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August 4, 2025 32 mins

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 3 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
We are the breakfast Club Lord of Roses here with
us as well. And we got a special guest in
the building, indeed from the w W E beating.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
Y'all niggas up, ladies and gentlemen. Jacob Fatsu come on
bringing us.

Speaker 4 (00:26):
Oh man Man Man Man, my uh my little cousin
Solo Man took it from me. H Man beat me
up him in this whole little MFT squad. But man, Bro, were.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
About to double back out this Sunday at Medlife. You
know what I mean, the summer slam. Baby, we live
and direct.

Speaker 4 (00:40):
I'm from the West Coast, but babe, the East Coast
will showed me more love than anything, you.

Speaker 5 (00:44):
Know what I mean. So you get it back on
you getting back this week?

Speaker 4 (00:47):
Oh man, I'm I'm about to get it back. So
I got all read on, baby, were about to get
it back in blood, you know, I mean.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Hello, let's start.

Speaker 6 (00:54):
I like to start for the beginning. Let's start with
your journey, Like how did you get into wrestling. What
made you say I want to be a wrestler?

Speaker 3 (00:59):
Man?

Speaker 4 (01:00):
You know what, uh somewhat similar to uh Charlotte Mane
Big Brother story, you know. I mean it just took
me one time to go to jail.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Bruh.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
That was it. I was eighteen and uh, I mean
I had my kids and uh I was locked down.
I'm you know, even before that as a juvenile man.
You know, just just rough headed man, getting going to juvie,
the whole nine. But you know it's different. It's a
when you turn eighteen, man, you know you don't get
no passes.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Man.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
They sent you right up you know, right up state
to that thing. So being lockdown, man, it was weird,
you know, on a toilet with twelve other dudes facing you,
you know what I mean. So, man, I had a
double back. But I was sitting in the uh sitting
in the sale man, and flipping through the channels. I mean,
you know you always got that one TV and who
come on, man, my big cousins or usos. I mean, sorry,

(01:45):
man if I get emotional, because I mean like it
really doubled back and changed my life. So when I
seen them, it was like, man, this ain't it. This
ain't the play, you know. Uh I believe you said
some too. You know, it ain't how you start, man,
it's how you finished, you know what I mean. And uh, man,
be a product of the environment. You I mean, you
really can't. You really can't let them, You really can't

(02:06):
let the environment double back on you. So man, I
just got out and man, I switched everything. Shout out
to my wife, you know what I mean. So I
had two kids and the man, I got seven kids
all together, but I had three kids at the time,
and I named two of my kids when I was
in jail, and man, it just wasn't a good look,
you know.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
And shout out to my wife though. Man, one of
the realist wms.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
Because man, you know, if you lock down and you
don't got nobody on the outside, you ain't getting no commissary,
you know what I mean. Bro, Yo yo yo yo yo,
uh yo. Time ain't coming by quick. So man, I
had yeah, yeah, I mean, and you know, and and
when they don't answer the calls. You know, Bro, you
don't seen a lot of cats on the phone. Bron,
the ain't going bad on the phone, you know, Thank god.
Oh you know, I had my love over there. But man,

(02:46):
she took care of me though, And it was like,
how is this woman taking care of me? I'm in
jail when I was supposed to be the man stepping
up to take care of my business. I mean, so, man,
I got out, got locked down. See my brothers on
TV made my mind up.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
Wife, he didn't know.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
But man, when I got out, you know, okay, I'm
from California, Northern California to be exact, you know, just
to let sh all up So cal Way different than
North cal. But if you don't know, it's all one though. Man,
My wife pulled up not even knowing. She came up North,
came and got me and said, Bro, you love me
and my kids. Bro, you're gonna hop up in this
whip you I mean, we're gonna move down. And my
uncle Rakeshi to Uso when Solo's father, which is my

(03:22):
dad's older brother. My father's a tongue of kids Sanfa too.
My uncle Rakkeishi gang girl, and my uncle Reno Hanawaii.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
They had a resting school called Knox Pro Academy, which
is still here. You know, Me, Russell Solo, we all
came out of there, you know. But they was in
so cal My wife lived in so Cal. So, Man,
it was just it was God's timing. So by the
time I came down there, man, I just got the work, man,
you know what I mean. But first, you know, before
all that, man, you know, man, b we was bouncing

(03:50):
for sixty dollars, you know what I mean, Man, were
just trying to get through.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
That's it. Knowing our people on our coach, they.

Speaker 5 (03:55):
Want to see.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yeah, no, come on with it. But man, we end
up doubling back and I start training and uh man,
we was here.

Speaker 6 (04:06):
You know, it take for you to just to start
training to actually get into your first real match.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
Okay. So I was training for about a month, you know.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
I mean, mind you, I was the last cousin out
of everybody, you know, because before me there was four
other other than my cousins, you know, my uncle and
then put everybody time up in there.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
So yeah, yes, ma'am.

Speaker 4 (04:27):
So. So by the time I came in, you know,
I was loose headed already, was like, oh, hell no,
we don't want him, you know what I mean. So
but man, that took a chance. My trainer gang girl
see me in the ring and sold my uncles in them.
He man, y'all got a handcuff this dude to a ring.
You know, I didn't know he seen me messing around
in the ring and all that. And you know, I
thank god I had the talent, you know. Shout out
to all my other family members that that that tried it.

(04:48):
They didn't make it though. I mean, but it's all
love though, you know, man, I just I was just
blessed just to have the gift through with it.

Speaker 5 (04:54):
I mean, so you didn't want to be a restles, No,
not at all.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
I'm trying to be a rapper.

Speaker 5 (05:00):
I mean, I mean, you're seeing your father in Rashika.
Aren't you related to the Rock?

Speaker 4 (05:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (05:04):
Yeah somewhere.

Speaker 4 (05:05):
I mean no knowing some Mores and Polynesians, you know, bro,
either one way or another, we all aren't there.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
But no, none of us did my Roman reigns. So
none of us wanted to wrestle.

Speaker 4 (05:14):
I mean, we was always told do this last so man,
we was always just trying to play football, make our
own thing, and you know, I mean it never worked out.
It always came back to wrestling. And I say this
all the time. Professional wrestlings save my life. I say
this all the time. Man, professional wrestling. I love it
because it brings different cultures, different backgrounds. I mean, eventually we.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
All hear right now, you know what I mean? So man,
just thank God. Man, it's all God's time.

Speaker 5 (05:37):
When you walk out into that arena, Now, how much of.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
That moment is about proving something to yourself or proven
something to the world that doubted you?

Speaker 2 (05:44):
Man?

Speaker 4 (05:44):
You know what, Man, when I walk out, I swear
I you know, I give God the glory. I know people,
you know, they don't want to pray, but man, I
give God the glory right before I walk out. And
then it's crazy to hear the whole stadium channing. You know,
Jacob Fatu is my real name, you know, and it
is far too is Solo and the us it's her
real name, you know. So it's mind blowing to hear them,

(06:06):
you know, coming from being in the jail five too
you getting released to you know, the whole stadium yelling
fo too.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
Now, Man, it means a lot.

Speaker 4 (06:13):
Not only that my kids are half of my kids
are old enough to where they recognize it, you know.
And the man, I'm just just you know, I'm just
trying to do the right thing for them. Man, at
the end of the day, I just want to get
my family set up. You know, God forbid anything happens,
and man, I'm just moving forward. Man, it's all about
my kids now.

Speaker 7 (06:28):
I was reading umber something on Y'allhoo sports and the
person who wrote about you in the bloodline your family,
it was a black woman and she was talking about
how she gets upset the way they refer to like
how your family has talked about when y'all like beat
people or whatever because they call you got savages.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
Oh yeah, yeah, is that?

Speaker 7 (06:46):
I mean I thought that you kind of want that,
but I knew she was leaning into like the whole
because y'all people of color things.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
Yeah, yeah, well, I mean I mean, just like with
Bread said, you know, man, we island some ons, you know,
like they the time is different now. Back in the day, Yeah,
we used to wrestled with no shoes, crazy hair help
but acting like we're gonna speak anglers, you know. But uh, overall, man,
we loving people, but you know, on the other side,
we don't want to go there yet though, you know
what I mean. But yeah, man, that's just how they

(07:13):
know us as the small swat team. My father was actually, uh,
the small savage as well, you know. But you know,
times is different now, you know what I mean. So
we're here now.

Speaker 7 (07:22):
It doesn't bother you.

Speaker 4 (07:23):
No, not at all, No, not at all. I mean
it's just like it's just like the internet. You know,
you can see the comments. Man, we charged that to
the game.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
You know.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
It's a different time now, everybody. Yeah, you know, it's
like back in the day. You know, we can't say
everybody's getting so upset over every little thing now. So no,
it doesn't bother me at all. You know, I was
taught to have tough skin up in here, you know.
Like it goes back to where I told my uncle
RAKESHI and them when I first started training.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
I was like, why do I I need the belt?
They said, you need the belt?

Speaker 4 (07:50):
I said, because you know, I thought I need the belt,
you know, And then they said, okay, you're gonna go
win the bell. I was like, all right, and then
when you hold the belt up, you act like, you know,
like Shawn Michaels. And then my uncle said, that's as
soon as you hold the build up, I'm gonna come
in there, row you up one two thre.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
I mean, like he had to humble me. I mean
because I had to get humbled.

Speaker 4 (08:06):
So at the end of the day with that story,
was it just to have tough skin and man, just
keep it all moving and pushing.

Speaker 5 (08:11):
That lady would have hated u Kamala, remember, Yeah, that was.

Speaker 7 (08:19):
Just a part of the whole ambiance of what you know.
Everyone has their characters and.

Speaker 6 (08:23):
Yeah, no, absolutely, and recently Colgan passed away recipes. Yes,
what does his legacy on.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
Wrestling mean to you? If anything?

Speaker 4 (08:32):
Yeah, you know what, it just goes back to what
Hunter said, you know, uh on SmackDown, you know Triple A.
So you know my boss Eddie, we wouldn't be here
for one for him, you know, because you know he
was at that time. But at the end of the day,
what it means to me coming from a father's perspective, man,
you know, somebody lost their dad at the end of

(08:52):
the day. And I know y'all gonna hear me talk
about my kids and you know a lot because you
know that's just how I'm looking at it. I mean,
but over raw man, just like what Hunter said, Man,
you know, w W wouldn't be none you know for
one for him and uh four most so Yeah.

Speaker 5 (09:07):
People act like two things can't be true. Reculd.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
I see everybody whenever you mentioned Hakok and they say, well,
he was also a racist.

Speaker 5 (09:12):
I don't know him personally, I know.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
The things that he said, you know, but it's just like, yeah,
he probably could do that, but he also was you know,
a motivation for a lot of resis.

Speaker 5 (09:22):
Yeah, you know he did it, put the w W
on his back and make wrestling what it is today.

Speaker 4 (09:26):
Come especially on that golden era, you know. But it
just goes back to you know, man, that's just somebody's
dad at the end of the day. I mean, I mean,
that's just how I'm looking at it. But yeah, man,
rest in peace to hugging no one.

Speaker 6 (09:37):
Now, when you're training, how often do you train? And
how brutal is it for your body? How much do
you have to go into recovery and rehabbing all.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
That other stuff? Oh man, it's about four days a week.
You know. The traveling really texts a toll on us.
You know.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
Man, we're like we're in and out, you know, Man,
we're on the last We're on the last flight there. Man,
we get in do our job, and then man, were
on the first like going back. But I had to
learn how to respect the business. Even though I came
up in the restling business. You know, I'm thinking, Okay,
my family's in there, it's gonna be a kwalk, nah it.

(10:14):
I really had to learn how to respect it. I
realized the sacrifices that my family has done. I realized,
you know, all the stuff, all the time alone and
away from our families that you know, it's a whole lot, man.
But the training is different, you know. I think Rock
Lesson said this too. Every sport is different. Rock Lesnar
left wrestling to go to the NFL, and you know

(10:37):
he gave those guys they respect, you know, because the
training is different, you know. So I think it was like, well,
Michael Jordan had went to baseball went back to basketball.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
You know, his body was different. So, man, the training
is on a whole other level. You know.

Speaker 4 (10:50):
I'm not saying we're the hardest, were most badass or anything,
you know, but I had to learn how to respect
the business as an upcoming young family member, you know,
but also as a worker as well. So man, it's
pretty difficult. But the recovery it takes less than a second,
you know, for you to hurt yourself. You know, it
takes less than any wrong movement, man, even the way

(11:14):
you fall, you know, so you know it takes less
than a second. But the training, you just have to
get trained the right way. I'm not saying it's because
my uncle. These are my uncles who train me, but man,
I've seen these guys turn to nobody into somebody, and
I'm one of those nobodies that they turned into somebody.
You know what I mean, because I was trained the
proper way. But it's more than just a training. It's
a locker room etiquette, you know. It's how you carry

(11:35):
yourself around. You know, like, Okay, everybody know my background,
but man, yeah, if somebody was to say something to
me out there on the streets, you know, I mean, man,
I'm done with that tough guy stuff, ain't. I ain't
here to fight nobody, you know. But this is where
our training comes in, you know what I mean. So yeah,
man's it comes full circle not only in the ring,
but outside of the ring as well.

Speaker 5 (11:53):
Did you know how successful your family was growing up?

Speaker 3 (11:57):
Man?

Speaker 4 (11:58):
Nah, I grew up just as a kid, just enjoying
it until you know, until my uncle Rakeshi came out
during the attitude era. You know, this is why I
knew we was popping, you know, when the kids was
making fun of them over there, and man, could you
know because we used to get.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
In the fight sometimes.

Speaker 4 (12:13):
You know, hey man, your uncle got the throne on
so you know, being an uncle, yeah, I mean being
a nephew, you try to defend my uncle. But yeah,
it was around that time. It definitely was around the
attitude era of time. Man, when I noticed like, oh, man,
like bron there's some big things going on around here.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
You know, how much input did you have in like
shaping your character because it's not really character?

