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ABJ Podcast Ep 20 Zack Xander · ABJ

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without further Ado, sorry, running so far behind, let's
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bring in our guest, the one. The only his name is like his
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intro, music says 14 times, Zach Xander.
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What's going on going on? Brother.
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Zach is a member of the Honor Society.
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I've had I think every single member of this stable now on the
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podcast, except one, although one all the is he is he is, he
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is on the list, I'm getting, I'm getting them on.
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I will figure it out. I promise crispy, you will be on
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the podcast and I'm sorry, it's just it's just Crazy crazy day
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here today. But yes, the Honor Society
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training out of the sanctuary and maybe we'll find some other
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stuff out about you as we go. But let's get into this my guy.
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How did you get into this insane thing we call professional
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wrestling? Oh man.
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So it's crazy or really it is I started and a lot of people
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don't realize this. I started in late 2019.
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I knew a guy. His name is Yankee Yankee good.
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His maker. He wrestles a lot of the New
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Jersey scene and him. And I, we got in touch and he
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brought me up into this place up in New York, which another area
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he wrestles out of, and he started training me for a little
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bit Yankee. Then introduce me to my very
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first book, pro gig, which was ECP W.
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It's was I can't remember the venue, exactly.
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But it was in Mid-Hudson New York.
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And I got to meet, you know guys like Gene Okerlund.
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So I got to meet guys like Captain emit pain, Love Jones.
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You know people you and I both know Anthony and I got to meet
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the crew up there and it was a reffing gig and I had so much
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fun a lot of great memories from there so I trained on and off a
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little bit with those guys until I worked a little bit over one
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training session in broadheads Dale got Go to ppw.
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I got to do a class with Ava ton of respect for him.
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I get a seminar with the Gallows.
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A lot of respect for you. I was a good seminar.
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Yeah. Oh my God.
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Yeah, it was real. I watched that one.
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I was I was there watched it? No.
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No kidding. Look at that.
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I was actually standing on the side with Mike Orlando.
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We watch that whole seminar together.
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Yeah. No kidding look.
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So I guess we've met before we even really met.
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Yeah. That's incredible.
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Wow, yeah, I remember my favorite part of that seminar is
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Doc Doc. Gallows treated it like a w
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seminar. So everyone is in the ring and
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everybody was doing like this, the basic stuff and Doc just
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looked around everybody and says shirts off.
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Let's go. And everyone's gonna remember,
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everybody was like, I'm not in good shape and he's like shirts
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off. Let's go.
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And then he kind of like not roast everybody.
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But kind of was like this, Is what this is what's going to
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happen. You're going to walk into a room
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and they're just going to make you immediately uncomfortable by
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taking you out of your comfort zone.
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And and he did like, it was a really cool eye-opening thing
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too because he said, listen, I've trained, I trained a never.
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I've been a part of every single company you could imagine.
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And this is what they're going to do when they, when you walk
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in the door. So I was it was very interesting
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to see from his perspective and kind of give people immediately
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that taste of. Here's what happens when you're
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on the bigger. Bigger leagues.
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Oh yeah, dot dot dot Gallo. Some, that was really
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incredible. I remember my one buddy arrived
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a little bit late. So at this point, we're all
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shirtless he gets in and I look at him and I said, hey, doc said
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shirts off, you gotta get it. Take your shirt off and he's
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like, what? And I said, sure tough.
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So he took his shirt off and then, you know, he did he did
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the thing in the room but, you know, he's Raining now actually
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over, but awful currently and very proud.
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He's a young kid. Yeah, we be 16 at the moment and
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I, we go way back, so, his family and I knew each other.
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So, you know, he's now in the business, but yeah, so I did one
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class with offer, it's a Samoan training, so it killed me water
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running. Yeah, a lot of lights, I
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couldn't feel my legs for a long time.
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But after that. Now I got then introduced to the
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sanctuary by Kyle D and the Fearless One.
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Ironically enough of all people. They introduced me to the
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sanctuary and I was like, well, this is close to home and this
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is closer than broadheads though.
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So let me see how I go there and how I like it.
