December 22, 2024 • 29 mins
Josh Breezzy joins Rick to sit and talk about his wrestling career. Training at the Nightmare Factory under QT Marshall, Ray Lloyd/Glacier and Cody Rhodes. Being a collector, how that led to Matt Cardona filming a YouTube video from his house, a brief touch on his music career and more! A short interview but we’re looking to have Josh back soon! ProWrestlingWire.Net --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rick252/support
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Everybody?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
This is Pro Wrestling Wire Podcast, part of Pro Wrestling
Wire dot Net or the Helix Rock Radio and of
course the AIWF Network. This is Rick Del Santo. I'm
here today with Josh Breezy. What's going on? Josh?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Hey, Rick, what's going on? Man?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Not much. I want to thank you for joining me today,
No problem, Thank you for having me. Yeah, thank you
for coming on. And uh, let's talk a little bit
about your your career. I understand that you are a
man of many talents.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Uh yeah, just just a few, just a few.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah, let's let's get uh, let's dive a little bit
into your wrestling career. So how did you get started
in professional wrestling? How did you discover the world of
professional wrestling.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
I've been a fan of wrestling my entire life since
I was a kid. My parents let me watch it
when I was little and stuff. So I always had
like the childhood dream of like wrestling. So I wrestled
with my friends in the backyard and stuff like that.
And then, as you said, I'm a man of many talents,
so my music career was taken off. We were doing
a lot of big things and then COVID hit and
(01:15):
shut everything down, canceled my tour, literally was refunding everybody
getting money back from the venues because they had to
close dutdowns, and somehow the only thing that was still
going was wrestling, and even like schools like wrestling schools.
So I was sitting at home just getting unemployment checks
(01:38):
and things like that, and I was like, man, it'd
be cool to instead of going to the gym because
most of the gyms are shut down, to just go
learn how to wrestle. So I applied to I was
living in North Carolina at the time, so I applied
to fire Start Pro Wrestling and I think it's in Greensboro,
and they said, come on down, we have a class
starting soon. And I said, cool, I'll be there. So
(02:00):
then I think that was like two weeks between when
I applied and when they said they were starting up.
And I happened to see on Instagram that the Nightmare
Factory was starting a thing, and I was like, okay, cool.
I like Cody Rose, you know, aw big aw fan.
So I applied to that. Didn't think I would ever
get anything from it, So never heard back from them,
and I was on my way to Firestar for the
(02:21):
first day, and I get a call from a number
I don't recognize, so I declined it and I got
like an hour drive ahead of me. Then I get
a text message and it's QT Marshall saying, Hey, this
is QT from the Nightmare Factory. We have a spot open.
It's yours if you want it, just give me a
call back. I still have that text message in our thread,
like I never deleted it, just so I always remember,
(02:42):
like where the start. And so I pulled into this
church parking lot and I pulled over. I'm like, I'm
reading the text message and I'm like, I got to
call him back. So I called him back and he's like, yeah,
you know, we had a guy, a couple guys drop
out last minute. You were next up in line. The
spot is yours if you want on it. This is
the details. Just think it over and get back to me.
(03:04):
So I was like, yeah, I'm going to turn around,
let fire start. No I'm not coming, and uh yeah,
the rest is kind of history and started. Uh. I
think it was two weeks and two weeks from that call,
I had to be at the night Matter of Factor
in Atlanta and now I'm here.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
What was it like walking in on your first day
and meetings such as QT Marshall.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
So the first day was nerve wracking.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
I'm not very I'm not the biggest I'm very sociable
when I need to be, like when I need to entertain,
but when it's just me walking into somewhere for the
first time, not knowing anybody, have no expectations of what
was about to be, it was very It was very
tough to get out of the car and walk in,
but I eventually did and it was just it was
(03:48):
very welcoming. I told QT like probably a couple of
weeks in, like, I'm not really familiar with your stuff,
and so I really didn't know much about who he was.
But ever since then he's been like one of my
one of my top guys to you just watch and
learn from, and so just he was always awesome.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Cody, we were Class one.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Cody was always there every class, every day, stayed longer,
would work with you individually, help you out. And ray
Lloyd Glacier also was always there, fantastic. We had some
of the Dark Order guys Ricky Starks, J car Gill
and A J. That first class man was just there
were so many people that were just great and I
(04:35):
could just speak highly of it for days. But so
it was definitely, it was definitely a great time and
a great investment.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Was Luke Samson. There was Luke Samson there at the time.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
He was, but he was he was more so in
the the like the night Class. A lot of guys
like the Monster Factory that would train with QT. Still
I know he's like the head trainer there now, but
at the time he was still training himself.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
So he's a friend of a friend, so I get
to I hear a lot of his updates and stuff
like that.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
So okay, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I don't think I've ever spoken to him personally, but
you know, I've always hear about the goings on and
the positivities of the you know, the Nightmare Factory and stuff.
So because so I'm guessing professional wrestling walking in was
not what you expected to be into your first day
of class when asking to take bumps in.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Such, Yeah, it was. It was different. It's like you.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Always find the people that say pro wrestling is fake,
and as a fan you defend it and you're like,
it's not fake. They're actually doing things. But you don't
know what it feels like to go take a bump.
So that first bump when your back is hitting the
plywood on top of steel, like with that little bit
of padding, if it's weed like it, it sucks. And
(05:56):
I've seen a lot of people compare it to a
thirty mile for hour car crash, and they are correct
because it's just something that you get numb to over
time and it hurts less and less, but at the
same time that you'll never forget that first bump. You'll
never forget the first bump after some time off. And
(06:17):
a lot of people say all the time, like you
have your bump card, don't don't max out your bump card.
So yeah, just everything about pro wrestling is real, and
I try to, like a lot of times on different promotions,
I'll get there early to help set the ring up,
and I try to give my non wrestling friends and
fans and everything a little insight into what a pro
(06:39):
wrestling ring looks like. And they're always shocked when it's
the steel bars and they see the guys and me
loading up plywood or two by or the big long boards,
and it's just like they're like, oh wow, like that's
how do you do that? And I'm like, man, it's
just you gotta just love it.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Really, it's I always invite people down to the school.
I kind of associated myself with the Paradise Sally School
out of East Taven, Connecticut here by a run by
Paul Roman and Mario Mancini. And anytime somebody says it's fake,
I'm like, well, come down one night. Then I'm going
down there, hang out, then get in the ring and
see what happens. And and uh, usually it's a plight decline.
(07:19):
Once they they.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
See the first the first bump, they hear it. That's
the thing too, Like when you watch it on TV,
like you kind of hear it, but it's TV. When
you're in like when you're in person, you hear it.
