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.

So then you're transitioned from MMA, UFC, to the WWE at the time.

What was that about?

Was that longevity, money reasons?

Or the W.E was like, hey, we're offering you a platform that UFC. What was that about? Was that longevity, money reasons?

Or the W.E was like, hey, we're offering you a platform that you have seen not offering you at the time.

No, I think it was more of a necessity because I had talked to Bob Meyerwitz.

And, you know, they were always in and out of court before every event.

They were fighting constantly because it was this legal battle with different congressmen or senators or people wanted to get their name in the paper of trying to say, and it was Balbaric and it was an animalistic and they shut it down. And so every time we go do an event, they were in court for at least four weeks prior to the event going off.

So there's spent a lot of money on legal fees. And so I think it just got to a point to where,

you know, they just didn't have the money. And I was, I was guaranteed a certain amount of money when my

contract came up. My contract came up. And they said they weren't able to pay me.

And it wasn't a bad conversation.

It was just something that had to happen because I always told myself if I couldn't,

if I couldn't support my family with doing what I love doing,

then I need to go and do something else because my family came first. And that's what it came down to

is I wasn't able to support the lifestyle that I created because I had a fighter's house. I had a

group home for at-risk kids that was six boys in a boys home that I was taking care of. I had

three gyms, boxing gym, grappling gym and a weight gym. And I had a fighter's house.

And I had eight to ten fighters in that house. So I had built up this monthly bill of this world

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