In a recent interview with Newsday to promote this Sunday’s WrestleMania 35 pay-per-view, WWE RAW superstar Curt Hawkins discussed several topics, including his long-time friendship with fellow WWE RAW superstar Zack Ryder.

“My generation of pro wrestlers, when we grew up wrestling was very romanticized – with bedsheets and action figures and video games and stuff. So when we first got on the roster there were a lot of grizzled, hardened guys way older than us that we couldn’t really relate to, and it was almost one of our deepest, darkest secrets that Zack and I were, like, real fans, and grew up loving it and still had the actions figures and still collected… and we’re out there now, going to be 34-year-old men this year, blatantly talking about our action figure collections with no shame.”

The interview is available in full at this link.