Latest / Brewsers / Brewsers #355- George Hunter

Transcript

Brewsers #355- George Hunter · Brewsers

• 0:20
  Speaker 1: Welcome to Bruisers, the podcast about beer, coffee, booze and Bruisers.
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: I am your Hostworthy John, and today we talk to
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: George Hunter. We talk about his journey into wrestling, the
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: English scene, and so much more. George is doing absolutely
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: awesome things over in the European scene when it comes
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: to wrestling, and you don't want to hear from me,
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: you want to hear from him. So, without further ado,
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: here is George Hunter. I would like to welcome the show.
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: George Hunter. How are you doing today?
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: I'm very good, mate, how.
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: I'm doing well? So for those listen kind of panished
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: the word picture? Where are you at? What's going on
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: around you?
• 1:05
  Speaker 2: Right right right now? Yes, sir, Yeah, I'm just a home.
• 1:11
  Speaker 2: It's been a long day so yeah, just at home now.
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: Nice? Where is home for you?
• 1:17
  Speaker 2: Home? I live in a little town called Doncaster in England.
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: I love that there are town's over there and like
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: over here there'll be like little cities.
• 1:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, to be fair, it is quite a big area,
• 1:32
  Speaker 2: but like it's like a small city, big town sort
• 1:34
  Speaker 2: of thing.
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: Okay, well let's go all the way back in time.
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: What is your earliest memory of pro wrestling?
• 1:43
  Speaker 2: So my earliest memory was I was around my cousin's house.
• 1:48
  Speaker 2: I must have been about four maybe five years old,
• 1:53
  Speaker 2: and he had WWE on his TV. And I can't
• 1:56
  Speaker 2: remember the exact show that playing, but I remember it
• 2:02
  Speaker 2: was Chavo Guerrero and really stereo, and it was the
• 2:05
  Speaker 2: match where Ray was like hanging upside down on the
• 2:10
  Speaker 2: stage and Charvo hit his legs with the chair. That's
• 2:14
  Speaker 2: the only part of the match I remember. That's my
• 2:16
  Speaker 2: earliest memory from wrestling.
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: Well, so you continued watching obviously after that?
• 2:23
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, one hundred instantly?
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: What was it? What was it about the wrestling that
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: you really I mean, obviously besides that chair shot? Initially,
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: what was it that really captured your attention?
• 2:37
  Speaker 2: I think just how outrageous the whole thing is. It's
• 2:43
  Speaker 2: not really something you see with any of a TV
• 2:47
  Speaker 2: show or sport even so, yeah, I think like the
• 2:51
  Speaker 2: outrageousness of everything really caught my eye.
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: When did you realize there was other wrestling out there?
• 3:01
  Speaker 2: So I always knew of So once I got into WWE,
• 3:06
  Speaker 2: I got into TNA not long after. There was a
• 3:10
  Speaker 2: period in the UK where TNA was on free television,
• 3:15
  Speaker 2: so I watched a lot of TNA growing up, but
• 3:19
  Speaker 2: then in terms of independent wrestling, I think I was
• 3:21
  Speaker 2: about sixteen years old when I realized there was more
• 3:26
  Speaker 2: to wrestling than just ww and TNA.
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: I have heard that there's been a lot of people,
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: especially in England and Europe in general, that obviously people
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: know about WWFWAB whenever you get in, but it was
• 3:43
  Speaker 1: always TNA that really got people's attention. I know Osprey's
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: definitely mentioned it multiple times, and I've always found that
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: to be super interesting because obviously over here in America
• 3:53
  Speaker 1: we all knew about TNA, but at the same time, yeah,
• 3:56
  Speaker 1: it was on Spike if you were then around then,
• 3:58
  Speaker 1: but then later it would be going on to a
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: different channel that either you did or didn't have, and
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: so it was like a weird gray area. And then
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: obviously the LOLTNA kind of period. But England, I had
• 4:10
  Speaker 1: definitely heard has gotten was like super rabid when it
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: came to TNA fandom.
