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April 26, 2025 • 45 mins

On this bonus, special edition of the Club 520 Podcast, the incredible WWE wrestling tag team, Street Profits, joins Jeff Teague, B Hen and DJ Wells for an interview live from Las Vegas' WrestleMania 41! Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford talk about their journey through WWE and what they had to go through to get to the champion status they've achieved. Plus, don't miss the WILD STORY of how Angelo and Montez met and formed their legendary tag team. The guys also talk about eating turkey instead of ham, Royal Rumble in Indianapolis, WrestleMania 41, comparing themselves to both Steph Curry and LeBron James, and so much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The volume.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
All right, man, we're back another episode of Club five
twenty podcasts. I'm your host, Miam's d J Wells. We
out in Vegas with at WrestleMania.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
It's only right.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
We got some championship building. Man, we're gonna introduce them last.
But to my far left, we got my dog should
be here out the pre league.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
How you weren'tnasty? Nasty glad to be here? Man?

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Come on, man, China got you out here in the
new shoes looking crazy.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
You know me?

Speaker 2 (00:24):
I know little bit of black forces. He and he
and he's today he's going out in Vegas.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
I was rushing. I was rushing. Shout to the god.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
He got a wrestling shirt on too.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Shout out to pass who believed it came brother, it's
me nigga for sure. I still believe. Related still believe something.
They gotta be something for show. To my right, my dog,
you're not your young tig how you are?

Speaker 3 (00:54):
I'm chilling man happy another day? You know me, I'm
in heaven right now. W W WrestleMania. It's my first Wrestlemingia.
But y'all know I'm a huge thing, so I'm hep
appreciate time. For bringing us out here, but I'm gonna
let you.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Do the come on man, shout to time one time
for the one time. Man.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
It's all the right man. We got some champions out
here since we got here for WrestleMania.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Man, long overdue episode. Man, you know what it is?
Street five Just excuse me, Street Popper.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
That's that Lakers last night Streets.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Be prose Champion the Bill. Appreciate y'all. Slide through Man,
thanks nah love man. Man, we know y'all tapped in. Man.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
We heard has some words to be in many I'll
see him on the internet talking about the professional man.
Let's get man.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
They're starting out hot bro and y'all. You know what
I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (01:53):
But what I hate clicks. It got took out a
proportion of what I said. I ain't backing down standing
on what I said.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
What you said.

Speaker 4 (02:02):
I went to a wrestling mats and a motherfucker swarming.
He missed and the motherfucker fell. I'm not wrong for
being mad at that. My brother paid good money for
that ship. Shout to the entertainment, but I was pissed.
Shout to y'all, y'all journey, that was some bullshit.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
When I was eight years old.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
So that's what I said, you know about my experience yesterday,
and they wouldn't so shouting y'all, and bro, they you
know ed came to me about it, like because they
we went to ar Romo to see shout to say,

(02:41):
so uh big, we seen somebody who was up and
got their head put through the other lad Kevin, y'all
thought he died. So that kind of woke me up.
You know what I'm saying. Say, Okay, some of this ship,
the majority of it is for real, for real. Just
can't take us for real. So I mean, now I'm
thinking about it. You say he fell by the force.
You didn't go see no wrestler.

Speaker 5 (03:00):
You went to go see Darth Baby at this point, man,
Like that's probably what you saw.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
I mean, you just fail like that.

Speaker 5 (03:06):
Like you just couldn't believe you man, is that what
probably happened?

Speaker 1 (03:13):
It ain't They took him to him. Bro, he're a
big fan, you know what I'm saying. So he you know,
educated me on the ship, so I definitely what I

(03:33):
do and I would telling people too. That's very hard
for him to understand about it.

Speaker 5 (03:38):
You got to think about like your favorite Hollywood movies, right,
like you see Fast and Furious, you see all these
action movies. But these action movies they put together that's
in multiple takes.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Were out there live like one take, one take, so
so it happens like the magic of it.

Speaker 5 (03:54):
Is like getting back on course and getting everybody emotionally
evolved back into it. But like we go out there
on one take, like we get one take, and like
that's what the fans, that's it, you know, Like I
compare it to like a live movie. But it's like
one take. If that makes it's.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Definitely a beautiful art to it. That's what I was
trying to tell them. I'm like, man, it's art. Like
I played basketball, Like you said, you got teammates and whatever,
but you can mess up on a basketball court. Nobody
know because you make a mistake. But it's like viewed
on national TV all the time. People rewinded, rewinded. That's
a tough job, but I'll do a great job at it.
But before we go any further, I watched last night.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yeah, yeah, you don't see his only way I'm excited
table lettering chairs.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
I got a match coming up, yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
With the Wars. Should be interested what is it? You
know what you're talking about?

