mom or my step -dad, but one
of them forgot to take the lens off the child.
That's one of my golden memories as a child for
wrestling. But other than that, it was... Well,
you enjoyed it old school, man. Radio style,
man. That's the best part. So then, I don't know.
After that, it was mainly just sports. I played
baseball since I was five years old. I kept going
out very athletic. I was very into just being
outdoors I grew up on a ranch and a lot of people
know this and I hate to say this because it's
gonna make the girls go even crazier I Grew up
a cowboy I Grew up with the Wranglers the boots
the hats you name it. I was in it Oh feeding
the cows fixing fences on a horse four -wheelers.
That's why Small engine mechanic. I learned how
to weld I learned how to do all this before I
was even like And like this is stuff that was
like second nature to me and then growing up
Having financial problems was of course my stepdad
having to go to jail because he was part of some
In -and -out stuff that I really don't want to
get part of some Cartel things to do with that
All of that had to slow down. It became kind
of a survival thing after that. So that's basically
how I spent the rest of my high school years.
It was just surviving. It was me working. Actually,
I got my first job when I was 12 years old. I
was a ranch head up in Wyoming when my stepdad
got out of jail. I did that most of my summers.
I paid for all my school clothes. I helped pay
my own rent coming back home. After that, I got
my first legal job when I was 16. I was at Denny's.
And then throughout high school, that's all I
worked with Denny's. I was making decent money
for being 16 years old. There you go. Money for
the ladies, my man. And then just after that,
I kept being athletic, stayed in sports all through
high school. And then just when I graduated,
I didn't really know what I wanted to do. I was
going to college for mechanical engineering.
There you go. I've always wanted to work with
my hands. So it's something I'm still pursuing
to this day. I just, I wanted something more,
and me and my best friend, we were training for
MMA and stuff. We were younger, Jiu -Jitsu, Boxing,
Kickboxing, stuff like that. And I don't know,
just one day after we both graduated, he just
comes home one day from an academy. He worked
at an academy at the time. And he's like, hey
man, I was talking to some random dude. We're
talking about like, you know, like fighting and
like kung fu and then we went into soccer and
so have so after the conversation spoken with
the wrestling. Oh Here we go. Okay, like I will
this look like that. She's like, yeah, man Well,
apparently they have a training training down
here like it's here in the flea market Which
I was already skeptical cuz like again, I've
never heard. Yeah This is the first time wrestling
has ever been dropped like in my mind as far
as like being professional or taking it anywhere
So this is like a like the open like the first
page. I'm very seen like all and still the title's
still there. Pretty much the contents of the
book before it starts getting written. You're
already skeptical. You don't know if the book's
going to be good, so you got to flip it over.
So we're asking the questions. What's going to
happen? Where is it? So I remember meeting this
random guy at an HCB parking lot. Question, are
there cliff notes by HCB? Can we just get to
the point? No, but there will be a test after
this. Oh, great. Great. So after we were meeting
some random parking lot, the guy is the sketchiest
thing in the world too because at the time my
best friend drove a 1500 Dodge Ram, big truck,
and then we were following some Dodge Charger
at the time they had just popped out, it was
red, candy red, and we're following it into this
flea market at... 9 o 'clock at night or 8 o
'clock at night. This is going to end wrong.
This is the way horror stories start. This is
how my documentary is going to start. So fast
forward, we get there, some creepy old man opens
the gate, drives us in, and the creepy man closes
the gate behind us, and we're all looking at
each other, my brother in the back, my best friend
driving, I'm in the passenger seat. We're looking
to like yeah, we're gonna die Like so I'm already
like me I've always been a fighter so like our
first thing it does I'm already reaching for
his crowbars underneath I'm gonna go out swinging.
You know what I mean? Right as we're getting
closer. We turn a corner. We start hitting slams
of the ring and we're all kind of like So we
start seeing the slam of the ring, but we're
noticing that it's not a very like American style
based wrestling. It's a lot of Aleutian styles.
We're like kind of like, well, this isn't what
we signed up for. You know, this is what we're
totally totally American based style wrestling.
You know what we see on TV right right and that's
time a lot of YouTube too And uh, he's like no
no, don't give us a second. Give us a second.
Like uh, the trainers will be here All right.
Cool. So we sit there about 10 minutes later
some snazzy little guy walks in The suit tie
everything holding his brief coats out like prouding
his suit on wheels. I'm sitting there He has
wheels on his briefcase And then here comes vermin
right behind him Over cold, real chill, like
he just came here to wrestle, and then here comes
Popper with his cherry popper at the time. Danny
Ramon. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. Okay at the time
he was cherry popper at the time and he shows
up with his big ass suitcase full of wrestling
gear. He looks like he's like the only one that's
actually ready to wrestle. They get in the ring,
they just start doing all these crazy things
and we're just sitting there like mind blown.
Like what did we just watch? Like these guys
were seriously telling the truth. Like these
guys are literally legitimate. They're like,
they get off to start doing crazy stuff. They're
back flipping, front flipping, just doing their
thing. I mean, they turn around, they look at
us like, I said, what do y 'all think? We're
taking our first bumps, our first rolls. We're
already ready to go. We picked it up. I'm sorry,
it fell on our lap. We picked it up and ran with
it. We just fell in love with it. I think one
of our first shows that we ever got to see on
Like kind of a taste, not so much like we were
wrestling. It was on YouTube. It was like PWG
at the time. And this was when like at our time,
all the guys that we wanted to wrestle were in
this show. And they were doing some of the craziest
spots. I mean, high spot after high spot after.
And we were like, we could do this. We can do
this. We are gonna do this. So it's exactly what
we did. We just nailed it together. I don't know,
I'm not sure y 'all played WWE games when they
first started coming out. You can build your
own kicks. That was literally our homework. And
this is when I first started training after it
became like more professional. I always train
the younger crowd. I'll tell them, hey, go home.
