Jim White asks footballer-turned-wrestler Grant Holt if wrestling is real

Most individuals are acquainted with Grant Holt because the goal man that spearheaded Norwich’s assault for a few years.

However now, the 37-year-old is knowledgeable wrestler coaching with the celebrated Knight household that WWE legend Paige comes from.

Holt, who goes by the identify The Unimaginable Holt, is signed with World Association of Wrestling and received a 40-man Royal Rumble in his first-ever look.

Showing on talkSPORT with Jim White, Holt revealed he’s working a wrestling occasion for charity in June at Carrow Street – dwelling of his former membership Norwich – with former prime WWE stars Mick Foley and Billy Gunn set to be aside of the occasion.

At talkSPORT studios, White couldn’t assist however ask “it’s not severe, is it?” which in different phrases interprets to – it’s not actual, is it?

Holt didn’t miss a beat before responding: “Well, everyone asks me this and there’s a guy who came for me on Twitter. One of the guys I was wrestling was a big Canadian called Bruce Steel and he’s seven-foot and 20-stone. This guy is basically giving him some stick saying ‘look at you, you’ve got fur boots on’ this that and the other.

And so I said to the guy ‘Look, get yourself over next week, stand in the middle of the ring and he’ll come in there, swing off the ropes and give you a closeline – you’re more than welcome to join in – and then you tell me whether it’s fake or not when he hits you. Or, if he suplexes you off the top rope.

“Funnily sufficient, I by no means received a response and funnily sufficient, he by no means turned as much as the present! Pay attention, in the event you wanna do a suplex and go six-foot within the air and land on you again, you’ll know what it’s like to come back down.

White then mentioned: “Proper, so there’s a diploma of seriousness about it, clearly. A big diploma!”

As Holt accepted within the chat, the outcomes of wrestling are, in fact, predetermined however the risks of the present they placed on and the accidents superstars endure on a regular basis are very, very actual.

Will Grant Holt pop up in WWE once they hit British shores in Might? Stranger issues have occurred.