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RAYMOND O'REILLY talks Gen Pro, WrestleForce, Jonny Storm, Family, Freestyle wrestling & more · What Do You Call It? Podcast!

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  Hello and welcome to another episode of What Do You Call It
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  podcast, I'm Your Host TV. Today's guest is possibly the
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  future of British wrestling, so please welcome Raymond O'Reilly.
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  We're going. To become this chat mate.
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  But yeah, but thank you for coming on.
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  By the way, mate, I do appreciate you coming on.
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  Thank you for having me. Normally I'm rewind the clocks,
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  but a few questions were submitted for you on my
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  Instagram where I asked the listeners and the followers to
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  submit some questions for you. So we're going to begin with
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  that big boss, Tyson Keaton, friend of the show.
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  I think you know what he's going to.
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  Ask because you. Asked a similar question, he
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  wants to know what's your favorite match of the year Wink
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  wink I I normally I supposed to do the week then but.
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  Yeah, Now I don't know. I don't want to upset Mr. Tyson
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  over here, but I've had so many great matches this year.
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  I've had so many ones that I call my favorite.
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  Obviously the one with Tyson, that was obviously one of my
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  favourites, but I've had so many recently in Tunbridge, my
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  hometown. I was with Connor Mills and
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  that's easily my favorite. That was brilliant.
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  That was so I don't know, just everything about it.
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  It just, it just flows. Just brilliant.
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  Maybe the fact that it was in my hometown as well, that don't
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  know. Maybe there was just something
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  in the air that debut. That was my favorite.
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  But also I had earlier on this year in March, I had a couple.
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  I had a match with Top Gun Tommy Kyle.
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  Yeah, yeah. And then yes, basically, yeah,
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  that was amazing as well. I really enjoyed that one.
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  Nice mate. Thank you Tyson for the
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  question. You might be a bit guided by it
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  wasn't just him that was and only him.
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  But that's cool man. We will touch on some of your
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  highlights and so how you got into Western business.
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  But of course I've got a few more questions.
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  Peckham, Playboy, Khan, someone I know you're very familiar with
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  of yours. He has asked who from Gen.
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  Pro should people keep an eye on.
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  People keep an eye on. You can say you as well.
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  Where should people keep an eye on Ryan Steele?
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  Ryan Steele, I don't know if you heard of him, but he's got this
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  character. He's got this.
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  He's got this book that he likes to really call it.
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  He calls it the Book of Salvation.
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  And he's just so intriguing. Do you know what I mean?
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  He's just, he's always got something going on.
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  And he's really, he's just got that.
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  He's just got about him. He stands out.
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  He's very different in a way that no one else says.
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  So, yeah, Ryan Steele. And he's in great shape and he
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  looks really good. Nice mate.
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  Have you wrestled in before? Yeah.
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  I've wrestled in before. I had a great match.
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  We've been back in. When was it?
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  September 14th of September. Yeah, it was me and Ryan Still
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  and we had this, we had this big spot fest.
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  We did all the all the indie moves and all stuff like that.
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  It was great. It's awesome.
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  Good man, good man, Peck and Playboy also wants to know who
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  do you want to wrestle in 2026? 2026 A big one for me I think is
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  Alexander Roth. I've always I've never I've met
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  him, I've seen him and I've oh, I've just, I love his work.
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  I think he's awesome for Alexander Roth and also.
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  Paul charismatic as well. He's good.
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  Yeah. No, Yeah, he's great with that.
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  And also, yeah, Paul Robinson. Yeah, he's good.
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  Yeah. He's awesome.
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  Paul Robinson. I remember, like, seeing him in
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  Osprey comes together as the Swords of Essex, Yeah.
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  And I got him really into like attending like independent
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  shows. And them two were just amazing
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  scale. But Paul Robson as a single star
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  as well. I think he's wicked.
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  Just. Very, very good at CPF as well
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  as A tag team, maybe with Isaac. That's awesome as well.
