What's up, everybody, Beautiful Bobby all the way from California coming to you live. And you are listening right now to the Kings of Wrestling Podcast. This is Johnny Swinger, that King of Swing. You know, listening to the King of Wrestling podcast and don't sing it, swing it. And you're listening to the King of Podcast Number one. Ladies and gentlemen. My name is Brian Pillman Junior, and you are listening to the Kings of Wrestling podcast.
This is our You're listening to the King of Wrestling podcast. And now you're Yes, I am the host of the most I am Brenda Turner. Welcome into King of Wrestling Podcast. We got a very special guest, somebody. I've been trying to get a hold tol for a while, but you know, him being out in California, Beverly Hills, living the life, I just you know, I couldn't get to hold him. What's up, beautiful, Bobby, Welcome to King of Wrestling Podcast. Finally, Yes,
sir, how's it going? Man? All is going? It's going now? Yeah, I hear you. I'm out here on the beach. It's sunny and seventy five, and you know, just doing my thing. You know, I'm see I'm from Las Vegas and the bottom, which is not too far from Beverly Hills, but right, but it's not as luxurious as Beverly Hills. What's it like living in that kind of luxury? Oh? Man, you know, I mean I walked down, I walked down the sidewalk and people just whistle at me because they see the most beautiful man of
professional wrestling. They know that whenever Bobby walks down the street, they're gonna see a show and they're gonna see the most beautiful person they've ever seen. So it is great. People kiss my little ring finger every now and again. They tie my shoes like it's it's great. Man. I love it out here. Oh man, Eddie is awesome. That's awesome life. I do want to get into something that right off the bat. I want to ask how did beautiful Bobby get into wrestling? Where you kind of a wrestling
fan growing up? And then how did you find your way into the business. Oh yeah, yeah, I always was. Actually, my grand father got me into watching wrestling when I was probably about ten years old. And then, uh, when my parents separated, we ended up moving and uh my stepdad to be actually had cable TV and I started watching Monday Night Raw all the time. But Mama didn't like it, and she told me that
I couldn't watch it. And I was like, come on, Mama, I love that stuff, and she said, well, I'll tell you what. I'll let you watch it as long as you know that it's fake and you can't do this with your friends. Well, jokes on, mamacased. Twenty years later, here I am doing it with my friends. But but no, um. Uh. Probably about in two thousand and six I met
a my Space days. Actually, I found Gulf Coast Wrestling in Morgan City, Louisiana, and uh, we hit up the promoter, who's a Mustang Mike, and just asked him about some tickets and we started going to some shows. And then I just started looking at these guys in the ring and nothing against them, but they were there was a couple of them now were like really badly out of shape, and I was like, well, Hella,
they can do it. I can do it. So I hit up Mustang and asked him how much it would cost and what I had to do to train, and he brought us to this little sweatshop out in Morgan City and had a ring barely had any padding on it, and he put us through the ringer for probably about six to eight weeks and then I had my first match and on July second of twenty and ten in Amel, Louisiana,
and the rest is history. Honestly, well, old Mustang Mike, and I can tell you right now from training myself, I remember that ring with no pad. I put in one of those that ain't that ain't no fun. Oh no, no, no, no no. My back would be sore for weeks. I would be sitting there at night having flashbacks. That'd be just like you know, every time I landed all the bed, I was like, oh that feels good. But in training it was not. It was not fun at all. But we got through it though. Oh
yeah, totally totally and only the tust of lives exactly. And you know, I've been around you several times in locker rooms and stuff and not. But I want to ask you something about Musta Mic though, because I've I've had Mustain Mic on the show and he goes way back. I mean he's had he's had a good career, he really has. But I know you and him have had some problems. Now, Yeah, what does that stem
from? I think a lot of what it stems from is that Mustang has been around for We're going on what twenty five maybe thirty years now that he's been out there, and uh, I think what it really stems from his
jealousy because his student slowly became the teacher. And about two years ago in New Iberia, Louisiana, that came all to a head when I beat him for the Action Packed Wrestling Heavyweight Championship and he's been chasing me and trying to get back to the top ever since, and he just can't seem to beat me now. So I think that's what his problem is, is that I surpassed him in a shorter period of time than he's been in the business.
