You've done battle with just about everybody, who's who.
We talked about who in NXT you would love someday before you hang up your boots
to do a battle with.
Who from the past is somebody that you looked up to?
I mean, Harley is probably gonna be the answer that comes to mind.
>> Yeah.
>> Who did you never get a chance to compete with that you would have loved to?
>> There's certain guys in that period of time like Harley, Dusty.
I did a few little things with Dusty,
but like to get in there with him when he was Dusty Rhodes.
>> Right. >> I would have loved to have got in
there with Buddy Rogers.
Just because I think he's a guy that kind of changed the business and
changed the pace of it and that's always fascinating with
Andre obviously would have been one that would have been huge.
But yeah, Harley would have definitely been one for
me because he was a big influence on me and I respected him so much.
So that would have definitely been one for me.
>> Is there anything that you look back at now and
you think I wish I would have done this or tried this?
I mean things worked out pretty well in your favor, but
is there anything that just kind of.
>> I'm not a big look back and
kind of regret thing person because I feel like even just the little things that
you do, you did wrong, or you wish would have happened differently.
There were moments in time, like everybody did,
you'd think, I can't believe they passed me by for this.
That should have been me, and that should have been this.
And later, when you look back with that hindsight,
being much clearer you can see I'm glad that didn't happen.
Things happen for a reason.
They make you grow, they make you change, they
expose the things that you believe that you're good at, but you're not good at.
And things that you need to change over time.
Every aspect of it, I don't know.
It's funny how things take on their own shape over time too.
Sometimes people will bring up the Ultimate Warrior WrestleMania thing,
that's embarrassing to me, are you kidding me?
I wrestled The Ultimate Warrior in his return at WrestleMania 12.
>> Right.
>> Yeah, the experience wasn't what I would have wished it would have been in
the moment from a behind the scenes standpoint or anything like that,
but holy cow.
Even exactly the way it went down, it was unbelievably great.
>> Yeah, yeah.
>> And a moment in my career and like all those things.
So it's hard for
me to say I would have changed any of it because it was all learning experiences.
And when you think something is happening for the wrong reasons or you think you're
being passed by for something, they're all learning experiences.
If you look at it hard enough, you'll see what is supposed to be
happening there to get you to where you need to be.
I even think right now these moments in time that we're all going through
with all this stuff.
The people that are smart will take great lessons from what's happening to them in
their lives right now.
And what's important to them, what's not important to them.
Take away things from their personal life, but their business life as well,
of what worked and what didn't work.
And what was, I was going down this road and that wasn't working at all and
all of a sudden this has shed a light on something for
me that I realized I was doing things in a way I didn't need to whatever.
And you learn from that and you change it.
That's life.
And I've heard it said before, if you're the same person
today that you were ten years ago, you wasted ten years of your life.
And I think that's true in all of it.
So to me 25 years in, like anybody I can look back at the videos
when all these things were playing like, what was I thinking?
>> [LAUGH] >> Like, my God, look at my hair,
what the hell was I thinking?
We all thought fanny packs and- >> High heel boots.
>> High heel boots.
>> Big baggy pants.
[LAUGH] >> Yeah,
we all thought that was the thing.
>> Yep. >> You look back on it and
you remember it fondly.
And then I can look back on all that stuff and you don't understand and I try
to say this too, I guess the kids in NXT a lot too in the performance centers like
you don't understand the moments in time that you're in and how impactful they are.
Even that attitude era when we were in the thick of it, and
it was all of us running hard, and it was competitive.
And we didn't realize how special or how that was.
>> Sure, right, you were just so busy being in it.
>> Yeah, we would just go into work, and complaining, and [BLEEP] about each other,
and trying to be better than this person.
And he thinks that was good, watch this.
Do what you think is right and do the right things and
learn from it and move on.
But, we had no idea and in hindsight you can look back on it and go like, what
a time and talent level and everything that was happening.
It was incredible.
I've been lucky and I've been really, really fortunate one to have incredible
people from the moment I got in the business.
Not only to be around me, but to help me,
pick me up, support me, move me up the line.
People from the very beginning,
whether it was Kowalski to Terry Taylor taking me to another level.
Or Shawn and Kevin, all those guys as we became friends.
But all of it, everybody that I ever worked with,
I learned something from them and picked something up.
And they moved me along the line too and sounds trite to say but
you can't thank them enough.
Because it all contributed to every bit of everybody you've ever been in the ring
with or been a part of in this business.
And I look back fondly on all of it and thanks to all of them,
because I wouldn't be anywhere without any of the things you went
through positively or negatively, all of it.
>> Sure, well, just before I let you go seeing as how everybody's got a lot of
downtime on their hands, name a personal favorite Triple H match
that listeners should go check out that might not be one of the most famous.
>> Shawn just brought it up to me the other day.
And it gets brought up every now and then to me and I feel like it is one of those
ones that just kind of goes by the wayside and no one mentions it.
And I don't know what year was, but Shawn and I wrestled,
it was right around the holidays.
And we just wrestled on Raw, I believe and it was for the Champion.
I can't remember if Bishov had just give me the World Title, I don't know.
But it was Shawn and I for the title and I think we went like 40 minutes on TV.
And it was just when you click with a guy and
it's magic and you can just go.
So it's one of those ones that to me is really, I remember
people really being excited about it at the time and and putting it over a lot.
But one of those ones that kind of, because it wasn't a pay per view,
it wasn't a big event.
It just kind of- >> Got lost in the shuffle.
>> Forgot about it and it kind of went along the wayside,
is one of the ones that are special.
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