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  Also, how is Hakan, by the way, before I do get on to your
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  career and how you got into wrestling, how is he as an
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  opponent? Yeah, no, he's good.
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  He's good. So I've only really wrestled him
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  in sort of main event sort of circumstances and it's always
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  been great. It's always been really fun.
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  Yeah, it's been really fun in. So in Tunbridge at Wrestle
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  Force, I had I had another really good match with him and
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  he said that was his favorite one of the year.
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  So that was really good. Yeah, that was.
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  Awesome, nice man, and. For his Gen.
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  Pro World Championship, that one was even better actually.
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  That's when I had July 13th. That was also really good.
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  Really good times. It's great hacker.
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  Sick mate. So the current champion maybe?
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  Yeah. Mid 26 who knows someone?
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  Yeah, but I'll get it back off then.
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  Don't worry, I'll get it. Good luck to that mate.
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  Good luck. Going to be one of the clocks
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  and I want to discover how Raymond O'Reilly became a
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  wrestler fan. So mom, I don't know if you know
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  this, but my mum and dad both used to be wrestlers and that's
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  how they met. Oh wicked, tell me about.
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  That, you know, so my dad, so actually the gear I'm wearing,
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  the gear I always wear is actually my dad's old gear.
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  And his name is Chris O'Reilly. That's obviously where I get the
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  O'Reilly from my mum. She was lethal Lucy Claydon and
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  she's actually the MC for most of the Genesis shows.
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  Oh nice, so your second. Yeah, yeah.
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  And it was. So they sort of, yeah.
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  So they, I just sort of I've, I've grew up and it was always
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  around me. Do you know what I mean?
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  I've just sort of, I've just sort of grown to love it.
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  It's like it was in the family anyway, you know, I just always
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  used to love watching it on the TV when I was younger and I just
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  loved it. Just my favorite thing.
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  Did you go to a lot of shows that they would be in involved
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  in and did you find yourself? Actually, only one in a couple I
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  went. So I went.
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  I remember, I remember going to one of my dad's and Osprey was
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  actually on the show. Oh cool.
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  And I remember that. That was really cool.
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  But. Oh, yes.
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  So my mum basically, I mean, I said I so I had my first match
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  February of last year. But really I had it when I was
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  in my mum's stomach because she wrestled when she was pregnant
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  with me. No, no, yeah, she didn't know.
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  So that was, that was crazy. Yeah, yes, I suppose that was my
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  debut, Really. Yeah.
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  Bloody hell, my debut went what, like 6-7 months?
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  Yeah, that should be in the Guinness somewhere, mate.
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  Yeah, fair play, Joe. Did your parents kind of sort of
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  get you into the business in terms of making you understand
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  at a young age or did you kind of just develop and understand
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  quite early on sort of how it works?
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  Yeah, kind of. I guess as I just grew up, I
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  just sort of, I didn't even look at it as fighting really.
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  I just sort of looked at it like it was a performance.
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  Yeah. And I just sort of like when
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  everyone's, whenever anybody's asked me like, oh, what do you
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  want to do with youngest? Always?
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  I just want to be a wrestler because I just loved it.
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  It's just sort of, it's one of those things.
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  My parents did it and it was just, I don't know.
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  I don't know. I don't really know.
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  No, that makes sense. Yeah.
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  OK, yeah, but you did grow into it though.
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  You kind of knew what your parents did.
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  Yeah, definitely. You couldn't sort of escape her,
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  could you really sort? Of Yeah, yeah.
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  And I was asking my mum, like, obviously this is a couple of
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  years ago. And I was like, is there
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  anywhere that does children's professional wrestling?
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  And she went, Oh yeah, there's one in Maidstone actually.
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  And she used to know the promoter and then we went down
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  to there and that's Genesis. And that was just, was just
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  brilliant. Genesis is great.
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  Genesis is great, yeah. Is that how you would get your
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  foot interest in? Was it the encouragement of your
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  parents or did you sort of do it on your own So.
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  No, I did it on my own. So I was nagging.