Well, does he really think that he can beat one of the best professional wrestlers in the business today. I don't think he does, man. I mean he's tried, he's tried, and every time I'm that thorn in his side and I end up beating him once again. Matter of fact, the last time I beat him was in November Clean one, two three, and he's been whining and complaining ever since. Yeah, He even tried to complain
and blame you for something that happened at Diamond between Brimstone and him. I was like, you was just all you was doing was helping the snooze fest. That's what you were doing. Yeah, it was boring, man. I was just trying to add a little life to the party. And I mean I was trying to hit Brimstone. I don't I don't know why. I must ain't got in the way, but I mean, you know,
probably just another reason to go and cry to his old lady. You know that Bobby's still better, and you know, but she's probably tired to hear another You know, she might just come jump on the Bobby bandwagon pretty soon. You never know, Hell, everybody's jumping on the Bobby band wag. But now Bobby I was, you know, we'd, like I said, we've been in a few locker rooms together, and that one of those locker rooms being Diamond. You know, you found your way into Diamond this year,
and you've racked up a pretty good resume this year in Diamond. That other than the fact, now, this is what I do want to get into, Other than the fact that I was I was there that night I was actually scouting talent, and right you were supposed to be handed the Golf Coach Championship because Brimstone got scared he didn't want to fight you and he wanted
and then Jeane throws a wrench in there like he's some master something. That's the problem with DCW, that conspiracy stuff that they do, that stuff that they just want to work, they want to work against us, and then he gives three other people a shot and put you at a disadvantage against four people where you don't even have to get pinned to lose. Right, right, That's that's that seems to happen everywhere I go. Man. I you know, Bobby brings greatness to every company that he works for. I was
right on the cusp of winning the Gulf Coast Heavyweight Championship. I mean, it's not my fault that Brimstone got a little scratch and couldn't perform that night. I was there. The titles should have been given to me, because if my opponent can't go, that's not my fault. But then I have to get put in there with Charles West Maxwell and Charlie Ace. What is what has he done to even be able to lace up boots and actually go
against Bobby. Well, you see this is my thing too. All right, let's go back to Brimstone vere because I've been around Brimstone long enough. All right, you talk about his scratch and all this, and see what happens is like I said, I've been around him enough that Brimstone, when
he realizes a threat, that's when he throws the towel in. And I figured that's what it was, and that's that's what happened, because see, he lost his loaded gloves because I kept talking about him so much, because he every time he had hit somebody else, you know, them gloves were loaded. That's the only way he could win was cheap. And and so when I found out he was taking you off for the Gulf Coast him just
like, oh man, Bobby's gonna be the new Gulf Coast champion. And then as soon as I hear Brimston, oh you know, I can't compete this weekend. I'm sitting here going to year. He knew he's gonna have to throw the towel in, and so because Bobby's gonna win, and then Jane in DCW management that is too bowing all this stuff around and puts four people on there. The only reason they did that was because see Charles West had you distracted over there, and Charlie As penned Maxwell. Now that's not
saying much because I mean, who hasn't penned Maxwell? Everybody has. So Charlie As gets the pen on Maxwell. Here we go with Charlie's what I'm waiting for is but I know how DCW management is. They're going to drag this out because they want they want Charlie to feel good about himself. But the second he gets in there were beautiful, Bobby is over. Oh yeah,
totally, man. Charlie A's just better. He better just count the days with his title, better make sure he doesn't lose it backstage again, because you know, once Bobby gets his opportunity, because as far as I'm concerned, I didn't get penned, Bobby is still number one contender to that that Gold Coast title. So as soon as I picked my spot and I get Charlie As in my clutches again, you saw what happened a couple of weeks agoing down and he's gonna have no chance, and Bobby's waste will be
wearing that Gulf Coast title. I fully agree. And you know, and Charlie, just for future references, you should check tables all the time, exactly. Always check tables because you never know what's behind them. Oh, I can tell you this right now. I was. I was watching him Saturday night and he had a title. I don't know if he actually super glued it to him, but I'd never left his shoulder after, you know, the show started out, he's like a little kid in a candy store,
