He is a good guy,
truly a good guy and
I'm a better person for
getting the chance to know him.
And a better person for having the opportunity to call him my friend and
I'm a better person for knowing his family and,
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Just really gonna miss him.
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>> He's one of those guys I would describe as a good brother.
And those are few and far between.
He's somebody I felt like I could trust.
He's somebody I got along with greatly, gave me great advice,
was an overall decent and good human being.
Again, few and far between.
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>> So Jon would typically rile everybody up.
My job was to try to rile him up.
And the way I would do that is he would be, he'd be around the locker room,
and I would go get him a water bottle.
And I'd go give it to him, and I'd pull up a chair.
And I would call him Mr. Taker sir, and if anyone knows anything I'm referencing
the Undertaker which is a huge no, no, right?
And then I would tell people like yeah Jon told me that as a young
guy I got to show respect to the generation before me.
And Jon's basically like The Undertaker and he used to get so mad.
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>> I've always been taken aback by
just what a big presence he has.
And it can be intimidating for a split second.
But then he instantly smiles, and
he starts laughing with his friends, and he makes things fun.
He made every moment that I spent with
him memorable and awesome.
And it sucks, I wish I got to spend more time with him.
And my heart goes out to his family and friends.
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>> The amount of time that we spent talking about what our kids were doing and
how amazed we were that our kids were doing these things was unprecedented.
It was something that I always looked forward to.
I just always appreciated that level of being a great father
that he always brought to the table.
>> Nothing was more important to him than his family.
The monster that you thought he was, on the other side of that curtain
is the opposite of what he is on our side of the curtain.
When I had my neck injury in 2015, he sent me a video of his son young Brody,
playing with my action figure and wishing me well.
And I had that video on one of my phones still and
it meant a lot at the time and now it's so priceless.
That footage and the thought and
the memory I have of him sending me that video is absolutely priceless now.
That's the kind of person he was.
>> Harper was everything you could ask for.
He was responsible, he was reliable, he was an incredible family man.
And over the decade plus that I came to know him, you just saw that everything
that he worked for was for his family, for his children, for his wife.
And that type of unselfishness, that complete selflessness,
I think is what endears him to me more than how great he was in the ring,
or the perfect locker room companion that he was for all of us.
He was a man's man, an honorable man, and a great human being.
And I say that and I feel like everybody's saying that about him.
And that's because it's 100% true in this case.
He was a wonderful man.
>> Jon's debut in NXT was against me, and it is a funny story.
I just went to single leg him one time and he didn't wanna go down and
he just ripped my hair out and we found something that we could laugh about for
so long afterwards years later.
But we just grew so close and shared time on the road.
He's such a family oriented man, and
that was something that just shined through from him.
And he was one of those people that I always knew that I wanted to be around
because of the joy that he brought to people.
But how genuine and caring and thoughtful he was.
It's hard to see somebody like him leave us.
He's an incredible person and somebody that I've just grown to love.
And he's gotten to be here, with my family.
And as my family has grown,
he was actually the first person besides my wife and
I, to hold my daughter.
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