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Learning?

Speaker 5 (05:03):
Yeah, they call LC match and actually this year is
the twenty fifth anniversary of like the first one they
did actually wrestling.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
It's just cool that fun time.

Speaker 5 (05:14):
Yeah, it's cool that we actually are part of it,
walking in as champions, you know, to try to make history.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
So it's dope. Man, Like I've been watching this as a.

Speaker 5 (05:21):
Kid too, so to see us like watching his kids
and then now being part of the twenty fifth anniversary
is like my blow. You know, it feels like blink,
knowe just go about so fast. You go from being
a fan to now being an employee.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
So for sure right there to ask you who's going
some rest is growing up. Some people you work with.

Speaker 5 (05:40):
And I was always the rock Man, Book of t Stone,
Steve Alston, the Undertaker, Kurt Angle. I feel like everybody
brought so many different elements to wrestling that made me
like like them. I love I love Rock, like when
he first came in, like the aggression he brought and
he was just just a monster man falling people. And

(06:00):
obviously the Hardy Boys, all the tag teams, because like.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
Everybody brought like different elliots to wrestling.

Speaker 5 (06:05):
And made you feel sometimes, you know, even with basketball
and like other sports, like it's so hard to say
who's your favorite point guard of all time? Who's your
favorite center of all time? Because they like sass to it,
you know. So yeah, that's.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Dope, man.

Speaker 6 (06:22):
I gotta go with obviously the rock Stone Cold, Kurt
angle Brock, the Hardy Boys, too cool.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
And shout out to Hunt.

Speaker 5 (06:34):
Yeah, got just got inducted to the Hall of Fame,
and like, yeah, to emotionally have fans involved and make
you like not like you for such a long period
of time, right, and you vote that emotion like and
you know, like I said, shout out to him and
congraticgate him in the Hall of Fame induction, you know,
way past doing well deserved.

Speaker 6 (06:51):
Also also, I would definitely like to shout at Hunter
for this reason right here. I can't tell you how
many beatdowns from my mom I got because of you,
Sean road Dog and Billy Yeah you know what I'm saying,
suck it, you know, uh, the X back Yeah, elementary school,
middle school. Yeah, I got a lot of detentions like

(07:12):
matorial school throwing up. It's crazy.

Speaker 5 (07:20):
I mean we still like even now, we still like
throw the gesture up a little bit and any ambitious too.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
You know this time we get paid for it. Yeah,
you get to get paid for it. You know what
I'm saying, see.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
That outcome income crazy about it? We're wrong because we
really were that.

Speaker 5 (07:47):
Those two words really need to be telling the young
gentlemen to age, you know. So, but it was all
funny games and it's like, like I said, like those
are the memories they gave us, and like we're just
trying to basically do the same thing.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
Now you just give more memory, but like more memories
in the new form.

Speaker 5 (08:02):
Like obviously times times has changed now, like you know,
the world is different from how it was when we
was watching it.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
So I'm just trying to add to the element. Now.
That's dope. Man.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
I wanted to ask you a question because obviously, you
know what I'm saying, really be headed to this resting world.

Speaker 7 (08:15):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
The Travis Scott situation is hilarious because usually stole on
buddy using the forces.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
No, that was hey, you that ear drum was masked up. Honestly,
you'd rather be that way than to be the force
for So what's that supposed to be? Like that's what
they called him return the favorite, so.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
You can't good nothing the Travis Scott this is my.

Speaker 7 (08:49):
Problem, like.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
Travis plus, now let just off your list. What is
you gonna do for real? Bro? I mean, you know
what I'm saying, trying to start. You know, here's what
I would do. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 6 (09:07):
Make sure I know what I'm saying. Make a trip
to one of the stars and someone when.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
They right there.

Speaker 6 (09:16):
I mean, hey, look, look, there was one time I
had to give a receipt back.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 6 (09:20):
A couple of years ago, bron stroman and made his
return saying he beat everybody up. He put me through
the announced table and then we ended up having to
wrestle him again a couple of years ago in l
A and uh So that was like one of the
craziest moments. I feel like that WrestleMania was when I
hit stick.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
Smoked you got this bit? Oh yeah, I got my
lip back receipts.

Speaker 4 (09:45):
I got to want some new ingo. So receipt is
when you get your look back. O's good.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
You pulled up to his job.