This is your homework. If you had WWE game. Go
create your character. Go in there, do what you
gotta do. Like, what moves you will see yourself
doing, like, and perfect them. Make your character
in that ring, and that way you can, like, bring
it out. And that's just, that's what we would
do. We would create our own characters, and I
had my own moveset and stuff that I wanted to
do and what I didn't wanna do, and now I'm here.
You know when you say that? That's like one of
the best concepts until somebody goes, you know
what? Go home, play this game, and create your
character, dude. And picture yourself There was
dude in the ring, bro And I I think that inspired
a lot of like the younger talent because that's
exactly what they did like they'd go home and
they would Watch themselves wrestle and I go
I can do this and I can do that I wanted this
and the at the time the games were very limited
But you can also like upload stuff and download
stuff and like they would create their own characters
I want to come out and they would I would see
them years later and their characters Now they're
like now they're there they're right about so
like it's a it was that's how it started it just
it came from an underground here he said she
said hey this is how it's going to start right
now we just we saw not the light at the end of
the tunnel but we saw the work that needed to
be done and we were doing it right we did it
the just now this promotion i've heard i've heard
so many of the og's talking about this This promotion
is what promotion? Would be back in the day it
was called Wrestling Revolution. So you're part
of the original OGs back then. And that was one
of the, I think that was when I paid my dues
the most I think because at the time we didn't
have a professional ring. So the ring that y
'all see nowadays. takes us maybe like 30 minutes
to maybe an hour to set up, depending on how
many people show up. At our time, we had a boxing
ring, which I'm not sure you are familiar with,
but boxing rings are a lot harsher and a lot
stiffer than a wrestling ring. They're not meant
to like give, they're meant to like... You know,
so you can plant your feet and give that that
that yeah Yeah, so we turned that well they at
the time turned that into uh, the old g's turned
that into a wrestling ring at the time So we
were taking our bumps on basically concrete.
That's basically what we were doing, but we loved
it. We just that's awesome That ring took almost
six of us anywhere from like four to six hours
to set up like it wasn't like we can get there
we had to sometimes set that up days before day
before like set half of it up just so the next
day we go in there and reset the rest of it up
right and it was it was a pain but honestly it
made me love the business so much more personally
right right as much as i i i couldn't stand doing
it gonna be wrong i have so many bumps and bruises
and back pains because of it like i'm pretty
sure a bunch of my rotator cuffs are out of place
because of that Well when you got sweat in the
game at the end of it No, it's not even that
at the end of that match when you were done and
you were taking it apart You sat there like bro.
That was amazing. That was right. It was worth
that Like it's like I've been at the gym and
going through a leg day and even though you don't
want to do it at the end of that leg day You're
like that was awesome. Like that was nice Just
to give heads up our number one fan just tuned
in right now. No, not luke. We haven't seen louie
in a while, but our new number one fan is yes,
man I appreciate you buddy. I do really do appreciate
you man. Thank you so much. You realize you got
held to pay with him for keaton later Yeah, yeah,
he does. Yeah, you got held to pay with yeah
But anyways, but uh, yeah, dude i was saying
before uh I've noticed the OGs talk about that
same story. They were out there North of Mission
doing the flea market thing. And I think Raymond
said it best, he's a bill of callus to everything
you need to do first so you can feel the bumps.
You know, do everything. You'll be ready for
the hits, the bumps, the slams, all that good
stuff. I'm going to tell you that after putting
that ring together, nothing could hurt me. I'll
tell you that. I'll tell you that. after what
that ring did to me yeah there's nothing i'm
gonna hit the concrete I'm gonna put I'm gonna
put this up there so you can read it yourself.
He says the biggest hidden gem is in the chat
once I'll make sure Matt has receipts for you
also just like I'm not typing in the chat It's
funny like you said the story of how you guys
got started in that whole business. It was crazy
and crazy because like it became our shows also
became practice because it wasn't like we're
throwing shows every once a month it wasn't throwing
shows every other couple weeks or it was significantly
at the beginning it was almost two or three times
a week we were wrestling like wow it'd be a friday
one place saturday next time and sunday somewhere
else and it'd be two shows at one place and a
sunday some other place or it'd be a random thursday
at some festival that we gotta somehow manage
to scrape together this ring and make it over
there like like who wants to ruin their truck
trying to carry this ring everywhere like yeah
so uh it was it was practice and it made the
love for the game real like it just it was right
I don't know every every week was something different
every week was a show every week we had a story
like if you missed one day or one show like it
felt like you missed an entire yeah week we go
yeah I think this is why it's so like sacred
to us like especially people who were there and
I got to see all of it because like you had to
be there You just had to be there like the times
when we sold out arenas that we sold out our
our our which was seen it which was our biggest
place Yeah, yeah, we sold out that places and
it was it was it was crazy like you had and some
of the wrestlers the rest of the day were there
and it's crazy because like they were they were
watching us do this and like that's another thing
is that wr was one of the few promotions that
Can they were consistent they were? Consistently
promoting consistently putting everything out
there consistently telling hey, this is wrestling.
This is what? Wrestling in the valley is this
is what American style wrestling because we don't
know we had a lot of lucha wrestlers in the valley
rest wrestling is always and will always be around
long live wrestling period, but There wasn't
a real like American style, right? Base here.
There was there was a lot of little promotions,
right? It wasn't a constant story where like
people could invest their money and go and see
it every day and Here's a $10 ticket to watch
it every week and you sit there like but last
week this guy got in the fight with this guy
But now this guy is gonna get his revenge on
the right. It goes here like goes this are we
are we WWF back in the day? Are we sitting there
like we're getting people? Did it feel like that,
like you were building something? It really felt
like we had a connection with the community,
like everybody, and to this day, like, I have
people who come up to me, like, hey man, I used
to see you wrestle when I was a kid. I'm like,
bro, you're 22. Like, what do you mean? Like,
don't make me feel older than I am. My grandpa
talked about seeing you wrestle all the time.
Every part of my body just starts hurting Who
the heck is Martin Gomez that guy who got smacked
by a watermelon And as Amanda's saying, I remember
those wrestling revolution days, great times.
They were great times. And I got Lisa Gonzo saying
Matt is the GOAT. I'm not gonna deny that there,
Lisa. I've seen your matches, bro. They are...
They're classics man. Those are the ones that
I've seen personally in person itself. I mean
they are classic matches I appreciate that. I
guess I do try very hard. I do my homework. I
Train the best I can especially mentally if I'm
not in the ring I'm mentally training in my head
so I'm constantly in the ring if I'm not physically
I'm mentally in the ring I'm constantly putting
together matches for no reason in my head making
spots out of nothing. I see something that I
like, and I'm like, how can I make that cooler?
That's basically what Matt Wright is. Well, here
you go, Matt. Ask and you shall receive, Jose
Martinez said, my grandpa took me to see Matt.
My grandpappy took me. That's just messed up,
Jose, don't we? Damn it, you made me take my
dinghy right in the ass. Where's my whole routine,
Danny? Y 'all don't have Benguet. You also have
a new style in your hair. Are you jealous of
me, man? I think you got a couple of that. But
anyway, but y 'all know that, I mean. But like
I said, it's a cost of training. I, um, I...
I had to slowly step away from the ring at one
point. I tore my meniscus and I'm assuming, I
haven't got the MRI or anything done, but I'm
assuming my MCL as well, because I don't have
any side wave movement. But that set me back
about, I'm gonna say almost three years. Like
I had to take a break. I posted it up on my Instagram
and my Facebook. I was like, hey guys, I'm sorry.
My knee's gotten really out of shape. Like it
needs healing, it needs. to take a, it needs
to get fixed. And that's what I was gonna take
that break for. I wanted to save up and maybe
even invest in surgery, invest something, but
I also got a bunch of opinions on the surgery
itself, which was like, hey, don't do it after
surgery. It's not the same. Just don't do it.
It's just, just do what you like, rehabilitate
it. And that's, that's, that's honestly what
I had to do, not even just cause I couldn't afford
the surgery. Like I'm not one for ask for handouts.
I'm not one to start like, So I was like, let
me see what else I can do to make sure I can
continue my career. And that's exactly what I
did. I spent those three years just rehabilitating
my knee and I was constantly putting it under
strain, under load, pushing it not to its limit,
but a good step before it. I was pushing it to
where I can make sure I get my mobility back
as well as my strength. I bought a brace that
makes sure that I have two metal bars. As you
can see, two bars that go across. No, put the
camera on the other guy. No, you're good. They
go across here. I'm not sure you all ever see
it, but there's two metal rods that go across
my knee. Jesus Christ, bro! And my knee doesn't
go either way. But it's just, like I said, it's
for the love of the game. I needed to make sure
I got back in the ring. And that itch, like any
wrestler will tell you, even retired, not retired,
it's an itch. And I needed it. I needed to scratch
it. So I secretly got in touch with one of my
best friends who just so happens to run a promotion.
And I was like, look, man, I'm getting the itch.
I need to get back in the ring. I just don't
want. Anybody to know I just I don't want people
to hit me up I don't want people to see what
I can do in the ring and then Overbook me and
then knowing me how I can't say no because I
love to work I'm gonna push myself right back
into an injury so right right right I want to
do this under under caps I want to do this without
anybody knowing and it's exactly what we did
I came out as the motorcycle guy three years
later and everybody would just see me show up
at a show and right either I was intervening
or she's making a scene and then I would leave
and then they were like who the who the hell's
that guy like You had to say, nobody knew. Nobody
knew. That's exactly what I wanted. I didn't
want anybody to be like... You mean you were
doing a Seth Rollins? I wanted to just slowly
come back into the wrestling scene. I wanted
to make sure that the new people... That never
saw wrestling all of a sudden were interested
in wrestling, right? Right, and that's what me
and chance put together I think really well with
my first cage backs from cage match back and
I was I was hella nervous. I was like I had this
the first time in a ring in over three years
This is the first time I'm actually putting my
knee to the test Yeah, this is this is making
sure that I can continue my career right right
and again with my my Brothers, which again, he's
my best friend, but he's my brother at the same
time my brother's Mm -hmm arm around me. Okay,
man. We got this we can do this I'll take care
of your promise and this exactly what wrestling
is taking care of each other's brotherhood And
we did it, we went in there and I'm not sure
y 'all seen the TikTok but I did the shooting
star press off the top of the cage if not. That
video has been shown so many times dude. You
gotta look it up, it's forever the scenest kid
on TikTok or if not I'll post it up here on my
Instagram, the Matt Riot. Here soon, I'll repost
it up for y 'all but that... One post got me
like 20 ,000 views. I think on tik -tok. Well,
it's not a flattery pose people have people have
even told me I came and your content to be used
at other places I'm like that's cool. Like that's
that's what I wanted. I just wanted people to
realize that The value is big and we're making
it bigger Like I wanted to make sure that and
then the wrestling scene is even bigger down
here, too so I wanted to make sure that I've
made a name for myself and I wanted to make sure
that staple the Matt riot is still The high flying,
death defying, RGV's best, craziest. I got...
I think your legacy is safe, man. I got, uh,
at LWAW, saying, yo, on there, and okay, and
then I got Danny saying, the press. Yeah, it
was the press. It was funny, because, like, my
memory of being up there, and I'm not sure y
'all have seen how high that... Yes, I've been
to the match of that size. It's pretty damn high.
So being up there, I remember telling Chance,
and we were like, hey, man, how do you want to
go, how do you want to finish this match? Like,
how do you want to finish this match? I'm like,
I want to do something off top rope. And he was
like, hey, if you don't want to do it, don't
do it. If you can't do it, don't do it. And I
get up there like, I'm going to do it. He's like,
all right, don't bitch out. Those were his words,
don't bitch out. Got up there, I looked down,
my butthole clenched. I could have cracked a
walnut. I'm going to tell you that right now.
