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Xavier Gotti: Wrestling Triumphs, Challenges, and Aspirations · Scene Projects Sports Network

• 0:05
  What's up, everyone?
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  Welcome to a very exciting episode of Beyond the Bell.
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  What's up, guys?
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  Welcome to Beyond the Belt.
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  Today, I have a very exciting guest for you guys.
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  I wanna introduce you guys to an awesome wrestler from the independent scene, someone I
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  have been watching very closely as of recent times.
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  This is Xavier the bomb Gotti.
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  Yes, sir.
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  Yes,
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  So how did you get into this?
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  You know, what really got you into wrestling?
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  You know, I guess actually, before that, where are you from?
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  What was it kinda like growing up?
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  So I'm from I'm from El Paso.
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  Well, I was born in El Paso, but I lived all around Texas because I was a military brat.
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  I lived majority of my life in San Antonio.
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  So when people ask me where I'm from, I'm San Antonio, but I was born in El Paso.
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  And, what got me into wrestling?
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  So I've been a fan since I was four years old, and I was just been watching it.
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  And then by the time I turned 17, I stopped watching because of on a ticket losing the
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  streak.
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  Then I got into some trouble for that past, like, six years not watching it, not not
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  focusing on it.
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  And then until I turned, like, three twenty three, I saw there was a wrestling tool, and
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  then I signed up immediately, and here I am.
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  You know, I like that, man.
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  Like, you know, you you liked it.
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  You kinda fell off from it, got into trouble.
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  You put went right back to what you love.
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  You know?
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  Yeah.
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  I got in a whole lot of trouble.
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  Wrestling literally saved my life.
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  If if I would've been a wrestler, I probably would've been dead or something.
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  You know?
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  Something.
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  Serious.
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  Yeah.
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  I understand how you feel, man.
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  That's what music and podcasting did for me, man.
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  That's good.
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  So,
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  you know, you do a lot of things, I guess.
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  What promotions have you worked with so far?
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  I worked over, like, a 100 different independent promotions.
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  But, I mean, if I had to get my I I say my top five favorite, I'll say king of sports, MPX,
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  ACW, I gotta put them over.
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  Let me see.
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  If I had a Right.
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  Top top bottom.
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  I mean, I started a dog pound, so I might throw dog pound in the mix.
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  That's what I came up off of.
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  And, if I had to say the biggest promotion, I say JCW.
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  I got it face to seven six.
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  So, yeah, that'd be my top five top five.
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  You were at JCW, man?
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  Yeah.
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  There's a lot of people that are stalked about.
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  They're like, you did what?
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  You were where?
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  Yeah.
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  I performed at JCW.
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  I talked to so many people from, like, your area on here, and they all like, they mentioned
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  JCW as one of their ones that they gotta get to.
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  Yeah.
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  Every everybody wants to get there.
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  I remember first two weeks next.
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  So Sorry.
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  You were saying you go go off.
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  I said my first two weeks in doll pound, I got a match in JCW against Southern six.
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  I was like, a blessing.
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  A blessing.
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  Like, your first two weeks in there?
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  Mhmm.
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  That's crazy.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  So how long have you been wrestling?
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  Five years.
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  Five years.
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  Only five years.
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  So still fairly new into this, you know.
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  And you obviously got a lot of life left in you to keep going here.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I still got a whole lot of life in me, and I'm still learning the business.
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  I'm still learning the business.
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  Absolutely.
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  I know the feeling.
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  I've been in my industry the same amount of time, and I mean, there you've probably we've
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  probably both barely gotten to through the tip of the iceberg.
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  You know?
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  Oh, yeah.
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  Oh, Barely just started.
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  So, let's talk about championships because I've noticed at least with one of the new newer
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  match I saw from this year, you were walking out with not only your own belts, but it looked
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  like you were a tag team champion.
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  I got five titles currently.
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  That you do.
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  I won one just last night in Arkansas.
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  See,
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  I I was on so you wanna tell people what titles you hold currently?
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  You want me to actually show you?
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  You can show me.
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  Yeah.
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  If you got them there.
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  Alright.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Here.
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  Let me go get it.
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  Stay still for, like, a minute.
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  Hope you guys are excited as I am to see these belts here on camera.
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  I'm back.
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  I to move a lot
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  of weight from one room to another real quick.
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  Yes.
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  So I'm a start over the belt I won.
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  My five reigning belts so far.
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  The grapplers king of sports grapplers champion.
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  I won this at Emory, Texas against Nate Collins.
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  And then Oh, man.
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  It was it was a life saver ever since, he, he put me over.
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  My life's been chilling, man.
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  Like, I've been going over I've just been going all over social media, like, going viral.
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  Like, everybody's just sharing my stuff.
