tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66658260348838253852024-02-20T13:08:59.228-08:00The Wrestling News Hub MagazineAs a wrestling enthusiast for over 30 years, my fondness for professional wrestling explores the irrational in a rational way.
I've had the fortune to interview wrestlers from Lucha Underground, TNA, Ring of Honor, GFW, and former WWE talent as well. I co-host a weekly podcast for Main Event Madness on TheMemNetwork - http://blogtalkradio.com/ProWrestlingBiz on Sundays. Feel free to follow me on Twitter @TheMarcMadison Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03816246595711637157noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665826034883825385.post-5532058492535655932017-12-22T17:12:00.001-08:002017-12-22T17:21:36.038-08:00Ring of Honor's Flip Gordon discusses his early success, wrestling on the independent scene and who he'd match up best with in the promotion.<br />
<i>Flip Gordon may just be the most exciting wrestler on the independent scene today. If you disagree with that statement, just look at the opportunities that have been presented to him, not to mention his desire to improve both inside and out of the ring. Over the past year, Gordon has earned notoriety while competing in Ring of Honor and Chaotic Wrestling. One of the most notable in ring qualities that Gordon possess is his versatility, and his ability to move around with the greatest of ease. He is blessed with a wide range of acrobatic skills stemming from a background in gymnastics. He possesses a variety of interesting and exciting moves and the ability to perform high flying maneuvers with the greatest of ease.</i><br />
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<i>His future is bright as he has engaged in a number of exchanges with the Bullet Club in ROH recently. In this interview, he enlightened me about a number of his past experiences, where he has been and where he ultimately hopes to be. He also discusses how his ability to adapt to his environment, regardless of where he is in the world, is crucial for success. As a world traveled competitor, he learns from those experiences and applies them to his craft. He also has a military background and uses the skills and qualities from that experience to become a disciplined performer in the ring.</i><br />
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<b><i>Fans can communicate with him on various social media, such as Twitter and Instagram, where he can be reached @theflipgordon</i></b><br />
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<b><i>Before getting involved in pro wrestling talent, are often inspired by others that came before them. Who would you say are your influences and what was it about them that influenced you either stylistically, or just enticed you to pursue this as a profession?</i></b><br />
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The main two guys were Eddie Guerrero and John Cena. Those are the two guys that really drew me in. They made me fall in love with professional wrestling. But I also loved high fliers like Rey Mysterio, Super Crazy, Paul London. I was always attracted to the high-flying the most. That was the style I wanted to do.<br />
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In regard to John Cena, I think it was just the relatability, and he came in at the right time and he was one of the best in the ring? He was so entertaining that you just wanted to watch.<br />
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<b><i>Describe your early training under Brian Fury and how his early fundamentals remained with you.</i></b><br />
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He was really tough. I had moved across the entire country (United States), away from my friends and family. I had family here that I didn't know as well, but I didn't know them, and I moved over here for training. But the hardest thing was just always being away from home in the beginning, and then when I started training it was really different because Brian Fury had a different training style than most. He's very tough on people because he wants them to be the absolute best, and he always pushes you and he'll always find something that is wrong to help make you better. You have to be very thick skinned because Brian Fury doesn't hold back. (laughs)<br />
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It's definitely tough love, but at the same time, he knows how to train people. For me, it was ‘Hey, we know you can do flips, but can we teach you everything else? Let's teach you how to tell a good story. Let's teach you how to work on your footwork.' All the other basic stuff that is going to make me a better wrestler. He has said, ‘You already know how to flip, I don't need to teach you that, let me teach you the stuff that is in between.'<br />
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<b><i>Your first match was against Biff Busick, who now competes as Oney Lorcan in NXT. Describe any thoughts feelings or anything notable that you can recall from the match and what gained from the experience.</i></b><br />
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That is correct, on May 6th, 2015. He was one of the best on the indies that I wrestled against. It was only a couple of months before he was picked up. It was crazy, and I think about this match like it was yesterday. I can't remember everything that happened in the match, but I do remember I learned so much from that one match with him because of how much of a professional he was. I had no business being in the ring with him. He definitely took care of me and taught me so much that I still remember to this day. There are little things from that match that I still learn from because of him. It was really cool. He taught me things from a selling point and listening to the crowd.<br />
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For example, I slipped on something, and he was able to catch it and fix it, he knew what was going on and stopped me from panicking, with me being the new or ‘green' guy. Afterward, he was so nice, and even though something got messed up it didn't matter, he was so patient with me. He took his time explaining to me what happened and what needs to happen next time. He was always the constant professional, and that was one of the coolest things about working with him.<br />
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<b><i>Chaotic Wrestling and ROH appear to be two promotions very near and dear to you. What is it about these two promotions that stand out the most, and why do you remain as loyal as you are to them?</i></b><br />
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I always did research and wanted to look into which promotions were doing the best, which companies were the hottest right now, and which have the most buzz because those are the companies that I work for. Don't get me wrong, I want to work everywhere and anywhere, but I also want to work in places that are going to help create buzz for me. If a company is hot and there is a lot of buzz about them, then why wouldn't I want to work with them? I want to be a part of them and create my own buzz as well. I want to get my name out there, I have to get the Flip Gordon name out there and build my brand, just like they are trying to build their brand.<br />
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With Chaotic Wrestling, it has a long history and tradition going back to Kofi Kingston, and Damien Sandow, and Sasha Banks. It has a long lineage of people that have gone to WWE. It's tied to Brian Fury's school, which used to be called the Chaotic Training Centre (CTC). Before that, it was the Killer Kowalski Wrestling Academy. It has a long lineage and tradition, and I think that's what is so cool about Chaotic Wrestling, the guys that come up within the system, in the pool. That is where you get your start. This is where you learn the ropes that is what I would say.<br />
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<b><i>Competing all over North America is significant for you, as evidenced by your time in CMLL. What has the biggest difference been for you competing in the U.S and Canada and Mexico?</i></b><br />
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That is also correct. It's really weird because every country is different. I have been to six countries this year, already, and each country's crowd is very different. It teaches you how to adjust and how to work on the fly, to get the crowd to interact. Each crowd is going to be different and each crowd wants to see something different, we just have to figure out what it is. That is one of the coolest things about wrestling, whether it's from one state over or from one country to another. That's what grows you as a performer, being able to perform in front of these different crowds.<br />
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I love Mexico so much. I love the tradition down there. My first few times down there were so good, and so was the reaction and the response I received. And then going down there for CMLL and being down there for the whole earthquake, I feel like I have such a respect and love because I was there and helped. I'll consider Mexico like a third home, I love it down there. The crowds are different, it's just so special.<br />
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With the tradition and how everything is so big down there, and them loving Lucha Libre, it is something special. Wrestlers still travel under masks there 100%. As soon as we pulled into town, masks are on, and if not there is something covering their face in order to walk from the bus to the venue and from the venue to the bus. They are very protective of their identities when we are at shows and when we are leaving shows.<br />
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<b><i>Independent wrestling has come under criticism for having ‘too many spots and not enough storytelling'. What are your thoughts on the topic?</i></b><br />
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My take on it is, you have to do a lot to get your name out there and get noticed. That is how you are getting booked more. If people don't know who you are, they aren't going to book you. You have to do something to get your name out there, and once you get your name out there then you start learning how to work. You start working with better guys, and that is when you are going to start learning how to work. Obviously, you are not going to know everything about how to work when you start wrestling. Talent just has to get the buzz around them, and that is what a lot of guys do, get their name out there and do crazy sh**, boom, boom, boom. A quick highlight reel so they can share it. That's what I do. For the first six months to a year, I did the craziest things I could think of to get me a lot of buzz. I put it in a highlight video to help build a lot of attention, and that helped me a lot when it came to bookings, and I started traveling.<br />
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I just think because the business has changed so much because the wrestling has changed and is much more fast-paced now. Whatever this ‘indy style' is, as it is being called, you have to go out and show fans ‘Look what I can do,' and as soon as they can see you for what you are doing, then that is when you start adding your character in there and start connecting with them, and show them who you are. If they don't care about you, then they aren't going to be interested in getting to know you, so you have to go out there and have them say ‘Oh that guy was really good' or ‘Oh that was awesome'.<br />
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<b><i>Flip Gordon is rarely seen not in flight during his matches. To what do you attribute this particular style of wrestling? Was it an evolution of styles or something you always intended on doing?</i></b><br />
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I always wanted to be a full well-rounded wrestler. I have an amateur background from wrestling in high school. I did MMA and gymnastics, and I did Brazilian jiu-jitsu, so I never wanted to be just a high flier. I always wanted to be more, I wanted to be the whole package. I wanted to be that main event type of wrestler that can do anything and everything.<br />
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<b><i>Ring of Honor presents some of the biggest challenges for you. Who do you feel would be a challenge because your styles are much different from one another?</i></b><br />
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I think Shane Taylor and I would have a good match. I think it would be different, and I think it would be more difficult, but I think it would be a good match. It would be a different kind of story that we would be telling in the ring. I am not going to be able to do all my moves on him. I would have to think differently. It just wouldn't be your typical Flip Gordon match. I think that it would be a cool story to tell because it would be different. I also think it would give me an opportunity to show people that I am not just a high flier that I am well-rounded in the ring.<br />
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<b><i>Being a member of the National Guard could be compared to being a pro wrestler as the sacrifices involved in both are evident. What other similarities can you attribute to doing both?</i></b><br />
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They are both very disciplined in their respective jobs, we need to have the discipline to do it. It isn't just going to happen overnight. We have to be patient, and you are constantly working to get better and improve your craft. It didn't happen overnight. It took me two years of working 80+ hours a week in order to get to where I am. So it isn't going to be easy, but it's definitely going to be possible.<br />
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<b><i>If there was one person past or present you'd love to face, who would it be and why?</i></b><br />
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Eddie Guerrero. Hands down, no questions asked. In my opinion, he was the best performer to ever step inside a squared circle. He got better as he got older, 100%. I think he would have continued to get better as he got older as well. His ability to create emotions in the fans during his matches was incredible.<br />
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<b><i>As 2017 draws to a close, what aspirations does Flip Gordon has for 2018 and beyond?</i></b><br />
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A big goal of mine for 2018 is I would love to go to NJPW. That is where you go to solidify yourself as a top guy in the indies, or a top guy in professional wrestling outside of WWE. So that is where I would love to go next. I would love to just keep traveling around the world and learning from as many people as I can. I love this business, and just want to help give back and make it as cool as I possibly can. It's as cool as it has been in a long time, but I think I can make it even cooler. I am very honored and proud to be a part of this generation of wrestling.<br />
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<b><i>If fans wanted to connect with you how could they do so and where can they expect to see you in the new year?</i></b><br />
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They can follow me on Instagram and Twitter, both @theflipgordon. Next year I am very excited as I have some big things coming up. I am already booked up for a couple of international things. I don't want to give away too much just yet, especially since its still 2017. But if you give me a follow on Twitter and Instagram you'll find out what is coming up next year, for me<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03816246595711637157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665826034883825385.post-77931216028023336032017-12-03T06:19:00.001-08:002017-12-03T06:29:56.108-08:00Ring of Honor top prospect finalist, Skyler discusses his finals appearance, competing in the WWE and aspirations for the future.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Skyler is primed to take the wrestling world by storm one promotion at a time.</td></tr>
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‘The Southern Savior' John <span class="spellver" title="Skulker, Sculler, Kyle, Skull, Skye, Skylark, Schuyler, Sutler, Scalier, Skier, Skype, Style, Scale, Skill, Sicklier, Skylab, Sealer, Seller, Skater, Skewer, Skiver, Staler, Sickle, Suckle, Scalar, Klee, Skyline, Slier, Skillet, Cycle, Skoal, Sky, Squealer, Sykes, Keller, Killer, Skulk, Skiers, Kale, Sale, Skew, Slew, Slur, Sole, Scalper, Sillier, Skilled, Surlier, Sagely, Gayle, Sager, Solar, Sky's, Skier's">Skyler</span>
may just be the hardest working wrestler on the independent scene. If
you disagree with that statement, look no farther than the opportunities
that have been presented to him, and his desire to improve both inside
and out of the ring. Over the past year, <span class="spellver" title="Skulker, Sculler, Kyle, Skull, Skye, Skylark, Schuyler, Sutler, Scalier, Skier, Skype, Style, Scale, Skill, Sicklier, Skylab, Sealer, Seller, Skater, Skewer, Skiver, Staler, Sickle, Suckle, Scalar, Klee, Skyline, Slier, Skillet, Cycle, Skoal, Sky, Squealer, Sykes, Keller, Killer, Skulk, Skiers, Kale, Sale, Skew, Slew, Slur, Sole, Scalper, Sillier, Skilled, Surlier, Sagely, Gayle, Sager, Solar, Sky's, Skier's">Skyler</span> earned notoriety while competing in Ring of Honor's top prospect tournament. One of the most notable in ring qualities that <span class="spellver" title="Skulker, Sculler, Kyle, Skull, Skye, Skylark, Schuyler, Sutler, Scalier, Skier, Skype, Style, Scale, Skill, Sicklier, Skylab, Sealer, Seller, Skater, Skewer, Skiver, Staler, Sickle, Suckle, Scalar, Klee, Skyline, Slier, Skillet, Cycle, Skoal, Sky, Squealer, Sykes, Keller, Killer, Skulk, Skiers, Kale, Sale, Skew, Slew, Slur, Sole, Scalper, Sillier, Skilled, Surlier, Sagely, Gayle, Sager, Solar, Sky's, Skier's">Skyler</span>
possesses is his versatility, and his ability to move around with the
greatest of ease. He enlightened me about a number of his past
experiences, where he has been and where he ultimately hopes to be.<br />
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He
possesses a variety of technical moves and the ability to perform high
flying maneuvers and came within an eyelash of winning <span class="spellver" title="RHO, RH, ROTH, OH, ROY, RAH, ROE, ROW, ROM, ROB, ROD, RON, ROT, OOH">ROH'</span>s top prospect tournament this past year. His future is bright. In this interview, <span class="spellver" title="Skulker, Sculler, Kyle, Skull, Skye, Skylark, Schuyler, Sutler, Scalier, Skier, Skype, Style, Scale, Skill, Sicklier, Skylab, Sealer, Seller, Skater, Skewer, Skiver, Staler, Sickle, Suckle, Scalar, Klee, Skyline, Slier, Skillet, Cycle, Skoal, Sky, Squealer, Sykes, Keller, Killer, Skulk, Skiers, Kale, Sale, Skew, Slew, Slur, Sole, Scalper, Sillier, Skilled, Surlier, Sagely, Gayle, Sager, Solar, Sky's, Skier's">Skyler</span>
discusses how his ability to adapt to his environment, regardless of
where he is in the world, is crucial for success. As a world traveled
competitor, he learns from those experiences and applies them to his
craft. Already having <span class="spellmod" title="cameo's, cameos, cameo, gamed, camped, canoed, calmed, caned, came, comedy, jammed, Camelot, commode, Camel, caged, caked, camel, caped, cared, cased, caved, cawed, famed, lamed, named, tamed, comet, camera, gamete">cameo'd</span> for <span class="spellver" title="WEE, WE, WWW, EWE, WW, WWI, WOE, AWE, OWE">WWE'</span>s <span class="spellver" title="NEXT, NT, EXT, NWT, NAT, NET, NIT, NOT, NUT">NXT,</span> <span class="spellver" title="Skulker, Sculler, Kyle, Skull, Skye, Skylark, Schuyler, Sutler, Scalier, Skier, Skype, Style, Scale, Skill, Sicklier, Skylab, Sealer, Seller, Skater, Skewer, Skiver, Staler, Sickle, Suckle, Scalar, Klee, Skyline, Slier, Skillet, Cycle, Skoal, Sky, Squealer, Sykes, Keller, Killer, Skulk, Skiers, Kale, Sale, Skew, Slew, Slur, Sole, Scalper, Sillier, Skilled, Surlier, Sagely, Gayle, Sager, Solar, Sky's, Skier's">Skyler</span> knows what is asked of him either in front of the camera or in front of an independent crowd.<br />
<br />
Fans can communicate with him on various social media, such as Twitter and <span class="spellver" title="Ingram, Anagram, Histogram, Pentagram, Integral, Onstage, Instr, Instigate, Unstrap, Engram, Ideogram, Integrate, Centigram, Interim">Instagram,</span> where he can be reached @<span class="spellmod" title="thermonuclear, consular, Nijinsky, console, jangler, reconcile, Consuelo, consul, concealer, counselor, downscale, counsel, counsellor, jangle, jungle, jonquil">thejohnskyler</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Skyler aspires for greatness.</td></tr>
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<i><b>Where did your early exposure to wrestling come about, and was there a
moment where you knew you were going to make this a commitment?</b></i><br />
<br />
I grew up a huge fan, as a kid back in the day, of <span class="spellver" title="WC, CW, WW, WWW, WNW, WSW, WOW">WCW.</span> I'm <span class="ver" title="">from Columbia</span>, South Carolina, grew up in a little town called <span class="spellver" title="Blights wood, Blights-wood, Blighted, Blights, Blight's, Blighters, Blitzed, Basswood, Bollywood, Bentwood, Lightest, Broadsword, Blistered, Boxwood, Brightest, Slightest">Blightswood</span> right <span class="ver" title="">outside of</span> Columbia, and <span class="spellver" title="WC, CW, WW, WWW, WNW, WSW, WOW">WCW</span> used to come here quite often <span class="ver" title="If you mean "in order to", write <i>to</i>, e.g.: <i>They went there <b>to</b> visit their aunt</i>.">for live</span>
events and things of that nature. I used to go a lot as a kid to a
place called the Township auditorium here in Columbia. I was like any
kid, I would find things that I liked and I would find things that I
eventually grew out. For example, I liked G<span class="ver" title="">.I Joe</span>, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and eventually pro wrestling, and pro wrestling was the thing that I never grew out of it.<br />
<br />
So, I vividly remember the moment where I knew this was what I wanted to do. I was watching Shawn <span class="spellver" title="Micheal's, Michel's, Michael, Mitchel's, Micheal, Michele's, Michaelmas, Michel, Michele, Michelle's">Michaels</span> beat Bret Hart for the <span class="spellver" title="WEE, WE, WWW, EWE, WW, WWI, WOE, AWE, OWE">WWE</span> championship at WM XII, and this was the moment I said, I want to be a <span class="spellver" title="">WWE</span>
wrestler when I grew up. So, I decided to get trained in 2008 and never
really looked back since. It's funny, when I look back at 2008, I
wasn't really sure. I knew that my dreams, goals, and aspirations were
to be a <span class="spellver" title="WEE, WE, WWW, EWE, WW, WWI, WOE, AWE, OWE">WWE</span>
superstar, but you don't know how attainable those goals are. It's
almost funny how things just fall into your lap in pro wrestling. I
think I'm well on my way to reaching those dreams, and I am excited
about the future.<br />
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<b><i>Travelling the independents has its share of highs and lows. Share
with us if you could what you have found to be some of the biggest
challenges and some of the biggest rewards of competing all over North
America?</i></b><br />
<br />
Some of the highest of highs are I get to travel the
world and all over North America. I believe you're based out of Canada;
I've been all over Canada, the U.S, Europe and Asia, so that's one of
the highest of highs, getting to travel all over the world and getting
to see all these different places and meet different people and become
multi-cultured. For instance, I've been to different places like
Singapore and China and all over the United Kingdom, and that's not
something I'd be able to say I did if I was working a 9-5 job at, say,
McDonald's, or something like that. That is definitely a high, and just
getting to wrestle and be in front of the people and string them along
and play with their emotions, that's a high.<br />
<br />
The lows are having
to drive anywhere from 8 to 18 hours, and be beat up, and be away from
your family and missing out on so many friends' events like weddings.
