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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

WWE NXT superstar Zack Gibson on supporting Liverpool, Triple H and why wresting is like Istanbul comeback

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Reach Podcasts

Soccer, Sports, News, Sports News

4.41000 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In a Blood Red podcast special, Paul Gorst sits down with WWE wrestler and Liverpool supporter Zack Gibson to talk following the Reds and working for the world's biggest wrestling company.Liverpool-born Zack explains how his love of the Reds became incorporated into his act on WWE television on NXT, and reveals why he came up with the name of his painful submission finisher, the 'Shankly Gates'.There's also a lesser-known-move, the 'Phil Babb Suplex', which hilariously pays homage to an infamous incident involving the former Liverpool defender.Life on the road with NXT is discussed at length as Zack touches on his Maghull-based wrestling school, which aims to create the next generation of Scouse superstars in the squared circle.Zack also talks working as a top star in NXT UK and what it will be like when he returns 'home' to wrestle on the card at the Liverpool Olympia shows this weekend.For Liverpool-supporting wrestling fans, it's a must-listenEnjoy. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.

0:08.0

Hello and welcome to a very special edition of the Blood Red Podcast.

0:13.0

It's not Ian Doyle, your usual host,

0:15.1

nor is it Joe Rimmer or Christian Walsh.

0:17.2

You're stuck with Paul Gors.

0:18.5

But I'm delighted to say I have with me

0:20.5

W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. K. K. K. Superstar and Liverpool's own,

0:25.1

Zach Gibson.

0:25.9

Zach, how you doing?

0:26.9

I'm not bad, thanks.

0:27.9

Yeah, yeah, great to see you come in.

0:29.7

Have a little chat about the Reds, a little chat about what's going on in your career, a little bit of us about the red to the little chat of us going on in your career a little

0:34.0

bit of wrestling. We'll start with obviously you're a little bit poor fan but boy I'd rather

0:40.5

assume you yeah yeah so you know how the dad all come back was it through

0:45.1

your father your mother through family yeah Liverpool's my dad's team so like

0:50.0

like like most lads growing up you know my dad's the one paying for the tickets, so he gets the

0:55.2

pick which team. But then it's so easy to, I don't mean it's to sound cliche, but it's so easy to fall in love with the team like Liverpool because as I'm sure every

1:05.8

other red will tell you they're not your average team that there is so much so much passion

1:11.3

coming through the team so it's so easy to get caught up in it all especially from a young age and

1:16.2

like it's one of my first memories of of football of Liverpool isn't necessarily the actual

1:22.2

specific games themselves.

1:24.0

It's hard to remember when you're 8 and 9 years old, but it's just walking to and from the stadium

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