I've always been a huge mark for Samoa Joe.
My real mom had two kids, my half-sister Tara and my half-brother Clint. When I was growing up Clint was a big wrestling fan and he instilled that into me. I was immediately encapsulated with everything pro wrestling.
Wrestling pretty much consumes my thoughts. I think for people that are really successful in this business, that's the way it is.
Bret and I were friends, but we were young, and we made bad decisions. We couldn't see outside the wrestling business. It was the end-all, be-all. You were in that box constantly, so that's all you thought about. It affects your decision-making.
I was dating a guy that was a huge wrestling fan and I'm embarrassed to say it now but I used to make fun of him for watching it.
There was a time that I really loved pro wrestling, but I'm not a pro wrestling junkie, per se.
I don't want to be away from wrestling even a little.
I don't have much choice but to be a WWE fan in my house.
I feel like there are a lot of closet wrestling fans out there.
There's no casual wrestling fan anymore.
I didn't grow up watching wrestling, and it's something that I fell for and took to.
Of course, I was an insane ECW fan. You don't get this deep into wrestling unless you are obsessed with wrestling so that was the final hook.
Once you start talking to people, you find out there's a lot more wrestling fans than you think there are.
Once you catch that fever of wrestling, you really can't get it out.
I had no aspirations beyond middle school except to wrestle, no reason to go into high school. This world is all I've known since 15 years of age.
I'm not addicted to wrestling anymore. For a long time, I was.
