WWE 24/7 Champion Reggie recently said that “dodging bullets, drugs and violence” were a large part of his life before he made it as a circus performer.
Reggie, who captured the 24/7 Championship for the third time on this week’s RAW, worked for Cirque de Soleil before signing with WWE in 2020, but had plenty of hardship before then.
Speaking on WWE’s “The Bump”, Reggie opened up about his difficult upbringing, which he believes has made him an excellent 24/7 Champion. He said,
“I am the 24/7 Champion right now but actually it seems like I have been preparing my entire life for this role just because my life has been constant 24/7 chaos dodging danger, bullets, drugs , violence, well it’s everything in my entire life. You know I am one of 8 kids. My mum died when I was 2 and I never knew my dad, my grandmother raised all 8 of us and you can only imagine the struggle, the chaos in that household and then not having a father just follow the footsteps of my brothers and my uncles of being a gang member and a drug dealer because that was perceived as cool, that was the norm for us.”
In a prior interview with Metro, Reggie revealed how he used to watch WWE with his uncle, but stopped after the latter was shot and killed, and it’d be 16 years before Reggie got back into it.