Speaker 3 (12:32):
Said, no, it's really me.

Speaker 4 (12:34):
I mean, I mean, well, you know, you know I'm
taking that northern California, you know, and man, man shout
out to uncle Earl Earl Stevens E Forody Water. Yeah,
I mean mister fab and all of them and uh Mazarella.
But man, I'm just I just wanted people to know,
like want from you know, like I said, at different times,
early nineties, you know, you had the doink, the clowns,

(12:55):
you know, the headshrinkers, like this goes back to our family,
you know, wearing no shoes, resting and Wilson wants to where.
You know, there's so many of us in the family
and and and shout out to my brother, my older
cousin Roman reigns the USOS and solo. You know, man,
they had a lot though to do with me getting here.
I mean, ww may that happen shout out the Hunter.

(13:16):
But man, there's so many of us to where it's like,
I don't want to be known as the cousin, you
know what I mean? So okay, how how how they
gonna receive Jacob?

Speaker 3 (13:26):
How is you know? So there ain't no other way.
I don't want to play, no care.

Speaker 4 (13:30):
That's so the only way for me to do is
just to do me what I've been doing for the
past twelve years and just be myself, you know, I know,
once again, just keep going back to my kids. You know,
I can't do I can't tell my kids one thing
and I'm doing another. So man, overall, it's just me
just being who I am right now, you know what
I mean. And it's so so so far as working.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
I mean, damn bre It got me over here on
the Breakfast Club, so I think we're doing all right.

Speaker 7 (13:52):
You also got an action figure coming into Walmart.

Speaker 3 (13:55):
Yes, ma'am, oh man, and that was so you were.

Speaker 7 (13:57):
San Diego Comic contact. You presented the figure. But you
used to work at Walmart too.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
Oh hell yeah, man, Man, I used to do all jobs. Man.
I used to work over and not at Lows. Man. Man, Man,
I was the best stocker at Walmart. Girl.

Speaker 4 (14:08):
You go down my aisle, girl, they couldn't touch me
down there. So, I mean, but I was the crazy
thing about that. On my lunch breaks, I will because
I'm such a fan of my family. You know, my
cousins don't like on our staff. But man, I love
my If I didn't love my family in the business,
just not, then I would not be here. Man, Come on, man, man,

(14:30):
they should have put.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
My gut damn over there.

Speaker 4 (14:32):
I mean, but you know, but shout out the big
Roman man. I mean, we acknowledged that uso. But man,
just to double back on that. I'm it was mind
blowing being over there. Not only that, like for me
coming to working in Walmart, to working over and out
at Lows, to having little side jobs here and there,
anything I had to do just to put food on
the table, especially during the pandemic, because Lord mayor everybody
know how that thing was. So, man, I was doing

(14:54):
anything and everything. Sorry to go off the question, but
you know I ain't ashamed of nothing because my father
I did that, you know. I mean I seen my
father picking up cans during my pop warning football games,
and I remember I was crying one day I seen them,
you know what I mean. And then my mom was like, Man,
don't be a bears your dad. I will never forget.
The following week, I asked my dad. I said, Dad,
you got some much money.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
He opened his wall. He was like, yeah, your ass
was crying about me picking up them cans. All right.
Remember man, this is where this ten dollars came from.

Speaker 4 (15:19):
You. I mean, so this comes back to, you know,
like what you said with me working and what Man,
I do anything and everything, you know, to take care
of them.

Speaker 3 (15:26):
But man, it's mind blowing.

Speaker 4 (15:27):
Man, especially to have my own action figure, you know,
coming from Sacramento County jail to man to having my
action figure up in there. And I'm happy that my
kids are old enough, you know, to where they're able
to see this, you know, because man, my kids have
been through the whole ground with me, you know what
I mean.

Speaker 3 (15:43):
Like, man, they don't be in and out, through the pandemic,
through everything. So it's a it's really good. Thank you
for bringing that up. I appreciate this crazy is growing up.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
I thought that came with the w W starter kit,
like the action figure, the video game appearance like that.

Speaker 5 (15:56):
It takes time to get through.

Speaker 4 (15:56):
That, yeah, I mean, because not every one thing I'm
learning is you know, my only been in WW for
by the year, but I've been doing this for twelve years,
so I'm still learning about everything.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
But man, my career, man has been.

Speaker 4 (16:11):
So awesome, so blessed, man, so awesome to where I
am able to be in the video game I am
now when they're selling the SmackDown Wrestling Ring, it's coming
with one action figure, and that action figure is me.

