When we were fighting on top of the cage, and Sammy surrenders and then the bell rings. The music plays, and then Max kind of pulls me up again and then gives me a little shove. I said, ‘Give me a shot.’ I need to feel something, so I can take a little bit of a push back, and I step back and I thought this bump would go by fast, but I just kept looking at him, and looking at him and looking at him as I fell. And then I landed, and of course, it takes the breath out of you.
Trust me, I’ve seen a few people bagging on the fact that there’s a crash pad. Once again, no crash pad. It was a cardboard box. I don’t give a sh*t if it was a crash pad. It’s one of those things where doing that — I mean, are we qualified to be stuntmen? I don’t know.
I never went to stuntman school but just 30 years of being in the business and you just go for it. You just absolutely put your caution to the wind and go for it, and it felt great. Obviously, it hurts. You’re paying the price, but I could move my arms and legs, and I wasn’t dead or knocked out.
And I was like, ‘This is great. What a perfect finish for this,’ and it took the wind completely out of the sails of the crowd. They just went completely silent, and I just laid there, until they basically took me away on a stretcher. And when they took me away on a stretcher, people started clapping like when somebody gets hurt on a football field, and they finally pick the guy up and take him off the field and everybody starts clapping. That’s what happened.
The people were believing and buying into it and as was I, and it was only later I started hearing oh, people thought that the fall was on a crash pad, and it didn’t look great.
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