But all I could hear was chance and see chance
looking at me, but I hear chance saying don't
bitch out bitch This is your time I let's do
it And honestly after that match I remember landing
and then just chance trying to grab me and pull
me so he can hug me because he's so excited after
the match because He was he was out the door
himself. He was he was tired. He wants to focus
on just running the business He uh, he was just
so excited to be back in the ring with me like
I was it was a brotherhood after that I was like
I Still got it. I'm still going to get it. I'm
still gonna make sure that people know the name
that right and yeah I said before dude. I've
seen the matches that he especially that that
that night. I was a Swanton that we're shooting
star coming from the top Saw that I'm like bro.
You got you got to be out of your damn mind I
have some people tell me it was because of that
match is why I started watching wrestling Wow
To that show and I'm like, I'm cool with that.
I appreciate that I take that as the biggest
compliment cuz I made it I made some kind of
impact on someone's life I'm cool with that.
That's awesome. We're going to go real quick
on that. This is why I wanted him on the pod,
bro. Because I mean, the conversation with this
guy, he got so much stuff. He got a lot of baggage.
You got a lot of baggage. I prefer to say he
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Ryan on the podcast again once again We're talking.
I know you had said that you were a farm boy
You were out there to find and you don't go that
far because my man gets a steel horse outside
Yeah up in a steel horse to the podcast. I walked
in with a helmet what? I showed up, and I go,
dude, bro, you came in your crotch racket, bro?
Yeah. I'm like, Jesus Christ. And I was like,
wow, man. At 6 o 'clock in the afternoon, you're
on the expressway. Yeah. Yeah. Worst traffic
ever right now in the RGB, and you made it in
15 minutes. You didn't even feel it. What car?
Any law enforcement or listening allegedly made
it here in 15 minutes. That car goes on fire.
Just to elaborate, the bike has wings, all right?
The bike has wings, he flew across the valley,
got here on time, he didn't even come up the
ramp for the second floor parking lot, he just
flew in. As simple as that. True story. But going
to that, I know we talked about... well you know
what let me get let me get your take on your
mountain rushmore wrestlers bro what's your mountain
rushmore wrestlers well what you mean by mountain
rushmore like the four greatest wrestlers that
i've seen the ones that have inspired you to
become what you're doing now a lot of my wrestling
inspires from eddie for sure uh he was as far
as i mean growing up and mexican dominant culture
as being mexican myself it's uh it was good to
see La Raza win it was the best thing to see
one of us up on the throne showing that Us as
Mexicans, even though we're small. We're short,
but we're hard workers. We're resilient. We're
Not gonna take No for an answer. That's the pride
and joy of being Mexican. I think it's just we're
workers. Well, if you fall there, you get into
genres, you lie, you cheat, you steal. That was
your cheat, you lie, you steal. Exactly. And
you leave broken hearts everywhere. Sorry ladies.
Let's see. So that was definitely number one
up there. definitely had to go to The Rock. I
grew up in the Attitude era. I grew up in promo
after promo of just, it doesn't matter what you
think. The cutoffs, the storylines, the placement,
everything was just amazing to me. He was the
most electrifying man. Known to man. Yeah, I
mean so it's entertainment. Yeah. Yeah sports
entertainment. I'm sorry, but he was I don't
know he was One of the greatest wrestlers is
just and I mean by persona I'm not saying like
his wrestling was all that don't be wrong. Like
he wasn't High -flying he wasn't but he was always
Trying to know what's the word? There's always
electrifying like he was always anticipating
like how I can make something different how I
can You know, they have a... How can I turn a
five -minute match into a storyline kind of thing?
I won't lie, man. This guy knew how to make his
opponent shine. He made his opponent shine. There
was no and ifs or buts about that. He knew how
to go out there and throw a match together and
make both the story and himself and the other
person look... Great like I'm wrong. There's
a lot of other controversy between all that too
But I think anybody with their mountain Mount
Rushmore arresters is gonna have some controversy
on top of that right right right right I think
third is definitely gonna have to be Jeff Hardy
everybody and their mother I think third place
has to go to both the Hardy brothers. There you
go. There you go. We can do that. We can do that.
We can do that. We can do that. It has to be
both of them because they were both doing some
of the wildest things in the Attitude Era. It
was the ladder of the TLC matches along with
Edge and Christian and the Dudley Boys. It was
them doing the crazy things, the jumping off
of stuff and jumping and breaking through the
table. Tables, chairs, ladders. How many kids
went to the hospital because of that? Because
of the Lardy Brothers. Luckily, I could not afford
the hospital, so I probably am not one of those
kids. That did not stop a lot of people, man.
And I think fourth and final and it's only because
of my finisher is Evan born He he was off I saw
first saw him on the indie scenes he was wrestling
under Matt Matt Sadal to think at the time and
His finishers his finishers his kicks his his
high energy Into his like abilities. It was like
he was I think I got former gymnastics or like
cheerleader or right right right? He was using
that to his abilities and I saw what he could
do and then when I first saw his finisher that
shooting star press and how He would hold his
legs when he would do it It was it was the most
I was like that's my finisher that right there
is my finisher and don't get me wrong And you
can ask any of the old geez as well as anybody
who saw me wrestle back in the day The way you
see it now is not the way I used to do it back
in the day, okay? There was times where I would
scorpion myself so bad that you could literally
see my leg kick the back of my head somehow bad
I would undershoot it. And I'm not even kidding.
I'm pretty sure if anybody of the OGs are watching
this and they're hearing this, they'll tell you
there's a reason why my... I have a lot of back
problems now, I'll tell you that right now. But
it was just something that I was like, no, I'm
gonna master this finisher. And because of Matt
Sadell slash Evan Bourne, I made that my finisher.