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  Everybody's, like, giving my appreciation.
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  So I can say Nate Collins really put me a minimum of Thank you, Concrete Nate Collins.
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  You know what mean?
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  And Yeah.
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  Heard the name a few times, when talking to people off the camera and, like, they were
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  like, you have to interview Xavier.
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  Who said that?
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  Who said that?
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  I've heard it from, like I think CJ told me I should interview you.
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  CJ who?
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  CJ.
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  Renegade?
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  Oh, yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I remember that.
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  Joe I think Joe mentioned you as well.
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  Joe who?
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  Joe.
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  Joe Payne.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  That's a power car guy.
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  Yeah.
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  Got that.
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  But this is my other title, my ACW tag team champion champion.
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  What was that?
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  Tag team?
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  Yeah.
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  ACW tag team.
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  My bad.
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  And who are you holding that with?
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  As if I didn't already know.
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  Me.
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  Yeah.
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  You yeah.
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  You Marcello, my my cousin.
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  Marcello Jackson.
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  I
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  can't remember.
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  He walked you out to one match, and I the main thing I remember that match, you flipped into
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  the other guy.
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  And then there was, like, some big brawl with the La Familia and grabbing Marcelo.
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  Oh, yeah, man.
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  Yeah.
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  Well well, Chris Carter, right, if I'm mistaken?
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  Yeah.
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  It was Chris Carter, I think.
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  It was either him or the other guy that was also messing with those guys.
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  I can't remember which one, though.
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  Because I didn't win the actual Alex Bullsdale too, but probably it was the Chris Carter one.
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  I think it was the Chris Carter one because I don't think the Alex one had all that going on.
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  It did.
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  It did.
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  Oh, it did?
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  So it was the Alex one then probably there?
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  So They both they they actually both had it.
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  It was it was kinda like it's the match was kinda the same with, Bullsdale and Carter.
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  Oh, they was just kinda copy paste matches that they had to do?
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  Pretty much.
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  Yeah.
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  Pretty much.
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  How do you feel about that?
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  Kinda like doing two carbon copy matches, I guess.
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  I mean, the crowd.
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  I mean, we do of course, we made it different, but, like, the finish was kinda set the same,
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  all that.
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  Like, it it just was there was a lot of stuff that was the same.
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  If you watch it, you'll see a slight bit difference, but, like, the finish and all that
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  was the same.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, that would explain why I'm mixing the two up, and I can't tell, like, with which
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  one's which towards the end there when I'm mentioning that.
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  You know?
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  I couldn't remember if it was one or both even.
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  Oh, and this is my Georgia state champion.
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  You have a Georgia state professional wrestling champion?
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  I have, three titles in three different states.
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  So five titles total.
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  That is my fourth, ACW heavyweight champion.
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  I lost I won it last week.
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  Just won that one
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  last week.
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  I love it.
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  Yeah.
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  And I won this last night, the Texas Cam, the champion.
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  Hype and Glory champion?
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Hype and Glory, twin city tag team champions
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  champions.
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  You know, that's awesome, man.
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  I mean, five belts, you are the most decorated wrestler we have had on this podcast so far.
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  That's interesting.
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  That makes me feel great.
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  You were saying?
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  Sorry.
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  I was saying that's interesting.
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  That makes me feel great.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, I didn't I wasn't expecting to see them all on camera either.
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  Like, this is the first time anyone's ever actually showed their belts on the podcast.
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  I and I know that.
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  Well, I'm glad that I I could be the first one.
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  So, I'm trying to think.
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  Is there anyone that you've fought that, like or wrestled that you've wanted to face since
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  you started?
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  You know, like, just that, like, person you wanted to wrestle and you got
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  Like a dream match?
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  Yeah.
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  Even if it's just an independent guy or anything local.
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  Human tornado.
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  Human tornado, man.
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  Someone needs to make that happen.
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  Needs to make that one happen?
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  I've been a fan of dude since I was a nine year old little boy.
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  He was the first independent wrestler I wanted to that was my favorite.
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  And then as being a as being a grown adult, I I saw him again.
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  I was like, what?
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  He's still out there?
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  So yeah.
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  I might ask if I can get in contact with him, he'll come up
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  with you somehow, see if we can make something happen for you guys.
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  No.
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  Honestly, like, man, I would I don't know how much this fee is, but I will put in.
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  Like, man, Newman Tornado has to win a match against Xavier guy.
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  I can't go over the man.
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  Like, I got so much respect for him, like, so much.
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  So much.
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  Yeah.
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  Like, you don't wanna beat him, but you wanna be able to say, was in the ring.
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  I took these moves, and the tornado kicked my ass in the wrestling match.
