Sports Guys Podcast of Sports feat. Molly Reid

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The following is an interview portion of “The Sports Guys Podcast of Sports”, hosted by Chet Roberts and Jordan “The Schnozz” Snodgrass, featuring FGA wrestler Molly Reid

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Chet Roberts: Alright guys and girls, time for today’s interview. And if you’re a fan of women in tights rolling around on mats together, then I think you’re going to like this one!

The Schnozz: That’s right folks, joining the show today is professional wrestler and current Frontier Grappling Arts Pride Champion, Molly Reid!

Chet Roberts: Thanks for coming on the show today Molly.

Molly Reid: Hey no problem guys. Glad we could finally schedule this, I know I’ve been excited to get on the best podcast in America

The Schnozz: That’s true, I think you’ve officially made it now, welcome to the big leagues Molly.

Molly Reid: My five-year career, the matches, the multiple championships, my modelling and acting, none of that put me on the map until now.

Chet Roberts: Well I’m glad you understand, our show has been known to make careers. Alright Molly. We spent about five minutes before this interview doing our research, as we often do, so we think we know pretty much everything about you. First off, why wrestling?

Molly Reid: Doesn’t seem like the natural career path for a rich girl growing up in Los Angeles, does it?

The Schnozz: We’re big name journalists if you hadn’t heard Molly, nothing surprises us.

Molly Reid: Right, right. Of course. Well basically, I had no idea this was even an option for me until I was like twenty. I was out at a club and some bitch was getting in my face about...am I allowed to say bitch?

Chet Roberts: Yeah we don’t give a shit

The Schnozz: We’re a couple of bad boys Molly, this is a bad boys podcast.

Molly Reid: Fuck, my bad guys. Ok well anyways, this bitch was getting in my face about something that I can’t remember. It was like over five years ago now and I was pretty drunk. It was in a nightclub. So you know, my dad had passed a few years before and I had a ton of pent up anger at that point in my life, and a short fuse. So all that plus the drinking, I had just had enough. So I shoved her, she shoved me back, and then I just kicked her in the face. Knocked her out cold. Someone got it on video, went a bit viral. And people already knew me because I was that orphan rich girl who’s daddy left her a financial company and billions of dollars. So my first company IWF, or Insurgency Wrestling Federation for you wikipedia researchers, they offered me a short contract hoping to cash in on some of my popularity. They were dwindling on stars at that point and needed a boost, so they figured I’d get some good viewership, do my thing and then leave once I couldn’t hack it. But that was five years ago.

Chet Roberts: And you’re still wrestling to this day.

Molly Reid: That is correct.

The Schnozz: A real riches to riches story if you ask me.

Chet Roberts: Yeah going from rich to rich and successful, how do you do it Molly?

Molly Reid: It ain’t easy guys. But yeah, I’ve been wrestling ever since. Taken time off here and there to take care of injuries and such, but I’ve been going on a year and a bit now nonstop, so fingers crossed.

Chet Roberts: Ok good transition because I wanted to talk about that. How tough are you really? Like we’re tough guys, we come into work and push through injuries.

The Schnozz: I stubbed my toe before coming here, limped all the way to my seat.

Chet Roberts: Exactly, so we’re pretty tough guys. But still, your job is literally to get beaten up, sometimes multiple times a week. Seems a little crazy to me. Especially because, if I may so, you look pretty good all things considered.

The Schnozz: For those that don’t know, which is everyone listening to this, Molly is skyping in to this interview so Chet can see her and is trying to hide his dick out of view of the camera so she can’t see.

Chet Roberts: What can I say, it’s got a mind of it’s own.

Molly Reid: Ha, thanks Chet. I dunno really, I’ve always considered myself pretty tough. I think I had to go through a lot of emotional stuff with growing up without a mother, my dad passing away, I got pretty emotionally tough. Physical toughness just came after that. I get so amped up when I’m in that ring that I guess I just block all that pain out. All I can think about is how I’m going to win the match and so every time I get hit with anything it’s just me thinking about how I can recover and turn the tables back in my favor. After the match I’ll start to feel the pain a little more, or a lot depending on the match. But I guess it just sorta gets blocked out during the match.

