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I am joined by Mark Henry, the world's strongest man and Tommy Dreamer, the innovator of violence.

Interesting topic this morning coming off of last week's interview with Enzo Amore where I think me and Tommy got about two words in in 35 minutes.

A lot of fans hit us up on the old Twitter machine wondering how exactly do you go about working with other talent that you've never been in the ring before.

Enzo yesterday was at a new Japan show in which there were AEW talent triple a talent impact talent ring of honor talent talent from all over the world who came together at the ECW arena and found themselves fighting wrestling working with each other for the first time and how exactly.

You go about it how difficult is it what's the game plan what's the strategy when you're in the ring with somebody you've never really met before somebody that you've never touched before never danced with before never done a damn thing with any you know with with before but have to go out there and make it work and put on a good show.

Mark I'm going to start with you now Mark your entire career was you know spent in the WWE so when it came to working with somebody that should never been in the ring before how did you go about it or how did the WWE agents and producers have you go about it.

Mostly bully it was a conflict of styles and being that I was in the WWE my whole career as a wrestler it was big guy big guy matches it was good guy good guy matches good guy bad guy matches it was big versus small it was orthodox I wrestle the boogie man and the boogie man had a very unique.

Give me and it wasn't difficult because my number one objective is the work for the match and always sell who you're working so I never really had no issue but the number one reason that I look at conflict of styles

was when I started working in Rey Mysterio he's a luchador I'm a big guy he's small I was big he was good I was evil if everything that you could imagine being different it was me and Rey.

I ended up being the most fun I ever had in my life in wrestling it was so easy you tell the story that's set before you and a lot of guys have issues with working people they never worked before because they don't want to come across one way or the other I let the other person out shine them.

I never had that issue I don't have a confidence issue as you can see I'm pretty damn confident in myself I love me some mean bully well you know why that is why is that because you're different because I'm the shirt the shirt when we get the shirt it's coming it's coming I'm different but the first time I worked with Rey Mysterio

Rey said hey man I think it would just be counterproductive if we locked up and you push me off and I said why would you think that I want to lock up with you he said well all big guys want to lock up and push me blow I said Rey I can tell that you probably watch 50 matches of me wrestle I never wrestle nobody like you.

Why would I do the same thing I said every time I try to lock up you go behind you get by you get move out of the way faster than me and leave me with something bow take that with you oh okay but now I got to give you and that's the story that you want to program to the people we we forget bully not us because we're well studied and the reason we're on this show

is because we take psychology and the love of wrestling before ourselves that's why we're on this show we're switseling now we got to get another shirt we're switseling I don't know about me being switseling I'm way more switseling yeah bully is kind of like switseling

now I'm more like death star asking I don't know about switseling but I'm the whole point of the conversation was we're willing to sacrifice for a better good and most wrestlers want and working with Rey Mysterio at first time was so effortless still no stress I came to the back after about 15 minutes I

wasn't blown up and I looked at Rey and I said that was so fucking awesome and I wanted to do it every night but he was the champ and I couldn't do it every night fast forward we

was able to do it for about a six month period and that was the best wrestling as far as me having fun and

being happy that I ever had more I did I did have negatives and it was all every negative that I had in wrestling was big guy big guy

matches with the exception of Paul white and Undertaker pain viscera

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