holding onto it like it was going to go somewhere. Well, it's because he knows his time has numbered, that the clock is ticking and he's not gonna be champion very long. That belt is going to a much deserving competitor. And that's the man you're talking to right now. And once we step in the ring and that title is on the line, will Charlie as beat beautiful Bobby? Nope? Nope. Oh well I'll ue you twenty five cents, but well we'll we'll collect that that later. Yeah, well,
we'll collect that later. Man. Actually, there's a guy backstage at the Diamond shows. He's got a bald head, and I think we can probably get him to pay your fine again. Ok, Okay, that'll work all right, But I will I will say this though, you know, with you coming into Diamond, it's just to me, it's inevitable you're going to be the Golf Coach Champion because I just don't see Charlie a spending you off.
The only reason that Charlie As won that Golf Coach Championship was because he maxwell, Like I said, everybody has even and plus if you saw the match, I flipped in the corner and I ended up falling outside the ring and I took a pretty hard fall. I mean, I think that was Jean's way of like, you know, I think he messed with the canvas or something because he knew that, you know. Yeah, So I think
Gene actually did something and he made it loose and I slipped. And that's the only reason that I was not part of that finish because if so, I would have won the Gulf Coast title that night, not Charlie Ace. So I need I need DCW management to start looking into that because I think the management is trying to hold body back. Same here with Brillian Nique.
I think they're trying to hold back. I mean they even let that desperate Davis put their hands and put his hands on me the other night and it's trying to stretch me around that pole. I was like, this is on you all right. By the way, you know, I've still got a little ache in the back. But now I'm gonna be all right, you know, Max gonna take care of that. Okay, all right, I'll tell you what. I know some pretty good masseuses, So you know, I'll tell you what. I'll get you hooked up, man, because we
can't have can't have you being in pain. Well, well we'll set that up all a brilliantie. How about that. Hey, that's what I'm talking about. Hey, yeah, I like that. I like that. Uh. Now, getting to your career again. Now, you started with around two thousand and six, seven somewhere around them. My official debut was and uh July was July second of two thousand and ten, two thousand team Ok. Yeah, yeah, so you've been around eleven years then? Yeah.
Man, a matter of fact, I just hit my eleven year anniversary back
on July second. Sure did wow? Sure did? Yeah? Eleven years and you know I've been in the ring with some some pretty good talent over the years, Um, I've had the had the the luxury, I guess you could say, or the whatever of sharing the ring with some some guys that I grew up watching on television, you know, like I I've had a match matches against Hacksaw, Jim Duggin, I teamed up with Shane Douglas a couple of times, UM even teamed up with Hacksaw, and just been
able to meet a lot of people that I never thought I'd get the opportunity to meet when I was sitting there in front of the TV and just watching these guys every week on Raw and then Nitro and everything, and you know, it's just been it's been a blessing, honestly, because not many people get to do what we do. And here, here I am. I
can say that I'm living living a dream. You know, I may not make it big and go on to the next level, but I'm happy where I'm at and whenever, whenever the bill tolds I guess you could say, at least I can say that I did something that I wanted to do and I was good at it. That's that's what I say, man, I say, you know, if it don't matter where I make it. You know. I'm I'm I'm living the dream. I'm enjoying what I'm doing, and I just have fun doing it. So I mean, that's all you
can ask for now. In your level years, you talked about Hacksaw, Jim Doug and you talked about Shane Douglas. Shane Douglas one of my favorites. I remember watching. Uh my grandma made the mistake one time when I was twelve years old. She she watched WWF and I was back in the you know, real PG everybody had occupation, right, but my grandma made the mistake of buying Heat Wave ninety seven. Oh okay, she thought that. She thought, oh, well, this wrestling, that's that's what we
see every Monday night. So she bought it and I set up watched it come on later than the normal pay per views, you know, and she went to bed. I hit the VCR, I hit record and I enjoyed it. And Shane Douglas took on Terry Funk and Saboo Dot Night triple Threat, and then also Chris Candido was on their Jerry Lawler took on Tommy Dreamer. It was a it was just a unbelievable showy. Shane Douglas has always been one of my favorite saying I love being around him. I've just the
only thing is I've never That's the one person I've never met. I met hacks All, but I've never met Shane Douglas before. That would be an honor up there that just be around him. To tell you what, man, Shane Douglas is one of the nicest guys I've ever met in the business. I don't know who I'll listen to your podcast. I'm sure there's some people that are probably gonna talk crap when I say this, but I've I've sat down and I've drank beer with Shane Douglas, and he doesn't talk wrestling.
