Mike Santana has loads of expertise slicing “promos” in his life.
TNA’s Mike Santana just lately spoke with WrestleZone Managing Editor Invoice Pritchard in regards to the artwork of trash speaking in promos. Santana credit rising up in New York Metropolis for these abilities, noting how cutthroat it could possibly be, at the same time as a child in class.
“Rising up in New York Metropolis, particularly within the public faculty system, you higher come right on the subject of smack speaking,” Santana defined. “As a result of that that was one of many greatest issues we did within the lunchroom. We’d all be on the desk in a circle and all of us simply popping jokes on one another. It wasn’t simply mother jokes. We have been coming at one another’s throats. So I had my fair proportion of expertise on the subject of that.”
“I’ve been capable of do each”
Santana is aware of he can speak with the most effective of them (and respect a very good diss about his opponents after they come up). Nevertheless, he additionally is aware of he has to again that up — and he can.
“Normally, rising up on the street, you might speak all of the smack you need, however are you going to have the ability to again it up? That’s considered one of one, I’ve been capable of do each,” he mentioned. “I can speak my sh*t and I may again it up too. I’ve all the time channeled a variety of realism into all the things that I’ve finished in wrestling. And for me, Mike Santana is who I’m turned as much as 11. Additionally, the person who I was after I was youthful, it took rather a lot for me to cage that particular person up.
“Wrestling permits me to unlock these chains slightly bit generally with out having to get in bother an excessive amount of,” he added. “However yeah, man, the smack speak, it’s slightly NYC training there.”
Watch our full interview with Mike Santana beneath:
