February 1, 2024 • 8 mins
Fresh off the Royal Rumble we sit down for a quick, but extremely fun interview with WWE Superstar R-Truth as he makes his way through the airport. We talk his spots in the Rumble, his 2011 heel run, and a possible future World Title in his future? Enjoy!
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(00:00):
This is Austin Theory and you're listeningto the baby Faces podcast only on iHeartRadio
via WUS dot right for Waller,and you are listening to the baby Faces
on iHeart Radio. What's going on, y'all is WWE superstar Kobe Kingston and
you're listening to the Babyfaces on iHeartRadio. Baby, my name is Austin.
(00:29):
I'm here with Billy. We're withiHeartRadio and Louisville, Kentucky on behalf of
ninety seven to five w A mZ and ninety eight one The Bullet's,
the two biggest country stations here inKentucky and on also behalf of our podcast
too. You're on the baby Facespodcast, So thank you so much for
joining. Uh, we appreciate youtaking time out of your busy schedule.
(00:52):
Ah man, I appreciate it.I'm glad to be on here. We're
gonna chatch it and chew the ragup. Absolutely. It's it's been one
heck of a week. Let's justgo ahead and get into it. I
mean we're fresh off the Royal rumble. Me and Billy just had a watch
party over at his house a coupleof days ago, so we saw everything
that happened and transpired. It explainhow the Royal Rumble was for you from
your perspective, What was it like? Everything just seemed like it went off
(01:15):
with the hen we know that there'sa couple mix up on your part with
the men and women's were all rumble. But other than that, how was
Royal Rumble like for you and everythingdown in Tampa this last weekend? It
was tremendous. Man. I likedeverything, every part of the Royal Rumble.
Man. Again, we had thesurprise entries. You know what I'm
saying that did what it was supposedto do, haddle things. And we're
(01:38):
not going to put that blame onme with the miscommunication as far as rumble,
I went in, I'm not doingthat. Billy might Yeah, Billy
that wouldn't know me. Man,They gave me the wrong paperwork, that's
right. And you also kind ofconfused it for a tag team match trying
to get the hot tag from Dominic, which you did probably my favorite part
(01:59):
of the rumble. I mean wewere we were dying laughing at the watch
party over here. Can kind ofexplain what's going through your mind? Where
are you get in the hot tag? I just felt the bit. I
felt like I needed to get thathot tag to come in there. It
was a tag match, right,I guess you could. I mean it
worked out right, you got thehot tag, you took it out the
hot tag man. Yeah, Imean you made some noise for sure,
(02:20):
but hey, our Truth, Ireally got to give you, give you
some flowers. Bro Back in twentyeleven, you had one of the most
underrated heel runs in WWE history.I'll say it right now. I remember
I was on vacation with my familythe same day of Capital Punishment when you
had a main event match with JohnCena for the Championship, and I insisted
(02:42):
we're all like out to dinner.I'm like, I got to be back
at the house because I'm ordering CapitalPunishment because Our Truth is winning the WWE
Championship tonight. So I'm giving yourfowers. Man. That was it was
some of the more entertaining stuff I'veseen, especially in the PG era.
Can you kind of talk about likethat that part of your career and you
know that really kind of catapulted youinto a different, you know, spot
(03:02):
on the cards. Really. Yeah, man, that was a very memorable
time in my career man still thinkabout it as up to this date myself
had Little Jimmy because he was apart of that time period as well,
you know what I'm saying, AndI think Capital Punishment was one of my
(03:22):
other than myself and miss going againstthe Rock and John Cena, Capital Puns
probably is up on the top listmat the top three paper views I've done
and top you know what I'm saying, I did. I love my heel
part. Yeah, It's one ofthe things that we like to talk about
on this show is character work,and that's one of the things that the
truth that you're very much known forand everyone knows within the last couple of
(03:44):
years with the twenty four to sevenChampionship, You're just always good for a
breath of fresh air and a goodcomedy moment. But for ogs like me
and Billy and I who've been watchingfor a while, and even some people
that remember your old TNA Impact daysand how your heel worked, they and
what's it like to kind of beable to change your to be able to
change your style up You said itwas very fun working like a heeled like
(04:06):
then back in twenty eleven, whatwas it like kind of being able to
have like a mean guy personality.I love it, man. I think
everybody should be able to go backor forth, you know what I'm saying,
should be able to hit that switchand rotate around to reverse the mirror.