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And see, you know, because I've never heard of this Sanctuary,
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this is my first time seeing it And I went there and I loved it.
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It was such an incredible feeling, you know, seeing
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everyone for the first time meeting John eating precious
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meeting Vince crispy. The Fearless One Kyle Libro down
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together. It was, it was overall really
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fun trip. And that small introduction just
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like yeah. Yeah.
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You know what? I think this.
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Where are you based out of? So I'm really in like, the way
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Looks bare area. Okay, so I'm, you know, like, I
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could go to Brock head still and it'll be like an hour drive.
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Or I can go to the sanctuary where it's like 30 to 40 minutes
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and you didn't know about, you didn't hear about like
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backbreakers or Now High Ground of time.
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So I've heard about backbreakers and backbreakers has always been
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something, you know, I've been considered but it was just, you
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know, like I think Word of Mouth.
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Mouth overall just led me there more.
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Yeah. I'm said of having to reach out
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and, you know, going that way about it.
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I think word-of-mouth convinced me.
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Yeah. Well, we're glad to have you in
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the sanctuary and you're part of it now, so, I'm so sorry.
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I'm, I'm off my game. So, your know, what is, what is
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the difference so far in your training experience from, you
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know, your place in New York to then broadheads Ville for your
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solo session and now, and now the sanctuary I think the
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difference really is. As much as I love to play some
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New York. It's New York was like two to
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two and a half hours away from me.
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So I wouldn't be there every week.
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I wouldn't be there constantly whereas you know, the sanctuary
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and they're a lot more, I'm seeing a lot more people.
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I'm getting more ears and getting more Minds.
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So there's more things to pick even like with these epw because
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I trained with them for a little bit to Jersey.
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They have a school out in Jersey.
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That was about two hours away from me and that wouldn't be an
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easy Drive BP W, PP W. They were, you know, like I
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said, there were an hour. There were a lot of good habits
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to talk, to some incredible minds, but like I said, overall,
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at the sanctuary, it was just closer and a ton autonomy.
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Fantastic months to pick from you.
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Got Powell Co you got, you know, gentlemen, you got Schultz
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Hawthorne and even the Honor Society kids, Billy Walker.
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Got a lot of Minds to pick from there.
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Yeah. The credible inspector, all of
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those guys. Great trainer.
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Yeah like I said it is tough man.
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I only I only ever travel for gigs so it is very difficult
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knowing what you're coming from to travel an hour and 30 minutes
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hour, 45 minutes to broadheads Ville.
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Then it is 30 minutes to go to up the road for me.
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Anyway, I up to Road in an office for school County as a
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30-minute Drive, which if people like, that's a long time and 30
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minutes is your normal commute. It to work every day if you live
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in our area, because it's just the way we travel, you
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Sanctuary. Feels like it's five minutes
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away. We're traveling to most places
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for me as well as is a quite a hike, you know, God driving it
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like Rio Grande Jersey, which is like a two and a half, three
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hour drive driving to this place in Jersey, which is three hours.
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And then yeah. And then you jump on the road
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and you're in Hazleton and 15 minutes and you're ready to go,
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you know. Yeah no, it's beard.
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I'm so. Used to traveling.
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I be like, oh, it's two hours away.
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That's not far. And then like every other
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person's like, what do you mean two hours is really far in?
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Like oh yeah, yeah, that's that's one thing about this
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businessman. If you want, you want to be in
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it, you better put miles on your car because you're going to be
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all over the place. I probably paid more money and
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tolls, and gas, Inlet last year than I probably care to admit
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Towles alone, told me. But hence why the patreon is a
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great way to support the AVG. No, joke.
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Yes, but so, how do you know you're starting your journey
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here at the sanctuary and you got what?
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When was your first time you actually have to step in the
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ring? Had a match and put something
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together. So I mean obviously training but
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like the very first film product and I got to step in the ring,
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put something together. Well actually, let me tell the
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training story, first the very first time John look outside
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their troske and you know, he asked me about my Background and
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came from and all this other things.
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And you know, I told him the story that I mentioned to you
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and I got in there. He said.
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All right, I'm gonna give you my guy.
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One of my top students and it's Torres.