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  I like to say, Lumen Tornado panics every guy.
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  He's probably, like, a lot lighter than me too because he's really skinny, but I don't give a
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  hood.
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  I'll sell to that pimp slap.
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  All that.
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  Yeah.
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  So, I mean, you're obviously a bigger guy.
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  You know?
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  I'm pretty sure over six foot if I remember correctly, and you're
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  a heavyweight.
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  Is it harder to do flips and things then being, you know, six foot tall and a heavyweight?
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  Well, I'm I'm one eighty.
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  Yeah.
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  I know.
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  I mean, even, like, a lot really?
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  I guess heavyweight in wrestling.
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  Yes.
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  It's yeah.
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  I used to be a lot heavier.
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  That's why I was, like, struggling.
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  But now I'm one eighty, so it's it's nothing.
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  Yeah.
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  Because I noticed some older matches looked like your flips weren't even get weren't
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  getting as high up and things.
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  Like, now I'm like, wow.
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  This guy, like, I saw the newer matches, and I I can see how much, like, better you're doing.
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  You can, like, see the improvement and advancement over the time with the first ones
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  posted to the newest ones.
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  And Oh, yeah.
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  I can tell you're gonna go somewhere.
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  I I really appreciate it, man.
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  I'm I'm been trying so hard.
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  I'm just praying that god answers my prayers.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  Absolutely.
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  I mean, a lot of, like, you know, taller guys, especially in the independents, aren't out
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  there doing what you do, you know, the flips, and especially the running and flipping into
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  the corner without any, like, extra off the ground before doing it much.
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  You know?
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, I
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  think I have I have not been caught.
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  You look at some of my videos, you're gonna just see me eat eat the floor because they're
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  like, I'll catch you now.
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  You just see me hit the floor.
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  I I I'm guessing you're you're thinking about the one where your face hit direct.
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  Oh, that happened one time.
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  I forgot about that.
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  No.
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  I was just talking about that time.
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  That happened one time.
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  Yeah.
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  I saw you get flat faced, man.
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  Oh, you saw that?
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  Yeah.
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  That was a bad, bad day.
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  It looked bad and then, like, you know, you realize it's not so bad when, like, you kinda,
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  like, turn over a bit.
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  You're like, okay.
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  He's not completely destroyed.
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  Yeah.
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  I got up, continued the match, and won a battle royale right after.
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  Yeah.
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  And that's awesome.
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  Yeah.
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  That was a bad moment.
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  I thought I broke my nose.
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  My mom almost cried.
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  Like, it was just like
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  I thought you broke your nose, man.
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  Like, I mean
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  did there was a mat underneath there too.
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  I missed a mat, like, by this much.
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  I just remember hitting concrete straight nose first first.
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  And then my eyes popped up.
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  I'm like, oh my god.
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  I ain't getting knocked out.
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  I was just, like, shocked shocked before that happened.
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  Well, I mean, after taking, I guess, no money hits that are so hard, you know, it probably
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  takes a bit more to knock you out now.
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  I mean, I know I can get knocked out, but, I mean, yeah, I'm a strong guy.
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  Yeah.
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  I can say that.
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  Yeah.
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  I'm a strong guy.
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  Strong guy.
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  Yeah.
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  So I've noticed a couple nicknames showing up on posters there.
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  We have Lockjaw and The Bomb.
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  You wanna give me the origin behind those?
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  Lockjaw, like, that was so that was, like I was portraying like a dog, like, you know, like,
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  trying to bring the, pit in me because I was trained at dog pound, but then I eventually I
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  mean, I got over with the character.
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  Don't get me wrong, but it just wasn't me.
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  And then when I became the bomb, that's when I really found myself.
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  And then when I joined Moe Swaned, that's when I kinda changed my character a little more.
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  But yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean so how did you, like, decide on, like because you obviously, your outfit and
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  everything you wear to the ring is custom.
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  How did you decide on what to do there?
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  So my gear you know Shawn Michaels, right, back in the nineties?
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  He had no hearts.
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  Man,
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  man, I grew up on wrestling.
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  I've very many old apes.
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  I love that guy.
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  Shawn Michaels, man.
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  Best.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  So yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I just I just did balms except I have leather and I have a belt boot.
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  That's just the difference between me and Shawn.
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  Is that you have a belt and you have the balms, basically?
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  Yeah.
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  Like a like a belt for my pantsuit.
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  You
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  know, and like, I mean, I guess that makes a lot of sense when you say it, I see it, you
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  know?
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  I kinda, like, see, like, your inspiration with your outfit there, you know, a bit.
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  But I really didn't before.
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  I was kinda like, where did this guy get this?
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  You know?
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  Yeah.
