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Andrew Bridge: Wrestling Careers, Challenges, and Triumphs · Scene Projects Sports Network

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  What's up, everyone?
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  Welcome to a very exciting episode of Beyond the Bell.
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  Today, we have a very exciting guest.
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  I would like to introduce you guys to Andrew Lucha Bridge.
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  Yes, sir.
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  What's up, guys?
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  This is Andrew Lucha Bridge.
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  I'm excited to be in this amazing podcast, Beyond the Bell.
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  Thank you.
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  I'm excited to have you on here.
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  So tell us, where are you from, Andrew?
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  Alright.
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  So this is kinda weird just to put the fact out there for the people.
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  I was born in Kentucky.
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  Right?
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  I was born in Kenton, Kentucky, really.
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  But I was raised my entire life in Mexico, Mexico.
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  And, yeah, I was my parents are Mexicans, and I was raised there my whole entire life.
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  I have two nationalities, but, you know, I'd probably like to say that I I am from Mexico
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  because, you know, that's where I grew up.
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  That's where I learned everything.
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  That's where I, most importantly, learned my wrestling skills in Mexico.
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  So yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  And you started training at, what was it, the age of 10 years old, wasn't it?
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  Yeah.
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  Nine years old.
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  Yeah.
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  I was really
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  Nine years old.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  So what was that like, training as a child?
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  Well, it all started, like, I was in elementary school, and my grandfather, like, he he he just
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  came up random with random things all the time.
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  You know?
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  He was a he was a mechanical engineer, and he just, like, came up to me one time in in my in
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  my room.
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  He was like, hey.
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  You try to train pro wrestling?
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  You know what I mean?
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  Like, he just randomly came up to me like that, and I was like first of I was like, pro
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  wrestling?
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  Like, you know, I was a big fan, you know, WWE.
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  My my family's a as a pro wrestling fan.
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  My favorite wrestler when I was a kid was h h h.
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  Oh, easily.
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  I can guess your favorite tag team, I bet then.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  What's your favorite wrestler?
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  Like
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  Honestly, Jeff Hardy.
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  The way he did the swanton bomb was absolutely beautiful.
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  Yeah, dude.
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  I mean, like, no one does it like him anymore because he used to just arch all the way and
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  get up there, he'd flip at the last minute.
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  Crazy, dude.
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  Like, his son.
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  But, anyways, yeah.
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  So I went there.
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  It was downtown.
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  Saw a lot of things downtown, then Mexico went really crazy.
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  But, yeah, I just went there into the ring.
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  They took care of me while I was training.
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  I learned the basics, like rolls.
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  And, like, when I first took when I first took, like, my first bump, yeah, that's where I was
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  like, oh my god.
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  You know?
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  And I was like, if I really wanted to do this or not because I was like, the the mats in
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  Mexico are different than The US.
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  I don't know if you knew that.
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  I mean, I know either way they're hard and that they're
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  They're both hard, and it's a little safer in Mexico.
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  So that kinda took the took the air out of me.
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  But, you know, I was watching Lucha Libre back then too, and Mistico is you know, it was my go
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  to.
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  You know, he's popular again these days.
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  Yeah.
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  But, yeah, that's how I that's how I started started wrestling.
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  I just keep training consistently.
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  My grandpa was really a a huge impact on me since he was, like, motivating me to push me
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  into this this amazing and beautiful sport.
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  And it really is an amazing and beautiful sport.
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  So do you are you, like, from a wrestling family, or are you, like, a first generation
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  wrestler, the only wrestler?
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  Yeah.
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  I'm I am a I am a first generation wrestler, but my brother my big brother, Kevin, shout out
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  to him.
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  He he did a he did, like, the real like, the how do you call this one?
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  The like, the real wrestling, the, like, the mixed martial arts wrestling.
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  Amateur wrestling?
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  Yeah.
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  Amateur wrestling, and he he was in the national team and all that stuff.
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  So but in pro wrestling, I'm the first one in the family to do it, so I'm really proud of
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  that.
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  And in case my brother wants to be a pro wrestler, I can I can get I can square him
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  away?
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  You know?
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  You can get him in there.
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  You can get him going.
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  Yeah.
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  So
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  yeah.
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  So I guess since you do since you were training lucha libre, did you start, like, wrestling
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  with a mask, or have you always been an unmasked wrestler?
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  So I debuted when I was 13 years old.
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  Right?
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  I it all started, you know, with baby steps.
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  Obviously, I was a kid when I was training lucha, and I had my my training partner, Rey
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  Sultan from Monterrey, same from my hometown and all that.
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  We were, like, trading partners.
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  Right?