That was, so now, yeah, that was. Have you ever
seen that finisher before, bro? Yeah, I saw it.
I've seen it a couple of times. You have to have
some ups to actually do that whole maneuver.
You can actually see the soles of your feet.
It was so crazy. Like he would go and he would
hold his legs. He would hold his legs as he's
like gain, which is it's called a gainer, which
is a forward backflip, right? And he would gain
off the top. And when he would gain, he would
hold his legs until the very last second. I would
just watch just like, I just don't want to land
on my back. or my my neck anymore that's really
what i just don't want to do anymore so like
well you want to land on your feet yeah no i
want to land on my stomach you know i don't want
to land on my neck right my neck and so yeah
it just i i and i can just imagine the matches
that if me and him were in the ring together
i'm pretty sure we'd throw down because of that
like Remember the first time I saw a shooting
star was I think it was a Billy Billy Kidman
Yeah, Billy Kidman was when he first did the
shooting star in WCW. I was like wow that looks
pretty freaking cool His was also crazy because
he would jump and then rotate Not just like it
wasn't one solid motion like the way mine is
I rotate as I jump he would hop up Rotate and
then land it was Yeah, it was one of the craziest
things. I remember I'm kidding with the shooting
star press was like in one of the OGs but other
generation I'm sorry, but Just that was I don't
I every time he did it I sat there like how did
he survive like? He just throw himself rotated
and then landed. I couldn't get the physics of
it like Because he would stop in midair then
begin rotating yeah rotate Yeah, I think it's
rotating now I get the pause button like that's
real light click like you go up wait Rotate and
then just drop. Yeah, if he is I know he's the
first time I saw a shooting star ever saw shooting
star with with Billy Billy Kidman and the way
it was it was like wow that was like one one
of many High flyers, you know in the business
at the time you were like dude. This is crazy
Consider the fact Lucha has a lot of Lucha Libre
over men in Mexico have crazy Aerodynamic jumping
out of the ring fly out the type bro. Dude those
those guys fly on wires, dude I don't know. No,
no, no, for sure. But like a definitely that
that move was super dangerous to this day. There's
times I still smack the back of my feet when
I land. There's still days I smack them by that.
I mean, like when you're coming down, the back
of my feet will smack the back of the rope as
I'm coming down. So like. Luckily, my knee bends,
so of course my momentum doesn't change. But
there's times where I get really close to that
ring where the guy's just not set up where he's
supposed to set up, so sometimes I gotta adjust.
I gotta open up my feet a little bit wider to
get a little bit higher out and get further out.
There's times that they're just a little too
close, so I'm like, ugh, this is gonna hurt,
and there's times where I have to kinda crouch
my knees so that way I can kinda miss the ropes.
I just wanna let you know this is gonna hurt
me more than it's gonna hurt you. Exactly, exactly.
that's exactly what that move is and like that's
why I have so much respect for like like moves
like that like what like pox uh red arrow that's
a same concept but with a rotation right right
ricochet is 6 30 or sammy graver 6 30 like right
those moves hurt us more than they hurt you like
yeah it's it's extremely death defying and we
love it We love it here. You should see if there's
any classes out there on how to pause midair
Have you watched almost every single WrestleMania
up to date not everyone not almost everyone but
just about I want to say there might be a couple
I've missed there's one in particular WrestleMania
that just sent goosebumps all over My fucking
body dude. It was a they were having I think
it was the format tag team match it was it was
a uh four tech teams going for the tag team titles
they were above the ring and uh they were waiting
for a fourth uh entry the new day was walking
down and they're walking down they go well there's
there's one more entry coming in and they're
walking down they're going who and who and who
and then you seriously hear the holy shit bro
look i'm still getting goosebumps as we speak
right now bro Ultimate feeling, bro. My wife
had never seen me at the age of, I think I was
like 48, 49, 40. 47, 48, 47, 46. Jump off the
freaking bed, running up the hallway, banging
on the wall, screaming my head off like a little
girl, because it was the freaking Hardys, bro.
You were 15 again, you were out in summer, you
were sitting there watching the WrestleMania
just about to play, you had your snacks, you
had your families all riled up, and that's exactly
what it became. That was, to this day, bro, the
biggest pop that WrestleMania has ever had. this
day i mean yes you had the aj style you had this
one right here when they came out bro the it
went nuts because it's even crazy because like
even kids that like barely getting into wrestling
know who the hardy boys are yeah i mean so like
that's true that tells you a lot like that tells
you their legacy like yeah And that's exactly
why you start screaming like a 15 year old girl
like dude it was nuts I mean the matches they've
had they're Beyond classic. I mean, they're freaking
monumental with way with Christian and edge with
the heart with the Dudley's You know them themselves
and so many other tag teams that I mean, alright,
don't get wrong. The usos are great I love watching
the useless fight. I want them to go back to
the old face pain. I like the old usos, but Matt
Hardy and Jeff man. They it's just Bro, they
literally raised the bar to the maximum when
they came to tag team 100 % it was it was such
a great experience to watch them any time you
saw them wrestle It was any match they had it
was always like what's gonna happen and you see
as soon as you see them get on top rope you're
already like Something I would probably tell
Danny was on top of the roof So there's a recording
on one of the shooting star presses I did off
off of the the the off of the The cage and in
one of the videos you can hear the background
get on the roof Get on the roof! He's gonna get
on the roof! Okay, no. Don't let that get too
crazy, bro. It sounds like you. That's the thing.
It's like I'm hearing you talk, and I'm hearing
that voice back, and I'm hearing that voice play
back in my head. He's like, he won't do it. He
went, get on the roof! Get on the roof! He's
gonna get, he's gonna get, get on the roof! And
I'm like, okay, where's me? Where were you? Where
were you that day? I peeped the fan, man. You
can hear him say So through your career of wrestling
through the time you've been in, how long, how
many years has it been already been wrestling?