You kind of hear the boards just bounce off each
other and off the steeler.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
You're like, oh, that looks like it sucks.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yeah. Tell me about your first match that you went into.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Our first My first official match at the showcase was
me and my tag partner at the time, mister nice Guy,
and we took on Rosario Grilla and Hunter not tsf
at the time, Rosario Griller, you can catch on Ring
of Honor. Aw these days hunters recovering from a shoulder injury,
but yeah, it was it was great, man. We were
(08:03):
the nice guys. We kind of got thrown together after
a promo class we did, and Cody just really loved
our promo and I think he tweeted about it too.
I think I saw the screenshot of him tweeting about
us winning promo night and kind of was like, Yay,
you guys are a tag team from now on. So
then we wrestled them and we're putting the match together
and we had all these great spots, and I pitched
(08:26):
this idea tot qt's wife that we came out of
a happy meal box, like kind of like the New
Day with the cereal box, and we were the nice guy,
so what better thing to come out of than a
happy meal box? And she loved it, so she told
it to him and he was like, do it. So
we did that. And because we were doing that, we
were originally supposed to win that match. You're a little
(08:47):
let's break k FA a little bit. We were supposed
to win that match because why wouldn't the Babyfaces go over?
And Cody overheard us going over that with QT and
he was like, whoa, whoa, whoa. You guys can't come
out of this happy meal box. Have this great entrance,
get over and then go over. He was like, wrestling
is about one person gets over, one person goes over.
So you guys are gonna get over t SF, You're
(09:09):
going over and change with the finish.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Like the day of the show.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
So we if you watch the match, we have this
big the kudoo gra like hardy boys, double corners.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
He drops the elbow.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
I hit the swan time and the crowd was like
it was family friends, a lot of aw dark people
like Jade is I think when I take the I
take the bump off the apron into the guard rail,
I think I like bumped into Jade a little bit
and she's like, oh my god, are you okay.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I'm like, yeah, I'm good, I'm good. That was that
was on the.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Fly where we're a little lost here, but yeah, So
we hit the kudo gra and then it's just the
crowd is behind us one too, you think, and they
kick out and we're like no, and it just kind
of it kind of just took all the life out
of the crowd because they're like, man, and then we
lose and it was kind of like it was a
good moment, but like I feel like everybody after the
(10:00):
show was like, man, you guys should have won that match.
You guys should have won that match. But it is
what it is, man, you know, but it was a
fun time.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
You still got time. You're still young. You've only been
doing this a couple of years now, right since COVID. COVID,
as you were talking, COVID shut the whole entire world down.
But yeah, professional wrestling was still going, and it was
kind of fantastic because you know, they still created new
product every week, whether it was people create aw and
WWE continuing to do stuff on TV, smaller promotions continuing
(10:33):
to do empty arena stuff or minimal you know, gymnasium
size places, you know what I mean, like maybe ten
people in the crowd, you know. And it was while
it was just such a dark time in the entire world,
the professional wrestling kept going and making everybody kind of
forget about that stuff, you know.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Yeah, man, I mean it saved me a lot, like
just even just having something to watch, I like, because
even like your regular TV shows they were shut down too,
So sports shut down for the most part, and like,
I'm not really that much into sports these days, but
like it was just wrestling is just like the perfect
mixture of sports and reality television, where like you get
(11:18):
your action and everything, but you also get your storylines
and things like that. So it was just something good
to have during those times and you didn't know what
was going on in the real world.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Well, I started the show twenty nineteen, and I think
it launched, you know, or that happened later on in
the year a couple months later, and I, you know,
having absolutely nothing to do besides sit home and drink
alcohol with my my friends that came and visited the
you know, and then I would sit a podcast every
day I would. You know. Now I'm approaching four hundred
episodes in me so it's like, you know, I just
(11:49):
kind of like pumped out content because the hell we're
gonna do. We watched TV, you know what I mean,
and there's nothing else to do then drink alcohol and
hang out. You know that That's pretty much it.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Damn. Man.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Before before I started wrestling, I was just like I said,
I was just sitting at home. I was I could
make music, but there was I couldn't go performing anywhere,
and there wasn't it wasn't much to make because I
just put an album out. So I'm kind of just
like riding the push of that doing videos and stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Though.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Between like that and starting wrestling, I was just I
was listening to the Major Wrestling Figure podcast, just on
my porch, you know, eating eating magic spoon, drinking super
coffee with my dog. And I started collecting Action figures.
I got back into that, and now I have like
the best Hardy Boys collection in the planet. Card I'm
cool with Matt Cardona, cool with the Hardys. It's just
(12:39):
it's insane. Like I was just I was getting like
so much free money, let's call it from like the
pandemic money.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah, and like you.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Pay your rent with the first check, you pay your
bills and everything, and then you just you have extra
and you're just like okay, cool, Like, let me let
me get this rare Heart Boys figure I haven't seen
since I was seven. Oh, and let me let me
get these two also.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Like the Action figure world was just at such a
boom during that time that like some of these, some
of these figures, I look back and I'm like, oh,
like I got that at a steal because it was
you know, one hundred and fifty bucks because people were
just trying to sell stuff. And now you look at
it and that same figures four hundred dollars like running
on eBay now because nobody wants to buy it. Nobody
has the money to buy it. You don't want to
(13:26):
settle for a low price because you need money. So
it's just crazy. Like people come over and like they
see my collection now and they're like, yo, this is
like a museum. And it's like, would I have been,
Like I was collecting a little bit here and there,
like before I moved to North Carolina, and then like
during the pandemic, it just took off. And then ever
(13:47):
since then, it's just been like this weird addiction to
get all of them. And I have like four left
that I need, and now they're starting to pump out
more like a like they left AW and then AW
just pumped out like three hardy boys his figures, like
back to back to back.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
It's a mess, man, it's a mess. But I'm here.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
I know. I know I had the pandemic, collector's market boomed,
made everything go up in value, you know, nobody. Everybody's
doing virtual sales and stuff like that. I know, I
bought my fair share of wrestling collectibles and now I'm
sitting at conventions trying to sell most of it.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I mean that I don't need.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
I hear you, Listen, I was aw figures just came out.
I ran to the Walmart every day until the shipper
came with the Series one, grabbed all the Series one
and the shipper, and then sold it all for like
pennies the other day, well not the other day, but
a couple of months ago to toy shop, cause I'm like,
why do I need this jungle Boy?
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Why don't I need?