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  And, obviously, yeah, every kid in Mexico or even in The US watching Rey Mysterio or some
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  other masked wrestler, that's their dream to have their mask.
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  That's a that's a big cultural thing in Mexico to have a mask and, you know, trying to be like
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  your superheroes.
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  So I had my had my brother, draw the design of my mask.
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  Made them when I first saw my mask.
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  It was it's not the one that I currently come out as an entrance.
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  I don't know if you've ever seen that.
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  My mask is like a red one.
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  I did see that once, I believe, while I was watching.
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  I was able to catch one match before the show.
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  Yeah.
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  But, yeah, my last my last very first well, my first mask, it was black, and it kinda it was,
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  like, inspired with Spider Man you know, I'm a big Spider Man fan.
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  You can tell.
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  Woah, dude.
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  I love Spider Man.
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  Yeah.
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  So it was, like, it was inspired with 2099 Spider Man, the future one, and it had, like,
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  the Venom logo in the back.
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  So but the eyes were red.
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  So you can imagine at night, I couldn't see anything.
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  Well, Todd, no.
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  But yeah.
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  But I debuted, with my mask, and I wrestled for about maybe four years or three years, with
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  with a mask until I moved to The US, and I just decided to take it off.
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  And were you always Andrew Bridge when you wrestled then?
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  Yes.
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  I was always Andrew Bridge when I when I wrestled.
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  You know?
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  My it's my last name is Puente, and my dad always, like he had, like, code names in at
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  work, and his code name was Bridge.
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  He basically just translated Puente to English, and it's Bridge.
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  So I just, you know, I just kinda did that little fun fun little kinda goofy thing.
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  You know?
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  But, hey.
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  I like it.
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  That's what matters.
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  Hey.
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  It's a good name, man.
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  And, like Thank you.
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  I mean, sometimes just using your real name and even just a little different variation of it is
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  the best way because, I mean, you're being you, and I can tell that when you wrestle and
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  everything.
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  It's what you do, and it's what you love.
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  Yeah, man.
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  But with I I do miss sometimes my mask, but taking it off, I think I used to be a very
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  introverted introvert person.
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  You know?
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  Like, how do I say that?
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  Like, you know, like Used
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  to be introverted.
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  Yeah.
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  And and I just wanna
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  stay away from people, but, like, taking the mask off was kinda your change or what?
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  Yeah.
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  It was a it it was a personal challenge.
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  I just wanna get out of my shell and, become someone new.
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  And it's just personal personal challenges that I wanted, and I see that in in The United
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  States, in my personal opinion.
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  You know?
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  They work more with facial expressions and, and, you know, the looks of the face.
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  And I I just wanted to take that step, and it's it's working out really well.
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  But I do miss the mask.
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  That's why I wear it in the entrance.
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  So yeah.
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  So other than, like, your typical normal, you know, match, have you ever been in any other
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  stipulations at all?
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  What do you mean, like, stipulate?
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  Like
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  Like, different match types, like a ladder match or, like, you know, hardcore or anything
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  like that?
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  Well, I've been I've been in a few, but there's this one that it was kinda like it was like,
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  you know, everything counts.
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  You know?
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  Outside, they can bring a chair.
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  It wasn't really, an extreme match, but it was no disqualification.
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  That's the word.
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  It was I was with wrestling for the day of the kids, actually.
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  It's a it's a celebration they do in Mexico for looks like Easter, but the Mexican version.
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  Right?
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  And Yeah.
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  So we decided to make a show dressed up as Marvel superheroes.
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  You know where this is going?
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  You know?
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  I dressed up as, obviously, a Spider Man.
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  I I was it was a tag team, no disqualification match.
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  I was dressed up as Spider Man.
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  My friend was Captain America, and I was going against Venom and Black Panther, dude.
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  And it was pretty cool because all the kids were like, yeah.
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  Spider Man.
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  You know?
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  And but where I'm going here is that Venom was, like I was, like, 15 years old back then, and I
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  was, like, a hundred and I was skinny, man.
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  I was really skinny.
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  And I was, like, a hundred and thirty pounds, and Venom was freaking a bodybuilder dude,
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  twice the size as me and shit.
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  And so we're wrestling and all that stuff.
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  Brings out a chair, brings out a can, smash it in my face, smash it in my hits in my back,
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  grabs my neck.
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  And he he goes into a steel barrel that was there, and he just, like he, you know, he kinda
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  warned me about it like, hey, brother.
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  Like, I'm about to hit you in the I'm about to hit you with the steel barrel.
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  I didn't hear that because the crowd was was loud.
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  Boom.
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  I just went straight into my head into a steel barrel, the rim.
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  And that that obviously hurt crazy, and I was, like, in the ground laying.
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  All the kids were like, no.