I'm going on 15. I started when I was 19. Nice.
Yeah. I'm 34 now. It's crazy to say, but 15 years
of wrestling. All right. So out of all the matches
you had, give me one match that replays in your
mind as like, dude, that's like one of them.
most intense match and I think he's probably
gonna say jumping off the cage is one of the
most intense matches ever no actually no that
was the most fun I had in a very long time that
was for sure that spot itself is very memorable
but I don't see a match that I played over and
over and over and over it would probably have
to be our fatal four way it was like Novum crisis
I think back in the day it was called Uh, it
was Danny Chance, Eric Shadows, Ray Knight, and
I, and at the time we were a faction, and at
the time the faction was having, you know, at
Storyline, having some issues, and it was gonna
be a four -way, I think, I don't remember if
it was for the title, for a chance for the title,
or just for something, but we went balls to the
wall for no reason. Just a regular Friday, we
decided, hey, this ain't a four -way, it was
a four -way. That sounds really, Danny? Never
use that phrase on there again, four ways, please.
It's called a fatal four way, dude. Say that
like that, please. It was four minds that like
to go all out, all together, and that's exactly
what we did in that match. And I've wrestled
WWE superstars, I've wrestled former WWE superstars,
legends, all and so forth. And he's saying it
was for the grand words. Yeah, it was for the
title. I don't remember if it was for the title,
like for the chancellor title. But I remember,
and we just, it was four of us just planning
this. This is what I have in mind. This is what
you have in mind. This is what he has in mind.
We're all going to put it together. And that's
what we did. We all made sure we all looked good.
We made sure we all took care of each other.
We made sure we all hit what we need to hit.
That was the night I also got one of the worst
injuries I got in my life. Four minutes into
the match. Thank you, Danny chance My 15 years
of wrestling I haven't yet to give any risk Right
now, but I did the he wanted to dive out at the
same time. I did a a dive to the outside at the
time I was working on the the red arrow which
is the Forward, forward, backflip with a twist.
And I thought the perfect time to try it out
was on the very top of the pole to the outside,
which is about 10 feet off the ground. You know
what I mean? It was Ray's fault. It was Ray's
fault. But Chats was like, hey, man. It's always
the argument between Ray and Danny. But Ray was
like, hey, man, I want to dive out the same time
that you dive out. Your daddy's saying, he didn't
catch you by accident. So the spot was, I think,
Eric and Ray were outside. I was supposed to
dive on Ray. And Chance was supposed to dive
on Eric. And Chance wanted to do this new dive
he's working, which is like an over -the -top
kind of rotation, cross -body over -the -top.
And I was like, well, I guess I'll hit my rotating,
my red arrow at the same time. I was like, Ray,
can you catch me? Ray's like, yeah, I got you.
I got you. I was like, all right, cool. You know
what I mean? Well, he was wrong, though. So we
get up there. And I'm on the spot. I'm waiting
for Chance to hit the rope. And I'm already kind
of setting up for the spot. And I hear Chance
hit the rope. So I'm kind of like, all right,
he's running. So I go for it. Chance dives out.
I dive out at the same time. And I, uh, Ray,
I guess, he wasn't certain, you know, he's never
caught someone off of this rotation before. He
kind of just like opens up his arms, but doesn't
know how to catch me. So I can't, he kind of
like anticipates one direction, but misses me
completely. So instead of catching, I kind of
bounce off of him. Like I didn't, it's not my
momentum. My monster kind of just hit and slid
down and went straight down, hit first into the
concrete. Yeah, this is ten feet in the a ought
to concrete this right this isn't the ring this
is right Yeah, this is literally just black and
I just remember the pain I remember chats in
the video. It's the funniest thing because you
see me both of us jump off you see It was a double
corkscrew bro. It was in no double, I'm gonna
tell you that right now. It was more like a triple
-soik? I went up, rotated, came down, hit the
concrete. Chance is getting up, like, you know,
he's still selling, like, you know, dive out,
body up. I'm just like, ugh, gotta work myself
back to my number, holding onto the ring, like,
ugh. My whole hip is just numb. I can feel the
pulsing of my hip. I was going to say, you can
feel your heartbeat right there. I can feel the
pulsing on my hip, but I can feel like my whole
leg is just numb. And I just remember just holding
my hip and then turning around and just boosh.
There's no timeouts in wrestling. So I was up.
Chance is up. So he thought he's good to go.
So I turned around and just get clocked right
in the face. Just like. Well, where we go again,
right again the adrenaline just everything yeah
fades into the background So again, I just that
was the first four or five minutes of my match
graph. This match was like 20 something minutes
long We went at it and it was just back and forth
with everybody we had the crowd on their toes
all time We got a holy shit chant. We got multiple
holy shit chance. We got a standing ovation.
We got just the most recognized that you can
get as a wrestler as far as throwing in a show
like that. But not only that, I got to wrestle
with my brothers. These are the guys that I went
to training with and we beat each other up day
after day. Now we got to throw down in a match
that was made by us. And as soon as you started
the story, it's funny, because you say it was
you, Danny, then you threw Eric. I'm like, oh,
this is about to go south real quick. Actually,
when I was hearing that story, I couldn't help
but play, this sounds like a Looney Tunes cartoon.
But it was, it was Chances, Bugs, Bonnie. It
was intense, it was great, and it was... It was
a nail in the coffin for our brotherhood. That's
all it was. That's awesome, bro. It's also the
fact when you're with your brothers, you say,
hey, we're going to put on a kick -ass show.