Speaker 6 (09:56):
He I have to fight through like fifty security guards.
You know what I'm saying, and all that. But hey,
you know what I'm saying, I played football.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
You know what I'm saying. I got swim moves on
still moves.

Speaker 6 (10:09):
You know what I'm saying, Hey, y'all play a little
basketball to a little crossover.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
Lo was you? Almer was way bigger than what I
am now? Okay, Okay? And he rocked with Ohio State.
Yeah that we connect. Yeah it was diehard Ohio State. Man.

Speaker 5 (10:31):
I've seen this man cried on like certain games actually
been the last couple of years because Michigan been making
y'all day again.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
So this year. But I'm saying.

Speaker 6 (10:50):
That where he don't want to go at Okay, you
know what I'm saying. He was, He was at my house,
you know what I'm saying. When the Bears made it
to the playoffs with Mitch quarterback saying, I think we
believe Matt Nagy was the head coach and U I
forgot the kid's name the kicker he missed the kick.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
Oh man, I was just sitting there just and then
I was just like everybody bront.

Speaker 5 (11:25):
But see, first off, he knew it was March and
that's when the policism starts.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
So how you know that what my kids, because there
was the playoffs. Who wasn't march away? Load up sho.

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Speaker 1 (15:11):
Man.

Speaker 5 (15:11):
It's like, at this point is so many I would say,
like when I first got the email after my second
trial because I had a prior child in like twenty thirteen,
and I was about like man, maybe like two hundred
maybe two hundred pounds, and they said, hey, you speak well,
but maybe put on.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
Some side, so man, I took that the heart.

Speaker 5 (15:32):
I showed up the next trial like at least fifty
pounds bigger, fifty sixty pounds bigger, just eating everything massively
for like the next year year and a half.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
Ended up having a second trial. And what's crazy about
the second.

Speaker 5 (15:44):
Trial is actually when I met Dawkins, he took me
upstairs and it was like me and five other people
and we were kind of the people from that class
that actually got signed and just so Lord behold up
in the upper room, they were having a promo class
and it was actually being ran by uh Tom Dusty Rose.
I was still there, and they took us to class,

(16:06):
and I remember right before I walked in there, I.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
Never forget it.

Speaker 5 (16:08):
Dusty Rolls was like, and just be self, kid, and
he sat me down up front in front of the class,
and it was like Kevin Owens and Dawkins was right
up there front row. And the crazy part about this
here is just like my mom always told me to
wear suits when you go to like business or do anything.
And in the morning, I thought promos were in the afternoon,

(16:29):
and I showed up my gym clothes and I had
my gym clothes and these moccasins on. So I'm like shit, man,
like I fell on professional, I ain't dressed up to
the tea.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
Just so happened.

Speaker 5 (16:38):
They took me upstairs and I sat down with the
moccasins and my compression shirt, and Kevin Owen.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
Was like little docs he went in the house. She
was just like you.

Speaker 5 (16:46):
You guys will fit well together because darcs everywhere all
the time, where house shoes, debo shoes. He's so chill
and everything. Right now, he got the gucciese because he
in Vegas.

Speaker 1 (16:55):
He had to do. But he was on the moment.
He was so aheavy.

Speaker 5 (17:14):
But I always remember that moment because that's where everything started,
and it's just so happened. Like the first person I
seen accidentally by thinking everything was supposed to be in
the morning after whatever it was, showing up in moccasins
was my brother. So it's cool. Yeah, so I say,
that's one of the moments. I got a whole bunch more,
but I ain't trying to take up all your time
and every.

Speaker 1 (17:34):
Man, dog, I got a couple as well.

Speaker 6 (17:38):
Shoot even like because obviously I tried out before him,
So I started tried out in twenty twelve, and uh yeah,
like college kid, I.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
Ain't got no suits nothing.

Speaker 6 (17:50):
But however, bro, I'm strictly sweatpants, house shoes, hoodies all
day every day, so obviously get a tryout. I walk
in and everybody's dressed up. So everybody's just looking at
me bad as had like, dang, bro.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
You ain't got no suits. I was like, nah, I
ain't know I needed a suit.

Speaker 6 (18:09):
And then uh so from that point on, like obviously
everybody was just looking at me. And then I just started, uh,
I'm saying, going in there, and they had me to
go do stuff in the ring and clown around a
little bit, and they were like, oh, this this kid is.
This kid's good. And like I was beating out people
with suits and I was like, oh sweet, this was
pretty cool. And then I wrapped baby got snacks from

(18:30):
uh in Living Color, And that's how I got That's.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
When I knew I made it. That's how you see
the deal. The deal.

