Paul Walter Hauser

When we started that, we're not even 30 episodes in, and we've been taken care of so much by WWE giving us people. I've gotten to meet a lot of great people, went to the Queen of the Ring premiere, hung out with a bunch of the AEW guys. It's just weird, you know? And the more that I do things that make little kid Shay happy, I'll be happy at the end of the day.

Love you too, man. Funny as shit. Absolutely. Are we getting tattoos?

Love you too, man. Funny as shit. Absolutely. Are we getting tattoos?

Love you too, man. Funny as shit. Absolutely. Are we getting tattoos?

I don't know. He's not only a notable alum. Yeah. He's the only notable alum.

I don't know. He's not only a notable alum. Yeah. He's the only notable alum.

I don't know. He's not only a notable alum. Yeah. He's the only notable alum.

Concordia is counting you, too.

Concordia is counting you, too.

Concordia is counting you, too.

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Sure, yeah. No, I had done a wrestling show for charity that this guy, Sammy Callahan, put on. Him and Jon Moxley were trying to raise some money for the wildfire relief in Hawaii. This was November of last year.

and uh it went from me like showing up to sign some autographs or do free selfies or whatever it turned into hey do you want to have a wrestling match and that was secretly always a desire of mine to try it and i had been taking little classes here and there learning from other wrestlers and so i did this 10-minute match with a guy named matthew palmer and

it went really well and i had a lot of fun and there was sort of an adrenaline spike unlike anything i'd ever felt before and i i played like junior high sports and i've done stand-up comedy in front of 1,500 people, nothing I've ever done felt as good as that. Really?

I continued to pursue it and kind of doggedly got these other bookings and wrestled other reputable guys, and you learn a lot from them when you're working with them. And I'm now telling people that through MLW and a couple other companies, I'm doing like a reverse Dwayne Johnson. That's awesome. I love that.

Oh, man. The biggest pop I've gotten was probably in my first match when I did the crane kick and the six-inch punch as a finisher. It was very theatrical, and I think people were wondering what my move style was going to be like. And obviously, I'm not doing backflips off stuff or anything, but I'm doing body slams and suplexes, and then I pulled out the...

Cobra Kai style, you know, crane kick and people went pretty ape. That was a good pop.

Yeah, I mean, I have a lot of different loves from an occupational standpoint. My heroes are guys like Rob Reiner and Kendrick Lamar and Sting, who wrestled famously for WCW during the Attitude Era. And I just want to partake in those worlds whenever it makes sense or whenever I think I can do it. And I haven't directed a film yet, but I intend to. I write a lot of movies.