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He's gonna hem and Zack. You guys are going to wrestle
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put on a five-minute match and we did and it wasn't great but
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you know, we put it on. We got through John, sat me
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down, talk to me about my credits.
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As I was in that stuff and he offered me to come back, which I
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did the very first show that I wrestled for was the Stampede as
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you. And I both, you know, very
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famously. Remember a lot of names were at
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that show. Adina steel.
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Let me see. Dina only because adina's
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relevant right now is just the first one.
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I could think of edenic it. Billy Mike, Riley Crow.
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Trying to think is, there are so many people there are in Roxas.
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That's when I could think of believe Tyrant was in that.
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Yeah, tired, you know, there's dudes, I want to learn from
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Tyrant right there. Both of them.
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Yeah, both of them. So so yeah, yeah, I'm sorry.
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Step in there with some big names.
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What was that experience like you know lock love getting in
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that situation. It was really fun.
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Getting the go, there above average, Joe Scott.
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I got to wrestle him in that Stampede for a little bit too
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but a lot of great names, a lot of fun talents.
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So many Minds to pick from like, hey, this is what, you know
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we're thinking to see what we're going to do.
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It's like awesome. Yeah, I'd love to learn that the
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Bristol. I and Marcus Skyler.
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He was there too. Again a very fun mind to learn
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from and that that was the big thing for me.
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I just got to learn from a lot of people if you were able to
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tell someone who is listening to this, in your early career, what
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is what is your style of what you're trying to emulate or what
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are you trying to get out of your career?
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Like well if someone's going to see your match what were they
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expecting? You know, I'd say I'd say a very
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quick style, I would consider myself a very hybrid style
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wrestler. So we do know that a technician
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or technical, I do know a little bit of Lucha Libre I you know
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I'm very quick. I'm very flying or high-flying
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them very fast paced recently actually just this past weekend
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I wrestled at a promotion called Delta wrestling Alliance and I
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wrestled in a championship title match.
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H and I probably hit like the longest elbow in the corner that
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I've ever hit. I jump from about more than
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halfway in the ring and I connected fully on that elbow
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which I was very proud of. And I'm not trying to, you know,
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boast about myself but like cool.
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Cool, cool. Small arms, big elbow but I
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couldn't, I couldn't, I always thought to myself, like, what if
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you were a really small Like key guy didn't have the mass or the
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weight and your there was like well you're going to be the high
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flyer and you're like oh I don't like heights.
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Oh no this is a journey. Like well honestly I used a bump
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in kid, that's going to be your gimmick.
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You're going to be bumps honestly.
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No, I've always, I've always thought of that.
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I was like you know it's a pretty weird.
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I better go start reading some other costumes.
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Yeah, better get better. Break your fear Heights real
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quick. Honestly, what would you say?
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Some of your challenges are as a professional wrestler.
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Something that you know you realize maybe your shortcomings
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that you're trying to work on to get better at my size my size
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hands down. That's the first big thing I
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need to get bigger and that is something that I've always
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pushed on myself sighs. I'm not going to say Size
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Doesn't Matter wrestling, but in a sense, it does, I'm going to
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be honest with you, I am 145 pounds.
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Not the smallest. It is still plenty of that your
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hair. Oh, sorry without the hair now
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but like I'm 145 pounds. I do need to get bigger.
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I need to grow more muscle and there has been issues with me
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growing muscle. But everyday I am fighting to
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get that muscle. Ironically enough.
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You had when you had bent on the podcast, I want to tell this
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story when you had Vince on the podcast.
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Cast and you said and I appreciate you for saying this.
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He said either Zach Sanders going to be a kid who grows a
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lot of muscles or doesn't grow any.
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You said that while I was at the gym Like I was running the
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treadmill. Yes, exeter's either going to
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grow muscle or not and I'm like, oh, it's tough man, when you're
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young and you just don't have control your body or your
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metabolism, it happens. And when you're very young, so
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you don't have that spot in your body where your metabolism slows
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down, you can bulk up your probably every single time you
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run and every single time you're doing treadmill or cardio,
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you're probably hindering yourself, but you also need to
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the cardio because you need your gas tank for the wrestling ring.
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So it's Double-edged sword. Did I was in the same boat?
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I wasn't a professional wrestler going up, but I played a lot of
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basketball and every time I play the chord, I had to have an
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outside shot because I didn't have the body to take it to the
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paint and every single time I try to take it to the pain, I
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would just get bodied and I was just like this is this is not
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easy for me at the same time to I had a joint disorder that I
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was fighting through that. I probably should have been
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playing with and and I kept every time I would drive, I
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would just take beatings after beating after beat and I had all
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these like injuries that have to play through and I remember one
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summer, I was the same boat as you as like, 145 when I
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graduated high school, but I had nothing up top.
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I had a nice core and then I just was all legs.
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So, most I was scrawny on top of my legs were night.
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I got high bit, like thick legs, because I grew up playing
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soccer, and I was also a kicker and sucked in football.
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So I just remembered one summer. I worked at this Factory and it
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was hot and I, it was just insane.
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And I would bring a loaf of bread and a huge jar, peanut
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butter, and all I would eat all day long, which is peanut
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butter. Which is and I would take
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protein and I would just take everything I can to bulk up and
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I end up going from like 14 and they took me like a year and a
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half, but I went from 145 to 150 160 170 and I started leaning up
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a little bit and then I got hurt again and then and from it went
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from bulking up to then just getting overweight.
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So so there is hope you just going to have to.
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You're going to have to Triple up on everything.
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That's going to, you know, put those those pounds on and just
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get in the gym and tear. Get up, you know, I mean you got
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to really tear those muscles up and do what you got to do, but
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it's not easy. But it's like I said, also I
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didn't start doing it. Until I was in my I would say my
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late, my late 20s when I start doing it.
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Yeah, because I just couldn't, I couldn't gain weight now.
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Now, I can't lose. No, I get it.
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I get it now. It's definitely tough for me to
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get muscle. But, you know, I'm going to be
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honest with you. I'm going to keep at it.
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I'm going to keep going to the gym.
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I'm going to go full Boogie till and just do I can and I mean
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look at look at look at people like Jordan Oliver at one point
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in time he was the same way. Yeah size issue.
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And now and now he's kind of. He got up there, he got older,
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he got more mature. He's figured out his body.
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He's figured out in the gym and he's bigger.
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Look back at Ace. Ace was super scrawny at one
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point in his career, very tiny. And now he's now he's built like
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an NFL running back. You know what I mean?
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It's just, oh my God. Just get just takes time and
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dedication and I feel like you have the passion and the heart
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to do it, you know. I appreciate that.
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Not really didn't. Thank you.
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Yeah. So what are some goals you have
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for this upcoming season of The Sanctuary?
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Um, at the sanctuary really goals are just going to keep up
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when you step in the ring, with all right.
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Now I know I'm still, you know, to Fresh of him, too young to go
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for any title. So that's not sitting at the top
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of my mind at the moment right now.
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For me, it's about learning, it's about picking Brains, it's
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about getting to people's minds. It's about you know, seeing
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dudes like Jays Hawthorne getting in the ring with him
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because his knowledge, it's fair Impressive, Prince, Ahmed
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prints, you know, the torture artist, very, very intelligent,
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man, as well as Billy Walker again, you know, him and Billy.
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They're going to be termine together.
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But, you know, they're also bulking very wise and, you know,
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even getting better, getting stronger working out more with
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the Honor Society training harder.
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Get those guys just keeping at, you know, keeping at it.
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Keep doing what I'm doing and just Getting better Orton,
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Italy. Who what are some matches you
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had last year that stand out? That that you feel, you may like
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that. You felt maybe was that moment
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where everything clicked for you.
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Um, I think the big standout match for me and I know a lot of
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like the popular answer is Philly.
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Mike Swanson and though that match, you know, I do enjoy that
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match and I'm very grateful for the opportunity to wrestle
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Philly monk. It was the Bristol lion when I
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got in the ring with him just cuz just cause Again, I got to
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pick mines and I understood his psychology and being able to
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learn from him. And also my family was there to
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watch that match and being able to see their reaction and being
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able to understand what's going on in the ring.
