Ted DiBiase, WWE Hall of Famer - THROWBACK THURSDAY

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5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Ted DiBiase is a former WWE wrestler, who was inducted into their hall of fame in 2010.

Known as “The Million Dollar Man,” DiBiase was regarded as one of the greatest villains in pro wrestling history.

In his 25 year career in the wrestling industry, Ted wrestled in some of the biggest venues in the world: Madison Square Garden, The Superdome, The Skydive, The Tokyo Dome and Wembley Stadium.

Today, Ted is a full-time evangelist and motivational speaker. Officially ordained into the ministry, he speaks to churches, youth groups, men’s meetings, businesses and in public schools and universities all over the world. Ted is also a spokesman for THE SUNSHINE FOUNDATION, an organization that grants wishes to terminally ill and handicapped children

Ted is married to his wife Melanie and has three sons, Michael, Ted Jr, and Brett.

On this Throwback Thursday edition of the podcast, Ted shares his testimony of coming to faith in Christ.

You can listen to the entire interview, Episode 50 of the podcast, here.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation.
0:17.5	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
0:20.0	Welcome, everyone, to a throwback Thursday edition of the Sports Spectrum podcast.
0:25.0	Hoping you're having a great day.
0:26.6	My name's Jason Romano.
0:28.2	Thanks for tuning into the program today.
0:30.1	We're going to play you a little bit of a snippet from our interview with Ted DiBiase,
0:35.2	the million dollar man back in episode 50 of the Sports Spectrum podcast, October of
0:41.2	2017. And the million dollar man, Ted DiBiase, if you were a WWF wrestling fan in the 80s and in the
0:50.2	90s, even with WCW, you knew who the million dollar man was, one of the notorious villains
0:57.4	in the history of the W.W.E. He was elected into the Hall of Fame for the WWE, the World
1:03.9	Wrestling Entertainment Hall of Fame back in 2010. But Ted's life is more than just wrestling. In fact, wrestling in many ways was what almost cost
1:15.5	him his family and cost him his wife, living a lavish life of celebrity on the podcast back in
1:22.9	October of 2017. Ted shared his incredible journey to the WWE, but then the highest of
1:29.6	highs becoming the lowest of lows, almost losing his family. And this snippet that we're
1:34.2	playing from that episode is Ted's testimony. Ted and I are talking and he's talking about how
1:42.2	he almost lost his wife and his marriage, almost
1:45.8	crumbled, and his wife really set him on a course, a much better course towards faith, faith
1:51.5	in Jesus. And so I ask him about his testimony, where he found Christ, where that testimony,
1:57.4	that walk with the Lord was rooted and how it was shaped so let's listen
2:02.4	to Ted DiBiassi the million dollar man WWE Hall of Famer here on the Sports
2:08.0	Spectrum podcast throwback Thursday edition take a listen
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