I'd like to go to NXT, be NXT Champion.

Ricochet

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We never had the most money, but my parents always did their best to take care of me and my brother. I had a real small but tight group of friends, and we would just ride our bikes all day after school and play video games, or we would actually wrestle out in the backyard.

ride best day me

Oh yeah, 100%, I've been an open book. Even my whole career, I've kind of been like an open book.

open career like book

There's so much to do in Paducah, Kentucky... Paducah's pretty cool, man.

much pretty cool man

Confidence is what I'm looking for! Comfortable and confident in the things you say. I feel like, for me, that's the hardest part, the confidence.

looking me you confidence

I've been friends with a lot of the NXT competitors for years, but just walking into the Performance Center alone is intimidating.

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I was born in Alton, Ill., and moved to Paducah, Ky., when I was 3 years old. I lived in Kentucky until I moved to Florida in 2015.

i-was-born old born years

I normally did isolation/bodybuilding-style workouts. But since coming to the Performance Center, the strength and conditioning coach has me doing a lot of different workouts I've never done before, and it's really shocked my body in a good way.

good me strength way

I had a list of names I wanted to use. Ricochet happened to be one of them, but I really wanted a true name name, like Johnny Gargano, Adam Cole, John Cena.

true name like happened

One of my friend's dad owned a grocery store, and one of the kids who worked at the grocery store was a wrestler. We got tickets to one of the shows, and then we stayed after, and they asked us if we wanted to get in there and train a little bit.

us friend dad train

I want to be a 'coffee guy,' but I just haven't started.

just coffee guy want

Sleeping comes easy to me. As soon as I lay my head down, I fall asleep like flicking a switch.

down me easy fall

I don't have any hard feelings against anyone at Lucha Underground.

underground against hard feelings

I've never had the 'I'm going to throw up' feeling in the ring, but I do get headaches after I wrestle if I don't eat.

eat ring feeling never

One of my strong suits is finding and creating transitions between moves, then stringing combinations into series.

finding creating suits strong

When it comes to the moves themselves, after I created a style, a lot of guys started doing the same moves I was. I had to switch up my whole offense. Then, when it happened again, I had to switch it up again. It was a hard thing to do, but it helps me grow and helps me not become stale.

grow doing me style

Working at home is always best. Traveling is the hardest part of my job - I say I don't get paid to wrestle, because that's the fun part. I get paid to travel.

best job home travel

When you're hurting after a match, the last thing you want to do is get in a car or on a plane to get to the next city.

city you car want

Luckily, here in WWE, they have a mega-awesome medical group. They're there at every show. If something is hurting even slightly, they're gonna ice it or something. They take care of us so well.

group medical take-care care

I have to figure out different ways to get into the moves that I do because everyone has a different offense, and I need different counters to go into my moves, and that's more down to tape watching.

everyone need down go

The coaches are there to bounce ideas off and stuff, but at the end of the day, they let us be us. We make our match, and we do 'us', you know what I mean?

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