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I got it at that point I was like I think I'm understanding
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things a little bit better here and I think I got a shot here.
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Yeah. You in Philly, Mike definitely
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had the Speed match, wherever it was like he had a little
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technicality and size-wise it matched up very well.
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But I think you and Bristol was a little different because he
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was a lot, he had more size on you and you can do a lot more.
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And you guys were able to, you know, get some get more stuff
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done because he can he can base and stuff for you as well and
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and, and take some high-flying stuff because of the size
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comparison. So yeah, I definitely think both
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those Master really good but like I said, Styles Clash, you
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know, I mean and I like I said, I think that the more of the
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size of thing is going to be beneficial to you right now like
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you wrestling, the bigger guy and letting it like essentially,
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the just the small verse big guy, I think is definitely going
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to be your advantage right now and you're in your career,
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younger career. Oh yeah for sure.
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A thousand and ten percent. So outside of this, thanks for
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what other promotions do you work for?
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All I'm. So I did work through this one
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promotion called RCW. Not Regional Championship
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wrestling but Renegade championship wrestling.
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At the time they had some issues going through.
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So you know, I wasn't they're not running at the moment I
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currently wrestle and and Champion for a promotion called
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Delta wrestling Alliance. I actually have the belt with
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me. Sorry, Kyle I gotta, you know,
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promote promote, haha. Um, but I Currently the DWI X
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Factor champion and I got to wrestle a lot of cool names.
23:42
A lot of cool heads from there. Where do you end up on Deck?
23:47
You're ready to go for that? Yeah, yeah, that's right.
23:49
I had that, I keep that thing on.
23:51
This is sitting on my lung, for the past hour.
23:54
That was not, that was not planned at all.
23:56
I would I swear to you? This has been again, organic and
23:58
he just like, just pulled that out of nowhere.
24:04
Like that seemed, it's so scripted for how quick you read
24:08
title of Jesus, the reach for it was just like, oh, by the way, I
24:15
I am the champion here. Yeah, he set me up.
24:19
Thank you. Wow.
24:20
All right. That was that was that was so
24:28
funny anyway but yeah, I'm looking a debut for a couple new
24:34
promotions as well. I can't necessarily say just
24:37
what yet. There's I was just in North
24:41
Carolina for private taping for a brand-new wrestling.
24:45
It's coming up. I'm going to be going out to New
24:49
Jersey in a couple weeks here and you know like I'm just
24:54
trying to Branch out a little bit.
24:56
Yeah I can confirm he took his title up for milkshakes.
25:00
Yeah keep drinking the milk shakes you put those lay down
25:02
that way. I will be the what you want but
25:06
it'll weight is weight at this point.
25:09
Well so who are some people that you emulate if when you like
25:14
growing up being a wrestling fan?
25:15
And that you watch on TV and you're like, that's that's,
25:18
that's where I'm getting my inspiration from.
25:20
That's where I'm driving myself for a lot of my moveset.
25:23
You know, at first it was a.j. Styles.
25:29
Truth be told I was very much so in the Casual Market I maybe
25:35
even religiously watching at this point Styles, Osprey back
25:41
then you know, General high-flyers Ricochet, you know,
25:45
guys who In the Indian market, those big names in the market,
25:50
But as time goes on, currently, I don't really think I'm trying
25:56
to emulate anyone else's style. It's weird.
26:00
I'm starting to find my own ground.
26:02
Starting to find my own homecoming.
26:05
And, you know, I think ultimately, it's just that this
26:09
one about having fun, trying to figure out what I can do, see
26:12
where I can push my body and see really how It could work in the
26:16
room. Yeah.
26:19
Now, there you go. The another one.
26:21
I heart. The extremely great wrestler.
26:25
So thank you to Pew. Thank you over.
26:29
On the twins side, I think there are things are crowns.
26:32
I'm not sure crazy what that is crazy.
26:34
Ruler most like a crown, right? They look very strange.
26:39
Little lean into that. Yeah.
26:43
So going into the sanctuary this season.
26:46
You know, for the Honor Society, what can you guys I know?