Speaker 3 (16:23):
Up in there. So man, I'm very happy. Man, I'm
very blessed.

Speaker 4 (16:26):
But a lot of people don't even know, like I'm
actually a fan of everybody else though, you know what
I mean. So yeah, when they promoted that, man, it
just didn't get no better. Not only that, at Comic
Con five years ago, I was at Comic Con with
my uncle Rakishi, you know, helping him out with this
a box tens and then this year. Man, we doubled
back to where you know, I'm on stage and people
are once again channing the name five too, and man,

(16:48):
it don't get no better. MLW right, yup, I was
with MLW. And you know this goes back to everybody's
story different. You know, they said, Jacob, you should have
been in WW five years. No no, no, no, Jacob
would have been fired. You know, I needed that growth.
I was happy like my brother solo and you know,
he went from college. It didn't take him as long

(17:09):
as so every All of stories are different, but at
the end of the day, it's all God's timing. Like this,
I was supposed to come in around this time, you know,
I mean, but I was shout out to m o W.
M W gave me that platform, you know, and you're
the longest running Oh man, Yeah, I mean, I.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
Mean, you know what, we gon keep it one hundred.

Speaker 4 (17:27):
Let's go back to the pandemic because we didn't have shows,
so you know, I kind of take I kind of
take half those days off.

Speaker 3 (17:33):
So I'm gonna be real, I ain't gonna see.

Speaker 4 (17:35):
Here be like, yeah he belt for eight honey, I mean, like,
we gonna keep it one honey, and it was minus
like half of that.

Speaker 3 (17:41):
But m W gave me that platform, and I'm very thankful.

Speaker 4 (17:44):
Not only that New York and Philadelphia raised me on
the independence scene. They really did, because man, these cats
will call y'all out over here if your ass suck.
Oh bro, I seen somebody get water thrown on them
in New York just for having a basketball jersey.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
I mean like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, bro, bro. It
be going many out here.

Speaker 4 (18:03):
But overall, man, shout out to the East coast man,
especially New York and Philadelphia.

Speaker 5 (18:07):
Man, for real, you got your new song?

Speaker 7 (18:09):
Hello?

Speaker 4 (18:10):
Oh no, okay, listen, we gonna touch bases on that
sit man. Okay, this goes back to you. I mean
before the whole journey started. I mean I was you know,
I was trying to be a rap. But that song
was made eleven years ago. You know, if people really
want to tap in with it. I got seven kids.
I only named three kids at that time. But overall, man,
that was that was just some uh my cousin had

(18:31):
got us a studio, you know, just to keep us
off the streets. And this when I first started training,
I ain't I didn't know I was coming to w
W or anything. But my uncle RAKESHI just had that song.
Though you know, he had to tuck away and threw
himself on the chorus, you know. But uh, I didn't
even know until the double back. I actually forgot about
that song because you know, man, we've been so busy,
but that song was made like eleven years ago.

Speaker 3 (18:52):
Though. Yeah, because I was if you go back and
double back on it, I was just trying.

Speaker 4 (18:56):
I was manifest. I was just trying to you mean,
I was just I said it. I'm trying to get
that house on the beach and get rich off the
top road. So yeah, we're here now.

Speaker 6 (19:04):
Now you're talking about your seven kids a lot. Yeah,
would you want any of them to wrestle?

Speaker 3 (19:10):
You know what, man, I will say this.

Speaker 4 (19:16):
I will say no because I know how the life
is on the road and know the upstowns, you know
the you know, because it ain't easy, you know, But
since it kept me out the way to be a
father to them, and if they love it, and if
they had passion, which is my girls zoo. My boys
is young man, they do their own thing, but my girls, yeah, definitely,

(19:36):
and there there wouldn't be no other way. And man,
they're they're so they're so into it right now. I
mean I was on the independence. They never used to
watch me. Man, my kids ain't start watching.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
Me, John, I got on TV. Yeah, I mean usually
work like that. I mean, but yeah, man, definitely my
girls though.

Speaker 4 (19:51):
Man, I know a lot of people don't want their
kids to wrestle, but I got said, it's a whole
nother time right nowdest man Pop a house, Pop nineteen,
Pop nineteen then my youngest, Oh bro, I'm good at this.
My nineteen sixteen, fifteen, thirteen, twelve, A and four.

Speaker 5 (20:07):
So you thirty three with seven kids?

Speaker 3 (20:09):
Yeah no, no, thirty five?

Speaker 5 (20:10):
Yeah yeah, Okay, you saw a bunch of matches to content.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
Come on, brother, I had no TV. Look like we
got a lot of TVs in here.

Speaker 5 (20:25):
Absolutely listen.

