July 3, 2025 • 43 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
Welcome to Bruisers podcast about beer, coffee, booze and Bruisers.
I'm your host, Rody John and today we talked to
Tyler Klein. We talk about his journey into pro wrestling,
the Pittsburgh scene, and so much more. This is such
a fun conversation. Tyler is doing absolutely amazing things in
the world of pro wrestling, and you are definitely gonna
check him out whenever he comes through your town. Now,
you don't want to hear from me, you want to
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hear from him. So, without further ado, here is Tyler Klein.
I would like to welcome a show at Tyler Line.
How are you doing today?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I'm good? How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Doing well?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Did so?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
For those of those who kind of paintings a word picture,
where are you at? What's going on around you?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Oh? Man, I am just home from work, popped the
door in my room, just kind of relaxing after a
long day.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
What is your shoot job?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I actually work for the City of Pittsburgh. I'm based
out of Pittsburgh, so I work kind of a transportation office.
It's a really really awesome job. Like being in the
city of Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I have only been to Pittsburgh when I twelve, I
think maybe I have Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I mean I'm not from here originally. Actually, it's kind
of funny. It's like the city that I swore up
and down as a kid, that I would never move
to because I was never like my my grandparents where
my grandparents are from here forever ago, and they would
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always get a stealer stuff for Christmas. And I'm from
originally like South Jersey, and I was never like a
big football person, so every Christmas it was just like, man,
what are we doing here? So it's just like one
of those Grin and Barrett kind of things. But it's
a it's a it's a great city. I've been here
about almost six years, I think. Okay, yeah, I moved
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here in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah. I know that some wrestlers have an issue when
it comes to travel when it comes to Pittsburgh because
the airport there's only certain flights and it's not like
a consistent thing.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Oh yeah, no, it is not easy to come and
like I I've had points where I've flown out of
Pittsburgh and getting a fight back. It's like, you know,
I went to California a couple months to get months ago,
and it was like going from you have to excuse
the cough alleries and everything. It's like going from San
Francisco to phill and then taking a really tiny plane
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from Philly back to Pittsburgh. And it's just it. You
can't just get a direct flight here. It's always some
sort of connection.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I wonder why that is. That makes no sense to me.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I don't I'm not entirely sure, to be honest, Like,
there's a lot of things that do here in Pittsburgh.
I just think that because the surrounding area, it's a
while to get to anywhere else. I think that could
that could be. Like one of the issues is that
it's like, yeah, you come to Pittsburgh, but there's no
other cities that are within you know, like an hour
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thirty minutes of or an hour thirty minutes of driving.
So it's like kind of in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Unfortunately, Yeah, America figured it out enough. Well, let's go
all the way back in time. What is your earliest
memory of pro wrestling?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Oh, gosh, funny enough, Like I was probably around like
fivers and I was watching like, you know, Saturmine cartoons
stuff like that, and I just remember like gravitating towards
like Macho Man and the toys and some action figures
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and stuff like that and Rick Bartel. But funny enough,
I used to watch it all the time as the kid.
I had, like my relatives buy me these weird story
books that were like put yourself in the story, and
it was like I had this whole thing where I like, say,
like the WWF or WCW, I don't remember what it was,
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but they had like I had been written into the book.
It was kind of funny, but I felt I kind
of fell out of wrestling because I was so I mean,
I had classmates that were really into it, and like
when the Rock and Stone Cold and like the Attitude
era started, my parents were very like kind of very
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conservative about it, and somebody cursed I think on TV
or I didn't curasus, they said ass and they made
me not watch it anymore. And I didn't like fall
back into it until I would sneak it like late
night WCW like in the middle of like in my
middle of nowhere home or even hilariously enough, because I
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lived close to Philly or grew up close to Philly
CVW like Super late on satellite TV, so like I
would see down the middle of the night and watch
those things, and I was just like I kind of
got back into it in my later years of high school.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Yeah, there was like I think if you're in that
like Tri State area, you grew up there, y'all got
so much wrestling that like people and I mean, obviously
I'm from Texas, but we got we had the van ericson,
we had you know, we would have WCW. But like
in that area, there was so much you go to
or see on TV that you know, we just did
not get down here unless you were tape trading or something.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
M Yeah, I mean we had a couple like random
like indie promotions come through my hometown. I was too
young to even know what it was because I went
with my dad one time and my little brother and
I and it was just like I remember there being
like King Kong Bundy and a couple other people, but
it was it was so long ago, but they didn't
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have any indie promotions around when I was a kid
in that area. Like that would come to around where
I used to live, Like you could go to Philly
and go see like you know, like I said CZW
or the ECW Arena or things like that, But there
was nothing in the South Jersey area where I'm from
that I knew of. And even so, like most kids
were not even like tuned into the independen scene. They
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were more tuned into what WWF or WWE WWF was
doing at the time.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Now that makes sense. And then obviously you know WWF.
I guess WF at the time was running so much
out of you know, the New York area anyway that
you could easily go see them whenever.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
You won, exactly. But my parents would never take me.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah, yeah, I had my my cousins were they couldn't
watch the Simpsons when we were young, just because yeah,
they also said ass on TV. And I was like,
it's a cartoon, what are we doing? Like this is
this is?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah exactly. My parents were super strict about it. So
it was like great, But you know, once I got
out of once I got out of living at home
and stuff like that, I kind of would watch a
little bit more. And then by that time, like internet,
YouTube and stuff like that, like I really got more
into watching it.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Well, what made you really kind of take the leap
of Like I think I could do this.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Uh basically just like it was kind of like for
the fun of it. Like I had met a couple
of people in college because I went to college in
South Carolina, USC, and I had done a little bit
of like collegiate wrestling. Well not not in college, but
in high school. We didn't really have an actual team,
but I join in the team or joined the club
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that we had, and I learned a little bit there,
but it was my senior year, so it wasn't much
of anything. And then I went to college and then
had like a wrestling club and one of the guys
in there was actually training to be a pro wrestler.
And I was like, oh, you know, that's pretty cool.
I like I've you know, thought about it, and I
started asking questions about schools, but at that time, I
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was like still in college, still, you know, trying to
find myself and the person who I was, and I
just was really nervous about it, really nervous about like
taking that leap forward and trying to find a school
in South Carolina. And then finally I had moved to
Massachusetts and I had met some friends who were also
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like into wrestling or her wash wrestling and they had
been training, and I went to the class with them
one time and I had to work with them like
privately doing it. Like when they would go to train,
I'd go with them and just kind of learn. And
one of the days the trainer showed up of the
school and he looked at me. He's like, oh, where
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did you originally train? You know, what have you been? Like?
You know what have you been doing? I was like, well,
I'm not officially trained. I've just been working with my
friends and they taught me some things. And he invited
me to come to the school and kind of just
kind of go from there and be like, well, you
come in, I'll teach you. You know, we'll go over,
we'll we'll get you ring ready and stuff like that.
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And I proceeded to do that and just kind of
wanted to take that leap into it.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
That's awesome. Who So, who do you guys? Who'd you interupeating?
Trained by?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
So? I trained originally at the Beltime Club in Massachusetts
by put Douglas. He's was a friend of mine for
a good bit and him and Benny Jux. Whereas the
other one, if you have, like if you know of
some people that I had. There's some people that I
worked with and actually started training with up there and
(10:00):
new Oran that was like I trained with Alec Price
also Becca up there as well, both of them. Actually
was I was actually done training when back to started,
and Alec had already been wrestling a little bit when
I was kind of just coming in. He had not
taken off like he has now. But I had worked
and trained with both them up in Massachusetts and everything
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like that before I had moved out here to Pittsburgh. Nice.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yeah, So I interviewed your tag team partner, Calvin Kature
and he has been the Runway since twenty nineteen. What
is it about your chemistry that just works with you?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Guys? Well, we are we're roommates, okay, so saying hi, yeah,
I will, I will mean we've been we've been. We've
been roomas since but here. Like I met Calvin online
via Instagram. It was while I was in the process
of training. I gravitated like I was like, Oh, your
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characters really cool. It's kind of fun because it was
like something you weren't really seeing a lot of, Like
whenever I was watching stuff on YouTube, it was all
about the moves. The movies the moves and moves, and
I'm like, well, I'm not about me personally in wrestling,
Like I'm not about like all the crazy moves. I like,
you know, the characters, the flashness, things like that. So
we started talking, became really good friends, and I was
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going through a rough time in my like in my
living situation, my work situation up in Massachusetts, because I
had a really great job, but I was kind of
living to work and I didn't really I couldn't really
do any shows. I couldn't really you know, I had
maybe had two three shows before I actually moved here,
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and that was about it, because I've been going for
a couple of months. But basically my life was kind
of out of Sandstill I needed to change, and you know,
we had become really good friends. I'm like, well, what
if I decide I wanted to change the scenery, maybe
I'll move out to Pittsburgh. I came out here in
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February of twenty nineteen, got to meet a lot of
the people out here, got to go to a couple
of motions, and I was just like, all right, I
swore to myself I'd never moved to this city, but
here I am I'm gonna move And then that July
I moved here, started to get to know some promotions
around here by going with Calvin Places, and then really
got the runway, kind of got their start, got a
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couple like small shows when they needed just a tag team,
and then officially with UH became like an official thing.
