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One other person you've been working closely with recently is Big Cass. Do you have any update for us on how he is doing?
I know he's in rehab right now and he's really getting a lot of really good help.
He's a really smart guy. He's dealing with depression and all that, and he's got to get a point like where Jake is at. At least he's not waiting until he's in his late 50s. He's doing it in his early 30s, he still has a brilliant career ahead of him, if he can stay sober - which I believe he has the ability.
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The WWE is the ones who stepped up and took care of him. I talked to Johnny Ace, Triple H, and Mark Carano, and they're the guys who made it happen. They got him into rehab.
I told him I would help him when he got out, but he needs to go in right now. When you start getting blackouts, which is what happened to Cass, and when you're drinking, then you don't even know what happened. That is a scary thing, so it's got to go deeper than just positive training. It's a huge part of it but you've got to go deeper than that.
It's great to hear he's on the road to recovery from what it sounds like.
You mentioned you've been to the WWE Performance Center but not only that, you've appeared on AEW Dynamite and you're no stranger to being on a wrestling show at the same time as WWE. How do you think AEW is doing so far and what you make of the so-called 'Wednesday Night Wars'?
I think it's amazing for wrestling fans. I said that AEW stepping up, Tony Khan, creatively, with Cody, the Young Bucks and Kenny Omega, I said it was going to make WWE better and it already is.
Like I always say, WWE is a juggernaut. It's bigger than wrestling. AEW isn't about Superstars and sports entertainers, AEW is about professional wrestling.
It's very similar of course but you've got some great, great, great talent down at NXT and you've got some great talent at AEW. Do you know who wins the most? The fans!
The real wrestling fans are the ones who win, win, win. And also, it's a great time to be one of the boys or girls, because now there's a point where there can be so many more of them.
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