What's going on WWE Universe?
McKenzie Mitchell here with Drake Maverick everyone.
>> [LAUGH] >> A friend of mine,
if some of you guys don't know.
>> Yes.
>> For quite sometime.
>> Yes.
>> We known each other for what, five years?
>> What was it?
2016?
Does it 2016?
>> 2016.
>> When you got in the wrestling business?
[LAUGH] >> Yes, and honestly though,
if it wasn't for you, I wouldn't know as much as I do about the wrestling business.
You kinda help me break in to wrestling.
>> It is my 20th year in the job in October.
>> What?
>> So I've already got a funny tack for ten years.
>> Of course, you have a funny tack.
>> Yeah, I'm moving to Zoobliz.
>> What?
>> It's the 20 year anniversay.
>> I'm pretty sure Bronson Reed said the same thing.
>> Yeah, you gotta move.
I can't believe I've been doing this for 20 years.
>> 2020 was a hard year.
>> For everybody.
>> For everyone, and we all saw what happened last year, your story.
>> Last year was pretty difficult.
it was [LAUGH] It's definitely difficult.
And everyone in the world was going through something,
I don't want this to be any kind of sob story for me.
Because there are people going through much worse than I am, and
continue to do, so I am just one of the very fortunate ones.
>> Do you ever think about if you wouldn't have put out that video,
where you'd be now?
>> I don't because you got to live in a moment, I just went by that.
And it's very hard as a man,
it's been something I've had to overcome as a man myself.
It's okay to ask for help.
It's okay to be vulnerable.
And it's okay to not be okay.
And that was a very tough thing for
me because I've always been in a very alpha male business where you
have to show mental toughness and I rarely get a cross like that.
It's just it was just let really- >> You have got emotions come out.
>> Yeah, it was like it was like a therapy session for me.
I'm like, this is how much this means to me.
It was from the heart.
I mean everything I said and I don't regret it at all.
It was a whirlwind time and
like every day I kind of work it was on a mission.
I was on a mission.
I remember my release papers came as well and I never opened them.
I let them framed in my home gym.
>> My god.
Just so every time I go to work.
>> That's your motivation.
>> That's my motivation not to receive one of those ever again.
I'm not shy about it.
It was part of my journey and I'm proud it's part of my journey and
it's where I'm at today and it's where I'm most happy is, where we're the next day.
>> Do you feel like NXT is your family?
>> I feel that yeah.
>> Even with Kilian like you and Killian- >> Even you yeah, just like, [LAUGH]
>> Look at that friends.
>> Nice.
>> Okay, shoot me straight here.
Do you think that you and Killian will ever really be friends?
>> Yes, we are now.
>> So you finally got his phone number though?
>> No.
>> But you guys are friends.
We've known each other for
long time, that's a camera trick.
You think it doesn't work but it just does.
>> So, bottom line you think that you and
Killian will end up becoming the best of friends.
>> Tag team champions and best friends.
>> Switching gears for a second and
I wanna talk about your love to Patrick Swayze, tell us about it.
>> Okay.
>> I didn't even realized that you're wearing-
>> Yeah I'm wearing,
this is Bow Ding from Point Right.
>> How fitting?
So Swayze some what became my hero because they always made my mom smile.
It's sort of a man crush but it's very sentimental.
>> [LAUGH] Man crush.
>> Man crush.
It's very sentimental, when my parents used to bicker when I was younger,
I used to get on the VHS and put dancing because my mom would always relax.
And she loved dancing, she loved Patrick Swayze.
>> Wow!
>> And so I had a sentimental thing with him.
I just love Swayze, I love when he was Dalton in Roadhouse.
I love when he was Bodhi in Point Right.
I loved when he was Salmon Ghost.
Love you, Sam.
You ever seen ghost?
>> No, I haven't seen any of the movies that you've named.
>> You've never seen ghosts?
>> No.
And I've never seen dirty dancing.
[SOUND] >> Sorry.
>> That's the chick flick.
Ghost is.
>> What is ghost?
>> Ghost is about.
[SOUND] It's really good.
>> So you just convinced me to watch it?
>> It's on Amazon Prime.
>> Great okay.
So favorite Patrick Swayze movie then?
>> Road House.
>> Okay >> Dalton is the greatest
>> Well, we all loved watching your
journey on Wednesday nights, and I've loved taking this journey with you.
Like it's been so fun throughout the years and it's only gonna get better.
And thank you for being able to sit down and talk and just have fun.
>> And thank you for having me.
And I meant what I said.
I'm really proud of the way you come and like-
>> What a guy.
>> No, just from [LAUGH] a humble girl from where is it?
Oklahoma?
Was it Ole Miss?
I don't where in America.
>> Mississippi.
All I remember is McKenzie's from Ole Miss.
Is not wrestling.
I'm like.
>> Give me your best Southern accent.
>> Hi there.
I'm McKenzie Mitchell for Ole Miss.
I'm here in the wrestling business and I'd like to interview one of your top guys.
>> Lord.
>> Hey, how was your match?
You and John Morrison, you guys both try to can me perfectly.
>> Ya'll did some amazing manuevers out there.
>> Do I sound like this?
>> No, you don't.
>> Please let us know if I sound like this cuz I don't.
>> You wanted my best Southern accent?
I used to live in Nashville all that time so I picked it up.
>> Yes, very true.
>> Southern hospitality is a real thing.
I miss you, Nashville.
>> I miss you Nashville too.
All right.
It's been great.
>> Thank you.
>> Thanks.
Appreciate it.