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Fangin’ & Bangin’ with Wrestling Legend Gangrel at GalaxyCon OKC!
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May 25, 2025
Caught up with the Vampire Warrior himself for a quickfire interview at GalaxyCon Oklahoma City. Be sure to check him out this weekend at Galaxycon Oklahoma! @galaxyconlive @gangreldavidheath #Gangrel #GalaxyConOKC #Interview #WWF #WWE #TheBrood #ProWrestling
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what's going on this is Gangrell the
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Vampire War and I'm doing a little fang
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and a banging at the Galaxy Con out here
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at OKC Oklahoma uh yeah so I I'm doing
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uh some kind of gimmick card uh
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interview this guy's passed off on me so
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um I'm going to get through it here two
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cards and if I could read he has faith
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in me that I could read what originally
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drew you to wrestling and when did you
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know it would be more than just a
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passion well that's not a threeminute
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question right there that would take me
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an hour to answer that thing what
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originally drew me to wrestling but I
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was a fan of professional wrestling ever
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since I was a kid florida Championship
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Wrestling growing up in Florida uh Kevin
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Sullivan Barry Windham Blackjack
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Mulligan Dusty Rhodess of course some
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some of your Florida guys there but uh
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what got me into professional wrestling
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is I was actually looking for a better
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construction job at the age of 17 and
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that's all I adm
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uh on the weekends and make great money
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and I went down there and checked it out
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it was a wrestling school and uh the
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rest is history i was 17 so I've been
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wrestling ever since i was trained by
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Boris Flinko and Rusty Brooks and uh
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went on to train in Calgary with the
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Hearts in the Dungeon and on with Alpha
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Seca the Samans um all right so that's
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enough of that question now what moment
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in your career that you felt like a true
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turning point all eyes so this is
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another hourong answer um and it truly
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is a moment like and I'm not just joking
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because I don't want to do this
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interview and I'm fussing about this
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this whole time but actually I don't
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mind doing an interview but this is
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another hourong question uh turning
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point in my career i was
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uh n 19 years old in all Japan pro
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wrestling over in um over in Tokyo Japan
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uh Tokyo Japan but I was in Japan
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wrestling and under mass we were called
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the black cards struggling had no
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business being there working with uh
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wrestlers like uh Dr destiny Williams
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Terry Gordy Masawa Kawada uh the Malinko
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brothers Dean and Joe um just the list
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goes so on and so on uh where these guys
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all been like Hansen and Spivey
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wrestling uh Stan Hansen Dan Spy
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wrestling for 30 years grown men over
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there young lad trying to figure it out
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um ended up with a match with the Cam
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Express Doug Furnus and Danny Crawford
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uh had no business being there it was
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for the all Asian straps but they were
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able to carry us through 20 minutes in
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uh Buudacan Hall live at the Budakhan
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and they carried us through that and uh
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from that moment on there's nothing I
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ever wanted to do more than be a pro
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wrestler cuz uh they gave me faith by
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just carrying us and uh being kind to us
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at that that one match and that turned
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my whole thinking around cuz I was about
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ready to pack it up and call it a day at
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that point all right so the next
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question can you share a story from the
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road that still makes you laugh or shake
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your head no I'll go to jail uh that
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Thank God we didn't have cell phones
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back then so I'm
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like we would have had these cameras and
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phones i would have been cancelled in
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prison or or something i don't know but
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um
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uh stories you
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know another long one but Owen Hart uh
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would be a good story uh at Russell the
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building was in um oh uh what building
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was it ah I'm drawing a blank on the
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building uh well I'd go in that building
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and uh I can picture the building i just
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can't picture what town it was u sit in
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the same locker room every day day in
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and day out this particular day had a
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bunch of different people in there i
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went to the match i wrestled i came back
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put my watch on i love my watches and my
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watch was gone and uh I I didn't make a
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big deal out of it i was leaving leaving
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the building and Owen came up to me and
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asked me what time it was anything
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nothing of it i had another watch i had
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to put it on i gave him the time 3
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months later same building
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uh same locker room same stuff and then
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I'm leaving out Owen comes up to me Owen
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Hart rest in peace came up to me and uh
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go "Hey Dave what time?" I said and
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I looked and I had that watch back on
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what what what expired there is he
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waited 3 months apparently hid my watch
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in the ceiling hid it from me for 3
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months went came back to that building
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put it back in my bag in that same
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locker room so you know he was a patient
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ripper but uh it always makes you smile
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about Owen you'd have to know Owen to
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get that joke and that it was funny he
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was very patient him and Brett um next
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question what kind of opportunities
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brought you uh out brought out the best
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in you and drew out your best
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performance
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[Music]
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uh I don't know this is going to sound
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crazy but I was married to a
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professional wrestler named Luna and uh
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if we got in a crazy fight I mean uh uh
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like she's just screaming at me
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threatening my life going to cut my
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throat uh right before I go to the ring
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I always seem to have a tremendous match
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that would bring the best out of me in
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the ring i don't know if I came out with
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a little extra rage and anger or what it
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was but um I took it as motivation and
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that's what worked for me all right it
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was uh this the end of these or what how
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many questions are there over on four
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clearly numbered four questions you see
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that four question all right what kind
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of opponents brought you out the best of
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you oh what kind of opponents see I
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didn't even answer that right did I what
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kind of opponents aggressive ones uh see
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I read that totally wrong i told you I
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couldn't read the very beginning of this
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interview go back i told you I couldn't
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read he said he had faith in me that I
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could clearly I can't i see what I want
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to see and read what I want to read what
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kind of opponents an aggressive opponent
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steve Blackman was one very physical uh
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uh I just like very aggressive opponents
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i think the style I came in uh going to
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Calgary first Stampede Wrestling then to
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All Japan down to Puerto Rico uh it was
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a very aggressive style then I went to
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Memphis where it was very uh working uh
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easy style but I prefer a physical
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physical style so Steve Blackman so I'm
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going to bring the best out of me
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uh question number five wrestling number
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five um
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what's one match that the fans always
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bring up that you remember most about um
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one match they always bring up they
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always bring up the blood bat but I
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think it would have to go back to this
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picture right here uh
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wasn't a match I was in it was a match
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where me Christian and Edge ourselves
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the three of us the trio then Holy Trio
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uh were stuck hanging in the ceiling at
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Wrestlemania in the Hell in a Cell match
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with Big Boss Man and the Undertaker um
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uh they had a Hell in a Cell match and
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we were stuck up there the breakers
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broke and we hung there it was minutes
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but it felt like hours but that was it
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so there I answered all your questions
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or actually I went back to I'm back on
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number one so this is Gangra Vampire War
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coming to you from Galaxy Con and OKC
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want some get some bad enough take some
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but whatever you do keep banging and
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banging
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