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Like, I don't need this sitting in tots in my
garage like I'm good.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Yeah, you have a belt sitting behind you. Why don't
you tell me about this belt to your championship. I've
seen pictures of you're wearing that belt as well.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Yeah, so this is actually the Icon Championship, just won
it recently. The one you're reference to. It was part of
the Gods Gift World Championship.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
That one is.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
That's usually where it is. I'm waiting for another holder
because now I have two belts. Okay, So but the
one behind me is the Icon Championship. Just won it
for the Guardians Legacy out of Panama City in Florida.
So it was actually kind of cool. They kind of
did a like a cyber Sunday tournament kind of thing
and they let the fans vote. So what they did
(15:26):
was they had two brackets. I think it was like
four weeks, four rounds, and they had fan votes till
the finals, and then the finals was an actual match
at their fantastic show in What Are We in December
December seventh. So I kind of kind of took it
a lot more serious than everybody else at first. And
(15:46):
I was talking to the promoter and he was like, man,
you really set the bar high. And because the first
the first round, it was me versus Cody Jacks and
I'm cool Cody, and I was like, I was making
like AI like Barack Obama video was saying, you know,
forget what everything, what else is going on right now?
Vote Josh Breezy for Icon Champion. Like I was doing
all this stuff, shooting videos, and I think that first round,
(16:10):
me and Cody each got like four hundred votes.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
It was like four hundred.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
It was like four fifty to like four thirty or something.
I won, and no other round got to four hundred
except one one. I think I was involved in that
one also, but it was just set a bar. And then,
like you like, even the pages for the page likes
and the followers for Guardians Legacy was through the roof
and it was just it was a fun thing and
(16:36):
I think it really got everybody involved. And then the
finals ended up being me versus Xander King and we
had a match and yeah, now I'm breezy two belts.
It was a great match. We got everything in. We
gave the fans everything that they wanted. They were there
was probably two hundred and fifty people in the crowd there,
and they were all on their feet for all the
false finishes and stuff. So it's gonna be an exciting time.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I've seen you do some work with Pro South, Is
that correct? Yes, all right? That promotion I discovered actually
during the pandemic, just during the pandemic. Well, no, not
during the pandemic, like a few years before the pandemic.
I discovered rediscovered professional wrestling out of being out of
it for about three years. But then Pro South was
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one of the first indies Toda I discovered and I
live in Connecticut, and you know, they were doing like
a weekly YouTube stream every Friday night, and would sit
there every night and Friday night and watch it, you
know what I mean. And I thought it was a
very I don't watch it as much now as often,
but I find it to be a very interesting product.
Do you have anything to comment on that company there?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I am very grateful for Pro South gave me my
first opportunity outside of the Nightmare Factory, and me and
Jacob Thrasher we wrestled the Goon squad, the Goon platoon.
Carli Bravo, and I am forgetting his name right now
off the top of my head. But yeah, so Carli
kind of Carley had this come down and was like, man,
(18:06):
you guys got a book, breezy blah blah. So then
they were like, all right, you got Carl you want
to put him over. You're going to wrestle him next
next week. So we came down Carly. Actually he called
for a knee in the corner. It's gonna come to
It's gonna come to this side, right, So I turned
my face to take it and knees me on this side,
puts my tooth through my lip, concusses me, gives me
(18:28):
a Northern like soupplex into a pin. I kick out,
I sit up and I spit blood just out of
like instinct. And there's a great photo of like me
kicking out, spitting the blood with the reffing between us
like it's a great thing, and just cracked my tooth. Everything.
It was a great time. But I think, no, we
lost that one. I missed the Swanton. I think, oh no,
(18:49):
I swaw crucifix out of the Swan song. I hit
it and he crucifixed me. But ever since then, I
was like, man, Carly, I got to get my get back.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
So I know you're doing a lot.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
You're doing your thing on Ring of Honor right now,
but I'm coming for you.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Just that key, watch your six. That's what they say, right.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Who knows, maybe it'll happen in Ring of Honor.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
You never know, hey, you never know. But Pro South
is great, man. Everything they're doing up there. I'm not
there anymore, but the things that they're doing up there,
they're doing a lot of good things. And shouts to
Ace Haven had a lot to do, heyce Haven and
Cam had a lot to do with the making of
Mayhem and the Moora, the cinematic match that I did
last year. So yeah, nothing, nothing but positive things to say.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Nice, nice, What else do you put in your time?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
You said? Where else? Right now?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
The last few months we I just got married. So
the last few months, thank you, thank you. The last
few months have been kind of just taking wind bookings
just because weekends are just time to plan and save
and things like that. So recently it's just been the
Guardians Legacy in Pandama City, Aware Wrestling up in somewhere
(19:59):
in the South in South Georgia, Crack and Pro Wrestling
in Tifton, Georgia. I did alw out here in Coco
I think, yeah, it's in Cocoa Beach, and just been
trying to trying to just make a stable place in
those and then just kind of open to filling weekends there.
But between those hard everybody runs the same days, especially
(20:22):
like in the same areas that want to pay you.
You can get you can get Friday shows that will
pay you ten dollars. Don't let and don't let you
set of a merged table. But I think I'm past
that my time. But yeah, so it's really just those
places for now with hopes to just kind of keep
going do proving ground that a couple of times I haven't.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
I haven't been there in a while, but I'm trying
to get back. Just tough. It's a Friday show and
it's three hours from my house, so it's like where
is that?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Where do they run?
Speaker 3 (20:54):
They are Port Richie, Florida. Yeah, they have connections with
w W and f IP and things like that. So
it's like the good show to be on the the one.
The last show I did there, I wrestled this kid.
He was like his tenth match, and when I came
through the back, like I went over. But when I
came through in the back, the promoters were like, man,
(21:15):
I didn't expect you to give him that much, Like
we kind of thought you were going to squash him.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
And I was like, why would I squash him? I
was like what. I was like, he's here all the time.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
I'm here, you know when I can be like yeah,
I was like double his size, but he's faster than me,
he's more cut up than me, Like he should get
his stuff and like right, like you're not pushing me
as a champion right now, So why wouldn't I? And
he was like, man, we need more people like you.
And I even try to tell like a lot of
the guys at the Guardians Legacy and cracking and things
(21:45):
like that, I'm like, there's there's one thing about me
is I'm never going to be the selfish wrestler.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
One thing that.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Cody taught us was always treat everybody you meet like
the rock, regardless of where they are on the card,
who they are, if you know them, if you don't
shake their hand, treat them as if they're Dwayne Johnson.