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  I kept nagging my mom about if there was children's pro
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  wrestling in like, like just just in general.
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  So I didn't know if kids were allowed to do it.
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  And then luckily Genesis had a children's class, which I think
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  it's from age 8 to like, age 16 or something.
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  And I was 11 at the time, 11 or 12 at the time.
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  And I went down there and I loved it.
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  It was like, it was like everything you could imagine.
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  Like maybe it was just just because it was my first session.
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  We sort of, yeah, no. So I went outside and like
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  before the beginning session, there was a big rain session and
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  I just sort of walked in and I saw the ring.
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  I thought, oh, this is awesome. And then we went and then we
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  messed about on the mats, but it was literally, it was so fun
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  because when you think of going to a wrestling session as a
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  child, you all you want to do is like Rkos and stuff and that
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  first session. Swanton bombs and 4:50 Yeah,
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  yeah. And that first session was
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  literally you could like just have funds, you know what I
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  mean? And then just, and then you sort
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  of learn like the basics over time.
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  But you know, Jem bro was great for that.
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  It was really good for that. Yeah, I think Hakan's talked
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  about the school as well, teaching young adults and
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  children as well, which I think is pretty cool.
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  If I was a kid, sort of a teenager even, and I asked my
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  parents if I can wrestle, I would immediately get shut down
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  and told crack on with school. Hello there.
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  I've got a special announcement for my next guest.
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  This is. The Turkish Delight, the
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  talented Captain Peng himself, the Peckham Playboy Hakan Yahud.
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  When is it that you felt confident enough to start, OK,
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  I'm actually going to make something of this and then you
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  would basically have your first match official in ring debut.
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  Well, I, I don't know how how long I was.
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  I'd say I was just just under a year into training.
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  No, no, I was just over a year into training actually.
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  And then I went to this training.
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  So for, for Genesis, for ages, we didn't have a ring or nothing
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  because I know. So we only did matted sessions
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  until it like for about like a year and a half.
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  We just did mat sessions until we had a ring.
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  Yeah, until, until we did ring sessions again.
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  So we had out the ring and then there was a supper company who
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  had a ring and we, we just all went there because it had a ring
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  and it was it was in Dover. We were like a whole lot of the
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  jam pro guys just went there because it had a ring.
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  It was all dying to get in the ring and then it was so two of
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  the trainees would be selected into the like the battle Royale
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  at the end and then me and I don't know if you know Cletus
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  Cannonball. He also also trains about.
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  Yeah, things about. Yeah, he also trains.
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  And then me and Cletus got picked.
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  And at the time I was under this, I wasn't Raymond O'Reilly.
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  I was under this mask. I call myself deranged.
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  It was like a big clown. It was like scary, but I
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  literally just looked like a little like scrawny kid in like
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  a mask just doing my finger. It was.
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  It was so much. Fun.
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  How old were you at this point, by the way, when you did do this
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  before or when you were dating? Yeah, I was thirsty.
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  Hell yeah. Yeah.
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  You know, I remember. I loved it.
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  I loved every second of it. It was so fun.
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  And then, and then a couple of months later, actually, it was.
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  Yeah, it was the same promoter. He gave me this opportunity to
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  be in a triple threat match. And then and then it was like on
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  the day and I was bricking it. I was so scared.
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  I was so worried. But you know, I got through it
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  and it was it was fun. It was really fun.
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  Nice mate, nice. Have your parents, basically
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  your family, have they seen you wrestle live multiple Times Now
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  at this point? Yeah, yeah, there's always, I
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  mean, because because of my age, my like one of my parents have
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  to take me like all the time. Yeah.
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  And yeah, no, they all come like sometimes I think for the first
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  couple of them, because obviously it was special because
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  I hadn't, I hadn't had like a lot of shows at that point.
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  I get my whole bloodline to come along just to hold and watch it.
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  Just come and watch it and, and there'll be like a crowd of like
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  100 people and they're like 30 of them will be my family.
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  Nice automatic cheers for you then.
