Our guest today is Bursed Solis, known better as Tito Santana Pro Wrestling Hall of

Famer. He tells us about switching from football to pro wrestling, making a name for himself, changing his name to Tito Santana back in the 1980s when he joined WWF.

A great story, great background as he was part of the first nine WrestleMania's and eventually became a teacher in New Jersey.

An interesting background, interesting story.

Our guest today in episode 133, Mercedes, known better as Tito Santana.

Merced, thanks so much for spending a little time with us here today.

I'm excited to hear your story and what people know you as Tito Santana in the wrestling ring.

But before we get to wrestling, let's go at the beginning for you.

You're a Texas guy, and football was your sport at the time, right?

So how is football your sport?

You went to college there and a brief stint in the CFL playing football as well.

Well, I also had a little brief moment with the Kansas City Chiefs.

You know, I was a free agent, and I was there.

Actually, I started every preseason game.

And then I got before preseason, two weeks before, I really had a bad ankle injury and I had some cortisone shots and

I was in crutches for a week and then, you know, long story short, I turned in a real bad

40 time when they timed me and when I got caught in the coach said, Coach Wiggins, he says, you're a hell of an athlete,

but you're too slow.

And I was not smart enough to tell them to retime me.

And then I went to Canada and, you know,

continued my sport, you know, football.

But it was, you know, not. But it was, you know, a lot of people helped me along the way,

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