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What's going on?
It's your man, Xavier Woods, AKA Austin Creed, AKA one-third of your boys,
The New Day!
Thanks to Cricket Wireless, you all get an inside,
exclusive look at my amazing arcade-filled basement,
at my house here in the beautiful Atlanta, Georgia.
Come on.
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Bam, and we're here.
And this is where you make a choice.
You make a very important decision.
You either go to the Salt Mines, or you go to the Lab.
The Salt Mines are here because this is where competition occurs.
This is where people get quote-unquote, salty.
I want you to taste me.
But we're gonna go to the Lab first, because this is where work is done.
Here we have, bam, Neo Geo, PS2, Wii,
Sega Dreamcast, Sega Saturn, Wii U.
Behind me, what you see, my collection of physical video games.
Because in our current day and age, things are becoming digital.
And I wanna make sure that my family, as they grow,
they know that games were actually things that you held in your hand at one point.
So this is essentially where I'm always located when I'm shooting for
UpUpDownDown, when I'm at my house.
Three monitor setup, camera here, got my microphone, everything is set up.
I got my controllers, Xbox, for the Switch, for the PlayStation,
all for their respective games.
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This is essentially my wrestling memorabilia room.
Pink curtains for a reason, cuz they feel good.
Enter.
So bouncing around Atlanta,
this is essentially the stuff that I kept because it meant so much to me.
Being able to perform in the city where I grew up, where I live now,
just really means a lot to me.
This right here is from Wrestlemania,
when we had the chance to come out of a huge box of Booty O's.
So again, growing up here in Atlanta, all we do is watch anime and play video games.
And the fact that we got to come out as Saiyans in Dragon Ball, it blew my mind.
This is actually part of the first wrestling outfit that I had, as is this.
Austin Creed, and this is literally all of my stuff from then.
Most importantly is this.
This baseball bat is actually signed by all of the guys who trained me.
One day, my mom called me and she said, Austin, there's wrestlers at Walmart.
We gotta go.
And so I jumped out of bed, drove up there.
And they said, yeah, we're having a match at this place.
So come through, you can bring a weapon and we'll use it the match.
I was like, cool!
So I don't know, I'm 16, so
the only thing my friend had in his trunk at the time was a wooden baseball bat.
And so I throw it to the bad guys, and beat up the good guys with it.
And we're all screaming and cheering.
And I go to these every single month.
Golden Girls shrine, bam!
Your man is serious.
You don't think I'm serious enough, bam!
Your man is serious about his Golden Girls shrine.
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If somebody says to me, you shouldn't have all stuff, it's like, quiet, you trash!
Get out of here, I'm Blanche Devereaux.
And now we will enter the Salt Mines.
This is my humble arcade abode.
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As you can see here, we got the Big Buck HD.
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We got the Groove Coaster.
We got the nasty Windjammers.
Well, Windjammers machine, there's 2,000 games on it.
It's dope, yeah!
And we got Museca.
I'm not even supposed to have that.
Then we got Street Fighter 2 arcade edition, small stuff.
These walls have tons of characters from video games, anime,
all my favorite characters.
You got me, Kofi, and E over there, that UpUpDownDown on the wall.
We got Rufio.
All right, so that is my basement setup.
You saw the Lab, you saw the Salt Mines.
And now we're gonna head over to Cricket Wireless.
But first, we're gonna go see the man who trained me to get
to this point in my career, the great Rob Adonis.
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So you guys checked on my basement and you saw the sweet mannequin with gear on it.
So the man who gave me this gear, right here, my trainer, the amazing Rob Adonis.
I wouldn't be here without him.
You taught us how to wrestle, how to talk to promoters, how to get booked,
when to spend your money on gear, when to not spend your money on gear,
when to buy food.
You taught us everything, and so I'll never forget that.
Cuz like I said, legit, without you, there's none of this.
I don't get to do anything.
>> This guy right here, you should know from day one,
we knew this guy was gonna be a star.
>> No, no. >> There was never a question.
But I felt like that was my thing, I wanted everybody to walk out of there
feeling like they could kinda take on the world of pro wrestling to whatever extent.
Because it's a big world and there's a lot of craziness in it.
So I think you go in with a good, level head and
you got kind of an idea of what maybe should and shouldn't be,
then maybe that gives you a little bit of an advantage.
So obviously, this guy took advantage of it, took it to the top.
So I mean- >> That's right.
>> I think it speaks a lot to his character as just a human being,
that he wants to live in the community that he was raised in.
He's a huge philanthropist with stuff.
I know he gives back all the time and he's constantly doing stuff with kids.
I know that's another passion of his.
He's a good dude.
>> [LAUGH] >> He's a good guy.
He's always smiling.
This guy never has a bad day.
>> I try, I try, try to be good.
>> So it makes it easy to be friends with him.
>> [LAUGH] All right, Rob.
Well, hey, yeah appreciate you.
>> Yes sir. >> Thank you so much.
>> Good seeing you, absolutely.
>> All right, it was awesome talking to Rob, catching up on some awesome memories.
But now we have to leave, because the WWE Universe is waiting for
us at Cricket Wireless.
Let's go to Lithia Springs.
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Okay, so we're here at Cricket Wireless.
Sir, what's your name?
>> Brian.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> So Brian said that we are friends in
his household because he's a professional trombone player in the Army and
also has a music degree from Furman University.
This is the yearbook from 2005.
That's when I was there.
He's got it tagged right there.
>> [LAUGH] >> That's weird, that's weird.
I had a disgusting mustache.
Okay, I would love to sign your yearbook.
>> It's all good, man, thanks.
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>> This man has a friend at work who caught a pancake last time we
were in town.
And they have, I thought it was ice at first, but it's clearly not.
It's some sort of plastic fiberglass.
So when you catch New Day pancakes, do this to them.
Because then, [SOUND] this is what we should be throwing.
>> [LAUGH] >> That'd be real safe, right?
I'm gonna sign it for him.
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This has been great.
We met the people.
You guys went to my basement, we met Rob Adonis, the man who trained me,
all here in Atlanta.
So thank you, guys, for coming on this journey with me and
learning a little bit more about your boy.
We'll see you later.