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  Like, Spider Man.
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  You know?
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  So he drags me into the ring.
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  The announcer was like like, oh my god.
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  Like, Spider Man is bleeding.
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  Everybody, Spider Man is bleeding.
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  And all the kids were crying, trying to get into the ring.
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  And I'm like, I'm not bleeding.
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  What is he talking about?
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  I go like this.
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  Dude, my whole hand was covered in blood.
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  It was my it was, like, my very yeah.
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  It was my very first time where I was, like, bleeding, and and I was like, holy crap.
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  Like, I was a teenager.
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  I was like, oh my god.
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  I'm bleeding.
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  Like and, you know, from there, we went into locker rooms.
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  Everybody was like, oh my god.
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  I can see your brain.
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  And I'm just like, no.
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  Like, you know, like, no.
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  My brain.
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  Like, someone put someone do something.
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  And but, yeah, but they just I thought they were gonna bring medics, but they just brought,
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  like, toilet paper, electrical tape.
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  Good to go.
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  Yeah.
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  That's how it goes sometimes, man.
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  Yeah.
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  But it was a it was experience.
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  It's a really interesting experience that I went through.
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  But other than that, really, not lately.
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  I just been doing just been other stipulations, just normal matches, tag team, what's it
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  called, mixed genders once with females and males.
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  I've I've been in a couple of those, but, you know, all good.
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  So have you ever been part of an official tag team, or have has it just been kinda, like, tag
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  team matches here and there?
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  So right now, I'm currently in a where where, like, the promotion that I been working the
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  most in is is called skill Southwest Kansas Lucha Libre, and it's like a fresh promotion
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  that's been two years.
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  And I'm in a faction called Hell's Cartel.
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  Oh, I love that name, man.
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  Yeah.
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  So it's it's me, Diablo Vega, Bruzzador, and Angel of Pass.
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  So and Hector de Oro Hector de Oro, he's kinda, like, jumping in.
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  There's a there's a weird situation with him going back and forth.
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  He has, like, other goals, but we're about to debut that, spoiler.
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  We're about to debut that, that the whole faction in Mexico.
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  So it's coming soon, but it's it's nice.
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  It's a sneak peek that I'm just giving you.
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  I love that, man.
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  I'll always love sneak peeks, and I can't wait to hear more about that and possibly see it
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  online somewhere.
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  So, when did you make your American debut then?
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  I made my American debut in 2019 in that year, and it was in Corpus Christi, Texas.
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  It used to be a promotion called Victory Pro Wrestling.
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  I don't think that's a thing anymore.
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  I don't believe so.
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  They've I believe I've had other people mention it and said that they had shut down.
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  Yes.
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  Yeah.
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  But, yeah, they shut down due to some allegations, that happened.
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  Yeah.
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  But, yeah, I debuted there without my mask, and I had, like, a little connection with this, I
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  don't think he wrestled anymore, Joey Dynamite.
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  He was from Corpus.
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  He was a Corpus wrestler there.
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  But, yeah, that's where I debuted in The US.
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  And was it
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  it a good show there?
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  You know?
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  Like
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  It it was actually a good show.
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  They would bring I they will they had a they had a stacked roster within stars there in
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  Texas.
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  I forgot their name, but but the production, the even the promoter, they were all humble,
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  and they were all like, they were not, like, really picky or they just let us do our they
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  gave us our hit times, obviously, during the ring, but they would give us, like, free will
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  of what to do in the ring.
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  Stop killing yourself.
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  Right?
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  But
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  Yeah.
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  Just don't just don't try and break each other's legs or anything crazy.
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  You know?
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  Yeah.
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  But that that promotion, I I felt that it really had so much potential, but things
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  happens for a reason.
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  You know?
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  Yeah.
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  And, I mean, look at you now.
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  I mean, I can see that, like, you're a very popular wrestler.
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  You get a pop from the crowd.
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  You know?
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  That's that's my mission, my priority.
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  Every time I go before a match, priority always first take care of my opponents and make them
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  look good.
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  That's my first priority.
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  And then, obviously, make myself look good and interact with the fans afterwards because, you
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  know, you might be expiring a future outstanding next boom of professional
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  wrestling.
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  You know?
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  And so you guys you always gotta be connected with the people no matter what.
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  So let's talk titles.
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  What have you held?
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  You know, things like that.
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  Have you had any championships yet?
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  I had only one championship right now, and it's, in Oklahoma.
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  I was a former RDW Red Dirt Wrestling, Ironman Championship, champion.
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  That's in Oklahoma.
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  This promotion called Unified Wrestling Oklahoma, and that's another promotion that's
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  growing more and more during, you know, these past months, and I'm really proud of that.
