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Friday, August 16: Wrestling Spotlight: Weekly Champions Tri - State Wrestling
Hey, welcome in to wrestling spotlight, Gerald Bentley here joined by a tag team making their long awaited triumphant return to the ring for Tri-State wrestling coming up soon. We'll talk to them and get the details. It's rock hard chair, me, Galway, who I've known for 10 years now and big Eddie Falls. You're watching this on wrestling spotlight. The best place to get it is to download that true GV plus app. You can get it wherever you get your apps. You'd also see us on sports.tv, carbon TV and if you have a TCL TV, just slam the plus button. We're right there on every one of them. But hey, wrestling has made its resurgence. I know Jeremy from our other line of work going back years. Big Galway getting back into the ring and big Eddie Falls, what made you guys decide to get back in the ring? Well, I can speak for me, getting back to the ring is like, it's always been in my blood. I've always been a pro wrestling fan. I grew up, you know, watching pro wrestling. I was a big Hogan fan and then in the 90s, obviously, you know, the two era, the rock. You know, those are guys that always influenced me. The whole Hogan, I was kidding. That's what got me into lifting weights and bodybuilding later on, but I've always, you know, been into it. But what made me want to get back into it the most was just getting back together with, you know, these guys, it's me and one of my other close friends, you know, we had a wrestler with Ace, he's on the show with us, but an opportunity for us to get back together. And the other thing about it is, too, man, is after we left, we, you know, when we were wrestling 98, 99, 2000, 2001, back in the matter, you know, time were central state wrestling. I mean, we were what made it, what made it happen, daddy or big daddy was the heavyweight champ and me and Ace were the tag team champ. So I was hard court champ for a while. I was back before wrestling was big and, you know, we, things happened. We got greeter opportunities when you check it out and then these fools that were wrestling on the seventh, they, you know, they try to make a name for themselves and capitalize after we left and we're coming back to claim what's ours. All right. Yeah. I mean, a long time coming, right? Revenge is the dish best served cold. Absolutely. Twenty-five years, best sold served cold. Now, I mean, we, we show central states wrestling on the channel and I think that's where, to say how removed you were from it, you and I actually worked together and I had no idea that you had been in wrestling because if I did, you know, we would have talked about it because here I've got a wrestling TV channel and I know obviously I knew you, you did fitness training, you worked out, but I didn't know that you had actually actively wrestled. It didn't come up until central states wrestling came back and I was working and sponsoring it and then we started talking and you told me about your, your history, including some run ins with a guy now known as daddy ass, Billy Gunn and just wondering what was the drive that took you from that just talking about maybe going to a central states wrestling show a couple of years ago to put it in the work to get back in the ring because people who just watched this on TV and haven't actually gotten into the ring, it's not easy. No, the ring itself is so hard and the physicality and the brutality of your body is just insanity. But to give the feeling of going out in the crowd cheering for you and you leaving everything in that ring for those fans, broken bones, concussions and just being so exhausted, you can barely get to the locker room and laying in the locker room, the ice cold floor trying to cool down in your buddies, unzipping your boots for you and helping you get unfinished. You never forget that feeling and you want it all the time. And it's just a chance for us to give back and it's different, we're 49 years old. It's a lot different, but we're just training even harder than we've ever turned. We're going to give the fans the same show we did when we were 20. Yeah, so what kind of time commitment have you guys put in to get ready to get back in the ring because I know the amount of time I would have to put in because I wrestled amateur style, but I know just getting in and doing an amateur match, man, I would need to put in weeks or months of work to be able to go and have a, you know, presentable match and actually not embarrass myself. How many of the time have you guys put in? The greatest thing about us and AIDS, the regulators, is we are all, none of us have ever stepped away from the gym in 30 years. So that's a huge part and we're doing, we're actually training with the Central State wrestling guys, moonshine Mantell, now in 30-30, we'll six hours a week. Okay, at the KC Wrestling Academy. Yeah, now we should be going nine, ten hours a week, our bodies can't take, I mean, six hours, it's ridiculous, but thank God we stayed, because I don't know about you, but the biggest thing for me is like as far as getting back into the ring. And for the first time in 25 years, it's like he said, we have never left the gym, so