Let's go out there. Let's get the fans something
to cheer about. I think anybody in some kind
of talent, whether you're in some kind of band,
in some kind of sports team, in some kind of
anything that you're doing, something that's
not just by yourself. And you sit there and you're
like I my team has to come together such as this
podcast It's not just it's not just the chew
podcast or the epa the you podcast, right? You
know what I mean? So y 'all come together like
though this podcast was amazing that that that
performance of the band that we just did You
know what you sit there? You're like, no, that
was that was great. Like when people were entertained
people Wanted this people and that's it. That's
that's what it that wrestling show was it was
after that match we were just We were high on
that. We were the highest we've ever been in
our lives. Like it was That feeling I don't think
I could ever recreate unless we have another
show where it's all four of us and we throw down
again and like That's the day that I pray on
is because I'm not religious as a day I pray
on like I read out in the universe right right
right it was I don't know it was just it's That
was the best indie show that I could think of
that that's as far as that I can think of day
in day out and that's because I've wrestled Teddy
hard I've wrestled I've wrestled these guys and
like I'm not saying we've had intense matches
like I've wrestled Paul London I've wrestled
the other people like great role and they would
not like we like I'm excited to be out there
you know I mean this is to me is just like I
have to make sure I do my job right right These
these guys I'm out here like no, I'm out here
to go have fun Yeah, I mean then like I was that's
that was the first taste of that. That's the
first taste of like actual fun as far as like
in the ring other than like Little small matches
that they don't they meant a lot to me at the
time But as far as like now knowing that you
you know what I mean? Like you uh, cuz you were
you were essentially working with with family,
you know, yeah I was still green like I was still
I mean things like our fourth or fifth year into
wrestling But even then that's still considered
you're still kind of barely dipping your toes
in the wrestling scene They don't mean I'm 15
years into the wrestling scene now. I mean I
look back I'm like I was a part of my language,
and I hope anyone will get it. I was a fucking
moron. I see some of the pictures. I'm like,
bro, what the fuck was I thinking? The hairstyle,
the gimmick, I'm just like. It's best not to
think about that. You guys if you're watching
the show after the podcast there's a link on
the comments I guess it's that fatal four way
you guys have hoping it was yeah, but you can
click on that link It'll take you straight to
the actual match. I got George chiming is this
Teddy Hart speaking of hi Can I get a little
behind the scenes on that yeah kidding He's not
kidding. That boy showed up with like blood after
blood and just sitting in the background in the
back and like... So pretty much the chingazos
didn't really hurt. I don't even think he felt
it and I understood why that he would talk for
30 minutes because I think he'd forget where
he was. Every time he tried to get... Yes, sir.
Bro, it was the craziest thing. He's like, I'm
about to wrestle this guy. He's sitting there
smoking up a storm and I'm like... Don't worry
about it, we got him back. And that was the night
I got suplex on the concrete. Afterwards, here,
smoke this. You know what, I think that's what
I was most disappointed, I did not get a puff.
I think that's the worst part, he was like, hey
man, afterwards, he was just like, that happened.
That happened. Oh my God. Well, did you see that?
We are an hour. A minute into the podcast. This
is a great part. This is why I wanted Matt to
come in because he has great storage. This guy
has gone through match after match. It's like
when daddy comes in also when he starts rolling
bro these matches he talks about these might
the experience had with different teammates wrestlers
out there with him that he's wrestled man. They're
fun to listen to because I would love to hear
from people that were there that night. We saw
these matches. I would hope this gets out there,
and if y 'all were there, I'd love to hear about
it. What's y 'all's pull on it? What did y 'all
think of that night? What do you remember of
that night? Because in wrestling terminology,
we think that they're really just going to remember
the ending. That's what we always tell each other.
They're just going to remember the ending, but
that doesn't appear to every fan. That doesn't
appear to every fan. I've learned that. This
is why I always, when I wrestle, I create different
moments because I know that it's not that ending
it's not just the ending that they're gonna remember
i i've learned that fans remember little spots
throughout the match yeah and that's that's that's
true there our fans are evolving and i'm trying
to evolve with them right i got you i got you
yeah the whole scene is evolving like we've had
other um newcomers to the game show up here on
the show and they say like they can feel it like
it's like right there in the valley you know
just like right there it's about to it's it's
it's it's slowly uh getting to the point where
you know it's it's a must to go to these shows
now on the weekend or wherever they are you need
to go check this out because it's something it's
been around for a while but now it's becoming
like a must see when the when the season started
the tickets go on sale they sell out real quick
Yeah, they move. They move pretty fast. Even
through our winter shows, we're throwing on shows
through our winter. It was cold as hell outside,
but we still be out there wrestling. They bring
blankets, coats, and you name it. They were out
there watching us. So we throw on 24 -7, 365.
Okay, not 24 -7, but definitely 365. We'll try
to hit it all year long if we could. And if our
body lets us, we'll do it every day if we could.
But unfortunately, it's squishing. Yeah, I hear
you. We're coming close to the very end. There's
one last question I want to ask you, man. When
it's all said and done, finally, the day comes
where the boots go in the ring, the traditional
hurrah. What do you want to be remembered as,
as far as your whole wrestling career? What do
I want to be remembered as? I mean something
new something that's a good question. I think
I've ever been asked that something I want to
leave behind basically something that's I Don't
know that I was I was real from the get -go there
was no hidden Agenda there was I'm No strings
attached. I'm just just go it was wrestling all
about wrestling. I hope that that's what I want
to get left behind is when they talk about wrestling
and wrestling gets mentioned whether it's WWE,
AEW, Japan, anything when they mentioned wrestling
in the valley, wrestling here in Texas even.
I want them to be like, hey, did you know who
Matt Wright was? You know who Matt Wright is?
Matt Wright used to do some stuff back in the
day. Matt Wright has some stories. Yo, you ever
see Matt Wright's page? You haven't seen back
in the day when he used to do I want to be like
that when they're just sitting there like yo
look up this match, look at that match. You think
you know wrestling, listen let's watch this match,
let's check this that match out. You know what
I mean? I think that's what I want to get left
behind. My name, I want to be able to be like
Matt, Matt Riot. Yeah, Joe Matthew Hernandez.
