All right, so I've been meaning to clean out my junk closet for
about six years now.
It's not junk at all, it's where I put just everything.
All my merch I wanna keep, mementos, just random stuff.
It's, was, not is, was overflowing.
My wife has been on me since the start of the pandemic.
You've got all this free time, clean that closet, I didn't wanna do it.
For some reason I decided to do it today, less than a week before Mania.
And I'm really glad I did, because I came across some stuff from my
journey that mean a lot to me, that I forgot I had.
And reminded me of the path that I've been on to get to where I'm at right now.
I'm about to fight for the WWE Title for the second time at Mania, and
everyone has helped me along the way.
So, I'll show you some of the stuff now and everything.
That was my first wallet when I came to America, all sorts of stuff in here.
Biggest one of all, this is a Shack Pass.
Now, people in Glasgow are probably thinking, my goodness,
how do you have a Shack Pass?
The Shack was a nightclub in Glasgow that burnt down in 2004.
That pass right there entitled me to free entry, possibly a free drink.
A signed copy of Whatever, a single by Oasis.
Noel Gallagher signed it, very cool, I forgot I had that.
The double pack, myself and The Undertaker, Rumblers,
very cool, got to look after that one.
This is my notebook from FCW, Florida Championship Wrestling.
It has tag team moves, Wade Barrett and I have some ideas I was putting together.
And there's promos from Dusty's promo class, one right
here that I'm apparently very upset about Eric Escobar being FCW Champion.
And I want to beat him and take the title from him, which I did, yes, very cool.
I'll go through that later properly.
NXT DownLoad 2017, that was awesome, love music, love wrestling.
Got to be on the bill at DownLoad,
that I went all the time when I was a kid wrestling, wild.
All access pass for myself and Grado, ICW,
we sold out the SECC, 4,000 people, very cool.
And a star from the Barrowlands ballroom.
This was the first big ICW show I did when I was going for WWE.
And we sold the show out with only one match announced, myself and Jester.
Not sure if you're supposed to take these.
[SOUND] The Barrowlands is so historic in Glasgow.
Everybody played there you can think of, from every music genre.
From the Stones, Bowie, Britney,
Justin Timberlake, Metallica, The Cure.
Anyone you can think of have played in the ballroom at the Barrowlands, and it's
tradition, I guess, to take one of the stars from the wall in the locker room.
So I've got that bad boy right there.
Can't find me in America, I'm in America anyway.
A photo album here made by a fan, which is very cool.
I guess I liked it enough to keep it.
We got my early days into Irish Whip with Sheamus there,
there's a young Jester there as well.
Myself and Wade Barrett, and it goes through the years,
I'm pretty sure some of the pictures get kind of dodgy or cut off for there.
WrestleMania XXX, a talent itinerary.
I believe that was my last Mania before I got fired.
Well, 3MB did get a number of eliminations at the Andre the Giant Battle Royal,
I remember that as well.
Yes, ready for some amazing art?
I was shocked to find this, I do not remember ever seeing it.
Who was the artist?
From Drew.
Man, I did that last year, I'm getting really good.
Show you a couple of special ones, I found Christmas cards from over the years.
I guess I always kept Christmas cards and I found this one, to Sheamus.
And I recognized the handwriting right away, and it was my mother's.
With her condition, she had a bit of a shaky hand.
Could always recognize her writing right away.
And I'm lucky that I never give everyone stuff that I'm supposed to give them or
tell them things I'm supposed to tell them,
cuz it's such a surprise when it happens so many years later.
But yeah, this is a Christmas card that I am gonna have
to pass on to Sheamus from my mum, dad, and brother.
And my mum wrote it, and that's probably over ten years old, was very, very cool.
Yeah, there's so much stuff here, that's really cool.
I was just thinking about the journey that I've been on,
how long I've been away from my family and friends back in Scotland.
It's crazy, and I just keep finding more stuff.
So I'm just gonna keep digging away here, trying to appreciate the moment.
I guess that's a problem with our careers, life's moving so fast,
you never live in the moment, you never appreciate things while they're happening.
I didn't for my first eight years of my career in WWE, I look back and
I barely remember a thing.
But being away from the company, coming back,
I make sure I appreciate every moment.
Things like these give me perspective and remind me to appreciate every moment.
And I'm so thankful that I'm still 35 and young enough that I have years left, and
to take it all in.
Cuz I know a lot of people that retired, and have a lot of regrets and
wish they lived in the moment more.
And I'll never not live in the moment, especially at WrestleMania.
So, I'm gonna keep digging away, see what we find.