Joey Mercury

... bottom rope.

I was like, "Someone's gonna get Joey Mercury'd in this match." I can f...

Like, it feels like it's about to happen.

Like you say, the pump kick, uh-

Gosh, he's fucking...

Joey Mercury.

Yeah, Sule Grimm.

Thank you, brother.

Joey Mercury.

Oh my goodness.

Lash Legend is terrible.

remember Shelton Benjamin at WrestleMania 25? I remember that.

Was it a Money in the Bank match when the springboard ladder caught, who was it, Joey Mercury? No, no, no.

That was just a random tag match.

I mean, my God.

And I remember sitting on the back of the car and the boys are sitting in the front and I just looked up and I was behind the Titantron and I could see, you know, the people over here and I could see the people over there beside the, and I was just like, this is really happening and i can thinking of it right now i can still feel that energy like i never knew this was a possibility and now i'm about to debut in little rock arkansas and then to piggyback off of that what it was taped at the time and then to have my whole family then watch.

So we went to Cliff's, I believe it was Cliff's apartment when it was, when Friday night Smackdown was debuted because we taped on a Tuesday and it was me, Cliff, Deuce, Joey Mercury, Jack Bull, like a bunch of us like watching Smackdown for a debut.

And I just knew my family was watching and it was like, I never knew this could be like they never knew this could happen.

I never knew this was a possibility.

And thankfully with the time that I spent down there, if I wasn't running around and taking care of things for the office and headquarters and this, that I got to spend time listening and learning ringside with the coaches, right.

Dr. Tom Pritchard, Norman Smiley, Joey Mercury, Ricky Steamboat, Dusty Rhodes for his art of communications classes.

And so you're learning, you're listening, and you're taking pointers.

And I'm figuring out how can I take that information and leverage it in what I'm doing on commentary.

Decent looking kid, had a lot of potential.

At the time, I was working with Joey Mercury.

Now, Joey is one of the great wrestlers of mine, and he's a genius when it comes to stuff in the ring.

And so I'm a big student of the game.

So if you don't want to play ball, you don't want to work with us, you can go back to the Ring of Honor and do things your way, but you need to start doing things our way.

And I was like, oh man, my dream's about to go up in smoke here.

And again, I go back to Joey Mercury, and I sat down with him many, because he was a coach at the time now too, flash forward, he's there with us a couple years later, and he's like, listen, you need to understand how to play the game.

Doesn't mean that you gotta change who you are, but you gotta play a role all the time.

I recently found out that in the Cruiserweight Tag Team Title Tournament, there was a team replaced 'cause they were, they were gonna have this one team in.

It was gonna be Joey Matthews and Christian York.

Okay.

And then WWF signed them to a developmental deal.