10 Things You Didn’t Know About TJ Perkins
9. Parents Worked For Airline Companies
Another piece of Perkins trivia that you may not have been aware of, and, realistically, why should you have been is that, growing up, both of his parents worked for airline companies.
Cue an inundation of flight-related puns about Perkins being 'born to fly'. Still, I guess his parents’ profession might have been handy in keeping down the costs when flying back to the Philippines to visit the family.
But beyond bad puns and playful observations, the reason I wanted to bring this point up is that Perkins himself has suggested that this may have helped to prepare him for the rigours of life as a pro wrestler.
Obviously wrestlers spend a lot of time on the road. Or in the air, as the case may be. And in an interview with Slam! Wrestling, Perkins states that “by the time I started wrestling, I was already used to the traveling”.
That's some very forward thinking indeed there from Mr and Mrs Perkins.