And so when I get matches, Like going back to
Cody Jacks, we worked in a wear show and he
was worried this too, that I was going to be
selfish and kind of squashing, and I'm like, brother, get
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all your stuff in. You're faster than me. You've got
like a ricochet move set like I'm John Cena, like
like five moves, the doom, Swanton, side effect, rough rider.
Let's let's take it home, Like, get all your stuff,
and he like he got a bulldog in. I was like,
if you make it make sense where you're faster than me,
you're ducking lines, you're hitting taking out my legs. You're
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hitting me with this move, and like, as long as
I cut you back off or I get back on
top because I'm bigger than you, it'll make sense and
you'll still be able to show your dinging. And so
after that match, we got to the back and he
just like gave me this hug and was like, man,
thank you. He was like, I have so many times
like go to wrestle and I can't show what I
could do, and I'm like, man, we're not here to
(22:56):
not here to bury each other. I was like, we're
here to put each other over. Like I'm gonna go
over then I'm gonna let you get your stuff. And
now if you're gonna beat me, you know, maybe we
do it to where I don't really get a chance
to do anything to you because you were just too quick.
You rolled me up or something. But yeah, man, I'll
just I don't know how we got there, but yeah,
that's cool.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
It's cool. It's cool.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I know we only got a couple of minutes left,
so I'll you know, I want to definitely have you
back sometime in the beginning of the year as my
schedule opens up a little bit more. I know, we're
rushing through the holiday to try to get as many
shows in and then try to we were all trying
to do our shopping and get everything. And so I
know you got a great music career that we sort
(23:38):
of discussed in the beginning. Why don't you tell everybody
where you can find all your stuff, your your socials.
You're wrestling, and I see that you do. You have
quite a unique YouTube channel as well. It's got all
sorts of stuff up there.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Yeah, man, you could. That's the one thing it was.
It was hard for me to decide, like do I
want to make several separate YouTube channels or just you know,
become a fan of me as a person. And something
that I learned in music and kind of in wrestling
was like, if the fans love you as a person,
they'll invest in whatever you do. That's why Matt Cardona
(24:10):
could show up anywhere and sell out and he can
go make action figures, he could go sell pizza cutters,
he could sell his wife's underwear on whatnot. Like, he
could literally do anything. Because the fans don't just love
mac Or they don't just love the character Matt Cardona.
They love Matt Cardona or what they see from Matt Cardona,
(24:31):
So part of having the connection to him has definitely
been great. So just me being able to do music,
do wrestling, collect action figures, do paranormal ghost hunting. Like
I feel like it's all in this weird like subculture,
like it all it all works somehow. Like if you're
(24:51):
into wrestling, you probably watch ghost adventures, So like if
you're into Josh Breezey, you probably would sit for thirty
minutes and watch him go hunt some ghosts. Yeah, you
could definitely watch all that on YouTube dot com Slash Josh.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Breezy too, East two Z's two Wise.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
As far as music goes, I'm on Spotify, Apple Music,
same name, same characters, same gimmick.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
And then yeah, if you you.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Want to watch me on boxing toys, do some toy rooms.
We got some cool guest appearances. You could go on
the major wrestling figure channel. Matt came to my house,
did a room tour of my collection recently. I think
it's the most streamed tour or the most streamed video
of the year. I think it was it was like eight,
so it's been a while since they did a number
(25:35):
like that. But yeah, so just type in Josh Breezy
on Google and you'll find a whole plethora of things.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Yes you will, uh check out the music. I tried
a chance to check a little bit out before the
before the show began. I want everybody to go check
it out. It's not my thing, becau I'm a rock
and roll guy.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
But hey, there's you know, there's a song.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
So I'll end with this story here there is I'm
I grew up was very hip hop and like.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
And like kiss weird.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
It was like it was like Ello cool J Run
DMC kiss, So it kind of like kind of made sense.
And then my mom was like bon Jovie and like
the like softer side of rock and roll. But then
my brothers and like I grew up at the like
the height of eminem Like my brothers were like giving
me the slim shady LP and things like that. So
(26:25):
I kind of had a lot. So during the pandemic,
after I had put the album out, I kind of
had some extra beats that I was just sitting on,
didn't really know what to do. And there's this one
song I don't even know. I don't even think I
have it on my drive anymore. It's on a flash
drive somewhere, but it's called Sunflower, and it was like
this limb biscuitty post Malone thing, but it's got these
sick guitars and like this big bridge and everything.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
But then it like calmed. It was great.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
It was like my it's like my experimental, like hip
hop rock and roll song. And I loved it so much.
But I was like, what happened if I put this
out with nobody? So it just sat there. But every
every every year I get the Snapchat memory of me
putting in on my story to see what everybody likes.
But yeah, man, rock and roll was cool.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Man. I love me some rock and roll. I just
love music me too, I do.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
I do. I love a lot of you know, I
worked in a record store for thirty years, right, so yeah,
on top of work and then the you know, the
clubs in New Haven, Connecticut area, et cetera, et cetera,
So you know, I got to experience lots of different music.
And I'm not saying that it's not my thing, meaning
I don't like it. It's just, you know, I just
lean towards a different side, you know what I mean.
I listen to a lot of gospel music with my
(27:34):
wife on Sunday mornings.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
It was a lady.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
So you know, listen you catch me with a So
like the Kanye Donda album I really loved more so
for the gospel elements and like whenever you put Kanye
in a choir together, I am in heaven, like or
an R and B guy and an a choir and
just like Through the Wire by Kanye with the Quad.
(27:58):
Gospel is the thing, but it's fun. You're from Connecticut.
I went to the University of Bridgeport.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Okay, that's about about thirty minutes from there.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
So there's the arena over there, which I've witnessed, you know, concerts, wrestling, hockey,
you know. And then there's an Amphitheater there like right
next door. That's a beautiful concert venue that I went to.
We went to a went to like some gospel concert
last year for my wife. She was in she's into
that Kirk Franklin guy.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
So okay, Kirk Franklin. I lived in Kirk Yeah. But
last year the you remember when Edged threw the title
into the river.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Yes, that was at the ferry at Bridgeport, No, kidd, wow.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Yeah, And I took the ferry because I'm from Long Island,
so I would take the ferry every couple of weekends
and go back home. And one day, like somehow that
clip popped up and I was like, I'm literally getting
off the boat where edged through the title in the water.
I was like, this is insane. But yeah, man, I
used to drive to New Haven for Insomnia Cookies.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, we go there. See there's a rock,
there's a there's a theater, a mute performance venue. I
guess you can call it the next door to right now.