He won't bring up wrestling. He The only way you're gonna talk about wrestling with Shane Douglas is if you start the conversation. And one time, see, I wasn't a big Shane Douglas fan when I was watching UM, never stayed up late to watch ECW. Wasn't really a fan of the product, but I would keep him from time to time. And if I'm not mistaken, I think that Heat Wave pay per view you talking about. If I remember correctly. Didn't they do a didn't they do a set up on
Monday Night Raw? Because of the Dreamer going against Lawlor and ECW like invaded Monday Night Raw. Ye, that's the reason it was for that, right, Yeah? So but yeah, Shane Douglas man, he uh, he's he's real cool. I've got his I've got his personal cell phone number. Um, a couple months ago. I just hit him up for the hell of it. And he's a busy man. He called me probably about three weeks later and we talked for forty five minutes to an hour, and you
know what, we talked about COVID nineteen. We didn't talk. He asked me how the how wrestling was going down here? You know, it's it's COVID and everything, and but we were mostly talking about if we were going to get the vaccine and what he thought about it and everything. He's a really intelligent man, and he but so cool and he's easy to do business with. Two. Um, he'll challenge you. He'll challenge you because I booked him for a show one time and I had an idea and his response
was because I know he didn't like it. He was like, use me wisely, Rob used me wisely. So then I started thinking about it and I came over the whole other idea and we pitched it to him and he was like, that's what I'm talking about, brother, right there. You
know. So we brought him to a show. It was a Halloween show, well Halloween weekend, and we had Simon Gotch booked on that that card, and Shane Douglas became available like two weeks before the show, so we booked him too, And I didn't want to take away from Simon Gotch because we were advertising him. So we had there was a big breakdown going in the ring, and you know, we bring Shane Douglass out in a old
man mask in a cane and nobody. Nobody suspected it. Nobody and Shane got in the ring and he started swinging the cane hitting people and then he pulled the mask off. Man. The pop from the crowd was just amazing. And uh, just a just a great guy, great, great all around guy. He's he's he's he's really cool and like I said, easy to do business with. A matter of fact, I think he's coming to
Mississippi soon. Yeah, he's coming to Battles on right December four. Yeah, cool guy, if you get a chance, man, I'm telling you, just just have a conversation with him. I'd love to and and and this is another thing like and I'm not knocking people because I know, like people want to come to you know, wrestlers like Shane Davison, they want to talk wrestling. Right me, I'm different. You know, I'd rather not talk wrestling, you know, because I mean, I know that's it.