• 4:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. I think it does go back to how
• 4:20
  Speaker 2: accessible it was. So TNA was literally on a it
• 4:24
  Speaker 2: was on a TV show called Challenge if I'm correct,
• 4:29
  Speaker 2: and it was it's what's called freeview. So every TV
• 4:34
  Speaker 2: when it's plugged in, has freeview, so it was one
• 4:37
  Speaker 2: of these channels that it'd built. I think it was
• 4:39
  Speaker 2: a Thursday night that it would play. I imagined it
• 4:42
  Speaker 2: was replays, but whereas WWE, you had to buy Sky
• 4:48
  Speaker 2: TV and it's obviously very expensive. So yeah, I think
• 4:53
  Speaker 2: just with how accessible it was, I think that's part
• 4:56
  Speaker 2: of the reason why it was such a big thing
• 4:57
  Speaker 2: in the UK.
• 4:59
  Speaker 1: That makes it much more sense. I never I didn't
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: know that aspect of it, so that makes a lot
• 5:03
  Speaker 1: of sense.
• 5:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. And also I kind of feel like there's
• 5:08
  Speaker 2: a bit of like tribalism to it as well. So
• 5:11
  Speaker 2: because there was it was so accessible in that period,
• 5:16
  Speaker 2: people in the UK were kind of like, oh, well
• 5:19
  Speaker 2: TNA is sort of marking makes us different, if that
• 5:23
  Speaker 2: makes sense.
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: And it's funny because tribalism is still happening now when
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: it comes to pro wrestling.
• 5:29
  Speaker 2: Oh massively.
• 5:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well what was your first was your first actual
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: live show a TNA WW or was it one of
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: the indies?
• 5:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I believe it was WWE. I think it was
• 5:43
  Speaker 2: just like I kin't remember what they used to call them,
• 5:46
  Speaker 2: the dark shows, the live shows, Yeah.
• 5:48
  Speaker 1: The house show.
• 5:49
  Speaker 2: It wasn't. Yeah, they're the ones, and it was in
• 5:54
  Speaker 2: a place called Sheffield. Again I was very young, and
• 5:58
  Speaker 2: then I remember going to a smack that not after
• 6:01
  Speaker 2: that as well, but yeah, like the main shows I
• 6:05
  Speaker 2: really went to were WWE.
• 6:07
  Speaker 1: Okay, when did you first truly get into you know,
• 6:11
  Speaker 1: obviously we know over here in America that and you
• 6:15
  Speaker 1: know as well that England has such a vester history
• 6:18
  Speaker 1: when it comes to pro wrestling over there in you
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: know the world of sports and everything. When did you
• 6:22
  Speaker 1: start realizing the foothold really that England had over there?
• 6:28
  Speaker 2: Very recently, honestly. So I started training it two years
• 6:35
  Speaker 2: ago in April, and I was very unaware of how
• 6:39
  Speaker 2: big wrestling is in the United Kingdom. I think I
• 6:44
  Speaker 2: was aware of two promotions in the whole of the
• 6:47
  Speaker 2: UK before I started, and that was ICW and w CPW,
• 6:53
  Speaker 2: which isn't even about anymore. But then when I got once,
• 6:58
  Speaker 2: I got into it and I realized, oh my god,
• 7:00
  Speaker 2: there's promotions literally like within ten miles of each other
• 7:05
  Speaker 2: all around the country, and it's there's just so much
• 7:08
  Speaker 2: of it. So yeah, very recently, I love that.
• 7:12
  Speaker 1: I love seeing videos of just like the little shows
• 7:17
  Speaker 1: over in England, because again, European fans have so much
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: better chance than we do over here in America. I've
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: heard it's from your upbringing. When it comes to the songs,
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: you guys have always had to sing your entire life.
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: And then obviously with football being as huge as it
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: is over there, and the chants and the sings or
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: sing alongs are so much better. But on a smaller
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: like show like that, it's just so much louder and
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: like the crowd almost takes over the entire show.
• 7:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's great, it's don't get me wrong. We still
• 7:47
  Speaker 2: get some shows where the crowd just aren't buying it,
• 7:51
  Speaker 2: they're not into it whatsoever. But I think you get
• 7:55
  Speaker 2: out everywhere. But yeah, European fans unique in that aspect.