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  That's the ever first that's the first company that I came back to wrestling with, you know,
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  that I looked into.
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  Did you take a hiatus from wrestling?
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  Like, like a break?
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  Yeah.
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  Well okay.
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  Here comes a fun fact.
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  Right?
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  I enlist I'm currently in the military.
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  So, of course, there's obviously a break, basic training all the way to,
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  you
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  know, military school AIT.
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  I couldn't do wrestling there until I got to my first station.
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  So, yeah, currently in the military.
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  Yeah.
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  And everyone's just like, oh, hey.
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  We're here with a wrestler.
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  Yeah.
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  It's yeah.
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  I mean, the first reaction with my co partners is like, hey.
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  Like, invite me to the next match.
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  And I got my group of friends.
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  They come.
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  They cheer me up.
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  It's amazing.
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  Yeah, man.
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  That's awesome.
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  I love that you have that for yourself, man.
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  Wrestling is a great and it's a really beautiful sport.
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  You know?
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  Yeah.
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  It's it's a it's a beautiful sport that you can you just really connect with the with your your
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  partners in the locker rooms.
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  It's like your second family.
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  That's what I love about this sport.
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  I can count on him.
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  I can count on him.
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  Obviously, there's there's always gonna be sketchy people out there no matter where you
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  go.
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  But, you know, you just gotta pick your audience and and show them show them the good
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  things that you know.
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  But but yeah.
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  I mean, I'm currently living in Oklahoma.
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  As soon as I got stationed in Oklahoma, first thing I did, pro wrestling near me, and that's
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  what popped up.
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  Unified Wrestling Oklahoma.
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  That is awesome.
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  I love that, man.
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  Yeah.
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  So you're just right back in.
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  As soon as you're out of training, you're immediately back in the ring.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, it's one of one of the reasons why I enlisted too.
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  I I I enlisted for, you know, personal things like college, you know, get the opportunity to
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  get my college paid and to travel.
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  And while I'm traveling, my plan was to, like, alright.
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  Whatever I travel, whatever I station at, I'm gonna wrestle there because, you know, it's a
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  it's a dream to me to become a a high named wrestler and be an example for the younger
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  audience to follow the good habits.
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  You know?
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, you are doing great at that.
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  You're a very positive person.
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  You you've enlisted in the military.
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  You're doing, you know, you're doing the best for yourself, and you're still going to college
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  while wrestling, so you want that higher education.
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  That's a great thing.
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  Yeah.
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  May ask
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  what you're going for?
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Go.
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  Go.
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  What are you going to college for?
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  Oh, I'm What do mean
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  to do?
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  Business administration.
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  That's my bad that's gonna be my bachelor's in business administration.
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  You know?
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  Because
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  Alright.
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  Is that gonna play into wrestling?
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  Maybe.
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  I I honestly doing it because and this is a this is actually a tip and a an advice.
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  You know, I'm not really an experienced wrestler that's been, you know, been decades or
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  years, but the most advice that I've heard from my my coaches, my masters, it's always have a
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  backup plan no matter what.
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  So that's really, like, my backup plan.
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  Everybody has always told me during my wrestling career, a, either do college or have
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  a good secure job behind you know, wrestling is not the only source.
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  Either, you know, god forbid, someone gets hurt, you don't got a second plan.
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  Right?
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  You don't
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  got a second plan.
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  And you're just out there struggling and all that.
• 19:21
  So that's really the reason I'm doing college and business administration because I wanna
• 19:25
  open a business with my family too.
• 19:27
  That's that's another thing.
• 19:28
  Help my mom.
• 19:29
  She has, like, a refinery closed business in Mexico, so that's really another thing.
• 19:33
  And my dad, we have projects too.
• 19:35
  So
• 19:36
  It's so awesome, man.
• 19:38
  Thank thank you.
• 19:40
  Yeah.
• 19:42
  So speaking of people getting hurt, have you ever been hurt in the ring other than, you
• 19:46
  know, your big gash on your head?
• 19:49
  Yeah, dude.
• 19:50
  I've been I've been hurt quite, but luckily, major injuries or nothing either in practice or
• 19:57
  two times in wrestling.
• 19:58
  Like, the the last time I got hurt, I was wrestling in Texas for this wrestling company
• 20:06
  called nine three six Wrestling in Texas at Livingston.
• 20:12
  And I was wrestling one of the I was wrestling one of the I think his name was Genesis.
• 20:17
  I think he's Booker T's students.
• 20:19
  Well, that school.
• 20:21
  A really good really good wrestler.
• 20:23
  And I did a four fifty splash, but I I overdid it, and my hand would,
• 20:29
  like, oh.
• 20:33
  Immediately after that, I was like, oh.
• 20:35
  I was like, dang.