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  And then I did the pink because of Bret Hart because I'm a Bret Hart fan too.
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  Oh, yeah.
• 15:49
  Bret Hart.
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  I mean, gotta love Hart.
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  Bro, I I love how he talks shit to this day, bro, because he's not gonna be alive forever,
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  and he's just gonna everybody's gonna miss him talking shit.
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  He's talking shit about everything.
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  I I love it all, man.
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  Whatever Bret Hart says, man, he's right.
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  Even if I don't agree with them, I'm gonna still agree with them.
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  Like, he's the goat.
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  Yeah.
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  He is to wrestling what 50 Cent is to wrap.
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  He's just out there trolling people for fun these days.
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  He said, I'm old.
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  He said, I'm old.
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  I have nothing better to do.
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  Where's my computer?
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  Yeah.
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  No.
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  For real.
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  Because he gets paid.
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  Each time he talks shit, he gets paid.
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  Yeah.
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  You get paid to talk shit when you have that many followers.
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  I mean, there's a post that said, Bret Hart said, if you independent wrestlers were just
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  like him, you'd be better.
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  I'm like, he's right.
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  I shared it and everything.
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  Everybody was disagreeing, but I I gotta agree with Bret Hart.
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  I love Bret Hart.
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  I just do.
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  So what's your biggest match that you've had?
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  Like, altogether or, like, a recent one?
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  Mean, over time, altogether, like, what's your like, the one that you feel like you the most
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  impact on you or your career or your style or, like, your biggest one.
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  You know?
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  Let me see.
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  Looks like you're a good one.
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  Well, yeah, I I probably have to say Ricky Ray is.
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  Yeah.
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  Ricky Ray is.
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  Because he was the first big name, he he he allowed me to put over.
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  That he allowed me to be or go over him.
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  So yeah.
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  I remember because, he was, like, really the first outsider guy I worked.
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  And then when I found out who he was, I kinda was nervous.
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  I was like, I don't wanna fuck up because I was like, if I fuck up against a guy like that, I'm
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  out.
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  But we he kept that match so simple to me.
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  I got so over with the crowd.
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  You it's on YouTube with me and Ricky Reyes.
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  But, yeah, I had to say Ricky Reyes.
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  Shout out to Ricky Reyes.
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  Yeah.
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  I've seen that match.
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  I mean, they looked the crowd loved you, man.
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  I mean, to this day, I mean, they say the bomb, they don't even get your name out and the crowd
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  pops.
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  I know sometimes they bring it out and they're like, the bomb got it.
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  I'm like, it's the bomb Xavier got it.
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  But sometimes they don't even get to your name before the crowd goes crazy because they heard
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  the bomb and they know who's about to walk out of that curtain.
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  Well, they call them the bomb.
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  Yeah.
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  They yo.
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  Yo.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, especially with the freaking I'm trying to think of this, like, Alex Bolesdale.
• 18:19
  That match, when the bomb was set, you could, like, you could hear that bit of the crowd pop,
• 18:24
  like, immediately, that instant.
• 18:27
  Oh, yeah.
• 18:29
  At high times, oh, yeah.
• 18:31
  Yeah.
• 18:31
  I remember that that day, I was called the bomb Xavier guy.
• 18:35
  I was called the bomb guy.
• 18:36
  Yep.
• 18:37
  I
• 18:38
  believe you were.
• 18:39
  Yeah.
• 18:44
  I mean, they'll get it.
• 18:45
  Right?
• 18:45
  I mean, I I already messed it up by putting the bomb after Xavier.
• 18:49
  Wait.
• 18:50
  Did you?
• 18:50
  I didn't even notice.
• 18:51
  Yeah.
• 18:51
  I I introduced you as Xavier the bomb guy.
• 18:54
  Oh, man.
• 18:55
  Yeah.
• 18:55
  Everybody always Xavier the bomb guy, but they call him the bomb, Xavier guy.
• 19:00
  Because, I used to call myself ex Xavier a logjaw guy, not logjaw Xavier.
• 19:05
  Logjaw guy.
• 19:06
  Got Got
• 19:08
  So it's kinda like that switch from, like, having in the middle to, like, they call me
• 19:13
  this, I am this.
• 19:15
  You know?
• 19:15
  Yes.
• 19:16
  I I just had a whole new character change character change.
• 19:19
  I like that.
• 19:20
  I really do.
• 19:23
  So what's your big goal with wrestling?
• 19:27
  Like, your end goal?
• 19:27
  I mean, everyone always talks WWE and this and that, but I know there's different goals other
• 19:32
  people have.
• 19:32
  I wanna hear what your goal is here.
• 19:35
  Honestly, just, like, get a contract.
• 19:37
  I don't wanna say a specific company because I'm open arms.
