Santana Reflects on One Year Back, TNA’s Road to Louisville, and His Pursuit of the World Title

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Welcome to the Battleground Podcast podcast.

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Welcome back into iHeartRadio's official wrestling podcast. This is the

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Battleground Podcast and I will tell you TNA is making

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their return to Louisville August thirtieth, which, by the way,

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you could still grab your tickets now TNA wrestling dot com.

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And well, we have a guest on the show that

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a lot of things have happened since we last had

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him on. Let's give it up everybody.

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Mike Santana June Show. How you doing, sir, I'm doing great.

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How are you?

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I'm good. Glad to have you back on. Last time

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we had you on the show, it was after your

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documentary debut, a lot of people talking about it, and uh,

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you know what, I want to talk about something else

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that's happening coming up here literally in just a couple

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of days.

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It is.

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August twenty third, is your one year anniversary of returning

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to the ring from injury. Now, if you could talk

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to yourself a year ago before your return, what would

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you tell yourself?

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Trust yourself. I would I would say, trust your process,

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trust yourself. You know, Like when I was out, I

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put together a plan and I told myself, I'm not

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going to steer away from that plan. And so far

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that plan has been hitting on all cylinders, you know.

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And and yeah, and of course, you know, in the beginning,

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you're you know, you don't know how things are going

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to go. You don't know, you know, there's things that

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you have no control over, and it is what it is.

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But I decided to double down on myself and trust

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myself and and better myself. You know. So everything has

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been you know, working, and everything has been going and

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really really well. And yeah, man, I've been excited and

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I've been able to do a lot of amazing things

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within this year. The fact that I started my journey,

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like my very first match was in front of eighty

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thousand people, right, and to see what I've done since

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then is insane to me, you know, especially thinking back

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on you know, what I went through while I was

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out and just that whole process and getting the mind

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and the body and the spirit right and and you know,

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taking care of you know, real life in this person.

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And yeah, man, it's it's been awesome. It's been awesome,

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Yeah for sure.

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So, as we mentioned, TNA is on the road coming

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up to Louisville at Old Forester's Paris Town Hall. What

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makes Louisville such a killer, amazing pro wrestling town.

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I feel like, you know, the the Midwest in general,

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like wrestling has always been you know, huge, and uh

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there's a lot of like you know, other independent companies

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that run there and that you know, always draw nice

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houses and do really good stuff. So yeah, I think

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I think it's pretty awesome. Uh, TNA. I feel like

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everywhere they've gone so far, like has been successful, thankfully,

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right up to now, so every show, a lot of

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the shows have been selling out. You know, the people

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are coming out, which is great. Just means the product

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is good and people are taking notice to what's going on.

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And and yeah, everyone from in the ring to behind

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the scenes, everyone is busting their ass and has that

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common goal of you know, making the show better, growing

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the show, And yeah, it's awesome to be a part of.

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Like it it's motivating, you.

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Know, it's got to make the job easier.

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Yeah, you can also tell that y'all have a lot

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of fun because every week there's something new, there's something

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going on, whether it's you're seeing everybody on TNA or

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you're seeing the TNA stars going over to NXC, Like

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you can obviously tell that you guys are having fun.

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And well, I don't want to harp on bad things,

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but I do want to just bring this up for

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a quick second. Yeah, August fifteenth, on an episode of

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TNA Impact, you were attacked before you're matched with Moose

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and ultimately came up on the short end. Where does

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this leave you with the system at the moment.

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I'm going to eat them all alive like that. I mean,

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I don't even know what else to say. Like they

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I kept My thing is I came back to TNA,

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and yes, I was like, yo, I'm coming to take

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spots and I'm coming. You know, I'm hungry than ever

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and I'm ready to go. But uh, also, I was

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trying to be civil about a lot of things, you

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know what I mean. But they just keeps like rattling

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that cage and they already know what they're gonna get.

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But obviously you know they Yeah, it's it's it's not

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gonna be good for them.

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Yeah, you know, we kind of I'm having Yeah, I'm

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having a lot of fun though, I'm having a lot

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of fun because, uh, sometimes sometimes I need that I

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need that little extra you know.

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It was like a little extra slap in the face, uh,

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you know, to wake me up. And uh, I think

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I think they're doing it purposely though. They're definitely doing

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it purposely, and I'm and I'm thinking them for it

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because uh yeah, once once that other person comes out.

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Man, Yeah, and obviously if he was concerned about a

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fair fight, that no one else would.

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Have been involved anyway. So we'll leave that for that. Yeah.

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So there are a ton of talent at the main

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event level in TNA right now, all gunning for the

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world championship. Hell about nick name it right now?

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What do you what do you think?

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Is there anything just one missing piece that needs to

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get you to the to that level or do you

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think you're already at that level? Like where do you like?

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You know, I know you said you've done a lot

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of reflection and internal you know, building on yourself and

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stuff like, yeah, are you where it's out already? Do

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you think you're ready to run with the strap and

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carry the company?

