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Various News: Cabana Launches New Podcast Miniseries, Mojo Rawley On the Origin Of His Motto

February 10, 2016 | Posted by Jeremy Thomas
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– Mojo Rawley spoke with the Washington Post for a recent interview and discussed the origin of his motto “stay hyped.” Rawley said that the motto came about at a low point in his life, when he’d suffered a calf injury during the first week of his Arizona Cardinals training camp that ended his NFL career and broke up with his longtime girlfriend.

In order to turn things around, he came up with the motto and rehabbed the injury. He learned he would be able to play football but he opted to sign with WWE instead of returning to the NFL. He said of the decision, “It made the least sense. It was the biggest risk. I didn’t know what I was getting myself into.”

– Colt Cabana announced that he’s launching a new three-part podcast series titled “Colt Cabana’s Pro Wrestling Fringe.” According to the press, release, the podcast will feature Cabana as he “investigates the sport’s secret history, uncovering the bizarre, legendary, and completely true wrestling stories traded by wrestlers, but rarely heard outside the privacy of the locker room.”

All three episodes are available for listening at Howl.fm. You can use the offer code COLT at checkout to get a free one month trial of Howl Premium. A preview of the first episode is available at ColtCabana.com.

The three episodes are described as follows:

Episode 1: A Giant Expectation – Pro wrestling is known for larger-than-life-figures, but the 7’7” Jorge “El Gigante” Gonzalez was a giant even among them. Colt and Rob Naylor tell the story of his brief and unusual career.

Episode 2: Black & White – In the 1950s, in racially segregated Memphis, Tennessee, Sputnik Monroe was a wrestling superstar. Colt and David Bixenspan discuss how Sputnik’s support of desegregation resonated throughout professional sports.

Episode 3: Hand Picked – Tom Magee, the Canadian champion powerlifter, looked like pro wrestling’s next big thing after a high-profile win against Bret Hart. However, as Colt and Dave Meltzer discover, looks can be deceiving.