Flip Gordon has claimed that John Cena motivated him to affix the military. Talking on Sportskeeda Wrestling’s newest version of UnSKripted, he briefly mentioned his story.
In line with Gordon, he took observe of John Cena’s fashionable film, The Marine. He additionally talked about how the multi-time WWE Champion was the most important promoter of the armed forces on the time.
Gordon additionally talked about how his mom thought he would not be recruited into the military.
“So, humorous factor, again to John Cena. Watching WWE, they all the time did Tribute to the Troops and they might all the time promote the Nationwide Guard, and John Cena, when he went and did The Marine, he was like the most important promoter of the armed forces. So I used to all the time see the commercials of the Nationwide Guard and I all the time used to suppose, ‘Man, that’d be cool.’ However my mother was all the time like, ‘Oh you would by no means be within the Military, you’ve ADHD, you’ve bipolar, they’d by no means take you.’ And I used to be like, ‘Oh, that stinks, okay,'” mentioned Flip Gordon.
Gordon continued his story by stating how his greatest pal motivated him to affix the military and never hand over on it.
“After which few years later, I am in faculty and my greatest pal, we now have wrestled via highschool collectively and went to school. He wrestled in faculty, I went on to grow to be the mascot however we lived collectively. We got here dwelling collectively at some point and he is like, ‘So I enlisted within the Nationwide Guard.’ I used to be like, ‘Wait, what?’ He was like, ‘Yeah bro, you must do it too.’ And I talked to the recruiter, her title on the time was Sgt. Swanson. And he or she since retired, she’s an superior recruiter by the best way, very truthful, answered all my questions,” mentioned Flip Gordon. [27:50-29:07]
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Flip Gordon described his enlistment after being impressed by John Cena
Flip Gordon additional continued his story of moving into the military after being impressed by John Cena.
He talked about how he began to suppose extra deeply about moving into the military after getting chilly ft.
“I began serious about it extra and I used to be like, ‘Man, if I do not do that, that is one thing I will remorse for the remainder of my life.’ And with the Nationwide Guard, I do not know if you understand this, they allow you to do two weeks throughout the summer season after which each one weekend a month. So I can nonetheless come again to school after fundamental coaching and AIT. I can nonetheless be the mascot, I can nonetheless do that, I can nonetheless try this, and I used to be like, ‘All proper, no matter.'”
He continued:
“So I enlisted, ended up getting the identical MOS, the identical ship date. Me and my pal went to the identical fundamental coaching collectively, went to AIT collectively, and obtained stationed at our first unit,” added Gordon. [29:23-30:08]
Lately, Gordon has made a reputation for himself courtesy of his work with NWA and AAA. He has additionally beforehand competed in Ring of Honor and New Japan Professional Wrestling.
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