10 Wrestling Facts We Didn’t Know Last Week (May 31)

4. MVP Watched Wrestling In Prison Every Single Morning

One pro wrestling pay-per-view a day keeps the police at bay.

That was a message MVP held dear whilst serving almost 10 years of his 18-year sentence for armed robbery and kidnapping in his late-teens and early-20s. Young, p*ssed off and directionless, Porter was shown the light by a correctional officer called Daryl Davis. As luck would have it, Davis worked on the indy scene as 'Prime Time' Daryl D.

Before being released for work duties every morning, MVP and other inmates would sit and watch wrestling video tapes Davis brought to work with him. Some were WWF pay-per-views, and others had footage of matches he'd had on the independent circuit. That was MVP's first real exposure to the business, and it made him fall in love.

He told VICE that Davis even promised to teach him how to wrestle if he could keep himself out of trouble long enough to get released from jail. That thought, as well as Daryl's support day-to-day, motivated MVP to clean up his act.