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♪ ♪ - there's so much negativity surrounding this place that no one ever focuses on the positive. they see us as ignorant or hillbillies. - overdose capital of the east coast. - there's really more here than just poverty and illiteracy and drugs. there's a lot of good people here. - when you walk on this field, you better have tunnel vision. don't look left. don't look right. you look at that scoreboard, and that shit burn in your heart, you understand me? we got some ground to make up, but once we make that ground up, we'll take off. let's go! [applause, cheers] [upbeat rock mus...

[ cheering ] ♪ >> robie: this place was a boomin'. you couldn't get through this town down there. but it's dead now. about eight or ten coal mines shut down at one time. >> coach: let's go! it's the same halftime speech every single week. >> quentin: there is so much negativity surrounding this place that no one ever focuses on the positive. they see us as ignorant or hillbillies. >> daniel whitt: overdose capital of the east coast. >> quentin: but there's more here than just poverty and illiteracy and drugs. there's a lot of good people here. >> coach: when you walk on this field,...

Wrestling Inc. speaks to NWA National Champion EC3 about the upcoming HP Cares for Cooper show, working with Billy Corgan, Control Your Narrative, and more!

There's a lot more to appalachia than that. - in 1964, lyndon johnson declared his war on poverty. a good thing, yes? but the accompanying press tour portraying people here as an incapable and bewildered, helpless mass missed the basic essential character, the pride, and the self-reliant core of the people here. that damage is lasting. - when you come in and keep telling us how poor, fat, how all these things are, i think we've all felt it at some point: shame. - what should people know about this area that they don't know, that they're not getting? - it's just how much that people in this are...

WrestleZone recently spoke with EC3, who will challenge Cyon for the NWA National Championship at NWA's 312 pay-per-view.