You know what I'm saying. Ithink it's part of being in the
business. It's part of taking yourcharacter, taking your craft to the next
(04:28):
level. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I mean again, that was one
of some of my favorite content fromthe PG era, and honestly, I'm
gona speaking it into existence. Man. Hopefully one day our Truth will have
his Kofe Mania like moment like KofeKingston did finally got his flowers at WrestleMania
thirty five. I mean, doyou do you still have goals like that
for yourself? To win the worldtitle one day, to be a single
(04:51):
champion. Is that still something that'sin the cards for you. I still
want to win the world title.I still think I think the roof would
come one glued. Oh yeah,you know what I'm saying. And I
really really I think Bill he probablyone of my favorites now, yeah,
man, And I really appreciate youman, following my career, giving me
(05:12):
my flowers as well and putting yourtwo cent in and I really appreciated absolutely.
Man, it's Billy. Billy isa nice guy, Okay, people.
People need to understand just because he'sa football coach and he yells all
the time at at other teenagers doesn'tmean he's necessarily a mean dude. You
gotta yell sometime. I mean yougotta have some aggression in you, and
(05:33):
that's how you get some of thesekids straight. Right. Uh. I
had a just just a quick otherquestion just because I want to you talk
about throwing back. I remember ourtruth when you're coming in with road Dog
and you were k quick right andyou have you had the tag team.
What are the chances or how longdo you how much you get asked about
(05:54):
it? Or do you still isit ever on in your head? Do
you ever have to listen to getrowdy? Do you ever still listen that
song? Is it ever brought upto you at all backstage? A lot?
If I can, if I canwear to sing it all the time
to me, as soon as yousing it ridy all the time? Yes,
man, You'll be surprised at howmany people will come and say get
(06:15):
roudy about some things. Yes,I get that a lot. Still,
well, I know you got aflight to catch here, Truth, so
we'll get you on your way.We appreciate you taking the time. Again.
We are talking to WWE Superstar OurTruth ahead of Monday Night Raw taken
over Rapperena on February twelfth, justhere in less than two weeks, Our
Truth. What's it gonna be liketo come back to Lexington and Ropperena And
(06:36):
what can the fans expect if theycome out to the show that one day,
Man, they can expect to beentertained to the highest of entertained stability.
Y'all know, ww we put youout on that roller coaster. Man,
You're gonna laugh a little bit,you might cry, you're gonna get
deffinitely getting mad, but I'm gonnamake you laugh. Man. So everybody
to come out, get away fromthe hustle and bustle of real life and
(06:58):
come into the WDB Sports Entertainment manto be in the team. Well again,
we're gonna push that our Truth forw champion hashtag. All right,
we're gonna make that. Let's dothat. And I got I'm following You've
been in all your social media yeah, you do you, yes, please
listen, We'll tag you. We'lltag you in everything you can hit us
with the reach we hit his footballor whatever. We appreciate true. If
(07:21):
you know you have one more thingto do, right, you know you
have one more thing to do.We're talking in World Championship Aspirations twenty twenty
four. The people who you trustedyour whole life with this last month,
the judgment day, your your yourolder brother, Damien Priest, right,
he's he's holding that money in thebank contract. He's gonna cash it in
eventually sometime. That means it's yourturn to join the money in the bank
(07:45):
this year, and you need towatch after Damien Priest. You need to
watch after the champion this year.Kind of take a little bit after you
because they did you wrong. Dude, you did wrong. They didn't you
wrong. You know what you justmade You just may brought something into existence.
Wouldn't it be crazy if is endup being me and Damien U WrestleMania
(08:05):
long term storytelling? You never know, right, You never never know,
because there's a wrestling business. Absolutelywell, our truth man, have a
safe flight. We appreciate you takingthe time, and we'll see you here
in Lexington in a couple of weeks. All right, man, I appreciate
y'all. Thank y'all very much.Hey, hey, hey, what's up.