• 8:01
  Speaker 2: I think where it's like you said, the songs, and
• 8:05
  Speaker 2: I also think it's down to because WWV hasn't been
• 8:12
  Speaker 2: as accessible for the European fans. So obviously WWE's in
• 8:16
  Speaker 2: America all year round, whereas for us it's like once
• 8:20
  Speaker 2: or twice a year, so it's kind of like, oh,
• 8:23
  Speaker 2: this is our moment to shine sort of thing. Yeah,
• 8:26
  Speaker 2: and then you see the French fans, for example, are insane.
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they're breaking down the decibels.
• 8:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're incredible. So I think we kind of see
• 8:36
  Speaker 2: it as like, oh, okay, did this in France, what
• 8:39
  Speaker 2: are we going to do in England to try and
• 8:42
  Speaker 2: match that? And it comes becomes a little bit of
• 8:43
  Speaker 2: a competition, I'd assume anyway.
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: I'm here for healthy competition. When it comes to crowd
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: and being louder, I'm all about it.
• 8:51
  Speaker 2: Oh, definitely, yeah.
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: Except for signs. I'm not a big fan of Science,
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: never was did. They're good signs and they're funny. Fine,
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: but don't put them up throughout the entire show. And
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: we definitely don't need the Attitude era again where we
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: have signs every six inches. It's not a fan.
• 9:08
  Speaker 2: I think it looks really cool looking back, and I'm like,
• 9:11
  Speaker 2: that was so cool. But I can imagine being a fan. Yes,
• 9:14
  Speaker 2: and there's a guy who's already taller than me in
• 9:17
  Speaker 2: front of me and he's holding up a side. I
• 9:19
  Speaker 2: can imagine it's very annoying.
• 9:21
  Speaker 1: Well, especially you always have at least one person every
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: show that has that signs, Like the person behind me
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: can't see it, is like, well they could if you
• 9:28
  Speaker 1: didn't have one sign the same people can't see.
• 9:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, it's one of those things whereas it will
• 9:38
  Speaker 2: look I think people miss it because they're like nostalgda,
• 9:42
  Speaker 2: But then really it was more of a nuisance than
• 9:45
  Speaker 2: anything exactly.
• 9:46
  Speaker 1: Well, I also see it now on Reddit, you know,
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: which everybody loves bitching about everything on Reddit, but it's
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: the people who but make like the big head signs
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: or like just their faces or their kids' faces, and
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: it's like, this has nothing to do with then thing.
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: What are we even doing here?
• 10:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah? They are insane?
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: So when what was it about you actually wanted to
• 10:11
  Speaker 1: get into business that really obviously got you to training
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: and then get you are? Now? Was it? I mean
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: you kept up with it, you continue to watch What
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: was the thing that you were like, I want to
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: do this and I want to make my impact on
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: this business.
• 10:26
  Speaker 2: So it was always something I really wanted to do,
• 10:32
  Speaker 2: and I just it was something I always mentioned to
• 10:35
  Speaker 2: my family and I'm like, look, this is what I
• 10:36
  Speaker 2: want to do, but we just didn't know that was
• 10:40
  Speaker 2: schools around us or anything, so it just never really happened.
• 10:46
  Speaker 2: And then two years ago I was just like, I've
• 10:50
  Speaker 2: got a car. Now I've got my own job, I
• 10:53
  Speaker 2: make my own money, and there's no reason why I
• 10:55
  Speaker 2: can't find a school and just go for it. So
• 10:59
  Speaker 2: I said, did that like it was a dream I've
• 11:02
  Speaker 2: always had? It was I always think it's like what
• 11:06
  Speaker 2: I was born to do, Like I've never wanted to
• 11:09
  Speaker 2: do anything more than than rests. So I just realized
• 11:13
  Speaker 2: there was nothing stuff in any one. So I just
• 11:15
  Speaker 2: went through.
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: What was that? What was that first bump?
• 11:18
  Speaker 2: Like it was weird because I really wasn't sure what
• 11:26
  Speaker 2: to expect. It definitely doesn't feel nice. I was kind
• 11:34
  Speaker 2: of like, I kind of want to do that again.