When working for Rise for Wrestling here in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Yeah, I mean, talk to us more about that company
and tell us more about for people who aren't obviously
in the Pittsburgh area or maybe they don't know exactly
what it is that what the scene looks like there,
tell us what the scene wrestling scene looks like over there.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
So the wrestling scenes pretty awesome. They've got to really
kind of bage online presence. I mean when I first
got here, I started working for two PW and and
Rise for Wrestling. Rise you know their trainer, their trainer there,
Brandon Hay, awesome guy. He actually trained Lee Moriarty a
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w and also thea Hale of WWE currently right now,
that's where the originally had trained. She's really awesome. She's
really kind of She's just so energetic and so much fun.
And every time I see him, he's always has a
good always has a good time talking. I always have
a good time talking. Only he's such a great guy.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
He's kind of mind too, Like he's definitely a kistic
guy that you could you could. Yeah, I was lucky
enough to talk to him when he was about to
have his first art exhibit, and I was just like,
you could just tell I could just talk to him
for hours, and like the way his mind works when
it artistically, It was just very interesting.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Yeah, I mean, the only thing, the only thing Lee
doesn't like about me is that whenever we go before him,
we would go before going to show, you'd always get
covered and glitter. So every time you see this, he'd
like run in the car and be like, man, I'm
after you guys. That sucks you have to go home
covering glitter. I'm like, well, that's why we asked to
be first all the time, so that you know, everybody
gets it gets a little.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Bit, it needs a little glitter exactly.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Right, exactly. And then like in the past couple of years,
like places like Enjoy Wrestling and eighty have kind of
taken off a little bit, especially Enjoy their production value.
They only run a few times a year, but you
know their shows that they have, they're really awesome. They're
just big spectacles. There's what's really great about them is
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that a lot of their fans are not like traditional
wrestling fans, so they're there to have a good time.
A lot of them are people that have never been
to a wrestling show or they've never like even watched
wrestling before, and they come to enjoy them, to have
a good time and enjoy themselves, and they get to
see a lot of talent that's you know, either LGBTQ
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or minorities or anything like that. It's really just it's
a fun, energetic atmosphere and the crowd is just ridiculous.
They get into it so much. And even when it
shows up on like you even when it's on YouTube
and stuff like that, the production value, the photos, everything,
it's like you can tell that they put a lot
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of love into their product and they've given us the
Calvin and I are like huge, you know, really big
opportunities as well. So it's a lot of fun working
for them too.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
That's always the thing is they I have so many
friends that haven't been to wrestling shows, but once I
did get the into a show, they were like Oh,
this is what it is.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Like, this is awesome.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I think once you get somebody to an actual show
in person, it's just a game changer for everybody.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Yeah. I mean I have I have friends like I
from I like gaming friends and stuff like that. And
they live out in like pretty close to Cedar Point
out in Ohio, and that's like a four and a
half five hour drive. And I told them when I
had first become friends with them, like via video games,
I was like, yeah, I'm a wrestler. I'm like, oh, yeah,
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where what do you do. I'm like, oh, well, I
gave him some video and I'm like, this is a
really cool promotion that I worked with called Enjoy. And
they came out and they drove because they had other
friends here and they came. They had never been to
a wrestling show before, and they came to this one.
And they have come to everyone since, even ones that
I haven't been on, and every time they just come
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out and enjoy the experience and just love like they
do the things that Pittsford of course, but they're slowly
getting their other friends to make the road trip out
with them. So there were three of them that came
the first time, and they brought six and then they
came to a Taco Mania show and like just hung
out all day long. And I'm like, you guys, you know,
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what are you gonna do? Like you're gonna have to
super long drive back. I'm like, naw, We're fine. It's
so much fun to be here. So just kind of
bringing in all these people from all over the places
to see really good wrestling and just a lot of fun. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Yeah, I mean as much as going to WrestleMania is fun,
but it's just so daunting because you're fitting in there
with the minimum fifty thousand people or sixty thousand people,
which is a lot of people. But if you go
to like a local show, you'll have a couple hundred people,
maybe a thousand if you're lucky, and it's just like, oh,
this is great because the interaction between the actual wrestlers
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and the fans is so much more, and it's that's
basically more. What is about is having that interaction and
that connection exactly.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Like I've been to excuse me, I've been to one.
I've been to a total probably of three actual like
big promotion wrestling shows. I've been to AW twice and
I went to WRESTLEMANI and Tampa, and I think we
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were we were We got the tickets day of like
we had gone to GCW that day, wrestled for for
FI show, and then we were hanging out at a
at a really cool like bar, just drinking, having a
good time, and we're just sitting there like, well, I
wonder if Wresselmania tickets are on sale, because it was
I think it was night two. It was night two,
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and we're just you know, we were done with all
of our bookings everything, like I wonder what's going on today.
I wonder what we could do and lo and behold,
like there were tickets available in the very upper spots,
but they were super cheap. I'm like, okay, we'll go
ahead and do it and we'll just go to WrestleMania.
So we bought four tickets. It was all like the
four tickets were less than one hundred dollars for this
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part of where we I know, for where we sat,
they were like LEAs than one hundreds, which made sense.
Like the only way to even see anything was literally
like on the screens they put up. And we just
had a blast just kind of having a good time
just you know, it was a great experience. But I
couldn't imagine spending like all that money just to be
on the floor or anything like that. But I heard
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I always encourage my friends like who are wrestling fans
because there's so many kind of like you know, go
to an indie show, like you want to see and
have a good time, Like go to an indie show.
What's great about some of the venues around here is, yeah,
they're a little smaller, but they have like an out,
they have leachers and elevation like with Enjoying Mister Small's.
It's a concert hall. So they have the ring set
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up in the basically in the middle pit, and then
they have balcony seats so no matter where you are,
like the bottom is standing room, the ring's high enough
to where everybody who's standing can see, and then you
have the balcony seats where everybody can look down on it.
It's really just it's really cool the way that they
have a setup and the fans are on their feet
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for like four hours and just having a blast the
whole time. Like nobody's everybody's just still full of energy
from the first match. Their last match is great.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Yeah, I've been working some shows in Arkansas as the
ring announcer, and it is it is always so great
to see like fans just like you said, into it
for four hour streets, Like they don't calm down. There's
no like rest. Yeah, there's an intermission, but still like
they still bring the same energy for the main event
that they do the first match.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Mm hmm. That's why I love about it around here,
and like everybody's got the energy all the way through.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
That's oh, I love that well. I mean also in
Pittsburgh is obviously known for being a wrestling town, whether
it comes to Kurt Angle or Martino where there's Abisco,
but it's like I am as curious who the next
generation of people coming out of there are, Like I
know Sam and Donnis moved out of there. He's down
here in Texas now, the Savage Gentleman's up there. Obviously
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you guys are up there. But I am always curious,
like who the next generation of people coming from every
area like those hot bedrooms kind of looking at it.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Yeah, I mean like there's there's quite a few people
that have started to like make the rounds. Like we
have a friend named Gihonny Amrico. He's really cool. We
has a lot of fun. He's been doing a lot locally,
but he's also starting he's been to Canada. He's been
going kind of all over the place. He's an eight
eighty product trained by MBM and Gan and Jones Junior.
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So he's really he's a lot of fun to work with.