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I think, honestly, I'm enjoying the process. I feel like

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I'm on that upward trajectory right now and I'm I'm

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enjoying that, you know that road. I always say, like,

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you need, you need the Uh, It's all about the journey.

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It's all about the climb, right because the climb is

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what's going to matter the most, and it's what's going

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to allow you to enjoy that moment the most because

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you know what the hell you went through to get there,

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right and right now, I feel like I'm on that process.

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I'm on I'm on the climb and I'm enjoying every

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bit of it. You know. I think for me, the

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two people, for me personally that I need to test

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myself against and that I need to beat is Moose

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and Josh Alexander to me, to me, yeah, to me,

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those are the two guys that are gonna prepare me,

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propel me to that next level in TNA. And as

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you said, I'm already on that that process with Moose

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and things with the system and are far far from

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over things with Moose and if far from over, and

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he knows that. But yeah, i think I'm on that

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road and I can't wait. Because I said it before,

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like everything that I've been through to get back to

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what I love to do. Like that's my motivation. Man.

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Like I I hate to say it. They ain't nobody

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hungry than me right now. Like that's the honest truth.

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And I'll say it to anybody's face in the company.

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I'm ready to go. And when I get there, yo,

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just put it on my back and let's go.

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You know, you've been making the town when you're not

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doing your impact. I mean it's almost like every weekend

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it's like, oh yeah.

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Oh yeah, I've been on the road. I'd say the

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past what eight or nine weeks straight? Man, Like I'm

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I'm not playing. Yeah, like I told I told my Yeah,

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I told myself. When I came back, it's like it's

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full force. I'm not like I'm not stopping, you know,

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Like I'm I'm having the time of my life. I'm,

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like I said, I'm more motivated than ever. I'm putting

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in the work, not just you know, on the weekends,

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but during the week I'm in the gym every day.

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I'm making sure my mind stays right, my body stays right.

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Also making sure that i'm the best dad possible. Just

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you know, maintaining that balance, you know, for me, and

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and I feel like I've been doing a great job

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and I'm you know, I'm ready to go.

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Yeah, And that's that's some good stuff right there, is

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I mean, like you mentioned the balance and you're you're

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ready to go, and it's like, you know, you said,

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you've been on the road for the past several weeks,

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and it's like, okay, TNA, once it happens, give this

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man this title over here behind me, because he's gonna

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take that everywhere with him. He just heard him saying

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that he's on the road, traveling everywhere. And you know

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one thing that here recently, a lot of people have

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been paying more attention to is uh more diversity. It's

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being louder than ever been before. Why is it so

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important to represent your country and culture to the pro

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wrestling world in twenty twenty four.

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I mean, in general, it just for me personally, I

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feel like it it uh, it just gives more hope

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to all those people and more motivation to all those people.

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And for me, I've done it since day one. Like

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I was looking through my photos and I came across

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my very first promo picture that I ever took I

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was maybe like nineteen years old, and I have a

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Puerto Rican flag bandana, you know, and that's something that

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that's something I've always said that I was going to do,

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and it was always very important to me. I grew

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up in a very very proud family. My roots are

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very embedded in Puerto Rico and I've been going. I

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was raised going there since I was four years old.

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So that's that culture has always been part of my life.

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And I always said coming into wrestling, I'm going to

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represent from my people, and that hasn't changed, you know,

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And I feel like it's just important, especially like you know,

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we come from a lot of poor areas and a

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lot of struggle, and I feel like it's important for

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me to give a lot of kids from where I

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come from hope and to let them know, like, yo,

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it's possible. It doesn't matter who you are, where you

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come from, what your nationality is, you can make it

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happen for yourself. Just last Thursday, I went back to

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the neighborhood I used to live in in the projects,

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and there's a boys club there, boys and girls club,

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and I went to speak to a bunch of fifteen

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to sixteen year olds about the importance of trying to

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stay off the street and chase their dreams and how

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important it is to trust yourself and bet on yourself.

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And it's awesome. I always just try to find the

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time to do stuff like that.

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That's awesome. And I remember to a previous conversation that

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we had with you years ago when you talked about

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how your heritage is so important that you made sure

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that when your Action figure came out, you had a

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Puerto Rican flag with your Action figure.

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Absolutely, I think I'm the very first Action figure in

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wrestling to ever come with a Puerto Rican flag.

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Yes, because I remember we had that conversation and you're like,

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that was like the only thing I said, I don't

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care if you messed this face up.

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This has to be there, yep, yep. And it made

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it happen, and it's pretty awesome. Like I remember seeing

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my grandmother open up my very first Action figure and

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she didn't know it came with a Puerto Rican flag,

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but when she opened it and saw the actual flag,

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just her sense of pride. Yeah, And it was just

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a very I have a picture of her opening it

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and just us sharing that moment and how emotional it

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was because my grandmother was the one who bought me

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all my wrestling to us as a kid, you know,

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and she's the one that got me into wrestling. She

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took me to all the garden shows. So for her

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to have that moment of like having my action figure

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and me representing the culture and yeah, man, it's I've

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been blessed to do some awesome things, man, And yeah,

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I'm very grateful.

