[MUSIC PLAYING]
[CHEERING]
SUGE D: It stresses me
out because it's almost
like when you're
living your day-to-day,
you're more of a character
in your normal day-to-day
than I feel like I
would be in that ring.
You can't be who you
want to be at work when
you clock in sometimes.
You know this.
Like if your boss is getting
on you about something
or he's saying this--
You can't body slam him.
Why do you do this?
I want it.
It's that simple.
People talk all the time
about stuff that they want.
I want this.
I want that.
Why can't I have this?
Why can't I have that?
If you want it, you go get it.
[CHEERING]
CRAIG: So what do I call you?
Suge?
Carl?
I have many identities.
For the ladies, I want
them to call me Daddy.
But for the sake of this
interview, let's go with Suge.
Let's just go with that.
CRAIG (VOICEOVER):
This is Carl Wilson,
but he prefers to be
called Suge D. By day, he's
an assistant manager
of a cellphone store,
but by night, he's a freelance
professional wrestler.
When you think about
professional wrestling,
you probably think of this--
mega superstars battling it out
in gigantic arenas for thousands
of people on TV and paperview.
But there's another level
of professional wrestling
that doesn't happen on TV.
It happens in small clubs
and mid-size venues,
and the wrestlers
don't necessarily
go on to star in Hollywood
movies or sell beef sticks.
Snap into a Slim Jim!
I'm called a
professional wrestler.
I would more so say I'm a
professional driver because I
get the point A to point B in
the fastest amount of time,
do want business, entertain,
and I get back as fast
as humanly possible.
How far did you drive today?
Where are we?
We're in Chicago.
So where'd you come from?
I'm based out of
Augusta, Georgia.
So that's a 12 hour drive.
So how long have
you been doing this?
I was 17, and on
February 21, I will be 31.
14 years, yeah?
OK, so it will be
14 on February 21,
so I started very, very young.
Fact of the matter
is I've always
been a huge fan of
professional wrestling
since I was a little child.
It's one of my earliest,
earliest, earliest memories.
There were VHS tapes at the
house, Hulk Hogan and Ultimate
Warrior.
And I used to sit down to watch
all the Hogan celebrations
and the posing, man.
Ripping the shirt off?
Yes, yes.
A lot of white tees that my mom
got very upset about me ripping
because they wasn't exactly like
a commodity around the house we
could just rip apart.
But the big thing at
the end of the day
was I knew in some
way, shape, or form
I was going to be
in the business
no matter how it turned out.
So I applied my time.
Eventually I found a
way to break into it.
Let me ask you a
question-- I don't
mean to flip the tables
on you real quick.
With professional wrestling,
I mean, let's just be honest.
The curtain's been pulled back.
You know it's predetermined.
What?
It's not real?
I ruined it for everybody.
God.
But here's my thing--
OK, you already
know it's predetermined.
I hate using the word fake
because the stuff I go through
in there-- we were talking
about the whole close-up
thing earlier.
That's my broken arm from
about three years ago.
They actually have a steel
plate and seven screws in there.
So it's definitely not fake.
There's some real
stuff ends up going on.
OK, so the outcome is
predetermined, right?
But at the same
time, the outcome
is predetermined on
"Game of Thrones."
It's predetermined
on "The Avengers,"
comic books you read, all
that good stuff like that.
What I like about this
are the moments where--
since the curtain has
already been pulled back,
and we tried so long to get
people to believe what we were
doing is absolutely, positively,
100% real-- the beauty of it
now is getting you to forget
that, for that moment,
it's predetermined.
It's to throw you in.
We're like the most
base form of theater,
and we're right in your
face, and I love it.
ANNOUNCER 1: I don't know
what's happening there.
ANNOUNCER 2: Is
this "Space Jam"?
Here comes Sugar D slow motion.
SUGE D: So when I
first started, I
would get on with
an indie company,
and I made more so myself a name
as more of a comedic character.
And this is where my
rise started to come up.
