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Frankie Kazarian on TNA Roster Changes, Joe Hendry, Chris Bey and being a Locker Room Leader

Cultaholic Wrestling

Cultaholic

Aew, Wrestling Podcast, Wwe, Wrestling, Sports, Wwe Podcast, Sports & Recreation

4.7979 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

"The King Of TNA" Frankie Kazarian reflects on TNA's first year back and talks about roster changes, Joe Hendry's meteoric rise and the locker room love for Chris Bey.

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0:00.0

Yes, it's sad to see some people go, some people you get incredibly close with, and sometimes you form personal relationships and your family become friends.

0:08.6

And it's tough to say goodbye, but it's something that we know.

0:11.7

We all signed up for the same thing, so we know this is just part of it.

0:17.8

TNA wrestling, wrapping up a game changing 2024 2024 and the momentum continues into next year with the announcements of Genesis and Rebellion.

0:28.7

Joining me right now to talk about all of that and more is the king of TNA himself.

0:34.5

It's Frankie Gazzarian.

0:35.6

Frankie, how you doing?

0:36.7

I'm wonderful, man. How you doing? Thanks for having me.

0:39.1

Oh, pleasure to have you, sir. Now, you've been back home. You've been SoCal this week, getting ready for rebellion in April. What does it mean to carry the SoCal flag everywhere you go in wrestling?

0:52.3

Kind of hold that as a great sense of pride and responsibility.

0:55.4

You know, obviously I'm born and raised in Southern California.

0:58.4

I cut my teeth here on the Indies.

1:00.7

And there's a lot of the, a lot of the fan base that have followed me from my early days of,

1:06.2

you know, EWF and UPW and early pro wrestling guerrilla stuff.

1:10.6

And, you know, and obviously, you know,

1:13.9

a little faction called SCU that got pretty hot for a while and, you know, being in that group

1:18.7

with two of my best friends, you know, we took our love of SoCal and made it very, very public.

1:25.2

So I'm always going to have that association, and I love it.

1:27.8

I welcome it.

1:28.5

This is my home.

1:30.4

And it's, I'm so thrilled that TNA is finally going to properly run a big show in the LA

1:37.1

market because it's never really been done.

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