• 19:42
  Like, whoever's willing to help me get a job, help me pay my bills, I'll work.
• 19:45
  I'll work MLW, AW, NWA, TNA, AWE, all that.
• 19:51
  R o h, all of it.
• 19:52
  Yeah.
• 19:53
  All of it.
• 19:56
  And heck, with you being close to Mexico, maybe some of them should start reaching out to you.
• 20:00
  I know.
• 20:01
  Triple a, that's a long statement.
• 20:03
  I I wish.
• 20:05
  Like, what wasn't it just a year, year and a half ago they signed Jay Bishop out out of your
• 20:10
  area, didn't they?
• 20:12
  Yeah.
• 20:13
  About yeah.
• 20:14
  Yeah.
• 20:14
  It's been about a year and a half now.
• 20:16
  Now he's there.
• 20:16
  So, I mean, they're scouting at least.
• 20:20
  Yeah.
• 20:20
  I mean yeah.
• 20:21
  Well, everywhere is scouting.
• 20:22
  Everywhere is scouting.
• 20:23
  It's just I'm I'm signing for that one phone call, that one email.
• 20:27
  They they got my contacts.
• 20:28
  That's all I can say.
• 20:29
  They everybody be watching me, but just I'm just waiting on that one phone call, and I'm
• 20:35
  done.
• 20:35
  You're like you're like me.
• 20:36
  You sent out your trials.
• 20:38
  You sent out your info.
• 20:40
  Now you just gotta wait for that callback.
• 20:42
  Yep.
• 20:43
  Yep.
• 20:44
  And I'm I'm just being patient.
• 20:46
  Just going hard at independence in the meanwhile to show what I could do in an
• 20:50
  independence so I could bring to the table wherever I'm at, you know.
• 20:53
  Exactly.
• 20:54
  And, like, I mean, that's a lot of, like, the same thing.
• 20:57
  Again, like, know, we're wrestling and music and all entertainment really collides.
• 21:00
  It's like when you're starting on the independent, you gotta show what you can bring
• 21:03
  to the table.
• 21:04
  You also gotta make sure to send your contacts out and send in what you can do to these people
• 21:08
  so that they know you exist.
• 21:11
  Facts.
• 21:11
  Yeah.
• 21:12
  Yeah.
• 21:16
  This is all true.
• 21:16
  Yeah.
• 21:20
  So I guess, I'm trying to think.
• 21:25
  Who's, like, I guess, your biggest opponent?
• 21:27
  I don't mean, like, person wise at this time.
• 21:31
  Oh, you mean, like, size?
• 21:32
  Like,
• 21:33
  who's the biggest guy you've had to face?
• 21:39
  That's, like, the question.
• 21:40
  Probably Jace.
• 21:42
  Hello.
• 21:43
  Jace?
• 21:43
  Hello.
• 21:44
  Jace?
• 21:45
  Jace will say.
• 21:46
  Jace will say.
• 21:47
  Oh, fair.
• 21:50
  Yeah.
• 21:50
  He's, like, six four.
• 21:52
  Yeah.
• 21:52
  Like, three something.
• 21:54
  Like, you know, like, Eric like, when he had me in the corner when he would, like, splash me,
• 21:57
  it just it
• 21:58
  it would hurt because he's a big guy.
• 21:59
  Like, when he would, like, pick me up, slap me, it just felt like falling off the ladder.
• 22:03
  Because I'm not used to getting in a ring with big guys like that.
• 22:06
  But, yeah, if I have to say, yeah, Jace.
• 22:08
  Jace is probably the toughest son of a gun too at that point.
• 22:11
  Oh,
• 22:12
  I I can imagine them big guys gotta be tough as nails.
• 22:16
  Oh, yeah.
• 22:17
  Oh, yeah.
• 22:19
  So have you ever been hurt in action, Neil, doing this?
• 22:24
  Many times.
• 22:24
  Many many times.
• 22:28
  Any
• 22:31
  serious injuries, I mean?
• 22:33
  I mean, not to the point where, I can't well, I mean, the training, I got headbutted, and then
• 22:39
  I started leaking the back of my head, and I couldn't do the match the next day.
• 22:43
  Oh.
• 22:44
  That's, like, the only one.
• 22:45
  But, I mean, I healed two days after.
• 22:47
  It wasn't, like, for me to put me out months or years or nothing like that.
• 22:52
  You've never had nothing big like that, and that's awesome.
• 22:55
  That's great to hear, especially with, like, you know, a lot of, like, the way the
• 23:00
  independents have been on things.
• 23:02
  Like, I'm glad to know that, like, people are still well trained and no one's really getting
• 23:05
  hurt as much.
• 23:07
  Yeah.