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  Yeah. No chance you're working here
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  that night. That's that's pretty cool, man.
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  That's pretty cool. I did that.
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  Did actually want to ask, you know, when you was like training
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  the match for quite a long time and then he'd eventually Start
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  learning to use the ropes. How was that first, by the way?
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  Like that sort of transition from mats onto the ropes?
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  Was it quite hard hitting? The struggle it was, it was such
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  a struggle because like from being the mats, it's all well
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  and good knowing that's a bump and that's a roll and all that
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  stuff. As soon as you get in serene,
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  you think there's like ropes and you just you don't and and all
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  your positionings often it's like weird, but I don't know as
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  it's like obviously we don't. We do like way more ring
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  sessions now. We do like twice a month for
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  ring sessions. So we get used to it and
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  obviously me working sort of every other week or every week,
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  just sort of, you know, it helps, but you know, it's rough.
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  It was rough at first. It was rough to start with, but
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  we we got there, we got there. No, it's mine.
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  I know you have got there because I have seen the content,
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  I've seen the matches, especially specifically for
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  Wrestleforce because we have just touched on Gen.
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  Pro, but Wrestleforce. Tell me about the highlights
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  that you've had there. Wrestleforce So what was it?
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  Wrestle Force So so Genesis there was other guy, there's
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  other guy. DK Williams, I don't know if
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  you've heard is another one of the yes, a promoter of Wrestle
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  Force wanted DK and then he'd also seen me in like other
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  training clips and he said I'll bring Raymond along.
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  Then I came along and I know the rest is history and we did like
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  this Fair show. I wrestled Kieran Lacy and that
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  was one of my best matches at that point.
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  I mean, I'd only had like 5 matches, but I really loved that
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  match. And then Tunbridge it was so it
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  was May 5th was that fair show. And then Tunbridge was on the
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  May 25th and then he booked me for Tunbridge and I wrestled the
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  Rap Master and that was really fun.
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  And then the rest is history, really.
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  Nice mate. Well.
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  I had a couple sort of throughout that year.
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  I had like maybe 3-4 more Wrestle Force bookings at that
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  year. And then since December last
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  year, I've been on it. I've been on like every single
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  show for Wrestle Force. Nice, I see wrestled Isaac
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  Blair. Yeah, yeah, we have.
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  We have fun ones. We have.
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  We just, we just do every move in the whole entire world.
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  It literally doesn't stop, does it?
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  I I had this really, really fun one with him at Whittam.
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  Yeah, that was awesome. That was in Isaac's hometown.
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  When I beat him. I beat Isaac in his hometown.
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  Oh, certainly. So I feel like he's got to
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  return the favour now and beat you in your hometown of
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  Tonbridge. No, no, he's so so the first
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  match you had was in Seven Oaks, which is only about 20 minutes
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  down like down the road from me. And he, yeah, he beat me in
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  Seven Oaks and then I beat him in Whitham.
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  So that's right. So even playing field.
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  And then and then at Rayleigh we had another one that was really,
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  that was another really good one.
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  We, we, there was a double, there was a double full finish.
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  So we've got we've got to have one more season.
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  I'm going to say in 2026, that is what fans should be
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  expecting, at least in your wrestling calendar.
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  The match with Isaac Blair. Yeah, Nah, that'll be so many.
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  OK, mate, I feel that'll be good.
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  What I do want to ask as well is you faced off against the Wonder
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  Kid, Johnny Storm. Yeah, so he was one of the first
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  wrestlers that really up my eyes up to something that isn't WWE
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  or WWE, whatever. So when I was pretty young,
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  first ever independent show that I went to, Jonny Storm was
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  there, blew me away. It was amazing.
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  And then just see where he is at now and just what he's achieved.
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  I think he's just such an underrated British wrestling
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  legend in my opinion. Tell me about the experience of
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  being in the ring with him. It was, it was brilliant.
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  So, yeah, so typically, so it was, it was July 2024 is when I
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  first wrestled Johnny Storm. I I didn't, I didn't have a lot
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  of matching, but I was like 1520 matches in.