So we always walk after after going. I guess you
can call it like a small theater, you know, uh
series after the shows. That's where we ended up in
Insomnia Cookies. Great place, man, Yeah yeah, yeah, all right man,
(29:18):
I want to say thank you again and enjoy your day.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Yeah, man, you too, thanks for having me
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Everybody?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
This is Pro Wrestling Wire Podcast, part of Pro Wrestling
Wire dot Net or the Helix Rock Radio and of
course the AIWF Network. This is Rick Del Santo. I'm
here today with Josh Breezy. What's going on? Josh?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Hey, Rick, what's going on? Man?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Not much. I want to thank you for joining me today,
No problem, Thank you for having me. Yeah, thank you
for coming on. And uh, let's talk a little bit
about your your career. I understand that you are a
man of many talents.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Uh yeah, just just a few, just a few.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah, let's let's get uh, let's dive a little bit
into your wrestling career. So how did you get started
in professional wrestling? How did you discover the world of
professional wrestling.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
I've been a fan of wrestling my entire life since
I was a kid. My parents let me watch it
when I was little and stuff. So I always had
like the childhood dream of like wrestling. So I wrestled
with my friends in the backyard and stuff like that.
And then, as you said, I'm a man of many talents,
so my music career was taken off. We were doing
a lot of big things and then COVID hit and
(01:15):
shut everything down, canceled my tour, literally was refunding everybody
getting money back from the venues because they had to
close dutdowns, and somehow the only thing that was still
going was wrestling, and even like schools like wrestling schools.
So I was sitting at home just getting unemployment checks
(01:38):
and things like that, and I was like, man, it'd
be cool to instead of going to the gym because
most of the gyms are shut down, to just go
learn how to wrestle. So I applied to I was
living in North Carolina at the time, so I applied
to fire Start Pro Wrestling and I think it's in Greensboro,
and they said, come on down, we have a class
starting soon. And I said, cool, I'll be there. So
(02:00):
then I think that was like two weeks between when
I applied and when they said they were starting up.
And I happened to see on Instagram that the Nightmare
Factory was starting a thing, and I was like, okay, cool.
I like Cody Rose, you know, aw big aw fan.
So I applied to that. Didn't think I would ever
get anything from it, So never heard back from them,
and I was on my way to Firestar for the
(02:21):
first day, and I get a call from a number
I don't recognize, so I declined it and I got
like an hour drive ahead of me. Then I get
a text message and it's QT Marshall saying, Hey, this
is QT from the Nightmare Factory. We have a spot open.
It's yours if you want it, just give me a
call back. I still have that text message in our thread,
like I never deleted it, just so I always remember,
(02:42):
like where the start. And so I pulled into this
church parking lot and I pulled over. I'm like, I'm
reading the text message and I'm like, I got to
call him back. So I called him back and he's like, yeah,
you know, we had a guy, a couple guys drop
out last minute. You were next up in line. The
spot is yours if you want on it. This is
the details. Just think it over and get back to me.
(03:04):
So I was like, yeah, I'm going to turn around,
let fire start. No I'm not coming, and uh yeah,
the rest is kind of history and started. Uh. I
think it was two weeks and two weeks from that call,
I had to be at the night Matter of Factor
in Atlanta and now I'm here.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
What was it like walking in on your first day
and meetings such as QT Marshall.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
So the first day was nerve wracking.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
I'm not very I'm not the biggest I'm very sociable
when I need to be, like when I need to entertain,
but when it's just me walking into somewhere for the
first time, not knowing anybody, have no expectations of what
was about to be, it was very It was very
tough to get out of the car and walk in,
but I eventually did and it was just it was
(03:48):
very welcoming. I told QT like probably a couple of
weeks in, like, I'm not really familiar with your stuff,
and so I really didn't know much about who he was.
But ever since then he's been like one of my
one of my top guys to you just watch and
learn from, and so just he was always awesome.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Cody, we were Class one.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Cody was always there every class, every day, stayed longer,
would work with you individually, help you out. And ray
Lloyd Glacier also was always there, fantastic. We had some
of the Dark Order guys Ricky Starks, J car Gill
and A J. That first class man was just there
were so many people that were just great and I
(04:35):
could just speak highly of it for days. But so
it was definitely, it was definitely a great time and
a great investment.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Was Luke Samson. There was Luke Samson there at the time.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
He was, but he was he was more so in
the the like the night Class. A lot of guys
like the Monster Factory that would train with QT. Still
I know he's like the head trainer there now, but
at the time he was still training himself.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
So he's a friend of a friend, so I get
to I hear a lot of his updates and stuff
like that.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
So okay, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I don't think I've ever spoken to him personally, but
you know, I've always hear about the goings on and
the positivities of the you know, the Nightmare Factory and stuff.
So because so I'm guessing professional wrestling walking in was
not what you expected to be into your first day
of class when asking to take bumps in.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Such, Yeah, it was. It was different. It's like you.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Always find the people that say pro wrestling is fake,
and as a fan you defend it and you're like,
it's not fake. They're actually doing things. But you don't
know what it feels like to go take a bump.
So that first bump when your back is hitting the
plywood on top of steel, like with that little bit
of padding, if it's weed like it, it sucks. And
(05:56):
I've seen a lot of people compare it to a
thirty mile for hour car crash, and they are correct
because it's just something that you get numb to over
time and it hurts less and less, but at the
same time that you'll never forget that first bump. You'll
never forget the first bump after some time off. And
(06:17):
a lot of people say all the time, like you
have your bump card, don't don't max out your bump card.
So yeah, just everything about pro wrestling is real, and
I try to, like a lot of times on different promotions,
I'll get there early to help set the ring up,
and I try to give my non wrestling friends and
fans and everything a little insight into what a pro
(06:39):
wrestling ring looks like. And they're always shocked when it's
the steel bars and they see the guys and me
loading up plywood or two by or the big long boards,
and it's just like they're like, oh wow, like that's
how do you do that? And I'm like, man, it's
just you gotta just love it.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Really, it's I always invite people down to the school.
I kind of associated myself with the Paradise Sally School
out of East Taven, Connecticut here by a run by
Paul Roman and Mario Mancini. And anytime somebody says it's fake,
I'm like, well, come down one night. Then I'm going
down there, hang out, then get in the ring and
see what happens. And and uh, usually it's a plight decline.
(07:19):
Once they they.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
See the first the first bump, they hear it. That's
the thing too, Like when you watch it on TV,
like you kind of hear it, but it's TV. When
you're in like when you're in person, you hear it.
