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5 Questions with ABJ Mike Skyros · ABJ

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  This is a Ben Frank connection presentation.
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  One, we are back with another 5 questions with ABJ here at the
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  Worldwide Dojo in Bristol, PA. Thank you to Cheeseburger and
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  also at the High Tension Wrestling tapings here.
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  I'm not going to say exactly what the tapings are, but follow
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  them on Instagram and all social media, especially YouTube and
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  find out when this airs so you can follow along and watch.
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  And I'm here joined with today. The Moonlight Sun.
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  Mike Skyros. And you've seen this full
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  episode, you see the interview now we're getting 5 questions.
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  We're doing it all here, so let's get right into it.
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  What is your current goal in life?
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  My. Current goal in life is to make
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  wrestling my full time profession.
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  Awesome. What are you currently doing to
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  achieve that goal? I am wrestling as much as
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  possible, training as much as possible, eating is eating the
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  right things as much as possible, and just make sure
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  that all fasts in my life are moving me forward and wrestling
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  in some way. So I, I haven't seen you in
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  probably, probably about nine months.
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  And I think the last time I seen you were in a bulking phase, you
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  were, you were getting you're, you're putting it on.
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  And now you're like, you're still bulked, but you're leaning
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  out to like you're, you're changing your body a little bit.
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  Yeah. So what I would attribute to
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  that is I took a little more responsibility in terms of my
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  nutrition. I had a great coach that I
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  worked with for years, but not everyone understands the
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  wrestling lifestyle and especially being on the road,
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  what I can and can't do with workouts and with nutrition.
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  So I spoke with a few friends that train athletes and they had
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  me working in a more positive direction, so it's been real
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  cool. Well, let's pay it off.
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  You look good, thank you. What is currently holding you
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  back are distraction from your goal.
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  Yeah, it's the uncertainty. So it's, it's not always easy to
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  explain, but in wrestling there isn't like if you do this,
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  you'll be successful. If you do this, this will
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  happen. It's, it's a lot of just taking
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  calculated risks and I'm make, I'm trying to make sure that I'm
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  taking more risks because I've, I haven't been risky enough.
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  So I'm trying to take more risks.
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  I think that's what's held me back is playing it a little too
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  safe. OK.
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  I, I, I definitely appreciate that.
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  Who or who or what motivates or inspires you towards your goal?
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  All the people that are where I want to be, so wrestlers that
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  are contracted, signed, people that are around me that have a
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  positive attitude, that work really hard.
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  I'm really fortunate, especially at this point in wrestling, that
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  I'm around a lot of really talented people, but also a lot
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  of really positive people. I can't.
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  I'm at a point where I can't deal with negativity.
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  I think it's a thing that that drags me down and now that I've
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  prioritized being around like goal oriented, like really
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  positive people, I feel a lot better.
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  Awesome, awesome. What are you currently grateful
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  for and are you happy? I'm, I'm grateful for my health.
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  I'm grateful for the people around me.
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  I'm grateful for, as weird as it sounds, the opportunity to like
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  mess up and fail and have people around me that I can go to with
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  those failures and use them to move forward.
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  I have a lot of like people that give me a lot of really good
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  feedback, a lot of good coaching and happiness is I don't think
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  it's necessarily a destination for me, it's a journey, but I
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  think I've taken a lot of steps forward.
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  I love that. Where can people find and
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  support you? You can find me on all social
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  medias at at Mike Skyros. So it's at MIKESKYROS, that is
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  Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Instagram.
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  Awesome. Well, that's going to do it for
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  five questions with ABJ. We'll catch you on the next one.
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  We're out of here. OK, thanks for watching this
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  presentation. Like, share and subscribe for
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  more. Since since we've talked, what
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  have you had a match or any? I mean, I have one in my brain
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  that I would say would be a highlight or a marquee for you,
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  but I'm not going to speak for you.
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  But do you have a match or something you want to like?
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  If I say like, what was it? At least I want to say you've
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  been the world, you've been the champion here at High Tension
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  Wrestling. You've been the champion at
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  places like exciting in a lot of other places.
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  Is there a match up that stands out for you that make that that
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  made you better after it was done?
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  Yes, I had a match with with Andy Brown at Pro Wrestling
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  Grind and he is someone that I'd never worked with before, but he
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  was able to like he got over the crowd really well, like and in
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  speaking with him, it was really reassuring because I looked at
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  him as someone who's high level. I still do.
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  And to go with my instincts in that match and to see like that,
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  it worked out well. And he's like, yeah, you can
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  improve like this, this, this, but your instincts are right.
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  What you're doing is right. Keep going in that direction
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  that was. Really helpful.
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  What? What about after your Cardona
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  match? That was the other one I was
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  thinking of too. That was another thing that was
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  like really reassuring in the sense that like I went in there
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  confident and I was with him like every step of the way.
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  And it was, I don't want to say easy because I feel like that
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  devalues it, but I was prepared for the situation, yeah.
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  Awesome. Do you have any advice for, you
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  know, younger talent who's maybe chasing this or maybe has that
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  doubt or they're struggling to find themselves in this, in this
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  business? Yeah, it's, it's a long game.
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  You got to. I've been very fortunate that
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  one of my best qualities is that no matter what, I I just stick
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  around. I keep going to places and you
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  see the graph success isn't this success kind of looks like this.
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  And you got to be you got to be willing to like take lumps and
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  keep moving forward. Go try new places, go everywhere
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  you can. Just make it as much of your
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  life as you can without it being your whole life, if that makes
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  sense. Appreciate you.
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  Thank you brother. Appreciate you fucking day.
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  You're the man.