So that's like
having a hot single.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
The big thing is just like
I had one of those moments.
And then when everything kind of
fizzled out with that company,
I was back at bottom.
It's like you had the
single, they didn't really
trust in you putting
anything else out,
so they dropped you, and
your back on the road again.
You're at square one.
So now you're back
at this moment
where you're trying
to reinvent and trying
to show these people what your
worth, what you really have.
And what was frustrating
about that time was-- I'll
admit-- I had a passion for it.
I feel like I didn't take my
fitness all the way seriously.
It's like I got a lot
too soon, and now I'm
trying to claw my way backup
to be able to get back
to a lot of those heights.
I'd say I've gotten
back to some of that
just in a different way.
I would like to be able to
get to a super high level,
like contract on TV every week,
everything to that affect.
But at the same time,
I feel like if you
harp on that kind of thing, it
puts so much pressure on it,
it doesn't even happen.
I just want to enjoy it
for every step I get.
For every show, I'm
just enjoying it
that one step at
a time, and then
whatever my destiny
is, it's going to be.
But no matter what,
I'm succeeding.
I'm winning no matter
what's going on right now.
And I'm happy for that,
and I'm happy I'm healthy.
I'm loving life.
I'm loving the people.
I've never taken
a drug in my life,
but I have to believe
that's what it feels like.
I have to believe that's what
it feels like because I keep
coming back for this, and that's
just the business as a whole.
That's why you'll see so many
people-- death-defying stunts,
they'll do some
crazy stuff, still
have to go to work the next
day, not even making good money.
Because at the root
of it, you just
want that moment, that
10 seconds, 30 seconds,
or whatever expanse
of time that you get,
you're a god to these people.
And that's not even trying to be
arrogant or anything like that.
It's like these people
are looking to you,
and they're giving you their
energy for second willingly.
That's crazy, man.
Now I want to see
you do some wrestling.
Are you gonna win?
I can't quite tell you that.
[CHEERING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
ANNOUNCER: Introducing first,
by way of Chocolate City, this
is "Uptown Funk."
He is the Pelvic Sorcerer.
This is Special Dark Suge D!
From San Diego, California,
mucho underground superstar,
the New Age Puncher, B-Boy!
[CHANTING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[CHANTING]
[APPLAUSE]
Suge D!
SUGE D: I'm further than I
ever, ever, ever expected to be.
There were people that thought
I would never leave the stage,
and every day, I'm
proving them wrong.
The biggest thing that
kills me about this
is-- and I think that anybody
in this business can relate,
if you got a dream, anybody
can relate-- how many times
have you chased something,
and you've thought about it,
and you've had second, third,
15 thoughts about just stopping
because it's just
not going to happen.
Sometimes you're
telling yourself
that it's not going to happen.
But the thing is I live
in fear of the fact
that if I don't keep going, I
could have been right there,
and I didn't even
know it, and that's
gonna eat me alive inside.
So it's one of those
situations where
you have to make the choice
between you can keep going,
and I guess by other
people's determination,
fail, but at least you
knew what the outcome was.
Or you cut your losses,
you could buckle down,
you could find a different
dream, find something else,
but at the same
time, you're always
going to get eaten up
by what could have been,
and I don't like
what could've been.
I can't deal with that.
Don't ask for
permission to be great.
Just be.
CROWD: Suge D!
So what do you guys think?
Do you want to be a professional
wrestler like Suge D?
Or do you have your own
dream that you're chasing?
And does it matter to you that
wrestling is predetermined?
Does it ruin it for you?
Or can you enjoy
it for what it is?
And should I give
Matt a pile driver?
Let us know in the comments.
Also, what is a pile driver?
Also, should I tear my
shirt off and go like this?
Brother.
Big thanks to Suge D for sitting
down and talking with us.
There's a link to his Twitter
and Facebook down below.
Also, thanks to Freelance
Wrestling for letting us
come to that show.
It was awesome.
You should check
them out. they've
got shows going on all the time.
It was a really good time.
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