You kind of hear the boards just bounce off each
other and off the steeler.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
You're like, oh, that looks like it sucks.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yeah. Tell me about your first match that you went into.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Our first My first official match at the showcase was
me and my tag partner at the time, mister nice Guy,
and we took on Rosario Grilla and Hunter not tsf
at the time, Rosario Griller, you can catch on Ring
of Honor. Aw these days hunters recovering from a shoulder injury,
but yeah, it was it was great, man. We were
(08:03):
the nice guys. We kind of got thrown together after
a promo class we did, and Cody just really loved
our promo and I think he tweeted about it too.
I think I saw the screenshot of him tweeting about
us winning promo night and kind of was like, Yay,
you guys are a tag team from now on. So
then we wrestled them and we're putting the match together
and we had all these great spots, and I pitched
(08:26):
this idea tot qt's wife that we came out of
a happy meal box, like kind of like the New
Day with the cereal box, and we were the nice guy,
so what better thing to come out of than a
happy meal box? And she loved it, so she told
it to him and he was like, do it. So
we did that. And because we were doing that, we
were originally supposed to win that match. You're a little
(08:47):
let's break k FA a little bit. We were supposed
to win that match because why wouldn't the Babyfaces go over?
And Cody overheard us going over that with QT and
he was like, whoa, whoa, whoa. You guys can't come
out of this happy meal box. Have this great entrance,
get over and then go over. He was like, wrestling
is about one person gets over, one person goes over.
So you guys are gonna get over t SF, You're
(09:09):
going over and change with the finish.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Like the day of the show.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
So we if you watch the match, we have this
big the kudoo gra like hardy boys, double corners.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
He drops the elbow.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
I hit the swan time and the crowd was like
it was family friends, a lot of aw dark people
like Jade is I think when I take the I
take the bump off the apron into the guard rail,
I think I like bumped into Jade a little bit
and she's like, oh my god, are you okay.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I'm like, yeah, I'm good, I'm good. That was that
was on the.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Fly where we're a little lost here, but yeah, So
we hit the kudo gra and then it's just the
crowd is behind us one too, you think, and they
kick out and we're like no, and it just kind
of it kind of just took all the life out
of the crowd because they're like, man, and then we
lose and it was kind of like it was a
good moment, but like I feel like everybody after the
(10:00):
show was like, man, you guys should have won that match.
You guys should have won that match. But it is
what it is, man, you know, but it was a
fun time.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
You still got time. You're still young. You've only been
doing this a couple of years now, right since COVID. COVID,
as you were talking, COVID shut the whole entire world down.
But yeah, professional wrestling was still going, and it was
kind of fantastic because you know, they still created new
product every week, whether it was people create aw and
WWE continuing to do stuff on TV, smaller promotions continuing
(10:33):
to do empty arena stuff or minimal you know, gymnasium
size places, you know what I mean, like maybe ten
people in the crowd, you know. And it was while
it was just such a dark time in the entire world,
the professional wrestling kept going and making everybody kind of
forget about that stuff, you know.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Yeah, man, I mean it saved me a lot, like
just even just having something to watch, I like, because
even like your regular TV shows they were shut down too,
So sports shut down for the most part, and like,
I'm not really that much into sports these days, but
like it was just wrestling is just like the perfect
mixture of sports and reality television, where like you get
(11:18):
your action and everything, but you also get your storylines
and things like that. So it was just something good
to have during those times and you didn't know what
was going on in the real world.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Well, I started the show twenty nineteen, and I think
it launched, you know, or that happened later on in
the year a couple months later, and I, you know,
having absolutely nothing to do besides sit home and drink
alcohol with my my friends that came and visited the
you know, and then I would sit a podcast every
day I would. You know. Now I'm approaching four hundred
episodes in me so it's like, you know, I just
(11:49):
kind of like pumped out content because the hell we're
gonna do. We watched TV, you know what I mean,
and there's nothing else to do then drink alcohol and
hang out. You know that That's pretty much it.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Damn. Man.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Before before I started wrestling, I was just like I said,
I was just sitting at home. I was I could
make music, but there was I couldn't go performing anywhere,
and there wasn't it wasn't much to make because I
just put an album out. So I'm kind of just
like riding the push of that doing videos and stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Though.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Between like that and starting wrestling, I was just I
was listening to the Major Wrestling Figure podcast, just on
my porch, you know, eating eating magic spoon, drinking super
coffee with my dog. And I started collecting Action figures.
I got back into that, and now I have like
the best Hardy Boys collection in the planet. Card I'm
cool with Matt Cardona, cool with the Hardys. It's just
(12:39):
it's insane. Like I was just I was getting like
so much free money, let's call it from like the
pandemic money.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah, and like you.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Pay your rent with the first check, you pay your
bills and everything, and then you just you have extra
and you're just like okay, cool, Like, let me let
me get this rare Heart Boys figure I haven't seen
since I was seven. Oh, and let me let me
get these two also.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Like the Action figure world was just at such a
boom during that time that like some of these, some
of these figures, I look back and I'm like, oh,
like I got that at a steal because it was
you know, one hundred and fifty bucks because people were
just trying to sell stuff. And now you look at
it and that same figures four hundred dollars like running
on eBay now because nobody wants to buy it. Nobody
has the money to buy it. You don't want to
(13:26):
settle for a low price because you need money. So
it's just crazy. Like people come over and like they
see my collection now and they're like, yo, this is
like a museum. And it's like, would I have been,
Like I was collecting a little bit here and there,
like before I moved to North Carolina, and then like
during the pandemic, it just took off. And then ever
(13:47):
since then, it's just been like this weird addiction to
get all of them. And I have like four left
that I need, and now they're starting to pump out
more like a like they left AW and then AW
just pumped out like three hardy boys his figures, like
back to back to back.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
It's a mess, man, it's a mess. But I'm here.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
I know. I know I had the pandemic, collector's market boomed,
made everything go up in value, you know, nobody. Everybody's
doing virtual sales and stuff like that. I know, I
bought my fair share of wrestling collectibles and now I'm
sitting at conventions trying to sell most of it.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I mean that I don't need.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
I hear you, Listen, I was aw figures just came out.
I ran to the Walmart every day until the shipper
came with the Series one, grabbed all the Series one
and the shipper, and then sold it all for like
pennies the other day, well not the other day, but
a couple of months ago to toy shop, cause I'm like,
why do I need this jungle Boy?
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Why don't I need?
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Like, I don't need this sitting in tots in my
garage like I'm good.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Yeah, you have a belt sitting behind you. Why don't
you tell me about this belt to your championship. I've
seen pictures of you're wearing that belt as well.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Yeah, so this is actually the Icon Championship, just won
it recently. The one you're reference to. It was part of
the Gods Gift World Championship.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
That one is.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
That's usually where it is. I'm waiting for another holder
because now I have two belts. Okay, So but the
one behind me is the Icon Championship. Just won it
for the Guardians Legacy out of Panama City in Florida.