Speaker 6 (18:36):
Shout out to Jamie Fox, shout out the living color
of the Wayne's family.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
You know what I'm saying, Thank you guys.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
All right now, obviously we're going fastward just a little
bit now, whe y'all got the real big big bag.
What's like when y'all get that first check, first birthday,
y'all locked in what ch'all do with that first that
first director posit man.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
So I went and bought a Bible. That's the first
thing I did.

Speaker 5 (18:57):
I was like, man, you know what, like thing's good
for us, Like this is the first time, like we've
put in so much time and we feel like not
that we made it, but we're just in the whole
different level time that we wear when we first signed.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
I mean, the first thing I did was like a Bible,
and like lady put.

Speaker 5 (19:14):
Inside my truck just so I can keep reminding myself
each you know, because I bought myself a Bible, and
I always bought I always wanted, like my dream car
was a Chevy Silverado. I don't know why some people
feel like that's basic, but I always just wanted a
black set Chevy Silverado. Bought a Bible, and Lady put
the Bible inside of my uh the.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
Middle consoles, and it's still in there to this day.

Speaker 5 (19:36):
And just to remind myself in these hot points in life,
like you know, this is where it all is. And
I was always raising the church, born in the church,
and I always humble myself to know, like these great
things that happen, but we still can be taken away
in any day.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
So just a blessing to myself. Man, that's the first
thing I did. Really.

Speaker 5 (19:54):
I haven't really bought anything crazy either, Like I feel
like like I wear you know, Gucci Finny with Ready.

Speaker 1 (20:01):
I haven't.

Speaker 5 (20:08):
I was the wise really buy that, like too crazy?

Speaker 1 (20:14):
But you know, okay, I mean, oh here we go, man.

Speaker 6 (20:19):
Yeah, man, shout to Bible.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
I mean I mean, I mean, you got to enjoy boat.
I mean, you gotta enjoy yourself in the road plus
days out the year. You know, you all you enjoy yourself,
so you might you might buy a boat my bye

(20:53):
house or you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
That.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
I mean, first thing I did, yeah, paid off Sally Made.
He did, paid off Sally Made. I called. I was like, hey, yeah,
how much I got? All right?

Speaker 6 (21:15):
Yeah, I'll just take care of all of that real quick.
They sounded so deflated, you know what I'm saying, because
there was a lot of deferments.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
I said, you know what, Sally Man know hey. And
then after that I went and bought a couple of
pairs of house shoes. Yeah, the gay man because.

Speaker 5 (21:37):
She was wearing a pay for like at least like
about seven eight years man. And like I'll never forget
this too. Like when we first got signed, DOCS had
this Toyota camera like it probably had like six hundred thousand.
And the reason why people say Dos is rich because
Lily Doos will keep stuff until the wheels fall off.

Speaker 1 (21:56):
And I remember one time, this is.

Speaker 5 (21:58):
Way before you know the wives and everything we got
involved with. Now, we was just getting in from coming
out one night. He was driving that camera and like
that thing literally was hopping as it was getting me
to my apartment.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
It was skipping.

Speaker 5 (22:12):
I was like, it was like, I kid, you not
look over at dogs. Like, bro, you're gonna be straight
to get home, he said.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
With the dashboard. I'll be all right. I swear. That
was the last night he joyed that car. It made
it to his house.

Speaker 5 (22:28):
Then, like I think a couple of days later, a
week later, you end up getting that charger after that
oh yeah charge It.

Speaker 6 (22:38):
Was It was funny because like I got that car
was I mean, it's pretty dope because, uh, the person
that had that car originally he was wrestling at n XT.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
That was when we lived in Tampa at that time.
It was f c W.

Speaker 6 (22:49):
The named Sakamoto and uh he.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
He got let go. So he basically gave me the
car for one hundred dollars to care for one hundred
dollars and like that already had like a lot of
miles on it.

Speaker 6 (23:04):
Anyways, So then like what those two thousand, Yeah, twenty thirteen.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah, what year I was in Toyota Camp nineteen ninety Say,
I had an eighty eight when I was a high suit,
So that's crazy years.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
It was thirty years both, forget it for sure, for sure,
But listen, shout the job.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
Good boy, you've made a hundred dollars stretching.

Speaker 6 (23:36):
I was making a hundred dollars stretched right then, man, man,
you was making to play for Financial freedom is least
thing you won't it's debt man.

Speaker 1 (23:43):
You don't want no credit card debt man, So please
tap in with chime. Man.