So, missing out on what quote-unquote normal people get to experience. I
started wrestling when I was in college, and I did get to graduate from
the University of South Carolina. However, I didn't live life like a
normal college kid, I didn't get to do what typical college kids were
doing because I was already out and traveling the roads and wrestling.
So, you do miss out on some stuff and that is the hardest part. The
traveling and beating up aren't fun either, but you kinda know what you
signed up for.<br />
<br />
<b><i>In all of your travels, wrestling all over the world, did you ever feel that you had to cater to certain crowds?</i></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The ability to adapt is crucial for any wrestlers success, and Skyler shares his thoughts on this.</td></tr>
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I remain the same guy no matter what. What you need to do is just be
able to adapt, and that's the beautiful part of the independents. It's
on the job training and it is a challenge. Last weekend, I was in North
Carolina and tagged with Mr. #1, George South, who is a staple of the
mid-Atlantic area. He was all over Crockett TV back in the day and did
stuff with the WWE as well. He trained guys like Cedric Alexander and
Tessa Blanchard and so many others. We had a certain style of match that
catered towards children last week, and we were tagging and riling up
the kids, and it was kind of an old-school mid-Atlantic type match.
Something you may have seen on Memphis TV back in the 1980s.<br />
<br />
That
being said, this past year I also wrestled for Ring of Honor at the
Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City, and now I know the match George
and I did last Saturday wouldn't go over well at the Hammerstein
Ballroom, where fans are looking for more high spots and action and
excitement. At the same time, you go to someplace like Singapore, those
people over there don't really know what wrestling is, so there were a
lot of times where I was teaming with Pete Dunne, the WWE United Kingdom
champion right now. We formed a tag team over there, we're out there
doing all this stuff and these people don't even know what we are doing,
and they don't have an idea of what pro wrestling is and they are
staring at us with these blank looks on their faces. All you have to do
is peek your head out of the ropes as if you are about to go after them
as a heel, and they'll run out in every which direction and scatter.
Pete and I aren't the biggest guys in the world so you would have
thought we were Bruiser Brody or something. People were running off in
different directions.<br />
<br />
That's the beautiful part of what we do is
that you get thrown out there, and you learn on the job, and you learn
to adapt if a crowd isn't buying what you're selling. I think that's
what makes a worker a great worker, being able to cater to the crowd
that they are in front of on that particular night. What you do in North
Carolina isn't going to necessarily work in New York City, and that
isn't going to work in Singapore or China. You have to learn how to
adapt and change things on the fly.<br />
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<i><b>If you can highlight one match where you felt that it all came
together either in singles or tag team action, when would that be, who
was involved and share what was going through your head at the time?</b></i><br />
<br />
That's a good question. Thankfully here in the <span class="spellver" title="Carolina, Carolyn's, Carolinian, Carlin's, Caroline, Caroling, Carolinian's, Carnelians, Catalina's, Carols, Carolling, Carol's, Carolyn, Colin's, Coronas, Corina's, Carole's, Kaolin's, Carnelian's, Karina's, Caring's, Corona's">Carolinas,</span> we have a little promotion called <span class="ver" title="">PWX which is</span> gaining a lot of popularity on the <span class="spellver" title="High spots, High-spots, Highs pots, Highs-pots, Spots, Disports, Hotpots, Fusspots, Despots, Honeypots, Spits, Sports, Spot's, Spouts, Fusspot's, Spats, Despot's, Disputes, Hyssop's, Hipsters, Spit's, Sport's, Spout's, Heliports, Passports, Hurst's, Spat's, Hipster's, Heliport's, Passport's, Dispute's">Highspots</span>
network. I've had a wide variety of opponents, I've wrestled some of
the local guys like Ethan Case, Jake Manning, Cedric Alexander before he
was signed, Caleb <span class="spellver" title="Conley, Kingly, Lonely, Keenly, Only, Kinney, Finley, Kinsey, Coley, Jingle, Jingly, Cooley, Cowley, Kelley, Copley, Henley, Manley, Convey, Kindle, Kindly, Kinglier, Kennel, Kernel, Cornily, Kine, Comely, Finely, Cornell, Janell, Knell, Knoll, Connolly, Joule, Jolly, Jowly, Kodaly, McKinley, Coneys, Cole, Conley's, Kane, Klee, Kohl, Kyle, Cone, Cony, Gone, Kale, Kola, Kong, Sanely, Kneel, Kelly, Kenny, Coyly, Golly, Goner, Koala">Konley,</span> and so many others. I also got to wrestle guys on the outside like Johnny <span class="spellver" title="Gorgon, Garcon, Jargon, Argon, Gagging, Gauging, Gorging, Georgian, Gaga, Sargon, Gran, Garaging, Gargantua, Cargo, Guano">Gargano</span> and Timothy Thatcher and <span class="spellver" title="Sack, Jack, Mack, Back, Hack, Lack, Pack, Rack, Tack">Zack</span> Sabre Jr., people like that.<br />
<br />
There was this one particular match against Johnny <span class="spellver" title="Gorgon, Garcon, Jargon, Argon, Gagging, Gauging, Gorging, Georgian, Gaga, Sargon, Gran, Garaging, Gargantua, Cargo, Guano">Gargano</span> that I had in Charlotte, North Carolina for <span class="spellver" title="PX, PIX, POX, PYX, PW, TWX, PBX">PWX,</span>
which was probably about two years ago now. It was kind of a cold
match, there was no rivalry, he was coming in for one-time appearance
and I was working my way up the system at the time, just getting hot.
The bell rang and we stood there in our respective corners and the crowd
was going ballistic. We hadn't done anything, we were just standing
there and staring at each other from across the ring, and they were
chanting “Johnny Wrestling, <span class="spellver" title="Skulker, Sculler, Kyle, Skull, Skye, Skylark, Schuyler, Sutler, Scalier, Skier, Skype, Style, Scale, Skill, Sicklier, Skylab, Sealer, Seller, Skater, Skewer, Skiver, Staler, Sickle, Suckle, Scalar, Klee, Skyline, Slier, Skillet, Cycle, Skoal, Sky, Squealer, Sykes, Keller, Killer, Skulk, Skiers, Kale, Sale, Skew, Slew, Slur, Sole, Scalper, Sillier, Skilled, Surlier, Sagely, Gayle, Sager, Solar, Sky's, Skier's">Skyler</span> Sucks” and then it became a 50/50 thing where people were like chanting “Johnny Wrestling” “Let's go <span class="spellver" title="Skulker, Sculler, Kyle, Skull, Skye, Skylark, Schuyler, Sutler, Scalier, Skier, Skype, Style, Scale, Skill, Sicklier, Skylab, Sealer, Seller, Skater, Skewer, Skiver, Staler, Sickle, Suckle, Scalar, Klee, Skyline, Slier, Skillet, Cycle, Skoal, Sky, Squealer, Sykes, Keller, Killer, Skulk, Skiers, Kale, Sale, Skew, Slew, Slur, Sole, Scalper, Sillier, Skilled, Surlier, Sagely, Gayle, Sager, Solar, Sky's, Skier's">Skyler.</span>”
We took a couple steps closer to each other, we went nose to nose with
one another, and then the crowd started chanting ‘This is awesome.' We
had never touched each other! This was a cold match, and it was
literally us just taking a moment to acknowledge the people and the
people were acknowledging us. We were letting the people, in a certain
way, dictate what we were going to do next, but they didn't have full
control, we were still trying to figure things out. So, we were like,
okay.<br />
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There is this misconception where guys are told all the time that
less is more, less is more, and I don't think that's necessarily the
case. I think it's about getting more out of less. I think that was a
night where we were getting more out of less. We hadn't touched each
other, and that wasn't anything we planned. It was us reacting to the
crowd. It made for a special moment, definitely for me. I can't speak
for Johnny, Johnny has probably had a ton of those moments in fact
because the guy is great. It was really cool to experience that, and it
was where the lightbulb went off and it was like ‘wrestling moves don't
really matter.' I started thinking, we had these people wrapped up in
emotion and we hadn't even touched. That is where the lightbulb went off
in my head anyway. Okay, maybe it's not necessarily about the wrestling
moves. I look back at that <span class="ver" title="">match with</span> great fondness because I think it made me a better wrestler.<br />
<br />
<b><i>How
have you found working in a tag team? Often there are challenges
working as one-fourth of a match, and communication can be a challenge.
Was there one match that stood out that everyone and everything worked
out incredibly well?</i></b><br />
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There was a while where, at the time his name was Stephen Walters, but he now has gone on to be part <span class="ver" title="This word should not be capitalized unless it is a name or part of a title.">of The</span>
Revival under the name Dash Wilder, we were a pretty successful team on
the independents before he got signed. We went by the name the
Love-Hate Machine. We had a series of matches against the Bravado
Brothers, and one particular night we had a match against them at a bar
show in, I think it was Columbia, South Carolina. So the people that
show up to this bar show may not necessarily be wrestling fans. They may
just be people that came to hang out at the bar and they heard
wrestling was going to be there, so they probably just decided to come
here and check it out. Like China or Singapore, they may not know what
it's like to be a recipient of a <span class="spellmod" title="">hurricanrana</span>
or know what a 450 splash feels like, so they are going to be harder to
hook at times. This beautiful match this night, we all got on the same
page, and when we all got on the same page we started getting this flow
going and it was this beautiful tag match, where at the end people were
chanting ‘That is awesome.' I'm like, man, that's a pretty good
reception for a bar crowd. We brought it back the next day at the same
venue for like a 2 out of <span class="ver" title="Most style guides suggest that single digit numbers be written in letters, e.g.: <i>one, two</i>, etc.">3 falls</span> tag match, and that would be the last time me and, I guess his name is Dash now, would have tagged together against the <span class="spellver" title="Bravado's, Bravado, Bravos, Bravo's">Bravados,</span> where they beat us for the tag belts.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Before he was Dash Wilder of The Revival, Stephen 'The Fever' Walters along side Skyler.</td></tr>
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It's really fun to go out there. Yes it's four guys and yes it's four
sets of eyes trying to figure out what the vision of the match is going
to be, you might butt heads on certain things, but at the end of the
day, those were four pros that were in that match. Ask any one of us,
all four of us had a lot of experience from all around the world. We
have all done things on television. That's really <span class="ver" title="This seems incorrect. Consider writing <i>which</i> (or <i>who</i>) or adding "s" to the verb. Another possibility would be to modify the structure, e.g.: <i>What <b>do you</b> want?</i>.">what experience</span>
is. You can wrestle for 15 years and never really leave your backyard,
and then you don't really have any experience. You just know how to work
matches in your own backyard or your hometown. The four of us are
complete pros, where we have this experience worldwide doing all these
overseas tours and working on television. We can put a solid tag match
together. It made sense, and the people liked it and we all had fun
doing it. That's probably the most fun I've had doing tag matches in
terms of getting everyone on the same page. Everyone may have a
different vision, but it's about all of us going out there and getting
on the same page and creating magic.<br />
<br />
<i><b>How would you say your
character or personality developed from its inception, when you first
began competing, to today, and where do you see it going</b></i>?<br />
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That's a great question because when I first got started in wrestling
I went by ‘the New Sensation' John Skyler. I don't know if I wanted to
be Michael Hayes, it changed from week to week, but at first, it was
like a Freebird, Michael Hayes type guy, and also like Chris Jericho
from WCW when he was doing the topnotch 1980s rockers stuff. I had no
idea what I wanted to be. What I knew was that, eventually, ‘The New
Sensation' isn't going to be new anymore, so what am I going to do after
that? I did a lot of comedy stuff when I first started, and I finally
realized that if I wanted to be taken seriously and make a lot of money
in wrestling, comedy is only going to get me so far.<br />
<br />
So, I need to
be taken seriously about what I do, and it was inspired by two
different people. It was first inspired by Tyler Durden from Fight Club,
this guy that had this idea of Project Mayhem where he is going to go
to destroy everything just to create something greater, and he is in his
mind doing good things even though he is a dastardly human being. He
inspired it, and in real life David Koresh, from Waco, Texas did as
well. I'm not sure how many people maybe remember that, but he was a
cult leader. These were the initial influences of the character. From
day one that's what I envisioned it being, but as you evolve and grow
you kind of need to realize as a performer there have to be certain
aspects of this character that hit close to home, with whom you truly
are. Austin really drinks beer and rides around in a pickup truck,
that's who he is.<br />
<br />
I needed to do something to where I
needed to find who is John, as a real person? I started going to these
different independent shows and started thinking about leaving a place
greater than as it was before I found it. Whether it's for one show or
one year, I want to make this place get better, so that's where the
‘Savior' name came from. As a babyface, you can come in and say ‘I'm
going to change this place, and I'm going to do great things here and
change it for the better.' As a heel, you can automatically claim that
this place sucked before I got here, and now I'm going to make it better
because I'm this huge TV star and I'm a huge star all over the world.
You can definitely take it in two different directions. So, it's
definitely evolved, especially the Ring of Honor stuff on TV. It helped
me out, as I was able to cut promos, and you only have 30 seconds to cut
a promo, so you go out there and hit everything. It's funny that at
times I don't really know what the character is, I'm still trying to
figure it out and I'm trying to throw things at the wall and see what
sticks. I guess that's the great thing again about being an independent
wrestler. It's on the job training, and you are trying to figure things
out. I have a better understanding of what and who I am now in 2017 than
even in 2016.<br />
<br />
<b><i>One of the most prominent
wrestlers today is Kyle O'Reilly. Discuss if you could how that
experience was and what you walked away with after facing him.</i></b><br />
<br />
We
crossed paths only briefly, it was in the NWA Future Legends cup, I
believe and that was about 7 years ago. He was still on the rise with
Ring of Honor, but my experiences with him were great. He was such a
mild-mannered, very nice young guy just like me and a lot of guys in
that locker room, but I think we had both had matches earlier on in the
day. It was a one-day tournament, and I wrestled Reid Flair earlier on
in the show and he wrestled maybe Tony Kozina, I believe. I know we
didn't have a lot of time to put a match together, and we didn't really
know each other. So, we had to go out there, and again, feel it out in
what I think was Carlton, Georgia, near Atlanta. We had to look at the
type of crowd we had, and again, this is the sign of two pros going out
there and getting it done. Kyle was always great, and he was a very
polite and very professional guy. I'm glad to have worked with him the
few times that I did.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A true professional inside and out of the ring, Skyler remembers fondly working with O'Reilly.</td></tr>
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<b><i>As a nine-year pro, how has the business changed in your time in the ring? Greater opportunities? Greater earning opportunity?</i></b><br />
<br />
Absolutely.
There has been a huge change in the business, in the favor of the
independents, from where I broke in 2008. One of the reasons I said that
I might not make WWE was because I am a 5'8, 5'9 guy, and not even 200
lbs, and in 2008 they wanted guys that were 6'2 at the minimum and 230
or 240 lbs at the minimum. I remember that was all they were looking
for, you can't be smaller than this. This was the minimum because it was
very much a big man's territory, and in a lot of ways, it still is.
That is when guys like (CM) Punk started to come in and get noticed, and
guys like Daniel Bryan hadn't even gotten a shot yet, and some guys had
been there and have been phased out pretty quickly. For example, Low
Ki, he didn't last there very long at all. I am sure there are others
that I am skimming over. The idea of being an independent wrestler and
going to WWE was a longshot, and the term independent wrestler was
somewhat of a derogatory term. That is how it was looked at by the
higher-ups for a long time. ‘Oh, if this guy is such a great indy guy,
then what is so special about him?' That was the idea that was floating
around.<br />
<br />
Where now, wrestlers are starting to embrace it, as, like,
the new regime there, they want to know where you have been and your
accomplishments on the independents and where you have been, and they
almost embrace that independent background, where they turned up their
nose to it a couple of years ago. That's changed in a good way, and
there are a number of guys making great livings on the independents
outside the WWE. There is a world outside the WWE that people may think
maybe a little bit untapped. There are people going out, and celebrities
showing up at PWG shows in Rosita, California, and it's this hotspot
where people want to go and see what is going on. I also liken what a
number of the American fans will see on the independents to college
football. They are playing for the love of the game, and aren't making
millions of dollars yet, they haven't made it to the NFL yet. The NFL is
like WWE, and people are doing it for the contracts or the money, and
when they are playing college ball they are doing it for the love of the
game. I think fans come out to independent shows and see that, we are
making good money, but not necessarily WWE money. It isn't life-changing
money, but we love performing and we love the business.<br />
<br />
I know
that when I first started doing extra work for the WWE back in 2011, the
first thing I ever did was get killed by Ryback on TV or something. I
remember thinking back then, I should be here, I am good enough to be
here, and I always had that in my mind. Then, when I look back at some
of my independent shows from back then in 2011 compared to now, I am
10,000 times the worker I am now than I was then. I have seen myself
grow by leaps and bounds honestly, and if I would have been offered
something back in 2011 I don't think I would have been ready to
contribute like I am now. Not just WWE, but anywhere full-time, Ring of
Honor, TNA, New Japan, anywhere. I don't think I would be able to
contribute like I would right now. I am not trying to beat a dead horse
about the independents, but I think that is where guys like AJ (Styles)
and Samoa Joe have an advantage over everybody else because they spent
so much time on the independents, they spent so much time getting
worldwide experience to where you can throw something their way in WWE
and none of it is unfamiliar territory because they have literally been
there and done that. In every predicament, they can do anything needed
if called upon by WWE.<br />
<br />
<b><i>Competing for prominent promotions and carving a niche for yourself lends itself for
a very different experience. What have you found the biggest difference
between competing for the likes of, say, NXT and the independent
circuit?</i></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Skyler with current WWE Smackdown Live superstar Chad Gable during Skyler's time in NXT.</td></tr>
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There are definitely differences between working television and your
local independent show. On TV you may have six minutes, but six minutes
on TV is a lot of time. You have to hit your marks, camera angles, and
get with your producer, and make the break spot on time, and get back
from the break. You have to make sure you are getting the points across
that you want to get across in the match. Also, you want to look
aggressive, and each strike has to count. ‘Maximize your minutes,' that
is one big thing they say if you have four minutes you need to make it
the best four minutes you possibly can. However, on the independents,
you may be given 8-10 (minutes), or 12, and there really isn't going to
be any repercussions on the talent for going over. If you are working
television and you go over, your ass is going to get chewed out, you are
going to be told that other segments are going to have to be cut and
stuff like that.<br />
<br />
Also, the level of experience and professionalism
on TV is just amazing. There are guys like Dean Malenko, William Regal,
Steve Corino, Arn Anderson, Scott and Brian Armstrong, Robbie
Brookside, Matt Bloom, Scotty 2 Hotty, Adam Pearce, who have seen and
done everything. These are all producers there, and all these guys have
20-30 years of experience. You go to the independents and you may have
some guy doing his third ever show, and he is going to tell you that he
wants a certain style of match and get this point across for the next
show, and you are like…'Okay, who are you? (laughs).' Again, it is fun
having that blank canvas on the independents. Just last week I had a
match on a small show here in Carolina, it was two babyface tag teams
going at it, and for South Carolina that is not a good idea ever, to
have two babyface tag teams working each other ever. We made something
out of nothing and we created a pretty cool little story, and the crowd
was pretty receptive to it.<br />
<br />
However, the idea of having a blank
canvas and going out there and produce anything you want on the
independents is really appealing, you can show who your true self is.