He's really cool to hang out with, and he does
a really good job of his getting people to viscerally
hate him, which is great. And then oh man, I
mean we've Christiano Argento formerly Kammbotaliano was another guy. He
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does stuff for n W A Exodus. Now he's really cool.
There's a couple of other, uh, younger kids, but like,
you know, that's the thing with wrestling is that there's
always kind of a not a revolving door, but also
like there's always somebody new coming in and like kind
of getting in the spotlight showing what they can do.
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And it's it's kind of like, you know, Pittsburgh's a
really cool place for that right now.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Yeah, and I can make it back up there and
up there obviously in over twenty years so well, I
mean over the years you shared the locker room with
so many people who were some veterans that really kind
of helped you out along the way.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Well, Sam, Sam, Sam, and Donna's for sure, because I've
known Sam. Well, I've known Sam, you know, kind of
since I a little bit after I had moved here.
Raylan is a big one, and she was a good
friend of mine, mister Dearly. But I met her my
first week here, and I didn't know anybody when I
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first got here. I'd heard of her before because I
seen her on social media and stuff like that. And
I went to a show, a charity show she was on,
Like she drove with Calvin and I and we got
in the car. She took one look at me and
she's like, you and I are going to be best friends.
I can already tell. And I've been. I've been. I've
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been really close with her anytime she comes into town
because she still comes back because her some of her
family still lives here. Like I just I'm always like, Okay,
what are we doing? How are we going to hang out?
And then also like in the area, like Andrew Palace
and Chris l. Russo have always been really great, like
they were the head had trainers of the school. They
trained Calvin both really great and mean. Chris's palace is
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full of energy twenty four to seven and Larusso's you know,
been everywhere and he's such a has a really great
mind for wrestling. Like they've been really helpful and and
also you know in tag team wrestling like the main
event TM me Agan and Jones Junior and Due Davis,
Like those guys are so awesome, They're so knowledgeable. They're
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really just super positive and super great to work with
all the time. Whenever I see them, they're always happy
to see everybody too, Like I connect with again and
I love of just hanging out with you because he's
so funny. And then Gannon and I get really nerdy
when we talk about stuff, and it's really cool. We
have a lot of sea interests. So it's like, these
are a lot of guys that I've learned from whenever
I feen here, either working with them or watching them.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
That's awesome. Yeah, I'm always curious who who kind of
helped paved and paid the way for certain people. Then
you know, when it comes to asking any advice mm hm, Now,
what is your favorite thing about being in tag team wrestling?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Oh, the I have that I can split the work.
That's my favorite thing because I'm like, oh man, I
don't know, like I I do like singles wrestling, but
I like, I do love tag wrestling. I think that
tag wrestling has thotten kind of like the kind of
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guy the that end of the second like a lot recently,
just because people don't really see a lot of tag
wrestling in the bigger one, like at least coherent tag teams.
You have like a few, like in the w w
E and stuff like that, but they don't make it.
Like whenever you look in a pay per view, you're
never really excited for what the tag team or the
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who has the tag team belts and all that, Like
you're not like that's the match. You're like, uh yeah,
I mean we're far We're really far away from the
time of like the Dudley's and the Hardy's and edged
Christian stuff like that, where those were like the matches
that you really wanted to see, and I kind of
I kind of hate that. And I because I love
tag team wrestling, I've always kind of gravitated towards that
(25:32):
because I've like I I've always been a fan of
like just tag teams that match or tag teams that
have like similar gimmicks, Like my my biggest my biggest
upteve is when you throw two random people together and
I'm just like, that's so boring to me, Like let's
have something a little bit more uniform. But like I
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just kind of I kind of like it, like being
able to play off each other's energy and you know,
telling a story with all four people, and like if
you know my partner, if if my partner's downring is
like getting that crowd hyped back up, or if I
have you know it's not going our way, or just
even beating heels, you know, doing something on the outside
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to keep the people engaged in the match. I love
that about tag team wrestling because it's it's to me,
it's fun.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
There are some tag teams that you have gone back
and really kind of fallen in love with that you
maybe didn't spend as much time when they were actually
when the matches were actually happening.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Oh man, I let's see here. I always really I mean,
I'm you know, the Fashion Police was always one that
I really liked. My favorite tag team was Law Resistance
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oh way back, Like I loved Renee Dutrie and savan
Ganie and Rod Conway too. But I really liked that
tag team because that was like a big character tag team,
and I always I always loved the Heels. I've never
been a huge fan of the Faces the heart Throbs,
even like they were a you know, a mid card
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tag team and WWE, but I you know, they were entertaining.
They weren't just like two big guys. They had a gimmick,
you know, they were they were kind of careiserweighty, but
they had a gimmick. They had you know, energy everything
else like that. So like those are kind of like
some bigger of some mainsay tag teams that I've always
kind of if they had a character, I usually gravitated
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towards them. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Yeah, it definitely goes back to what you said about
just throwing two people together, like yeah, especially when they
put the tag bolts on them, unless they're in a
few together like where they're feuding with each other, it
just makes no sense to me exactly.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Well, so show days are typically pretty long days, and
obviously you talked about traveling earlier. What are some standards
that you normally always have in your bag?
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Uh, lots of glitter, lots of bake. I've gotten lots
of several different gear choices. It usually takes me forever
to figure out or take me forever to figure out
what we're going to wear and then what we're going
to coordinate to enter in and sin stopping is my
worst habit ever. You know, There's so many clothes to
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go through, and then probably like two or three energy
drinks because I need something to pick me up on
the way there and kind of like what I'm going
to wear there, because I never want to go to
a show and I never want to like go into
a show where I'm just coming in like jeans and
a T shirt or hoodie or something like that. I
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want to I want somebody to I want people to
comment on my outfit that I wear there. And that's
usually what happens. They're like wow, because I get a
lot of clothing that is different, regular clothing that's different,
So pants that will be cut a little bit differently
or have big like holes inside, or a weird material
(29:16):
and very louded not you shirts, or I have a
pair of shorts that are completely sequin that I'll wear
and there I want people to like look at it
and just be like, Yo, I want to stand out.
I want to be that. I want to be that
person that cut walks in the show and everybody turns
their head and they're just like, oh, somebody decided to
come and out fancy us all to day. So I mean,
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that's that's what it is. I mean, I'm I'm a
LDBT wrestler that likes loud, long, loud gimmicks and loud
you know, reactions and everything else like that, And that's
that's you know, I try to personify that before I
get to the ring and when I'm in the ring too.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Yeah. There are so many shows you'll show up to
and like dudes d either in tank tops, T shirts,
obviously fanny packs and then like yeah, jim short sweatpants
and it's like okay, yep, exactly, like you could just
tell they just pulled out of the car as well, oh.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Yeah after getting out of the car, after cutting it,
cutting a promo for that show exactly.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
But no way as suppose to you who like will
stop at a gas station looking fantastic, People like oh
where are you going? It's like I'm arrestled.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Oh yeah, come checking out after after shows is always
my biggest, like it is always my biggest, Like like
it's always funny because like I'll I won't go to
the show with like my face painted or anything else
like that. I'll wait till I'll put any makeup brain
god on, you know, before I go out, so that
it doesn't sweat off. And then I go on the
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way home and put my clothes back on, and I
am just like my face is either painted or I've
gotten littered everywhere. And I'll walk into a gas station
or I walk into sheets close to my house and
people just look and be like what in the world.
And then of course, like I'll go to check out,
like the cashier is just like I love what's going on?
Like what's it? Like? You know, where did why are
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you dressed? Like that. It's also a way of engaging
those people because it's like, oh, my wrestler ice came
from a show. You know it was over years, Like
you know this, if you think it's coool, you should
check it out. Sometimes, so it's like kind of advertising
us as a tag team and like getting people to
come to shows. And I've had people that have done that.
They've been like somebody who works at the local gas station,
(31:29):
the local sheets around here, and they'll come up to
me like, oh my gosh, I saw you, like you know,
I saw you at sheets. You know, I wanted to
come and check out what this was all about. This
is awesome, so you know, it's it's just a way
of getting people like to ask questions like what is
going on? Like what is happening? So I mean, like
I said, I'll show up and that are anywhere.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
I like that because I know Vincent back in the day,
he would always want those, you know, people that were
larger than life, that really passed the airport test, and
now you're passing the gas station test, which is even better.