Speaker 2 (23:46):
You want to play for that new WEIB like you
was talking about. I want to get the Bible going crazy,
like you said, financial freedom, get the debt taking away,
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Speaker 1 (24:40):
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Speaker 2 (25:03):
First of all, shouts to y'all man champions. Man, but
I want to go back. How'd you get into wrestling?
Because I know both of y'all superior athletes before I
even got in the ring. Man, you talk about your day,
but you led us out to eat the boss man dog.

Speaker 6 (25:18):
It's weird that I got into business. Like, So, I
played football at Harper College. I was going there strictly
for football because I wanted to go D one. So like,
I was just focused on that. It was a juco
so trying to get my feet wet and like get
out there and try to go D one. So then
obviously like a bunch of heavyweights got hurt on the
wrestling team or they either got hurt or they quit.

(25:41):
So the wrestling coach came and like tried to get
me to wrestle. And when I wrestled in high school,
I had to cut weight the two fifteen so I
had to, like the last two years, I missed Thanksgiving,
so like so yeah, so like at that point, I
was like, man, I kind of want to eat.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
I ain't really trying to.

Speaker 6 (26:01):
Like I was already above what heavyweight is two eighty five.
I was two ninety five at the time, So I
was like, nah, I ain't trying to cut weight, man, Like,
I just want to go home and eat, eat some
of my mom was cooking, you know what I'm saying,
and enjoy joy Thanksgiving, Enjoy the holidays.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
And I'm good.

Speaker 6 (26:18):
So he's like all right, cool and so obviously come back.
Got the ball game? We uh go on Christmas break.
I come back second semester, our defensive coordinator at the
time drags me to the wrestling room.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
It's like, hey, I got.

Speaker 6 (26:33):
Your evyweight here and he's like, hey, great wrestle and
I just looked.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
I was like I guess so, So long story.

Speaker 6 (26:40):
Short, I joined the team like the second half of
the season.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
It was like what two months left, one match away
from All.

Speaker 6 (26:48):
American there and that was when I met Jerry Briscoe
and Jerry brisco and it was a coach Kelly and
coach Totto. They were the ones that were like the
catalysts and making where I am now pretty much like
they were the ones that got my foot in the
door because they came up and it was like hey,
yo yo, Jerry Brisco's here, ww j Briscoll's here, look

(27:10):
at the tongue.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
I'm like, man, shut up, bro, whatever dog let.

Speaker 6 (27:14):
Me go wrestle real quick like and uh and so
basically they was like, oh, I'm like yeah, whatever, bro,
So I go wrestle. Caught Matt sweat and tired trying
to drink some gatorade or something, and uh, Jerry Riskal
Walks was like, hey, Jay Risko from WWE like to
talk to you about getting the trial.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
So we talked for a minute, like it talks like.

Speaker 6 (27:37):
We talked for a minute, and like I said, like
two months later, I got tired of doing homework. Yeah,
and I got tired of doing homework. He goat me
a try out and the rest is history. And like
I always look at thank coach tod On coach Kelly
for that, because like if they never got my foot
the door of hell, if my defensive coordinator took me

(28:00):
to the coaches the wrestling room, I'm probably not sitting
here right now. Like how I got in the business
was insanely lucky. Now that I think about it, it's like, Yo,
this is crazy. Like I had no plans for wrestling
in college, none whatsoever. And it's like I never knew
that's where that would take me to this right here.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
You know what I'm saying. That's crazy for sure. Man.
I'll watched it as a kid, watching like my entire life.

Speaker 5 (28:27):
I started watching it like when I was like seven,
eight years old, and then when I graduated high school.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
I actually end up going to the military and so.

Speaker 5 (28:36):
Love wrestling everything, played it for sports in like high
school and actually did wrestling as well. But once I graduated,
I went to the Marines from like eighteen to twenty two.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
And while I was in the military, I was just
thinking like, man.

Speaker 5 (28:49):
Like I could keep doing the military or I actually
do something that I want to do. And it's not
saying the military wasn't something I wanted to do, but
I felt like I had something else to offer to.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
The world with wrestling.

Speaker 5 (29:02):
I didn't know how to go about of getting involved
into wrestling. So after I finished the military, I was
looking around at the city I was living around. The
town was in California, Sanio, California. I was looking at
the different independent promotions that they possibly have to possibly
get your name out there for wrestling, trying to put

(29:23):
on side train at the same time. And I remember
at the time in twenty thirteen, WWE had like a WWE.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
Recruit on their website tab.