When you have 8-10 minutes and a blank canvas, it's okay to say go out
there and do your thing. That is sometimes hard to do that when you are
hindered by 4-5 minutes and a segment on television. Sometimes you are
not going to be the focal point on television, and you are there to try
to get another guy over, and while you may be trying to get yourself
over in the process it's not in the cards. At times it is going to be
about the other guy, and sometimes that can be a little bit frustrating
when you have only a few minutes and you are supposed to go out there
and produce magic. You don't necessarily feel like you have the proper
tools or elements to get yourself out there.<br />
<br />
<b><i>Ring of Honor's
top prospect tournament has been a breeding ground for a number of
today's stars. To even be a part of the tournament is often seen as a
great opportunity to increase exposure. What did your time going through
the tournament mean to you?</i></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">image via rohwrestling.com</td></tr>
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First of all, when I found out that I was going to be in the
tournament I was obviously thrilled and excited because I had been a fan
of Ring of Honor ever since I got into professional wrestling. So it
was a big notch in my belt to be a part of it, and I thought I was going
to get a lot of eyes on me and stuff like that. Also, I went in being
realistic. Having over 1000 matches in my career and competing for
almost nine years, you learn to expect nothing, so you are pleasantly
surprised when you go into a situation, as opposed to getting your hopes
up, ‘This is going to be a great opportunity and I am going to win this
thing,' and be let down or something like that. So, I went into the
tournament expecting they are going to have me put somebody over in the
first round or something. I didn't expect anything out of it, in a way. I
get there for night one in Pittsburgh and I find out I was going over,
I'm thinking..really? I am?
I went over Sean Carr in the first round, which was perfect for me
because he was the guy in the tournament that I matched up best with. I
thought Sean Carr's style was what I would match up best with, and he
was who I wanted to work within the first round. That was a best-case
scenario for me, and to having a great match and going over was a
blessing.<br />
<br />
Then getting to wrestle in Hammerstein ballroom
in the second round against Curt Stallion was a lot of fun because I was
a big wrestling fan/nerd growing up and the lineage of the Hammerstein
Ballroom, and ECW, and everything that entailed. Getting another win on
television was another notch in the belt, and I joke with my friends
saying I am undefeated in the Hammerstein Ballroom, being 1 and 0
(laughs). For the finals, I faced Josh Woods in Baltimore, and I have a
lot of confidence now because I know I am killing it in the ring and in
the promos. I feel like he was obviously the choice going forward, who
they saw the biggest future in of all the prospects, but I think I
turned a lot of heads. I will make no bones about it, I have said this
to a lot of people, I was the best one in the tournament. That isn't me
bragging or being an egomaniac if you go back and watch the matches that
were on TV I don't think there was a better performer in that
tournament than me.<br />
<br />
So, it is a little bit heartbreaking
to know I haven't been back since. That is part of the business, and
maybe it isn't a no, but it's not right now. Maybe I am not what they
are looking for. They often say wrestling is like being cast in a movie,
and maybe I haven't been cast in the right role yet, maybe that will
come soon, we never know. I will always say that things just happen.
There isn't a rhyme or reason, and when I am asked why I haven't been
back to Ring of Honor, trust me, folks, it's not my choice (laughs). I
would be there in a heartbeat, and business there is up! They have a lot
of eyes on them. It was a great experience overall, though. Again, it
gave me a lot of confidence, making me aware of what I know I can do
when given a platform on television. I can be an asset to ROH, TNA, and
it has always been my dream to be a WWE superstar and be an asset to
them, whether it's NXT or on their main roster. I have a lot of
confidence now, and either way, it was a blessing.<br />
<br />
<b><i>As 2017 draws to a close, what are your aspirations for the coming year and in the future overall?</i></b><br />
<br />
Honestly,
it's hard to put a timetable on anything in pro wrestling because
anything can happen. It is the craziest thrill ride of all time, and you
never know what is going to happen. Just the other day, I put out promo
packages with videos of matches and my resume, and I sent it to
everybody that has a television deal, and I sent it out to a lot of
independent companies with a lot of buzz like the EVOLVE's and
WrestleCircuses, AAW in Chicago. I sent out my stuff to just about
anybody and everybody like in Germany as well. My biggest goal is to get
eyes on me and build my brand, the ‘Southern Savior' John Skyler, and
make myself valuable and make myself an asset.<br />
<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Skyler hopes to make 2018 even better than 2017.</td></tr>
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By the end of 2018, I want to be where I am not having to reach out
to people, but people are reaching out to me, whether that be a top
independent company or a top foreign company like <span class="spellver" title="Rev Pro, Rev-Pro, Revere, Reverie, Respire, Respray, Revelry, Rivera, Riviera, Referee, Rivalry">RevPro</span> or <span class="spellver" title="What culture, What-culture, Viticulture, Horticulture, Culture, Aquaculture, Vulture, Subculture, Viticulture's">Whatculture</span> or <span class="spellmod" title="WW, WSW, WNW, WWW, wow">wXw</span> or New Japan. The only way to <span class="ver" title="You should probably use the bare infinitive (without a final "s"), e.g.: <i>Could you hel<b>p</b> me?</i>">do that is</span>
to make myself valuable, and that's my goal by the end of 2018, for me
to have to turn people away (because I am so busy), rather than to have
to reach out to companies. It is difficult to make <span class="spellmod" title="predication's, predictions, prediction's, predication, prediction">predications</span> like, ‘I am going to be in <span class="spellver" title="WEE, WE, WWW, EWE, WW, WWI, WOE, AWE, OWE">WWE'</span>
because you never know what is going to happen. Sometimes that is a
difficult and unrealistic expectation to have. You just have to go with
the flow and wrestle every match like it is your last.<br />
<br />
<i><b>Do
you have anything to share, promote or make fans aware of as it
pertains to wrestling? How can fans connect with you if they so wanted
to?</b></i><br />
<br />
You can connect with me on Twitter, I am @<span class="spellmod" title="thermonuclear, consular, Nijinsky, console, jangler, reconcile, Consuelo, consul, concealer, counselor, downscale, counsel, counsellor, jangle, jungle, jonquil">thejohnskyler,</span> and I have the ‘Southern Savior John <span class="spellver" title="Skulker, Sculler, Kyle, Skull, Skye, Skylark, Schuyler, Sutler, Scalier, Skier, Skype, Style, Scale, Skill, Sicklier, Skylab, Sealer, Seller, Skater, Skewer, Skiver, Staler, Sickle, Suckle, Scalar, Klee, Skyline, Slier, Skillet, Cycle, Skoal, Sky, Squealer, Sykes, Keller, Killer, Skulk, Skiers, Kale, Sale, Skew, Slew, Slur, Sole, Scalper, Sillier, Skilled, Surlier, Sagely, Gayle, Sager, Solar, Sky's, Skier's">Skyler'</span> Facebook page, and a <span class="spellver" title="Procrastinates, Priestliness, Procrastinators, Protestants, Protestant's, Procrastinator's, Priestliness's">ProWrestlingTees</span> store if people want to buy some <span class="spellmod" title="March, march, Mercia, Mitch, match, Mach, Mich, mach, mesh, much, Merck, mercy, perch, Marsh, marsh, mooch, etch, macho, mocha, Mirach, Mercer, marcher, mercer, search, Marcia, Marsha, Murcia, marshy, Marc, arch, each, lech, mere, tech, MASH, mash, mosh, mush, smirch, Munch, milch, mulch, munch, March's, march's">merch.</span> I am on <span class="spellver" title="Ingram, Anagram, Histogram, Pentagram, Integral, Onstage, Instr, Instigate, Unstrap, Engram, Ideogram, Integrate, Centigram, Interim">Instagram</span> at @<span class="spellmod" title="">thejohnskyler.</span>
I am all over social media, and I am not too hard to find in terms of
social media. I recently won the world heavyweight championship for
Resistance Pro, and I will be there defending the title. Coming up in <span class="ver" title="Please check. If you mean "the year after this one", remove the word <i>the</i>, e.g.: <i>I want to go ther<b>e n</b>ext year</i>.">the next year</span> a lot of people can check me out in <span class="spellver" title="PX, PIX, POX, PYX, PW, TWX, PBX">PWX,</span> Premier Wrestling <span class="spellver" title="Experience, Prince, Spence, Prance, Sapience">Xperience,</span>
which is my home promotion, and a lot of exciting things are happening
there. In January, there will be a two-night event on the 13th and 14th
where they will have their X-16 tournament, which is an annual thing. I
will be a part of that along with several other top independent stars.
If fans want to look into tickets they could go to pwxwrestling.com or
reach out to them on Twitter at @<span class="spellmod" title="crystalline, oxyacetylene">pwxwrestling</span> and on Facebook.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03816246595711637157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665826034883825385.post-80693029281428928722017-11-04T10:42:00.002-07:002017-11-04T11:13:50.874-07:00Independent wrestling star Josh Briggs aspires for greatness while blazing a trail for himself<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Josh Briggs doesn't like you. If you don't believe it, you can ask him
yourself. The New England native has been making a name for himself since
beginning active competition over a year and a half ago. With a persona that
originated in a bad moment in time, Briggs developed a character that fans have
come to enjoy watching each time he competes. One of the most notable in ring
qualities that Briggs possess is his versatility and ability to move around
with the greatest of ease. He enlightened me when he said that it was important
to know your audience, and he certainly does just that. As arguably one of the
fastest rising talents in the northeast, Briggs has continued to hone his craft
since starting with the New England Pro Wrestling Academy.<br />
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Possessing an array of technical moves and the ability to perform high
flying maneuvers, Briggs aspires to personal greatness. Standing 6'7 and
weighing 270 lbs, those aspirations aren't limited to competing in the United
States either. He demonstrates a passion for what he <span class="ver">does and
does</span> it the right way. It is only a matter of time before the rest of
the world finds out what the North Eastern United States has known for nearly
st two years: Josh Briggs is coming, and when you see him you certainly won't
forget the impact he will make.<br />
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Fans can communicate with him on various social media, such as Twitter and <span class="spellver">Instagram,</span> where he can be reached @<span class="spellmod">thejoshbriggs</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Where
did your early exposure to wrestling come about, and was there a moment where
you felt you were going to make this a commitment?</i></b><br />
<br />
From where I am from, where I am based out of and where <span class="ver">I
started making</span> my name, the Northeast in the United States of <span class="ver">America</span>. Early on I was with Chaotic Wrestling, and then I
started to branch out to Limitless Wrestling, and now I am wrestling in <span class="spellver">CZW,</span> places like that. That is where I am trying to make
my name right now. As for when I really realized this was what I wanted to do,
and where I wanted to make my money, I think it was really early on before I
even had a match. I knew this was something I wanted to do. I was a Division <span class="ver">1 football</span> player, and I was fairly good at it, but I chose
not to pursue any dreams of the NFL because I was completely miserable, and it
wasn't like I was great by any means, so I wasn't going to get drafted. So, I
forsook the entire NFL process and I jumped into professional wrestling. Early
on, maybe two or three months in, I realized I had a knack for it. I played
football for 11 years and I was completely miserable. So, going from something
that made you completely miserable and depressed to something you enjoy
automatically was refreshing, and it was how I knew it was something I wanted
to do.<br />
<br />
I stuck with football for as long as I did because of the free education, at
one of the best schools in <span class="ver">America</span>. I realized as I got
older and more mature that the only reason I played football was to get things
that I wanted, like money or free education. Once I got into wrestling, I
realized I didn't care about money, I cared about being happy, and wrestling made
me happy. That is how my thought process is right now.<br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Traveling <span class="ver">the independents has</span> its share of highs and lows. Share
with us if you could what you have found to be some of the biggest challenges
and some of the biggest rewards of competing all over North America.</i></b><br />
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I have only been a professional wrestler for just over a year and a half,
and luckily I have been able to get a good amount of matches under my belt. I
have had over 200 matches since January (of 2017).<br />
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Once you get up there in
matches in a row, five or six, for example, it's really hard on your body. It's
a real challenge when I am driving <span class="ver">4 to</span> <span class="ver">7
hours</span> back-to-back, just go back home to sleep, and do it all over
again. That's where you really realize wrestling isn't what you really think it
is. You really have to love what you do and enjoy what you do, to get out of
bed when you are sore and you can't move. So that's one of the biggest
challenges. Early on, trying to find who you are is one of the biggest
challenges. Your brain is so scattered from everything you did in the match
that you don't really know who you are portraying once you are in the match,
and that was something I had a tough time with. I am finally getting over that,
and now I am more comfortable with knowing who I am, to an extent.<br />
One of the biggest rewards was wrestling Donovan <span class="spellver">Dijak.</span>
He was a guy that trained at the same school as me and was pretty much a mentor
to me outside my training with Brian Fury. Without him, I wouldn't be as good
as I am. So, I owe him. To throw ideas at the wall and see them stick and see
him light up with excitement about what I was asking him to do or what I am
doing for him, that's probably the biggest reward I've had so far. I was
getting a really good match against him most of the time.<br />
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Championships are cool and everything, but you are making a name for
yourself. Once you have those championships, it means you are starting to rise
in the ranks and everything. All that will come with time. I think the memories
will last a lifetime. With this last Limitless show, Question the Answers,
Teddy Hart had a match against one of my good friends Maxwell Jacob Freedman,
and afterward, he called someone out and I was lucky enough to be chosen to go
out there and meet him in the ring. So it laid the breadcrumbs for a future
match against me and him. That is a big honor to me. Things like that are
rewards to me. It isn't the money or the titles or winning matches or things
like that.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">If
you can highlight one match where you felt that it all came together either/or
in singles or tag team action, when would that be, who was involved and share
what was going through your head at the time?</i></b><br />
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I touched upon it a little bit, but probably my crowning match where I
realized I had something going here was against Donovan <span class="spellver">Dijak</span>
at Limitless. That was my first match against him, someone I looked up to and
aspired to be like, and to be able to have him explain the way he was putting
together the match made me a completely different and better wrestler for it.
But, I was able to throw ideas out there and he enjoyed them, and it boosted my
confidence to know that one of the best wrestlers in the world appreciated my
ideas, understood them, and believed in how good they were. When he was placing
all the ideas into spots, I started to realize, yeah, that's where I would have
put it too, and that was another boost of confidence as well. Mentally we were
from the same learning tree from Brian Fury all the way down to Killer <span class="spellver">Kowalski</span> and Steve Bradley, and to be able to fall back on
that and know that, okay, I have a similar mindset to Donovan <span class="spellver">Dijak,</span> it's a very comforting thing. That boosted my
confidence a lot. In the match itself, right from the get-go, I didn't want to
mess anything up. Luckily enough, I haven't messed anything up so far in my
career. That was my biggest match and an important point in my career. So, I
didn't want to screw the pooch, especially with someone who was my friend that
I see all the time, and someone I wanted to know that I was a good wrestler.
Midway through the match, I realized that he knew I could bring it, and I knew
that he knew what I am all about. That was more of a boost of confidence. That
was one of the biggest things in wrestling, to boost your confidence and to
know that you are good.<br />
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To me, tag matches are difficult because you have more bodies to work out. I
like to take control of everything and be the general in there, call the match
and put everything together in there and make sure everyone's positioning is on
point so that everyone out there can have everything come out perfectly.
Sometimes it's tough because when it's singles wrestlers or even a triple
threat, you can for the most part figure out where everyone is going to be
based on your own positioning. But, when you aren't in the right place, or when
three of the four are in the ring and you are not, it is a little difficult.
But, I tag with Mike Ross of the <span class="spellver">Minderaser.</span> He is
an awesome guy and one of my great friends, and we are the New Gore Order down
in <span class="spellver">XWA</span> <span class="ver">in Rhode Island</span>. We just
gelled instantly because we have the same mindset, and we can put the match
together perfectly because we know each other so well. I can rely on him when I
am not in the ring, to take control and to move people where they need to be.
If I lose where I am <span class="ver">at in</span> the match, I can ask him, and
vice versa, and we can get back on track. It's really comfortable having
someone with the same mindset on your team so you don't have to think about
everything. You can give him some of the worries and you can take some of the
worries off of him as well.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">How
would you say your character or personality developed from its inception to
today, and where do you see it going?</i></b><br />
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Not a lot of people know, maybe 20 or 30 in professional wrestling know
this, and I don't discuss it a lot because it's a little embarrassing to me,
but everyone has growing pains with their first character. Back in college, I
had a nickname of Mike Honcho, from the movie ‘<span class="spellver">Talladega</span>
Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.' It's a little inside joke I have with me
and my friends, but I liked that name a lot. Getting into wrestling, I knew I
wanted to wrestle, I just didn't who I wanted to be yet. I pitched that name to
my friends and they said that sounds like a relaxed surfer. So, I decided, help
me put together this character of Mike Honcho and let's see what happens. So,
Mike Honcho became a surfer and just went out there and had this whole ‘hang
ten' attitude and stuff. It was fun. I didn't know any better because it was my
first character and I just wanted to wrestle.<br />
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After a few months I knew that's not who I am and that's not who I wanted to
be, so it started getting uncomfortable and almost embarrassing. I came up with
the name Josh Briggs after months of deliberating what my name should be. I
changed the last three letters of my last name from <span class="spellver">Bruns</span>
to Briggs, and I stumbled upon who that was. It took a long time. That's one of
the hardest things in wrestling that people don't understand, who you really
are, and if your character is completely different from your actual being it is
easy to get into because you are just acting at that point. <span class="verupdated">But,</span> being 23 at the time, I didn't know who I <span class="ver">was as a</span> human being. I realized one day, I had a horrible day
and I was grumpy, I was in my car and I hated everyone, and I hated everything,
and I didn't want to deal with anything. I realized that may be a good
character trait for Josh Briggs, so that became who I am, someone who doesn't
like people. It's basically me on a really bad day. It is still ever evolving,
just like everything in wrestling. Right now, I know who I <span class="verupdated">am that I</span> don't like being around people. If you are in
the ring with <span class="ver">me I</span> instantly don't like you, and I am
going to do whatever I <span class="ver">can to hurt</span> you. In a nutshell,
that's just Josh Briggs, someone who doesn't like people.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Limitless
Wrestling and Chaotic Wrestling appear to be promotions that are near and dear
to your heart. What is it about these <span class="ver">promotions that has</span>
meant so much to you?</i></b><br />
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I'd like to throw Beyond (wrestling) in that hat as well. When I first
started, those were the three that I wanted to work for, they were promotions
that had the buzz at the time, they were promotions that you could make money
with. They were promotions that you could wrestle better people at, sometimes;
not always the case, but sometimes. I always wanted to get to those three.
