Zicky Dice Talks Training At Black & Brave Academy, Recalls Seth Rollins Doubting Him Early On

Zicky Dice talks about Seth Rollins and training at the Black & Brave academy.

‘The Outlandish One’ is currently a free agent in the world of wrestling, but many fans are expecting him to be picked up by a major company sooner rather than later. 

Dice, who recently departed IMPACT Wrestling, has been wrestling since 2015. Dice was trained at the Black & Brave Wrestling Academy, which is partially ran by WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins.

In a new interview with the Two Man Power Trip Of Wrestling podcast, Dice recalled Rollins thinking that he wasn’t going to take wrestling seriously due to his music commitments.

“He’ll tell you too, he’ll tell you. He thought I was going to come in and not take it seriously, he thought I was going to goof off because of the music and things I’ve done in music and I proved him wrong. Hell, I ran into him just recently in public, it was so random. Walking my dog, ran into him and he’s like ‘Where’s all your fat?’, it’s gone baby. It’s gone. I come from the third Black & Brave wrestling academy class and I can’t tell you how many people I’ve seen come through and I’m like ‘Oh yeah, I think that guy can be someone’ and they just want to come train, they just want to come hang out. That’s not what I did.”

Dice then talked about training at Rollins’ school and put any doubts to bed of ‘The Visionary’ actually being present during training classes.

“A lot of people say, ‘I bet you he wasn’t even there’, and this is back when Raw was on Mondays and SmackDown was on Tuesdays. We had training Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and if he wasn’t at SmackDown, he was there Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. If he was at SmackDown, he was there Wednesday and Thursday. The dude breaths, eats, sleeps, and shits pro wrestling. His love for it is unreal, and that’s why he’s at that level. He’s got every freaking championship belt hanging up in that facility.”

Dice then talked about how he and Nathan Frazer are the ones flying the flag for the school in today’s wrestling world.

“Dangerous Snake, shout out to him, he makes gear over at AEW but other than that, no one else is wrestling. First class, I don’t think anyone’s wrestling. There’s a few handful of guys that have come from other classes, Nathan Frazer is a Black and Brave dude. I take pride in Nathan, we came from Black and Brave and I love that. I love flying that flag.”

Fans can learn more about Dice’s recent departure from IMPACT Wrestling by clicking here.

Rollins recently noted that he thinks he should probably get surgery on his lower back soon. Click here to learn more.

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