He's heard everything. Why why wasn't he want to talk about that, you know, talk talk normal stuff. And you know that's just like when I met Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson. We I probably talked to them a couple of hours and never we never even talked about wrestling first. We're talking about other stuff. And uh and I mean like anytime I call Ricky, Like I call Ricky and he is on his on the airplane headed to Impact Wrestling to do to do the deal. But he answered the phone on the
plane. He didn't have to do that, I mean, you know, before it left. But right, he didn't have to do that because I mean, who am I You know, he could have called me back. But usually everybody every time I call Ricky. He usually picks up right then and and I'm most of the time we don't even talk wrestling. The only time we talkt wrestlings like if somebody's you know, we're trying to get them
somewhere or something like that. But right, But yeah, I mean that's what I like, getting to know somebody on a different level, because you know, Shane Douglas has probably been asked thirty times about that ECW throwing the belt down and and the WWF, the click and all that. You know, he's already been at asked that. A mean, that's why you gonna, I mean, you want to you want to hear him talk about wrestling or something like, hey, go watch an interview, go search YouTube.
Yeah, exactly. A matter of fact, the last time one of the times I met him, I hung out with him, I watched one of his um shoot promos on YouTube and he was talking about his last two weeks in w WS and uh when I when I talked to him that night, I was like, hey, man, UH watched one of your shoot videos. He's like, I was like, you really like to shoot U? He's like, oh yeah, brother, So I brought up so I brought up that one and he, uh, he's right in front of me now
now granted already watched this this interview. Now he's reciting it word for word to me in person. It was like it was like he knew the whole thing and he it was like it was dead on from what I heard on the internet. And uh, but he he'll talk a year off. Man. He's a He's a great guy though. He really is. He really
is. He's been one of my favorites to work with, honestly, and you know, he had you know, he was talking about carl Lett, you know, one of them, and talking about you know, how they how Diesel and Shan Michael's you know, I actually had PCO on a podcast and I brought that up and we talked about it, and he said that him and Sean had buried the Hatchett a long time ago, and he was real you know about it. He talked about how mad it made him and
you know and stuff like that. But you know, with Shane and you talked about ECW that wasn't your product. Um, it wasn't mine either. I watched Shane Douglas. The main reason that I bought that pay per view was because of Jerry the King Lawler. I've always been I've always been a big fan of Jerry the King Lawler and and that was the main reason, because if you go back in my career as far as people that I loved,
there's two people that were my favorite of all time. That's Joedy King Lawler and Bobby the brain he Okay, all right, I love those two to death. I could watch Bobby the brain heen and all day long, just the weasel suit and everything he did with all that. I mean, he's just he was very entertaining. He was great. He was great. Well, one of my favorite guys was my first favorite, believe it or not, because you can't probably can't tell by the way I worked in the
ring, but my first favorite wrestler was Seawn Michaels. So, but then Diesel came along, and then I was into Diesel, you know, And then for many years I watched I mean, I'm one of I'm part of the lucky generation that got to see the Monday Night Wars. But then after that this guy came along. Once again, you probably can't tell that I idolize them because I don't do anything like he does. In the ring.
But Kurt Angeles, oh yeah, and uh so that those were the guys that I kind of just I would watch them and I would just get lost in their matches, and then for a little while it was down Indell's page. You know. So I've got I've got a wide variety, and I always enjoyed the bad guys. I always enjoyed the heels. And that's kind of why I stuck with Jenny Heel when I got into the business. You know so well, you know, uh the thing with Sean Michaels, who
was one of my favorites as well, Mike. Shan Michaels was one of my favorites when he wrestled in a w I remember watching AWA on ESPN. Him and Marty Jeannetti were the midnight rockers and I was a huge fan of Shawn Michaels. Then when he finally broke away from Marty Jeannetti and became a Heel, I was sold on Shawn Michaels. From then their Curt Angle. I'll say one little short story about that. The first time I ever seen
Kurt Angle took on meat at Survivor Sheries ninety nine. His debut yep, And I thought that was the worst match I'd ever seen, just coming from my eyes. You know, we were in the middle of the attitude there, okay, right, right, right, So about a month goes by and then two months three, and I'm just the more I get to watch an angle, the more I'm into it. And you know, I loved