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  That's where, that's where I first wrestled Johnny.
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  And usually he, what he does is he arrives and then he sets up
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  his merch table and then, but then, and then he comes back
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  just to the show's starting and then I'm like, I'm so worried.
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  But no, he was great. Johnny's film was awesome.
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  Yeah, so. And you learn so much from him,
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  like even now. So the first time I wrestled him
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  was July 2024 and then I wrestled in March this year.
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  And you still, like, every time I work him, I learn so much more
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  every time. But yeah, Johnny's, Johnny's
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  great. Johnny's really good.
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  Still moving well man, honestly. Yeah, and he what?
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  How old is he? Like 50 or something.
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  I mean, I'm not, I'm not getting to the aid.
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  But I mean, that's right. Me and me and Johnny are tight
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  like that. Me and Johnny are tight.
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  But now he's like, he's just moved so well with like, like I
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  just, he's like 15 minutes, five years.
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  And yeah, that's honestly, I've always been such a like big mark
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  for him. I think I've still got his
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  signature somewhere. Yeah.
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  That's good. I'm showing my age now, but
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  right. And who else at the moment?
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  I know we talk about like feature opponents and stuff, but
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  who willistically would you like to wrestle in wrestle force that
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  you haven't wrestled yet? Oh, I wrestle force.
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  Well, AJ Payne, I want to wrestle him.
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  Yeah, he's good. Compensate for his match the
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  other day. And Regan, you know, Regan
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  Blade. Yes, he's really very good.
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  Yeah, Regan's awesome both. But like, like all these sort of
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  all the young people who that I see like working for drop kicks
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  and they, they always end up at Wrestle Force.
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  All of them. I want to wrestle all of them
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  because they all just sort of they're all like hungry, like
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  how I'm hungry. We're all hungry to sort of get
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  out there and impress people. And that's that's just why I
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  enjoyed my matches with Isaac so much, because we, we put
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  absolutely everything into them and try to impress like
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  everyone's, you know what I mean?
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  So that all all like the like, like the guys my age that like
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  Wrestle Force who were like just starting to break out, like them
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  all. Nice.
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  There's a good cup of talent, DKW, great promotion.
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  You know, can't say anything bad about them.
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  Much love to them. Tell me if you used to come back
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  in this podcast, let's say three years time, not necessarily
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  opponents, but what would you have liked to achieve on the
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  rest in CV? So you could think, OK, I'd like
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  to wrestle in Japan, America, Mexico or whatever, you know,
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  just it's, it's your journey, it's your career.
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  But I'm just thinking in in a few years time because it can go
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  quick. What do you think top of your
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  head? Oh, I would love to do this all
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  that as well, you know, just. I'd love to, yeah.
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  I think right now the sort of the aim is to maybe wrestle in
• 17:27
  sort of like outside of the country, maybe like like even if
• 17:31
  it's in like France, Germany or like Spain or something.
• 17:33
  I feel like. So earlier this year I went up
• 17:36
  to Manchester and that was the furthest I ever went from.
• 17:39
  They're called Stockport Plaza Wrestling and that.
• 17:41
  But that was really fun. They were all really nice.
• 17:44
  But I think maybe, I think maybe for this year or maybe like next
• 17:48
  year, maybe like Wales or Scotland or something like that
• 17:51
  or maybe even. Ireland less insane as Scotland
• 17:53
  still basically. Yeah, yeah, or Ireland maybe,
• 17:56
  but just yeah, anywhere outside of the country and obviously try
• 18:00
  and get on like the big leagues in the UK and stuff as well.
• 18:03
  Hello there, I've got a special announcement for my next guest.
• 18:09
  Yep, that's right. Dubai World champion Jay Lamb.
• 18:14
  Rod, I know you know the name. So TuneIn.
• 18:17
  And take a look at this interview.
• 18:21
  Yeah. Don't ask you a fun question.