Guys, if you guys are watching, you see that
picture right there on the screen. You got that
QR code that click on that bad boy. It'll take
you straight to Matt's page. Follow him comment
on the podcast. Tonight's podcast. Let him know
he did a great job. What I would tell you, dude,
I mean this interview. I mean, like I said, I'd
love to come back. I have plenty of stories.
We're going to bring you back, bro. You're going
to come back. You definitely come back. I got
behind the stories. I got stories behind stories.
I got stories on top of stories. And that's because
we didn't touch base with your bartending thing,
bro. Exactly, on top of that. That's 15 years
of bartending, too. So we come to the time the
show where you get to nominate the next person
on the podcast Raymond nominate you to come in
Before him in Danny nominated Raymond come in
so now you get a chance to nominate any person
from the new breed clan To come in and talk man.
Well, let's go full circle. I nominate Eric shadows
Eric Shadows gets calmed down. Oh my god, that
one's a... Let's really get your OG novelmienes.
Oh my, dude. I'm not gonna lie to you guys, I'm
not gonna lie to you guys, I did have Eric Shadows
scheduled last year. Unfortunately, he couldn't
make it. It was during the holidays. I totally
understand, man. Work schedules are crazy at
that time. But now they just kind of loosen up
a little bit. Have him in the podcast, because
Eric, if you're watching, no surprises like I
did last time. I promise. If you want, Eric,
I'll stay at home. I won't show up. But yeah,
Eric Shadows, you've been called out by Mr. Matt
Wright. So those of you that are watching right
now on the screen, there's a total of nine of
you guys watching. Shoot this link. To Eric and
say hey man, they just called you out Matt just
called you out You got to come in the podcast
and let's shoot the shit like we always do with
Eric I mean come on in and we need we need to
talk again, bro That's right. Go harass him until
he goes to chew a new pocket and then I'll give
you choose address You can go harass him after
that area Anyways, man, first of all, man, I
want to say thank you, bro, for coming out, taking
the time. Have a little fun with us out here.
I know it's your first time being on the pod.
I hope you enjoyed yourself on here, man. It's,
like I said, having you on here for the first
time. Talking you chit chatting with you. It's
like bro. This had to happen sooner or later
I need I need to talk to this guy cuz like I
said When you go to these matches you see Matt
come out you're like, dude, this is a guy I want
to talk to you I want to see he there's history
there. We got it. We got to hear these stories
Yeah, we got to hear these stories cuz you know,
like you said, but yeah, I'm an open book and
that's what we like Want to say thank you bro
coming out and here having some fun with us man
and whenever you feel Down the road, we have
open spot at the end of the month. Do you want
to come and chit chat some more? Hell, just let
us know. We'll have you come in. I'm nice here.
It's like usually Thursdays at work. So I'm off
Thursdays, so got nothing to do, but. Perfect.
Perfect. Hell, yeah. Let's get you. Let's get
it. One dream match I want to see, because I'm
not sure if it's ever happened yet. Maybe I've
missed it. But I really want to see Matt and
Sean go at it. Cause those two guys, you and
Sean, Sean, Sean Jones. Yes. You guys are like,
I think that would be a bloody match. Honestly.
Those are watching the Tik Tok. It would be a
red match. There you go. I'm sorry. I didn't
mean to use that word, but that would be something.
Wow. You know, that would be one heck of a match.
Cause all you gotta do is book it. Yeah, this
would be literally the correct word, a slobberknucker.
Just leave it at that, guys. Leave it at that.
You heard that. You heard that live here. Anybody,
any promoters listening, it'll be a hell of a
show. Yeah, it'll be one hell of a show. I'm
just tossing it out there. Damn it, they're going
to be on the roof. Pots and pans. Fuck, beer
all over the stage. The broken beer bottle. Thank
you so much, man. We appreciate you. Keep doing
what you're doing, man, and keep raking out those
shows, bro, because your guys are doing amazing
out there. I can't do it without your support.
Just know that anybody listening and anybody
out there, I appreciate your support, whether
it's the high, the thank yous, the boos, the
cheers. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't for you.
I just want to let y 'all know that. All right,
man. Thank you so much, man, bro. Guys, that
is the podcast for the night. What do you think?
What do you think about this episode, man? You
know, at a certain point, a memory popped into
my head. It's a memory of yours, actually. Oh,
no. Didn't you tell me that? Your little brother
actually caught up onto the roof to do a shooting
star one. You know what, there's someone in the
podcast on that one because mom's probably watching.
And then someone from the crowd said, do a flambe.
And he said, shut up, dude. It was a mystery
person in the crowd. And that's when my brother,
Quest, went to the hospital and CPS almost got
caught on my mom. We do not talk about that,
man. But another great show tonight, man. Great
guest, great company. Every podcast that we do
with these guys, man, when it's this is the one
reason why I want to do the wrestling thing this
year, man. It's it's. it's just boys talking
man and just good old wrestling having a good
time and it's it's fun bro it's fun and i know
people that are watching thank you so much for
tuning in i appreciate make sure you follow share
subscribe uh to the podcast and you know and
like i said let erik know that he got called
out and danny if you're watching you'd probably
be the first one to tell hey you just got called
out bro you got a chance but anyways man uh true
any last words I'm taking my leg off. Okay, we'll
go ahead and take that off. Matt would probably
be very interested to see that, so he's already
looking at like... Oh, you brace yourself. You
better go to my next match, and I'm gonna use
that as a weapon. I'm gonna throw it up in the
air. I'm gonna use that as a weapon. If you think
I'm kidding too, I'm gonna use that as a weapon.
You think I'm kidding? I'm gonna put boots to
asses with that. And I'm going to put the stiletto
heel on it. Do it. Do it. You get to work with
it. You can put the lap post on top of it. Oh
my god. Now it turns into a critical story. Anyways,
guys. Thank you so much for tuning in. We'll
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