Chaotic was my first because of where I trained, at the New England Pro
Wrestling Academy, it was the feeder for Chaotic Wrestling, the one that I
first broke in with. Chaotic will always be special to me because they gave me
my first big platform to actually have good <span class="verupdated">matches with</span>
great production value, great professionalism in the locker room, great
booking, great ownership. That was the first time I realized that <span class="spellmod">indy</span> wrestling is more than just going out there and
doing moves. It's an actual business and an actual job. Chaotic is special in
that sense.<br />
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Limitless, that was the first big super <span class="spellmod">indy</span>
show that I was able to get on. All of my friends got on it and I really wanted
to wrestle with my friends and go on <span class="ver">road trips</span> with my
friends and get out of the New England, Rhode Island, Connecticut area. To get
there was one of the crowning moments of my career. Randy Carver Jr, the guy
who runs the place, the owner, gave me one of the most special things on the
planet. They just had their two-year anniversary show with Question the
Answers, and it sold out with about four hundred people, they need to get a new
building because of how quickly the place sells out. The match quality is next
to none. That Question the Answers show was the best show I'd ever been at or
have been on. Every match had a place on the card, every match did its job,
every match was perfect for the most part. That's something special that Randy
does, and being so young, to put together that card and bring those people in
and draw those people in, in Maine of all places, that's outstanding.<br />
<br />
<span class="ver">Beyond, everyone knows</span> Beyond. Everyone wants to get
into Beyond, and Beyond is THE platform for Indy wrestling on the East Coast.
Everyone that is anyone wants to be in Beyond, that's how you make that name
for yourself<span class="ver">. Me being</span> such a big fan of Donovan <span class="spellver">Dijak,</span> and such a good friend with him, I saw how he made
his name, and wanting to follow in his footsteps I chose Beyond as my ultimate
destination early on. Drew <span class="spellver">Cordero,</span> the owner, he
runs the most amazing show. If you haven't seen a Beyond show on demand or on
YouTube, it is something special that you can't replicate. He has been nothing
but good to me and gives me the matches that he thinks I deserve even if I
don't think I deserve it, and an outstanding platform to build my brand of Josh
Briggs.<br />
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<span lang="EN">So those three are very near and dear to my
heart. There are few more, like Northeast Wrestling where I just started, they
treated me so well, and XWA as well in Rhode Island, and the Monster Factory.
Places like that have given me opportunities on great platforms, those are the
places are special to me and I can’t thank them enough because without them I
would be Joe Schmo, wrestling in front of twenty people not doing this for a
living. Maine for a while didn’t have the wrestling buzz that it does now, and
that is all due to Randy Carver and Limitless Wrestling. The way he runs that
place, it’s unbelievable. What he does for me and wrestling and all the boys in
the back is such a good platform, such good production, and there is such great
talent opposing them in the ring. Everything about that place is second to
none.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A
few months back notable trainer and former wrestler Rip Rogers were very
critical of the state of independent wrestling today. What are your thoughts on
how programs are worked in an independent wrestling match as opposed to
something that is televised?</i></b><br />
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Independent wrestling is a different monster than <span class="spellver">WWE.</span>
There are different fans, and you have to know your <span class="spellmod">fanbase</span>
and know how to get over in the fans' eyes. It doesn't matter if you <span class="ver">do no</span> moves or you do a million moves in my opinion, as long
as the crowd enjoys it. I think you need to do the least amount to get over,
but get over nonetheless. Some places, in particular, you need to do a little
bit more and you have to put your body on the line. People who have grown up <span class="verupdated">and have been</span> cultivated by that major, <span class="spellver">WWE</span> style, they don't get to experience independent
wrestling, when you don't do what the crowd expects of you. If you don't get
that reaction from the independent crowd, it really is, not heartbreaking,<span class="ver"> but it</span>'s disconcerting. You really go home pretty bummed out,
and sometimes that is going to happen.<br />
<br />
With the <span class="spellver">WWE</span> style, those guys are making six
figures, and I completely understand they can't put their body on the line the
way independent wrestlers do. We're working to get there, and in our eyes, we
have to do those moves. They're in that safe zone where they don't have to put
their body on the line, and they shouldn't have to body on the line because
they are such big items for <span class="spellver">WWE</span> and those big
companies. They can't risk their life. You have to know your crowd, and if there's
a crowd with thirty people in it and you aren't making that <span class="ver">much
money</span>, you don't really need to put your body on the line. If there is a
crowd of 300-400 people standing on their feet, expecting you to do a dive over
the top rope, giving them anything less is a disservice to the fans if that
makes any sense.<br />
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In my opinion, I can do really athletic things that my body shouldn't allow
me to do, and a lot of the things I can do people haven't seen on shows from me
because I chose to save them for those big moments. I think if you do something
huge so many times, so dangerously, it waters down that product that you are
giving to the crowd. If I go to the top rope and do a 450 every match everyone
is going to expect it, but if I pull it out in those one or two big matches
everyone is going to want to see that. I don't feel like a guy who is 6'7”, 270
lbs., needs to make his money being on the top rope, but I think for the right
crowd you can give them one or two special or unique things to show that you <span class="ver">are one of the</span> superior athletes of your size.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Often
talent has aspirations to improve. What are your aspirations moving forward,
and who can you see involved in helping achieve those aspirations?</i></b><br />
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I think one of the easiest ways and to get better and get farther and build
a name is to have matches against some of the best in the world, and open those
<span class="ver">peoples</span>' eyes to how good you are. You can listen to
people tell you how good someone is, but you don't really understand how good
they are until you get into the ring with them. Being really young in the
business, that's the opportunity that I need, to get into the ring with some of
the best in the world and show them I am the real deal, show them I can hang
with them and they can see everything that I can do.<br />
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As for my aspirations, I want to become the best big man on the planet. I
want to become one of the top independent wrestlers on the planet. I want to
get out of the country and start becoming an independent household name. Right
now, I have only been wrestling for a year and a half. I've made a pretty good <span class="ver">name for myself</span> in the Northeast and I'm starting to branch
out a little bit, but I need to start taking over the country, and other
countries as well if that makes any sense. That is going to happen by getting
opportunities, capitalizing on those opportunities, and showing everyone what I
actually am as a wrestler.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Self-promotion
is crucial for success. What would you say it takes for any talent to elevate
their stock? What helps increase a following for anyone looking to be seen?</i></b><br />
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You touched upon some of the main things, like going out and getting into a
car, meeting other people. Once they see you they can keep you in their mind,
and if you have a unique look, which luckily I do, they will remember you. We
have this big son of a guy from New England, let's bring him in and give him a
shot. I think what goes a long way is not being a piece of garbage. I think if
you are a genuine human being who lets the passion for the business ooze out of
you once you meet them, I think you can tell once you meet a few people and
look them in the eye how passionate they are, and know instantly that this guy
wants what I want. That helps a lot.<br />
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I went to college for communications and business and marketing, so I have a
good background in marketing. If you can market yourself properly and not make
a fool of yourself on the internet (which is hard sometimes), and put over the
show and your opponents and everything, it goes a long way. <span class="spellver">JT</span> Dunn, one of my best friends in the business, and <span class="spellver">MJF,</span> both do that in a way that I think anyone that
doesn't do it should be jealous of. When they are on the show, they don't just
highlight themselves, they highlight the event. Go watch everything, and just
get the gratification from the <span class="spellmod">gifs</span> by Mr. <span class="spellver">Lariato</span> on social media that I think is something no one
really does, and it's something that I am trying to do myself. It's a hidden
talent that gets <span class="ver">you a</span> lot of respect from promoters,
and from me as well. Things like that. Marketing yourself, and of course giving
your fans more than what they paid for. Putting your body on the line and
letting them know that you did it for them. That's another one of the big
things.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Anyone
that follows you on social media can see you have a fairly longstanding
friendship with “All Good” Anthony Greene. To <span class="verupdated">what do
you attribute that friendship and relationship with one another.</span></i></b><br />
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“All Good” Anthony Green is my best friend. He is the first genuine person I
ever met in pro wrestling, we train at the same school, the <span class="ver">New
England Pro Wrestling Academy</span> in Massachusetts, and we have the same
mindset on a lot of the same things. I know that if I need something I can just
talk to him about it. Something that is very scary in professional wrestling is
you don't know a lot of these people. It's frightening to have to trust
someone. Professional wrestling gives you a weird trust issue, but Anthony
Greene is a great guy. I hang out with him <span class="verupdated">outside</span>
professional wrestling all the time. I think he's one of the best wrestlers in
New England. To me, the most entertaining guy. He's a good guy. He's fun to
watch and fun to be around. He gives the crowd what they want, and he knows
what to do. He's been doing it for a long time. He's pretty much a grizzled
young veteran, and I can't speak highly enough about him. He's on my list of
guys to wrestle, and it's weird not have ever had a match against him in
singles competition, but we've had probably had about 50 matches opposing each
other in tag matches. I hope to tick him off of my list pretty soon, within the
next few months. If you don't know who Anthony Greene is, look him up @<span class="spellmod">allgoodag</span> on Twitter and <span class="spellver">Instagram.</span>
He's a good follow and a great wrestler.<br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Do
you have anything to share, promote or make fans aware of as it pertains to
wrestling? How can fans connect with you if they so wanted to?</i></b><br />
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If you want to, follow me on <span class="spellver">Instagram</span> and
Twitter @T<span class="verupdated">heJoshBriggs</span> and you can friend request
me on Facebook and see all my updates through that. If you want to buy a shirt
you can do that. You can tell me how much I suck or how awesome I am, and ask
me if I don't like you, which I don't. That's Facebook, just search Josh
Briggs, I'm the ugly guy with the really good picture from Harry Aaron. That's
pretty much it. As for me being on a show, come see me, I'm not a horrible
wrestler and I think you might like me.<br />
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‘The Green Machine' Mike Orlando continues to showcase his talent in the ring after a successful NCAA college football career. With a persona that originated in his football roots, Orlando has evolved into a premier performer both in the ring and on the mic. One of the most notable skills that Orlando has continued to demonstrate is his adaptability. And whether it is competing in front of a raucous crowd or a more intimate audience, he strives to give those he is performing for exactly what they want.<br />
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With an array of technical moves and the ability to showcase high-flying maneuvers, Orlando aspires to personal greatness before anything else. Standing 6'5 and weighing 275 lbs, Orlando has been encouraged to remain a solid technical wrestler, but that doesn't mean he won't resort to pushing his body and skill set in a new direction. Orlando demonstrates a willingness to never rest on his laurels and a desire to make himself the best. As a current trainee of the Monster Factory, Orlando is surrounded by such notable names as head coach and trainer Danny Cage. Orlando's dedication to his craft says a lot about him, but major promotions may want to have him as part of their roster.<br />
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Fans can communicate with him on various social media, such as Twitter and Instagram, where he can be reached @thebigorlando<br />
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<i><b>Tell us a little about the evolution of Mike Orlando. Where did the character originate from? And how it has evolved?</b></i><br />
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When I first started I was a bodyguard in Old Time Wrestling, and that was where I was called the Smasher Mike Orlando, which was handed to me. It was pretty funny. It was for about a year and a half, and that was where I learned the ropes and whatnot. Then, I evolved into the Elite Athlete, which was more me, and brought in my college persona, college football background. I was a football player, so I took everything from the football field and made it a wrestling type thing. Over time I just kind of outgrew football in real life. I don't like football actually, I never enjoyed it all, and I wanted to kind of drift away from that. I was more of a workhorse, and I kind of incorporated with that the fact that I played football. So, I still incorporate that with the whole green machine gimmick, which is a true reflection of myself as a person, and as a character as well. It's been a long ride, and it's been a learning experience, to say the least.<span style="background-color: white;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To just get out there and learn the ropes from everybody, rather than just stay in one place. If I stay over here, then I'll dominate, and someone will care. That is good for a little while, but it's good to just branch out. I wish I had learned that earlier, but at the same time, I am glad I didn't. I would have been able to compete at a high-level with other people rather than just mess up, but it isn't that I would change it I just wish I was more informed if that makes sense. Instead of worrying about all the stupid crap in the beginning, just think about the big picture. When you start wrestling you are thinking, what is my entrance going be to be like? None of that matters. It is what works, what doesn't work, what do these people want to see? Then, when you get an idea of what everyone wants and then you can put it together and make one big character that everybody wants. It's a learning process, but it's not that I would have changed it, but more that I wish I had paid more attention to the grind in the beginning so it didn't slow me down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The first time I ever stepped into a ring was with Jim Molinaro's Old Time Gym down in south Jersey. He was an ECW official back in the day, and an awesome guy. He taught me a lot; he was a head trainer at the time and may still be now, Brian Johnston, he is still a worker now, he was my age, maybe a little older, I learned a lot from him too. It's odd to say he kinda ‘trained me,' because it was in a gym. He definitely helped a lot. I was trained by John Trotsky of Sanctuary Studios, which he has had for a while. I worked under John for two and a half years, and I worked on a lot of theatrics, and background for a character. I worked on a lot more than just wrestling with him. The Monster Factory has been my home for the last two years. It's been helping me get ready for the next step, the next level, and I hope for a WWE tryout. I continue to train with Monster Factory. That is my current training, along with continuing to be a full-time trainee with Ring of Honor's dojo. It is a blessing to be there as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It is kind of like, year to year and moment to moment. It is year to year, in order to reflect and don't just judge yourself, and you are like, man, I kill it every match, I am this, I am that. When you watch yourself and say, wow, I really sucked there and I didn't do this very well that is more year to year. As far as learning, it's like anything else. Remember when your Mom would say don't touch the stove it's hot, it's hot, it's hot? Then all of a sudden you go ahead and touch it and say ‘ouch,' you burned yourself because it was hot. It wasn't hot because your Mom said it was hot. But you touched it, and not because you didn't believe your Mom. It's like that with wrestling; you go out there and you think you know everything and you meet these guys in better positions and they kind of give you advice and you act, ‘Oh, what does he know?' That's not what I want to do. You have your input and you try to act a certain way, and then you go out there and something completely blows up in your face. Or you think you are going to be the babyface and you try to react and everyone boos the sh** out of you, and now you are the heel and you have to react out there. It is kind of like a learning process, and going through the motions, and trying to go through it.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Stop thinking, and you have arrived. You haven't arrived until you are <span class="spellver">AJ</span> Styles or one of these people that have a contract there, or contracts all over the world. <span class="ver">But</span> you haven't arrived until it is time to reflect week to week. So, going from promotion to promotion, it is kind of like a cultural background. When I came to Canada, the respect of the people for wrestling was very different from, say, in New Jersey, and I am not putting any names out there and I am not shooting on any crowds, but if you compete in <span class="spellver">CZW</span> in New Jersey and you aren't killing each other, they will boo you out of the building. Now I am in Canada, and I hit with this, this, this, this, this and they are like ‘What? What in the world? Why? Why are you doing all that?' So let me sit for <span class="ver">a second think</span>. This is the type of crowd that like headlocks, so okay, maybe I don't have to hit 55 kicks in a row before my German <span class="spellmod">suplex.</span> You learn, and then when you go back to New Jersey and you try to rock a headlock for 35-40 seconds, those people are going to boo and chant boring and you will never get booked again. You learn the cultural background of what people want, and you learn to work with anybody, you learn everyone's style. Are you wrestling <span class="spellver">Grado,</span> and is he going to want to be more gimmick with you? Or are you wrestling <span class="spellver">JT</span> Dunn and you need to have one of the best matches in the world with him, and do you adapt what are you going to do at that moment? So, I have learned from year to year more from failing, if that makes sense.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The belts are great, they're amazing, they mean so much. At the same time, it's the person that has to make the belt. I feel if I didn't have credibility then it wouldn't have made the belts mean what they do. At the same time, I think they add credibility to me because I am trying to make those belts more legitimate. I am proud to have them. But I promote them as well. I put out videos with them and I do it all on my own. I edit them on my own, I put them together though I get people to aid with some things. I get help to edit all the theatrics and all that stupid stuff into it. I don't see every independent wrestler doing that, and I kind of take on the role of if this person isn't going to make this a big championship and I am not going to let them just sit there and hurt it. I'll make it something big. That is why I take Championships seriously, and depending on the place I try to make sure that no matter what, my stuff will always be legitimate. It is kind of a pressure thing where, if I am the representative of a company, I need to make it look good. I am going to do everything I can make sure that it looks good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The buildup to the BCW championship was, for sure. We definitely had a lot of stuff going on. I had wrestled Shelton Benjamin when I believe it was his only independent booking before being signed by WWE, and I wrestled Billy Gunn out there for a buildup. We had Will Ferrara of Ring of Honor come in, and we had a lot of people come in and challenge me and come in for an opportunity to be a champion. I feel that build up made that championship mean so much more. I think that my BCW reign has been my favorite as well in my career. I think that is where I am being a person that I have never been able to be, and that is myself. I am given free rein to just go there and get a reaction myself, and see what happens. And I do. A way to learn is to go out there with no expectations of what they want, just what I want, and it's working. It's working! The audiences are increasing, the matches are increasing. It is a good feeling and makes it feel more legitimate. I am seeing faces that I have seen all over the world, and they are saying ‘Oh let me come to BCW' or ‘Let me come to meet you.' It's a cool thing. So, I am able to go back and forth with Ryback and was able to compete against Jerry Lawler for the championship. Those are, like, dream matches for me. The kid inside me is going nuts that this is what I do. The PPW championship has given me the chance to step up and not shut up. I am able to talk the talk and I am able to walk the walk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It was a long-term booking. I had been booked to go there, and the night before we had a match in the lead up to the BCW championship, and things just got a little out of control, to say the least. Not to sit here and say the guy shot on me, but some things got out of control a little bit. My knees were taken out pretty hard, and I had to finish the match on one leg during the tournament. Once they told the story to my friends, it got back to the promoter and they said ‘Oh you won the championship out there, are you alright?' I said, ‘Oh yeah I am trying to make this company look better, is there a way where I can defend this championship and have a little more honor than what happened last night?' I was crowned the first ever champion there, and there was supposed to be a ceremony. I just want to make it up to them and give them their deserving ceremony, and the promoter really understood and took me up on that, and let me defend it there. It was a great match and there are some really talented people out there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I have a split decision on this, actually. The first one, it was kind of a spur of the moment thing. Sami Callahan had just gotten released from NXT, so we are talking two and a half years ago. He was doing a seminar for Fighting Spirit wrestling in Queens, New York, and I went to the seminar, was not booked on the show, and I am not saying I was a standout, but all of a sudden, the promoter came over to me and said ‘We are going to book you against Sami for the show.' I wrestled Sami in a tag-team match, and I was very basic at the time. It wasn't that I couldn't do what everyone else was doing, but I was very basic in the sense that I try to keep it simple and always look good. Sami came back and he was very hungry to be back on the independent level after leaving NXT. So, he said, we are going to do this, this, this, this, this, this and I was like oh my God, I don't know what to do right now. How do I tell this guy I don't know how to do any of this?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">At the end, he said ‘Hey, big man what's your best high-flying move?' I always like to high-fly, but I was always told by my old trainers to stay on your feet. I told him, ‘Yeah, I can do a moon sault.' He said, ‘Nah, you're doing a corkscrew over the top to the outside,' and I kid you not man, I look to the outside and I am like, are you crazy? What do you mean a corkscrew? He said, oh, you just go like this and you do this and you do that, and he's showing me with his body in the back of how you do a corkscrew. I am like, I have never done that and he's like well, you are doing it today. So, I was like, oh, okay I am. Like, it is Sami Callahan, and I got put in this match as an addition. I should be happy and I am just going to go out there and go with it. We went out there and every single thing worked so well, and that crowd was so into it. It was so hot. I had gotten reactions before.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">For example, I had power bombed somebody and everybody oohs and ahhs, and everyone gets that reaction. I never heard anybody on their feet the whole time like that was. I remember going to this corkscrew, almost hesitated, but I didn't and it was the craziest thing I had done in my career. Everyone popped and it was awesome, and everyone went for the finishes and everyone was happy with it. We went to the back and he gave me his information. Here, I am just going to a seminar, and here I am at the end of my night talking with Sami Callahan and I am wrestling with him. That is something that really stands out in my career. It was one of these Oh My God moments for me.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Another time was when I faced <span class="spellver">Ryback.</span> I showed up, coming from a convention right before, and I was almost late for the start of the <span class="verupdated">card, but I</span> wasn't late for our match. <span class="ver">But</span> it was later than he had gotten there. He basically called <span class="ver">this match</span> where he wanted to do all this stuff, and do stuff that you would never see <span class="spellver">Ryback</span> do in the ring, and it was awesome and he was so excited to wrestle and do all these things. I had no idea he could suicide dive, he could <span class="spellmod">tope</span> to the outside, and I didn't know he was going to do all this stuff. I didn't know this guy was going to come to work like this. So, we go out there and this place was packed and I couldn't believe it. The crowd was so into everything we did, and then he fakes an injury at one point of the match and called an audible because he said he tore his hamstring and we changed everything, and we did all this different stuff and then at the end of the match he's like, ‘Nah I didn't have an injury, I just wanted to fake out all the marks in the front row that think they knew everything and every spot. I wanted them to hear me say, oh my God, I'm <span class="ver">hurt and make</span> it look like things were wrong, so when I finally picked you up for the <span class="spellmod">shellshock</span> they felt I <span class="ver">really had</span> to struggle to get you up there because my hamstring was torn.' I was holy crap, that's great storytelling! When I say the whole place was on their feet, it's ridiculous. So that would be my second moment. I learned a lot from that match and just how to work on the fly with the crowd.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The answer is in the question: The opportunity to bring me in at the right time is pretty much it. The have about 150 new talent. They have about another 100 people in NXT that they aren't using already. I cannot blend in with anybody right now. I'd rather do what I am doing right now, and make the most impact in the world right now, so that I can step into a role where they want me for me that they want me for whom I am and they need this product on our TV. I am still very close to that. But when you are hiring 150 new people, what's another one? Why do we need another one right now, when we have 150 that we are going to go through? So, it is kinda keeping your head above water, staying relevant, making the most money possible so that you make as much money as you would for them. I have learned it's a business, it's one big business. It has nothing to do with sports. The NFL for me was just putting my hands in the dirt and knocking someone back. In WWE, Global Force, Ring of Honor, this is business, they need money. So unless you're making money for them, they don't need you. So, with 150 people costing them money right now, they are going to use what they have first before branding anything else. As long as I am doing what I am doing, then there is going to come a time when they say there is time to work, and then we'll work a bit.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We have talked about working with different talent. Recently, something pretty unfortunate took place in a match where the wrestling community seemed to join together, about how to trust must be maintained between workers. What is your take on these events and what that means?</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I think that is a cowardly way of handling things. I look at it as a business, and you are trusting someone with your life. Accidents will happen, do not get me wrong. Miscommunication happens, and that's one thing. But to deliberately try to hurt someone is one of the lowest acts for anyone to do, and it makes you a coward. I say you handle it to someone's face, and you handle it like a professional. Don't handle it the way it was. We are supposed to be a brotherhood. Everybody should know the trust can't be broken, and if it is broken you address it in the back. There should be nothing outside for the people to see, that's just my opinion on that. It's a sad situation because it just shouldn't be, but it is.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Is there anything you would like to promote, share, make fans aware of as it pertains to the Green Machine, Mike Orlando? Where can fans reach out to you if they want to connect with you and what you have happening?</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">You can follow me on Instagram and Twitter. Instagram is my strong point, @thebigorlando. There's Facebook.com/eliteorlando, and you can like my page and communicate with me through there. If you go to prowrestlingtees.com, seek the Elite Athlete and you can see all my t-shirts there and you can connect with me for any merchandise. Try to keep up with me online and follow where I am at in Canada, the U.S, hopefully in the UK soon. Those are the best ways to contact me, along with my YouTube Channel. Subscribe, and you can find any of my links through social media.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03816246595711637157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665826034883825385.post-67298974541128220532017-08-15T05:20:00.000-07:002017-08-15T05:20:53.823-07:00'All Good' Anthony Greene discusses introduction to wrestling, working under Tommy Dreamer, aspirations for the future<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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‘All Good' Anthony Greene continues to showcase his skills inside the ring.