• 18:34
  Doesn't have to be resonated, but it's entirely up to you,
• 18:36
  Ramon. Yeah, but you dream dinner
• 18:38
  guests for your dream party. Dream guests for a dream party.
• 18:45
  Yep, you're the host. It can be fiction, nonfiction,
• 18:48
  anything, mate. I had someone say Jesus the
• 18:51
  other week. It could be anything mate,
• 18:54
  anything. But I want a quick reason as to
• 18:56
  why you want this individual at your party.
• 19:00
  Give me #1. Dream guests are my dream pie.
• 19:10
  Did you help charted? Heroes Dolph Ziggler.
• 19:14
  Nice, nice. Yeah, because, you know, I was
• 19:16
  just so mental. Like how?
• 19:18
  Like all of his sending is just mental.
• 19:19
  I feel like he just carried that over to the party.
• 19:21
  Do you know what I mean? It's such a fun day.
• 19:24
  It's such a fun night. So.
• 19:25
  Dolph Ziggler. I reckon he can drink as well.
• 19:29
  Yeah. #2. #2 and I think, I'm trying to think there's not
• 19:35
  wrestling. Imagine Tyson Kane watching
• 19:45
  this. Be like me.
• 19:46
  Me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 19:49
  Tyson Keaton. Yeah.
• 19:51
  Big Boss. He's going to love that.
• 19:52
  Yeah, Big Big Boss is the second guess so we've.
• 19:56
  Got Dolph Ziggler, pig boss, Tyson Key and and the last guest
• 20:00
  #3. Last guest.
• 20:05
  So we've got Big Boss, we've got Dolph Ziggler and then we've got
• 20:12
  John Cena. I feel just dumb for asking this
• 20:17
  because it's probably going to be quite obvious, but I want to
• 20:19
  hear why you specifically want do do do do John's in there.
• 20:26
  Well, I don't know. I don't.
• 20:26
  I don't think I'll need to explain why.
• 20:29
  I mean, it's John Cena. Do you know what I mean?
• 20:31
  Yeah, I'm going to shed tears during this last match.
• 20:38
  I don't know. I'm not the one to share tears
• 20:41
  personally, but I don't know. It'll be, it'll be upset.
• 20:43
  And I think how many, how many days do you got left?
• 20:44
  Like 4-3 or four. Yeah, I think it's 3.
• 20:48
  So I think last it's December, isn't it?
• 20:49
  Last one Saturday night's main event.
• 20:51
  So I think I'll be sad. I mean, I probably won't cry
• 20:53
  then, but I feel. Will.
• 20:55
  Get to me with the crowd and. Yeah, definitely.
• 20:58
  But it's one of those, right? It was my favorite wrestler when
• 21:00
  I was growing up, and it's just like he's retiring now.
• 21:02
  It's just like, don't know. It just makes you start thinking
• 21:04
  about it. Don't.
• 21:06
  Know it is my it is Dave retired.
• 21:07
  But then going back to what I said the the introduction,
• 21:10
  you've got to look to the future.
• 21:13
  Yeah. You know, possibly you are the
• 21:14
  future of British wrestling. Who is Raymond O'Reilly if you
• 21:18
  had to describe to someone that hasn't discovered you yet?
• 21:24
  I'd say Raymond O'Reilly is a a second generation wrestler who
• 21:29
  is a mix about, he's a mix of high flying and because he he
• 21:34
  does amateur wrestling in real world, freestyle wrestling in
• 21:36
  real life as well. So he's athletic, he's technical
• 21:40
  and he's high flying and he's, yeah, that's about it really.
• 21:44
  I don't know. Nice, tell me about the
• 21:46
  freestyle lesson quickly before I sort of put an end to this
• 21:49
  chitchat, as it's actually played by really gone quite
• 21:52
  quick. Yes.
• 21:54
  So my uncle, he was 10th in the world when he was 18.
• 21:58
  His name, his name's Buster. He Yeah.