Speaker 1 (20:25):
I want to go back to the mindset shift that happened,
you know, after you I got you know, caught up
in jail. What what was the mindset shift that made
you say, you know what? Not only am I not
going back to that. I'm a stay focused on doing
exactly this.

Speaker 3 (20:40):
Oh man. You know what, bro, oh man, it was
a man.

Speaker 4 (20:45):
It was going to jail, bro, it was getting that strike,
you know, California. We got those three strikes, and man,
it's just going back and forth to court. Man when
I got that strike, and you know, I'm young, I'm eighteen,
but man, just being in there, manages.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
It wasn't right. Man, It's just didn't feel right.

Speaker 4 (21:03):
And you know, I had a lot of partners shooting,
you know, you know, passing, a lot of them, was
getting shrung out on drugs, you know. And then I
go back home. I love my city. I love Sacramento,
but man, bro, I'm really in and out.

Speaker 3 (21:18):
You know.

Speaker 4 (21:19):
It really hurts me when I, you know, roll around
over there and see people I used to look up
to either they're not there no more, or they're all
shrung out, you know. And it sucks though, because it's like, damn, bro,
you was the big homie back then, you know what
I mean. But it was that and then man, I
just wanted to get you know, get my parents a
better life, get my siblings, you know, my kids. And
like I said, I was in lockdown and name two

(21:41):
of my kids. When I was locked down and bred,
I was not the play I mean, especially having a
strong woman like that, like you know, her taking care
of me.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
Oh no, bro, I got this backwards. Yeah, let me
get out and get this thing going. How what how
did you do? Oh bruh. So listen, I was always
doing like county years. I was always violated. I never
really went to prison, I mean, because that's what I'm saying.
It spoke me. But I was always violating, you know
what I mean. So yeah, yeah, yeah, that was it. Though.

Speaker 4 (22:07):
It was just violating. It was never on no drugs
or anything. I mean, because I ain't really get down
like that, you know what I mean. But it was
just being young and dumb.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
That was it.

Speaker 4 (22:15):
Man.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
Do you think that the only way for people to truly,
you know, find a different direction is to have something.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
To do like you?

Speaker 2 (22:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (22:22):
Because man, why I say that because I remember my
mom always said, man, you better do something, keep yourself busy,
you know, because man, you got too much time on
your hands. Then you know, that's when everything starts, you know,
start falling apart and stuff. Not only that, I had
to move out of my city. Shout out to the
people who stay in that city that got it together.
But I'm different, you know, and I'm probably not the

(22:44):
only guy who did it. I had to move out
of my city to really get focused. I mean, so
that's why I give it up to my wife, you know.
I mean, like, that's why I always talk about her
and give it up and she don't like it. But baby,
we in the breakfast club right now, let's go right
So But yeah, man, yeah, I think you gotta find
some you know, definitely find something that you're passionate about.
I didn't grow up wanting to be a wrestler, you know,

(23:07):
but man, it's just clicked. And not only that when
I found, you know, when I was good at it.
And once again, let's go back to our training. I'm
not saying this because this is my uncle and them.
I'm not saying this because this is my uncle and
them at all, because they gonna think I'm no, I didn't.

Speaker 3 (23:20):
It was the training, bro. They don't turn to nobody
into somebody. I love the way you talk about your family,
you know. Charlemon and myself always talk about the biggest
thing in our lives is our wives. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (23:31):
Come, I've been married twenty four years.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
He's been married with nineteen.

Speaker 5 (23:35):
I've been married ten by Bill and my wife twenty seven.

Speaker 3 (23:37):
Come on, we just talked about it.

Speaker 6 (23:39):
We always tell them the young boys like find somebody
early because that's out of trouble.

Speaker 4 (23:43):
Come on, man, and it ain't no other person I'd
rather have shared, you know what we got going on
because it ain't just Jacob man, you know, I mean
like my wife had.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
A big part with me.

Speaker 4 (23:54):
Do get you know, get in here and once again
I don't know, she don't like me talking about it.
But maybe we're here at the breakfast cluss.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
Hello, what's something fans still don't fully understand about the
bloodline family?

Speaker 3 (24:06):
Done that?

Speaker 4 (24:07):
Oh? Man, Now we're really family, this saint this sain't scripted.
Oh they're related to them? No, like, man, we we
are really we're really one family. You know, this is
really one family that has been with the company since
the Miss seventies, coming from the Rock's grandfather, High Chi
Peter Mavia you know, to Offa and seek A. You know,

(24:28):
Roman rains Dad, you know, to my father, to my uncle,
to the Yoko Zuna man the Great Simu like to
trickle down to Man, I'm forgetting a lot more a
lot of people.

Speaker 3 (24:38):
But then they came all the way down to Roman Reigns.