• 20:36
  Like, I even saw I even saw a slow motion in hand going, like, over over flexing it.
• 20:41
  You know, this, like, this went over here, and I'm like, oh, please.
• 20:44
  Like, please, god.
• 20:45
  Like, I hope I didn't, like, fracture it or major injury.
• 20:48
  Fracture.
• 20:49
  Easily a fracture.
• 20:51
  No.
• 20:51
  Like, I was lucky.
• 20:52
  Like, I I got extra tape and shit.
• 20:54
  And, like, I got up.
• 20:55
  I, you know, I finished the whole drill.
• 20:57
  That was the end of the match, luckily.
• 21:00
  And I got up, and they raised my hand, and I'm like I'm just like this.
• 21:04
  I'm like, damn it.
• 21:05
  Like, got outside of the ring, and I'm like I I immediately went to the well, it was in the
• 21:09
  woods.
• 21:10
  That was the locker rooms.
• 21:12
  Just some random woods.
• 21:14
  Yeah.
• 21:15
  And and I went there, took my tape off, and I'm just like you know, with the adrenaline, your
• 21:20
  body warmed up, you don't really feel it.
• 21:22
  Right?
• 21:23
  Yeah.
• 21:23
  And
• 21:24
  I'm just like and I feel here.
• 21:26
  I feel like just I'm moving my fingers, and I feel something swollen here, and I'm I can move
• 21:31
  it.
• 21:32
  And and I'm like, okay.
• 21:34
  I'm good.
• 21:34
  And then later on, this started getting swole.
• 21:37
  Actually, this part started getting swole.
• 21:39
  So it was these fingers that overextended.
• 21:42
  These were good.
• 21:44
  My wrist was good.
• 21:45
  So I immediately I clicked.
• 21:47
  I've been hurt in practice before like that.
• 21:49
  So torsion I went into I went to Walmart, got a bucket, got salt, Tylenol, ibuprofen, you know,
• 21:58
  just to get swelled down, and ice.
• 22:01
  Right?
• 22:02
  Pour the put bucket of water, hot water.
• 22:05
  I was in the hotel with a freaking bucket of water like this, and I'm just like, alright.
• 22:10
  Alright.
• 22:10
  Alright.
• 22:10
  Swollen.
• 22:11
  Now cold water.
• 22:13
  Just did that.
• 22:16
  Put some, like, some pomade, I think it's what it's called.
• 22:20
  Wrap it around.
• 22:21
  And I was like that for, like, a week, and I was good to go from there.
• 22:25
  But
• 22:26
  You got quick treatments for yourself and that that you know and you're good to go.
• 22:30
  Yeah.
• 22:30
  It's just some things.
• 22:31
  Like like I said, when I was in practice in Mexico long time, like, long time ago when I
• 22:36
  was a kid, I was practicing chain wrestling.
• 22:39
  You know how we do a lot of chain wrestling in Mexico.
• 22:42
  My coach, I did, like, an arm drag to him, and I put my hand behind his back.
• 22:47
  Same thing, brother.
• 22:49
  He literally slipped over me because I did an arm drug.
• 22:52
  He was selling it.
• 22:54
  And boom.
• 22:55
  Matt was here.
• 22:56
  I put my hand like this, and his body went, like, on my hand like this.
• 23:00
  Oh, woah.
• 23:01
  Woah.
• 23:01
  So I was
• 23:02
  like, that now that, it popped.
• 23:04
  Like, I I heard a pop, and I'm oh, crap.
• 23:06
  I was like, hey.
• 23:07
  Stop.
• 23:07
  Stop.
• 23:07
  Stop.
• 23:08
  And I'm just like they were like, what?
• 23:09
  And I'm like he started checking me, and they're like, alright.
• 23:12
  Just standby outside.
• 23:14
  And I was like, well, you got some ice?
• 23:16
  And they were like, no.
• 23:17
  But we got some frozen tortillas.
• 23:21
  And I'm like, alright.
• 23:23
  That'll work.
• 23:23
  I put it on, and I had a giant ball right here, like, and I couldn't do this.
• 23:30
  And same thing.
• 23:31
  My grandfather and my dad and my well, all three, like, my brother too, they taught me
• 23:37
  this method, you know, the bucket of water, ice.
• 23:40
  Just keep doing that.
• 23:41
  Keep doing that until it goes down.
• 23:43
  So I've been hurt hurt a few times, but, thank god nothing major.
• 23:49
  You know?
• 23:49
  I'm glad to hear there was nothing major there with any of the pain or nothing.
• 23:54
  So what's your biggest match that you've had?
• 23:58
  Biggest match?
• 24:00
  Yes.
• 24:00
  I'm not gonna lie.