Speaker 5 (29:31):
I don't know if they still have it, but you
can submit your videos and your photos and they can
possibly contact you for a trial. So I said, all right, man,
let me try this. Submitted my name in like lard behold,
Like maybe seven months later they contacted me and said, hey,
we want to bring you in for a trial.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
Lost my mind, lost my shit. I was like, oh damn,
So got ready for the trial.

Speaker 5 (29:52):
Did the first job that I told you all about,
and like I said, they said, you speak well, but
maybe put on some side. So in that whole year,
almost year and a half process, like when I say,
like I ate and I trained, and I letally went
to a place where like.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
It wasn't a bad place.

Speaker 5 (30:07):
It was just like I said, if I'm not going
to get this opportunity, then I want to make sure
that when I do this second trial, if it's possible
they tell me no, at least I know I put
everything to provide them to make sure that whatever I
need to do to get hired this time, I've done everything.
And I could consciously close this dream and go try
something else. Because when I went to the military the

(30:30):
first year, I had my first my oldest my son,
like he's here this weekend, my kids here this week
I have my oldest son, So like I didn't really
have time to like try to figure out like what
things I want to try on life because you know,
I got I got mouser feed and by the time
I was finishing the military, I had all three of
my kids. So like everything at that time was like
not just taking care of them, but like trying to

(30:53):
figure out what I want to do too.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
But when you got babies.

Speaker 5 (30:56):
You know, time is like it's very limited, scared because
I never wanted to stop my cash.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
Flow taking care of my babies.

Speaker 5 (31:04):
So like, like I said, once the military got finished
and I did that first initial trial and they told me,
you know, you speak, well, put up some size. The
whole next year went all in, gained the weight. Did
the second trial. I think I came in like an
extra like fifty fifty two pounds, y'all, like swear, just
just it was not good either. Like you know, I

(31:25):
had some some piezas, some burgers.

Speaker 1 (31:28):
Some cakes like it was. It was it was some
meat pause you know, so it was I appreciate that
about it. Have you ever had Turkey him before? Yeah,
it is Turkey. Don't worry about him, talk about it.

Speaker 3 (31:44):
It's not it's not Turkey him, man, It's just like Turkey.

Speaker 1 (31:48):
What was Yeah, he trying to restrict my mama right now.

Speaker 4 (31:54):
Shout out to my duke's But ye're talking about Thanksgiving
and stuff.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
D of sparked in my mind.

Speaker 4 (32:00):
He was talking about the other day he told me
eating him is like smoking cigarettes.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
Now, don't him no more. He's out of pocket.

Speaker 4 (32:07):
I mean, but he said he his mom make a
turkey that tastes like him, so kind of fool him
a little bit. He said they put pineapples on it.
Oh yeah, so.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
You know what I'm saying. I don't think I ever
seen my most important that this taste. Yeah, it's fired

(32:42):
about at about to fool him.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
I told my mom about this, and she was like,
when we get back on Monday, she got something for you.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
So I'm worry about. I just wanted to look the
reaction that they you know, you got you up. Now,
clearly some ship. I don't part of the plutfer so much.

(33:09):
I was actually amazed. I make it a second. You
can the best of them. I can't wait the going

(33:36):
in this is I like this. You don't talking about
turkey turkey said fighting apples.

Speaker 7 (34:00):
I'm like, I was a little just like him.

Speaker 3 (34:12):
Be careful, so you know, y'all come out with the sola.
I used to like What was that for? Like, what
made y'all do that? Because up hanging out all the time,

(34:32):
all we use a sola coup. We gotta show and
we go back home. We drink out of solo cups.
And when y'all first came out and I seen y'all,
I was like, that's a vibe, Like I see what
they're doing. They making me feel like I'm back in
college with her.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
They drinking, throwing them in the air, They're coming out
on the interest sitting the vibes.

Speaker 1 (34:46):
Who made that play? Who set it up for y'all?
What made y'all go with that?

Speaker 5 (34:54):
So it was actually I was I was at the
house one time and I was talking to my wife
beyond bel air. She actually wrestles with the as well.
She got a master's weekend rustling and two shut out
the baby luck.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (35:07):
But I was in the house one time, like man
baby like me and dark Sneak. Like something that like
relates to the crowd. That's like something that they can
like carry in, something that makes them feel like one
of us, you know, like obviously we share like cultures similarities,
but like like what's like an item or something that

(35:28):
they can use it's like a gesture and like, what's
something that's like a symbol of a good time. I
was like, man, I think I might go out there
with a red solar cup and it's loud. It's a
red solar cup and everybody knows what the red sola
cup is. To us, means a good time and like
street props, like what we've always been about is just
having a good time.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
Like we're gonna still it beat your ass, but we're
gonna get that to a city. You know, we're gonna
have a good time. That's kind of like what the
vibes like came from.