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That's that's incredible with your grandmother, It's just such an

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awesome story. So going back, I had a question about

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you going back to making the rounds and stuff. You

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recently had a pretty high profile title versus title match

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against Danny Limelight. I know you're not really in a

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position of scouting per se, but I mean when you're

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when you're out doing these shows, I mean, are you

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keeping a mental note like tenaies look at them or

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like or just in your opinion, like what would you

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be looking for if someone's like, hey, Mike, when you're

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out there, give us some feedback on talent, Like what

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would you be looking for to bring someone in as

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a talent for TNA?

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Me personally just looking at how hungry they are I've

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always been taught, you know, coming in even when I

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was younger, that in order to really make a name

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for yourself, you have to move around as much as

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you can. You want people to see your name here,

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see your name there, see your name there. And it's

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a proven process, right Like, I feel like a lot

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of guys who have made it big and who have

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made a you know, big name for themselves have trusted

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that process of moving around making towns. So that's one

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thing that I always look for, is like, all right,

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I'm wrestling this person here, I want to see where

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they're going to be, where else they're going to be

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wrestling at in the next month, the next two months,

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the next three months, to see how much you know,

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they're moving around. Because I'm a firm believer in in

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order for you to get better, you have to work

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with people that are better than you and work with

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people that have more experience than you. So also who

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they're working with, you know, what companies they're working for.

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That's one thing I really look at, aside from the

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INN ring stuff, because the INN ring stuff could always

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I feel like the N ring stuff could you know,

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you could always train to get better. You could always

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you know, but you can't. You can't fake like the grind, right,

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like that process of getting out there and learning and

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uh yeah, so that's that's one of the things I

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look for, honestly.

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Yes, good stuff right there. I know your your time

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is limited, so I got one last question to ask

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for you. We went through this last time when we

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talked about kitchen utensils being your your weapon of choice

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if you are a superhero. So we brought back chat

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GPT for another fun question. With everybody out there getting

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people to sign stuff, whether it's being at the airports

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or hotels, what is the This is what our chat

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gpt quit came up with.

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What is the most.

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Bizarre or unexpected thing someone has asked you to sign?

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And did you actually sign it?

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Wow? Hmm.

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I don't know if that means there's a lot of

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them for him to think about or.

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There there's been a few, but I think, uh, I don't.

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I feel like it's always weird when someone takes off

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their like articles clothing and have me sign it.

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He sign my T shirt instead of just like turned

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their back to you.

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Yeah, Like you don't have to take it off. Bro's

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easier if you have it on your back or something,

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you know what I mean, Like, I don't. I don't

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want to see none of that. Someone recently asked me

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to sign their like crock. They took their crock off

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that they were wearing, and I was like, I was like, yo,

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you're barefoot, bro, Yeah, I'll sign it. Here you go. Yeah.

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I'm like, all right, I guess man. Or I hate.

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I hate when someone like asked me to sign it.

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I'm a sneakerhead, so recently a teenager asked me to

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sign their like fresh pair of Jordan's and I was like,

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I really don't want to do that. I love sneakers

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and that's just not my thing.

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Same I've want I've watched videos where kids walk up

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like Travis Scott to get them to sign their Travis

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Scott shoes, and I was like.

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Yeah, yeah, I still wouldn't do it.

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No, no, Well, Mike, it's an honor to have you

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back on the show, man, and definitely looking forward to

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uh seeing you get you know this gold over here

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behind me around your way so we can get you

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back out on the show, and wishing you nothing but

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the best, and uh, of course TNA coming back to Louisville,

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August thirtieth. Grab those tickets now TNA Wrestling dot com.

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And before we let you go, you wus say anything

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to everybody watching listening to this right now.

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Keep supporting TNA Wrestling. You know we're onto some awesome stuff.

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The show just keeps getting better and better. And yeah, man,

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keep following me on social media. I always post, uh,

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you know, all the stuff that I'm doing, everything that

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all the projects that I'm working on and stuff. You

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can catch me at uh at Santana, Underscore, Proud on

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x and on Instagram and uh yeah, just stay up

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to date and thanks a lot, man. I appreciate all

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the support.

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And if you're trying to get one of his T shirts,

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you see him wearing the Born Nasty t shirts. Uh,

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the pre orders in did last week, so you just

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have to like DM him to get those shirts. Yeah.

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Word also like, I, uh, it's been it's been pretty

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cool to like bring that back and it this first

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drop like blew me Away, I was like, oh my god,

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it's been awesome. But uh yeah, I planned to try

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to do a new drop every month, so stay tuned

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