Kurt Anglin. That first year he had in WWF or ww was unprecedentedly one of the best years ever yet totally what King of the Ring Ic title, European title, and then same year he won all the belts in the same year except for the tax traps, right, he won every belt except for the tax traps. He was even hardcore champion for a Cup of Tea that
year. That's right, he was, and but he was he was European and Intercontinental at the same time because he went against den Wine and Guerrero in that triple threat at many of that year and laws both belts and never got ten yep. And that and you know that that was the funny thing and Kurt to bringing that up about Kurt, and not only was he a great athlete, but he was also very entertaining. He could he could pull off stuff all the time. I was another person I loved watching him. Oh
yeah. The comedy aspect of Kurt was amazing. It was especially especially when him and Austin was doing that stuff. A lot of people look back at it and they can say what they want to say, but it was entertaining and it was fun. Oh yeah, man, when they were getting the cowboy hats and the badges and fighting over who was gonna hug someone Vince Man man, you know, oh yeah, man, it was great. He was people do some some people, some guys I ran across, they think
comedy doesn't belong in wrestling, But man, comedy, comedy's great. Everybody wants to laugh. You you gotta have comedy in wrestling. Now. I'm not saying that you go Will Farrell with it, but you're not stand up. But make the people laughs. Man, they give them something to remember. You buy because I'm gonna tell when Kurt aink was doing all that stuff. And another one was when he got his head shaped. I mean, he played it so well and he had the two pay with the wrestling head
year on. With the miracle of hair products, I've grown my hair back in only twenty four hours. But see, I'll tell you another thing about him. A few years ago when he was when they announced that he was getting inducted into the Hall of Fame. Um, I made the trip because as one of my favorite guys, I had to see him get inducted into Hall of Fame. And I wasn't too happy with his with his his speech because I wanted to hear some more stuff that I didn't know about him.
But the coolest thing to me about his whole speech was he was telling the new generation the roster that was sitting out there, don't be scared. Don't be scared to be a character, because a lot of people they forget that we were supposed to play a character in front of these people. We're not We're not Brandon and Robert. I'm beautiful Bobby when I'm out in front of
those people. So I want those people to remember me. And you know how many people walk up to me random places and they look at me, they say, hey, nope, and and they'll do it here where I live in California now. But anyways, UM, I've done places. I was in New Orleans one times and these people walked up to me. They said that I was like, where do y'all see me wrestle? Because you know, they're like, oh, we saw y'all, we saw you in Mississippi. Man, you were great. I'm like, oh, cool,
thank you. And I'm not saying I'm a big superstar, but to be recognized like that, that just proves that I left an impression on somebody. Oh exactly. I mean, like I'm the Ocean Springs and Pascagoula or not. They're not big towns. I mean there's you know there mean, and I live three hours away from there, but you know, I went into a convenience story one time and this girl looks at me. She says, are you the brilliant one? I said, I said I am, and
she says, where's all your flashy gear? At I said, let me go get it. I went out and put the jacket on and walked in there there. So yeah, I mean, you know it is It's it's funny. I got people here and Miss Meridian, which is you know, there's no wrestling within two hours, and you're really much But a lot of these will come and go to some of these shows and I'll go into places and let me see the your new video let me see it, come on and uh, stuff like that. But you know, it's fun and it's
right. We're playing a character. You know, we're out there to entertain, and you know, just go out there and do what you can to entertain. There's people, and hey keep them coming back because I'm gonna tell you something from one of the famous people I don't know. I'm sure you know who Money Warbucks is, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, all right. At the end of the night, Monty told me the one goal he has. They're not gonna remember my match, but they're gonna remember me.
Yeah, totally. They're gonna talk about money Warbucks when they lead the building. Yep. I mean, you know, one of the main things that has been happening here recently, especially in Diamond, it's I don't know who these people are, but they keep showing up and they keep chanting Pepto bismol just because I wear pink. And it's like cool because you know what, I know him. I know him in the I'm in their head. They think about it. They're like, I know that they think about it.
