Fred Rosser, FKA Darren Young, discusses his WWE career, Vince McMahon and being LGBTQ (Exclusive)

You had a lot of other memorable feuds both in singles action and in tag team action, but if you were to choose to have one match with any other wrestler on the planet, who would you choose?

My dream match would have to be against the only other big gold medallist in the way that we history, Kurt Angle. You know, Shawn Michaels will always be my number one, no matter how he has treated me, but Kurt Angle is an amazing person inside of the ring and outside of the ring.

I remember probably back in 2007, I was an extra for WWE and Kurt was ringside. Me being a extra, I went over and said, "Kurt, if you have an amateur background, is it good to incorporate it in professional wrestling, what we do in entertainment?" He said, "Anyone with an amateur background, if they can sprinkle it into a sports entertainment world, that's a great thing."

I kind of knew the answer to that but I wanted to hear it from him. Fast forward to me holding his Olympic gold medals when he had his feud with Shawn Michaels, Kurt was always nice to me as an extra, Kurt was always nice to me when he came back to WWE years later.

It's like, never meet your heroes because you might be disappointed. He's one guy that... You know, always treated me with respect, knew me by name, his intensity in the ring was something that I tried to mirror on the independence and still, to this day, he had so much intensity, he was explosive, he was real. Real and funny. You know, the perfect combination. Being real in the ring and being entertaining. It is something that honestly you cannot teach.

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The wrestling world I think is incredible everywhere right now. The indies are thriving, WWE is thriving, AEW hasn't really got started yet and they are already thriving and Impact is going through a great time. Might we ever see Fred Rosser in any of those three companies?

Well, never say never. Never say never. I haven't retired at all. I still have a lot left in the tank, I have a lot left to offer. This year, 2019, was spent doing so many other projects that I haven't wrestled this year. I've been doing so many speaking engagements, I've been a part of a few cameos out here in LA, so I have done no wrestling until the fall time so when the fall time comes, I've got a few dates coming up, for quality promotions.

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— nodaysoff FRED ROSSER III (@realfredrosser) August 20, 2019

I try to focus on the quality over quantity, so, like I said, I haven't retired. I've made it known to AEW that I have strong interests in AEW, I have strong interests in New Japan Pro Wrestling. I've wrestled all of the world but I've never wrestled in Southeast Asia so hopefully maybe with this interview, a lot of interviews I do, I always put it out there, hopefully I can accomplish a bucket list of performing in Southeast Asia. So, I'm working on that as we speak.

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— nodaysoff FRED ROSSER III (@realfredrosser) July 28, 2019

Hopefully I can travel to Singapore Pro Wrestling in November to compete with them.

Don't count me out. I would say just because moves aren't being announced doesn't been moves aren't being made, so, as we speak, I make the connections, I'm emailing, I'm doing what I have to do to make moves. That was Titus and I's theme song by Sugar Tongue Slim. "Making moves, making moves, making million-dollar moves," and it's something that I preach every day.

I might not be making million-dollar moves. I always said for wrestling, if I would have done this for the money, I would have complained a long time ago. I do this for the love, I do this for the passion. I've wrestled in front of 20 people, 30 people with no shower and no toilet. I've travelled... I've travelled 300 miles to a show to get paid $20-25 to do a show, but, do you know what? I love entertainment. There's no better feeling for me than being under the big, bright lights.

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