Lucha Underground and independe꧂nt star Joey Ryan recently appeared on Sean Waltman's podcast.
You can watch the🐭 iꦇnterview above. Here are some submitted highlights.
Where Joey’s lollipop gimmick came from:
"The only restriction I was given [at WSX] was I wanted to smoke a cigarette to the ring. But they told me that I couldn’t have a lit cigarette around the pyro. So that’s why I came out with a cigarette that wasn’t lit. Later on through evolution I changed the oral fixation from being a cigarette to being a lollipop, because a lot of buildings won’t let you smoke in them, or if you get in a situation where there’s pyro around you definitely can’t have a lit cigarette. So the lollipop came out of the cigarette which was just me feeling like my 🐻character needed some sort of oral fixation."
Was he ever concerned that his YouPorn sponsorship would limit his future opportunities:
"One initial check that YouPorn gave me paid me more than all of ꦇthe dark matches and SmackDown job matches I did in WWE combined. So I’m going to go with the 𒈔money. There’s part of every wrestler that wants to be presented in a light that looks favorable to WWE, because obviously they’re the top of the industry. But at this point I was like, I’m just going to do what makes sense for me."
His response to :
"You have to put that in perspective. Jim Cornette says a lot of things to try to get attention on himself. Guys like that do. I don’t think I’m for everybody. Not everybody’s going to be ♓a fan of mine, and I’m OK with that."
Joey says that yes, his Lucha Underground contract is for seven seasons:
"The initial deal I did w🤡as the long term deal, which I’m happy with…Seven seasons, I t𒅌hink that’s the standard deal. I hope it’s OK that I say that. That’s not really private information. I think that’s well known now. A couple of the guys got different deals. The more established guys maybe got a little different deal. But the standard deal is for seven seasons. It’s a TV contract, because Lucha Underground is not a wrestling promotion, it’s a TV show."
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