Jimmy Wang Yang Reveals the Personal Struggles Behind His WWE Career: Wrestling History
Prime Time with Sean Mooney
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🗓️ 10 February 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the wrestling history channel. I'm Steve Fall, and on today's edition, I'm going to give you a classic interview with one of your favorite wrestlers. Enjoy. |
| 0:11.5 | What's going on, wrestling fans? It's I, Seafall. Today's a special day. The book dropped Jimmy Wang Yang, your book is here. How you doing today? |
| 0:20.0 | Howdy, Steve? It's your boy, Jim |
| 0:22.2 | Wang Yang. I'm back again with my boy, Steve, you know, like, yeah. Yeah, but yeah, today I'm not |
| 0:29.7 | Jimmy Wang Yang. I'm James Young. Young's time. Author, Jimmy Wayne Yang, James Young. Kind of weird coming off the tongue you know but like |
| 0:40.0 | yeah so the book dropped today Amazon paperbacks on jazzy yane.com the audio books on Spotify |
| 0:51.0 | Apple Barnes & Noble. |
| 0:56.9 | Yeah, so everybody. |
| 1:01.7 | Now, is the first page of your book announcing that you actually don't have an accent because my mind is melting and I'm a little disappointed. |
| 1:05.1 | I think we're going to wrap this up right now. |
| 1:07.6 | Yeah, sorry about that. |
| 1:09.5 | Sorry to break character. But, like, yeah, it actually does start. |
| 1:13.6 | I was born in Hollywood, California. So like, you know, so not deep down in the south, you know, so. |
| 1:21.7 | I'm, I don't understand who you, who you are right now. I'm supposed to be talking to the Asian cowboy, but it's fine. |
| 1:28.1 | It's fine. |
| 1:29.3 | With this book, though, coming out, |
| 1:31.8 | are we going to hear all of these ridiculous stories |
| 1:36.2 | of how you were pitched the Asian cowboy gimmick? |
| 1:41.1 | You know, this actually goes before Jimmy Wing Yang. |
| 1:44.3 | So this, this like, this like tells about my ridiculous childhood, you know, like, and how I got into professional wrestling, how I got into WCW, my time in WCW, my time in Japan, and then coming back as Akio. |
| 2:03.2 | You know, I know a lot of people know who Jimmy Wang Yang is, but they don't know |
| 2:09.0 | the Japanese gangster Akiyo, you know, like, so this story starts from my childhood, and it is |
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