The Voros Twins, Chris and Patrick Voros, are professional wrestlers and TikTokers based in Vancouver, BC. They recently celebrated 1.3 million followers on TikTok which makes them the most followed active wrestlers on the account and the 4th most followed behind Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Lana and Ryback. They talk to Chris Van Vliet about their goals in wrestling, being invited to a WWE Tryout, the benefits of being identical twins, how they were able to grow their TikTok so quickly, the importance of physically writing out goals and much more!
On how to tell the brothers apart:
Chris: “I think it’s just gambling. You have to guess and stuff.”
Patrick: “There are little things. Usually Patrick wears red and Chris wears blue. I guess that’s the main one.”
On being more famous for Tik Tok than wrestling:
Chris: “Yeah it’s crazy! We just hit 1.3 million people on Tik Tok.”
Patrick: “We are the most followed active wrestlers on Tik Tok. The Rock is ahead of us, but he doesn’t wrestle. There is also Ryback, but he takes other people’s videos and posts them on his account. Then there’s Lana and then there’s us.”
On if wrestling is still the main goal:
Chris: “Yes definitely. It was so hard with wrestling when we didn’t have it.”
Patrick: “I know some places in America opened up sooner than here in British Colombia. There was no wrestling here literally for 5 months. It came back a little bit, but the total shutdown for 8 months. It was a big break with no wrestling. A lot of wrestlers in the area kind of stopped posting content and disappeared. We did the opposite, we just threw things at the wall and see what stuck.”
On their first memory of wrestling:
Patrick: “I think our older brother got us into it. We watched it with him a lot.”
Chris: “But it was 2003, I remember Brock Lesnar’s Shooting Star at the highlight reel of RAW, because we didn’t see WrestleMania.”
Patrick: “I remember having the WrestleMania 17 TLC match on VCR tape, we would watch that over and over!”
On wanting to become wrestlers:
Chris: “So we did the backyard wrestling thing. Our company was called NXW, which is one letter off of NXT. We were revolutionary.”
Patrick: “But after high school, we didn’t start at 18. After high school we didn’t finish college, becasue it wasn’t for us.”
Chris: “We didn’t like being in debt. That was scary for us.”
Patrick: “But then a wrestling school opened up right by our house. We always wanted to be wrestlers, so it just kind of started from there.”
On being a tag team from day one:
Patrick: “I think we have had under 20 singles matches in total.”
Chris: “Even then, one of us is managing the other. We have been in a couple of Fatal 4 Ways and Fatal 5 Ways, but we just teamed up in the match. I’m not going to hit him!”
On the greatest wrestling brothers:
Patrick: “The greatest team would be The Hardy Boyz. But the team we look up to is The Usos. They are fraternal twins and have never wrestled each other. We look up to The Young Bucks in AEW a lot too. But there’s a lot of twin tag teams that we want to wrestle. D-Von Dudley’s kids are twins.”
On their WWE try-out:
Patrick: “So it was in August 2019 during SummerSlam weekend in Toronto. It was the first and only Canadian try-out in WWE, we were super fortunate to be a part of the 42 people involved. I think it went really well.”
Chris: “I think we crushed it. Personally, we felt like we did great. We trained for it and were in the ring every day for a month.”
Patrick: “We had all the basics down with all the rolls and stuff. The only thing we wish was that there was only one ring there, we wanted to do the whole 7 rings. There was a little bit less cardio, which we feel like we could have done really well at. When we left they said that we have a good look and to just keep wrestling and work on our social media.”
Chris: “We feel like we have done both. We are in the best shape of our lives right now.”
On being able to work in the USA:
Chris: “It’s definitely a challenge.”
Patrick: “We have done a few shows in Seattle and stuff, but it is hard crossing the border. But we make it work somehow.”
On dealing with negative comments:
Chris: “It doesn’t bother us but I can see why it would bother a lot of people.”
Patrick: “When we were going through some family stuff, should we get into this?”
Chris: “So our dad passed away in March, and we are still not fully done with [grieving]. Some people were saying some rude comments about our dad.”
Patrick: “That has been the only time we have been affected by hate comments. But it’s just as easy as a block, it was a tough time.”
On what they are grateful for:
Chris: “Our optimism.”
Patrick: “We are healthy and the Da Vinki meme.”
The Voros Twins can be found on Tik Tok here and Instagram here.
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