• 22:00
  So he, he used to, he teaches me and my cousins how to do like
• 22:04
  the freestyle wrestling. Obviously he's really good at
• 22:07
  it. And my cousin Ronald, he got, I
• 22:11
  think he's got first or second in the British Championships
• 22:14
  recently. So he's, he's doing really well.
• 22:16
  Yeah. He's.
• 22:17
  So he's doing it. He's doing it way more than me.
• 22:19
  I mean, I like, I mean, I do it like once in a while, like now
• 22:23
  with my uncle, you know, my my cousin Ronald, he's smashing it.
• 22:26
  He's yeah, I think he got, I think he did win the British
• 22:28
  Championships actually. And then my cousin Lila, she got
• 22:32
  third in the British Championships.
• 22:34
  So yeah, I know we're all doing pretty good at that.
• 22:36
  And I'm just here doing my pro wrestling.
• 22:39
  Yeah. You're you're smashing though.
• 22:41
  But I make a pretty damn athletic family mate.
• 22:44
  Fuck, you know. Yeah, I know.
• 22:46
  Yeah, that's what I say. So it's all in the family, all
• 22:49
  the wrestlings in the family. Have you wrestled any of your
• 22:52
  family members, by the way? No, no.
• 22:55
  I was supposed to do a earlier this year.
• 22:58
  I was supposed to do A tag match with me and my dad.
• 23:01
  Yeah, but that just didn't happen.
• 23:02
  That didn't happen in the end. Another thing, it's 2026 mate.
• 23:08
  Yeah. But no, I've never, no, I've
• 23:09
  never wrestled any in my family, no.
• 23:11
  Fair play. I'm sure it'll happen, mate.
• 23:13
  So the last question for you, is there anything you want to say,
• 23:16
  anyone in particular? I know we've mentioned a few
• 23:18
  future opponents, but is there anyone you want to call out
• 23:21
  right now or any matches you want to promote?
• 23:24
  Because we're now at the end of the interview, mate.
• 23:27
  I'll match, so I'll promote. So tomorrow at Rumble Wrestling,
• 23:30
  Friday the 31st of October, it's me and Leland Bryant versus Mark
• 23:34
  True and Kieran Lacey. That's on tomorrow in at Kemsley
• 23:38
  in Sittingbourne and on Sunday in Alton in Hampshire.
• 23:42
  I've got I'm going one-on-one with Jordan Sparks, who I
• 23:44
  haven't wrestled before. Yeah, that should be fun.
• 23:48
  That's that's all. That's all really.
• 23:51
  Isaac Blair. I want to call out Isaac Blair
• 23:53
  for that final match, for that final match who's going to win
• 23:57
  Me. Hopefully I'll.
• 23:58
  Tag him and if people want to keep up to date with what you've
• 24:03
  got lined up for the rest of the year and 2026, because we spoke
• 24:06
  about that quite a lot, how can they keep up to date with you on
• 24:08
  social media? We just follow.
• 24:10
  So on my Instagram is where I do most of my stuff is where I
• 24:14
  post. Yeah, like most of what's going
• 24:16
  on in my stories and my, you know, my posting and that I post
• 24:20
  occasionally on TikTok as well. That's on the Raymond, under
• 24:23
  score, under score Riley and yeah, Facebook and all that, all
• 24:27
  that kind of stuff, that kind of stuff.
• 24:29
  Follow me on my socials. That's why.
• 24:31
  Sweet, sweet, appreciate coming on mate.
• 24:33
  Give Raymond a follow on his social media.
• 24:37
  I'll put them in the description below in case you missed it.
• 24:40
  Like this video? Subscribe to the channel, give
• 24:42
  me a follow my social media handles.
• 24:43
  They'll be in description below. But give Raymond a follow that
• 24:46
  is more important. But for now, everyone, happy
• 24:49
  Halloween because that's why I'm recording it is the 13th
• 24:51
  October. Oh no, I love Halloween.
• 24:55
  But now all good. Have a good weekend everyone,
• 24:58
  take care. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and.
• 25:13
  Girls, children of all ages. It's time for.
• 25:17
  What do you call it? Podcast.