The Schnozz: So it would be accurate to say that you have wrestled through injuries before? What’s the craziest injury you wrestled through?

Molly Reid: Yeah well when I was in IWF, I was in some ridiculous no rules match. Ended up getting thrown down stairs, through a wall, off scaffolding. Then at one point he smashed me in the stomach with a baseball bat multiple times and ruptured my spleen and slightly punctured a lung. But I managed to keep going and ended up actually winning that match and my first and only world championship.

Chet Roberts: Jesus. And you blocked that pain out too?

Molly Reid: Oh no, that fucking hurt worse than anything I’ve ever felt before. But I really wanted to win.

The Schnozz: Can’t teach that will to win.

Molly Reid: Exactly, Schnozz gets it.

The Schnozz: You ever poop your pants mid match? I’ve read that happens a lot among wrestlers.

Molly Reid: Ha ha, well personally I’ve never pooped myself but I’ve been pretty close. You should have my girlfriend on, she’s been in some ridiculous matches and is definitely on record as having pooped herself at least once.

Chet Roberts: Casual girlfriend drop there.

The Schnozz: Brag about it more why don’t you.

Molly Reid: Sorry guys, shouldn’t have mentioned it. I’m actually doing this interview from her house so if she walks in I’ll tell her to come say hi.

The Schnozz: Two for one interview without even trying, that’s just the quality you get on this podcast.

Chet Roberts: Ok Molly, next question. You’re currently wrestling in Frontier Grappling Arts and a couple other places, but I wanted to talk about Frontier because you’re a champion there, correct?

Molly Reid: That’s correct, Pride Champion. And you can call it FGA.

Chet Roberts: Right, so tell us about FGA. What’s going on there?

The Schnozz: As you can see we prepared very specific questions for you.

Molly Reid: I can see that. Well basically Saturday is our Only the Strong Survive pay-per-view, which is one of our biggest events of the year because of the Gold Rush Rumble match. But I’ve also got a title defense too, so I’ll be wrestling two matches in one night.

Chet Roberts: So for your title defense, if I’m reading this article right, you’re defending against a Chris Madison, who you’ve already beaten in a title match before?

Molly Reid: That’s correct.

The Schnozz: But based on this article, it seems you may have used some nefarious tactics Molly, is this true?

Molly Reid: Can’t believe everything you read on the internet Schnozz

The Schnozz: Clearly you don’t know who you’re talking to Molly

Chet Roberts: Yeah this is how we learn one-hundred percent of the facts and information that we know

The Schnozz: If it’s on the internet, it has to be true. Those are the laws.

Molly Reid: Well when you put it that way...But ok. So a couple months ago we had a title match, me defending my Pride Championship against Chris Madison. And it was a great match. Maybe the match of the night, just two phenomenal wrestlers putting on a show. Then at what ended up being the end, I caught him with what’s called a schoolboy pin. So basically I’m behind him, I drop down, grab him through his legs and trip him over myself so that he ends up on his shoulders and I’m on top of him. And then I bring his legs over his shoulders so that it’s harder for him to kick out. Anyways so I’ve got him like this, and my one hand is on his back just to hold him in place so he doesn’t roll back. And this is like, I don’t know, twenty-five minutes into this match? So I’m pretty sweaty. I’m sure you guys know all about that?

The Schnozz: We’re big gym guys so yeah, we know a thing or two about getting sweaty.

Chet Roberts: Molly, I was sweaty just walking up the stairs to our office.

Molly Reid: Right, so my hands are sweaty. And my hand that was on his back started to slip down. And you know when you’re like, about to fall, you instinctively reach out and grab onto something? That’s basically what I did. My hand felt his tights and instinctively grabbed onto them to catch myself, and then that was it, I won the match. Defended my title. Thought that would be the end of it. But if you didn’t know, grabbing the tights is illegal if you get caught. So Chris and his manager made this big stink about it and refused to just accept that I was the better wrestler. Then they begged the board of directors for a title rematch after Chris beat me two weeks later because his manager interfered and distracted me, which is a whole different story. And I guess management felt he deserved it or something, so here we are.