I mean, you know, we still got the aesthetic look to it and the strength and those kind of things to a lot of those moves, but you know, the hard thing for me was getting back in and like really, you know, doing that high impact cardio, I just work for ropes, you know, like, you know, you get your adrenaline going, it's like being in the street fight. You get out of breath pretty quickly and that was the hardest, that's been the toughest thing, at least for me, is, you know, not necessarily the lifting weights and the strength part of it, we stuck with that, but just sure, I said, get the ring, shape, cardio wise, those kind of things. And then like you said, you know, the first time I took a bump in 25 years, but it's just that just a bat went off a clothes line, I felt like I was in a car accident. Yeah. So it's this no joke, man. I took a front roll hit the ring and stabbed half of my hamstring first, but it happens, right? Shane McMahon, the last time he was in a wrestling ring, tours hamstring, and that was it. Well, you look at guys like that too, and you hear like the dance, I don't know what the paper view was, but he crawled in the ring and he couldn't get up because he tore both his quads. That's the thing that happened to Triple H, you know, when we came back to sports quads, I mean, and that's just free stuff like that happens. So we just try to prepare, you know, your body as much as you can for what you know is going to be what you're going to come up to in the ring. Yeah. And here on a national level, we're all about the same age as CM Punk. Yeah. Just had this, this was crazy. He just had his first one on one televised match in the WWE this past Saturday. And it's the first time he's been in a ring now for a one on one match since Christmas. He had a dark match against Dom Mysterio. Yeah. What in about the last year, he's had a broken foot and tore both triceps. Yeah. And he's had a total of maybe what eight matches in the last two years? Yeah. So I mean, it's there and that's a high level full time professional with, I mean, you know, WWE, AEW, they have the equivalent of an NFL training staff. Yeah. So I mean, it's not, it's not a joke. I mean, you can seriously get hurt. Yeah. Well, I, like I said, but when we wrestle last time, we were talking about this and we were down in the ring last time, you know, there's different things you got to eat that way that time, you know, out of the ring and, you know, get your timing back and those kinds of things. But I'm 20 pounds heavier now from bodybuilding when I completed that than I was whenever we wrestled before. Yeah. So you got to be used to that. You know, there's certain things, you know, your body goes flying. You know, you got an extra point, you're not used to that period and it makes a difference, you know. And I'm the other way, I'm 60 pounds lighter. So my body hurts a lot more. Sure. Hey, let's, let's go ahead and get the date and it's tri-state wrestling. When does the return match occur? September 7th, St. Joe at no, no, or time out. Time out. Time out. Time out. Yeah. All right. All right. We'll be the main event around 7.30. Okay. In tri-state wrestling, it's been around for a long time. They hit, hit the areas like what, really, what Missouri, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, St. Joe a lot. Come down into Gladstone occasionally. And good shout out to John Rockhol for letting us do this. He reached out to Steve Ward, who started Central States War, Central States Wrestling. We call him, he reached out to him and was kind enough. He was like, "You guys have the main event to do whatever you want." For a promoter to do that is just, that's unheard of. Yeah. So you appreciate that. Yeah. Absolutely. Well, and for people that are watching this that, well, let's be honest, if somebody's watching an independent pro wrestling channel, they've probably been doing an independent pro wrestling channel. But if they haven't been, what's the difference? What do you get going to an independent pro wrestling show versus going to see the WWE or EW? You're up close. I mean, you're right there in the middle of the action, one thing. So you can see, if you're a real fan and you know what's going on, you can see there and be part of it. You can see what's actually happening and really feel like you're part of the action. Even if you're just a casual fan of the sport, you just get more involved, you're up close. People, they get to touch you and grab you, you're close in the crowd and things like that. We don't always get that experience in a WWE event, things like that. I think the other thing, the other big thing is too, they get to come early and meet us all and hang out with us all, just like we're all buddies and family. So you don't get that at the big shows and else you have lots of money with the VIP. I don't care if you come as a general mission, you can come hang out with me for 20 minutes before talk, ask me questions, take pictures and it means the world to some of these, to our fans. We're nobody without them. We're just a guy walking down the street if we don't have fans. So I spend as much time as I can with those fans. I mean, we go to kids birthday parties, I've gone to show them, tell