Marc Mero
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And back then, Facebook was real popular with the kids.
And so I started getting messages through Facebook saying, man, this really changed my life.
You really inspired me.
And unbeknownst to me that that coach called another school and said, you should have him come speak to your players.
He goes, players?
I haven't come to speak to the whole school.
And next thing you know, school after school starts calling.
And of course, when the video went viral, we had 3,000 booking requests that month that the video went viral.
Wow.
It just took off from there.
And Chris, that was 19 years ago now.
You've been doing this for 19 years.
19 years.
And up until the pandemic, we averaged 230 events a year.
It was just like being in wrestling again, you know?
Oh my gosh.
And I remember coming home from wrestling.
Our last was Capital Carnage was my last one with the WWE.
I remember flying home from there thinking-
Never got to travel again.