Okay, buddy.
At the beginning of this journey, your goal was to lose 35 pounds.
You've lost 51 pounds.
>> Holy cow.
>> Wow, I'm proud of you, man.
>> Dude.
>> Good job, dude.
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>> 35 For 35 was my journey to try to lead a healthier lifestyle and
lose 35 pounds before Wrestlemania 35, with one of my best friends, Finn Balor.
>> Dustin came to me and he said hey buddy, I want to lose some weight.
Can you help me?
And of course, that was a no brainer, of course I was gonna help him.
And I think the hardest thing for him was just asking that question.
We started working out everyday together run-up to WrestleMania.
>> Ten, drop and ten, drop and ten, ten pushups buddy, camera's on you dude.
>> 52 squats, on top of the 48, on top of the 100 push ups.
[SOUND].
[BLEEP] you, Finn.
>> I think the hard part was tuning him up mentally to want to do.
I had no doubt that he could make the 35 pound lap.
He ended up not only reaching the 35, but losing 51 pounds before WrestleMania.
>> And now it's just become habit, and part of his routine,
and if he doesn't do it, it eats away at him.
So really, since WrestleMania, he's done all the work himself.
>> But I knew that once I had hit that market, WrestleMania, that I wasn't done.
I wanna continue this past WrestleMania, and
I wanna see what progress I can get by summer [INAUDIBLE].
And, we go for 100 pounds down.
>> I love it, I love it.
>> The hundred was just a milestone I put in my head, is like,
okay this is, I gotta put a number out there just to keep myself kinda going.
As weird as it sounds like in my bedroom at home, right before I walk out of my
room is one of the original photos that Finn and I took framed.
That shows me 310 pounds of him standing next to me and
it kind of reminds me of where I was.
And then as soon as I walk out that door, it's where I am now.
So, I always use that as a reminder.
The background on my phone is a photo of Finn and I at the 51 pound mark.
So I'm excited to put a new photo back there that shows this at this stage this
wore a shirt that said Long Island is awesome.
And I go, wow that'll be a cool shirt to run.
And he goes, well, it's a large, and I go, yeah I know I can fit into a large now,
and even Mizz was like, it's yours.
>> And the transformation, is phenomenal.
So incredible, it's just, it not only goes from what he looks like, but
it goes deep within his heart, he's so genuine.
And its competences is through the roof, and I'm so happy he's done this.
>> Now that he's skinny doesn't look like me anymore.
>> So the cool thing about Big Show is is that I got to work hand in hand on his
rehabilitation project that he was working on.
And again, he had his own checkpoints that he was trying to meet at that time too.
>> He comes down to Miami with me, and
we're talking about what we're gonna do for that day.
Don and I are gonna go on our bike ride.
It's hot Miami weather.
It's pretty intense.
Dustin you wanna jump on a bike?
He goes, absolutely.
But just the the excitement in his eyes of this is a challenge.
I'm going to work be on a bike in the heat and Dustin just kicked ass.
It did my heart good because I saw my friend taking every step possible to make
himself better every day who's known as Little Show.
>> The Little Show stigma still sticks.
Because I'm losing weight as he loses weight.
I'm getting fit as he's getting fit.
So that stigma's not going anywhere.
He used to be 510 pounds.
I was 310 pounds.
And even last night, one of the security guards started laughing when I was walking
up the ramp and people started yelling Big Show.
He goes, you really get that?
And I go yeah, I'm just missing two feet.
All right, so the Trunk is loaded as you see with everything in there.
It is time to go donate all of my clothes that no longer fit.
I've tried on some of those just to try to move on and they're really big.
It's cool.
That's a good indicator of how much progress has been
made by the fact that those things are curtains on me now.
So I have to donate all of these.
And hopefully somebody else can find good use out of all of these.
The little things that come with the weight loss that you don't really
think about have all been nice little surprises as we go along.
And it began to the point wherein Finn told me at one point,
don't go crazy buying clothes Cuz you got a lot to go still.
So buy you some clothes to get you to this checkpoint and
then next checkpoint we'll buy more clothes.
>> Right now we're heading to Universal Studios in Orlando.
It's that's a pretty big day, a pretty monumental day and
my whole journey that I've been undertaking.
And then before I did this and it was pretty
embarrassing is that I could not fit on several Universal Studios, right?
They warn you before you get on that the ride is.
There's constraints to certain body types on it and
I fit the mold of the body type that could not get onto a ride.
I had even gotten on a ride and the poor girl was just pushing down on the lap bar
trying to get it to click and it wouldn't click.
So I am very excited to return to Universal Studios almost eight months
later.
When me and Zach and a coworker would always go to Universal studios.
I would lie to them and say guys I get dizzy on these rides.
I can't ride, otherwise I'm gonna be messed up for the whole day.
That was a lie, I knew that I couldn't fit on that ride and I didn't wanna
go through the humiliation of being told by somebody I couldn't ride on that.
So I just nixed it right there.