it schools for kids and they still talk about it. They write letters to us. I think the difference with the independent, I mean, you're not going to go have whole code and just come to your show and tell them. You know, yes, they're way more famous to us, but to these kids, these local fans, we're like the biggest thing since they've ever seen it, so it's just so me. I think the other side of that too is just to add on what he said, it's like, you know, it's like in the indie leagues, you know, you never know who out of that, it's going to make, you know, like, we're all trying to get noticed by somebody, maybe get a shot at, you know, WWE, AEW, one of those places and get an opportunity there. You never know who out of that is going to get that, he's actually going to get picked up or get noticed. So it's like, some of these guys, it's like going to watch in a, you know, like a big time college football game and see it as a future star, you know, you don't get that, you know, everywhere else. So I think that's one of the things that any of you do is wrestling. Yeah, 100% true because you are seeing that and here we work with FSW, Future Stars of Wrestling from Las Vegas, well, the guy who main event at SummerSlam, Solo Saccoa, he's in the FSW Wrestling Hall of Fame. Yeah. And he is. Awesome about the indie leagues because you can go and see somebody in an armory somewhere, you know, and you don't know they could blow up and be the next big thing. It's just a matter of getting the right eyes on me. So that's the cool. Well, state's wrestling about a year ago, the bounty hunter Brian Keith. Now on AEW is the bad apple, Brian Keith with Chris Jericho, he was in the CSW a year ago. Yeah, come on, Ramsey, the little blue dragon, she's on wow now as terrorist strike. So yeah, you do see that movement, it's, it's definitely real and I think the independent wrestling is bigger now and more more prevalent than it ever was because you have these channels to get out there, to get exposure, to get on TV, on YouTube, on channels like this on pro wrestling TV and it's driving that momentum kind of drafting behind a EEW and WWE hitting heights that really haven't been seen since the Monday night wars. Yeah, it just takes a few guys like you to bring it to a whole nother level. I mean, and you're just doing it for the love of it, but it makes it great for us because we're getting exposure. We've never had in our life. I've never done a podcast. When we did it, when we did it, we were talking about this today in '98, '99, wherever we were wrestling, we didn't even have social media back then. So have the opportunity to, we didn't even have cell phones back then. So like you don't have cameras and stuff like that. Yeah, no, you needed an agent to be at the show. Yeah. Yeah. And it makes it, it opens up a whole new world for EDD, the wrestling, whenever you have those outlets now, people doing what you do, we have, like I said, social media and all that kind of stuff too, where we can do all those kinds of things. Well, and when a promotion can take even literally as simple as a phone and an extra set of lens, have three of those, and somebody who knows how to video at it, and you can slap together a television program that is broadcast worthy. Buy yourself basically for free. It changes the whole game because you don't need to have a big multi-camera studio. You don't need to spend a lot of money to get those matches out there and do it in an entertaining way. It's so much more accessible now. I think that, and we talked about this in me too, I think the other thing about that is it's like now that you've got, you know, like you said, all the outlets that we talked about, anything wrestling, it's a lot easier like to, for people to see and fall along with the storylines too, whereas before, you know, they have to, they didn't go to every show, it's hard to follow the storyline of what's actually happening and things like that. Sure. You can actually build better storylines and people can follow the rivalries and do that kind of stuff much easier now, which I think draws a lot more people in, because if you don't need to follow the whole story, you don't know what's going on, you know, you may lose some people like that, so I think that's another advantage today. Now here, what's been, what's been the biggest shock in getting back in on a positive, what have you liked the most, and what's the thing that's kind of shocked you the most in a negative way? For me, for me, the most positive thing is I haven't really connected except for like Galloway and Ace in 25 years with these guys, and we're on this big, big text thread, and we talk trash all day after each other, and we are having more fun with that. I think we should do a comedy roast instead of the actual match, I think we would make way more money, so just having that brotherhood again, and just be able to tell somebody they're a fat shit, and you want to beat them, and they laugh about it, it's just amazing and the thrill of being back in the ring, and I'm doing this for my wife and my son. Okay, so they can see you in the ring, yeah, this is huge for me, and the negative part is, is my God does the ring hurt, it hurts so bad, it's intriguing, but