• 11:37
  Speaker 2: So it definitely was a nice feeling. But I was
• 11:40
  Speaker 2: kind of hooked straight away, like I really wanted to
• 11:42
  Speaker 2: do it again.
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: So so who did you end up training with? What school?
• 11:50
  Speaker 2: So? I started out a place called UKW It's a small,
• 11:55
  Speaker 2: smaller promotion in a place called Badly. It's their leads
• 12:02
  Speaker 2: and I started training there for a few months and
• 12:05
  Speaker 2: I was trained by a lad called Joe Sedgwick I'm
• 12:08
  Speaker 2: good friends with now, very very good wrestler, very very underrated,
• 12:14
  Speaker 2: and he basically said to me, look, there's only so
• 12:16
  Speaker 2: much I can teach you. I recommend you go to
• 12:19
  Speaker 2: this school, which, funny enough, what's actually closer to me.
• 12:23
  Speaker 2: I was just unaware of it. So now I train
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: at PPW, which is the head coach is Liam Slater,
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: but Leon Slater, Yes, yes, And I trained with him
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: weekly for like six seven months and now he's obviously
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: absolutely killing it out there, so I don't see him
• 12:45
  Speaker 2: often anymore. But yeah, I trained very close to the
• 12:48
  Speaker 2: Leon for a while.
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: That's awesome. When what was it about? Well, I guess
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: who were you kind of inspired by for your for
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: your move set and what you wanted to achieve in
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: the ring.
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: So I've always like Jeff Hardy was my guy. I
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: was always always a Jeff Hardy fan. I don't feel
• 13:10
  Speaker 2: like I do a lot of Jeff Hardy inspired moves though.
• 13:13
  Speaker 2: I the thing I take away from Jeff is like
• 13:17
  Speaker 2: the impact he had on people's lives. I kind of
• 13:20
  Speaker 2: want to be the guy that everyone wants to be
• 13:23
  Speaker 2: in the playground where when they're playing wrestling. Oh, I
• 13:27
  Speaker 2: want to be George Harunner sort of thing someone I
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: look for in terms of I guess match study and
• 13:36
  Speaker 2: like the wrestler I kind of want to emulate would
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: be aj Styles, He's another one that really looked up to.
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, well, I mean as we're recording this, obviously
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: war rumble has already happened from what we imagine aj
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: Styles is retired. Do you see that happening or do
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: you see him maybe going somewhere else.
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: I think it's really hard to know now. I think
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: with how obviously WW doing the the behind the Curtain
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: show they're doing on Netflix in a minute, I can't
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: what it's called or yeah, unreal. Yeah, it's it's hard
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: to even tell if that's like real or not. I
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: think it's true. Yeah, So I'm kind of like I
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: don't know what's real and what isn't anymore, Like is
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: aging Is this a genuine time of from Aji or
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: is he he's and something. I think he's still got
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: stuff to give, So I I do hope, and I
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: do kind of think he'll like go to the TNA
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: or maybe go back to Japan for a bit. But
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: I think a lot of that is hope as well.
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've heard a lot of people say maybe back
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: to TNA, but that I mean, from what I have heard,
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: TNA for the most part is being run in a
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: little bit by WWE, so but there it's not completely
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: official because I think not that it would be a
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: monopoly because there's so many fucking wrestling companies out there,
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: but they probably don't want Oh yeah, they own another
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: American company, even though I believe it's still I think
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: their home base is out of Canada still, so I
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: don't know, but it would be very interesting to see
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: him go back to TNA and actually maybe have a
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: short little run there, maybe not even for the title,
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: but maybe challenge for the title. I mean, who knows.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: Well, I keep saying like, and of course I'm biased
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: because I know him, but I'd love to see AJ
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: and Leon. I just think that'd be insane.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, even just a one off match, like we don't
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: need a full on free definitely. Yeah, No, that'd be Yeah,
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: that would be so good.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: For him, Yeah, definitely. Yeah. That's like when they hugged,
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: I think it violent for glory and they had that
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: moment in the rings together. I was like, this is
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: the match. You've got to make this match so I
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: really know it happens.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, obviously I want AJ to go out
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: on his own terms. I don't want it to be
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: because of an injury or anything like that. And he's
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: obviously still in phenomenal shape, no pun intended, but you know,
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: he just he looks so good still in the ring.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: He has so much to give, and I hope he
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: either opens a school or does something because he's still
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: he definitely still needs to give back to pro wrestling.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: Oh, one hundred percent. Yeah. If he opened a school
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: like the guy as he would produce would be insane.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: Yes, obviously out of Georgia, which I think might intrude
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: on what QT Marshall and Cody RhoD is doing, but hey,
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: we need different parts of Georgia. There could be multiple
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: wrestling schools. It's fine.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, one hundred yeah.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Well, so who are some veterans when you were coming up?
