JC Mateoformerly known as Jeff Cobb, He is currently living in childhood in the WWE. This could be strange taking into account that Recently his former partner and friend Francesco Akira He said he wanted to continue in New Japan Pro Wrestling.
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And it is not that Akira was wrong because one thing would not have to be related to the other. Now, We attend to Mateo's words during a recent interview with Derek Kravitsky to Hawaii News Now telling that when it was A child watched wrestling on television with his father In his home in Pearl City in O'AHU (Hawaii) and that his favorite fighter was Hulk Hogan.
“Just watching it on television, with red and yellow, and saying 'Pray your prayers and take your vitamins'. I thought: 'I'm going to be like him when I grow up'”.
Some time later, his family moved to Guam and there, by chance, He began to enter himself in the ring:
“I saw a poster at high school that said 'fight' and I thought they were going to teach us to elbow from high places. I went and thought: 'A moment!' There was no ring. It was just a mat. “
Then, Mateo would go to the University of Misuri and later represent Guam at the Athens Olympic Games in 2004. It would be on his return to his native country, after being rejected for a job, When his aspirations of being a fighter again gained strength:
“I remember that one day I was changing channels on TV, and in the local channel I would have a show within two weeks in Sand Island Access Road. So I rode my bicycle from Foster Village to Sand Island Access Road and I saw that show. It was all I had always wanted and more. “
Olympic Wrestler Jeff Cobb carries the flag of Guam at the opening ceremonies of the 2004 Athens Games. #OpeningCeremony
pic.twitter.com/waEwgdneuz— Vintage Puroresu Pro Wrestling (@vintagepuro) July 26, 2024
And so it started in Action Zone Wrestling In Hawai, he won the nickname of «Mr. Athletic », he got the full weight title three times and then He moved to the United States:
“Three shows per week, every week, every month. It becomes hard for the body after a while. I was driving six hours, from California del Norte to Los Angeles, and they didn't pay me. There was no money, everything came out of my pocket. “
But all this was worth it when In 2014 they offered to do a test with the WWEalthough They did not hire him:
“They said not at that time, and That hurt in the ego”.
Not in WWE but in the rest of the world a name continued, and even He rejected the company on several occasions:
“From 2020 to 2024, I had about two or three more offers of them (WWE). I was lucky in my career to be able to reject them and be well with it, and finally hired me”.
Until finally In 2025 it became superstar wwe:
“I felt like in a dreamas if my mind were deceiving me. ”
“The main thing is never to give up. You can't give up. If this is your dream, then you have to do it”.
