Paul London

And, uh, but I didn't.

And, and I, I stuck it out because as I was growing up, it was constantly, you're never gonna, are you kidding me?

Um, because it was still the land of the giants, you know?

So that's why now the, the standards have been removed.

The standards have been removed.

I mean,

When I was coming in and I feel like, well, back in my day, I just caught myself.

I would have been looked at like, where's your ticket?

You know what I mean?

And the first person that really kind of beat the tar out of me was Polish power Ivan Putzki.

And so I had gone through this whole quest to try and get trained.

I picked all the colleges that I applied to.

They were all outside of Texas because I was destined to get out there.

But I picked them all based on if there was a wrestling school with a credible trainer nearby them.

My father didn't know that, but that was my plan.

So that saw me go up to Pittsburgh where I was going to train with Shane Douglas and Dominic DiNucci.

Spoke to Shane Douglas on the phone.

He left me a voicemail.

He was like, this is Troy Martin.

And I got up there.