From homeless to winning Cruiserweight classic

From homeless to winning Cruiserweight classic

Newly crowned Cruiserweight champion TJ Perkins sat down for an Interview with “For The win” last week and during the interview, he said about being homeless before his wrestling days.

"I'm not a terribly sentimental guy, but I kept a lot of old stuff from that time in my life. I have my food stamps card from when I was homeless. I also have the key to the first place where I got evicted from. There were many places where I got evicted from, but I still had that first key. It was a simple reminder for years of the places I couldn't go back to. The further away it's gotten, the more motivating it became to me because I didn't have to go back there. I didn't really think about it until I was in the ring after the match. That was the first thing in my mind: I don't have to stay at that key,” he said.

Perkins went on to become the inaugural Cruiserweight classic winner a couple of weeks back and was crowned the Cruiserweight champion on the same night as well. He had his first successful title defense at Clash of Champions, where he defeated Brian Kendrick. Before coming to WWE, he had also spent some time in TNA as Manik.