26:50
H member kind of told me a little bit of what their plans
26:52
are, what is, what is your goals?
26:55
Ultimately for the Honor Society I think for us 2023 is going to
26:59
be the year that we break out. I think it's going to be the
27:01
year do something. I think it's going to be the
27:03
year where we become something more 2022.
27:07
We introduced ourselves 2023. It's time to get the gears
27:10
going. I think we go out there.
27:12
I think we do something big and really make ourselves known
27:16
like, hey, Hazleton Pennsylvania.
27:18
We are the Honor Society, Vince Torres crispy precious Xander.
27:24
All of Us, we are going to do something.
27:27
I don't know what it is, but 2023, we are going to do
27:31
something. What is, what is the difference?
27:33
How what has been the difference with you?
27:36
Going from a situation of traveling, kind of solo and
27:40
going to places? And and getting that, that
27:43
experience, when it comes to like the New York, the New York
27:45
place, and this and joining up with a group of guys, as like,
27:49
the Honor Society and training in that fashion.
27:52
I think it's great personally going solo again those two two
27:56
and a half three, our car rides you know going by yourself.
28:00
It could be very tired some but just going to be able to go like
28:04
45 minutes or no I'm sorry. Half hour to 45 minutes away
28:07
from home. Just to meet up with your
28:09
friends, meet up with people that you call Brothers to be
28:13
able to get in the ring to be able to work and really get
28:16
better. I think I think to me that has
28:20
made all the difference. It brings me up physically and
28:22
it brings me up mentally and overall it's just a lot more
28:27
fun. That way.
28:29
Absolutely. Yeah.
28:30
I we were talking before about let the young guys over at high
28:33
ground and then you guys here at the sanctuary and it is, it is
28:37
very nice from an outside perspective.
28:38
To see you guys stick together and motivate each other help
28:41
each other. Get better keep each other on
28:43
track you know because easy to say this one days or so I got
28:46
today is not the day for me. All right today I'm not feeling
28:48
it, you know, to almost kind of like Everyone has those days at
28:52
least. I know I do where I feel sorry
28:53
for myself from like today's not the day for me I'm not growing
28:56
like I want I don't I'm not having the the most positive day
28:59
and then you have that reinforcements.
29:00
Let's go, let's go, let's go stop being sorry, get the car.
29:04
Let's just say it's do what you gotta do.
29:05
So I think it is kind of nice to have that support system.
29:10
I'm having those reinforcements there.
29:12
It's really a great feeling because there are times where
29:17
it's like, hey, like, I'm not feeling it like mentally.
29:20
I I don't think I could bring myself there and, you know, it's
29:24
not just me, it's quite a few of us to we just feel like, you
29:28
know, hey, we're not feeling you, but they're not others.
29:31
They'd be like now, let's do it. Like we need to, there's
29:34
obviously something going on, let's get down.
29:36
Let's talk about it and let's work it out.
29:40
But, you know, like let's do something.
29:42
Let's get better and of course at from there, we turn our
29:47
sadness, whatever emotion. We're going through at the time
29:50
and who are learning experience and knowledge on how to get
29:53
better again, in the US testing things seeing what works for us?
29:57
Was that what doesn't? So where can people find you on
30:04
social media and how can they show support?
30:06
Yeah, man. So you could find me on all
30:10
sorts of social media. I am on Twitter, I am on YouTube
30:14
Instagram and of course Facebook you can go ahead.
30:18
You can follow me at Zack, God's enter one or zags and ra.one.
30:23
I'm sorry. I'm still getting used to social
30:25
handles. They are all linked below as
30:27
well as if it gets her. Yes, they are all in the
30:30
description. So let me be the first to pull
30:34
up my own live stream real quick and Go to your description and
30:39
yeah, go ahead. Exactly Xander.
30:42
One Twitter's Zack Xander underscore one, YouTube.
30:48
You could go ahead. Look up Zach Center.
30:50
I'll be right there. Yeah.
30:53
Is there a place people could buy merchandise or anything?
30:57
Not at the moment. But plans are changing very,
31:01
very soon. Hopefully we should.
31:06
Yeah. I'll announce this here.
