TMPToW: Action Mike Jackson

Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling Podcast

Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling

Wrestling, Sports

4.8 • 356 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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This week TMPT welcomes into the show for our flagship episode, Action Mike Jackson. The former NWA and WCW Superstar joins the show to talk about his entire professional wrestling career. Host John Poz and Mike discuss wrestling Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Tully Blanchard, working for the Crockett's in MACW, working for the NWA, working for WCW, working for the WWF, his recent run at Impact Wrestling, how he is still able to be wrestling today at over 70 years of age and so much more!

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0:00.0	The upcoming presentation is a two-man power trip on wrestling podcast production.
0:10.2	What's up, guys? It's a phenomenal AJ Stilegen. Listen to the two-man power trip.
0:14.6	Hey, John.
0:15.2	Cool, man. What's going on? We're ready to go, or what?
0:17.2	Podcast. to go or what? Oh, change! Huh! The I'm I'm I'm
0:55.0	The Thank you. I'm Hello and welcome to the two-man power trip of wrestling.
1:39.7	I am your host, J.P. John Paz, and with me today is a great interview and a legendary star.
1:46.5	He is, of course, the former junior heavyweight champion of Alabama, a former NWA and WCW
1:52.6	superstar Action Mike Jackson.
1:56.2	Mike, welcome to the two-man power trip of wrestling.
1:59.0	Yon, it is my privilege to be here, and thank you guys so much for calling me.
2:03.6	Now, what in the world have you been up to?
2:06.6	I feel like you're still active.
2:07.6	You're still wrestling after all these years and many decades, but what have you been up to?
2:12.6	I'm still active, like you say, I work about two or three days a week.
2:16.6	I'm fortunate enough I'm
2:18.4	blessed and I get several calls and go to different areas and work for different
2:22.3	people independent shows and so I'm still working pretty much I'm 71 years old but I'm
2:27.9	probably as good as shape as I've ever been in my life and I'm blessed and I'm still
2:32.6	working how do you stay in such great shape? Well, I like to say it's all me, but it's not. I do exercise every day. I go to the gym and work. I do a lot of cardio. I do the bicycle. I do weights. I don't do a lot of heavy lifting because I'm not strong, but I just try to tone up. But good Lord bless me and give me some good health, and my blood pressure is good, cholesterol is good, so I try to just do the rest of it and just take care of it. But so far, so good. It just seems crazy. I mean, you're in great shape and you're still wrestling. It feels like most people, when they get to that age,'s no way you're thinking about getting back in the ring well i thought about that a lot of times but i just keep going back what kind of keeps you going back though like what's like what's kind of your motivation well i love the business uh you know a a lot of guys who don't understand that, but I really do.
3:26.8	I've been doing it for this is my 52nd years, as a matter of fact.
3:29.9	I started my first match was in June of 1972, but I was in the business a little bit
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