Trevor Murdoch Interview

Hi there everyone,

Trevor Murdoch, a former WWE wrestler superstar, did a phone interview with Pitch.com about his time in a Kansas City based indie Metro Pro wrestling where he will finish up this Friday (I’m assuming Saturday for Aus……) and about his imminent return to WWE.

He spoke in the interview about what he accomplished with MPW, his return to WWE, Lance Cade and a few stories that he shared.

On whether or not he accomplished everything he wanted to with MPW, Trevor said, “In the wrestling business, there are so many companies that spring up and then shut down. They all have high hopes and they want to do great things, but I really didn't get too super excited about Metro Pro. But I was just expecting them to have some shows and be like a lot of the other companies and shut down -- high hopes but no staying power. So I never really went in there with a lot of expectations. But through the last year, they've blown my expectations away.”

On his returning to WWE, “I've been doing this since I was 18 years old. So I'm at an age where when I went to WWE the first time, I was 25 years old, and I'm really excited that I'm still at a young enough age that I'm going to be able to go back and do some good things on TV. My [5-year-old] son is now old enough to see me and understand that daddy is on TV, and he loves pro wrestling. So I'm fired up to be able to get back to working on TV again for sure.”

Lance Cade’s death and how it affected him, “It hasn't really changed my approach to the wrestling business; it's changed more of my personal life to what we were doing. Without going into so many details, as a young guy on the road, you make certain choices to do certain things. And just because you're not on the road doesn't mean you don't bring those things home with you. It's changed my lifestyle personally at home, the way that I look at my kids. Just last night, my son came up to me crying, and I said, why are you crying? He said, because I really miss uncle Lance. It's just really hard to explain to a 5-year-old that he's gone and that he's in heaven. My son knows that, but it still really bothers him because he was his uncle Lance.”

“…it's made me appreciate more of what I got, and made me more thankful for what I've got at home. It's made me focus more on the health of my body because even though we're wrestlers and we work out, we're not indestructible, especially when you look at Lance. That guy from the outside in was physically in 10 times better shape than I was. He had everything and died at 29 and left two little girls at home who are not going to have their daddy.”

 

“I'm in complete control of my life. I'm the one that says yes or no to things. Granted, being on the road, it does get hectic. It does play tricks on your mind. The difference between then and now is then I didn't know any better. I didn't know what to expect. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what was going to happen. At one point, I thought, am I always going to be on the road? Am I always going to be away from my family? It really drives you crazy. And you start to separate from your family because you don't want to hurt anymore from being away from them.
But now I know what to expect. I know what's ahead of me. I know that's not going to be my life forever. Granted, I'm going to miss out on some things with my kids, but you can't be there for everything. I come from a broken home and I always told myself that if I ever had children, I was never going to put them through what I went through, which at one point was being one parent, and then it got to be without both parents. And I had a lot of guilt personally because I felt like I was doing it to my kids. But I was doing it intentionally. I was making the choice to walk out that door to leave for the week and come home for two days. I was a weekend daddy.”

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