A fan with a lifelong love of professional wrestling, Greene started as a
referee, but wanted to accomplish more in the sport he was passionate about.
However, his pursuit for more wasn't <span class="spellmod">focussed</span> on
wrestling alone. His career began eleven years ago, but today, as a budding
independent wrestling star, he is just as dedicated to his craft as he was when
he began.<br />
<br />
A former trainee of Spike Dudley, Greene has been focused on reinvention and
<span class="spellmod">storyline</span> development throughout his career. His
passion for the sport is equaled only by his passion for life. He has begun to
make a name for himself both as a singles wrestler and as part of a tag team.
In the interview, Greene shares his thoughts about wrestling, working under
Tommy Dreamer, training under Spike Dudley, and how a wrecked car couldn't stop
him from achieving a career goal early on.<br />
<br />
Fans can communicate with him on various social media, such as Twitter and <span class="spellver">Instagram,</span> where he can be reached @<span class="spellmod">allgoodag.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Where
did your initial passion for professional wrestling begin? What was the moment
that turned you on to professional wrestling?</i></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The future is bright for Greene.</td></tr>
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If we go all the way back, I couldn't tell you the exact moment I became
engulfed in professional wrestling. <span class="ver">But</span> I remember one
Christmas, my mom bought me the old, they were the fake <span class="spellver">LJN</span>
action figures that <span class="spellver">WCW</span> made. Vader, Jimmy Hart,
Hulk Hogan, I got all of them for Christmas one year. I couldn't have been
older than maybe <span class="ver">3 years</span> old, maybe 4, probably closer
to 3, and I just locked myself in my room. They gave me the ring, the steel
cage, and I just played with them all day and all night. The next day, which I
guess would be Boxing Day, I just played with my figures. <br />
<br />
Oddly enough when Hulk Hogan turned heel in 1996 that was July '96, and I
was born <span class="ver">in August 93</span>' so I don't know how I can
remember it unless it was <span class="ver">my child memory</span>, or my mom
taped it all or I rented the VHS or something, I clearly <span class="ver">remember
The</span> Outsiders having a third member. I know that was the big promo ‘The
Outsiders have a third member.' It turned out to be Hulk Hogan. Fast forward a
little bit, I think the first time I really thought I would be or could be a
pro wrestler was maybe in first grade, maybe during the first season of Tough
Enough. That's also where I found my favorite professional wrestler of all
time, I became the biggest fan of Maven, Maven Huffman, who ended up winning
the first season. After that, I kind of saw the reality of pro wrestling behind
the curtain a little bit, how to take a bump, how to hit the ropes and how to
travel on the road. I realized then that I really want to pursue this.<br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Your
early training has some ties to some really notable names. <span class="ver">Take
us</span> through and how you connected with some of those notable names in
wrestling.</i></b><br />
<br />
My original training started in 2006. I was 13 years old, and all the people
are still very close friends of mine, I still talk to them, I wouldn't say
weekly, but I'll say monthly. I still have a relationship with them. It was
just not a good place to train, they didn't know everything, and I was probably
too young to be stepping foot in the ring at that age. But, my parents signed
the waiver. The best thing I gained out of that was that I gained connections,
and I was able to start setting up rings at other shows. I would go show to
show, at different local shows, and I would just set up the ring. When I was 14
years old, I somehow snuck my way into a Mike <span class="spellver">Quackenbush</span>
seminar and I trained with him for a day. But, I never really trained until I
was maybe 17 or 18 years old, but at that time I was already refereeing.<br />
<br />
I started refereeing when I was 16 at a couple local promotions, one was
called <span class="spellver">Baystate</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
</b>championship wrestling and the other UFO wrestling. I continued to find a
couple of shows to referee on, not really knowing or training full-time. I
could take a bump. I could take a hip toss, an arm drag, a body slam, whatever.
I really thought that my calling at that point of my career at 16, 17 years of
age was going to be refereeing. I honestly ended up being a really good
referee. But, for me, it wasn't enough. It was just an easy way out. I loved
wrestling altogether, I didn't care what way I was involved. I used to just set
up the rings, and now at least I'm on the shows, so that was much cooler for
me. <span class="ver">I got to</span> travel and <span class="ver">I got to</span>
work with names. <span class="ver">I got to</span> referee big matches for guys
like Tito Santana, <span class="spellver">Superfly</span> <span class="spellver">Snuka,</span>
guys I watched on video tape. I obviously never got to watch <span class="ver">them
live</span>, so that was cool for me. If this is the way it was going to end <span class="ver">up then I</span> was okay with that.<br />
<br />
It wasn't until I did a seminar for Brutal Bob Evans, of Ring of Honor fame,
he hosted a seminar on a Wednesday night at a local wrestling school with Mike <span class="spellver">Mondo,</span> <span class="spellver">Mikey</span> from the Spirit
Squad. At the end of the seminar, a <span class="ver">bunch of people were</span>
there, a few referees, myself and another one and a bunch of wrestlers, and he
said to us basically, ‘There are two people who should be at the regular
classes every week,' and he pointed at <span class="ver">me and he</span> pointed
at another guy. I will say that I was the only one of the two that showed up
the next week, and started training full-time at Spike Dudley's Lock Up
wrestling academy with the head trainer Spike, H2O Ryan Waters, and Nick
Steele. And that's where I began my full-time wrestling training. I was 18
years old, which was in 2012.<br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In
2012, you were recognized as Rookie of <span class="ver">the Year</span> for <span class="spellver">NCW.</span> What was it about that year that made you stand out
above others in the promotion?</i></b><br />
<br />
When I was working for <span class="spellver">NCW,</span> Northeast
Championship Wrestling, I had been a full-time referee for that promotion, and
then when I started training full-time I was already aware of most of the
basics. It was more the intricate stuff, psychology, storytelling that was the
stuff I learned at Spike Dudley's school. So, I got on shows rather quickly,
whether or not I was ready. They had faith in me. A promotion such as <span class="spellver">NCW</span> has given opportunities to a lot of young guys that
have ended up making it. Guys like Kenny <span class="spellver">Dykstra,</span>
Fandango, <span class="spellver">Donavan</span> <span class="spellver">Dijak</span>
who was with Ring of Honor for years and has been killing it on the
independents, and who knows where he is going to be next. They gave me an
opportunity and during the five months I started wrestling <span class="ver">there
full</span> time, I wouldn't say I was necessarily leaps and bounds better than
everyone, but I definitely proved myself, and showed that I wanted to be there
and I wanted to take wrestling seriously.<br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">During
that first year was there a moment that you felt that things were just coming
together and knew that <span class="ver">this was going to</span> be something
you were going to pursue?</i></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With Brie Bella by his side, Greene was ready for a fight.</td></tr>
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Yes, there was. As you were asking the question, I was <span class="ver">wracking
my brain</span>. I said, I know where he is going with this and I don't have an
answer, but I do. The moment when I thought when I got it and was like, ‘Wow
this is really cool, I definitely can do this and I can definitely be really
good.' It was an odd moment actually. I was wrestling for a promotion called <span class="spellver">CTWE,</span> Connecticut Wrestling Entertainment, and I was in a
<span class="spellmod">storyline</span> where I was a referee turned wrestler,
where another wrestler beat me up after a match and that led to a match. That
night I was led to the ring by Brie Bella and he was led to the ring by Nikki
Bella. I think that was my first time I was in the ring with a name. So that
was really cool for me. This promoter, of all the guys on the roster who had
been there for years, he thought that the match that could get the most <span class="ver">over was</span> going to be my six-minute comedy match as the referee
turned wrestler, so that was really cool.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">For fans
that aren't aware, in the earlier part of your career, your character was seen
as being goofy, fun-loving, a pushover, but that transitioned a bit. What made
the change in character now?</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A lot of
my pushover, fun-loving Anthony Greene stuff isn't a character. Honestly, it's
me. I'm a fun-loving guy, I'm like the guy next door. I'm not the biggest guy,
but I'm deceptively tall though. But, I'm a pretty skinny fella. There was a
guy from Paragon Pro Wrestling, I had wrestled in Vegas for just about a year
and one of the producers, his name is Jared Ganem. He really helped me mold the
millennial type character, which is more or less who I was, but he was helping
me boost my wrestling character times ten. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
reason I was changing was honestly, maturity. I'm growing up. I look different.
At the time, I had a Jew-fro, very Jewish hair. I had a very clean-shaven look,
no body hair, I was skinny, I had abs. I don't want to say I'm pudgy because
I'm not. I'm still the same Anthony, I'm just more serious. I want to be taken
more seriously. I'm not the kid that I was years ago that everyone sees me as.
I get people that will say, ‘Oh, Anthony I am so proud of where you've come
from and what you are doing now'. I appreciate what they are saying, but I
don't want to remember myself as that because what I am now I am really happy
with.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Where do
you see the character going? What can you foresee the character in the future?</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This is
very insider. You are getting a scoop. I have only explained this to a couple
of people, one of which being my friend Jared from Paragon. All Good Anthony
Greene, the pushover, was Hannah Montana, and Anthony Greene now is Miley Cyrus.
I am really coming into my own. I need to do something out of my realm, to get
people to say ‘Oh, Anthony Greene is a lot different now'. He is not that kid
anymore.</span></div>
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are there any particular matches, whether as a tag team or singles that you are
most proud of? How was the story told?</span></i></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Greene's career came full circle after wrestling one of his idols.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">There is
actually a few matches that I am really proud of. One, in particular, was with
a promotion, Limitless Wrestling, that night myself and my opponent were both
booked to wrestle other people. I was supposed to wrestle Chuck Taylor, my
opponent was supposed to wrestle Hot Sauce Tracey Williams. Due to unforeseen
reasons, neither one was able to make the event. The promoter Randy Carver Jr.
kind of put us under some pressure and said ‘You guys are wrestling each other
now, and you guys are going to be the opening match, and you need to kill it.'
So, there was no pressure on us as we were both lesser independent names that
had to wrestle each other when the fans are expecting one thing and getting
something else. Honestly, Brandon and I are really good friends, and we kicked
the shit out of each other. We wanted to make sure we had the best match on the
card even though we were the opening match. We wanted to give them the main
event right away. So that match I am really happy with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Another
match would be one that I had earlier this year. It was myself and Ace Romero
against Mikey Webb and Donovan Dijak, also for Limitless Wrestling. The show
was stacked, it had guys like Flip Gordon, JT Dunn, Cody Rhodes was in the main
event. A top-notch card, and we had the match of the night, we absolutely
killed it. Those two in particular, and if we are going to do the trio of
Limitless Wrestling matches, in May the promoter gave me the opportunity to
wrestle Paul London, and that was really cool for me. With that promotion, I
had been undefeated for the past year and a half or so at the time, and they
had me wrestle Paul London, which was a humbling experience because I had met
him as a fan. I had a picture with him as a young kid with a championship belt
that he had won that night, and to think that I was in the ring with him 8 or 9
years later was really cool for me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">At
the end of the match, I cut a promo and I wanted to thank him for the match,
and he grabbed the mic and started talking about me, and the promoter surprised
me with an 8 x 10 of me and him when I was a kid, and at the end of London’s
speech, he picked up the picture and said, ‘Can you sign this for me?’ It went
full circle for me. I asked him for his autograph 8 years ago and now he’s
asking me for mine. I was borderline in tears; my girlfriend was in tears. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As a
former tag team champion, was there any other matches that stand out?</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I have
another tag match that means a lot to me, it was with a guy who is another
partner with named Cam Zagami<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">.</b> We
had teamed up as the Cam-An Connection, or the Cam-An Reconnection. Old
backstory on Cam and I: we had known each other, and in 2012 we started teaming
together. In 2013 at a random show, Cam came up with the name as a total spoof
on the Can-Am Connection. So, we started teaming, and I never knew how far he
and I would get, but we ended up becoming the Chaotic Wrestling tag team
champions, and I still feel that although we were the champions, we started to
prove ourselves to the wrestlers and the boys in the back and the bookers and
promoters. I don't know if the fans were still 100% behind us, which is the
most important because the customer's always right, the fan's always right. So,
we had a street fight in May against this tag team known as the Logan Brothers.
They had been wrestling about 12 years, at least, and we wrestled them for the
tag team titles as defending champions. It was in their match, their special
match, which they had never lost, a street fight, going through the barricade
and getting hit with trash cans and Singapore canes. I think we finally started
to earn the respect of our peers and all the fans.</span></div>
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interesting that you noted the use of Singapore canes. One place you had the
opportunity to work was under someone that was synonymous for using them, Tommy
Dreamer at House of Hardcore? How was that experience?</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Just a
quick backstory on how I got booked on that show. I wrestled on the show in
November 2014, but in August 2014, Tommy Dreamer and the other trainers at his
school had a seminar in Poughkeepsie, NY, and three other guys went up to try
out. It was half try out to get booked by House of Hardcore, and the other half
was that one person that never wrestled before would get a free scholarship to
House of Hardcore's wrestling school. So just a very cool interesting concept.
I did it. I paid whatever it was, $100, hoping for the best and maybe I'll get
an opportunity. Maybe talent relations will get a look at me and know who I am
by the end of the day. So, I did it. I was wrestling one of his students, I
didn't know it was one of his students at the time, his name is Joe Caldo,<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>and we had a pretty decent
match. Tommy Dreamer said it was the best Joe
Caldo match he had ever seen, so
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">After
that he didn't announce who won. It wasn't like ‘Ladies and gentlemen, the
winner of the seminar, Joe <span class="spellver">Schmoe'</span>. There was no
announcement at all. I just wanted to keep in <span class="ver">contact with him</span>.
