MVP also opened up more about how he approaches giving advice to the younger talent, specifically in making it come across as coaching instead of backstage politics. “I have a reputation in the industry for not doing politics,” he said. “It’s just not how I rock. … It’s gonna cut two ways, and it depends on either your relationship with me, or your maturity in the business.”

He then recalled his own experience as a rookie back in the day and getting career advise from the veterans of his time. “A lot of the time, I’d be like ‘Oh, they just lazy. They don’t want to do nothing. Oh, they don’t want to work,'” he admitted. “And then, as I progressed in the business and got some milage and got some maturity, I realized: oh, they did know what they were talking about! Oh, okay! Now I understand why they were telling me that!”

The veteran then touched on how some rookies simply ask for advice because they’ve been told to do it while others actually want to learn. In his own experience, he’d try to put the advice he got from the likes from The Undertaker, Finlay, or Arn Anderson into practice. “So, when I give advice, my reason for giving advice is because I genuinely want you to be better, because if you do better, we do better!” he expressed, adding how everyone benefits if the product is better.

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