During a recent appearance on the “Close Up w/ Renee Paquette” podcast, ROH TV Champion Nick Wayne discussed feeling more mature than his peers because of his experiences in the wrestling industry.

You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:

On maturing faster than other kids: “Yeah, I’m very thankful for it. Honestly, I feel like kind of just like a maturity level. Yeah, it helped me a lot just growing up always being around adults. Yeah, so like kids, obviously, I went to public school. So I was still around kids.”

On being only 19 years old: “But my day to day life was around wrestlers and wrestling, you know, so I feel like I just matured a lot faster than like a lot of the kids my age. Going back to what you’re saying, I do definitely feel like I’m like, a man, you know, sometimes it’s like a reminder to me when people say my age, like, ‘oh yeah, I am 19.”