WWE star Damian Priest recently appeared on Busted Open Radio to discuss various topics, including the moment that inspired him to pursue a career in wrestling as a child. Priest revealed that it was a specific segment from the feud between WWE Hall of Famers The Undertaker and Ultimate Warrior that sparked his interest in joining the company.
Priest said, “[It was] the funeral parlor. It was when Undertaker stuffed The Ultimate Warrior in a coffin and locked it, and everybody was fighting to open it because they were afraid he was going to suffocate and die. I was living in Puerto Rico and it was on two different channels. It was on an English channel and a Spanish channel. As a kid, I’m just flipping back between the channels because I think it’s cool that it’s the same thing on two different channels at the same time in two different languages.”
On what he loved about it:
“That’s when I knew it was like, ‘I want to do this with my life…’”
“The superhero almost got got by the super villain. Immediately, I fell in love with the business. I fell in love with the Undertaker character. That’s when I knew it was like, ‘I want to do this with my life.’”
You can check out the complete podcast below.