The Schnozz: You know Molly it sounds like you were the real victim here. I mean I don’t know literally one thing about pro wrestling but it sounds like Chris Madison is just a snowflake who couldn’t handle losing and started making up excuses for why he couldn’t get it done.

Chet Roberts: You triggered him Molly.

Molly Reid: Yes! Exactly. And here’s the thing. Grabbing the tights only helps if your opponent is actively trying to kick out. He was out, he was done. He wasn’t trying to kick out of that. I wasn’t getting any extra advantage there or anything. I was basically resting my hand on his back still just around his tights when that happened. So he would’ve lost anyways. It’s just dumb. It makes me angry to see him going around trying to tarnish my name like I’m some big cheater. I’ve never taken any damn shortcuts in my life, I’ve worked for everything I’ve got. So he better be damn ready for a fucking fight come Saturday night when I beat him and he has no excuses for why he still couldn’t get it done.

Chet Roberts: These are fightin’ words, I love it! We need to get more wrestlers on this podcast, other sport guys are too tame. I want fire trash talk.

The Schnozz: So I’m going to play Devil’s Advocate here because this show is about content and we’re big time journalists and need to get all sides of the story. But there are people I’m sure who probably think you’re lying and you did cheat to win and that Chris is right about everything he’s done. So what do you say to them?

Chet Roberts: Great Big J question.

Molly Reid: No, that’s completely fair. If there’s one thing I am guys, it’s brutally honest. I’ll say whatever the fuck I wanna say and I generally don’t think or care about the consequences. And that’s what I’ve been saying for years. Look, I love my fans and they are so great to me. But I’ve definitely lost a fair few throughout this whole thing with Chris because people probably don’t believe me. But I’ve never lied to anyone. Everything I’ve said is the truth and I’m not going to beg anyone to believe me. I know my truth Chet, Schnozz. If people believe me then great, I appreciate you even more. But if people don’t and think I’m some lying cheat, well that’s their choice. I’m not going to waste time trying to convince people to believe me. You either do or you don’t. I learned a long time ago that you can’t please everyone in this business. Some people are always going to hate you no matter what, so I just try to ignore it and focus on those who support me. So to answer your question, I have nothing really to say to them other than what I’ve always said. That everything I’ve said is the truth and if you don’t believe me then I don’t care.

Chet Roberts: Welp, you’ve got me convinced. Moving on to another match that night, something that blew my mind when I read about it is the Gold Rush Rumble. So it’s thirty wrestlers in the ring at the same time all trying to throw each other over the top rope?

Molly Reid: Ha. Well technically that is possible but unlikely. Basically, two wrestlers start the match and then every two minutes a new entrant comes in. So yes, thirty people could theoretically be in the ring at the same time. But generally people get eliminated before that can happen. At about the midway point of the match you’ll probably see about eight to twelve wrestlers in the ring at the same time until the end. But again it’s so random it’s hard to really predict.

The Schnozz: Ok so you’re in this match right? How does that work if you’ve got a match earlier?

Molly Reid: Well basically the only two wrestlers who aren’t in the match are Izzy Anders and Cordy Stevenson, because they’re wrestling for the World Championship earlier in the night. And the winner of the Gold Rush Rumble becomes the number one contender for that title, so you don’t really want someone being both champion and top contender for their own title belt.

Chet Roberts: That checks out. So you’re in the match Molly, I take it this means a lot to you?

Molly Reid: Oh absolutely. Look, I love being the Pride Champion. I’ve worked my ass off for this title and to defend it twice now, coming up on a third time. I want to be the longest reigning Pride Champion in FGA history. I want everyone to think of Molly Reid when they think of the FGA Pride title. And I think I’m doing just that right now. I’ve been champion for over six months now and I’m certainly not losing it on Saturday night. But this Rumble, this is for a shot at the FGA World Championship. This is everything, this is what we all work for. Everyone dreams of becoming world champion one day. I want to be world champion guys, I’ve worked my whole life to ascend to that level here in FGA. This is a chance for me to reach that level. So yeah, this means everything to me. This is everything I want and I’m going to stop at nothing to get it.