M Well, so I don't know you might. Do you
have a double stick.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Tape story a double stick tape story?
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Yes, I don't know if it at all.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
No, I don't elaborate.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Uh the fabrics so things stay where they need to be.
Mostly the women will use it, but I have to.
I feel like I have to make it fair and
ask them in as well.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Uh, I don't have I mean I've had times where
my trunks have been pulled. I don't use any of
the double stick tape. I've never had an issue where
if my drug can pull down that anything is popped
out in the front anyway. So luckily for me, I
haven't done that, but I'm always there's plenty of pictures
(32:52):
of my bot on the internet, that's for sure. Everybody.
Anytime I press on Instagram, I usually guess the most
like So it's it's the fun part. I think it's
like one of those things where you know, I I know,
like I said, I gravitate towards you know, comedy wrestling
and character wrestling and stuff like that, so you know,
I hate it's funny to say. It's like I could
be on a show and you know, you have sex
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matches on the card, five of which are doing you know,
all the high spots, all the crazy spots, but they'll
know the one guy who's who's drunk up down there's
in a freaking des draing, like, oh my god, I
remember that. It's so funny. I remember what that happens,
Like what happened on other matches. Yeah, I don't remember
who won, so it makes it memorable. But it's like,
(33:36):
you know, I I gauge on the better times for
that to happen, but a lot of times it's just
for you know, I'm just for you know, to get
people like laughing or just kind of like, WHOA, what
is happening here? It's great? Or you know people people
actually cheer it and half the time they expected this point.
So it's kind of one of those old boy what
(33:56):
have I? What have I become? What have I created
for myself?
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Right? I mean you're you're giving them the moments, and
that's at the end exactly like you said that, that's
what they get home with exactly. So I have a
segment of the show. I call it the five count.
It's just five random questions. Okay, what are you nerding
out on right now?
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Oh? Man? What don't I nerd out on? So? I
live a life as a extremely big closet nerd. So
my room is just covered in there's there's there's four
different there's let me see one, two, three before there's
(34:36):
probably like five different themes going on in my room.
Power Rangers, uh we Little One Stitch, uh Jurassic Park,
Star Wars, and uh dn D slash critical Role stuff
right now because I actually do a live streaming Dungeonland
(34:57):
Dragons thing with a bunch of other local wrestlers on
top rope tabletop. It's it's a lot of fun. But
I'm actually nerding out over Critical Roles new core rule
book that they came out with called Dagger part just
because I haven't had a chance to like dive into
the book yet trying to. I just haven't had the time.
But yeah, my room is definitely that's that. The Critical
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Dagger art book is definitely something I'm nerding out on
right now, kind of getting super into again because I
already love D and D and I want to try
something little different. I just have to find the time.
There you go.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Uh, if you owned a liquor company, brewery, winery, or
coffee shop, which one would you own? And what would
the name be?
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Oh my gosh, I would own more of a I've
owned something that is a little bit more probably probably
a liquor honestly a liquor shop, but a bar, and
it would just be like wall to wall Margarita flavors,
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because my drink liquor probably just I really only drink
tequila and Margarita's why I blame college. Every other liquor
I got drunk on in college may be sick, except
for tequila, which makes everybody else sick, which is great. Uh, honestly,
I would probably call it. I would probably call it
(36:23):
m maybe Tyler's t Bar, or I would honestly maybe
just call it the Runway and just have it be
like a half half inside half outside kind of everybody
welcome bar. Probably yeah, probably like a gave oar that
caters to everybody kind of thing is what I would do.
(36:43):
But it would just be like, yeah, we have a
couple of drinks, but the main thing we focus on
is like huge in flavors and a lot of flavors
of Margarita's. And the second second option would probably be
a sort of gaming tavern, which I've talked to like
some of my friends about doing and doing like an
having it all set up super nerdy and super medievally
and let people come in and drink and play like
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tabletop games and all that, because I've been to a
few of those and they are a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
I like that a lot.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
What for dinner guests, uh, dead or alive? Would you have?
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Oh? Man, So I would probably do. I picked two musicians,
two musicians musicians jeez, one musician, one wrestler, and two
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gaming people so I pick since I was such a
mark for I'd probably pick Matthew Mercer and Liam O'Brien,
who are voice actors, because I love I like cartoons too,
and they do a lot of voice acting and video
games and cartoons and stuff like that, especially a lot
of ones that I play, because they do a whole
lot of marble stuff. Wrestlers, I would probably have to say,
(38:07):
I'm Matt Cardona Mark. I think he's I. I think
he's I think he's cool, and he's one of my
one of my favorite wrestlers, even before he started doing
the indies when he was Zach Grider, Like I have
so much Zach Ryder merchant it's not even funny. And
then music that would probably be uh, probably be Lady
Gaga because I love I love her music. So those
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are before I don't really let let's let the let
the Dead sleep. I'd go for I'd get for those
right there.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
That's a good Yeah, that's a good dinner.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Who are what inspires you?
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Oh? Man? I say, I have to say, like, my
my friends inspire me, Like Calvin's definitely inspired me, and
he's always been there to have my back and been
a really great friend of me. And then and probably
I have two nieces who are they're they're they're gonna
(39:05):
be three too. But watching them grow and kind of
become more awarees from toddler to you know, being old,
becoming a little older, even though they are so young,
it inspires me to like want to do better, to
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be there for them and you know, be a part
of their lives. And because I live a little far
away from my family and just kind of like it
inspire they inspire me to be a better person.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
And finally, what would you tell your seventeen year old self?
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Oh? Man, honestly, part of it would be and I
don't probably pick a different major in college honestly because yeah,
picking it for a major in college. But also, don't
be so afraid of the opinion. Don't be afraid to
(40:11):
be yourself just because of the opinions of others. Yeah,
and to kind of try. I would say, trust yourself
more is what I would probably give the advice to
my younger self. Yeah, you know, be more confident.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
That's wonderful. Yeah, I me feel like you could tell
yourself that at any age.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
Yeah, I mean I'm more confident than I used to be,
and I'm more outgoing than I used to be. But like, yeah,
around seventeen before going to school, don't be a criminal
justice major. It's never going to work out.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Yeah, do something that pays better. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
Well, if people want to follow you online, find out
more about you, buy your merch to you live, like
you said, see you on your live stream? How can
they do all the things?
Speaker 2 (41:02):
Yes? So we have on YouTube it's top Roak Tabletop.
It's myself and five other wrestlers for around the Pittsburgh area.
You can follow me on Instagram on the Underscore Tyler
Underscore client as well as the Runway Wrestling on Twitter.
(41:26):
You can find me at Tyler Underscore Climb. Also like
medicine jeez, it's a thing. I should really have that
and Runway Wrestling on Twitter as well Blue Scott as well.
Same as my Instagram handle Facebook under Tyler Clin and
if you search YouTube for the Runway, Enjoy Wrestling or
(41:49):
Tyler Clin you will come through a slew of videos
of myself and my tech partner, Calvin Kitcher. Definitely check
them out. Check out all the promotions that we work
for here in Pittsburgh and all over, really hoping we
would love to get more places. We actually have some
cool stuff coming up in the next couple of months.
I'm really excited about too, very nice.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
So yeah, obviously keep following you on social media see
where you end up. And I've really enjoyed this conversation
and I can't wait to see what not only do
in your singles career, but the runways do as well.
Speaker 2 (42:22):
All right, thank you so much. I really appreciate it, no.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
Problem, thank you, Thank you so much to Tyler for
being on the show again. Definitely make sure to go
out of your way to find Tyler where he is
(42:45):
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Welcome to Bruisers podcast about beer, coffee, booze and Bruisers.
I'm your host, Rody John and today we talked to
Tyler Klein. We talk about his journey into pro wrestling,
the Pittsburgh scene, and so much more. This is such
a fun conversation. Tyler is doing absolutely amazing things in
the world of pro wrestling, and you are definitely gonna
check him out whenever he comes through your town. Now,
you don't want to hear from me, you want to
(00:40):
hear from him. So, without further ado, here is Tyler Klein.
I would like to welcome a show at Tyler Line.