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: I mean that really kind of helped you out, or
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: that you kind of will lean on.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: So I'll put Liam Liam Slater in that. In that caligreats,
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: he's I think he's been wrestling like fourteen fifteen years wow,
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: And he's he's someone that I used to watch when
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: I first got into, like first discovered wcp W. Liam
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: was someone I watched and he's someone that I speak
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: to frequently. I obviously see him at training. He's always
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: given me advice, so definitely Liam. Yeah, and then recently
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: if you heard of Joseph Connor's, Yes, yes, so Joseph
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: Connor's speaks to him occasionally. He's someone that helps me
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: out a lot with stuff, and he's given me some
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: really good advice as well.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, you've got so many great talent over there,
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: so I think, you know, I imagine there's a lot of
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: people that you can probably run across and bend their
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: ears a little bit.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred percent. And everyone's so like, so friendly
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: and just wants to help other people. Is it's a
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: really good group of people.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: In a minute, so who are some other you know,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: obviously people need to be waching out for you and
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: what you're doing, but who are some other people in
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: the in your scene that you're seeing that people also
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: need to probably pay attention to.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Oh, there's so many. I start with Evan Bishop. He's
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: a good friend of mine. He's insane, like he's so good,
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: so technically gifted, and he's really got the character aspect
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: nailed down as well, Like he's he's such a good talker,
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: so he'd do amazing out of the States, like he
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: fit that style of wrestling so well. Joe Saidwick, who
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: I mentioned who started training me. He's an unbelievable wrestler,
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: incredibly underrated, like, does not get the recognition he deserves.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: And then Sebastian Mercer again, he's another one who I
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: know quite well. He's got a very brawler style to him,
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: very hard hitting, very intense, which I personally enjoy watching.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: And then another one, Paul Hubris, is another one that
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: I don't think gets enough for recognition. He's a Scottish wrestler.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: He's been out to the States quite a few times.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: He was recently out of Japan. But he's another one
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: that again just I don't think it's the recognition that deserve.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Sounds like a good group of people right there, Yeah, definitely,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Now is it?
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: So?
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: What is it like working in different countries over there?
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Because you know, we look at a map and we imagine,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: especially if you live here in America, that oh they're
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: not only you know, countries are so close to each other.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Obviously us have done so much better with the trained
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: situation than we have, which I really wish that we
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: would have gotten on top of that. But you know,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: traveling from country to countries a lot easier over there,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: but is working in every country easier or is it
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: still difficult?
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: So I've only ever wrestled in two countries is and
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: that is England way all so far. Obviously they're both
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: part of Great Britain, so they're very similar. However, I
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: do have a booking out in Germany later on this year,
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: so that'd be my first like proper international one. But
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: I mean from what I've heard from people and people
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: have spoken to, they all say that wrestling is like
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: a universal language, so it's kind of similar everywhere you go.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: And I think the European style and the British style
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: is very similar as well, So yeah, I think it's
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: I think it's all fairly similar. Obviously some some changes
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: and cultural differences, but for the most part, I think
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: it's pretty similar.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Nice. Who where are some places that are on your
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: bucket list of you wanting to wrestle?
