Joe informs that professional wrestling was the only thing that he and his father sat and watched together. He started training to become a wrestler, and after eight months he had his first match. He became obsessed with the business and was very ambitious with his training. His father urged him to accept nothing but perfection, and that followed him throughout his entire career.
Joe says that working in WWE at this point in his life still feels surreal for him. He was very happy with what he accomplished during his career, and this WWE run just feels like a bonus or a ‘cherry on top’ at this point. He says the years of hard work and dedication that led him to this point have been worth it just to experience working for the biggest professional wrestling promotion in the world.
Garcia asks him what’s left for him to accomplish at this point. Joe says nobody wants to leave WWE without having at least one run with the company’s biggest prize, the WWE Championship, so that’s where his focus is right now.
Joe says that his late Father was a terrific dad, but a tyrant of a boss. Joe began working at a very young age in order to help the family put food on the table because his mother and father often took care of and fed the majority of their extended family as well. Garcia asks Joe if he feels like this robbed him of his childhood, but he doesn’t believe that was the case at all because they still had a wonderful life and enjoyed family time watching sports and doing other activities.