31:07
You should be getting a pro wrestling to you store coming
31:10
out. I've been approved for
31:12
everything. I just need to get some more
31:13
designs and then I'll have that all launch 10 available Okay,
31:20
sure. Come on a Brother.
31:21
Well, I do apologize. I do apologize.
31:24
You know, we didn't get the full 45 minutes.
31:26
Our out of this. I did have my tongue technical
31:28
difficulties to start, but like I said, do this, door is always
31:31
open and I'd love to have you very young in your career.
31:34
Have a lot of potential to best place to see him.
31:36
If you if you're not local to the area is definitely
31:39
subscribing. Under, in my, if I run my
31:42
YouTube channel, scroll down to the bottom.
31:44
First off, you're going to see friends that I follow follow,
31:46
all those people show them love and then you're going to see
31:48
promotional work for the number. That one, there is the sanctuary
31:51
and subscribe. Shows our look like they're
31:53
coming sooner than later. Which is fingers crossed, the
31:57
weather holds up and we can get rid of this cold weather and no
31:59
more snow and all that other great stuff.
32:02
And you can start seeing all this great action that you can
32:05
anticipate at the sanctuary once again.
32:09
Thank you so much, brother. I do apologize for all the
32:12
issues I had today. My camera everything's going
32:14
wrong. I didn't, you know, I just
32:16
realized You know, it's all glory.
32:19
I literally just like whole time.
32:21
I was gone away. It is my microphone set up
32:23
properly because I've Done Yet 30.
32:25
I did 15 minutes in advance of a podcast where I wasn't using
32:28
this microphone and that was embarrassing.
32:30
So, I'm so sorry for everything has been going on.
32:33
This is when this is what happens when you try to cram
32:35
multiple podcasts at one day as well as live streams and
32:37
everything else. So that is on me, I will
32:40
definitely have you back very very soon and we will we will
32:43
I'll give you your full a lot of time and we'll talk more about
32:46
stuff of your ha. Hobbies and stuff like that.
32:49
But Zach, thank you so much for your time.
32:52
Make sure you check out your links below support this kid.
32:55
He's young and his career, and we're going to, we're going to
32:58
raise funds, and we're going to buy this kid all the steroids.
33:01
He's going to be the most and you can listen, you can listen
33:06
to me at the sanctuary. I go a little hard in the paint
33:09
on the Honor Society so I'm not really a bad guy.
33:13
I just sometimes play one on TV but let's, let's Close out with
33:18
some great music by my boy Billy tray and we'll see you guys next
33:21
time here at the ABJ podcast. Actually, before we even move on
33:24
next. Next week we have two interviews
33:26
going on. We have someone I don't know
33:28
anything about it so I'm excited to learn a lot about them during
33:31
the show and grow and and develop that friendship will
33:35
Carol on the podcast this week for episode 21 and then 22 and
33:39
rounding up the month of January and the beginning of this year,
33:43
we're going to do later on that same day.
33:45
Donnie Bambino coming from High Ground warmer backbreaker.
33:49
So so great, great interviews. They're going into the month of
33:53
February things are going to be a little different.
33:55
We're going to go two days a week but it won't be the same
33:59
day. Those aren't happening on more.
34:00
It's going to be Tuesdays and Thursdays and they're going to
34:04
vary between 2:00 and 5:00. So depending on what time time
34:08
frame we can get in. We're going to do that.
34:10
So a lot of great interviews on coming up for the February, I
34:13
did announce a bunch of them, not going to go through them.
34:15
All right now, Now but there's some there's some bangers coming
34:17
up next month so I'm very very excited.
34:19
We're going to let you guys don't go and if you want to jump
34:22
over and hang out, we are doing a live stream in about soon.
34:25
As I can end this. Hopefully nothing goes wrong.
34:28
We will be live watching NXT for the watch along.
34:32
So thank you guys so much. Here's some Billy tray, Zac once
34:36
again, I appreciate you. My guy.
34:38
I wish you the best in this career.
34:39
This young in this, this crazy business that we call Pro
34:42
Wrestling. And we'll talk to you guys next
34:44
time on the a BJ. I guess there's some Converse
34:46
kid.