I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.

I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.

I grew up on WWE. Eddie Guerrero is my everything. He's my hero, as are Shawn Michaels and Tiger Mask. I tried to model myself after them.

It's really exciting to be able to represent the cruiserweights and go to Monday Night Raw. I grew up watching Monday Night Raw, and it's really a big dream of mine to perform on that stage.

I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.

So much of what I do has been based off of my heroes and guys I've watched come up.