How are you doing today?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I'm good? How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Doing well?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Did so?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
For those of those who kind of paintings a word picture,
where are you at? What's going on around you?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Oh? Man, I am just home from work, popped the
door in my room, just kind of relaxing after a
long day.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
What is your shoot job?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I actually work for the City of Pittsburgh. I'm based
out of Pittsburgh, so I work kind of a transportation office.
It's a really really awesome job. Like being in the
city of Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I have only been to Pittsburgh when I twelve, I
think maybe I have Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I mean I'm not from here originally. Actually, it's kind
of funny. It's like the city that I swore up
and down as a kid, that I would never move
to because I was never like my my grandparents where
my grandparents are from here forever ago, and they would
(02:03):
always get a stealer stuff for Christmas. And I'm from
originally like South Jersey, and I was never like a
big football person, so every Christmas it was just like, man,
what are we doing here? So it's just like one
of those Grin and Barrett kind of things. But it's
a it's a it's a great city. I've been here
about almost six years, I think. Okay, yeah, I moved
(02:28):
here in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah. I know that some wrestlers have an issue when
it comes to travel when it comes to Pittsburgh because
the airport there's only certain flights and it's not like
a consistent thing.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Oh yeah, no, it is not easy to come and
like I I've had points where I've flown out of
Pittsburgh and getting a fight back. It's like, you know,
I went to California a couple months to get months ago,
and it was like going from you have to excuse
the cough alleries and everything. It's like going from San
Francisco to phill and then taking a really tiny plane
(03:02):
from Philly back to Pittsburgh. And it's just it. You
can't just get a direct flight here. It's always some
sort of connection.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I wonder why that is. That makes no sense to me.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I don't I'm not entirely sure, to be honest, Like,
there's a lot of things that do here in Pittsburgh.
I just think that because the surrounding area, it's a
while to get to anywhere else. I think that could
that could be. Like one of the issues is that
it's like, yeah, you come to Pittsburgh, but there's no
other cities that are within you know, like an hour
(03:37):
thirty minutes of or an hour thirty minutes of driving.
So it's like kind of in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Unfortunately, Yeah, America figured it out enough. Well, let's go
all the way back in time. What is your earliest
memory of pro wrestling?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Oh, gosh, funny enough, Like I was probably around like
fivers and I was watching like, you know, Saturmine cartoons
stuff like that, and I just remember like gravitating towards
like Macho Man and the toys and some action figures
(04:14):
and stuff like that and Rick Bartel. But funny enough,
I used to watch it all the time as the kid.
I had, like my relatives buy me these weird story
books that were like put yourself in the story, and
it was like I had this whole thing where I like, say,
like the WWF or WCW, I don't remember what it was,
(04:34):
but they had like I had been written into the book.
It was kind of funny, but I felt I kind
of fell out of wrestling because I was so I mean,
I had classmates that were really into it, and like
when the Rock and Stone Cold and like the Attitude
era started, my parents were very like kind of very
(04:58):
conservative about it, and somebody cursed I think on TV
or I didn't curasus, they said ass and they made
me not watch it anymore. And I didn't like fall
back into it until I would sneak it like late
night WCW like in the middle of like in my
middle of nowhere home or even hilariously enough, because I
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lived close to Philly or grew up close to Philly
CVW like Super late on satellite TV, so like I
would see down the middle of the night and watch
those things, and I was just like I kind of
got back into it in my later years of high school.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Yeah, there was like I think if you're in that
like Tri State area, you grew up there, y'all got
so much wrestling that like people and I mean, obviously
I'm from Texas, but we got we had the van ericson,
we had you know, we would have WCW. But like
in that area, there was so much you go to
or see on TV that you know, we just did
not get down here unless you were tape trading or something.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
M Yeah, I mean we had a couple like random
like indie promotions come through my hometown. I was too
young to even know what it was because I went
with my dad one time and my little brother and
I and it was just like I remember there being
like King Kong Bundy and a couple other people, but
it was it was so long ago, but they didn't
(06:21):
have any indie promotions around when I was a kid
in that area. Like that would come to around where
I used to live, Like you could go to Philly
and go see like you know, like I said CZW
or the ECW Arena or things like that, But there
was nothing in the South Jersey area where I'm from
that I knew of. And even so, like most kids
were not even like tuned into the independen scene. They
(06:43):
were more tuned into what WWF or WWE WWF was
doing at the time.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Now that makes sense. And then obviously you know WWF.
I guess WF at the time was running so much
out of you know, the New York area anyway that
you could easily go see them whenever.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
You won, exactly. But my parents would never take me.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah, yeah, I had my my cousins were they couldn't
watch the Simpsons when we were young, just because yeah,
they also said ass on TV. And I was like,
it's a cartoon, what are we doing? Like this is
this is?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah exactly. My parents were super strict about it. So
it was like great, But you know, once I got
out of once I got out of living at home
and stuff like that, I kind of would watch a
little bit more. And then by that time, like internet,
YouTube and stuff like that, like I really got more
into watching it.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Well, what made you really kind of take the leap
of Like I think I could do this.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Uh basically just like it was kind of like for
the fun of it. Like I had met a couple
of people in college because I went to college in
South Carolina, USC, and I had done a little bit
of like collegiate wrestling. Well not not in college, but
in high school. We didn't really have an actual team,
but I join in the team or joined the club
(08:02):
that we had, and I learned a little bit there,
but it was my senior year, so it wasn't much
of anything. And then I went to college and then
had like a wrestling club and one of the guys
in there was actually training to be a pro wrestler.
And I was like, oh, you know, that's pretty cool.
I like I've you know, thought about it, and I
started asking questions about schools, but at that time, I
(08:22):
was like still in college, still, you know, trying to
find myself and the person who I was, and I
just was really nervous about it, really nervous about like
taking that leap forward and trying to find a school
in South Carolina. And then finally I had moved to
Massachusetts and I had met some friends who were also
(08:44):
like into wrestling or her wash wrestling and they had
been training, and I went to the class with them
one time and I had to work with them like
privately doing it. Like when they would go to train,
I'd go with them and just kind of learn. And
one of the days the trainer showed up of the
school and he looked at me. He's like, oh, where
(09:05):
did you originally train? You know, what have you been? Like?
You know what have you been doing? I was like, well,
I'm not officially trained. I've just been working with my
friends and they taught me some things. And he invited
me to come to the school and kind of just
kind of go from there and be like, well, you
come in, I'll teach you. You know, we'll go over,
we'll we'll get you ring ready and stuff like that.
(09:26):
And I proceeded to do that and just kind of
wanted to take that leap into it.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
That's awesome. Who So, who do you guys? Who'd you interupeating?
Trained by?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
So? I trained originally at the Beltime Club in Massachusetts
by put Douglas. He's was a friend of mine for
a good bit and him and Benny Jux. Whereas the
other one, if you have, like if you know of
some people that I had. There's some people that I
worked with and actually started training with up there and
(10:00):
new Oran that was like I trained with Alec Price
also Becca up there as well, both of them. Actually
was I was actually done training when back to started,
and Alec had already been wrestling a little bit when
I was kind of just coming in. He had not
taken off like he has now. But I had worked
and trained with both them up in Massachusetts and everything
(10:25):
like that before I had moved out here to Pittsburgh. Nice.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yeah, So I interviewed your tag team partner, Calvin Kature
and he has been the Runway since twenty nineteen. What
is it about your chemistry that just works with you?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Guys? Well, we are we're roommates, okay, so saying hi, yeah,
I will, I will mean we've been we've been. We've
been roomas since but here. Like I met Calvin online
via Instagram. It was while I was in the process
of training. I gravitated like I was like, Oh, your
(11:02):
characters really cool. It's kind of fun because it was
like something you weren't really seeing a lot of, Like
whenever I was watching stuff on YouTube, it was all
about the moves. The movies the moves and moves, and
I'm like, well, I'm not about me personally in wrestling,
Like I'm not about like all the crazy moves. I like,
you know, the characters, the flashness, things like that. So
we started talking, became really good friends, and I was
(11:24):
going through a rough time in my like in my
living situation, my work situation up in Massachusetts, because I
had a really great job, but I was kind of
living to work and I didn't really I couldn't really
do any shows. I couldn't really you know, I had
maybe had two three shows before I actually moved here,
(11:46):
and that was about it, because I've been going for
a couple of months. But basically my life was kind
of out of Sandstill I needed to change, and you know,
we had become really good friends. I'm like, well, what
if I decide I wanted to change the scenery, maybe
I'll move out to Pittsburgh. I came out here in
(12:07):
February of twenty nineteen, got to meet a lot of
the people out here, got to go to a couple
of motions, and I was just like, all right, I
swore to myself I'd never moved to this city, but
here I am I'm gonna move And then that July
I moved here, started to get to know some promotions
around here by going with Calvin Places, and then really
got the runway, kind of got their start, got a
(12:31):
couple like small shows when they needed just a tag team,
and then officially with UH became like an official thing.