Speaker 4 (24:42):
The best tag team in the world, The USO Jimmy
and Jay, you know, all the way to my brother
I you know, I mean we were getting into it
right now this Sunday, but all the way to Solo Skor.
You know, Man, these these these gentlemen may not only
are they my family, you know. And this goes back
the Solo man. You know, Summer slam met life, this

(25:03):
Sunday in the caves, Me and Bread locked down. You know,
it sucks because our kids and our wives at the
end of the day, you know, But man, what family
don't fight? I mean, like, it ain't your real family
if you're not fighting. But man, it goes all the
way down to Solo, and it came down to me
and my brother Lance on Hawaii. So man, this goes
back to what you you know, I'm just trying to
I don't want to just be known as a cousin.

(25:25):
You know when you talk about Jagoe far too. Oh bro,
you're gonna feel this, you know what I mean? So
and and and like you said earlier, what did we
do for the character. This ain't the character.

Speaker 3 (25:33):
This is this is me.

Speaker 4 (25:34):
I don't know how to be no other way, you
know what I mean, And especially being in jail, he
was like, oh, hell no, the ain't no other way
to be, you know what I mean? So yeah, man,
I'm just trying to just make make my footprint though
you I mean, there's some more dynasty.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
When you fight sol Little Sunday. How you know, hard
is it to push the gas? Y'all in a stel cage.
I'm still matches, get violent, man, bluddy bloody. You know
you're gonna look into the audience and your family and
how how difficult it is gonna be to push the gap.

Speaker 4 (26:02):
I think, Man, sorry, man, I think it's gonna be
a very emotional growing up with Solo Man for what
he has done ever since of Roman left. But man,
Solo Man, that's my brother man since day one, you know,
not a day ago. Man, and uh and I ain't
nothing but be in love. But it's gonna be difficult, man,

(26:22):
especially having our wives and you know, our family out there,
and not only that, that's such a big stage before us,
that's such a big stage Summer Slam where Yokozuna, his father,
Rakishi the Rock, my father to Summer Slam. It's like
our wrestle It's like WrestleMania, you know, not Onley that man,
we're back at two days.

Speaker 3 (26:42):
And what way to do it? Bro and met life
out here in New York, you know what I mean.
So this is the first ever two nights. Yeah, first
ever two.

Speaker 4 (26:50):
Night and once again, this is all God's time and
I'm so happy to be a part of this right now.
But yeah, man, it's gonna be live. It's gonna be
a little difficult. I'm not gonna show could coach stuff
like oh I'm going there and beat his ass. No,
because man, he's a main man as well.

Speaker 6 (27:05):
I mean, but to push because it with the elements outside,
because you know, indoors, you know what you're gonna get.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
But now you outdoors so you can get this little.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
Rain you can get.

Speaker 4 (27:14):
So so this is my first time gonna be working
outside with the company. I mean, I don't wrestle in
New Jersey outside of a bar in the parking lot
all that way. I mean, but that's when I was
on the Independence. But it's gonna be my first uh
outside show with w W E. But I believe last
time that we're here, it was raining last time, you know, uh,

(27:34):
it was raining a little bit. But you know, if
you go towards the ring, they have these big pillars though,
you know what I mean over it, So the ring
will be okay, but it might suck though. You know
if it rains though, because the fans are out there,
I don't know if they could cover everything because there's
no rooftop over.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
Yeah yeah, I mean.

Speaker 5 (27:50):
Hell yeah.

Speaker 4 (27:51):
Man.

Speaker 3 (27:52):
All rustlers get nervous, and you know what they say.

Speaker 4 (27:55):
It's a wrestler saying, Man, if you're not getting nervous
before you going out, then you're not feeling it no more.
You know.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
Man, I'm man, I'm having a.

Speaker 4 (28:03):
Panic attack, right, but then both get that time of
myself get on one knee.

Speaker 3 (28:08):
May thank the Lord. Wake up, man, it's go time.
I mean, so and min you.

Speaker 4 (28:13):
I wasn't even I didn't plan them. Okay, everybody plans
on coming to WW. But at the end of the day,
I want people to understand, like nobody could have touched
me because of the you know, because of my background
and stuff.

Speaker 3 (28:25):
Man.

Speaker 4 (28:25):
Shout out the hunter, Shout out the Triple H. Man,
this are that he got us going in. Man, he
made everything happen. WW made everything happen.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
Man. Shout out to the legal team. Man, shout out to.

Speaker 4 (28:35):
The people who put up the cameras who put up
the ring. Yeah, I mean, because we wouldn't be nothing
without them. Okay, yeah, y'all know the rests and stuff.
But man, to take a teamwork to make the dream work. Man,
So shout out to everybody man who's been putting it
down over there, setting up the ring. The backstage is
the catering, you know, the people who drive the trucks
from city to city. I mean, so yeah, man, it's
all of us man to make this thing work.