Chet Roberts: Wow. Powerful words from Molly Reid folks.

The Schnozz: Another Big J question coming in that I just thought up hot off the presses. Molly do you think you stand a good shot in this match? And if so, why?

Molly Reid: Great question Schnozz! I think I stack up really well in this match because it really fits what I’m good at. Probably my biggest strength is how I really don’t get that tired. I’ve been doing high-performance athletics since I was a little girl and I’ve always, for whatever reason, had insanely good cardio. Like shockingly good. So I’m able to wrestle in long, long matches because I really don’t get tired like a lot of other wrestlers. The Rumble often lasts over an hour long. So if I enter early, I have to last a long time if I want to be there at the end. But that’s no problem for me, because like I said, cardio. So I could enter first and it wouldn’t matter. While a lot of wrestlers will be trying to save their energy so they can last deeper into the match, I’ll be able to go out there guns a blazin’ and just go balls to the wall the entire time without having to worry about conserving energy because I won’t get tired. I’m fast too so they’re going to have a hell of a time trying to catch me long enough to send me over the top rope. Honestly these types of matches are my favorites and I really think my wrestling style is absolutely built for them. So I do believe that I can win this Rumble no matter what. Even if I enter first, I’m going to be there at the end duking it out with the best. I can promise y’all that.

Chet Roberts: So look at these names I’ve heard of a few but really know nothing about them. Who are some favorites to win, aside from yourself of course?

Molly Reid: Well Chandler Scott and Dom Harter are probably the two biggest right now. Dom’s won it twice before and he’s been on fire lately winning a title and a big tournament and just doing everything he says he’s gonna do. But I’ve beaten him this year sooooo...And then Chandler is really good, one of the best in the company right now. And he’s been trying to get a shot at Cordy, who’s the champion right now, for a long time. So he’s going to want it. Then there’s also Johnny Karma, who I’ve wrestled before, unsuccessfully. He’s really good and he’s also on a role lately, beat Chandler last show. So he’s another guys. Then there are names like Jimmy Page and AMIRA and even a mystery entrant who could come in and make a splash. There are a ton of talented wrestlers in FGA so really there are so many guys or ladies that are talented enough to win this Rumble. But I think I tweeted a while back that it’d be me, Dom, Chandler and Jimmy Page as the final four so I’m sticking with that. With me winning of course.

The Schnozz: Folks you heard it here first. Molly’s calling her shot ala Babe Ruth. I’d put my money on her. In fact, I probably will put my money on her.

Chet Roberts: Molly, this has been a lot of fun. Before you go is there anything you want to say to all of the amazing listeners that are tuned in right now?

Molly Reid: Absolutely. Every single one of y’all should make sure you order this pay-per-view on Saturday night. Only the Strong Survive is going to be a legendary show with some legendary performances. This will be a career defining show for some of us. For me this is going to be the moment everyone looks back at my career and says that this event was where I took the next step. So you don’t want to miss that. You don’t want to miss the hellacious matches that FGA superstars are going to put on. You’re going to see thirty wrestlers in the same match, all vying for the same prize. I just...man I can’t even describe it. This show is going to be so damn lit that you’re going to feel like an idiot if you miss it. So don’t. Make sure you buy it, make sure you check us out and make sure you see me defend my Pride Championship and win the Gold Rush Rumble.

Chet Roberts: I already was going to, but now I’m double buying this. Hopefully all of our listeners check it out too, I’m hyped.

The Schnozz: I have high expectations though Molly so if they’re not met you can be sure you’ll be back on this podcast to explain yourself, alright?

Molly Reid: Ha ha, absolutely guys. Thanks for having me, this was a blast. I’ll definitely come back on again anytime.

Chet Roberts: Awesome, thanks Molly. Good luck on Saturday.

The Schnozz: Good luck!