TNA Wrestler Mark Haskins recently spoke with
TalkSport.co.uk new wrestling radio segment entitled "The Beatdown" regarding the 2012 TNA UK tour, his botched shooting star press incident, meeting wrestling legends and more. Below is a quick recap:
On being on the 2012 TNA UK Tour:"It was a great experience. We were here the year before with the previous tour and it was huge, i think there was about 6 or 7 thousand and a year later there was an even bigger crowd. It was for TV, my family was there, my friends were there, People i knew from school back in the day were there."On the now infamous botched shooting press spot:"In all honesty, i went to the top, did the jump and something didnt feel right. The next thing i remember is being in the back with some of the agents around me. I was shouting my girlfriends name, I was knocked out. I came down, i don't know what it was that went wrong. i dont know if i didn't get enough jump, i don't know whether i slipped. I was completely out of it. There were two or three moves after i actually landed. I don't remember any of that. I don't remember getting to the back. I don't remember how i got to the dressing room. Apparently I was walking around and talking to people. It was sure a scary thing."On being backstage with the likes of Hulk Hogan, Sting and Jeff Hardy:"It's weird. To think back when i was a child and i used to be a huge hulk hogan fan. I used to be a huge kurt angle fan and an AJ Styles fan. Now I'm just like 'Hey Kurt, how are you doing?'. You do have that reality check where you go 'damn, i used to have an action figure of you' and 'You used to be my world champion'. I used to watch every Kurt Angle match and now however many years later you now you are like 'oh hey, yeah how are you doing?'.""It's so strange especially since the first tour i did for TNA on their European tour about this time last year, i thought would just be a local match. We were in Leon France. The match ended up being Shannon Moore and myself versus Matt Hardy and Jeff Jarrett with Kurt Angle as the special guest referee. I just stood there looking around and it kind of dawned on me for a second These are the guys i used to watch when i was 10 years old. If you had told me when i was 10 to 15 years old that i would end up in that situation, i would have never believed it. At the end of the day it just goes to prove that if you work hard enough your dreams do come true."