You always learn new things when you interview someone. Sometimes you even learn something incredible and shocking. If you don't learn something new, you're probably not a very good interviewer. But luckily, I am great interviewer, and as such, chatting in the First Met Hall in Victoria on the night where he would later win the 365 Combat Championship, Steven Bradley gave me two truly incredible and shocking facts.“I do not get free Old Spice,” says Bradley about his turn as a real-life Old Spice model. 'I do not get free Old Spice,' these words echo in my ears like a gunshot, months after this conversation took place. Bradley is far less concerned than I about the lost possibility of free Old Spice, quickly shifting the over to the overall positivity of the experience. “It was very strange. It was a very cool little side-quest I got to do. I was just at work and I saw an Instagram thing for a casting call for guys with good hair. I had already starting doing the mullet and I had the mustache going, so I thought, 'Yeah, I think I can do that.' It was so much fun and then seeing it and having people be like, 'Dude, I saw you in a commercial!'”

And after that, Bradley immediately drops another, far more shocking, truth bomb: “I’d never watched a match until January of 2022.” What the fuck, man. How was it possible that this hoss, this guy who was a 365 fan-favourite the moment he stepped into the ring, had seen his first wrestling match only four years ago?! “Almost every single person you see on the independent scene is like, 'I watched wrestling as a little kid. My dad took me to shows. I got to see all these superstars in the early 2000s.' I started watching wrestling in 2022, three months before I started training. My friends were watching AEW and they said, “We watch AEW on Wednesdays, wanna come watch? I watched it for two weeks and thought, 'Yeah I can do this. Those guys are athletic, freak athletes for sure, but they don’t look like Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant or Brock Lesnar. They look more normal.'”