So, I gave him my resume and I said I'm sure you get a million of these and is
it okay if I give <span class="ver">you mine</span>? He said ‘Well, now it's a
million and one'. He took my resume, and I got his email address and I emailed
him maybe a week later maybe thanking him for the seminar, and asked what day
he was going to be at his school, I just wanted to show up. So, he told me
which day he was going to be there, and when I showed up, he was there. I
trained, he liked my match again. He said, ‘Anthony I really liked your match
and your work. I want to announce on Twitter that you <span class="ver">won the
seminar and want</span> to book you for an upcoming House of Hardcore.' </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As
you can hear by my voice, I'm like ‘Oh, <span class="ver">shit</span> this is
real. I am going to get booked'. This is the end of August, I don't talk to him
again for a month. No contact at all from him. I'm thinking ah, man, is <span class="ver">this really going to</span> happen? Did he just say this? So, I
contacted someone who knew him personally and I said can I have Tommy Dreamer's
number and he said sure no problem. I had his email, but he probably gets like
fifty million emails a day. Finally, I grow some balls and I text him. He goes
“Anthony Green?” I go, “Yeah.” “Are you available this date?” I say, “Yeah.” “I
want to book you for this date <span class="ver">for House of</span> Hardcore.” I
am like “Perfect”. That's how I officially got booked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Now
if we want to <span class="ver">talk about</span> the day of, which I assume you
do, the day of, Donovan <span class="spellver">Dijak</span> and <span class="ver">Cam</span>
and I all drive up, and I somehow hit the biggest pothole in history and my car
is like ruined. If I go over 60 miles an hour it makes just a terrible noise,
and instead of stopping and checking it out. I am like, I need to get <span class="ver">to Philadelphia and we</span> are only in Connecticut. There is this
three-hour drive, I am like, screw it I am going to deal with it. I put the
music loud so I didn't have to hear it, and I drive all the way to Philly not
knowing what I was going to do on the show. Mind you, this is the first House
of Hardcore show at the original <span class="spellver">ECW</span> Arena, and not
only am I wrestling for an <span class="spellver">ECW</span> Original at the <span class="spellver">ECW</span> Arena, I'm against an <span class="spellver">ECW</span>
Original in Little Guido. My mind is just blown, this is incredible and mind
boggling. I can honestly say that I only gave one offensive move the entire
match, and I absolutely killed it.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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you calm the nerves and focus on what was going to happen in the ring in front
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Honestly,
once I parked the car, I totally forgot the car was wrecked. That was an issue
for another day. I was literally doing bucket list stuff. I completely forgot
about the car. Now in terms of the match, I was going ballistic. This show had
the Hardy Boyz versus the Young Bucks, Austin Aries versus Drew McIntyre, the
Dudley Boyz versus Harry Smith and Lance Hoyt. It was just filled with
superstars, and then there is our match. The best way is to describe our match
is everyone involved was extremely talented. It was myself, Ben Ortiz and Vic
Delicious against Team Tremendous and Little Guido. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I think
as a fan, and this isn't me discrediting anyone in the match, but as a fan you
see us all come out and it's a bunch of students and indie guys that nobody cares
about, and they are putting Little Guido in the match to make the fans a little
interested. No one knew who I was. And then the match happened and then
honestly, we had the normal ‘holy shit' chants, an ‘ECW' chant, we got a
‘please come back chant,' a ‘that was awesome,' chant so it couldn't have ended
up any better with a raucous crowd. That crowd is not forgiving, and if it
sucked it sucked. So, I was very happy that we proved them wrong because we
came out to crickets, no crowd reaction, but by the end of the match we were
beloved by the fans.</span></div>
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there anything you would like to promote, make fans aware or how they can
connect with you?</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
should shill my stuff. You can reach me on twitter, Instagram and snapchat
@allgoodag. On my Facebook I sometimes accept wrestling fans if I’m actually
looking. You can look me up, Anthony Greene. I also have a fan page, which is
‘All Good’ Anthony Greene. Other than that, I have a few awesome shows coming
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kazarian's passion for wrestling is matched by his passion for music.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Frankie Kazarian has continued to showcase his skills both in and out of the ring. A former Ring of Honor tag team champion, Kazarian has seen his share of success. However, he has increased his involvement in the music industry and has garnered a great deal of success. He recently took some time out of his busy schedule to participate in an interview with me. Kazarian's career began nearly twenty years ago, but he is just as dedicated to his craft as he was when he began. A former trainee of Killer Kowalski, Kazarian has been focused on reinvention and storyline development throughout his career. His passion for the sport is equaled only by his passion for music. In his career, he has unquestionably made a name for himself both as a singles wrestler and as part of a tag team. He has competed for various promotions but is proud to call Ring of Honor home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">In the interview, Kazarian shares his thoughts about music, wrestling, friendship, and the night his closest friend captured the Ring of Honor world championship and how it was a special moment in his career as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fans can communicate with him on various social media, such as Twitter, where he can be reached @FrankieKazarian, and his band can be reached @VexTemper.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Daniels championship win was as much a win for Kazarian as it was for his closest friend.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: white;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Could you take us back if you could the night Christopher Daniels won the Ring of Honor world championship? It appeared to be just as important a win for you as it was for him. How did it all come about and the process all came about?</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">First and foremost, I was very, very proud of the entire angle, and how we were able to hook everybody and pull the wool over everyone's eyes, which is hard to do these days in the professional wrestling landscape. That was great and everyone played their part so well. The Young Bucks, and Adam Cole. Everyone played their part so well. The night Chris won the title I was right there with him and it was as though I had won the title myself. How much he has given this business, if people only knew they would be astonished, and I know it was something he wanted for so long and worked so very hard for. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">It was like imaging two guys who were actors that came up together, and one gets nominated for an Academy Award, you are going to be happy for them, it's the pinnacle. For him to be the Ring of Honor world champion meant so much to him because of his pedigree there. It was just a great night, one of the better nights of my career. I am very happy for him and so very happy the angle came off the way that it did. Everyone enjoyed the match, and everyone enjoyed the way the angle came off. It was just a really, really good night for me and my career.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kazarian, Styles, Joe and Daniels friendship outside the ring far exceeds the bond many wrestlers have today.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: white;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">In a recent edition of WWE's Table of 3, AJ Styles was with Kevin Nash and Shawn Michaels. Michaels stated something to the effect that ‘you don't put restrictions on your friendship whether they are working with you or not'. How have you maintained a friendship with the likes of AJ Styles and Samoa Joe? Has it made you all closer?</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">We just make it work. You would be hard pressed to find four guys that were closer than AJ, Joe, Daniels, and I; we have been through a lot together. From our time in TNA and being there from day one, and just all the ebbs and flows and ups and downs that each guy has gone through, great times and hard times, and being there for each other and having each other's backs, and then wars in the ring whether it be on the same side or against each other. It creates a unique bond. I can't really put it into words. We have such a strong bond, and no matter how much time passes, when you see each other and when you talk on the phone you are right back to where you started. I could go months without seeing Joe and AJ, but when we do get together it's like it was five minutes. I am blessed and fortunate to have a bond with three guys that I have known many years. They are the best friends I could ask for. For me, it was real easy, and I have a lot of really good friends, but those are the guys that I will communicate with until they throw dirt on me. It is pretty simple because that bond is so strong.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">It's worked out great. I try to occupy my time when I am away from wrestling with music stuff and bookings, and we are constantly writing new stuff. I just focus on that when I am at home and have time to do that. It is something that I am as passionate about as I am about pro wrestling. We really enjoy every aspect of it, playing, and just doing everything VexTemper related. I just enjoy it and have the freedom and the opportunity to do it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">I can't really say. For ‘Get Addicted,' the company graciously allowed me to write and record something because I had a band and I wanted to do it. Other than that, I keep music and wrestling separate, I'd be happy to write a theme for a pay per view if asked, or if one of our songs fits the theme of a pay per view or an event. I'd be happy to lend that because it would be something that could benefit all involved.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Right now we are just in the early process of writing some more music, and we are also in the process of recruiting a new drummer. Our drummer has an amazing opportunity with his company, and he had to focus all of his energy on that. But, we have some really good prospects. We are in the early stages of recording some new stuff. We have about five or six songs already in the early stages of recording, so we are just giving up to that right now.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Just like with any band or any musician, there is never a shortage of ideas. Often times its just ideas flowing separately or together, with a nice riff or bass riff or thinking of lyrics, and literally, pages and pages of lyrics written down that are what the guys do so there is never a shortage of that. When we get together, we don't release and record. Our first album, ‘Doom Engine,' once it was recorded we began to focus on new material. So guys bring in songs, and like I said we have about five or six songs that we have been sitting for a year or two years, and some are 20% done and some of them are 70% done. We get together and we collaborate and see what works and what doesn't. For example, the first song ‘The Dead Roses,” that song came together in about 20 minutes. That doesn't happen often, but that's the cool part of music and cool part of creativity and collaboration. Sometimes the stars align and sometimes things like that just happen. It's just great. You hear these stories of iconic songs, and you talk to musicians, and that song came together in five minutes, it's almost baffling to think about, but it happens. Sometimes other ones, they take a year or two years to craft. All that is just what I love about music. The creativity and the brotherhood, and collaborating with your friends to create music. It's really incredible. It's a rush like no other.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">It's a great comparison to make, between the longer wrestling match and the longer track. People are constantly being fed three and four-minute songs, and back in the day, there were 6,7,8 9 minute songs that would happen, on records and eight tracks. The song ‘I, Desert,' the lyrics I had been sitting on were about the desert, and where I was from here in Tampa. Once again, the guys being from up here, they continued to add to the lyrics and were part of the music for that. It was just one of those things where the reason it took so long was that we wrote a piece of music, and when we were jamming we wrote another piece of music, and then we wrote another piece of music and that was the bridge, and then our lead guitarist Jake was sitting on some old lyrics and we just kept piling on stuff and it just continued to stick. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">We all felt that it was quality stuff, so we all continued to add to it, which is why it became long, and the theatrics in that song, like the thunder and lightning, was cool because it was actual thunder and lightning, it was in the desert in the 1970s and our guitarist's dad had recorded it. It was just really cool and had a really cool vibe about it. It's not a radio friendly song, it's nine minutes and it's past the attention span, and I get it. I was raised with and appreciate the music of the 70s and 80s and 90s, where you could get an eight minute or 9-minute song and enjoy it. It's a different climate now, but I can still enjoy it. I very much appreciate that.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Yeah, that was a pretty controversial rendition too. People felt that he was disrespecting it, which was completely absurd. It was a classic anthem for America, and it was Jimi Hendrix's take on it. What is more American than that? Taking something and making it your own. It's the freedom of expression. Is that not in our First Amendment? I love that version, it was incredible.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Well with VexTemper right now, we are basically auditioning drummers so that is time-consuming and challenging, but also very exciting. The writing process again, nothing gets me more charged up as a musician than the development of music and focusing on that. I also, in the meantime, have an announcement myself: I am going to be filling in on bass guitar for a local band called GutterCandy, which a lot of people don't know that, but I am on social media so I'm on the scene. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Their bass guitarist is going to be gone for the foreseeable future, and I have written a bunch of songs and they have done a lot of cover songs and a lot of neat originals. I am going to be filling in on bass guitar for them, and we are going to be booking dates this summer. So that's GutterCandy. As far as wrestling, just having the time of my life in Ring of Honor. I have been happy to be a part of that, such an incredible roster and having great matches. I just enjoy what I do. Ring of Honor has some dates coming up soon here (Florida), and internationally, like in Scotland and elsewhere in the world. We are just trying to get out there to fans all over the world.</span></span></div>
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Sebastian Suave has continued to develop and progress since beginning his training in Southern Ontario. He recently took some time out of his busy schedule to participate in an interview with me. Suave’s career began eleven years ago, but his passion for the sport has spanned nearly his entire life. In his career, he has unquestionably made a name for himself competing for several independent promotions throughout the province of Ontario. His growth as a performer in the ring has been remarkable. In the interview, Suave shares his thoughts about work outside the ring, and the growth in his savvy about the business side of wrestling, thanks to a promotion near and dear to his heart, Smash Wrestling.<br />
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Suave also discusses Smash Wrestling’s humble beginnings and their progress and development. He also discusses Smash Wrestling’s exciting venture into television, as the promotion has been added to Fight Network’s Thursday night programming. Fans can communicate with him on various social media, such as Twitter, where he can be reached @suavewrestling<span class="spellver">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am going to assume for 98% of us, there was a certain point in our childhood where we fell in love with wrestling, and that was what it was initially like. You will hear a story about someone who as an adult had a friend in wrestling or got an opportunity, but for the most part, fans were that crazy obsessed wrestling fan kid, and that was no different for me. I was three years old and I watched with my uncle, and Roddy Piper was just memorizing. He talked loud and was just obnoxious, it was awesome. Whether you are a fan or a wrestler, you go to a show and you see that crazy fan in the front row with his own custom-made belt and he won't buy anything, but a front row seat that was me. I would go to the WWE shows and I would save up all my allowance just to get the best, taken off a scalper. I would buy all the shirts and had a wrestling faction at school with my friends. At some point in life, whether it was just right time, right place, or luck, or just having the balls to sign up for a wrestling school, I just had the chance to do it. I remember hearing about an indy show in Toronto. Like any fan, first you hear about the WWE, then WCW, and then ECW or Ring of Honor. So, I heard about this indy show in Toronto and I checked them out. I was told I'd never become a wrestler, and that I was too small. Well, here is my chance, am I going to take it or leave it? As soon as I turned 19 or 20, I was all in and I was ready to go.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Absolutely. In Toronto, at the time there was a very prestigious school known as Squared Circle Training, run by Rob Fuego and Kobra Kai, Rob Fuego being the head trainer who was trained by Ron Hutchison, and Sweet Daddy Siki. Those are names in the Toronto scene that are well known and well respected. Rob himself has been behind training a lot of successful wrestlers, whether they made it to WWE, WCW or Impact, many of the girls such as Gail Kim, Taylor Wilde, and Angelina Love. Ron had his success with guys like Edge and Christian and all that. It was kinda cool because over the last year I had a chance to get to know Ron. I had always heard of Ron and maybe crossed paths with him once or twice, but got a chance to talk to him at the Cauliflower Alley Club reunion. It was cool that in one day this guy was treating me like one of his close friends, and we're having beers, and this is my trainer's trainer. That was the ‘it school,' and it was either that or you would go to Can-Am with Scott D'Amore, in Windsor. The cool thing is I'm on good terms and close with both. I struck a bit of a win-win.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">There are so many layers to your question, and it isn't that it's bad, it's just that for us to be where we are, there have been as many layers of success. There have been so many good and bad situations, there have been so many lessons in growth. Part of our success has been my humility early on and knowing not to do everything myself and not micro manage. I built a team around me. If I have a staff member that does the video editing, and this person proves to be loyal and hardworking--a lot of the staff are friends and hang out, we know each others' families--if someone can do it better, then why hold back the company? We put the brand first. It's very much, the team comes first that is what it comes down to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">On Smash, we all benefit. We do have a team, and that's where Braxton Sutter and others come into play. Nobody has a harder working team. It was just refreshing that that, they mean well even if they aren't as skilled as others. I don't mean that in any bad way either. Anyone helping at a wrestling show, backstage, at the end of the day you need to have a skill set. You either come in with a skill set or develop one and grow one. Look at the holes, and where do we need improvement and where do we have flaws? Where have we done well, and what do we need to do to land on the next level, like TV? Then, someone is willing to mold a skill set themselves. So that is one thing we have done well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The big thing that we have, from a booking standpoint, and it's very cliché to say, but you are building a culture and a quality locker room. I've had a couple of guys come in that are well known, and some that are lesser known, and I don't think they fit the culture of our locker room. They caused headaches or created little surprises, and it's no knock on them, but it happens in any industry. They may not necessarily be bad people, but they don't mesh with your people, and culture, your business or your way of thinking. We have a locker room that we are very proud of. Some will come up to us afterward and say ‘Wow, you have one of the best locker rooms and everyone here gets along.' Did you know that <span class="spellver">Braxton</span> <span class="spellver">Sutter</span> said about us that he was part of the best independent promotion he has ever been with, in 17 years? We didn't ask him to boast that. He doesn't do it for politics. I love that guy! He does it because he believes that and he loves it here. Even Bullet Club, in its early stages, people from that stable were hitting us up <span class="ver">for work</span>, ‘Hey, my boys say great things about you. I'd really love to work for you.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It really woke us up on several fronts. We have created a culture here, we've stayed professional here, and we haven't tried to take shortcuts with how we try to book flights or other stuff. At times, we have done things privately, maybe acknowledged <span class="spellmod">amongst</span> the scene or publicly acknowledged, but we have been praised for it. We have built a culture and a staff with depth. It is like any business, like Microsoft or Apple, they can have a great structural organization, but there are so many different layers that have to be done right. If we look at just an in-ring standpoint, our second ever show we had Johnny <span class="spellver">Gargano,</span> Kevin <span class="spellver">Steen,</span> and suddenly our name is blowing up and people are talking about us out there. In two shows we were a bit on the map, and that was a wake-up call. A year or <span class="ver">so later</span>, Lance Storm, who was pretty much retired, agreed to work for us against Chris Hero, who had just been released by <span class="spellver">WWE.</span> Then we announced Chris Hero versus <span class="spellver">AJ</span> Styles, who had just been released by <span class="spellver">TNA</span> for the next month. That even further helped solidify us moving forward.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We realized on opportunities, you can't just go month to month. Having those true buzz worthy matches or marketing opportunities were important. The next time we have something on TV, we may not get that same buzz. When there is a window there, ‘Hey, this guy just got released. It may cost too much, but guess what it is one of your moments where you can truly get your brand out there' to a larger audience, you take the chance. The question is just, how do you do it? Do you just book AJ Styles versus a local guy, as much as you'd like to put one of your guys on the map, is it best for the brand? When we had AJ Styles versus Chris Hero, we had more attention paid to that match. One of our staff members said they saw AJ Styles' schedule for the whole summer, and one match stood out because it was against Chris Hero. We were very strategic on a lot of fronts, but you can see that over the four and a half years of Smash's existence it has been so many things on so many fronts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">One last thing: when our market was doing kinda the same thing, with the same buzz guys, and it was hard to stand out and be fresh, the idea was to do a cross-promotional show with CZW, and we brought them into town. And then we did one with Chikara, we did one with Progress, which really put us out there, and we hosted Whatculture for their World Cup as their Canadian hosts, and a lot of our guys were represented. These are opportunities that don't come along every day. A lot of it is the right time, right place, and luck, and you have to capitalize on those opportunities, seize those opportunities. Keep your finger on the pulse of the scene. It isn't a bad thing that some wrestling fans are fickle, but they are evolving and you have to go out there and see what is being talked about. Keeping your finger on the pulse and capitalize when you're able to get peoples attention for better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">All of the above, selfishly speaking. We made it obvious to people that we don't just stick to Toronto, we have expanded and we have moved around. Not a lot of companies move around, as they stick to their one or two areas, and stick to that comfort zone. For us, we don't mind landing on our asses and starting with humble beginnings. An example of this is, we were just in Sarnia and London, Ontario. London isn't a secondary market, as we have made it into a 1A, 1B with Toronto. It is a good venue that is good enough for our TV tapings, and it is a loud and packed venue that is just as busy as the Toronto audience. We don't foresee having competition there as we have firmly planted our feet properly. We have Sarnia, where we had a show of 140 people. It isn't big, but I keep reminding myself what was the first ever attendance for a Smash show? What are most promotions' first attendance number?