When working for Rise for Wrestling here in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Yeah, I mean, talk to us more about that company
and tell us more about for people who aren't obviously
in the Pittsburgh area or maybe they don't know exactly
what it is that what the scene looks like there,
tell us what the scene wrestling scene looks like over there.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
So the wrestling scenes pretty awesome. They've got to really
kind of bage online presence. I mean when I first
got here, I started working for two PW and and
Rise for Wrestling. Rise you know their trainer, their trainer there,
Brandon Hay, awesome guy. He actually trained Lee Moriarty a
(13:17):
w and also thea Hale of WWE currently right now,
that's where the originally had trained. She's really awesome. She's
really kind of She's just so energetic and so much fun.
And every time I see him, he's always has a
good always has a good time talking. I always have
a good time talking. Only he's such a great guy.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
He's kind of mind too, Like he's definitely a kistic
guy that you could you could. Yeah, I was lucky
enough to talk to him when he was about to
have his first art exhibit, and I was just like,
you could just tell I could just talk to him
for hours, and like the way his mind works when
it artistically, It was just very interesting.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Yeah, I mean, the only thing, the only thing Lee
doesn't like about me is that whenever we go before him,
we would go before going to show, you'd always get
covered and glitter. So every time you see this, he'd
like run in the car and be like, man, I'm
after you guys. That sucks you have to go home
covering glitter. I'm like, well, that's why we asked to
be first all the time, so that you know, everybody
gets it gets a little.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Bit, it needs a little glitter exactly.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Right, exactly. And then like in the past couple of years,
like places like Enjoy Wrestling and eighty have kind of
taken off a little bit, especially Enjoy their production value.
They only run a few times a year, but you
know their shows that they have, they're really awesome. They're
just big spectacles. There's what's really great about them is
(14:41):
that a lot of their fans are not like traditional
wrestling fans, so they're there to have a good time.
A lot of them are people that have never been
to a wrestling show or they've never like even watched
wrestling before, and they come to enjoy them, to have
a good time and enjoy themselves, and they get to
see a lot of talent that's you know, either LGBTQ
(15:06):
or minorities or anything like that. It's really just it's
a fun, energetic atmosphere and the crowd is just ridiculous.
They get into it so much. And even when it
shows up on like you even when it's on YouTube
and stuff like that, the production value, the photos, everything,
it's like you can tell that they put a lot
(15:28):
of love into their product and they've given us the
Calvin and I are like huge, you know, really big
opportunities as well. So it's a lot of fun working
for them too.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
That's always the thing is they I have so many
friends that haven't been to wrestling shows, but once I
did get the into a show, they were like Oh,
this is what it is.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Like, this is awesome.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I think once you get somebody to an actual show
in person, it's just a game changer for everybody.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Yeah. I mean I have I have friends like I
from I like gaming friends and stuff like that. And
they live out in like pretty close to Cedar Point
out in Ohio, and that's like a four and a
half five hour drive. And I told them when I
had first become friends with them, like via video games,
I was like, yeah, I'm a wrestler. I'm like, oh, yeah,
(16:16):
where what do you do. I'm like, oh, well, I
gave him some video and I'm like, this is a
really cool promotion that I worked with called Enjoy. And
they came out and they drove because they had other
friends here and they came. They had never been to
a wrestling show before, and they came to this one.
And they have come to everyone since, even ones that
I haven't been on, and every time they just come
(16:38):
out and enjoy the experience and just love like they
do the things that Pittsford of course, but they're slowly
getting their other friends to make the road trip out
with them. So there were three of them that came
the first time, and they brought six and then they
came to a Taco Mania show and like just hung
out all day long. And I'm like, you guys, you know,
(16:58):
what are you gonna do? Like you're gonna have to
super long drive back. I'm like, naw, We're fine. It's
so much fun to be here. So just kind of
bringing in all these people from all over the places
to see really good wrestling and just a lot of fun. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Yeah, I mean as much as going to WrestleMania is fun,
but it's just so daunting because you're fitting in there
with the minimum fifty thousand people or sixty thousand people,
which is a lot of people. But if you go
to like a local show, you'll have a couple hundred people,
maybe a thousand if you're lucky, and it's just like, oh,
this is great because the interaction between the actual wrestlers
(17:33):
and the fans is so much more, and it's that's
basically more. What is about is having that interaction and
that connection exactly.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Like I've been to excuse me, I've been to one.
I've been to a total probably of three actual like
big promotion wrestling shows. I've been to AW twice and
I went to WRESTLEMANI and Tampa, and I think we
(18:03):
were we were We got the tickets day of like
we had gone to GCW that day, wrestled for for
FI show, and then we were hanging out at a
at a really cool like bar, just drinking, having a
good time, and we're just sitting there like, well, I
wonder if Wresselmania tickets are on sale, because it was
I think it was night two. It was night two,
(18:26):
and we're just you know, we were done with all
of our bookings everything, like I wonder what's going on today.
I wonder what we could do and lo and behold,
like there were tickets available in the very upper spots,
but they were super cheap. I'm like, okay, we'll go
ahead and do it and we'll just go to WrestleMania.
So we bought four tickets. It was all like the
four tickets were less than one hundred dollars for this
(18:46):
part of where we I know, for where we sat,
they were like LEAs than one hundreds, which made sense.
Like the only way to even see anything was literally
like on the screens they put up. And we just
had a blast just kind of having a good time
just you know, it was a great experience. But I
couldn't imagine spending like all that money just to be
on the floor or anything like that. But I heard
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I always encourage my friends like who are wrestling fans
because there's so many kind of like you know, go
to an indie show, like you want to see and
have a good time, Like go to an indie show.
What's great about some of the venues around here is, yeah,
they're a little smaller, but they have like an out,
they have leachers and elevation like with Enjoying Mister Small's.
It's a concert hall. So they have the ring set
(19:31):
up in the basically in the middle pit, and then
they have balcony seats so no matter where you are,
like the bottom is standing room, the ring's high enough
to where everybody who's standing can see, and then you
have the balcony seats where everybody can look down on it.
It's really just it's really cool the way that they
have a setup and the fans are on their feet
(19:51):
for like four hours and just having a blast the
whole time. Like nobody's everybody's just still full of energy
from the first match. Their last match is great.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Yeah, I've been working some shows in Arkansas as the
ring announcer, and it is it is always so great
to see like fans just like you said, into it
for four hour streets, Like they don't calm down. There's
no like rest. Yeah, there's an intermission, but still like
they still bring the same energy for the main event
that they do the first match.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Mm hmm. That's why I love about it around here,
and like everybody's got the energy all the way through.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
That's oh, I love that well. I mean also in
Pittsburgh is obviously known for being a wrestling town, whether
it comes to Kurt Angle or Martino where there's Abisco,
but it's like I am as curious who the next
generation of people coming out of there are, Like I
know Sam and Donnis moved out of there. He's down
here in Texas now, the Savage Gentleman's up there. Obviously
(20:48):
you guys are up there. But I am always curious,
like who the next generation of people coming from every
area like those hot bedrooms kind of looking at it.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Yeah, I mean like there's there's quite a few people
that have started to like make the rounds. Like we
have a friend named Gihonny Amrico. He's really cool. We
has a lot of fun. He's been doing a lot locally,
but he's also starting he's been to Canada. He's been
going kind of all over the place. He's an eight
eighty product trained by MBM and Gan and Jones Junior.
(21:19):
So he's really he's a lot of fun to work with.
He's really cool to hang out with, and he does
a really good job of his getting people to viscerally
hate him, which is great. And then oh man, I
mean we've Christiano Argento formerly Kammbotaliano was another guy. He
(21:41):
does stuff for n W A Exodus. Now he's really cool.
