Yeah.

Very exciting stuff.

MLP Mayhem television tapings Wednesday nights at midnight on TSN and available worldwide on the MyAEW app.

This thing's star-studded.

We worked with Scott D'Amore for years, and you can look.

I'm looking at the card in front of me right now.

Of course, the inaugural MLP World Tag Team Champions, the world-famous Good Brothers.

yeah and it's going to be right here at sinclair college this weekend you can watch it on tv because it is sold out and these shows do come regularly though to windsor with scott demore from windsor uh and uh and this this whole new league and maple leaf pro wrestling that he's formed and like you said like scott is so entrenched and so involved and has been for years now scott and i played baseball together back in the day and went to high school together like

absolutely and doc the last time you were seen on wwe tv you were the straight edge enforcer for cm punk yeah um how satisfying was it for you to come back with this new uh new act which was already incredibly over very well received was it was was it

yeah uh it was a lot different for me because i've said this uh in interviews before You know, before I go to Japan and join the Bullet Club, you know, I had a 10-year career, 10-year plus career, but I was always playing a character that was presented to me by somebody else that wasn't true to form, wasn't true to me personally.

And going to Japan and joining these guys a few months after they started this thing, turning into the phenomenon that it did, it gave me the confidence to be myself.

So it was the first time that I could be me and figure out what the big LG or whatever drew really was.

Uh, and it was, I became comfortable.

And I think that, uh, being comfortable as a performer is key.

So it felt a hell of a lot better than going out and pretending to be something I wasn't, whether it be the fake Kane or Festus or, you know, the straight edge society guy.

It's an interesting spot.

So what's your Mount Rushmore of your biggest inspirations that kinda shaped who you are in the ring?

Dude, I wanna hear, I wanna hear Caleb first.

He's the featured guest, and I think that, uh, Caleb is a really, uh ...

One thing that people don't say about Caleb, he- he's so capable in any role he gets put in.

And one of the people that go on my Mount Rushmore of inspirations is Terry Funk, and I think that Terry Funk was a guy that could be put in any situation and do well.

But I've seen Caleb succeed as Suicide.

I've seen Caleb succeed as the guy that they needed a guy to work with somebody coming into the territory.

Scott Hall.

Gallows?

Yeah.

AJ beat the house, but I would bet this beautiful house that I'm sitting in right now that he will be back.

And I mean, just yesterday we were discussing our sons getting in the business.

My son's getting in the business right now.

AJ immediately wanted to watch a match.

He's talking about his son's interest in the business.

You know, I think he was weighing his options, and I think ultimately s- uh, retiring felt like the right one, right, right way to go.