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: So I mean I wrestle anywhere anywhere that once. I
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: absolutely love wrestling. I obviously want to come out of
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: the States like that's a I think that's everyone's dream
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: when they start wrestling that lose Canada as well, Like
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: I love to go out to Canada and Mexico, obviously Japan,
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: But in terms of promotions in Britain, Red Pro and
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Progress are like really up there my bucket list, Like
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: they are place as I they're the best places in
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: the UK, so I'd love to I want to be
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: with that group of people. I want to be with
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: the best, So they're definitely two massive ones i'd love
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: to work for.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess those two would be the biggest in England, right.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. I mean you could argue the biggest in Europe,
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: or at least up there anyway.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean I was lucky enough to go to
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: a Progress show, but that was only because here it
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: was here in America. Is it is definitely on my
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: list to go over to England and watch obviously a
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Red Pro show and a Progress show, and then obviously
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: check out any more of the indies that I can,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: because if I was going to be over there, I
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: might as well check out everything. Same thing with ever
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: going to Japan, Like I want to check out as
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: much wrestling as possible.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. I mean, if you came up to the
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: UK for for wrestling, you'd it's spoiled for choice. There's
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: a lot of wrestling going on, and it's all it's
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: all very close together, like within two hours of places,
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: there's probably maybe like six shows on. So jeez, there's
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: a lot going on. Yeah, so is it? So?
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Is it is it easier to work shows there then,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: like for multiple places, because like you said, there's so
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: many shows going on?
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah? I think so. I Like I've worked for I
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: want to say, like eighteen companies over the last year,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean, i'd say it's it's probably a
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: lot easier to work for different companies, But I guess,
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: like with the good, there's always the bad, and then
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: because there's so much, obviously not all of it is
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: going to be at the highest level. If that makes sense.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: No, that makes sense. Well, so who are if people
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: have never seen your wrestle before, what three matches should
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: they go out of their way to watch?
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: So I'd say me versus Evan Bishop at through Grit
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Jacobs Ladder, which was in October last year. It's probably
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: my favorite match, mainly for personal reasons, like he's a
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: he's a very close friend, He's someone I've always wanted
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: to have a match to it, and it was like
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: it was our debut at this good promotion, and the
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: crowd was so into it, and the match itself is
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: pretty stylid, so I'm very happy with it. I definitely
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: say that one me versus Trent seven at PPW Friday
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Night at the Suit. That one's on YouTube if people
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: want to check that one out. Just getting to share
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: the ring with Trent seven is insane. He absolutely fastered me,
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: but it was such a cool experience. And then I'd
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: probably say one from this weekend me versus Solid Dirson.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: It's a pretty solid match. Again, it was a debut
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: at a new company and the crowd were really good,
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I'd say them through.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Okay, those are good ones.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: So as much as this is a physical sport, it's
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: also a mental one, whether it be getting yourself hyped
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: up before a match, or remembering what you have to
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: do in a match, or even coming down from you know,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: being in front of a crowd and having to go
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: back to regular life. How do you kind of juggle
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: or balance everything mentally when it comes to being a
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: pro wrestler.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: So, I mean you're definitely right, Like, before I go out,
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: I do a little It's not a routine, but It's
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: something I do before every match where I'll do some
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: press ups and then I'll put my hood up my
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: entrance jacket and then I just start slapping myself into
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: the face, which is really stupid, but I find it helps.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: It kind of helps me get into right, You're George
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: Hunter now sort of thing to go out and be
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: the wrestler. And then it's something I really struggled with,
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: especially starting out, was like the internal and dumb after
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: the match and I used to just sit on a
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: chair and I just stare out into space and I
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: feel terrible because it's like you feel all the bumps
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: and bruises from the match, and then it's just like
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: You've gone from this guy that hundreds of people are
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: chanting to her name to a guy who just sat
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: in a room on a chair. Yeah, so it is.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: It's pretty crazy, but I've got a lot better with
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: that now. I just sort of speak to people and
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: like have conversations and try and have a laugh with people,
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: and that that helps. It helps to light the adrenaline definitely,
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: but other than that, for the most part, it's more
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: of an enjoyable thing. Definitely.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is always interesting coming down, like I always
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: love hearing the story of you know, when Chris Jericho
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: won his first title, he you know, he wins the belt.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: I think there was said there was nobody really backstage.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: He you know, orders a pizza, had to go to
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: his go get the pizza, gets locked out of his room,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: talks to the front guy and it's like, well, were
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: you already here? He's like, yeah, idiot, I just fucking
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: checked in, Like, how do you not remember there's literally
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: nobody else here. But like it's that thing of like,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: like you said, hundreds of thousands of people chanting to
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: your name, cheering for you, and then you go back
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: to wherever you're going to go and it's just you,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: like there's nobody else. Like it's just like it's the
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: most bizarre thing in the world.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, Like you're going from everyone knowing who you
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: are and everyone caring about what you're doing too, you're
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: just another guy again. Like it's really it's a weird
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: thing that would be really hard to replicate, like in
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: any other profession.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, without a doubt. Well, so I've noticed on your
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Instagram that you do you putost a lot of moves
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: that you seem to be either working through or you
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: want people to name them. You know, how did all
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: that kind of come up? And are you still trying
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: to tinker with what you do and don't want to
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: add to your move set?
