Paul Walter Hauser Reveals Which Match Hurt The Most, Says His Wife Doesn’t Like Him Wrestling

Paul Walter Hauser recently revealed which of his wrestling matches have hurt the most, and revealed what his wife thinks of him wrestling. Hauser has worked a number of matches in promotions from MLW and ROH to GCW and more. He recently appeared on Insight With Chris Van Vliet for a new interview. He weighed in on both the matches and weapons that hurt him the most.

Hauser also noted his wife is not a fan of his wrestling, but called wrestling one of his outlets for expression. You can see highlights below, as provided by the show:

On What His wife Thinks Of His Wrestling:

“She does not like it at all, but I also tell her the truth. I take calculated risks. There was a time when I was taking edibles and drinking scotch and partying around this city in Hollywood, and that was way more dangerous than wrestling. ”

On Wrestling Being His Outlet:

“It’s one of them. Yeah, I think cooking, screenwriting, wrestling, I have a couple different outlets that really serve me. I would love to take up golf at some point. Wahlberg helped me get my first pair of clubs, and was really sweet and gifted something to me. But I just haven’t gotten out there yet. I need to do that.”

On the Risk Of Delaying Filming If He Gets Hurt:

“I did a pre-tape in 2024 for MLW. We did a match that was famously panned by the online community. They despised it. I had a match with Tom Lawlor, and it was cinematic. Re watching it, there were a couple of things I would do differently. I would shave off three or four minutes, and I would also make it more 60 or 70% of him, I would change the ratio a little bit on who takes what. But that match, we had already shot, and I was doing whatever I was doing that summer. It must have been the Wahlberg movie, because I was in Australia, and they’re like, Is Paul fighting a match tonight? Because they saw it on Instagram or something. And my manager is like, no, he already taped that. They’re just gonna air it. But they were freaking out, ready to read me the riot act, because they thought I was wrestling while I was shooting.”

On Which Weapon Hurts the Most:

“First off, that kendo stick hurt like hell. Kendo sticks, the only way to fake a kendo stick is for a guy to hit you very lightly. And nobody does that because they know you can’t sell that. So that hurt a lot. The thumbtacks, I didn’t even feel. The thumbtacks were my idea. They’re all like, Are you sure you want to do this? I’m like, Yeah, I’m gonna be doing this in match. Just wait. But when I poured out the thumbtacks, I didn’t pour them out in the middle of the ring, which I should have, because that’s the softest, bounciest part of the ring. Not thinking. 15 minutes into a match or blown up, I poured them near the turnbuckle, which is arguably the hardest part of the mat, pretty equivalent to the apron that everybody’s like. That’s the hardest part of the mat. The turnbuckle is too.

“So when I took that Power Bomb, well, for one you can see me pulling up my shirt. I was hoping he was going to pull up my shirt like a hockey fight, to expose the back, and then we could see the tax, see the blood. That was the plan. He didn’t for whatever reason. So I’m literally trying to pull up my shirt as I’m in the Power Bomb position. It looks so goofy and stupid. He powerbombs me, and the wind got knocked out of me. I couldn’t breathe, I couldn’t talk, so him and the ref were like, Let’s close this up. And then he didn’t want to get thumbtacks in his hands or body, so you see him roll me up with my legs, but it was weak, so I could kick out easily, and and then I was trying to set something up in the corner, and of course, he hits me in the ball bag and got me with the diamond cutter, which was more offensive, because I’m dear friends with Diamond Dallas Page.”

On Which Match Hurt the Most:

“The elbow drop I delivered onto BRG at Battle riot for MLW, [off the ladder?] Yep, that hurt. And by the way, it wouldn’t have hurt that much. There was a padding outside next to the ring. We weren’t on the padding. Had we just moved it slightly and I landed on the padding would have been fine. I hit the elbow perfectly in the middle, but then my butt cheek, my right butt cheek, and my hips slammed into concrete, seven, eight feet off the ground. Hard to recover from that and fake that, that sucks. Also, I didn’t want to put too much of my body on him to crush him. I was like, just hit the elbow. Maybe you’ll twist your ankle or something, but you’ll be fine.

“In the moment, you’re not thinking totally you’re just like, I believe I’m going to be okay. That’s a, that’s a big belief thing, too. I believe these guys are going to catch me if I do a Senton off the apron. You know. The other thing is, of course, the Power Bomb from Qt Marshall. Maven, who I’m a big fan of his YouTube page, I loved your interview with him recently. Maven, I want to see him make some form of a comeback in a company, and be an active member of a company. I would like to see that. But Maven said, of all the moves he took in his video, where he takes all the finishes, he said the Power Bomb still hurt the most. And I was like, You’re telling me, man! I took one Power Bomb and I felt like I was out of commission. So, yeah, falling on a concrete and getting a hematoma in my ass cheek and being power bombed in the corner turnbuckle area, that was the worst.”