Before he stepped into the ring, AEW’s MVP spent a good portion of his life behind barsat the age of sixteen he went to prison for armed robbery and kidnapping. Originally sentenced to eighteen and a half years, he would be out after nine and a half. And it was at the end of his sentence, when he was asked if he was willing to take steroids and wrestle for $100k a year, that MVP began to think about wrestling when he came out, as he revealed most recently. “Note with MVP and Dwayne Swayze.”
“I never, ever, ever had any dreams or ideas about becoming a professional wrestler,” MVP said. “It never occurred to me. Just casually looking at these (guys). โYes, I would become a professional wrestler. Yes, I would. Of course.” And then…I was still at the West Palm Beach work release center. But that’s when I got my size up because that’s when I first got creatine. I used to work in the kitchen, so I eat a dozen eggs for breakfast and steal milk.
โBack then I was making my own protein shakes because I’m learning about it. So I get powdered milk and sugar and shake it up, pull powdered milk and sugar after my workouts. When I got to the Palm Beach work release, I was 205. I was 245 when I left. So they were testing me for steroids.
Shortly after that. MVP will face corrections officer and indie wrestler Primetime Daryl Daviswho helped MVP get his foot in the door. As such, MVP believes his prison stint somehow set him on the path to becoming a wrestler.
“The reality is, if I had never gone to jail, MVP would never have been born,” MVP said.
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