Grado recently sat down with Gary Cassidy to discuss a multitude of topics on Sportskeeda Wrestling’s Dropkick DiSKussions.

Here are a couple highlights:

On his return to ICW, and a scrapped match against WWE Hall of Famer Jeff Jarrett:

Jeff Jarrett – I’m really close to Jeff. Obviously I’ve not been as close to him recently because, right now, he’s Vince McMahon’s right-hand man. He’s on his jet, he’s with him every day, so I don’t get to talk to him as much because obviously the situation with WWE, he’s no longer available because the plan was for me and JJ at Fear & Loathing.

So, I was gutted because Jeff re-signed me. My contract was up with TNA a couple of years ago and he managed to get me re-signed, so that created a little relationship because we were involved in that and ITV World of Sport, so we got really close.

Whenever I was in America, I was always round at Jarrett’s gaff. I was there with his family, spent a lot of time with him over the summer two years ago, so for him to introduce me back was brilliant.

On his match vs Drew McIntyre where Mick Foley got involved:

Mick Foley left his $20 bill in his pocket. I remember the next day going, “Ah, ya dancer! A f**king score!” Brilliant! it was amazing!

No, Drew is the best guy in the world to wrestle, I learned so much from him. I’m not the most technically gifted wrestler in the world by any means.He helped make me look like a star, and I loved that match. I’ve not watched it a lot. It’s a thing that always pops up on YouTube and obviously the pop when I win is emotional as hell, man. It was great.

And for Foley to be there as well, for a big mark like me, it was something else and I can be proud of that because we sold that out, like, a month in advance and we didn’t have that many yanks on it. We had Rhyno on it who was really just built as a midcarder.

Obviously we had Foley. He’s part of it as well but selling that show out, Grado vs Drew, 4,500-5,000 people – that was just amazing, man.

He told me before the match, “Yeah, buddy, what we’re going to do, man. I think we’ve got an idea, I shoot you in the ropes, you come back and give me the hurricanrana.”

I went, “F*** off. I can’t f***ing hurricanrana you, ya dafty”

I go, “No, I’ll do it.” I was nervous before the match, my nerves completely went because I’m going, “Well, this is going to be s***e. I’m going to make a c*** of this hurricanrana.”

Actually it ended up alright. It was the slowest, daftest, s***est, f**king hurricanrana, but it actually worked. I done it a few times in TNA, I done it with Eli Drake, it’s good to do every now and again because the crowd don’t expect me to do it.

A fat, wee pudding like myself, a wee pudding like myself hurricanrana-ing folk was a good feeling.

The Drew match was tremendous.

You heard The Rock say in the papers the other week that he is the next big thing, and he definitely is. Big, handsome guy, promo skills, that f***ing stupid accent. But other than that, he’s an absolute monster and he’s a star.

Check out Grado’s full interview with Gary below: