Mike Bennett reveals the most visceral reaction he has ever received from a fan.
During a recent interview with Kevin Kellam of Sportskeeda, Mike Bennett talked about some of the craziest reactions he’s had from fans in real life, both negative and positive. Bennett started off jokingly and said one fan criticized his lack of hair, but then shared how one group waited outside for him in an attempt at a post-show fight.
“If you wipe away the toxic stuff people say on social media […] I have had someone literally yell at me for going bald. I was like, ‘I can’t control that.’ I’m yelling at my own hair about going bald. Thank you. Thank you for rubbing that in my face.”
“No, I have to say when I first started out, I was doing an independent show somewhere in upstate New Hampshire, and it was for the late Steve Bradley. We did a match, and I think Steve Bradley was out there, and I was in a heel tag team at the time. And by the end of the show, we couldn’t leave because Steve was telling me that people were waiting in the parking lot for us because they were legitimately upset about what we were saying to them and what were doing to the person in the match. And we had to wait maybe an hour and a half before they actually left because they clearly outnumbered us. It was like ten of them and four of us, and we’re like, ‘This is a recipe for disaster.’ And I was like 19 years old at the time, so I’m like, ‘What the hell am I getting myself into?'”
On the flip side, Bennett went on to discuss the positive reactions he’s received over the last five years as he’s been very open about his sobriety.
“One of the coolest things that’s happened to me has been the last five years with my sobriety because I now get people coming up to me and being like, ‘Oh, you helped me with this, and you helped me with that.’ I had one guy Royal Rumble weekend a few years back, he was visibly shaking. He was this big, jacked up tough guy-looking dude, and he comes up to me shaking, and he’s crying, and he’s tell me I helped him get through his divorce. I just remember being like, ‘Wow, this is bigger than wrestling.’ So those reactions, those are the ones that stick with me now. Those are the ones where I’m like, ‘Okay, I think I’m doing the right thing. This is the path I should be headed down.'”
Mike Bennett and Matt Taven will be featured on IMPACT Bound For Glory this Friday when they defend the IMPACT World Tag Team Championship against Motor City Machine Guns.
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