This is WWE Superstar Our Truth andyou are listening to the Babyface Radio.
(08:26):
Yeah, that's what's up.
This is Austin Theory and you're listeningto the baby Faces podcast only on iHeartRadio
via WUS dot right for Waller,and you are listening to the baby Faces
on iHeart Radio. What's going on, y'all is WWE superstar Kobe Kingston and
you're listening to the Babyfaces on iHeartRadio. Baby, my name is Austin.
(00:29):
I'm here with Billy. We're withiHeartRadio and Louisville, Kentucky on behalf of
ninety seven to five w A mZ and ninety eight one The Bullet's,
the two biggest country stations here inKentucky and on also behalf of our podcast
too. You're on the baby Facespodcast, So thank you so much for
joining. Uh, we appreciate youtaking time out of your busy schedule.
(00:52):
Ah man, I appreciate it.I'm glad to be on here. We're
gonna chatch it and chew the ragup. Absolutely. It's it's been one
heck of a week. Let's justgo ahead and get into it. I
mean we're fresh off the Royal rumble. Me and Billy just had a watch
party over at his house a coupleof days ago, so we saw everything
that happened and transpired. It explainhow the Royal Rumble was for you from
your perspective, What was it like? Everything just seemed like it went off
(01:15):
with the hen we know that there'sa couple mix up on your part with
the men and women's were all rumble. But other than that, how was
Royal Rumble like for you and everythingdown in Tampa this last weekend? It
was tremendous. Man. I likedeverything, every part of the Royal Rumble.
Man. Again, we had thesurprise entries. You know what I'm
saying that did what it was supposedto do, haddle things. And we're
(01:38):
not going to put that blame onme with the miscommunication as far as rumble,
I went in, I'm not doingthat. Billy might Yeah, Billy
that wouldn't know me. Man,They gave me the wrong paperwork, that's
right. And you also kind ofconfused it for a tag team match trying
to get the hot tag from Dominic, which you did probably my favorite part
(01:59):
of the rumble. I mean wewere we were dying laughing at the watch
party over here. Can kind ofexplain what's going through your mind? Where
are you get in the hot tag? I just felt the bit. I
felt like I needed to get thathot tag to come in there. It
was a tag match, right,I guess you could. I mean it
worked out right, you got thehot tag, you took it out the
hot tag man. Yeah, Imean you made some noise for sure,
(02:20):
but hey, our Truth, Ireally got to give you, give you
some flowers. Bro Back in twentyeleven, you had one of the most
underrated heel runs in WWE history.I'll say it right now. I remember
I was on vacation with my familythe same day of Capital Punishment when you
had a main event match with JohnCena for the Championship, and I insisted
(02:42):
we're all like out to dinner.I'm like, I got to be back
at the house because I'm ordering CapitalPunishment because Our Truth is winning the WWE
Championship tonight. So I'm giving yourfowers. Man. That was it was
some of the more entertaining stuff I'veseen, especially in the PG era.
Can you kind of talk about likethat that part of your career and you
know that really kind of catapulted youinto a different, you know, spot
(03:02):
on the cards. Really. Yeah, man, that was a very memorable
time in my career man still thinkabout it as up to this date myself
had Little Jimmy because he was apart of that time period as well,
you know what I'm saying, AndI think Capital Punishment was one of my
(03:22):
other than myself and miss going againstthe Rock and John Cena, Capital Puns
probably is up on the top listmat the top three paper views I've done
and top you know what I'm saying, I did. I love my heel
part. Yeah, It's one ofthe things that we like to talk about
on this show is character work,and that's one of the things that the
truth that you're very much known forand everyone knows within the last couple of
(03:44):
years with the twenty four to sevenChampionship, You're just always good for a
breath of fresh air and a goodcomedy moment. But for ogs like me
and Billy and I who've been watchingfor a while, and even some people
that remember your old TNA Impact daysand how your heel worked, they and
what's it like to kind of beable to change your to be able to
change your style up You said itwas very fun working like a heeled like
(04:06):
then back in twenty eleven, whatwas it like kind of being able to
have like a mean guy personality.I love it, man. I think
everybody should be able to go backor forth, you know what I'm saying,
should be able to hit that switchand rotate around to reverse the mirror.
