Michael Stephens Interviews BMX Superstar Ricardo Laguna (MTV Tr3s)
Posted By: Michael Stephens
Original Video Release: August 07, 2025
Bending Reality Published: August 07, 2025
Michael Stephens Catches up and interviews BMX superstar Ricardo Laguna (MTV Tr3s) at the Vegas Rock Awards.
TRANSCRIPT Michael Stephens: Last time I saw you ..
Ricardo Laguna: Uh OH
Michael Stephens: Thriller Villa.
Ricardo Laguna: Thriller Villa. Wow, how long ago was that? Help me out here. I fall on my head for a living.
Michael Stephens: It was a charity event. You're a big time socialite. Most people don't probably understand how many places you are at one time.
Ricardo Laguna: Yes yes, sometimes I cut myself in half and people don't even know it. I have my other half in another event right now as we speak.
Michael Stephens: I mean, what does it feel like to be everywhere? Omnipresent like Jesus.
Ricardo Laguna: You know, I don't mind it. I always tell my publicist that I have time to sleep I got way too much free time. So I still have time to sleep. So who knows where else you catch me?
Michael Stephens: Did you go in Michael Jackson's basement?
Ricardo Laguna: Actually, I did. That was about a year ago and I got to see, don't quote me on this, a couple million dollars worth of paintings.
Michael Stephens: Jimmy Hendrix art .. when I was down there, we filmed it.
Ricardo Laguna: Oh, okay so now there you go now.
Michael Stephens: Nobody's clicking. You start clicking and we'll show you the whole thing.
Ricardo Laguna: Now is when the wheels get spinning. So yeah, now I remember. So good times.
Michael Stephens: So you're an awesome, like, when I was a kid. We dreamed of doing shit like you.
Ricardo Laguna: Well, you know, it's never too late. I have a friend of mine that is 49 years old and he's still doing backflips, so he's hitting the bar. So if you're under 49, that means you can join the club.
Michael Stephens: I watch your pictures. You do amazing stuff. So for all the kids out there that are, there's kids watching you, right?
Ricardo Laguna: Yes, yes of course, I actually have a pretty surreal story. The mayor of North Las Vegas made me honorary citizen of North Las Vegas. And he asked me if I can do an action sport contest where I shut down the skate park at Craig Ranch. And I'm going to take the top three, but we had such a big turnout they ended up taking six riders and did a show with myself and two other pros. Shut down the Fremont Street and they may jump over Dana White, which I got told if I hit Dana White, I was going to get this Ronda girl to try to beat me up. Thank God that didn't happen and we raised over $15,000 for the Clark County music department.
Michael Stephens: So some people don't know you have an MTV thing.
Ricardo Laguna: Yes, yes.
Michael Stephens: Some of us grew up back in the day when MTV was still a music channel. Now you have a show on MTV, which is fucking epic in my mind. So what does that feel like?
Ricardo Laguna: You know, it's pretty surreal. It's MTV Tres, by the way. It's a Hispanic channel where you get to see myself, my whole family, in showcase the hurdles I have to deal with a little kid from La Paz, Mexico, finding out the action sports and then this shenanigans, so Vegas. And at the same time uh, doing contests and the whole nine.
Michael Stephens: So you're, you're representing the Latinos here in Las Vegas and the world. What does that feel like?
Ricardo Laguna: You know, it's a tall order, but I'm guessing I'm taking it because my shoulders are getting a little stronger. But, uh, yeah, no, it's pretty wild. Two years ago, I won the South America King of Dirt so I've been having the bulls eye on my back that, uh, I need to use the bar because I'm 32, getting older, younger kids,
and, uh, I'm not afraid of producing around those young bucks.
Michael Stephens: What was your, your biggest moment, personal biggest moment?
Ricardo Laguna: Hmm, personal biggest moment. God, um. Why you put me in the spot? Huh?
Michael Stephens: That's what I do.
Ricardo Laguna: Uh, personal biggest moment. There's too many. There's too many, but me hosting the largest music action sport contest in Las Vegas
were we invite over a hundred riders from the world. And we have over 25,000 people. Uh, I think it's a pretty tall order, especially when I get one, 3.3 million tons of dirt,
and I build this course and make it look like I was never there within three weeks.
Michael Stephens: I've seen pictures of your backyard. Is it as crazy as it looks?
Ricardo Laguna: Uh, I just had one of the girls from Fantasy. She said that, uh, she saw the photos as well, and she was expecting something about yay high, and when she got there, she was looking up, and, uh, she got a different perspective about me. So evidently she says, she has more respect. I guess it's a good thing.
Michael Stephens: Are you out there every day?
Ricardo Laguna:
Uh, I try to. Today, I snuck in a 15 minute session, so, you know, the only thing I have to do is pad up and walk out the door. So what better this investment than having some ramps in my own personal backyard?
Michael Stephens:
So there's a lot of people in Vegas wanting to be a socialite. Obviously, we have events here every night of the week. Parties, first, like everything you can imagine. The world can't imagine what we do here. What is your, like, what are your best tips for living here and being epic and being a socialite?
Ricardo Laguna: Stay focused, uh, you know. Pick the right decisions. There's too many good and bads in Vegas, and Vegas has been great to me, so evidently,
there's nothing but great things for me to pick from. I hear there's bads, but I haven't seen them, so evidently, uh, take those two cents because they work for me.
Hopefully it works for them.
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