Danny Havoc

And then when I was in college, I don't know what it was, but some, actually, I do know what it was.

It was Eddie Ponce and Chikara and guys like Danny Havoc and Sammy Collin and ZDW.

And they made me go, I want to try this again.

I was in college, and in my mind, I was like, all right, I'm doing the responsible thing, but let me give this a shot and see what happens for fun.

Why isn't everybody being so nice? I just wish...

If people learn anything, it's just being cool to each other.

As Danny Havoc always said, it's nice to be nice.

And, you know, if anybody ever ends up in an unfortunate predicament like myself, being nice has kept me in people's good, positive thoughts and prayers and whatever they do.

And at Rockstar, Ron Mathis was like, he gave me, I, he had a match where he gave me, like, four tombstones in a row, one off the middle rope, a power bomb on the floor.

Um, 'cause he was like, "Did you wrestle Drake at the CZW..." He wrestled Danny Havoc at, like, Cinco de Mayo.

Yeah.

And he got, like, he was like a, a fill in for a death match.

Actually, there, and I think there was, like, a somewhat kinda home run derby type match too earlier in the show.

Um, but yeah, but it was Night of Infamy, and the main event was Danny Havoc and Drake Younger versus the Nap Town Dragons in the barbed wire s- type match.

And, like, weird story, in, in November I had, I main event my first CZW show, and it's Night of Infamy against two guys that the Nap Town Dragons trained.

Oh, wow.

I didn't wanna be just, like... 'Cause there's, there's different kinds of death match guys, in my opinion.

And, like, some of them are guys who you only wanna see do the death match stuff.

But then there's some of them, like guys like, like Danny Havoc and Masada and Matt Tremont who they can, they can fucking go and they can wrestle, but they're so good at the death match thing and that's become like the bread and butter, and that's always what I wanted to be.

So when I first started training wrestling, I wanted to do it, in my opinion, what was the right way.

It's so, uh, s- it's, it's just so sad that like everybody has had the same thought of AEW puts on amazing tribute shows.

Can we never see one again? I'm sure Jon Moxley feels like well too rehearsed in losing friends in wrestling 'cause like even people forget, like Danny Havoc or whatever, like, um, there's he between his time on the indies to now has like there's, there's too many people that he's had to do this with and for, maybe not on this stage, but of like being a guy that gets pointed to for these situations.

Um, he, he really just like really feels like the dad.

Like when he was hugging Marina, I was like, "That's how my dad acts when I'm sad," [laughs] "and I need a hug." Like legit of like m- my dad'll be moved by the things that I'm upset about more often than not, but he like holds it together for me, you know what I mean? So, um, so anyway, we can take it back to, to the beginning, but like just kinda overall thoughts, I'm like watching Jon Moxley.

It was pay, pay everything forward.

And tho- those were my first trainers in wrestling, so, like, you know, I, I was helping Danny Havoc's cla- Danny Havoc when he came, and he started two months after me.

You know, I was helping guys like, um, you know, uh, Joe Gacy and Lince Dorado, and, uh, uh, guys like LJ Cruz and Ryan Slater and Ophidian and Amasis who were part of that group who came in.

Um- Yeah, just because that's, that's how I was taught and then, and I liked, I like teaching.

I also feel bad for Mox and the Death Riders too.

Mox lost Danny Havoc, now Pac.

RIP Pac." Um, Shadow says, "We lost a good one.

He'll be missed.

I'm going to cry.

For five years, Danny Havoc tried to get me booked.

Five years.

And once he did, I wasn't going to let him down.

so just don't give up yeah that's good advice same question for you Schlack you earned your fair share of tournaments of death before winning it last year what would be your advice for the entrants today

just to Piggyback on what he was saying before I get into that question.

When me and Danny Havoc were in Japan on tour, I don't think I've ever seen another human being drink more whiskey in a three-week period in my entire life.

Anyway, he's a great man.