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R-Truth Is HILARIOUS! His Childhood Hero John Cena, 24/7 Championship, Getting Brock Lesnar To Break Character
R-Truth (@RonKillings) is a professional wrestler currently signed to WWE. He sits down with Chris Van Vliet in Phoenix, AZ to discuss how his career is still going strong at 52 years old, being a former TNA World Champion, his hilarious segments with the likes of Brock Lesnar, Wade Barrett and Triple H, his music career, how he is able to make so many stars break character, crashing Drake Maverick's actual wedding to win the 24/7 Championship, his more serious side in 2011, whether another heel turn could happen and more!
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“I wish I didn’t age. Thank you, man, thank you. Thank you for the kind words. I hear that a lot and it’s good to know.”
“Daniel Bryan always said this, I don’t have a [time]. Time just doesn’t exist to me. I feel like we have to make time for time, in a sense. So I don’t look at it as you’re too old for this. Are you too young for that? Just look at it like we have time to adapt, evolve, create, we have time to make time.”
“Oh, wow. Ain’t that much of a difference, man, but there is a difference. Ron Killings is either father, he’s a husband, he’s a son, he’s a friend, he’s all those things above. R-Truth shares that with Ron Killings, I would say share because when I’m R-Truth, I’m R-Truth. That’s up and down.”
“I’ve always been funny. I think we are all funny, man. It’s timing. I’m best at it on the spot. I mean, I can be creative, and think of it too. But like on the spot funny is just, that’s what my strong points is.”
“Most of the stuff no. It comes on the fly, even in pre-tapes, backstage stuff. I sometimes don’t tell what I’m going to say, because I don’t know what I’m going to say. Just it’s the moment, you have to ride the wave.”
“Probably Paul Heyman and Brock Lesnar. The thing with that was, I come to Gorilla and Paul was there. He’s like, ‘Hey, we got a bet going on.’ I was like, ‘What bet?’ He’s like, ‘That you can make Brock laugh.’ I said, ‘What do you mean?’ He said, ‘We’re not going to tell him what you want to say, we don’t want to hear what you want to say. We just go.’ I said, ‘Man, I think we should let Brock know what we’re gonna do.’ He said, ‘Nope, we’re not gonna let Brock know it all.’ And that was the most impromptu thing that just came off like sliced bread. It was just great.”
“I haven’t tried to break anybody, it just happens. Got a funny bone. It is all timing. And I think a lot of people when they’re in a promo with me, or they’re in a backstage with me, I think their guard is up so much. Because of that, it’s easy to penetrate. When you try not to do something too hard, too good, you end up doing it. So it’s that reverse psychology type thing. So, yeah, you have to just be yourself. I’m gonna be myself.”
“Hunter was another one that was like you know what, I gotta get through this. I’m not going to break, this is going to be business. I’ve known Hunter for a long time, so I kind of know his funny spots. I know the funny spots on him. I know what to say to [get him to break]. And that was one of the moments I was waiting on.”
“Oh, man, I broke him too with that one. That was good, man. And they’re still running with it. I love it, man. I’m not going to burst nobody’s bubble. I’m not a bubble buster. I love it. He is my childhood hero. I would be legs crossed watching him every Saturday morning.”
“Everything, even wearing shorts. He said, ‘Truth you don’t have to ask me to wear shorts in the ring.’ I said, ‘Man, but I want to. I want to be you. I want to do everything you do, walk, talk. How do you hold your head to the side? I want to do everything. I want to be you.’ He said, ‘Run with it, man.’ Yeah, he’s one of the greatest.”
“Yes, It is the most fun I’m having in my career because I’m clear headed. I’m happy. I’m in a good space, good spot. Everything bounces off me. I’m good to go now.”
“Do you know people were taking pictures with an empty chair? Yeah. They were like, ‘Hey, do you mind if we take a picture with little Jimmy?’ By all means, take a picture little Jimmy. And they would get to the side of the chair, and they were just like, it would be nobody in the chair. So I was getting a kick out of this. So as long as they went with it, I was going with it. Because little Jimmy was birthed. He was created, and people loved it.”
“Me and Miz were in that mode. We were ready to grab the bull by the horns and ride it. Man, it was again at that time, it was time for Awesome Truth. I think it was the first time with Awesome Truth. So we was like, we were in it to win it. So everything, man was like coming up on the fly, everything was just great. I love that moment. As of right now, that video has over 100 million views on it.”