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: So for the most part, with social media, it's a
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: case of for me anyway, trying to play the game. Oh,
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: that's like the social media game to grow my profile
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: and gain more exposure. So my sort of aim with
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: that is I'll post my best moods or the moods
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: I think could get the best reaction from like social
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: media audience because they're the ones that tend to do well.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: And then it's my mindset is like, oh, if a
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: thousand people see this video, that's a thousand new people
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: who have seen my move sort of thing. So a
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: lot of it is like just following trends and stuff
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: like that. But yeah, I'm always trying to evolve my
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: move set. I never want to settle on one move
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: set and do that for fifteen years. I'm always trying
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: to add little bits or tink a little bits. And
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: social media is great for that too, Like there's so
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: many clips of people doing stuff and it's like you
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: can look at that and go, oh, what if I
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: did that bit but changed it into this. So yeah,
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: that's that's mainly what it is in terms of my
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: social media page.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I was curious about that. Looking at it,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, no, he's doing great things with this.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: I'm just always curious what people's thought process, because, like
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: you said, you're playing the game of wanting people to
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: bring You want to bring as many people to your
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: page as possible. Obviously, continue to follow you see where
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: you're going to be, hopefully go see you live, you know,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: eventually by your merch if they really want to help
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: support you, little things like that. But you do need
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: to put those moves out there of you know, especially
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: the moves you do. It's very captivating for people who
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: haven't seen you wrestle before. Definitely go check out his
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Instagram page. But you know, you get you hopefully you
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: go viral doing you know, some move or whatever it is.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: But at the same time, you're like, how am I
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: going to do this afterwards? Like, you know, your main
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: focus has to be what's happening in the ring. However,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: your side job then also has to be like making
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: sure your social media is good and you're bringing in
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: all these people and all these different things. So it's
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: like you have to juggle so many different things, just
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: you know, being a wrestler in general.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. To be fair, I probably spend more time
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: working on my social media than I do my wrestling,
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: which is crazy. I'm always like like, my screen time
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: is probably really unhealthy. But it's like I'm constantly trying
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: to find trends, not necessarily in the wrestling space, but
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: maybe like in the gym space or some sort of
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: sport that are going viral where I can be like, ah,
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: I'll use this hook, but I'll add my phoenix flashing.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: So it's like the hook is getting people in, but
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: then they're like, oh that's a phoenix flash. That's cool.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: I'll check out his other stuff. So yeah, that's definitely
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: the aim of social media. I guess when you're taking it,
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: when you go in for it, it's like it takes
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: up your life. It's crazy.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I don't focus as much on social media.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: It's I mean, I imagine I probably should, but I don't,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: just because I know that it's unhealthy. Like you said,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: it's just not healthy having that much screen time, because
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: also you could be thinking what else could I be
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: doing with this time, or if I am on the screen,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: what could I be learning instead of focusing on what
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: my social media is or what other people are doing
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: on their social media, or like you said earlier trends,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: like what are the trends on social media right now?
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Like do I really need to know that? It's obviously
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: not gonna be the same thing next week? But you know,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: I have to as a business and as a quote
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: unquote brand, I have to then make sure that I
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: am following the trends as well or creating a new
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: trend so that people come and check out what I'm
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: doing and then hopefully again check out what I'm doing
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: in real life.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred percent. It's uh that trade off of
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: like the payoff is so big, but it's like the
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: work you got put into it's so big as well.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: So it's it's definitely about part of the balance.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's hard, Yeah, definitely. Yeah. Well I have a
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: second on the show. I call it the five countich
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: just five random questions. Okay, Number one, what is your
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: morning routine?