They're like when they're coming to the building and they know that Bobby's gonna be on the car, they're already thinking about it, like we're gonna call him pepto bismol to night, you know. And it's it's just what we do. Like I will never put down anybody's work. Everybody's got a got something great about them. You've got guys that can go out there and do flips, You've got guys that can go out there and brawl. You've got guys that can go out there and do all kinds of different things. But
it's what people remember about you, you know. And I mean if they remember that Bobby had never has a great match, but they still remember that when they come in, they can kiss me off, I call me pepto bismol, or they yoll nope at me, or I yoll nope at them. Whatever. It's what we do, and it's what we do exactly is the greatest. It's one of the greatest things in the world, man, because it's it's especially in front of a live audience, because there's no hiding
who you are. There's no hiding anything because those people know if you're not you know, they can tell if you're not into your character. And wrestling fans are labeled as stupid, but they're not. They're there for a good time and they and they know. I mean, you know, um, you know, talking to somebody too is like another thing that's missing, and I think I'll bring a little bit of that too. Wrestling is the chicken shit. He'll side like, you don't care if you looked like a fool.
I mean, you know the other night I was getting pulled, but the people were laughing and they were having a good time and just kept calling me names while I was getting hurt. Yeah, well yeah, exactly. But you know, that's that's what it is, man. That's that's that's what we do. And if those people, those people probably enjoyed the hell out of see you get stretched like that. I heard it. I mean
I couldn't. I couldn't help. But they popped when he got me, when he when he hit me, they popped, and I was like, oh no, And then they just started laughing and yeah, you finally got what you deserve. Exactly, because I don't know if you, I don't know if you had seen what happened before the match started up. The real American J C. Stokes, you know, he's he's out there a shady grove nursing home, and I had him a gift and I gave it to him, and he wouldn't open it all the way up. So I just
went ahead and told the fans what it was. I mean, I gave him and they went oh. I went He opened it up and looked in there and it was some depends and I just said, they're extra exorbitant, and the crowd went ooh. And then he threw it at me. And when he threw it at me, it was like a fast ball coming at my head. I had to duck real quick. But yeah, man, yeah, that's oh. I'm sorry. I didn't need to cut. You're
fine, man, You're fine. It's all good now. Now, I did want to dive into one thing because you know, you wrestle a lot in Louisiana, and we know how the UH Commission is down there. I mean, it's just uh, the the Athletic Commission is just outrageous down there. But when COVID hit, I mean, it took everything away. What happened with your like wrestling book ins at that point, and how did you
recover? Well, my last so the last show that was ran down here was in Oakdale Louisiana and it was on March I want to say, fourteenth of last year, and we even did a toilet paper on a pole match because of everybody freaking out with the shortage of toilet paper, so we figured we'd just waste on to make people mad. But so, and then we got shut down the following Monday, and I wasn't able. I wasn't able
to wrestle anywhere. Honestly, from March March fourteenth, I didn't wrestle again until November fifteenth of twenty twenty, so I had about eight months off. And the crazy thing is is one of the things that got me back in to where I was able to actually work a match was Hannibal Jackson. Um, I know everybody, A lot of people know that he passed away in November. Um, so sew had a had a memorial show plan for him.
He is one of my good friends. And I hit up Chris Black and I said, hey man, I got to be part of that show. So um we went down and myself, Aston Spears, Preston Bentley, a couple of a couple of us that were really close to Hannibal. Um, we got to go out and perform. And one of the things I always say about pro wrestling is, you know, if I'm out in front of if I'm out in front of anybody who's having a hard day or having a hard time in life, and they can get they can come to a
wrestling show and they can get lost in what we do. So if I'm only out there for ten to twelve minutes, and for those twelve minutes they're
lost and they're forgetting about their problems, then I'm doing my job. So that Hannibal Memorial show, the fans actually did that for us that night because we were all hurting, we were all down in the dumps, we lost one of our brothers, and just getting out there and getting to feel the energy off the crowd again after eight months off many they returned to favor Big Tim you know, because even though we were even though Hannibal was our minds,
the fans just drew it out of us because we were finally able to perform again. And after that show, Man, I got contacted by a
couple promoters in Mississippi. I even came out to Diamond. I think it was last December, if I'm not mistaken, And then I just kept waiting the call from DCW management to get back in there, and in the meantime I was wrestling for AWF out there and Simms and Loose Dale, and then I finally got the call from Diamond And since November, I've been wrestling every month and had multiple bookings now, been to Houston in Alabama and to Mississippi.