So it was actually kind of cool. They kind of
did a like a cyber Sunday tournament kind of thing
and they let the fans vote. So what they did
(15:26):
was they had two brackets. I think it was like
four weeks, four rounds, and they had fan votes till
the finals, and then the finals was an actual match
at their fantastic show in What Are We in December
December seventh. So I kind of kind of took it
a lot more serious than everybody else at first. And
(15:46):
I was talking to the promoter and he was like, man,
you really set the bar high. And because the first
the first round, it was me versus Cody Jacks and
I'm cool Cody, and I was like, I was making
like AI like Barack Obama video was saying, you know,
forget what everything, what else is going on right now?
Vote Josh Breezy for Icon Champion. Like I was doing
all this stuff, shooting videos, and I think that first round,
(16:10):
me and Cody each got like four hundred votes.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
It was like four hundred.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
It was like four fifty to like four thirty or something.
I won, and no other round got to four hundred
except one one. I think I was involved in that
one also, but it was just set a bar. And then,
like you like, even the pages for the page likes
and the followers for Guardians Legacy was through the roof
and it was just it was a fun thing and
(16:36):
I think it really got everybody involved. And then the
finals ended up being me versus Xander King and we
had a match and yeah, now I'm breezy two belts.
It was a great match. We got everything in. We
gave the fans everything that they wanted. They were there
was probably two hundred and fifty people in the crowd there,
and they were all on their feet for all the
false finishes and stuff. So it's gonna be an exciting time.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I've seen you do some work with Pro South, Is
that correct? Yes, all right? That promotion I discovered actually
during the pandemic, just during the pandemic. Well, no, not
during the pandemic, like a few years before the pandemic.
I discovered rediscovered professional wrestling out of being out of
it for about three years. But then Pro South was
(17:20):
one of the first indies Toda I discovered and I
live in Connecticut, and you know, they were doing like
a weekly YouTube stream every Friday night, and would sit
there every night and Friday night and watch it, you
know what I mean. And I thought it was a
very I don't watch it as much now as often,
but I find it to be a very interesting product.
Do you have anything to comment on that company there?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I am very grateful for Pro South gave me my
first opportunity outside of the Nightmare Factory, and me and
Jacob Thrasher we wrestled the Goon squad, the Goon platoon.
Carli Bravo, and I am forgetting his name right now
off the top of my head. But yeah, so Carli
kind of Carley had this come down and was like, man,
(18:06):
you guys got a book, breezy blah blah. So then
they were like, all right, you got Carl you want
to put him over. You're going to wrestle him next
next week. So we came down Carly. Actually he called
for a knee in the corner. It's gonna come to
It's gonna come to this side, right, So I turned
my face to take it and knees me on this side,
puts my tooth through my lip, concusses me, gives me
(18:28):
a Northern like soupplex into a pin. I kick out,
I sit up and I spit blood just out of
like instinct. And there's a great photo of like me
kicking out, spitting the blood with the reffing between us
like it's a great thing, and just cracked my tooth. Everything.
It was a great time. But I think, no, we
lost that one. I missed the Swanton. I think, oh no,
(18:49):
I swaw crucifix out of the Swan song. I hit
it and he crucifixed me. But ever since then, I
was like, man, Carly, I got to get my get back.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
So I know you're doing a lot.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
You're doing your thing on Ring of Honor right now,
but I'm coming for you.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Just that key, watch your six. That's what they say, right.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Who knows, maybe it'll happen in Ring of Honor.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
You never know, hey, you never know. But Pro South
is great, man. Everything they're doing up there. I'm not
there anymore, but the things that they're doing up there,
they're doing a lot of good things. And shouts to
Ace Haven had a lot to do, heyce Haven and
Cam had a lot to do with the making of
Mayhem and the Moora, the cinematic match that I did
last year. So yeah, nothing, nothing but positive things to say.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Nice, nice, What else do you put in your time?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
You said? Where else? Right now?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
The last few months we I just got married. So
the last few months, thank you, thank you. The last
few months have been kind of just taking wind bookings
just because weekends are just time to plan and save
and things like that. So recently it's just been the
Guardians Legacy in Pandama City, Aware Wrestling up in somewhere
(19:59):
in the South in South Georgia, Crack and Pro Wrestling
in Tifton, Georgia. I did alw out here in Coco
I think, yeah, it's in Cocoa Beach, and just been
trying to trying to just make a stable place in
those and then just kind of open to filling weekends there.
But between those hard everybody runs the same days, especially
(20:22):
like in the same areas that want to pay you.
You can get you can get Friday shows that will
pay you ten dollars. Don't let and don't let you
set of a merged table. But I think I'm past
that my time. But yeah, so it's really just those
places for now with hopes to just kind of keep
going do proving ground that a couple of times I haven't.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
I haven't been there in a while, but I'm trying
to get back. Just tough. It's a Friday show and
it's three hours from my house, so it's like where
is that?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Where do they run?
Speaker 3 (20:54):
They are Port Richie, Florida. Yeah, they have connections with
w W and f IP and things like that. So
it's like the good show to be on the the one.
The last show I did there, I wrestled this kid.
He was like his tenth match, and when I came
through the back, like I went over. But when I
came through in the back, the promoters were like, man,
(21:15):
I didn't expect you to give him that much, Like
we kind of thought you were going to squash him.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
And I was like, why would I squash him? I
was like what. I was like, he's here all the time.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
I'm here, you know when I can be like yeah,
I was like double his size, but he's faster than me,
he's more cut up than me, Like he should get
his stuff and like right, like you're not pushing me
as a champion right now, So why wouldn't I? And
he was like, man, we need more people like you.
And I even try to tell like a lot of
the guys at the Guardians Legacy and cracking and things
(21:45):
like that, I'm like, there's there's one thing about me
is I'm never going to be the selfish wrestler.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
One thing that.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Cody taught us was always treat everybody you meet like
the rock, regardless of where they are on the card,
who they are, if you know them, if you don't
shake their hand, treat them as if they're Dwayne Johnson.
And so when I get matches, Like going back to
Cody Jacks, we worked in a wear show and he
was worried this too, that I was going to be
selfish and kind of squashing, and I'm like, brother, get
(22:12):
all your stuff in. You're faster than me. You've got
like a ricochet move set like I'm John Cena, like
like five moves, the doom, Swanton, side effect, rough rider.