• 23:07
  Yeah.
• 23:09
  Everybody's learning to be more safe with each other.
• 23:12
  Yeah.
• 23:12
  Exactly.
• 23:13
  Care of us.
• 23:15
  I mean, like, no.
• 23:17
  That's a lot of, like, you gotta know what's going on there.
• 23:20
  And, I mean, heck, recently, we had an injury out of your area, you know, in a match.
• 23:24
  And, like, that's the first one I've heard about since I started looking into it about
• 23:29
  eight months ago.
• 23:30
  Oh, no.
• 23:30
  There's a lot of people that get injured.
• 23:32
  A lot of people get injured.
• 23:34
  It's very common.
• 23:35
  And
• 23:37
  I guess when it comes to, like, getting taken out for busted bones and things, I've only seen
• 23:43
  a couple and I you know, the first serious one was just a couple weeks ago that I found.
• 23:49
  Mhmm.
• 23:49
  But
• 23:51
  my one of my favorite questions to ask, I don't know why it is, but, well, I do know why it is,
• 23:56
  but I'm gonna ask you.
• 23:58
  What is your opinion on them allowing marijuana in the wrestling industry within the illegal
• 24:04
  states as well?
• 24:06
  I see no problem.
• 24:07
  I say everybody deserves to do it.
• 24:09
  You know?
• 24:10
  Some are legal.
• 24:10
  They're in pain.
• 24:11
  They we're wrestlers.
• 24:12
  You know?
• 24:13
  I don't mind if it gets marijuana.
• 24:15
  Yeah.
• 24:17
  I'll always like to ask that just because, like, I don't know.
• 24:19
  It's a great question to ask because now the landscape is changing to where most states are
• 24:24
  allowing it within professional wrestling.
• 24:26
  Even though it's somewhat illegal, they're not really testing much in some states anymore.
• 24:31
  It's kinda crazy.
• 24:34
  Yeah.
• 24:35
  Yeah.
• 24:35
  But I like it because, I mean, it make might be able to make people able to do more with
• 24:45
  less pain.
• 24:47
  Have you ever had anyone
• 24:48
  shoot on you?
• 24:49
  You know?
• 24:49
  Not like, you know, do a shoot during a match or anything?
• 24:53
  Go off square?
• 24:53
  Ever had have I have have I have anybody do what?
• 24:58
  A shoot on you during a match?
• 25:01
  Fuck no.
• 25:02
  Maybe a chop?
• 25:03
  No.
• 25:04
  Maybe like a But they've never actually
• 25:09
  tried to hurt you or nothing really?
• 25:12
  I mean, no.
• 25:13
  Because I I'm a kickboxer myself, so it'd be at that point where I would knock the person out.
• 25:18
  So I never really had to worry about that worry about that.
• 25:22
  Only only shooting injuries I really caught was chops and chair shots.
• 25:28
  Like, that's, like, the only thing.
• 25:29
  But other than that, I've never been, like, punched in the mouth or anything like that, you
• 25:33
  know, where people are like, no.
• 25:35
  Got it.
• 25:35
  Got But, I mean, I wouldn't doubt if it happens now because, I mean, I do come across people I
• 25:41
  dislike that dislike me, but I never been in that situation.
• 25:46
  You've never been in that situation before.
• 25:48
  You know what?
• 25:48
  And that's good.
• 25:49
  I mean, I hear a lot of people like, you know, this happens or that happens.
• 25:54
  Yeah.
• 25:54
  I I hear about a lot of stories about people getting beat up.
• 25:56
  I I I witnessed it too.
• 25:58
  I witnessed when people getting beat the fuck up.
• 26:02
  I'm like I'm like, bro, you better go to your car and shoot this man.
• 26:06
  I'm just joking.
• 26:07
  But yeah.
• 26:07
  Like, I've seen people get mad stuff bad.
• 26:10
  My
• 26:11
  friend lit witnessed the worst one this year.
• 26:13
  He was actually at the Psycho Stew match when it happened.
• 26:17
  He was middle of the crowd.
• 26:19
  Oh, fuck.
• 26:20
  Yeah.
• 26:22
  Right.
• 26:22
  I witnessed someone getting their face stomped into light tubes.
• 26:25
  That's terrifying.
• 26:28
  He didn't power drive through a mirror.
• 26:32
  Just See, this is why I can't do that stuff.
• 26:35
  You wanna play yeah.
• 26:37
  No.
• 26:37
  Just because the kid wanna play both sides.
• 26:39
  But, like, me, myself, I wouldn't do it to someone because, know, I'm a professional.
• 26:42
  I'm supposed to protect someone.
• 26:44
  But when I see someone else do it, I'm like, damn, man.
