Pro Wrestling Real Life Stories: Episode 3 - Lana, Rusev, his real-life fight, Russia, Bulgaria and the American Dream

#9 Rusev -- Discovering America

Attitude era legend Glenn Jacobs (Kane) and Rusev (right) are no strangers to each other

Rusev joked around with Chris Jericho while recalling his childhood in Bulgaria--revealing the amazing fact that he'd been planning to become a professional wrestler since he was in the 3rd grade; at the tender age of 9!

Anecdotes:

Rusev noted that he discovered pro-wrestling at a young age, loved playing video games, watching movies and engaging in activities of the sort--with the forenamed activities all in all, resulting in him being strongly attracted to the US. He revealed the obvious connection here, that playing the video games, watching movies and professional wrestling made him realize that learning English is quite essential for him to become a wrestler in the States.

Rusev fondly narrated how he'd be the only kid in the group comprised mostly of adults who'd watch VHS tapes together featuring pro-wrestling matches--a trend which continued until WWE and WCW programming began being aired in Bulgaria. He continued that he started taking an active interest in learning English from the 3rd grade, and planned on coming to the US--since most pro-wrestling events he watched took place in America--and become a professional wrestler...