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: My morning routine, so I would start with a shower.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: I find it just helps wake me up. And I'm
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: just ready for the day obviously, like brush your teeth
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: and stuff like that. I tried to as some water
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: in the morning. I'll try drink a bottle of water
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: and then I just guess straight to work. Really, other
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: than that, like that, I don't have a mastive routine.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Really, I'm a boy's curious. Everybody's got something different. So
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Number two, if you owned a liquor company, brewery, winery,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: coffee shop, or dispensary, which one would you own and
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: what would the name be?
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Uh? Oh, probably a coffee shop. Okay, I'm really not creative.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: We'll go with George's Coffee.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Okay, there's nothing wrong with that. Number three, What emoji
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: do you use most?
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'll find out. I think it's the I use
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: the like the hands raised, like the praise one. I
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: find it's easy. It's an easy way to say thank you.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: About saying thank you, I guess it's true mess to
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: say time, I think, so I use that one a lot,
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: especially like replying to comments on on reels and stuff.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: I noticed it works in real life too, especially like
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: if you're a loud place and you're trying to say
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: thank you to somebody, you just kind of do that
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: and with the head nod, I think people are like, oh, yeah,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: he's saying thank you.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: So yeah, definitely that must be where it's come from.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Actually maybe m I didn't think about that. Number four,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Who or what inspires you?
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: Oh? Who, I'd say my girlfriend, Like with how hard
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: she works, she's like the most creative person I've ever
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: met in my life, one of the most caring people.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: So yeah, definitely definitely my girlfriend. And then what inspires me,
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: I'd say, I guess like wanting to live like a
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: fulfilled life of like I don't want to get to
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: the day where we go and it's like, oh I
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: wish I did this, So I guess just try and
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: trying to make it as fulfilled as possible.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that that wondering is the worst part about living sometimes, Yeah, definitely.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: And then number five, what would you tell your seventeen
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: year old self?
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: I want to say, like, start wrestling, but I also
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: think if I didn't start when I did, I wouldn't
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: be in a position I am now, so I'm not
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: going to say that. One. I'd probably say start the gym.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: I was like really on and off with it when
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: I was seventeen eighteen years old. Yeah, just start the
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: gym and be consistent with it. I think would be
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: my advice to seventy ye robbery.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: There you go. Now, if people want to find out
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: more about you, follow you online, obviously, go see you live,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: by your merch, support you anyway. How can they do
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: all the things?
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah? So, I mean the main social media I used
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: is Instagram, so that's at g dot, Hunter underscore, pw
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: all my informations on their merch, upcoming shows, movesets, all
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: that good stuff. Yeah. Probably there, I'd say.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Here we go.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: George.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for being on the show. I
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: can't wait to see I mean, hopefully you make it
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: over here to America and also hopefully I make it
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: over to England so I can see you live, and
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: you know, I can't wait to see where the future
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: holds for you.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: Thank you. I really appreciate that, and I hope if
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: you're being as well for you too.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you so much for George for being
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: on the show. Again. If you are in the English area,
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: or if you're an American promoter or a promoter from
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: around the world, definitely get him on your show because
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: you are not gonna want to miss that, and he
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: definitely brings in the absolutely greatness of wrestling, and he
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: brings in the fans as well, So definitely follow him
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: on social media, find out where he's going to be,
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: or get in contact with him. And while you're doing that,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: make sure to go follow us on social media. It
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: is brewsers Pod. That is be r e wscrs p
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: O D on the Instagram, the threads and the Twitter.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: If you want to send us an email, it is
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: bruisespot at gmail dot com. If you want to follow
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: me directly, it is Roddy John. That is r O
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: d I E j O N or Rodie John is
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: the name on the Twitter and an untapped in case
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: you want to find out when I'm drinking, maybe we
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: canna have a beer together. If you want to follow
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: me on the threads or the Instagram, it is official
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: Rody John Saud. Until next time, make sure to enjoy life,
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: drink local, and cheers