• 26:50
  And it's also crazy that, like, you know,
• 26:52
  sometimes people agree to do that stuff, like, curb stomped and stuff.
• 26:57
  I'm like, I could not Yeah.
• 26:59
  Ever do that.
• 27:02
  Let me get my phone let me get my charger for my phone, guys.
• 27:09
  Good as no.
• 27:10
  So
• 27:13
  who are your, like, top four wrestlers, any promotion, any level, all time, your top four?
• 27:19
  My, like, top my favorite?
• 27:21
  Like, your like, your Mount Rushmore of wrestling.
• 27:24
  Any Boy.
• 27:25
  I I love to answer that.
• 27:27
  Me see.
• 27:28
  Let me see.
• 27:29
  Go ahead.
• 27:29
  Look at the chart.
• 27:30
  So number one, Shawn Michaels.
• 27:32
  It's a bucks.
• 27:33
  Oh, 100%.
• 27:34
  Secondary.
• 27:35
  Yeah.
• 27:36
  Undertaker.
• 27:37
  I go with Undertaker.
• 27:39
  And if I had to say third thing thing And fourth And fourth.
• 27:46
  Right?
• 27:46
  That heart.
• 27:49
  Was your third one?
• 27:52
  Stings.
• 27:52
  A little bit.
• 27:54
  You say fiend or sting?
• 27:55
  Sting.
• 27:56
  Sting.
• 27:58
  I was like, either one's a great option, but they sound kinda similar.
• 28:02
  Damn.
• 28:06
  I'm gonna so my phone is on 7%, and I can't find my charger.
• 28:12
  We can absolutely end now if you'd like.
• 28:14
  Is there anything you wanna tell everyone before you go?
• 28:17
  Oh, man.
• 28:18
  I, I could talk for maybe a good five more minutes before it turns off, but I'm here.
• 28:23
  Yeah.
• 28:24
  Yeah.
• 28:25
  Like, a good five more minutes, it should be good.
• 28:28
  Alright.
• 28:30
  Yeah.
• 28:30
  Did you wanna ask me before I get off?
• 28:32
  So
• 28:36
  is wrestling, like, your main venture, or do you do anything else?
• 28:40
  I've noticed some of the people in your area, like Demarcus Rashad do music and music
• 28:44
  promotion as well.
• 28:46
  Are you in any other industries?
• 28:48
  Mm-mm.
• 28:49
  Just kickboxing and wrestling.
• 28:50
  That's it.
• 28:53
  And what's the kickboxing then, I guess, do you have any fights there?
• 28:57
  Have you done anything with that?
• 28:59
  So I just started training, like, last year in September, and then I've been, like I've just
• 29:04
  been, like, so focused on it.
• 29:06
  I should have a debut coming up this year.
• 29:09
  Hopefully, yeah, hopefully, this, this year, hopefully.
• 29:12
  It might be the beginning next year.
• 29:14
  I don't know.
• 29:14
  But I keep getting post other things to do the something's gonna happen, and then change of
• 29:21
  plans always happens.
• 29:21
  But, yeah.
• 29:23
  Yeah.
• 29:24
  I'm gonna be I'm gonna be I should be debuting in boxing sometime soon.
• 29:28
  Soon.
• 29:29
  Or I might do MMA.
• 29:30
  I don't know.
• 29:31
  Just depends.
• 29:32
  I
• 29:33
  mean, I know MMA has got, like, a lot more going on and things, at least in our little
• 29:38
  Midwest Strip that we have, you know, from where I'm at to where we're at.
• 29:46
  Because Yeah.
• 29:47
  Know.
• 29:47
  Here, everybody loves boxing, MMA, all that.
• 29:50
  They love it more than wrestling.
• 29:52
  Oh, yeah.
• 29:53
  That's the same way up here.
• 29:55
  And, like I mean
• 29:57
  and, like, you know, I get more attention from boxing than wrestling.
• 30:01
  And all I do is just go practice, but there's just people that like that more than wrestling,
• 30:06
  and it is what it is.
• 30:08
  Yeah.
• 30:09
  There's a much bigger crowd for boxing than I mean, honestly, than there ever was before.
• 30:17
  You said what?
• 30:17
  But there's a lot there's a much larger crowd for boxing than there ever was before.
• 30:23
  At least when I was growing up, it felt like boxing was so boxing and UFC even back in,
• 30:27
  like, 2010 when I was, like, eight seven, eight years old was still kinda pushed down a lot.
• 30:31
  You know?
• 30:32
  Yeah.
• 30:32
  Now yeah.
• 30:33
  Nowadays, it's yeah.
• 30:34
  Because it it's it's real shit.
• 30:36
  You know?
• 30:36
  So people wanna say that.
