Daniel McConnell

What has your home?

obviously very important to me how does someone from Dublin get involved and become a WWE superstar because look when we were growing up they were all the Americans you might have had the odd Brit like say Davey Boy Smith or whatever but you never saw an Irish superstar no listen it's a lot easier now I think not that it's an easy process it's far from easy but

It's amazing when you mention some of the names that have gone there as well.

But talk a little bit about that process of going for trials or being picked or being selected.

I mean, what's that like?

assess you and give you feedback on where you are where you are now where you need to be to get to their level talk to me about the brand Seamus because I mean I understand like the formation of you know a new character takes a lot of work it's not it just doesn't happen by accident I mean how where did you arrive at the name Seamus and and calling yourself the Celtic Warrior all that well originally it was Seamus O'Shaughnessy SOS that was the original thing and it was you know I don't at the time not be trying to be arrogant but

And talk to me about, because obviously you say there's some wrestlers who are famed for their technical ability, there's some who are famed for maybe the gimmick, there's some who are famed for the height line.

Talk about that intensity.

I mean, how, because given the, I suppose, I won't say the scripted nature of what it is, the sports entertainment element of it, how important is your own individual intensity of that?

How, I suppose, crucial was that in your success?

Talk to me about the feeling then of your first televised event.

I don't know, was it a Raw or SmackDown?

so what happened would be like if you're on the east coast smackdown would be 8pm and then east coast would be 7 so by the way air release so while it's going on they would edit it or cut some stuff out but on the west coast that wasn't going to happen okay and then even to get to that level of success is phenomenal but then talk to me about you know being considered for a championship or to become the standard bearer of the industry I mean that's a huge achievement by any and what was your sense or how did you find out that you were going over as the industry lexicon calls it

So I basically did a bunch of them, but then... How do you rationalize in your head from going from, say, making that step from, you know, you've landed in the ECW or the WWE to being going on television, then to be in consideration for a championship, if we're going over?

And in terms of the sort of the promo aspect of it, in terms of being able to connect with a crowd, did you feel you had a lot of work to do there, or did you feel you were pretty set by the time you got there?

I mean, how was your, I suppose, character evolved?

How ruthless an industry is it, and two, how has money changed you, if it has at all?

What's the first question?

How ruthless is the wrestling industry?

Seamus, thank you so much for joining us.