Back in 2005, Landel was going through something of a rough patch. At FanFest that year, Landel would later recall, he was "hammered at the show" - everyone apparently was sick of him, or at least so he felt. He'd sunk into a deep depression. And he made a poor - drunken - decision. He, as he put it to In Your Head Radio in 2009, "showed hind end" at the FanFest. He didn't appear at another convention for several years. However, Landel was not one to make excuses, taking full responsibility for the act - which on the pro wrestling scale of antics really wasn't that bad, considering. Still, Landel turned things around after that, re-focusing and hitting the gym, losing 70lbs in the process.