I think anybody that wrestles your sick, you have to have a sickness, because I hate the pain, but I love the pain, because it just makes you feel alive, yeah, so what about you? For me, the biggest thing about it that I like about coming back is it does, it's very nostalgic, and it takes me back when we first got into it, and I don't know about you, but we talked about working in the same business, that kind of stuff, and you get it, wrestling was a dream, something that we always wanted to be involved in, and then real life comes along, and you get sucked away from that a little bit, and I get the opportunity to do this again, it takes you back to those days a little bit, and it just makes you, it gets you away from the normal everyday life, or if everything needs to be so routine after a while, and so will not, and this gets me an opportunity to go back and do something that I love, something that I enjoy, be with my best friends, you know, and do this again, and go out and beat some people to ask that we haven't had any idea, so that's always fun. The downside for me is, I mean besides the actual physical pain, the downside for me of it is, it makes me wish that I would have not taken that time away and kept doing that for, you know, five years, and see what happened, you know what I mean? So I think that's the downside for me, you know, you've got some, you've got people out there like Ric Flair that are wrestling for, you know, 50 years, and people were always like, "Why are you stepping back and doing this after 25 years?" And it's just like, man, because you know, you just got that, that drive, that it's still the love for it, so I mean, those are the two things for me. But I totally understand that because, you know, going to Glory Pro, launching their shows, they're at the South Broadway Athletic Club, it's an old boxing gym with a bar attached to it, like a quarter mile away from the Budweiser headquarters building. It's so close to the Budweiser building, they do Clydesdale tours of the area. I mean, people will drive you around. So I mean, it's a neat atmosphere. And they have a group that's out there doing shows every month, they do a four hour show, every month they draw 600, 700 people. And it's, you know, it's a really, really well done production with the guys given if they're all. And I think that's important because what you said, Jeremy, and you know, you get so stuck in your job and just going through the motions and sleepwalking through days, that's not living. You may as well try to do something and be a little disruptive and just challenge yourself and see what you can do. Yeah, I haven't felt this happy in years. And I have a good life and I'm happy, but this is different. This is just like, yeah, I'm getting like a little kid of you. I'm nervous all the time. I got, I'm thinking, Oh, man, every day at work, I'm gonna do this move. I'm gonna do that move. I'm gonna, Oh, man, I'm gonna toss some shit on the phone. I mean, it's just, it's made cutting promos and stuff like that. Every single day, man, there's nothing more fun than cutting a promo. And it's like, you know, talking shit to somebody. That's fun, man. So yeah, it's just, it's just, it's an escape from the every day, at least for me at where I'm at and at this point. And I don't think it's totally understand it. It's just like I said, you get a chance when you get a chance to opportunity to do something like this, you got to jump at it because this is not so everybody gets to do. Yeah, I mean, I, I got into, got back into doing some sports talk during COVID because you know, we had a lot of free time and, you know, when I was in grad school, I was a morning drive radio host in Cleveland and WCW was on the rotation. They would come once a month to Cleveland. I got to interview Lord Stephen Regal got to interview Diamond Dallas page and, you know, it was a lot of fun. Got to hop into the ring, do some ring announcing and wanted to do that, you know, and you realize now you have the means to do it, you're able to broadcast and with WWE and EEW competing against each other and making each other work harder. I think that's really brought back a lot of the independent territories and you're seeing just so much higher and wrestling for the reason you guys mentioned that everybody knows now they're one breakout match away on YouTube from being on the NWA being in Ring of Honor, being in TNA, being in AEW or even NXT. Look at what Joe Henry's done this month. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, he blew it up. He had the single most watched WWE clip on Twitter acts of the year. And that's the company with Cody Rhodes with Roman Reigns. Joe Henry has the number one video. So it just shows it's there. And it's just like, you know, if you're willing to put in the work and take the chances at it, I mean, like you said, you never know what the reward might be. And like I said, everybody wants that opportunity. But I think the other big thing about it is we kind of, I should have said this earlier deal, there's nothing else that's better than a whole crowd of people chanting for you or you know, you know, when you come out, there's no better eye or just nothing like it. Well, yeah, you can't duplicate that at your day job, right? No. And when you get that energy from the crowd, I didn't care. If they want to meet jump all 30 foot about me, I did it. If they, I brought my arm, I don't care. I brought every body form because it was just they gave me so much love and so much energy. I left it all on the table every night and didn't care. It was amazing. Absolutely. That's the one thing about it is because we were like, Oh, man, this ring is so hard. But you know what, we get after on the seven, we won't even notice it on the next day of my visit, right? Well, there's always time for pain when you're done. Now, I did ask you what, what was the thing that that made you drive away? I mean, I know what, what led me out of doing sports casting was the station got sold. I didn't want to move to a smaller city. And I said, well, you know, I had a job that everyone would want to do and yeah, time to move on. And you know, you don't really look back, but you still always want to do that, right? Because there's not many jobs that are equal to covering the World Series covering the NFL championship, covering the World Series of golf. I mean, you just can't duplicate that in a in a regular job. And it's just not there. And the same thing's true with wrestling. There's no job where you're getting to have the adrenaline in your veins. Everyone's out of control. They're waiting for you, you know, it doesn't happen in a regular job. So what was the thing that made you move away? And see, you got to feel great now getting back in, right? Yeah, for me, my father passed away right as I got into wrestling, and I was just wild. I was crazy. I was 320 pounds and I was doing all the Lucha Libre stuff. And I've made it. They were going to bring Terry Taylor's room and bring me into WCW's bump back low brother. We had matching tattoo. That's just taller. And the week I went down there, I broke both my arms before I went. So I ducked out. Went down there and that's when Vince bought him out. Terry Taylor got me a try out with WWF at the time, WWE, and went to since Connecticut. And I had to wrestle Eligante. And they wanted him, they told him he could have his contract back if he could jump off the top rope. So he body slammed me, climbed the rope, fell in his knees, went into my rib cage and crushed my ribs. And I was bleeding out my mouth, nose couldn't breathe, rolled out the ring. And they're like, there's 50 million people watching and you didn't finish your match, you're done. And they put them in the car and sent me straight to the airport and sent me home. And at that time, we both had college degrees. I had a business on this run. It was like, to me, that was an aha moment that one little injury you're done, one bad match you're done. I just want to live like that anymore. And I had the glory, I had all the injuries, I had a business, I had a good life. So I just left it. And I'm never quite talking about it. So it's just a chance for me to be active. Well, heck, and especially at that time, because, you know, like I've said a couple of times, there's competition again, at that time, that was before Ring of Honor, the NWA pretty much was gone. I mean, it kind of existed, but not really, is it a kind of gotten bled into WCW? When WCW went out, that ended a lot of people's careers, because there was one place to go then, and really the independence dried up too, because interest just dropped really fairly quickly. Vince, Vince won kind of, but he really sort of lost, because the interest just dropped down for about a decade. Yep, sure to. Yep. And for me, kind of a little bit different situation. So, I had kind of a decision to make, because I had a really good job opportunity that came up, that I either had to, okay, I'm going to change, I'm going to go after this and take it as far as I can go, as far as the wrestling goes, and see what happened, or I had to make a move and, you know, and move into a grower opportunity, and like, yeah, I basically kind of grow up at some point, because, you know what I mean? And it was a tough decision, because it's like, do I chase this, or do I take what I know is there, and then maybe try to come back to, you know, revisit this, which is what I decided to do. I was like, okay, you know, this is a gamble, and do I, like I said, do I roll the dice on it and go with what I, you know, this potential dream, and I looked around at the time, and there were some guys that were wrestling that had been in the game for 20, 30 years that were our age back then, that were, you know, had been chasing that dream forever, and, you know, they, you know, we're talking about guys that have some pretty rough entries, you know. Making $100 a night. Yeah, and it's like, you know, I hate to sound like, you know, the guy that, you know, gave up on his dream a little bit, but, you know, I had to kind of like make it a really five-changing decision, and that came out, but I always thought to us, like, you know, what, once I get, you know, a little established in life, you know, take this opportunity, you know, build a life for myself, there's nothing that says that I can't come back to this, maybe at some point, and take another shot at it, and here we are, you know what I mean? Yeah, well, it's got to be a great sense of accomplishment. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I have more freedom now to be able to do, you know, the things that I want to do, and like I said, I'm just thankful that this opportunity came up. Who knows where it's going to go, or what's going to happen from it, but, you know, I'm here to, you know, put everything into it, and, and, and you're giving another shot, so. Well, and, you know, I think there was a benefit from pro wrestling too, because you and I shared a lot of, a lot of career paths, and the jobs that we do, it's super helpful to have no fear, Zero Mira, to go and talk to anybody and say anything, definitely have that ability. Exactly, you got it. I mean, you've known me for a while, and, like I said, we've all, we were just talking about the last time that we did a radio show, a few radio shows that we first started doing this, but like, it's never been a problem for me talk. I've never been, I've always been pretty outgoing, and that's always helped, obviously, the professions that you and I have been, same thing with your, you know, you've always been having your own business, those kind of things. I've owned, I've owned 15 different businesses. You got to have a ball size of Kansas just to even get through that. But my thing is, I don't regret leaving. I did something that millions and millions of people wish they could do. I did it at a high level. I made it quick. I got out with, I had some, I had my health, I still had my brain, I made good living, I've had a family. I don't remember the decision getting out, and I definitely don't regret getting into wrestling. It was just amazing, amazing. Yeah, because everybody says they want to do, but not everybody's willing to go put in the work, right? That's the same thing. There's a lot of things too. Like, you know, when I got into bodybuilding and competing and that, you know, like a lot of people talk about wanting to do it, but they're not wanting to put in time on what it takes to do it. Same thing with wrestling, you know, everybody talks about wanting to do it. But, you know, not everybody just wants to come down to it. Not everybody's been taking facts here, shot to the end multiple times. So, everybody wants to go to heaven. Nobody wants to die. Exactly. We went through so many people in the trials, because our trials, we make them take bumps, and then we line them up and give them chest flaps for 10 minutes. 99% of the people are like, "No, I'm good. I'm not doing this." They're good at the chops, yeah. What's funny then is back then, you know, talking about getting in, and you hear about the stories of the guy, you know, like the bread hearts and all the stuff that they did back then. But, I mean, you know, for us, like I said, for guys that never didn't come from wrestling families like that, like those guys did. When we started wrestling, we were kind of getting into it and teaching ourselves, you know, and trying to learn from people. But, we had guys like, Hacksaw, Butch Reed, that came in. And then, I wrestled Dave Burkett. He was an ECW guy. Michael Sandrich threw me out of five stairs at the St. Jessica. I've never been beat with the chair so many times as I was that night. I still wouldn't have asked him. But... They wanted to see if we were talking up to be in the game. Butch Reed, all four of my earrings out, spit them in my face, told me never were earrings. Start clutching me as hard as he could. He beat shit on me, got the bum off, clever, good ten. And everything, you're going to be all right, kid, you're tough. I don't know what to cry. I don't think I'll mess up. But we got, we did get the opportunity. Like I said, we had to kind of learn on our own until we finally got some people coming in that to really work with us. That's one of the things that I really like about, you know, where we're going out and working out. I'll just treat it. They have one of the things that I think is a big advantage to guys today is, is they have guys that are, you know, do nothing but like have schools and teach them how to do the basics, running the roads, taking bumps, you know, all that kind of stuff. You didn't see that as much back then. It was a lot of guys that we would watch what was happening on, you know, Monday night. And then we would go and try and pull that same stuff on in the ring. And that's where we put a lot of our matches together. Because you didn't have the same like that. We taught ourselves for a year and a half. We'd watch TV and then go replicate. We didn't have to go. Yeah. You didn't have, and Moonshine Mantell who runs the Kansas City Pro Wrestling Academy, he's a terrific wrestling. Yeah. I mean, he's a guy who honestly should have had that break to get on the biggest stage. And he, you can go watch SWE Wrestling from a couple of years ago. It's available on YouTube and watch some of those matches Moonshine had there. And some of the ones that end in Central States wrestling, the guys are terrific wrestling. Yeah. Pretty holly. Oh my god. But he's a great teacher. We went down there and walked in working with the guys, you know, that he's teaching now. And like I said, that was one of the things that we immediately