• 24:02
  The the the last one that I just had with toxin, I'm gonna say that was a big match for
• 24:08
  me and my personal With toxin?
• 24:12
  Yeah.
• 24:12
  Or in or the one that I had in Mexico last December.
• 24:17
  It was a six man a federal six six man match, like, for a title.
• 24:22
  I was going against, like, really good, like, elite high fighters from my hometown, but toxin
• 24:29
  is is it's out there, one of those two.
• 24:31
  You know?
• 24:31
  Right.
• 24:32
  Because that will explain why.
• 24:35
  Like, Toxin, I used to watch this guy when I was in middle school.
• 24:39
  I'm 23 years old currently, and I used to watch this guy in middle school.
• 24:44
  His when he first started with mister Iguana, you know you know that guy.
• 24:48
  Yeah.
• 24:48
  Everyone knows mister Iguana.
• 24:50
  Yeah.
• 24:51
  And, you know, he had, that when they first started, Eris, Latigo, like and I was like, oh,
• 24:59
  fuck.
• 24:59
  Like, the the these guys are are pretty high speed.
• 25:02
  Like, until my promoter from skill, Angel the Bus, that guy that promoter, he just randomly
• 25:08
  on a random Tuesday before the weekend of the show, hey.
• 25:11
  By the way, I just got this high star wrestler.
• 25:13
  I'm like, how did you did that?
• 25:14
  Like, how did you do that?
• 25:15
  And I'm like, he just hey.
• 25:17
  Like, I got connections.
• 25:19
  And he came up with Toxin.
• 25:21
  He made a deal with him, and he was like, hey, Andrew.
• 25:25
  You and Diablo, some other, other friend, you're gonna you're gonna have a triple threat.
• 25:31
  And I'm like, alright.
• 25:31
  Cool.
• 25:32
  I got one of my friends from affection and toxins.
• 25:35
  So we're gonna make a banger, a three triple threat match.
• 25:38
  But then, unfortunately, his car got messed up, so it was just a a one b one b one, me and
• 25:44
  Toxin.
• 25:46
  And I'm like, oh, damn.
• 25:48
  Like, I I love he was telling
• 25:49
  a friend.
• 25:50
  Yeah.
• 25:51
  Like, damn.
• 25:51
  Like, now, like, few years later, I'm about to face the guy that I used to see, like, after
• 25:56
  middle school class and stuff like that as as a kid.
• 26:00
  So I was nervous.
• 26:01
  Like like, you know, everything everything went well.
• 26:05
  Of course, we're nervous.
• 26:05
  I mean, I of course, you were.
• 26:07
  I know the feeling, man.
• 26:08
  Just a few months ago, I opened for a music artist who I literally listened to during
• 26:13
  school all the time.
• 26:15
  Like, I'm telling you, you know, like, that you just, like you just wanna, like, leave.
• 26:19
  You know, you just wanna disappear, but it's like you can't because, like, you see it as
• 26:23
  The dream is right there.
• 26:25
  You can't take off now.
• 26:26
  You know?
• 26:28
  Really?
• 26:28
  But
• 26:30
  Yeah.
• 26:30
  But Yeah.
• 26:31
  I
• 26:31
  get that feeling, man.
• 26:32
  Every time I start sweating
• 26:35
  bullets.
• 26:36
  You know?
• 26:36
  I'm like I'm like I'm like sleeping on, like, sleeping on my bed.
• 26:39
  I'm like, oh my god.
• 26:40
  Like, she wanna get it over with.
• 26:44
  Yeah.
• 26:44
  I understand.
• 26:46
  But everything went well.
• 26:48
  I met him.
• 26:48
  Really humble guy.
• 26:50
  We we plan we're gonna plan something in the future too.
• 26:54
  But, yeah, the match went amazing.
• 26:59
  And, yeah, and for the match that in Mexico, that was low key another challenge for me
• 27:03
  because the pace that luchadors have is really different from The US wrestlers.
• 27:09
  Both of them are definitely.
• 27:11
  Both of them are amazing, But for me, like, the pacing mixture in Mexico is more acrobats and
• 27:18
  more hittings and more running around.
• 27:22
  And that's what makes Lucha Libre magic.
• 27:25
  You know?
• 27:25
  Because That's why I love Lucha Libre so much.
• 27:28
  Yeah.
• 27:30
  And I remember I got announced for Millennials Wrestling Factory promotion in Mexico, my
• 27:35
  hometown.
• 27:36
  They announced me.
• 27:37
  Boom.
• 27:37
  Andrew Bridge coming to debuting to NWF.
• 27:41
  And I was like, oh, heck yeah.
• 27:42
  Like, I got in.
• 27:44
  I'm ready.
