Wrestling legend Ernest “The Cat” Miller has at all times been quite the athlete, from his time playing football to his run in WCW, and he even had a brief stint in WWE. He still stays energetic, and wrestled Joey Janela in 2022 on the age of 58. Miller can be a life-long lover of karate.
Miller talked about how he needed to quit his old flame of karate, for a time, to affix WCW on an episode of Eric Bischoff’s “83 Weeks” podcast. He said that he was teaching the martial art when he was first asked to be an expert wrestler. It was former WCW executive Bischoff who convinced him to present it a shot.
“After I got asked and talked to Eric Bischoff about karate and the way much I loved it and what he thought wrestling would do for me if I got here to wrestle and got my name larger in Japan,” he explained. “I’d have the ability to go to Japan. I’d have the ability to do that with my sort of karate… I didn’t just leave karate. I left karate because lots of the respect I had for Eric Bischoff. It was trust. It was hard for me to trust anybody back then… Eric said, ‘You realize what. This can show you how to be a [bigger] brand, for those who got here to WCW.’ He said, ‘I’d even wish to open a faculty with you.'”
Miller said that Bischoff’s wife and son used to come back watch his karate classes. As for Bischoff himself, Miller said that he could at all times confer with him about anything. Nowadays, Miller is back to teaching what he loves, which he called his “secure space.”
Should you use any quotes from this text, please credit “83 Weeks” and supply a h/t to Wrestling Inc. for the transcription.