R-Truth: Wrestling Wasn’t My First Choice, But It Saved My Life

R-Truth talks about how wrestling saved his life despite it not being his first choice in terms of professional careers.

Truth has been wrestling for over two decades at this stage of his career, having competed for WWE and in the early days of TNA throughout his career, although wrestling wasn’t the first choice for what he wanted to do professionally.

While speaking during the second episode of WWE: Unreal’s second season, R-Truth noted that while wrestling wasn’t his first choice, it did save his life.

“Wrestling wasn’t my first choice, but it saved my life. I wanted to be a big rap star, I recorded by own music, got me some background dancers. I was meeting people like Tupac Shakur, Eazy-E. But then I was introduced to professional wrestling. I got bit by the bug. I can still do my rap, I was going to Memphis to train. They told me, ‘six months and you’ll be on national television.’ But then seven months came, eight months came. I wasn’t doing nothing. I thought, ‘I just ain’t got it, I just ain’t cut out or it,’ and then Road Dogg saw me wrestling. He was like, ‘was that you out there rapping and dancing and singing?’ I said, ‘yeah’, ‘how would you like to be my tag team partner?’ I said, ‘bro I’m about to quit.’ But he said, ‘bro give me two months, I’ll have you on TV, I’ll have you snapping.’ I said, ‘all right, cool.'”

Elsewhere in the second season of WWE: Unreal, Pat McAfee spoke about still being ‘as green as shit’ in the ring. You can read more about that here.

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