All Elite Wrestling Star Paul Wight

Yeah, that's the thing about wrestling that...

I mean, because there's all kinds of things that are daunting about wrestling.

You know, just like you said, the physical...

The things that you see people do as wrestlers, you really have to feel like, okay, you're asking for...

Well, you know, in many cases, you know, just like almost like a shortened longevity, you know, because you're there and you see it so much in like different people that have that have done that.

But it's not even just there's so much of the travel that's just got to like you can't even I don't think anybody can conceive.

what that means before they start and then it's just on you you know

well it's on you it's amazing what you can get used to um i think that becomes a part of it because when you're first starting out you work a little bit here and there then as you get deeper into it it's you know i did five days a week all over the world for 20 years

yeah

five days a week you know i would go out i would do uh Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, home Wednesday, Thursday, back out Friday.

That was just what we did for years.

And then every six weeks, there was a 10, 12, 14-day international tour every six to eight weeks.

Whether it was UK, Japan, South Africa, Australia, whatever that was.

And you get used to operating... with very minimal sleep because it's in the beginning it was like okay you'd wrestle in town a town b was 230 miles away well after the show at 11 30 at night 11 o'clock at night you would drive you know five hours to the next town check in early in the morning some hotels were cool sometimes someone warned you out by 11 a.m if you didn't negotiate a good uh checkout late thing there's always the service person that wants to clean the room that wants to get you the hell out so they can go home so they're beating on the door at 9 a.m and you've been asleep about four hours yeah so uh that's why i went to a tour bus for the last part of my career when i was running so heavy i started in 2006 i leased a tour bus like the comedians use sure I'd fly in.

I had the bus.

I had all my clothes on the bus.

I went through the airport with nothing but my wallet and my phone.

All my clothes on the bus.

My gear was on the bus.

And then it was like going to my apartment.

Right.

And then we'd do the tour.

Then the driver would head on to the next town for the next week.

And he would drive.

you know, six, seven hours overnight so that whatever main airport was on the way, I would book my ticket out there to fly direct home.