Before he became beloved by WWE fans the world over as R-Truth, (who recently faced John Cena for the Undisputed WWE Championship at Saturday Night’s Main Event at the Yuengling Center in Tampa, Florida), Ron Killings was known as K-Kwik. As K-Kwik, Truth was assigned to Memphis Championship Wrestling (MCW), a WWE developmental territory where wrestlers honed their skill before moving up to the main roster.
Though Truth eventually found success in MCW, winning the MCW Southern Heavyweight Championship twice, there was a period of time where Truth’s struggles at home in his personal life and his self-perceived struggles in the ring had him contemplating quitting pro wrestling altogether. Truth revealed that one fellow pro wrestler changed his mind.
“So I’m in Memphis training, training, training. Six months came. Seven months came, nothing. I was having issues at home, I was discouraged. I felt like a failure. I felt like I was ready to quit. I wasn’t going back to the streets. I didn’t know what I was going back to,” Truth revealed on a recent episode of the “Insight with Chris Van Vliet” podcast.
“My contract was up too. I did my last show there. Road Dogg and his wife were in Memphis on vacation, and they came to the TV taping. That was when I dropped the title to Jerry Lawler, and he watched the match. By the time I got back to the locker room, Road Dogg was back there, and he was like, ‘Was that you rapping?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah.’ He was like, ‘I want you to be my tag team partner.’ I was blown away. It’s like, that’s Road Dogg, DX. I’m like, ‘Dogg, I’m fixing to quit. I would love to, but I ain’t made for this, I’m about to quit.’ He’s like, ‘What? You feel like just giving up and quitting, but you made it here.'”
Truth would premiere on the November 13, 2000, episode of Raw, attacking William Regal during a match between Regal and Road Dogg. Truth would form a tag team with Road Dogg, just like Road Dogg suggested, and the two would go on to find success both with fans and in winning the WWE World Tag Team Championship.
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