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Full documentary on BBC iPlayer: https://bbc.in/36ncMm5
Zak, brother to WWE star Paige and inspiration behind hit Hollywood movie Fighting With My Family, explains how he is helping young wrestlers in Norwich fight their demons in and out of the ring.
Transcript provided by YouTube:
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i’m helping people ready go so people
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say zach you do a lot for other people
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but in actual fact then people do a lot
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for me
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[Music]
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good one perfect well done
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when i’m in the ring and i’m wrestling
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my anxiety goes away
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i’m james childress blind professional
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wrestler because that’s
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my title james chilvers what a man
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i’ll always have a spot for james
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because he was the first person with a
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disability that come to me and asked me
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to make his dreams come true
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my whole family live and breathe for
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this stuff
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back in 2011 we both tried out for the
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wwe
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there’s even a film about how she became
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a huge star
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but if you’ve seen it well you know what
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happened to me
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if i call your name that means you’ll be
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coming with me to florida
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paige thank you all very much
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not getting picked wow that nearly did
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it for me
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in order to fight back i needed to
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realize what my purpose was
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how i can come out of this and how i can
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be the best version of me
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being around positive people doing
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positive stuff i started finding my way
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again
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on a tuesday i work from a young lad
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called marcus um
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i help him to be independent as well as
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train him to be a pro wrestler
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and sort of teach him a little bit about
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life as well
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he suffered with a lot of anger issues
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when he was younger
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and wrestling’s really helped him deal
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with things rather than using
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violence or aggression it gets it all
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out so i can
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be calm and be normal the rest of the
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whole day no relax this wrestling stuff
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gets me more better and more stronger
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and more confident on everything
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you bring everything to it headlock oh
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you got it
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front headlock watching sam
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just lapping up everything that he
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deserves
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i think you’re ready for a match yeah so
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that people can see
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just how good you are yeah how how well
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you’ve trained
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yeah and we can show the world that you
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can do anything yeah
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what do you think yeah
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hello everyone how are we doing
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who’s ready for some wrestling
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we have two of our wwe stars here ladies
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and gentlemen
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now the first person we’re bringing out
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everybody he’s a very special friend of
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mine he’s a lad
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at the tender age was involved in a car
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accident which made him lose his
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say but it’s not stopped him chasing his
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dreams
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ladies and gentlemen will you please be
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on your feet and give a very warm
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welcome
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to james childress
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the guys just got so much positive
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energy and so much determination that
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every every session was
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a test for me it’s like wow what am i
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going to do with this guy next week
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jesus christ okay three
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two one we’re off
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that’s nothing wrong with that nothing
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wrong with that
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the basic foundations is there you’ve
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just jumped off to come here buddy i’m
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really proud of you good job come here
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well thank you well done mate um that’s
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hard to do
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yeah jumping off the top on your own you
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know that takes a lot of bottle
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i want people to go wow like that’s
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probably one of the best flashes i’ve
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seen
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and the dude’s bloody blind good job man
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high five lift your hand up good
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you
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