Tommaso Ciampa - How to Embrace Your Challenges

Chasing Glory with Lilian Garcia

Lilian Garcia

Health & Fitness, Sports, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2019

⏱️ 96 minutes

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This week on "Chasing Glory with Lilian Garcia," Lilian hails from Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida where NXT goes LIVE from every Wednesday night on the USA Network. In this episode, Lilian sits down with NXT Superstar, Tommaso Ciampa. Tommaso discusses all about his life’s journey that has led to the massive success that he is currently experiencing. However it is not without a few bumps in the road which includes a dark path after he was released from his WWE developmental contract back in 2007. Tommaso talks about his suicide attempt during that time and how his life was saved and changed after that night. He speaks honestly about his family being affected by it and how he always makes the effort to fight off depression. Like many others, he speaks about being an introvert and how he looks at pro wrestling as an escape. Many remember Tommaso making an appearance on a 2005 episode of Smackdown getting chokeslammed by the Undertaker and he gives exclusive in depth details about the behind the scenes on that memorable taping which includes an interaction with Stephanie McMahon that has still affected him to this day. Tommaso would dominate the independent scene and talks about being a member of the Ring Of Honor roster where he experienced some ups and downs and he talks about what led him to leaving the company before fully betting on himself. He would have multiple tryouts with WWE and would continuously be turned down including just months before making his NXT debut with Johnny Gargano and he mentions why he believes they kept bringing him back. He speaks about the importance of having a strong relationship with Triple H who he considers a mentor and why he will always FIGHT to be KEPT on the NXT roster. Also, find out what role Samoa Joe played in Tommaso meeting his future wife and how he credits her for his success in professional wrestling. All this and much more in this rare interview with the former NXT Champion. Get fired up because it's about to get real, raw, and inspiring with Tommaso Ciampa.

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0:00.0	Stand by.
0:01.0	3, 2, 1.
0:05.0	The following program comes from executive producer Lily and Garcia.
0:11.0	Every athlete is on this quest.
0:14.0	Every performer dives in head first.
0:18.0	Battling real life challenges and overcoming obstacles
0:21.0	in an effort to make their dreams reality.
0:24.2	Reality.
0:25.2	Singer, speaker, and 15 year WWE host, Lillian Garcia,
0:29.7	was the first woman to ever announce WrestleMania. is now the PFL MMA Cage announcer.
0:35.8	And now she's giving you an all access pass to the human interest stories of
0:40.8	elite athletes, extraordinary entertainers and wellness experts.
0:45.0	Now let's embark on another fascinating journey of chasing glory with your host
0:50.7	Lillian Garcia.
0:54.0	Welcome everyone to another episode of Chasing Glory,
0:58.6	and this time we are in Orlando.
1:02.4	Why Orlando?
1:03.0	Well, that's because today's guest, Tomasso Champa.
1:07.0	He is all Anext.
1:10.0	I mean, this guy lives and breeds Anexti t and I wanted to go ahead and bring you the sites from full sale
1:17.3	university that is where nxt goes live every Wednesday night on the USA network.
1:24.0	Now I got to experience my very first
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