10 Things We Learned From Bad News Barrett On Talk Is Jericho
8. Wrestling In The U.K.
Jericho and Barrett get into the latter's history coming up wrestling in the United Kingdom, with Jericho able to identify with some of the places and characters Wade spent time in and around. While training for pro wrestling, the Lancashire-born superstar maintained a second career because he didn't want to put all his eggs in one basket. He went ahead and earned his university degree and continued to wrestle in his downtime on weekends and holidays. He'd use his vacation from work to get booked for promoter Brian Dixon, pulling an insane schedule in a short amount of time. This brings about talk of putting rings together when you're paying your dues and Wade tells a story of a time when a wrestling ring collapsed during a match - one of the competitors being TNA's Magnus - and came within a few inches of severing his entire foot. The guys then start reminiscing on old school UK wrestlers such as Barrett's trainer, Jon Ritchie and remark about what a tough group of guys they were. Anyone who's familiar with that part of the wrestling world knows how many bad*sses came out of that territory.
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