Speaker 5 (35:56):
Like you said, like when people have solo cups, they
know it's like it's it's a vibe about big good time.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
I wanted to ask about the music because we talked
about that, Like that's the fire part is everybody hear
that music, they got crazy before they see y'all what's
that plant life for? You know, I'm saying this is
what we're pulling up to it. Y'all got the solo
cups in hand, but it's gonna set the tongue. We
come out, man, dog, I give this shout out the
hunter on that. Yeah, that was damn Yeah. He was like, hey,

(36:24):
y'all like the music, it's like seems straight, you know
what I'm saying.

Speaker 6 (36:28):
Like at that point, he was like, but obviously we're like,
all right, we're gonna be fine, you know what I'm saying,
But we ain't expect it to be Like as soon
as that music hit, crowd started just going, I'm like,
oh snap, all right back. It was like as soon
as you hear that crowd or you know what I'm saying,
you get that, you get that crazy energy, you know
what I'm saying, it's like, oh, all right, well we
got to bring it down now that's up, you know

(36:49):
what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (36:50):
Yeah, we talk about all the time, like you know
who you know what I'm saying, You out there with
your teammates and stuff. When y'all come down there it's
y'all and that whole arena just staring at y'all music
playing solo cuts.

Speaker 1 (36:59):
What's that Like?

Speaker 2 (37:00):
I know that's gotta be nerve wracking at the same time,
you like geeked up because you're about to go get
to it.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
But all ours of y'all man's look.

Speaker 6 (37:07):
I'll say this, it hasn't really happened lately, because like
luckily we've been doing this what twelve years now. So
like I remember when we first got the call up
to raw and we went out there, like I never
even told him this. I was like, bro, because we
go out there in the ramp, you just see the arena,
so it's like, oh snap, I got lightheaded there, almost

(37:30):
passed out. And then our first Mania or not the
first Mania where we're at the performance Center, our first
Mania and like in front of a stadium, almost get
almost passed out there too, Like that's like because you
go out there, it's like a different view, you know
what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
You went from watching whoever was in the ring.

Speaker 6 (37:50):
We went from watching who was ever in the ring
to like all eyes are on you. So like you
come out and you just see and it's just.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
Like oh snap, like all right, cool, Like you know
what I'm saying.

Speaker 6 (38:03):
This Like it gets you pumped at the same time,
but it's also like a little nerve breaking because you obviously,
I want to go out there and put your best
foot forward, you know what I'm saying. You want to
put on the show, give something everybody to talk about,
and you don't want to mess up when you go
out there and like every time you step in from
the crowd, man, it's just unreal because like once they're
looking at you, all eyes on you. So you got
to make that impressure on them.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
Yeah, because we were talking about the Royal Rumble joint,
I was like that stage was so long.

Speaker 1 (38:29):
I said, man, my nerves would have sucked me up.
I did something. I was like, man, ya, that's a
different type of locked in the Yeah, at that point,

(38:57):
we were out for a minute. We're out for a month.

Speaker 6 (39:00):
It was like towards the end of the year, like
where I tore my moniscus and so I hit surgery.

Speaker 1 (39:05):
So I was out for a minute.

Speaker 6 (39:06):
Yeah, he was out, Like we're both out for a minute,
and so I was kind of close to get coming
back at.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
That point in time.

Speaker 6 (39:13):
And uh so they were like, hey, you know what
I'm saying, y'all gonna y'all gonna interrupt the tag match
between Motor City and dy so obviously, but the only
problem was I still couldn't like run yet, so like
they were like nervous about that. So I was just chilling.
They had me chilling. I had like a hoodie. I
was hiding. I was acting like one of the camera,

(39:34):
just chilling with the crush right beside me the whole
time on so like the ramp because it's like a lyft,
so it's yeah, it's literally like a lift. So I
was sitting on like one of the guard rails, just
chilling there the whole time, the mask on, and I
was just laughing the whole time because I'm looking. I'm like, dang,
I oh, nobody don trip or fall on his interest,
brocause like that.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
It was a long interest. But at the same time,
I'm like, man.

Speaker 6 (39:56):
I'm about to whoop these mugs. I was like, watch
this all y'all think y'all think you're gonna win. The
tag time wasn't all.

Speaker 2 (40:04):
Watch We were sitting probably like right to write people
right by the barricade, so we're just like a crush.