"At one point I thought it was [the end], because it was when I caught the infection. A lot of people thought I just tore my quad. I did tear the quad tendon, but a couple of weeks out, when I go to get the stitches out it wasn't healing. And that's when they found out I had five different bacteria like staph, MRSA, their cousins and kinfolks and relatives. Yeah, it was bad. It was so bad the doctor wouldn't even give me a high five. I know it sounds crazy, I want a high five with the doctor. He's like you don't have time for high fives, this is serious. I just went to get my stitches out. He said, 'What are you doing this afternoon?' I said, I'm gonna pick my kids up. He said 'Can somebody else go do it?' I'm like, why? [He said] 'We need to take you to surgery now.' Yeah. So everything went from haha to you better be ready. It was serious. There was a chance I could lose my leg. That's how serious it got. The infection was that bad that he thought they would have to amputate if they couldn't get it slowed down. I was on antibiotics that was like, it was $4,700 a week for it. I was on the heavy stuff. I had a picc line the first 6 weeks. Deep down it was like it might be gone. He told my wife if we don't get this under control we are going to have to think of other options. My wife said what other options? He said amputation. I'm like what the? But that's when I was thinking I may never come back to this, how can I adapt?"
“I like being in the ring. I think I’m like Rey Mysterio with this right here. I’ll let my body be the guide and be the answer to that. I always listen to my body, always. And right now, man, to be honest, I’ve never felt as healthy as I feel now, clear-minded, clear-headed. Still can do my back flips, still can do my splits. There’s a lot of things that this generation hadn’t even seen me do yet, and I still can do, like you said, just sometime I don’t need to do it. Give me an opportunity, I will go out there and show that oh, sh*t, he could still go.”
“That was a fan’s idea. Yes, I do read those tweets. I see them all too. So watch what you say. But, yeah, I saw a fan tweet that. I see you running in there, going in with the ladder. And I was like, Oh my gosh, that’s funny. Took it to creative, and they was like, let’s do it.”
“You have to reinvent yourself all the time. You have to evolve. You have to stay up with the times and you won’t age out if you keep coming up. It’s like you’re as good as good as your last match. That’s saying you have to always just evolve. You have to resurface. You have to reinvent yourself. Everything changes. I was around when they didn’t have telephones, not when they had pictures, but when they had pagers and stuff. I heard they had pictures. I don’t know about that, but when they had that you got mail! AOL. So you just evolve. Chris, you gotta evolve with everything, musically, theatrically, with a visual to everything evolves.”
“That was crazy. If I could remember this correctly, we had maybe another two or three more spots to go to, and that was it. I was going to get it anyway, but there’s a strict rule, if you don’t kick out at three referees gonna get fined. You don’t want that. You better slap that motherf*cker. Excuse me, sorry, you better slap it down, right? So Chioda just did his job, Shinsuke didn’t kick out and we’re like, oh sh*t, sorry. We’re like, Oh shoot. That was it. That was a wrap. He did his job.”
“The selfish part of me would love to turn heel and be a heel, but the majority of me is like, I could never be a heel. People would think it’s cool if I did something bad, if I did something heelish, they would think it’s cool. I smoked a cigarette, and they thought that was the coolest thing on TV. To be a heel you have to get that real, genuine hatred heel heat. Mine would be more of like, they will want me to bash somebody’s head in. Selfishly, I would love to see it one time, but I don’t have to.”
“Oh, man, there were so many of them that was good. I could tell you some good stories. The plane was good. Drake’s wedding was good. [Wasn’t that his actual wedding?] That was his real wedding. Y’all, that was funny. The thing in New York the Christmas light tree. Oh, man, they robbed us so bad. The guy had the horses, and we had to pay him more money for the horses to run. They wouldn’t even run. They would try and it was cold. New York is cold. He was like If my horse won’t run, my horse won’t run. The camera man tried to get him to get the horses to run, pull out $20 and the horses started to trot. You would think it was in slow motion because we got a $20 trot.”
“Carmella drove me with that golf cart from one end of the fence to the other end. Because I thought I would outrun the golf cart. Didn’t know the guy gave us the fastest one he had that he had souped up. So I said, we got but one take. I said, you push that gas. You better reach that gas, and she pushed it, and I ran. And that last leap I took, I was holding on for dear life, because she was moving with it. If you go back and watch that, you can tell.”
“My life, my family and people.”