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">People know that we have gone up North, gone out east, and even to cottage country for fun non-TV <span class="spellmod">tapings.</span> We have gone as far as Nunavut! We have other things in the works. We announced a short-term partnership with a company in the <span class="spellver">Maritimes,</span> and we'll do a friendly little us versus them show, and we have a partnership with another big city in the works that we hope to get TV <span class="spellmod">tapings</span> out of. This is just part of our ambition for getting the brand out. When we did digital downloads and the on-demand network, we <span class="ver">were one of the</span> first companies to do it. <span class="spellver">WWE</span> did it, New Japan did it, and I think <span class="spellver">ICW</span> did it as well. We realized very early on that we had a very large US audience, and a large international audience. There may be five people watching in China, but that is five people willing to watch our product and go and pay for it monthly. There are people in Egypt, Italy, Spain, Mexico, and we know our reach with these countries. The same thing goes for our social media. We keep things simple, with our eye on everything, and we understand that we aren't just a Canadian company. The Fight <span class="ver">Network TV deal</span> is not just a Canadian or a <span class="ver">North American deal</span>, it's an international deal. It is an international deal from an international company for an international audience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I think the one person who truly knows about it is me because it has been a bit of a long process. I wouldn't have it any other way, and I don't want that to seem cliché, but things worked out better than I had envisioned. About two years ago, I was in contact with The Fight Network and fortunately had a rapport with some people that worked there. I was always curious, how come my wrestling school or brand was short-lived? How come they didn't stay on? What does it take for me to get a wrestling program on there? It really came down to production, which is why you don't see a lot of independents on there, and no knock on Fight Network, but pro wrestling wasn't in the forefront of their priorities. Not to say that it wasn't a priority, but compared to how it is being presented now, it is night and day, it's incredible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It is a premier company, and the reality is that I am the small guy, we never started with a lot of money, we weren't started by a famous wrestler who was successful, or by someone whose dad was successful. We're truly the embodiment of the underdog, scratching and clawing, taking the long road, but if you look at the journey of a promoter or someone who has started with next to no money, no history, and no connection or network, it will take 10, 15, 20 years even, if they are lucky. For us to make it in four in and a half years, to make it to where we are today, or even the success we achieved in three or three years, is unbelievable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It took some wrestlers to remind me ‘Wow, you guys are doing so well. How long have you been doing this for, seven years, eight years?' At that time, I'm like, no it's been two and a half or three years. The reason I am trying to make that point is that because fans want to get behind an underdog, I don't care what anybody says, it has to be authentic or something that people respect. We may be on top of the Ontario scene or the Canadian scene, but that doesn't mean people know we did it without money or connections or having a name. I think that is why fans are passionately behind us and like seeing our success. It is hard work. It is the little guy making it. We don't even present ourselves as the little guy, we go out and present as the real deal with some confidence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To get back to it, two and a half years ago when I was told that it was a case of production, I thought, okay, Impact Wrestling has a deal with Fight Network, and damn it, I want to get my wrestling program on there, and they have money, they have big name. And then you see Ring of Honor do it, and then you are like, ‘Okay. How was it that these guys were able to do it?' You don't have all that money and the platform to do it, you are scratching and clawing and scratching and clawing. For these past couple of years, it has been at the forefront of our priorities that we would be TV ready for them. At the same time, you improve this and that, and you improve production and you improve your reach, but eventually, you always hit a wall because what you need cameras, lighting that is five figures, and as the average blue collar Joe you don't have five figures to just dispense. For us, we had so many other priorities, like the Progress show, and it wasn't that we gave up on the Fight Network thing, but we just needed to be able to grow the company as a television product. We had to put that on hold and focus on this stuff. It was always there, and it was a long-traveled road.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We worked it out in Toronto <span class="ver">with The</span> Phoenix Concert Hall and in London <span class="ver">with The</span> London Music Hall, we upgraded our venues and brought in Michael <span class="spellver">Elgin</span> and <span class="spellver">Zack</span> Sabre Jr, Jeff Cobb, and the guys from New Japan and the UK and Mexico. The head of Fight Network said, ‘Everyone is vouching for <span class="ver">you guys</span>. You put on incredible shows. You know what kind of shows you are going to deliver and you put on a great product.' We have made stars, and starting from the bottom we had one or two more things that we needed to work on in our production. The payoff has been that we are now in a position that we can foresee something. <span class="ver">Anthem Sports owns</span> and Fight Network and <span class="ver">Impact</span> Wrestling, something that everyone listening would know. We are now in a position that not only has Fight Network has been pushing this deal and pushing pro wrestling, but they now own the product as well and are going to invest in it. Now we get to air <span class="ver">after Impact</span> and are going to be one of their top billings. We will be in the unique position to use the talent of <span class="ver">Impact</span> Wrestlers on our television programs which aren't common practice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Even one of our replays, Tuesdays at 8 pm, is at the heart of the night, we have two very strong spots. A lot of people were suggesting other local cable outlets, and I am not knocking them, but it has been done by many and that isn't a wrestling audience. I wanted to be a Canadian promotion on a Canadian network that is pro wrestling and fight relevant. This is our right audience, right network, right <span class="spellmod">timeslot</span> and right partners. This is the right opportunity, and waiting has paid off, this long struggle has been worth it. There is no better place, <span class="spellmod">timeslot</span> or audience than where we are at right now, in my opinion. That in itself should put us in a position to grow over the next few years, whether from <span class="ver">a ratings</span>, industry or financial perspective. If things on the business side should flourish from that will be a wait-and-see approach, but that is the <span class="ver">lay out</span> and the story of how this whole thing has come about. I don't think we could be in a better position. If you were looking at another Canadian network, there are only a few that are as big, but are they wrestling and combat sports relevant? I would say no, and that this is the place to be for us.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Are you at liberty to give us additional specifics on the deal? The length of term?</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Yes and no, some things I wouldn't be at liberty to say because I don't think it would be all that shocking or all that great a scoop. We have their trust and they have our trust, and the coolest thing I don't mind sharing with you is they love our production. Our guys are picky, and the way we lay out our programming, we already pre-recorded a few events and we already booked our summer. We don't, right now, want to have a live TV taping format because it may take away from the live event experience which we are very well known for, and what the people love are our live events.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Fight Network is going to be patient with us. They said ‘Listen, don't worry, don't stress out, we believe in you, we know what you have and we want to see this grow.' If we have a live event that didn't work out for us, and we have a little less content, rather than have to fill an entire episode they are willing to work with us, they want to see this work. They see the potential and how we are new to TV and realize the unique situation of us being a Canadian promotion on this network. We are either the only one, or one of only two Canadian promotions on Fight Network, and we are the marquee Canadian promotion. So, the one thing we can tell you is that we have a partner that wants to see us succeed, and are going to help us on some fronts, and are willing to be patient. And that was something I didn't anticipate, but each and every time I have dealt with someone from Fight Network it becomes more and more apparent that we are with the right partners. I don't see this being a short-term deal, and I don't see this being a situation where, if we have one hiccup we are off the network. They are invested in us and we are invested in them, and I hope to some degree that answers your question about them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Part of it is, they know who we are and they know we aren't going to be klutzy, unprofessional, take shortcuts. However, if we do have a hiccup, this isn't <span class="ver">their first</span> rodeo. They have worked with a ton of programming and a ton of promotions, and know how this works out with people. I think they have an idea of what types of people they are dealing with, and the production value of those they are working with, and our reputation. They have an idea of which groups to shy away from, and which to work with. The same thing with me, I can read people, if they want to work with me or anyone else, and if they want to be part of our staff. I have an idea of which people I can work with, which people I can partner up with or run an event with. I have said no before because I know which people to not give a chance, and which people not to proceed with. They are confident with us, and we don't plan on faltering.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What do you have planned for both yourself and the promotion for the balance of 2017?</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">For myself, I am getting back to being busier than ever in the Ontario scene, and fortunately had some opportunities to work outside the area. My heart and soul have been with Smash, but not because I don't want to be in other places. I can confidently say that it is hard to find someone, at least in my area that puts more hours in, week to week, then me. I have a two-year-old, and I work 70 hours a week, but I'll still find time to be a good dad. I love this company, and the work is fun for me, the work is challenging for me, even stressful. However, even when it's hard I still do work at the gym, and at the show. </span></div>
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<span class="ver"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We at</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Smash are expanding and growing, and for sure you can catch us on Fight Network or <span class="ver">our on</span> demand service, and we are giving people zero excuses not to see us. We aren't just running shows in Toronto, we are running shows all over the province, and <span class="ver">you better catch</span> us on Fight Network which isn't just Canada or the US, but International. And you can catch us in Bosnia and Algeria for crying out loud! Our on-demand service is $7.49 a month and it has everything on <span class="ver">it that</span> we have ever done, and if you don't want to buy a ticket to a show or a DVD, then the on-demand service has everything. <span class="ver">It wasn't just live</span> events, we have partnered up with some great promotions to share content. Included in the $7.49, people can see Progress, Bar Wrestling, Pacific Coast Wrestling, and there may be more coming up. We are offering people as many ways as possible to see us. Hopefully, people will give us a shot, and we are confident that we have a passion that can be conveyed through one of these experiences.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgulibBvNRUZL_ORJFMIqF065drqtfgg7ZcouSfpPY6amyIRSxx5OqYrJCKe5zGc-jSwZ_ZaVMt-_JevEcytz_wjx7bVmWD9E6lML3S4kTsTUEceIiUekmHGuCbnoRMxau4vOJvtK26qAk/s1600/8TTeH8pc_400x400.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgulibBvNRUZL_ORJFMIqF065drqtfgg7ZcouSfpPY6amyIRSxx5OqYrJCKe5zGc-jSwZ_ZaVMt-_JevEcytz_wjx7bVmWD9E6lML3S4kTsTUEceIiUekmHGuCbnoRMxau4vOJvtK26qAk/s320/8TTeH8pc_400x400.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stallion's hunger to succeed continues to grow.</td></tr>
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Curt Stallion has continued to develop and progress since beginning his
training in West Texas. He recently took some time out of his busy schedule to
participate in an interview with me. Stallion's career only started a few years
ago, but his passion for the sport has spanned nearly his entire life. In his
career, he has unquestionably made a name for himself competing for several
independent promotions throughout the United States. His growth as a performer
in the ring has been remarkable.<br />
<br />
In the interview, Stallion shares his thoughts
about work outside the ring and what he does inside it. Stallion also discusses how one key relationship has helped him in the
business, even more than his training in his hometown in Texas. He discusses
his early training and development near home, and his current training in St.
Louis. Prior to this interview, Stallion spoke of how in this business you
can't rest on your laurels, and that you need to push forward in order to
succeed. <br />
<br />
Fans can communicate with him on various social media, such as Twitter,
where he can be reached @<span class="spellver">CurtStallion and instagram at curt_stallion.</span><span class="spellver"><i><b> </b></i></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></b><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Where
and when did your passion for wrestling first begin?</i></b>
<span class="spellver"></span><br />
<br />
As a child, I wasn't allowed to watch wrestling. I had a friend that, any
Monday from 2nd grade until we graduated high school, any Monday he was just
nowhere to be found because he was at his house watching wrestling. It wasn't
until I was in fifth grade that I started asking him, ‘Why don't you ever hang
out on Mondays?' and he's like, ‘I'm watching wrestling' and I'm like ‘I'm not
allowed to watch that'.<br />
<br />
I ended up watching that day with him at his house, and I was super
attention deficit disorder, hardcore, needed all eyes on me at all times at
school. I was the class clown, all sorts of stuff. So that these guys were walking
through a curtain and had thousands of people staring at them, and they had
millions at home watching. They had their own music and their own lighting. A
stage to walk down, and they had a ring that they have got to perform in, where
they were pretty much beating the <span class="ver">piss</span> out of each
other. I was infatuated immediately. I wanted that attention. Ever since that
point on, it has been a battle of how. All I thought about was, how am I going
to do this and how am I going to get there?<br />
<br />
One day, probably about four years ago, this was just after high school, I
dated a girl for about seven years after high school, and it was just one of
those things where I followed her around like a helpless dog and I found that
wasn't working for my life. <span class="verupdated">So, I finally</span> found
the gall to kick her to the curb, and my buddy calls me a couple of months
later, the one that would disappear on Mondays and he was like ‘Dude, you need
to come home. I live in San Antonio and there is wrestling here and there is a
school here. A legitimate school with a ring and everything.' I didn't ask who
the trainers were, I didn't ask anything. That was it, I didn't need to hear
anything else from my best friend. I packed up everything and I went back home.
I started training. It wasn't until I met (Michael) <span class="spellver">Elgin</span>
that I can really say that I was engulfed in professional wrestling, with my
life, the way he teaches us. It's not a hobby.<br />
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more about how you were introduced to Michael Elgin and how that all came about</span></i></b><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
way I found Elgin was watching Ring of Honor. The place that I live, Odessa,
Texas, it's in West Texas, an oil filled area. We weren't allowed to wrestle
anywhere else. We got to wrestle once every two or three months and that was
supposed to be it for us. We weren't allowed to go to other towns because it
was competition. And it was stupid. Anyways, one day I see on Facebook while
I'm scrolling through at night, it says there is a five-day Ring of Honor camp
held by current Ring of Honor World Champion Michael Elgin. This is July 14'. I
go to training the next day and all I can do is think about this camp that I
saw. I said ‘Guys, it is $300, its five days, it's pretty much 12 hours a day
of just wrestling.' And everybody there said I shouldn't do it, that it was a
waste of time and it was probably going to be a money grab. It says all
experience welcome. Anybody could go, and they said I wasn't ready, and I had
already had matches and that. It was just them not wanting anyone to go
anywhere. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">From
there I said, whatever guys. I did it. I drove 1000 miles up, West Texas to St.
Louis, by myself and it was the first time I had done anything like that
before. And I met Elgin, I met The Fraternity, I met Alexia Nicole, Psycho
Mike, (John) Greed. (Shane) Sabre was there. It was then that I realized that
the wrestling teaching that I was receiving in West Texas was just not going to
cut it. I needed to be there. I realized that after that week, I learned more
there than the entire year and a half that I was in West Texas. I was just like,
that's it. So I moved up to St. Louis since January 2015.</span></div>
<br />
Ever since then it has just been a grind, grind, grind, grind, because
that's what <span class="spellver">Elgin</span> tells us to do, and it's not just
because he tells us to do it, but because that's the way it needs to be done.
Especially for a guy like me, I don't have a wrestling lineage or history or
family of wrestlers helping me, I had nobody and nobody knew me in the
business. It's all me, I don't have help, <span class="spellver">Elgin'</span>s
my help now. It's because I decided to come here and link up with him, and I
told him that when I got here. The first month in St. Louis, he got me a dark
match in Ring of Honor, and I thought that he was Jesus Christ because I didn't
understand how a guy like me from Texas was going to wrestle for Ring of Honor.
From that point on, I remember telling him my goal was to be in the top
prospect tournament. I knew it wouldn't happen the following year because at
this point it was the end of 2015, but when I was telling him all this. (I
said) 2017 I'm going to be in the top prospect tournament. He was like, ‘Okay,
we'll see'. I did three Ring of Honor camps.<br />
<br />
The funny thing is, the <span class="spellmod">booker</span> for Ring of
Honor, not everyone knows who it is and I'm not going to say the name, he has a
special file in his emails called ‘Curt Stallion' because when I email him they
are the favorite emails he has ever gotten. I'm just me. I just talk like I'm
talking to one of my friends. I'm just like, ‘Dude, what's the deal? What do I
have to do to be in the top prospect tournament? Because I'm out here busting
my ass all over the country. I'm in Canada. What do I need to do?'I never got a
message back and I'm like, what the hell?<br />
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<![endif]-->I'll never forget in December 2016, I'm at Ring of Honor in Arlington, Texas
and I was sitting outside with Silas Young, and we were just chit-chatting and
Mark <span class="spellver">Briscoe</span> walks up and then walks off. As soon
as he walks off, the guy that I sent the emails <span class="ver">to walks</span>
up, he is sitting there, and he completely disregards my existence, and he's
there talking <span class="ver">to Silas and he</span>'s okay. They exchanged
pleasantries, and right when he was about to walk off, just as he turned
around, he says ‘Oh, yeah Curt, don't think I forgot about you…ah…top prospect
tournament…you're the first name we wrote down…congratulations'. And he walked
off, and I legit will never forget the feeling I had. I was shaking. I was
smiling, I couldn't talk. I couldn't stand up. Oh, my God. Did that really just
happen? Silas looks at me and says, ‘Hell yeah man, congrats'. He walked off
and I was just left there on my own. (gasps). That was it. I did the top
prospect tournament from there, and I wasn't supposed to win in the first
round, but Twitter was crazy about me for some reason, and they were blowing <span class="spellver">ROH</span> up, so the night of the first round of the tournament,
they changed the card up so I was able to move on to the semi-finals at
Hammerstein in New York, which was one of the biggest moments of my career
still to this day.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What
did you learn specifically from Michael <span class="spellver">Elgin'</span>s
training that stands out?</i></b><br />
<br />
It was definitely psychology, 100%. The way I look at it, Texas is like old
school <span class="spellver">NWA</span> wrestling and that's just not for me.
That's not what I enjoy watching, that's not my style and a lot of those guys,
that's what they stick to and they don't watch anything else and I like to
watch EVERYTHING. Even if I'm not into to it, I still like to pick stuff apart
and be asking myself ‘Why did they do this'? ‘Why do they wrestle like this?'
And a lot of guys back home aren't into that. Texas is a black hole, essentially.
There is probably like 10 of us in the entire state that gets out and goes
around and gets our names out there if that.<br />
<br />
If he's talking about wrestling, you listen. He was made for it. That's what
his brain was constructed around. That's his thought process. He's a mad
scientist of professional wrestling, is how I've described him to somebody. He
gets it, and how to teach it. He doesn't just teach you one style. I put that
in quotes with my fingers, "style." He shows you every aspect, to help
you find who you are, and what you're good at and what you're not good at, and
how to work around those things and how to work with those things that you are
good <span class="ver">at.</span> It's just ridiculous. If you were a
professional wrestler, I'd be like, ‘You need to come do an <span class="spellver">Elgin</span> seminar and tell me you don't walk with more
information that is beneficial than you did beforehand.' I could honestly talk
in circles around this.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Was
there anyone else <span class="ver">you would say that you were trained by during
your career?</span></i></b>
<br />
<br />
I did a lot of seminars. I lived with <span class="spellver">ACH</span> for
six months, but he wasn't necessarily in ring guidance. We would be in the car
together and he would just tell me what I am doing that is beneficial, and what
I am doing that needs to change. I would watch <span class="ver">him live</span>
as well, to learn what I need to not do and what I need to do, and he would
help me out a lot more than he would take credit for, I am sure. Kyle <span class="spellver">O'Reilly</span> is hands-on in the ring, and he would show up
because he lives here in St. Louis, or he would text me at an obscure time like
11 in the morning and be like ‘Hey, do you want to train today?' I would say
‘Yeah let's do it.' <span class="ver">His training is definitely hands</span> on.<br />
<br />
<span class="spellver">Elgin'</span>s not <span class="ver">so many hands</span>
on as he was when I first started because he has his own career to protect.