came out. It's like, you know, we wish we would have had somebody that taught us the way that they have, they, I don't think they realized today a lot of the guys in there that are in the ring said younger guys. What did he got? We started because we didn't have guys that knew the business like they did. We had people come in, you know, eventually he said after about a year and a half, but we didn't have, we didn't start out with every week. Somebody coaching us like, what's this? You know, our, our punches look good. Our kicks look good because we did them for real because we didn't know any of them. That's the one way to do it. I mean, how we, how we in moonshine taught us more in 10 minutes than little tricks that we didn't know for 20 years. I mean, yeah, I just hope anybody that wants to do wrestling, go to that school. Those are two of the top coaches going to find it. I mean, I can't. It's just off just off downtown Kansas City. Nice, nice convenient, good area. I mean, it's, it's right there. It's just off the highway. Yeah. And those guys. Oh, nice. Oh, I got it. Nice. Yeah. And they know, they, they know the service stuff. So like I said, it's nice to be able to bounce ideas off of them and pick up things. You know what, again, we did it for a few years and, and, and we got some pretty good opportunities about a lot of people, things like that. But you could, especially after being gone for as long as we have, it's always nice to get in and work with somebody that's got that kind of, that of knowledge and experience that you can always pick stuff up for. So. Yeah. Well, hey, let's get one more mentioned in for the Tri-States wrestling show coming up. Absolutely. September 7th. What's the place? Brain damage. Time out. Time out. Time out of the center. That's our manager of this. Time out of the center in St. Joe. Six o'clock. So. And I just want to point out that it's the regulator. So I don't even know who that one dude is that we're wrestling. I know we're going, what was it? What was that? Chubby just, the ginger, the ginger, the ginger. Yeah. Yeah. The silver, yeah. Yeah. The silver, or something. I don't know. All I know is the last time we saw you 25 years ago, we smacked your ass all around the rain in Cameron, Missouri. I know those other rest of the dark side. Anyway. Memory. Okay. Memory lane. Just bringing it out. Regulators mouth up, baby. There you go. Drag them through their memories. Absolutely. A trail of broken dreams. Hey, let's take up. We'll take a quick break here, play the station ID on wrestling. It's finally come back to weekly champions. Here we go. Hey, what's up, guys? This is Tybell. We're at Alonkha, and you are watching wrestling. So now, Hey, it's time for the weekly champion segment. I'm just going to ask you guys, who's your champion of the week? Could be anybody in the world of pro wrestling? I am in love with, is it vicarra, the Mexican Viking? From AEW? Oh my God. He is amazing. He is my. He is amazing. Is that his name? Oh, how can you learn the Viking go? Yes. Oh my God. Yeah. I love that guy. I love that guy. Yeah, he is amazing. We saw him in person when AEW came into the cable dumber arena in Independence and got a match against Kenny Omega. Yeah, he is amazing. It was awesome. He's my favorite guy. My father. He's warm. They're all the talent these guys have. Now, it's just insane. Insane. Gosh, that's tough for me. I'm going to have to say, yeah. Yeah, it's a big day. Yeah, it could be him. I know. If I had to pick somebody, I guess, from today's wrestling, it would be probably, and I'm not a huge. I mean, I don't think he's like the goat, like everybody says. I mean, I think he's got a big push. But I mean, the fact that Roman Reigns came back in this, I think, Europe, so he's probably my champion of the week, I would say, just because there's time off rolling back. But I'm not that I'm an Alex, and I can't say that I'm a huge trainer. I got overall. But for the week, I would say that's him just separate. I'm making a sign off and making a big appearance back. I think that's yeah. I would say, I would say for this week, Roman Reigns too, because he went from being the top heel in the company to being one of the biggest faces in the company in about 30 seconds and said nothing. Yes. Yeah, that's pretty impressive. That takes some talent. That's my little champion for the week. Yeah, there you go. And you guys, here you go, you get the wrestling spotlight championship for the week. We'll send you a wrestling spotlight, Val, if you can put it at your office. There you go. I'll send you out. Well, hey, thanks for joining us here. We'll get back with you guys after the big match, after the win, I'm sure, coming off to number seven at the timeout event center in St. Joe, Missouri. If you're in Kansas City, it's only 45 minutes. It's a straight shot. Super easy down I 29. You can go see them in action. September 7th. The doors open at six. The bell rings at seven. Tri-states wrestling. Thanks a lot for joining us, guys, on wrestling spotlight. Stay tuned for more sports and entertainment right here. And go ahead and download that True TV plus app or watch it on sports TV or carbon TV. Wrestling spotlight, I'm Gerald Bentley. Thanks.