There's a couple of other, uh, younger kids, but like,
you know, that's the thing with wrestling is that there's
always kind of a not a revolving door, but also
like there's always somebody new coming in and like kind
of getting in the spotlight showing what they can do.
(22:02):
And it's it's kind of like, you know, Pittsburgh's a
really cool place for that right now.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Yeah, and I can make it back up there and
up there obviously in over twenty years so well, I
mean over the years you shared the locker room with
so many people who were some veterans that really kind
of helped you out along the way.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Well, Sam, Sam, Sam, and Donna's for sure, because I've
known Sam. Well, I've known Sam, you know, kind of
since I a little bit after I had moved here.
Raylan is a big one, and she was a good
friend of mine, mister Dearly. But I met her my
first week here, and I didn't know anybody when I
(22:44):
first got here. I'd heard of her before because I
seen her on social media and stuff like that. And
I went to a show, a charity show she was on,
Like she drove with Calvin and I and we got
in the car. She took one look at me and
she's like, you and I are going to be best friends.
I can already tell. And I've been. I've been. I've
(23:05):
been really close with her anytime she comes into town
because she still comes back because her some of her
family still lives here. Like I just I'm always like, Okay,
what are we doing? How are we going to hang out?
And then also like in the area, like Andrew Palace
and Chris l. Russo have always been really great, like
they were the head had trainers of the school. They
trained Calvin both really great and mean. Chris's palace is
(23:28):
full of energy twenty four to seven and Larusso's you know,
been everywhere and he's such a has a really great
mind for wrestling. Like they've been really helpful and and
also you know in tag team wrestling like the main
event TM me Agan and Jones Junior and Due Davis,
Like those guys are so awesome, They're so knowledgeable. They're
(23:50):
really just super positive and super great to work with
all the time. Whenever I see them, they're always happy
to see everybody too, Like I connect with again and
I love of just hanging out with you because he's
so funny. And then Gannon and I get really nerdy
when we talk about stuff, and it's really cool. We
have a lot of sea interests. So it's like, these
are a lot of guys that I've learned from whenever
I feen here, either working with them or watching them.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
That's awesome. Yeah, I'm always curious who who kind of
helped paved and paid the way for certain people. Then
you know, when it comes to asking any advice mm hm, Now,
what is your favorite thing about being in tag team wrestling?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Oh, the I have that I can split the work.
That's my favorite thing because I'm like, oh man, I
don't know, like I I do like singles wrestling, but
I like, I do love tag wrestling. I think that
tag wrestling has thotten kind of like the kind of
(24:46):
guy the that end of the second like a lot recently,
just because people don't really see a lot of tag
wrestling in the bigger one, like at least coherent tag teams.
You have like a few, like in the w w
E and stuff like that, but they don't make it.
Like whenever you look in a pay per view, you're
never really excited for what the tag team or the
(25:08):
who has the tag team belts and all that, Like
you're not like that's the match. You're like, uh yeah,
I mean we're far We're really far away from the
time of like the Dudley's and the Hardy's and edged
Christian stuff like that, where those were like the matches
that you really wanted to see, and I kind of
I kind of hate that. And I because I love
tag team wrestling, I've always kind of gravitated towards that
(25:32):
because I've like I I've always been a fan of
like just tag teams that match or tag teams that
have like similar gimmicks, Like my my biggest my biggest
upteve is when you throw two random people together and
I'm just like, that's so boring to me, Like let's
have something a little bit more uniform. But like I
(25:55):
just kind of I kind of like it, like being
able to play off each other's energy and you know,
telling a story with all four people, and like if
you know my partner, if if my partner's downring is
like getting that crowd hyped back up, or if I
have you know it's not going our way, or just
even beating heels, you know, doing something on the outside
(26:18):
to keep the people engaged in the match. I love
that about tag team wrestling because it's it's to me,
it's fun.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
There are some tag teams that you have gone back
and really kind of fallen in love with that you
maybe didn't spend as much time when they were actually
when the matches were actually happening.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Oh man, I let's see here. I always really I mean,
I'm you know, the Fashion Police was always one that
I really liked. My favorite tag team was Law Resistance
(26:59):
oh way back, Like I loved Renee Dutrie and savan
Ganie and Rod Conway too. But I really liked that
tag team because that was like a big character tag team,
and I always I always loved the Heels. I've never
been a huge fan of the Faces the heart Throbs,
even like they were a you know, a mid card
(27:20):
tag team and WWE, but I you know, they were entertaining.
They weren't just like two big guys. They had a gimmick,
you know, they were they were kind of careiserweighty, but
they had a gimmick. They had you know, energy everything
else like that. So like those are kind of like
some bigger of some mainsay tag teams that I've always
kind of if they had a character, I usually gravitated
(27:42):
towards them. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Yeah, it definitely goes back to what you said about
just throwing two people together, like yeah, especially when they
put the tag bolts on them, unless they're in a
few together like where they're feuding with each other, it
just makes no sense to me exactly.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Well, so show days are typically pretty long days, and
obviously you talked about traveling earlier. What are some standards
that you normally always have in your bag?
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Uh, lots of glitter, lots of bake. I've gotten lots
of several different gear choices. It usually takes me forever
to figure out or take me forever to figure out
what we're going to wear and then what we're going
to coordinate to enter in and sin stopping is my
worst habit ever. You know, There's so many clothes to
(28:32):
go through, and then probably like two or three energy
drinks because I need something to pick me up on
the way there and kind of like what I'm going
to wear there, because I never want to go to
a show and I never want to like go into
a show where I'm just coming in like jeans and
a T shirt or hoodie or something like that. I
(28:52):
want to I want somebody to I want people to
comment on my outfit that I wear there. And that's
usually what happens. They're like wow, because I get a
lot of clothing that is different, regular clothing that's different,
So pants that will be cut a little bit differently
or have big like holes inside, or a weird material
(29:16):
and very louded not you shirts, or I have a
pair of shorts that are completely sequin that I'll wear
and there I want people to like look at it
and just be like, Yo, I want to stand out.
I want to be that. I want to be that
person that cut walks in the show and everybody turns
their head and they're just like, oh, somebody decided to
come and out fancy us all to day. So I mean,
(29:39):
that's that's what it is. I mean, I'm I'm a
LDBT wrestler that likes loud, long, loud gimmicks and loud
you know, reactions and everything else like that, And that's
that's you know, I try to personify that before I
get to the ring and when I'm in the ring too.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Yeah. There are so many shows you'll show up to
and like dudes d either in tank tops, T shirts,
obviously fanny packs and then like yeah, jim short sweatpants
and it's like okay, yep, exactly, like you could just
tell they just pulled out of the car as well, oh.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Yeah after getting out of the car, after cutting it,
cutting a promo for that show exactly.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
But no way as suppose to you who like will
stop at a gas station looking fantastic, People like oh
where are you going? It's like I'm arrestled.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Oh yeah, come checking out after after shows is always
my biggest, like it is always my biggest, Like like
it's always funny because like I'll I won't go to
the show with like my face painted or anything else
like that. I'll wait till I'll put any makeup brain
god on, you know, before I go out, so that
it doesn't sweat off. And then I go on the
(30:45):
way home and put my clothes back on, and I
am just like my face is either painted or I've
gotten littered everywhere. And I'll walk into a gas station
or I walk into sheets close to my house and
people just look and be like what in the world.
And then of course, like I'll go to check out,
like the cashier is just like I love what's going on?
Like what's it? Like? You know, where did why are
(31:06):
you dressed? Like that. It's also a way of engaging
those people because it's like, oh, my wrestler ice came
from a show. You know it was over years, Like
you know this, if you think it's coool, you should
check it out. Sometimes, so it's like kind of advertising
us as a tag team and like getting people to
come to shows. And I've had people that have done that.
They've been like somebody who works at the local gas station,
(31:29):
the local sheets around here, and they'll come up to
me like, oh my gosh, I saw you, like you know,
I saw you at sheets. You know, I wanted to
come and check out what this was all about. This
is awesome, so you know, it's it's just a way
of getting people like to ask questions like what is
going on? Like what is happening? So I mean, like
I said, I'll show up and that are anywhere.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
I like that because I know Vincent back in the day,
he would always want those, you know, people that were
larger than life, that really passed the airport test, and
now you're passing the gas station test, which is even better.