• 27:44
  I'm going for the champ the millennials champion main champion.
• 27:49
  But then there was people saying, like, I already saw it.
• 27:53
  Because I like, two years ago or a year, I debuted it back in Mexico without the mask.
• 28:00
  Now a whole different character.
• 28:02
  I wrestled back in Mexico again.
• 28:05
  Have a note that I was in a dirty, bulk phase, and I lost I didn't lose any, but I just lost
• 28:15
  my stamina, my conditioning.
• 28:17
  You know?
• 28:18
  And I low key I low key was, like, getting tired in the first match that I had back in
• 28:22
  Mexico.
• 28:23
  Right?
• 28:24
  Yeah.
• 28:25
  I learned from my mistakes.
• 28:26
  I took care of my body and debuting again in Mexico, like, in MWF.
• 28:33
  Because I I wrestled in lucha time, and then I like, at the January, I wrestled in lucha time.
• 28:40
  That was in my dirty bulk phase.
• 28:41
  But in December, I cut I cut my weight.
• 28:44
  I started training more stamina.
• 28:46
  And people saw me last time, right, and they were, like, commenting like, oh, this guy this
• 28:52
  guy was no.
• 28:54
  He was slow last time, or he got tired, or why are ringing him?
• 28:57
  You know, people start doubting on me.
• 28:59
  You know what I'm you know what I'm saying?
• 29:00
  Like
• 29:01
  because she had to come through and just prove them all wrong.
• 29:04
  Exactly.
• 29:05
  That's that's what I do.
• 29:06
  Know?
• 29:06
  At first, I'm like, well, dang.
• 29:07
  Like, people are not really excited, but, hey.
• 29:10
  Like, I'm I'm about to prove them wrong.
• 29:12
  I took my training serious.
• 29:14
  I started training every day, working hard, studying my opponents, obviously, like, of
• 29:20
  course, until I finally went to Mexico.
• 29:24
  Did a couple lucha training again to get get back on my feet, get back on the on the pace.
• 29:30
  Went to MWS.
• 29:32
  I put a banger, and everybody was like I I everybody was like, oh, that was amazing.
• 29:37
  You know?
• 29:38
  They really like my my job, and I'm proud of that.
• 29:41
  I'm proud of myself for that.
• 29:42
  They really like my job, and I'm happy to come back there in December and show them more and
• 29:48
  connect more with the fans with with the people there.
• 29:51
  Yeah.
• 29:52
  I know you're gonna do great when you get there.
• 29:55
  So Thank you.
• 29:56
  I guess I got a couple more questions before I have to let you go here.
• 30:00
  But, I guess, since you wrestle in Texas sometimes, what's your opinion on the lack of
• 30:05
  drug testing there with pro wrestling?
• 30:09
  Well, I wasn't really aware of that, but I guess I should be able to yeah.
• 30:16
  I I didn't know about that subject, but now that I now that you say
• 30:19
  it unregulated for the cause.
• 30:22
  I think the commission from, like, the Texas commissioning, I guess they they should do more
• 30:29
  drug testing more often.
• 30:30
  You know?
• 30:32
  We're trying to be we're trying to set an example for the younger audience to do the
• 30:36
  right thing.
• 30:37
  You know?
• 30:38
  You know what I'm you know what I'm saying?
• 30:40
  Trying to go to, like Yeah.
• 30:42
  Because we're, like, we're figures to the younger audience in pro wrestling.
• 30:48
  And whatever we do, they're gonna take it as an example.
• 30:52
  If we do the right thing, they'll do the right thing.
• 30:54
  If we do the wrong thing, they'll probably start doing other stuff that's probably not
• 30:59
  good.
• 30:59
  So we should we should start doing the right thing more often on progressing, and I think it
• 31:04
  should be more stricter with the drug testing and all that stuff.
• 31:10
  No.
• 31:10
  I agree with that because, I mean, are we gonna have a sport that's dangerous and injures
• 31:15
  people?
• 31:16
  But we are or can injure people.
• 31:18
  It doesn't, like, you know, outright interview, but and then no drug testing.
• 31:22
  Someone could be in there on steroids.
• 31:23
  Someone could be in there on anything, and you don't know what you're dealing with.
• 31:29
  Exactly.
• 31:29
  And and not only that, it can even, besides the steroids, like, if it's on any other drug or
• 31:35
  alcohol, it can either put in danger their partners, their opponents, and it can cause
• 31:41
  them an injury that can have them for the rest of their lives.
• 31:46
  You know, it's a it's a safety it's like a hazard.
• 31:49
  Yeah.
• 31:49
  I mean, that's the thing.
• 31:50
  Especially with other drugs, I just
• 31:53
  Yeah.