• 30:37
  Nowadays,
• 30:38
  Nowadays, it's it's everywhere.
• 30:39
  Like, Netflix is in it now, and, I mean, Hulu's in it.
• 30:42
  Everywhere wants it.
• 30:44
  Facts.
• 30:45
  Facts.
• 30:46
  So upcoming shows, what do we got coming up for Xavier Gotti?
• 30:52
  I'm a be in King of Sports next week next week.
• 30:56
  And I think a week after that, I'm gonna hit Dragon Slayer in the ACW.
• 31:03
  So so you got next week, your day, you said king of sports, and after that, dragon slayer
• 31:08
  and ACW the next
• 31:10
  week?
• 31:11
  Yeah.
• 31:11
  I gotta look at my schedule.
• 31:12
  I might get it wrong, but, yeah, I'm gonna make my debut dragon slayer soon.
• 31:17
  That is awesome.
• 31:19
  I and I hope that that goes well, and I hope that they know that you deserve to get put over
• 31:24
  there because, I mean, you've proven it.
• 31:26
  You're walking around with five belts from three states, showing everybody exactly what it
• 31:33
  means to be a professional wrestler.
• 31:35
  You you carry yourself like a champion as well.
• 31:38
  Appreciate it.
• 31:39
  Appreciate it.
• 31:40
  So do you have any advice for everyone or anything before I let you go here?
• 31:45
  Yeah.
• 31:46
  Man, there's a lot.
• 31:47
  I could say his advice.
• 31:50
  Be patient.
• 31:54
  Your time to come.
• 31:56
  That's that's why I could really say the most positive shit moments.
• 32:04
  Just I I mean yeah.
• 32:07
  You were saying?
• 32:08
  Sorry.
• 32:09
  You cut a bit if you were still talking.
• 32:12
  Oh, no.
• 32:13
  All I said was just be patient and the time will come.
• 32:16
  That's the only positive moment I got to say at the moment.
• 32:20
  And, I mean, you're absolutely right.
• 32:21
  Be patient and the time will come.
• 32:23
  I also like to add y'all try to stay positive because your career does not advance through
• 32:29
  negativity.
• 32:31
  Not at all.
• 32:32
  Never be afraid to I get I some get some trouble myself, but I'm learning to better
• 32:38
  myself and be more professional about it as the time pass
• 32:42
  time pass.
• 32:43
  And, you know, that's how it goes.
• 32:45
  That's what you gotta do.
• 32:46
  You gotta learn as things go.
• 32:48
  Look.
• 32:48
  I'm very glad I got to have you on here.
• 32:51
  I'm happy I got to interview you.
• 32:53
  I really hope we can do this again sometime.
• 32:56
  You know, once you're a big name and you're way up there, don't forget about old boo boo down
• 33:00
  here at the bottom.
• 33:01
  No.
• 33:02
  Definitely never.
• 33:03
  When does this video get be uploaded?
• 33:06
  Should be honestly, it's probably gonna be a couple months out.
• 33:09
  I have so many scheduled right now to go up and go up and go up.
• 33:12
  That makes sense.
• 33:13
  That makes sense.
• 33:13
  But the day it drops well, actually, the day before, you'll have the premier link.
• 33:19
  So that way
• 33:19
  Alright.
• 33:20
  You know, even a few days before so you can share it out and everything.
• 33:24
  That sounds good.
• 33:24
  That sounds good.
• 33:25
  But, yeah, I'm gonna let you go.
• 33:29
  And, I'm, again, glad that I could get to interview you.
• 33:34
  And Thank you.
• 33:34
  I really hope that we can do this again and keep me updated on your career, please.
• 33:40
  I definitely will.
• 33:41
  I remember the name.
• 33:42
  But your name is Xavier, right, if I'm mistaken?
• 33:44
  We got the same name?
• 33:45
  My my real name is Xavier.
• 33:47
  Yes.
• 33:49
  Because that's how I found you.
• 33:50
  I was like, Xavier, that's how I remembered you.
• 33:53
  Got the same names going on.
• 33:55
  Yeah.
• 33:56
  You're, like, the sixth Xavier I've met in my life.
• 33:58
  There's a lot of Xavier's coming up about it.
• 34:01
  Yeah.
• 34:02
  Oh, yeah.
• 34:03
  Especially from, like, our, like, little, like, 20 to, like, 30 age group.
• 34:09
  Facts.
• 34:10
  But
• 34:11
  I'm gonna let you go.
• 34:13
  Have a great day, man.
• 34:14
  I'm so glad that I could get you on here.
• 34:17
  Alright.
• 34:18
  You have a good one, man.
• 34:19
  You as well.
• 34:21
  Bye.
• 34:21
  Bye.