Not gonna get on this thing.
This is the very first ride behind me, where I got on and
the lady's like I'm sorry sir, you don't fit on this ride.
So, I just got done with it and there was a lot of room left before they
would ever say, there's not enough room for you to ride this ride.
So success, great day.
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>> One of the things Finn told me is, he goes, dude,
you gotta make your Instagram public.
And I've always been a very private person when it comes to that he goes.
You've got to make a public man because people are gonna,
they're gonna wanna talk to you.
And I made it public and
within about 15 minutes I had over 6000 followers on Instagram.
And probably 50 plus DMs from people who are sharing their stories with me,
because I know I said in the piece like if I could reach one person.
I did not expect the outpouring of support that I got from from everyone.
People who don't have the courage to get up and
people are like afraid to start going to the gym.
They can just go you tell them your story and motivate.
I don't know.
I think the first step.
You know what I mean?
You'd be a super inspiration for all those people.
That's what everybody wants to hear.
>> For him to change himself on the level that he has changed himself,
I think that's an extra, extra special takeaway.
That just,
it involves some serious reconstruction of who you are as a human being.
So I think that it's a very very special thing.
I'm very proud of him.
>> At the same time I was struggling to make myself better every day.
So in some weird way, Dustin's journey actually helped my journey.
>> He's inspired me to keep going, keep pushing when I think it's hard.
And you know, I don't want to go to the gym.
I always think of Dustin because he's somebody that I can relate to I can take
away from it's hard.
It's a hard lifestyle.
>> But I realized that it wasn't necessarily the me
giving them feedback or fitness advice.
It was more so
me relating to somebody who was also experiencing what I had experienced.
I'm not speaking to the Finns of the world with six packs and ripped muscles.
I'm speaking to the people that are me, that had excuses every day,
that want to change but don't know how.
>> Just his his posts on his story is like helping
enough I think to motivate people and inspire people.
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But he just wants more, you know, that's attributed
to like the kindness in his heart that he has to want to help everyone.
>> You know, we have a couple of weeks left until the final weigh in.
To make sure I get all my workouts in and not slipping up anywhere.
Cuz the closer that finish line comes, the easier it to say,
all right, it's there, I can loosen up a little.
No, I cannot.
One of the things that Finn taught me was to keep the workouts going for you.
So that if you get bored, change it up so you're not getting bored in there.
One day when we were in the UK, he said hey, do you ever go running?
Said no man, I'm not really a runner, I would get exhausted pretty quickly.
So we went out for a run, and come to find out,
I ran beyond a 5K with him at one point.
It hurt, but I told myself, hey, this is a nice little bar for me to set.
So that's what I started doing, was challenging myself with runs.
Instead of just treadmill running.
It's active in everything.
Such as beating the so-called world's number one at basketball.
>> You know, Dustin has consistently kept with the routine, switched to workouts.
And because of the weight loss he's been able to train longer and harder,
and stamina's up.
So I think the running has been a real key with regards
to continuing that cycle of losing weight.
>> I'd say it's probably 1:30 in the morning.
We just got done with RAW in Pittsburgh.
I gotta be up in three hours to catch a flight to Detroit for SmackDown.
This is The final day before my way in and
the score ground has been in a little harder than the first time around.
Because WWE gave me all the tools I needed to succeed.
They aligned Finn and I schedules together to make sure I was on the road.
With him and working out with him.
And in this core round, that could be the case.
So I've really had to learn how to kinda take everything he taught me and
put it into the real world, which is my reality now.
>> All right so I wasn't planning on having an audience today when I
was weighing in, but I have Kofi Kingston and [INAUDIBLE] here.
>> Yeah, you got one.
You weren't planning for one, but you got one.
>> Yeah, he was ready.
Hey, you can do it.
[APPLAUSE] You can do it.
>> He said hey, where you're filling up [INAUDIBLE] can I put something in there?
I said yeah, let me watch.
>> So I know my weight cuz I've had to track it to make sure that everything I'm
doing is working.
But I'm here to show you guys how much I've lost since that 259 pounds.
>> 259?
>> 259 at WrestleMania.
Hello,
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Now 225 >> 225 LBS
>> What?
>> 225?
>> What God?
>> What?
My God, you got to >> [LAUGH]
>> Okay
>> That is insane
>> Wow
>> Now sometimes we'll be on
the West Coast.
And we'll have a red eye flight back, a midnight flight.
Landed 6:00AM, and I'm going straight to bed.
And I'll text him when I wake up, say hey, what did you do today?
He says I was at the gym.
[LAUGH] When?
And he just lands and goes straight to the gym and he gets it done in there.
That's the key is the consistency and the dedication.
Long may it continue.
>> What's next?
We'll see you man like it's not going anywhere.
Right like I get a text from my dad.
Just like he has not seen me yet except for video for me.
And he goes please don't put it all back on before I see you.
You got nothing to worry about because I haven't having too much fun with it
coming off for me to want to put it back on that quick.
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