Speaker 5 (28:56):
Man, what legacy do you want to leave?

Speaker 1 (28:59):
Not just as a five too, but as a man
who just made it through all the things you've been through.

Speaker 4 (29:04):
Man, it's just it's okay to be nice to people. Man,
it's don't believe in the hype. Man. We got an
agent called Michael Hayes. He always says this, You know,
when you're over and when you're over, like when we
say that wrestling term over, it's like, you know, like
you think you're popular, you know, you think you're doing good.
But Michael has always says this, Man, when you think

(29:25):
you're over, you're not over, you know what I mean?
But man, just do the right thing when nobody's looking.

Speaker 3 (29:30):
Man, that's it.

Speaker 4 (29:31):
Man, do the right thing when nobody's looking, because God
sees everything, and you know, man forgive and for forgive
people like that. Man, don't have no hate in your heart,
none of that. And uh, it's just crazy what's going
down to now, you know what I mean? But man,
definitely do the right thing when nobody's looking. But the
legacy I want to live just you know, just can't
nobody talk bad about me? You know, when God forbid
anything happens. Like my kids is gonna know, bro, my

(29:54):
dad was straight up, you know what I mean. Like
my dad was a good dude. He did take care
of these people. You mean, he did take care of it.
It's like even when we see homeless people out, I mean,
bred just right there, you know. Or just say hello
to people.

Speaker 5 (30:06):
Man.

Speaker 4 (30:06):
Bro, we was to the drive through the other day.
I just said hello to the drive through people. Ya mean,
just hey, how y'all doing? Y'all have a good day, man,
Just lit a smile on their face. You know, you
don't know what these people going through, you know what
I mean? Like, Bro, they could we get ready to
go do something else. But man, just by you saying hello,
giving them a hug and say how you doing? But
you might have changed the whole move, you know what
I mean? So yeah, so I don't know if to

(30:26):
answer your question.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
You no, bro, that I say the same thing when
people ask me, like, you know, what do you want
your legacy to be? I just want people to say, ya,
he was of service. Yeah, that's it, your service. You
know he made somebody's life better.

Speaker 3 (30:39):
Yes, that's it.

Speaker 4 (30:40):
And you know this goes back to the sener thing
when you know, just when Scenas just said, before everything,
you just asked them how are you doing?

Speaker 3 (30:48):
How was you?

Speaker 4 (30:48):
And you know, I remember you said, like, you know,
will people do interviews media? You know they always say
the same thing. But I thought that was dope though, bro,
because not a lot of people do ask us that
type of story.

Speaker 6 (30:57):
We always ask because we know how tough it is,
like yeah, you know, of course you're a wrestler and
you work and people love you, but sometimes just to matter,
like how are you doing?

Speaker 3 (31:04):
You good?

Speaker 2 (31:05):
Right?

Speaker 6 (31:05):
Sometimes it's getting it like thank you for asking the
kid and after that means the most.

Speaker 5 (31:09):
That's what he got, that blanket on his eyes.

Speaker 3 (31:12):
He didn't even.

Speaker 5 (31:15):
What's wrong.

Speaker 7 (31:19):
He's really trying to hide his arms from you.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
Oh yeah he does.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
No, that's he right, She's right. He gets learned to
cure about it. They don't line and everybody was killing him.
So when somebody come in here, buff, he like covers up.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
How much I have to pay the slapshot of man?

Speaker 4 (31:37):
Oh no, no, well man, i' you know I grew
up watching y'all bro, so you know, like I said,
we have the Breakfast Club, he might have to pay.

Speaker 3 (31:44):
Big Bro over there with the hat on, he want.

Speaker 5 (31:47):
You to slam him before you walk in here. And
he was like, man, Jacob to coming, I want to
wrestle with it when he said it was crazy.

Speaker 3 (31:55):
I want to wrestle. I want to wrask good look
this weekend.

Speaker 6 (32:02):
Hopefully you come out on top man, and we appreciate
you for joining us anytime your towns please do.

Speaker 3 (32:09):
Anytime.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
God you want to, you want to, you want to
wrestle all gas much man.

Speaker 6 (32:23):
Tonight Summer Slam takes place Saturday and Sunday at MetLife Stadium.
If the tickets still left, go get your tickets and
thank you for joining us.

Speaker 3 (32:30):
One.

Speaker 6 (32:31):
Thank y'all brought to It's the Breakfast Club.

Speaker 3 (32:33):
Good morning, every day, A weak click, your ass up
the breakfast club.

Speaker 5 (32:39):
You're finish for. Y'all done,

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