Speaker 1 (40:10):
Oh ship. I felt like people running out doing the basketball.

Speaker 6 (40:23):
Like that.

Speaker 1 (40:32):
That was that.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
I gotta ask you, you know, you do the splash
from way up toping, I mean you jump, you go
up there like you know, one of my.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
Favorite wrestlers with Eddie Garrera do the frog.

Speaker 3 (40:43):
Splash, And I'm like, when you go off top, you
go up there, and I'm like that ship gotta hurt.

Speaker 5 (40:50):
You know what, not only does like it hurt, but
it's it's scary at the same time, I'm actually afraid
of ice, so that's why I do the move to
like try to break my feel it. But it's like
I use it like a I got Batman is afraid
of bats, like he afraid of bats, So like I
just do the Frogs flash.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
I'm trying to be like symbolic right now. I use a.

Speaker 5 (41:12):
Frost flash just because like I love Eddie, love Robbie damn,
and I feel like I gotta pay ham and see
these guys man, like they they've been like, you know,
doing this for so long, and like those are the
two guys that like I can't those two Delo brown
d like the way they've.

Speaker 1 (41:30):
Done the Frost Flash and innovated it.

Speaker 5 (41:32):
Like I feel like if I'm doing it now, like
I gotta like take it to another exteline like way
up there, and like I even changed the name of
it from the Heavens because I wanted to look like coming.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
From crazy he really jumping like I'm not. I was like,
ain't no, what right, got hurt?

Speaker 6 (41:50):
Bro, I'm like, man, there was one time I was like,
you know what, the test can my god? So I
got hot dude on the other side of the rig
and just walked off. He just looked like he's like
for really. I was like, oh, you got this.

Speaker 5 (42:08):
Usually when he sets the God down in the middle
of the ring, so like he sets the God down
all the way nearly to the other side of the ring,
like of the corner, so I can't yell him.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
Your dogs bring brings it. I just looked at him like, Wow,
that's crazy. I made it. I ain't trying to brag
I made it, but trying to brag. But I made it.
I made it right here, made it right here.

Speaker 5 (42:38):
Right air dogs, no, certain air dogsround is the most
athletic big man of all time. Man, I've seen this
man take a dive and laying on his feet. They
got clips of it. They go look it up.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
Man, they got entertainment, ground entertainment. You know what I'm saying,
said little bit, what's going on? I mean I can
a little bit.

Speaker 3 (43:06):
At Hooper and w W would you say you.

Speaker 1 (43:10):
I smoke everybody up. That's a lot of people, bro,
I'll smoke everybody up.

Speaker 5 (43:18):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (43:19):
Oh it's Christmas speak, speak your base, smoke everybody that
you are talking about me because we tag partners, I
get it. Yeah, yeah, you're right right, tag partners can
get work. Boy.

Speaker 6 (43:36):
But you know, if we played one on one, what's
the score? Barbecue chicken? Bro going to to look if
y'all look, if y'all go on to team, what's the score?

Speaker 1 (43:47):
Legit ten? Six? Me, t oh, that's fair. You know what, man,
that's cute. It is cute. That's cute. Bro. You know
what I'm saying. It's cute, but it's cute. And that No,
not aclos, not even that. He said're gonna come to spreads,
You're gonna take the hell man.

Speaker 6 (44:04):
Not at all, not at all quiet on Its gonna
be four.

Speaker 1 (44:07):
You can go out when you come out. But you
know this, this bro game six?

Speaker 9 (44:13):
Whould you say your game is like my game NBA player,
It's like sweet.

Speaker 1 (44:27):
Story. Yeah, I'm just going just want you know my
range saying like I said, Charles Barkley.

Speaker 6 (44:46):
Okay, okay, you're like Lebron.

Speaker 1 (44:52):
Lebron Staff. You know what I'm saying. Trade you know
it's range right there? Yea, the real d man. We're
not about to do that my mom food we got.

(45:13):
Don't start selling, man, they're gonna start selling. Oh. Man, listen,
we appreciate you'all.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
Slot manlue to y'all. Man, we appreciate y'all. The representation
y'all have, y'all success man is noted.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
Man. Like I said, y'all.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
Set the tone for a lot of young people who
love watching wrestling, and so for us to have the
icons we grew up to and y'all in that situation now, Man,
salute to y'all.

Speaker 1 (45:43):
For show sure. Yeah, we're gonna do this again. Man
one more time for letting this happen. We appreciate y'all.

Speaker 2 (45:50):
Come on, Street Profits and Champs Club five to twenty
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