Former IMPACT X-Division Champion Speedball Mike Bailey has a lot to be grateful for this holiday season.
IMPACT Wrestling‘s Speedball Mike Bailey was a recent guest on INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet to discuss a wide variety of subjects. When asked to name things he’s grateful for, Bailey offered a very heartwarming response, including his recent marriage to Veda Scott.
“So we talked about my year 2022, and one of the highlights was that I got married. I’m very grateful for my wife, Veda Scott,” Mike Bailey said. “More than just being grateful for Veda, I am grateful for the voiceover they provide for my life as well as my matches. Anytime that I have a Veda on commentary while I’m wrestling, especially when I watch the match back, it just feels so much better.
“Not only because we have such a good connection, but also because they are such an amazing commentator and their voice on every measure. It’s how much they know about wrestling and how much care and passion they put behind making every match better is just unmatched, I feel. So that’s something I’m very grateful for. I’m grateful for the audience that comes to professional wrestling.
“I make it a point to interact with people as much as I can, on Twitter, on Instagram, on Twitch, where I’ve grown such a fantastic community. And honestly, with Twitch, I was expecting there to be a lot of a lot more people who would come in and be unpleasant or mean or rude or annoying. And that, quite frankly, never happens. Everyone is so nice. Everyone is polite at the merch table as well after and before shows.
“It makes me angry; It bothers me when I read things about how bad wrestling fans are on Twitter, which you do see a lot which I quite frankly don’t think is true at all. I think most people are; wrestling is cool. People are great. I mean, I know there definitely are some weirdos who watch wrestling, but it’s very easy to get caught up.
“I’ve said this to a lot of other wrestlers who I see they’ll make a tweet, right? They’ll give out an opinion. And then there’s going to be one comment that’s going to be like, ‘No, you’re wrong, and you’re an idiot for thinking that,’ and they will reply to that one comment and ignore all the others that said, ‘Yeah, man, you’re totally right.’ If you’re going to respond to the mean comments, then you should respond to even more of the positive comments.
“And then I’m going to be grateful for the existence of professional wrestling, and that there is such a beautiful art like open-ended yet concrete art form out there that just ticks a lot of boxes for me specifically but also luckily for so many other people.”
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