I'm trying to trying to expand my horizons a little bit more. I've been talking to somebody out in Georgia. I'm trying to get out there because eleven years don't seem like a long time, but I was twenty seven when I started. I'm thirty eight now and I'm giving myself to the age of forty two. Work with as many people as possible and go out on a good note. So that's what COVID did for me. And now we're all able to bounce back and get out there. And it's just been it's just
been a roller coaster ride all year. So yeah, it really has pen And he brought up hanniball real foot before we started to wrap up. I just gonna say, you know, I met Hannibal on a handful of occasions. Yeah, all right, Well, I've seen him, you know, I had seen him for a few years, but I you know, only had some personal interactions with him over maybe a handful of times. And every time I ever had an interaction with him, the dude was nothing but phenomenal
and really enjoyed talking to him. We sent back. A matter of fact, it was widow Fest nineteen, I believe when he came to battles On and meet him, sit in the locker room and probably talked. I don't know, man, it was for a while and then he was like, I gotta go from We'll get out of here. And I said, all right, man, it was a good seeing you. And and I want to say that was probably one of the last times I saw him. Yeah, yeah, well he was my roommate. And uh, last time I
saw as the night before he died. So it was rough. But he was a great guy man, and we, uh, we were trying not to dwell on on the way his life ended. We just try to keep his memory alive. And U there's some guys, man, I know they probably listened to your podcast, so I want to give them a shout out. But Chris Chambers and Wayne Miller, they've been two of my biggest supporters. We've helped each other because Hannibal touched a lot of people, and they
were two of them right there out there at APW in Pensacola. And you know, me and Chris, we talk a lot, and I've Chris has helped me through some stuff. I've helped Chris through some stuff. And you know, our bond was because of Hannibal. So even though Hannibal's not here, Hannibal's still here. If that makes any sense, probably does, boy does so. But I'm gonna get a little emotional if we keep talking about that. Oh yeah, let's move on, because I do want to get
to the uh. I do want to get to the part this is. We're gonna close this out, and before we do, beautiful Bobby, You're always welcome on heres A podcast. But before we do close out, I'm gonna give you the floor. Man. You can plug whatever you want. I don't care what is it. Even if you've got cookies, just say you sell them right here. All right? Well, I mean I don't have a lot, but uh, you know, if you're in if you're in Mississippi Pascagoula Ocean Springs, we've got you. You can see Bobby in
both of those towns next month. Um, if you want to travel, if you want to see a different breed of pro wrestling, come over to Louisiana on August twenty first, we got Action Packed Wrestling and Whitecastle Louisiana. Bobby's going up against a matter of fact, we talked about this as a while ago. Bobby is going against Staying Mike. He's trying to come after that ap W Heavyweight Championship. So you got plenty of plenty of time to
plan. Tickets are tickets are cheap, might be a little drive, but it's always cool to go to another town and see what another company can give you. So that's that's that's it, man, that's my plug. Hey, Like I said, I do appreciate you coming on the show as always. Man, all right, Man, I appreciate it, and I go. One more thing is the Kings of Wrestling Podcasts, the best podcast out there. Yep, what I had to man, I had to, Man, I had It's as a pleasure. I loved it. I loved the
little stamp you put on there. That was great. Anytime, man, just give me a call. Thank you, all right, buddy, this is Boom's Audio Zoe Production. What's your thinking, Zoe