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🗓️ 24 March 2017
⏱️ 71 minutes
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0:00.0 | TALK IS CHERICO BEMY TALK IS CHERICO TALK IS CHERICO TALK IS CHERICO MAMA TALK IS BEMY |
0:13.2 | All right welcome to TALK IS CHERICO it's the part of Thunder and Rock and Roll and today |
0:17.5 | another one of my oldest friends in the wrestling business is here King Haku |
0:21.6 | yeah brought a Tongo from Danga I met him when I was working in Mexico and he took me under his |
0:25.7 | wing I would a lot of great times there we fought the whole airport security at one point which |
0:30.2 | we'll talk about we were in Japan together at great times there WCWWW we traveled the world |
0:36.0 | and a lot of people would say he's the toughest man in the wrestling business I would agree with you |
0:40.8 | I would agree with them and I'm sure you would agree with me if if you saw some of the things that |
0:44.5 | I've seen from Tongo who is the nicest guy calm Tongo because that's his real name sorry King Haku |
0:49.7 | he's the nicest guy in the world but when you get him rolling man the stories for decades |
0:55.5 | about how tough he is and about the people that he's beaten up over the years we don't get into that |
0:59.2 | too much because we don't want to risk any lawsuits but we're gonna talk all about him we're gonna |
1:03.7 | talk about growing up on the small island of Tongo close to Samoa and how he went from sumo to |
1:09.3 | pro wrestling in Japan he started out as a sumo wrestler in Japan that changed his pro wrestler he |
1:14.0 | started with tag teaming with his cousin the barbarian and of course the legendary Andre the Giant |
1:18.6 | meeting tenru genshiro our boss in wrestling and romance and how Vince McMahon ultimately found him |
1:24.8 | brought him to the double to be and gave him the king haku gimmick it's a great conversation filled |
1:29.6 | with some of her crazy stories together from our time in Mexico it was great to reconnect with Tongo |
1:34.1 | from Tongo so King Haku is coming up and so is another big Jericho network announcement there's |
1:39.4 | another new show joining the network I'm gonna tell you all about it right after this show right |
1:43.2 | after King Haku so stay tuned for that I'll give you a hint it's not a wrestling show but it's |
1:47.0 | definitely something you dig and something that I dig a lot and you hear a lot of it here on |
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