M Well, so I don't know you might. Do you
have a double stick.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Tape story a double stick tape story?
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Yes, I don't know if it at all.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
No, I don't elaborate.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Uh the fabrics so things stay where they need to be.
Mostly the women will use it, but I have to.
I feel like I have to make it fair and
ask them in as well.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Uh, I don't have I mean I've had times where
my trunks have been pulled. I don't use any of
the double stick tape. I've never had an issue where
if my drug can pull down that anything is popped
out in the front anyway. So luckily for me, I
haven't done that, but I'm always there's plenty of pictures
(32:52):
of my bot on the internet, that's for sure. Everybody.
Anytime I press on Instagram, I usually guess the most
like So it's it's the fun part. I think it's
like one of those things where you know, I I know,
like I said, I gravitate towards you know, comedy wrestling
and character wrestling and stuff like that, so you know,
I hate it's funny to say. It's like I could
be on a show and you know, you have sex
(33:13):
matches on the card, five of which are doing you know,
all the high spots, all the crazy spots, but they'll
know the one guy who's who's drunk up down there's
in a freaking des draing, like, oh my god, I
remember that. It's so funny. I remember what that happens,
Like what happened on other matches. Yeah, I don't remember
who won, so it makes it memorable. But it's like,
(33:36):
you know, I I gauge on the better times for
that to happen, but a lot of times it's just
for you know, I'm just for you know, to get
people like laughing or just kind of like, WHOA, what
is happening here? It's great? Or you know people people
actually cheer it and half the time they expected this point.
So it's kind of one of those old boy what
(33:56):
have I? What have I become? What have I created
for myself?
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Right? I mean you're you're giving them the moments, and
that's at the end exactly like you said that, that's
what they get home with exactly. So I have a
segment of the show. I call it the five count.
It's just five random questions. Okay, what are you nerding
out on right now?
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Oh? Man? What don't I nerd out on? So? I
live a life as a extremely big closet nerd. So
my room is just covered in there's there's there's four
different there's let me see one, two, three before there's
(34:36):
probably like five different themes going on in my room.
Power Rangers, uh we Little One Stitch, uh Jurassic Park,
Star Wars, and uh dn D slash critical Role stuff
right now because I actually do a live streaming Dungeonland
(34:57):
Dragons thing with a bunch of other local wrestlers on
top rope tabletop. It's it's a lot of fun. But
I'm actually nerding out over Critical Roles new core rule
book that they came out with called Dagger part just
because I haven't had a chance to like dive into
the book yet trying to. I just haven't had the time.
But yeah, my room is definitely that's that. The Critical
(35:20):
Dagger art book is definitely something I'm nerding out on
right now, kind of getting super into again because I
already love D and D and I want to try
something little different. I just have to find the time.
There you go.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Uh, if you owned a liquor company, brewery, winery, or
coffee shop, which one would you own? And what would
the name be?
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Oh my gosh, I would own more of a I've
owned something that is a little bit more probably probably
a liquor honestly a liquor shop, but a bar, and
it would just be like wall to wall Margarita flavors,
(35:58):
because my drink liquor probably just I really only drink
tequila and Margarita's why I blame college. Every other liquor
I got drunk on in college may be sick, except
for tequila, which makes everybody else sick, which is great. Uh, honestly,
I would probably call it. I would probably call it
(36:23):
m maybe Tyler's t Bar, or I would honestly maybe
just call it the Runway and just have it be
like a half half inside half outside kind of everybody
welcome bar. Probably yeah, probably like a gave oar that
caters to everybody kind of thing is what I would do.
(36:43):
But it would just be like, yeah, we have a
couple of drinks, but the main thing we focus on
is like huge in flavors and a lot of flavors
of Margarita's. And the second second option would probably be
a sort of gaming tavern, which I've talked to like
some of my friends about doing and doing like an
having it all set up super nerdy and super medievally
and let people come in and drink and play like
(37:05):
tabletop games and all that, because I've been to a
few of those and they are a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
I like that a lot.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
What for dinner guests, uh, dead or alive? Would you have?
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Oh? Man, So I would probably do. I picked two musicians,
two musicians musicians jeez, one musician, one wrestler, and two
(37:40):
gaming people so I pick since I was such a
mark for I'd probably pick Matthew Mercer and Liam O'Brien,
who are voice actors, because I love I like cartoons too,
and they do a lot of voice acting and video
games and cartoons and stuff like that, especially a lot
of ones that I play, because they do a whole
lot of marble stuff. Wrestlers, I would probably have to say,
(38:07):
I'm Matt Cardona Mark. I think he's I. I think
he's I think he's cool, and he's one of my
one of my favorite wrestlers, even before he started doing
the indies when he was Zach Grider, Like I have
so much Zach Ryder merchant it's not even funny. And
then music that would probably be uh, probably be Lady
Gaga because I love I love her music. So those
(38:30):
are before I don't really let let's let the let
the Dead sleep. I'd go for I'd get for those
right there.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
That's a good Yeah, that's a good dinner.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Who are what inspires you?
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Oh? Man? I say, I have to say, like, my
my friends inspire me, Like Calvin's definitely inspired me, and
he's always been there to have my back and been
a really great friend of me. And then and probably
I have two nieces who are they're they're they're gonna
(39:05):
be three too. But watching them grow and kind of
become more awarees from toddler to you know, being old,
becoming a little older, even though they are so young,
it inspires me to like want to do better, to
(39:26):
be there for them and you know, be a part
of their lives. And because I live a little far
away from my family and just kind of like it
inspire they inspire me to be a better person.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
And finally, what would you tell your seventeen year old self?
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Oh? Man, honestly, part of it would be and I
don't probably pick a different major in college honestly because yeah,
picking it for a major in college. But also, don't
be so afraid of the opinion. Don't be afraid to
(40:11):
be yourself just because of the opinions of others. Yeah,
and to kind of try. I would say, trust yourself
more is what I would probably give the advice to
my younger self. Yeah, you know, be more confident.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
That's wonderful. Yeah, I me feel like you could tell
yourself that at any age.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
Yeah, I mean I'm more confident than I used to be,
and I'm more outgoing than I used to be. But like, yeah,
around seventeen before going to school, don't be a criminal
justice major. It's never going to work out.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Yeah, do something that pays better. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
Well, if people want to follow you online, find out
more about you, buy your merch to you live, like
you said, see you on your live stream? How can
they do all the things?
Speaker 2 (41:02):
Yes? So we have on YouTube it's top Roak Tabletop.
It's myself and five other wrestlers for around the Pittsburgh area.
You can follow me on Instagram on the Underscore Tyler
Underscore client as well as the Runway Wrestling on Twitter.
(41:26):
You can find me at Tyler Underscore Climb. Also like
medicine jeez, it's a thing. I should really have that
and Runway Wrestling on Twitter as well Blue Scott as well.
Same as my Instagram handle Facebook under Tyler Clin and
if you search YouTube for the Runway, Enjoy Wrestling or
(41:49):
Tyler Clin you will come through a slew of videos
of myself and my tech partner, Calvin Kitcher. Definitely check
them out. Check out all the promotions that we work
for here in Pittsburgh and all over, really hoping we
would love to get more places. We actually have some
cool stuff coming up in the next couple of months.
I'm really excited about too, very nice.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
So yeah, obviously keep following you on social media see
where you end up. And I've really enjoyed this conversation
and I can't wait to see what not only do
in your singles career, but the runways do as well.
Speaker 2 (42:22):
All right, thank you so much. I really appreciate it, no.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
Problem, thank you, Thank you so much to Tyler for
being on the show again. Definitely make sure to go
out of your way to find Tyler where he is
(42:45):
going to be and where you can see him live
and obviously by his merch as well. While you're doing that, now,
why are you doing that? Make sure to follow us
on the social media's It is brusers pod. That is
R E W S E R S Pod on the Instagram,
the threads, and the Twitter. If you want to send
us an email, it is Bruiserspot at gmail dot com.
If you want to follow me directly, it is Roady John.
That is R O D I E j O N.
(43:07):
Roadie John is the name on the Twitter and on
untipped in case you want to find out what I'm drinking.
Maybe were gonna have a beer together if you're gonna
follow me on the threads or the Instagram. It is
a Fisher Wordy John. So until next time, make sure
to enjoy life, drink local, and cheers
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