You know what I'm saying. Ithink it's part of being in the
business. It's part of taking yourcharacter, taking your craft to the next
(04:28):
level. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I mean again, that was one
of some of my favorite content fromthe PG era, and honestly, I'm
gona speaking it into existence. Man. Hopefully one day our Truth will have
his Kofe Mania like moment like KofeKingston did finally got his flowers at WrestleMania
thirty five. I mean, doyou do you still have goals like that
for yourself? To win the worldtitle one day, to be a single
(04:51):
champion. Is that still something that'sin the cards for you. I still
want to win the world title.I still think I think the roof would
come one glued. Oh yeah,you know what I'm saying. And I
really really I think Bill he probablyone of my favorites now, yeah,
man, And I really appreciate youman, following my career, giving me
(05:12):
my flowers as well and putting yourtwo cent in and I really appreciated absolutely.
Man, it's Billy. Billy isa nice guy, Okay, people.
People need to understand just because he'sa football coach and he yells all
the time at at other teenagers doesn'tmean he's necessarily a mean dude. You
gotta yell sometime. I mean yougotta have some aggression in you, and
(05:33):
that's how you get some of thesekids straight. Right. Uh. I
had a just just a quick otherquestion just because I want to you talk
about throwing back. I remember ourtruth when you're coming in with road Dog
and you were k quick right andyou have you had the tag team.
What are the chances or how longdo you how much you get asked about
(05:54):
it? Or do you still isit ever on in your head? Do
you ever have to listen to getrowdy? Do you ever still listen that
song? Is it ever brought upto you at all backstage? A lot?
If I can, if I canwear to sing it all the time
to me, as soon as yousing it ridy all the time? Yes,
man, You'll be surprised at howmany people will come and say get
(06:15):
roudy about some things. Yes,I get that a lot. Still,
well, I know you got aflight to catch here, Truth, so
we'll get you on your way.We appreciate you taking the time. Again.
We are talking to WWE Superstar OurTruth ahead of Monday Night Raw taken
over Rapperena on February twelfth, justhere in less than two weeks, Our
Truth. What's it gonna be liketo come back to Lexington and Ropperena And
(06:36):
what can the fans expect if theycome out to the show that one day,
Man, they can expect to beentertained to the highest of entertained stability.
Y'all know, ww we put youout on that roller coaster. Man,
You're gonna laugh a little bit,you might cry, you're gonna get
deffinitely getting mad, but I'm gonnamake you laugh. Man. So everybody
to come out, get away fromthe hustle and bustle of real life and
(06:58):
come into the WDB Sports Entertainment manto be in the team. Well again,
we're gonna push that our Truth forw champion hashtag. All right,
we're gonna make that. Let's dothat. And I got I'm following You've
been in all your social media yeah, you do you, yes, please
listen, We'll tag you. We'lltag you in everything you can hit us
with the reach we hit his footballor whatever. We appreciate true. If
(07:21):
you know you have one more thingto do, right, you know you
have one more thing to do.We're talking in World Championship Aspirations twenty twenty
four. The people who you trustedyour whole life with this last month,
the judgment day, your your yourolder brother, Damien Priest, right,
he's he's holding that money in thebank contract. He's gonna cash it in
eventually sometime. That means it's yourturn to join the money in the bank
(07:45):
this year, and you need towatch after Damien Priest. You need to
watch after the champion this year.Kind of take a little bit after you
because they did you wrong. Dude, you did wrong. They didn't you
wrong. You know what you justmade You just may brought something into existence.
Wouldn't it be crazy if is endup being me and Damien U WrestleMania
(08:05):
long term storytelling? You never know, right, You never never know,
because there's a wrestling business. Absolutelywell, our truth man, have a
safe flight. We appreciate you takingthe time, and we'll see you here
in Lexington in a couple of weeks. All right, man, I appreciate
y'all. Thank y'all very much.Hey, hey, hey, what's up.
This is WWE Superstar Our Truth andyou are listening to the Babyface Radio.
(08:26):
Yeah, that's what's up.
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