• 31:53
  Yeah.
• 31:54
  Like, if somebody's doing a move and you become deadweight, that's horrible.
• 31:59
  Yeah.
• 32:00
  It's always to check on each other before the match.
• 32:02
  And if you have the opportunity, you know, try to in the most respectful way, try to tell them
• 32:10
  to do the right thing.
• 32:12
  And if they take it the wrong way,
• 32:13
  we'll Yeah.
• 32:14
  I mean, that's all you can do.
• 32:17
  Yeah.
• 32:20
  So, I guess the last one, this one's kind of a tough one, but who's your Mount Rushmore of
• 32:26
  wrestlers?
• 32:26
  They can be the luchadors from Mexico, independent scene wrestlers, people from, like,
• 32:30
  WWE or things like that, anyone who wrestles.
• 32:34
  Who's your top four, your Mount Rushmore?
• 32:36
  My top four, like, favorite wrestlers?
• 32:40
  Yeah.
• 32:41
  Okay.
• 32:41
  Alright.
• 32:42
  Alright.
• 32:42
  I was ready for this.
• 32:44
  I was ready for this, my friend.
• 32:47
  But I'll say number four, I'm a have to put I'm a I'm have to put Kenny Omega number four.
• 32:56
  Right?
• 32:58
  I got Kenny Omega.
• 32:59
  Alright.
• 33:00
  I got La Sombra Andrade, which, unfortunately, he just got released from WWE, but he's a he's
• 33:07
  an amazing wrestler.
• 33:07
  I used
• 33:08
  to look up to Yeah.
• 33:11
  Yeah.
• 33:11
  He'll be back somewhere soon.
• 33:13
  We know that.
• 33:14
  He's never inactive for long.
• 33:16
  Exactly.
• 33:17
  Yeah.
• 33:17
  But when he when he had the mask and he was an independent wrestler, that was peak.
• 33:22
  In my opinion, that was peak Andrade.
• 33:24
  But,
• 33:25
  no, he's he's
• 33:26
  he's still put on bangers on NXT, though, like, when he was on NXT with Johnny Gargano and all
• 33:32
  those people.
• 33:32
  Crazy.
• 33:34
  But alright.
• 33:36
  Kenny Omega, Andrade.
• 33:38
  We got Misiko second.
• 33:41
  You know?
• 33:41
  That's how I I love them even in in the Sin Cara phase.
• 33:45
  Not the not the other Sin Cara, but the first Sin Cara phase where they which they call it
• 33:50
  botched botched car.
• 33:51
  But, hey, I'll defend Misco till the end.
• 33:54
  I don't care.
• 33:57
  If only they could see him now.
• 33:58
  Right?
• 33:59
  Yeah.
• 34:00
  And then number one, got Will Osprey.
• 34:02
  That's my top that's my to go.
• 34:05
  That's your inspiration, if I remember correctly.
• 34:08
  Yeah.
• 34:09
  That's my inspiration that you know, I hope one day one of my dreams is to face him.
• 34:13
  I know, he had, like, an injury right now.
• 34:15
  Right?
• 34:17
  Okay.
• 34:17
  So.
• 34:18
  Yeah.
• 34:18
  Next sir no.
• 34:19
  Next surgery, but that's my that's my dream opponent.
• 34:22
  Like, hope one day, I can see him.
• 34:25
  I can wrestle with him or even train with him.
• 34:27
  I can, you know, get all his advice and put it to him.
• 34:31
  That's kinda, like, my style that I want to wrestle like him.
• 34:34
  And yeah.
• 34:35
  Yeah.
• 34:36
  I really hope that happens for you, man.
• 34:38
  You deserve it.
• 34:39
  You deserve all of that.
• 34:40
  You are doing great things.
• 34:42
  But we are about out of time.
• 34:44
  So if there's anything you wanna tell everyone before I let you go, you have the floor all to
• 34:48
  yourself one last time.
• 34:50
  Alright.
• 34:51
  Well, thank you guys for your attention, watching this amazing podcast.
• 34:55
  I'm really looking forward to wrestling your time if I ever have the chance and, you know,
• 35:03
  always do good things.
• 35:04
  Don't do drugs.
• 35:05
  Don't drink.
• 35:06
  And stay on track with sports no matter what.
• 35:10
  Stay on track.
• 35:11
  You know, your body is a temple.
• 35:13
  Treat it right.
• 35:14
  That's all.
• 35:16
  That's right, man.
• 35:17
  Thank you for coming on.
• 35:19
  I appreciate it.
• 35:21
  Thank you.
• 35:21
  Thank you for
• 35:22
  your interview you.
• 35:24
  Have a great night, man.
• 35:26
  You too.