Outside of becoming secure with standing next to larger-than-life pro wrestling stars, Grisham also had to deal with backstage hazing. During the same interview, he recalled how he once had to endure an elaborate prank where the Brooklyn Brawler told everyone backstage that he believed pro wrestling is fake, leading to him almost getting a Batista Bomb.

While he escaped the Batista Bomb, he ended up in a segment with Shawn Michaels and Edge, where he had to take a bump, but nobody in management explained how he was supposed to sell it until Shelton Benjamin approached him backstage. 

“He goes: ‘You just can’t flinch. Whatever you do, don’t flinch.’ I said: ‘Okay?’ and right then, he throws a fake Superkick to me,” he recounted. Grisham eventually figured out the trick behind it and was told the same thing by Michaels. However, things didn’t go too well in the segment, and Grisham ended up too far away from a Superkick from Michaels, which got him some heat from Mike Chioda.

“Mike Chioda was so mad at me, he was like: ‘What the eff are you doing kid! You gotta feed into that, you’re too far away, you’re making Shawn Michaels look stupid! What are you doing?'” Grisham recalled. “I said, ‘They told me don’t move,'” he recounted, noting that Chioda simply lit up a cigarette and grumbled under his breath.

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