Let's let's take it home, Like, get all your stuff,
and he like he got a bulldog in. I was like,
if you make it make sense where you're faster than me,
you're ducking lines, you're hitting taking out my legs. You're
(22:34):
hitting me with this move, and like, as long as
I cut you back off or I get back on
top because I'm bigger than you, it'll make sense and
you'll still be able to show your dinging. And so
after that match, we got to the back and he
just like gave me this hug and was like, man,
thank you. He was like, I have so many times
like go to wrestle and I can't show what I
could do, and I'm like, man, we're not here to
(22:56):
not here to bury each other. I was like, we're
here to put each other over. Like I'm gonna go
over then I'm gonna let you get your stuff. And
now if you're gonna beat me, you know, maybe we
do it to where I don't really get a chance
to do anything to you because you were just too quick.
You rolled me up or something. But yeah, man, I'll
just I don't know how we got there, but yeah,
that's cool.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
It's cool. It's cool.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I know we only got a couple of minutes left,
so I'll you know, I want to definitely have you
back sometime in the beginning of the year as my
schedule opens up a little bit more. I know, we're
rushing through the holiday to try to get as many
shows in and then try to we were all trying
to do our shopping and get everything. And so I
know you got a great music career that we sort
(23:38):
of discussed in the beginning. Why don't you tell everybody
where you can find all your stuff, your your socials.
You're wrestling, and I see that you do. You have
quite a unique YouTube channel as well. It's got all
sorts of stuff up there.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Yeah, man, you could. That's the one thing it was.
It was hard for me to decide, like do I
want to make several separate YouTube channels or just you know,
become a fan of me as a person. And something
that I learned in music and kind of in wrestling
was like, if the fans love you as a person,
they'll invest in whatever you do. That's why Matt Cardona
(24:10):
could show up anywhere and sell out and he can
go make action figures, he could go sell pizza cutters,
he could sell his wife's underwear on whatnot. Like, he
could literally do anything. Because the fans don't just love
mac Or they don't just love the character Matt Cardona.
They love Matt Cardona or what they see from Matt Cardona,
(24:31):
So part of having the connection to him has definitely
been great. So just me being able to do music,
do wrestling, collect action figures, do paranormal ghost hunting. Like
I feel like it's all in this weird like subculture,
like it all it all works somehow. Like if you're
(24:51):
into wrestling, you probably watch ghost adventures, So like if
you're into Josh Breezey, you probably would sit for thirty
minutes and watch him go hunt some ghosts. Yeah, you
could definitely watch all that on YouTube dot com Slash Josh.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Breezy too, East two Z's two Wise.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
As far as music goes, I'm on Spotify, Apple Music,
same name, same characters, same gimmick.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
And then yeah, if you you.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Want to watch me on boxing toys, do some toy rooms.
We got some cool guest appearances. You could go on
the major wrestling figure channel. Matt came to my house,
did a room tour of my collection recently. I think
it's the most streamed tour or the most streamed video
of the year. I think it was it was like eight,
so it's been a while since they did a number
(25:35):
like that. But yeah, so just type in Josh Breezy
on Google and you'll find a whole plethora of things.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Yes you will, uh check out the music. I tried
a chance to check a little bit out before the
before the show began. I want everybody to go check
it out. It's not my thing, becau I'm a rock
and roll guy.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
But hey, there's you know, there's a song.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
So I'll end with this story here there is I'm
I grew up was very hip hop and like.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
And like kiss weird.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
It was like it was like Ello cool J Run
DMC kiss, So it kind of like kind of made sense.
And then my mom was like bon Jovie and like
the like softer side of rock and roll. But then
my brothers and like I grew up at the like
the height of eminem Like my brothers were like giving
me the slim shady LP and things like that. So
(26:25):
I kind of had a lot. So during the pandemic,
after I had put the album out, I kind of
had some extra beats that I was just sitting on,
didn't really know what to do. And there's this one
song I don't even know. I don't even think I
have it on my drive anymore. It's on a flash
drive somewhere, but it's called Sunflower, and it was like
this limb biscuitty post Malone thing, but it's got these
sick guitars and like this big bridge and everything.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
But then it like calmed. It was great.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
It was like my it's like my experimental, like hip
hop rock and roll song. And I loved it so much.
But I was like, what happened if I put this
out with nobody? So it just sat there. But every
every every year I get the Snapchat memory of me
putting in on my story to see what everybody likes.
But yeah, man, rock and roll was cool.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Man. I love me some rock and roll. I just
love music me too, I do.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
I do. I love a lot of you know, I
worked in a record store for thirty years, right, so yeah,
on top of work and then the you know, the
clubs in New Haven, Connecticut area, et cetera, et cetera,
So you know, I got to experience lots of different music.
And I'm not saying that it's not my thing, meaning
I don't like it. It's just, you know, I just
lean towards a different side, you know what I mean.
I listen to a lot of gospel music with my
(27:34):
wife on Sunday mornings.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
It was a lady.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
So you know, listen you catch me with a So
like the Kanye Donda album I really loved more so
for the gospel elements and like whenever you put Kanye
in a choir together, I am in heaven, like or
an R and B guy and an a choir and
just like Through the Wire by Kanye with the Quad.
(27:58):
Gospel is the thing, but it's fun. You're from Connecticut.
I went to the University of Bridgeport.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Okay, that's about about thirty minutes from there.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
So there's the arena over there, which I've witnessed, you know, concerts, wrestling, hockey,
you know. And then there's an Amphitheater there like right
next door. That's a beautiful concert venue that I went to.
We went to a went to like some gospel concert
last year for my wife. She was in she's into
that Kirk Franklin guy.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
So okay, Kirk Franklin. I lived in Kirk Yeah. But
last year the you remember when Edged threw the title
into the river.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Yes, that was at the ferry at Bridgeport, No, kidd, wow.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Yeah, And I took the ferry because I'm from Long Island,
so I would take the ferry every couple of weekends
and go back home. And one day, like somehow that
clip popped up and I was like, I'm literally getting
off the boat where edged through the title in the water.
I was like, this is insane. But yeah, man, I
used to drive to New Haven for Insomnia Cookies.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, we go there. See there's a rock,
there's a there's a theater, a mute performance venue. I
guess you can call it the next door to right now.
So we always walk after after going. I guess you
can call it like a small theater, you know, uh
series after the shows. That's where we ended up in
Insomnia Cookies. Great place, man, Yeah yeah, yeah, all right man,
(29:18):
I want to say thank you again and enjoy your day.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Yeah, man, you too, thanks for having me
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