The upcoming presentation is a two-man power trip of wrestling podcast production.

What's up, guys? It's a phenomenal AJ Stilegen and listen to the two-man power trip.

Hey, John.

Cool, man. What's going on? We're ready to go, or what?

Podcast. to go or what? Oh, change! Huh! The I'm I'm Hello and welcome to the two-man power trip of wrestling. I am your host, J.P. John Paz. And joining me today is a former W.W.E. a referee. He worked for the W.B. for over 30 years. He has Mr. Mike. Keota. Mike, welcome in to the two-man power trip. Yeah, thanks for having me on. John, appreciate it. John Paz, what's happening?

Hey, not too much. I know we're just kind of talking all fair. Fellow Jersey boy, which is awesome. Yeah, right? Fellow Jersey boy. Born in Bayonne, raised up in Cheriole and 74. Missing Jersey a little bit, but I've been kind of away from Jersey for a while. so i've lived in Texas for about 13, 14 years and now in Tampa, Florida. So enjoying the weather here.

Oh, I was wondering why you had that Texas number. I was like, oh, Texas. I didn't realize you

live in Texas. Okay. Yeah, I was in Houston for about 13, 14 years over there. Oh, nice. Okay. Jersey, Texas,

interesting. Yeah, Florida. Yeah, now Florida.

That's it. Better beaches here too, so it's nice.

Join the town.

Three wrestling hotbeds, too.

That's true. That is true. That is true.

Now, when I think of like New Jersey and wrestling, I think of like Gorilla Monsoon, Joey Marilla, you know, obviously Bam, Bam, Candido and stuff. But you kind of broke in under Gorilla, right? Yep, under Gorilla Monsoon. And broke in, started doing a ring crew when I was a teenager, 15, 16 years old. That's when Gorilla had his own little territory from Vince Sr. And he had a ring, and Victor Keonez used to run a ring crew. And Joey Morel used to work at Tony Chimmo and I. And he used to make good money. It used to make $300, $400,500, $500,500 a night, working and selling programs and doing a ring crew and roves and all the other stuff. So I grew up with the old school wrestlers and did that.

And I went back full time when I was about 18.

That's awesome.

What was the name of the promotion with the guerrilla?

Well, no, it was Gorilla just had his own territory.

He worked for Vince Senior for the World Wrestling Federation.

But it was just being a terror.

He did like Spectrum, Wow, with New Jersey every Monday at the convention center on the boardwalk there every Monday in the

summertime. He did Salisbury, Maryland. We kind of had like the little northeast

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