Ring of Honor World Champion Jay Briscoe was a guest on this week’s new episode of the Sam Roberts Wrestling Podcast, and he discussed a number of topics, including how he became a wrestling fan, wrestling as a singles star compared to tagging with his brother, a funny story about injuring his brother Mark in a backyard wrestling stunt, and much more. You can read some excerpts from the interview below:
Jay Briscoe on getting interested in wrestling:
“I remember Heatwave ’99, I think it was, that was our first pay-per-view that we watched. I just remember Shane Douglas starting it off… ‘Cut the f***ing music!’… It just captured us. The first time we saw it, we had a youth basketball tournament in Philly. We were in seventh or eighth grade and we were hanging out in the hotel room after the game; we just turned the TV on and there it was. We were just hooked from the first time we saw it.”
Jay Briscoe on being a singles star, and if there’s an issue with not tagging with his brother:
“The one who it bothers the most is my mother. She’s not a big fan of us doing singles. She wants straight tag team. But it’s all good.”
Jay on injuring his brother, and their father’s response:
“I remember we were backyard wrestling one time and I gave Mark a ‘Van Daminator’. Ended up breaking his nose and… he was bleeding bad. I guess Dad was watching out the kitchen window and he saw it go down so he rolls down the window and starts hollering, ‘Now break his nose, Mark! Break his nose!”
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Sam also talked to Briscoe about the chicken farm-themed promos he did with Mark for ROH and Jay talked about the story behind these videos.
“All the boys in the locker room, when we’d tell them that we grew chickens and that we had a chicken farm and everything, they were all so interested,” Briscoe said. “We would explain the whole process and everything and they were like, ‘Well, you know, if these guys are so into these stories, then maybe we can broaden it out a little bit.”
Roberts asked if Jay ever thought he could make the chicken farm promos interesting and he replied, “Man, there ain’t nothing interesting. I hate them damn chickens.”