He's training every single time <span class="ver">we have training</span>, we're
there, and Kyle <span class="ver">is they</span>'re not so often. Others might
hit us up out of the blue and want to get in there and bump and do this and
that, all this crazy stuff. Where <span class="spellver">Elgin</span> is, you
need to do this and you need to do that. So, it's a different aspect of
learning, but it's definitely helped me out a lot. Then, when <span class="ver">I
got to</span> wrestle Kyle it was like, we were at training together, and I had
a feel for him, you know what I mean?<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You've
used different music on the way to the ring, which would be a reflection of
different tastes. What music did you think would stand out?</i></b><br />
<br />
My first ever entrance song was a song called ‘No <span class="ver">Brains' by</span>
Sum 41 because that was my backyard wrestling music with me and my friends. <span class="ver">It always fit</span> what I wanted. When I started discovering
exactly who I was, and my character, and who Curt Stallion is, Eminem's song
‘Role <span class="ver">Models' from</span> his first CD back in the 1990s,
that's exactly what I want and how I describe Curt Stallion, that song. It's a
perfect fit. Curt is no-nonsense, doesn't give a damn about anyone and <span class="spellver">Ima</span> do what I want. Test me (laughs) I dare you. Now, <span class="spellver">Elgin</span> won't let me use Eminem at his Glory Pro shows, so
I use ‘Tiger Army,' it's western rockabilly punk that fits Curt Stallion, and
it's pretty cool as well because it's talking about an outlaw on the run. I
enjoy it.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What
aspirations do you have for competing in Mexico, the United Kingdom, and Japan?</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I drove
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when I got down to the border and I'm in line they canceled the show. I had to
turn around and drive back. I'll never forget that. It really soured me on
Mexico for a while. Which isn't the country's fault, but I don't want something
like that to happen again because that was sh***y, dude. I thought I was going
to get paid to go down there, I didn't expect to be spending money to drive 15
hours and then to turn around and drive 15 hours back. That was terrible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The UK is
one of my big goals for this year. I thought top prospect could help me
potentially get that, it could help get my name out there. So hopefully those
guys overseas will see me and want to bring me in. My dream is Wrestlemania,
but my goal is Japan. To get to my dream, I have to achieve my goal. That's
where I want to be. That's where I've wanted to be since I started training. If
I never make it to Wrestlemania, sure that would bum me out, but if I make it
to Japan and I was doing well over there I wouldn't complain one bit.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stallion has always been one to take Elgin's advice to heart</td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What has
Elgin shared with you to help you reach that goal of going to Japan and being
successful there?</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">'Get
bigger' (laughs.) It is easier said than done, because my metabolism is
ridiculous, and it costs so much money to eat as much as I need to eat to gain
weight. I'm a wrestler. I just started working overnights at a Holiday Inn for
extra money, and I work from 7 in the morning until 11 at night. Elgin was the
one that helped me get that job because a fan that goes to the shows is my
boss. He was looking for people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This extra money I get here is what I put back
into myself. Get new gear, get food, get the essentials. There will be a lot of
times when I'm out there on the road that I just don't have money at all to get
home. I can't eat, and I'm tired of that.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">During
your experience with ROH, you've crossed paths with the likes of Marty Scurll
and Will Ospreay. Have you ever picked their brains about how to get noticed by
promotions in the UK?</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I haven't
necessarily picked their brains on it because I'm not personally close enough
to guys like Ospreay and them. I've had chit-chats and dinner, but whenever I
do ROH stuff I hang out with the Briscoes and Silas and Beer City, Dalton
Castle and (Matt) Taven, guys like that. I don't know any of the UK guys at all
now that I think about it. I just thought about it and I never hung out with
them, one-on-one, so I've never had that chance to ask them ‘So how do I go
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I could
just walk up to them and ask them, ‘hey, how do I do that?' but I'm not that
type of guy because if someone did that to me, I'd be like ‘Who the hell is
this, dude?' I need to do that. I'm kicking myself for not doing it. I like to
sit there and listen to guys call their matches, but that doesn't do anything
to help me get booked places. But I don't bug people I don't really know unless</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In preparation for a match against Martin Stone, Stallion anticipated that it would be a hard hitting affair.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">You
mentioned your Wrestlemania moment being a dream, but someone you are going to
face who has had ties to WWE is Martin Stone. What can you anticipate will
happen in this match?</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I think
it's going to be a fight, it's going to be a Texan against a British dude, two
guys with lots of pride against one another, to see who is tougher pretty much.
I'm not going to sit here and say that I'm tougher than Martin Stone because
I'm going to find that out. Yeah, it's pro wrestling, but we're going to go in
there, and he is going to test me and I'm going to pass his test (laughs.) I'm
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Failure
is not an option. You can fall flat on your face and everybody in the crowd
will see it, and that's not what I plan to do. So when I and Martin Stone get
into the ring, I expect to get the hell kicked out of me, yeah. It happens a
lot. But I'd rather be hit by a guy who knows where to hit me hard as hell than
some guy that doesn't know what he's doing and is elbowing me in the temple.
I'm looking forward to it 100%, and I am going to go out on a limb and say that
he is too because he seems like he is pretty into it on Twitter.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What does
the balance of 2017 and beyond have in store for the lone star, Curt Stallion?</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I want to
do more Ring of Honor stuff, and of course overseas. I have Canada bookings
lined up, so hopefully, I can get down to Mexico so I can cover North America
and stuff. There was a big goal that I had in mind for this year, I just want
to get my name out there. People need to just get out there and stop sitting
back.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After competing for nearly two decades, Kurt Angle will finally be 'coming home' to the WWE.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kurt Angle is a multi-time world champion
and Olympic gold medalist. On Friday March 31st, he will be ‘going home,’ as he
returns to WWE’s ‘hallowed halls’ as he is inducted into the promotion’s Hall
of Fame. He recently took some time out of his schedule to participate in an
interview with me. Angle’s career has seen him compete with both the WWE and
TNA for a number of years. However, it is launch of his new Anglestrong addiction
recovery mobile app that has proven to be one of his most important
contributions of late. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this
interview, Angle shares his thoughts about the raging opioid epidemic in the
United States, who was the greatest wrestler never to be in WWE, and how his Anglestrong
addiction recovery mobile app has become a passionate labour of love for him. He
also opens up about his history with the business and how Vince McMahon
welcomed him back into the WWE family. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Angle also reveals an inside look into his
family life, and how WWE has taken steps to make the safety of their wrestlers
a priority. He discusses how his life has changed, how addiction has changed
him, and which current WWE wrestler is among the wrestlers he would have liked
to face again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Angle remains not just an inspiration for
wrestling fans, but for people in general. He has proven that you not only can
come home again, but that you can recapture your life at the same time. He can
be reached @RealKurtAngle on Twitter. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In life, we often learn from our mistakes. In this vein, the
Anglestrong Recovery App is incredible and has become a labour of love for you.
Talk about how the concept first came about and what drove you to push for its
development.</i></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Angle is moving on to the next phase in his life.</td></tr>
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Well, to speed forward, once I got out of rehab, there wasn't any <span class="ver">after care</span>. We are taught in rehab to take care of your life
and follow the rules (we learned) in rehab. However, it is the longer you are away
from rehab, the more you tend to forget what you were taught. You can go
through all the booklets they give you and everything like that, but no one is
really holding your hand. When you are in rehab, they do a tremendous job of
taking care of you. They make sure you're healthy, you're eating right, you're
exercising, you're going to classes, you're learning about your addiction and
recovery. Afterward, there is nothing but AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) meetings,
if you want to go.<br />
<br />
It is really difficult if you're working every day, 8-12 hours a day and if
you have a family, a wife and kids, and (if you) travel throughout the world
like I do, there is really nothing for you unless you want to pay for a
psychiatrist or counselor, which can be pretty pricey. So, I wanted to come out
with my own recovery app that acts as a monitoring and support service that
would be there for you 24/7/365. I figured that this can help people stay in
recovery avoid relapse and re-hospitalization and my ultimate goal – to save
lives. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The app offers monitoring, daily
reminders, lifelines, reports to show how you’re doing, links to more
information when you need it, there’s even a monthly group conference call from
me -the whole ball of wax and more.<br />
<br />
The app is incredible. To create it I teamed up with a doctor named Dr. Harold
Jonas who is the CEO and Founder of Sober Network Inc. in Delray Beach, Florida
who is a leading addiction treatment specialist in the United States and a
recovering heroin addict of almost thirty years. Dr. Jonas is the real deal –
he walks the walk. He created with his team at Sober Network Inc. the
award-winning FlexDek platform Anglestrong is built on, which is incredible -
there’s nothing else like it. He needed a face, I needed an app, and so we came
together and created the <span class="spellver">Anglestrong</span> app. It's a
really cool concept. You check in daily, and if you don't check in every day - your
lifelines will be notified – such as your family members, your loved ones, your
sponsor – all will be notified. It teaches you accountability, and if you do
relapse it is <span class="spellver">GPS</span> enabled and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you’ll get the help you need. Our goal with Anglestrong
is to provide you with a high tech recovery monitoring service designed to keep
people in recovery and avoid relapse, re-hospitalization – or overdose.<br />
<br />
There is a chat part portion of the app, where you go in and talk to other
recovering addicts and discuss your story. We want you to discuss your
recovery, we want you to discuss your addiction, your past, your life - because
it does help. When I do these speeches to youths, to adults, to recovering
addicts, people that are active addicts, I feel better talking about my life
story. When I went to rehab, I was told ‘Don't tell anyone you're in rehab and
don't tell anybody about your problems, and when you get out forget it, it
never ever happened.' Well, now we have an epidemic of tens of thousands of
people dying in the last two years from <span class="spellmod">opioid</span>
addiction and <span class="spellmod">opioid</span> overdoses. Some stats say more
than 70 people each day are dying. I can't keep quiet any longer! It’s just
gotten so bad that I wanted to actually do something to help others to stay in
recovery. People tell me – I can always go to the free AA meeting. Yes, you
can. But Anglestrong is a feature rich monitoring service that is there for you
24/7/365. There’s no waiting. You need something – it’s right there on your
phone in your pocket whether it is 3 am or 3 pm.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I actually downloaded the app itself and have received the daily
messages that are both inspiring and encouraging, and I can see how it would
benefit those in recovery from addiction.</i></b></div>
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I appreciate that. We are excited about it. It's the first
of its kind. There are a lot of groups out there, AA groups, NA (Narcotics
Anonymous) groups that are doing a lot of good, but they don’t offer 24/7/365
availability and features like Anglestrong offers. I believe that the <span class="spellver">Anglestrong</span> app will help a lot of people out. Some may
say – this is just a money grab. That couldn’t be further from the truth. I'm
not in this for financial reasons. I’m fed up with watching people – kids –
people’s friends and loved ones – die each day – this has to stop and someone
has to try to do something about it.The app is $1 a day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Less than a cup of coffee. When you compare Anglestrong
to the cost of rehab, counseling and psychiatrists, and other treatments - it
is an inexpensive way to monitor recovery progress and keep somebody on the
right path. I really commend Dr. Jonas’ FlexDek technology and what he’s been
able to create on the Anglestrong app.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What are your eventual hopes for Anglestrong moving forward?</i></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Angle's goal is to end the growing epidemic with Opioid overdoses.</td></tr>
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My personal hope is to put an end to the drug overdoses and
deaths. It’s that simple and that's the most important concept. Last year it
was reported by the media that there were approximately 53,000 <span class="spellmod">opioid</span> overdoses. It’s now more than motor vehicle deaths
annually. It’s more deaths than from firearms and gun violence. This is a
raging epidemic. And a lot of people have turned their backs on the opioid
crisis for so long. Many doctors don't want to be held accountable because a
lot of them are subscribing their patients the painkillers. Because of that, a
lot of people end up losing their family, losing their money, losing their job
and then they resort to using heroin, which is a much cheaper form of getting
high. That is where a lot of overdoses occur. I will tell you this, I have
always had some form of income, so I never really hit that point where I didn't
have my job, or my family left me, or I lost all my money. As an addict, I know
this: when I was going through the worst part of my addiction, I would have
resorted to heroin if I wanted to because I wanted the drug so badly. I didn't
care about anything else, but the drug. A lot of recovering addicts say ‘I
would <span class="mod">have never went</span> to heroin, I would have just stuck
to the painkillers. I was fine.' No, once you lose everything, and you don't
have the money, and you can't afford anything, especially if you buy them on
the street it can be up to $30 a pill. You are going to resort to heroin.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">At times our best contribution in life is to give back. Can you foresee
a recovery program with Anglestrong also being linked to a recovery program
much like DDPYOGA where the intent is recovery of both the mind and body?</i></b></div>
<br />
Yes, oh my God. We're in the process of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>connecting with <span class="spellver">DDP.</span>
(laughs) He is our guy. What he has been able to do for retired pro wrestlers -
especially Jake the Snake and guys in the military - amazing. He's worked with
people from all walks of life. <span class="spellver">DDP</span> is incredible.
He has come out with a great concept, a great workout, and a great diet. He is
the one guy I looked at and I said ‘We want to implement his plan with the <span class="spellver">Anglestrong</span> initiative.' So, we are in the process of
just talking to him. We are going to work out the details, and eventually we
are going to be working with him. I do believe that all addicts need structure. Without structure, they are
lost. Addicts are compulsive.<br />
<br />
They can't just do something at a normal rate. I
won a gold medal because I'm compulsive. That is all I did. I became the best
pro wrestler in the world because I became compulsive. I did it very quickly.
So, you have this passion, pretty much <span class="spellver">OCD,</span> and
when you start taking drugs you get compulsive with that. So it is just one of
those things where you need structure all the time. We have the structure, the
website and the <span class="spellver">Anglestrong</span> app at Anglestrong.com,
it will give you everything you need to keep living day by day. We don't want
it to be the old AA. And we aren't saying that AA doesn't work because it does,
it's done a phenomenal job for a number of years.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The fact is, they always tell you at rehab
that things are going to get difficult for a while. You are going to relapse,
you are going to mess up. I never relapsed. I never messed up. Quit telling me
this. They're trying to tell you what can't happen to you when you get out.
Ours is more of a positive message. This is your new life, enjoy your new life,
embrace it and have fun with it because if you want to discuss your addiction,
go ahead and do it. For so many years, I have been told not to discuss it and
keep it quiet, and that it's taboo. Well, the taboo has become mainstream and
now people need to speak up. It made me really nervous and made me feel like I
was going to be a screw up with my life when I was in rehab. Don't get me
wrong, the whole rehabilitation in there was awesome. 99% of it was incredible.
The fact is, and we're sorry to say this, but most addicts relapse. The
thinking kind of becomes, well, that's great, I guess that gives me an excuse
to relapse when I get out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">You can live a new life and you can find
different passions and different things that can give you different kinds of
highs. For me, it's been God and family, and I haven't looked back since. Don't
get me wrong, when I was in rehab the first thing I said was, ‘God, please tell
me I can never take this drug again for the rest of my life. I don't know if I
can't handle that. I can't take it twenty years from now. I can't drink, I
can't take any pills and this is impossible.' I thought, “I don't know how I'm
going to do this?”, and you get overwhelmed. However, when you get in there the
fact is that you really take it day by day. I learned in rehab that one great
thing you could tell me: just live for today. Don't worry about what you did
yesterday. Don't worry about tomorrow. Just stay clean today, and worry just
about today, and I'm okay with that. I just tell myself every morning, just
stay clean today. That's all you need to do. It becomes a lot easier and the
longer you stay out of rehab and longer you stay clean the easier it does get.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">As a Canadian, we're generally unfamiliar with the epidemic of Opioid addiction
in the US. How has it grown and where can you see it changing with proper
support systems in place?</i></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Awareness is the key in ending this growing epidemic. </td></tr>
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I think that the word just needs to get out there. It has been quiet for so
long. Nobody has really talked about it. The politicians just started talking
about it this past year, that's how bad it has gotten. It has been kept a
secret for so long, and a lot of people usually start off with pain. A good
portion of people start off with something that occurs to them. Whether they
got hurt or they have a bad back, back neck, bad knees, they start taking pain
medication. The pain medication, your body grows a tolerance towards it. Once
you have that tolerance, then you have to double the dose, and double it again,
and again, and after awhile it isn't doing anything for you because your body
grows a tolerance. There is a euphoric feeling from it that no longer occurs.
So then you start to chase that euphoric feeling, but after a while there is no
more euphoric feeling, you are taking them so you don't go through withdrawal.<br />
<br />
A lot of addicts will admit this that if they didn't have to go through
withdrawal a lot of them would probably quit. It is just really hard for them
to get over that mountain, being sick as though you're dying, sweating, you are
going to the bathroom all the time, you are throwing up all the time, you're
going through cold sweats, and it's the worst feeling in the world. When I went
to rehab it took me a week to get through that. It's a very painful process,
and a lot of addicts don't want to go through that. It's that process of
withdrawal, and any rehab is going to put you in there between three and seven
days, through withdrawals and detox, and once you get out you start to learn
about your addiction and recovery, and you'd be going to classes for the next
three to three and a half weeks.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">How have wrestling promotions taken steps to advocate for proper
treatment of their talent as it pertains to head injuries and their long term
effects? </i></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A zero tolerance policy is firmly in place by the WWE to protect its athletes.</td></tr>
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The whole reason <span class="spellver">WWE</span> did not want to take me
back for the last few years is because they wanted to see how I was going
to do. As soon as I got out of rehab, I made it apparent that I wanted to go
back. They were like ‘Well, first of all, this guy ruined his reputation. Four
DUI's in five years. He has been in trouble so much. We don't know how his neck
is, we don't know if he is taking medications. He could have relapsed. He could
be an active addict right now'. And I understood that, and I understood that it
was going to be a process that it was going to take a while.<br />
<br />
<span class="spellver">WWE</span> has done an incredible job with both their
drug policy and <span class="ver">their wellness</span> policy. With their drug
policy, very few of their athletes take any drugs, and if they do, they get
suspended or fired. Every once in a while you hear about someone that gets
caught. They are all getting drug tested, so it goes to show how far they have
gone with <span class="ver">their wellness</span> policy. 99% of their athletes
have stayed clean. That wasn't happening 20-25 years ago. But, they didn't have
a drug policy back then.<br />
<br />
Another thing is Daniel Bryan has the same neck injury <span class="ver">as me</span>.
I wrestled at <span class="spellver">Wrestlemania</span> after I was diagnosed
with a broken neck, at <span class="spellver">Wrestlemania</span> 19. Daniel
Bryan can't even get back. That goes to show <span class="ver">you the</span>
type of wellness policy for their athletes. They have put the athletes first.
‘We're sorry, but if you don't pass the physical, you're not ready to wrestle,
if a doctor, one of our doctors, not a doctor off the street, doesn't okay
you.' Because what I did at <span class="spellver">Wrestlemania</span> 19, I
talked my doctor into clearing me. Now you can't do that. They have great
doctors there. Dr. Maroon, Dr. Black, they are all great doctors there watching
their drug policy and <span class="ver">their wellness</span> policy and are the
ones that are going to have to clear you. They are going to be the ones to have
to clear you. So <span class="spellver">WWE</span> has done an incredible job of
making it very difficult for any athlete that is <span class="spellmod">subpar</span>
and not ready to return or cannot return to come back.<br />
<br />
For me, I had not taken a physical, but if I do I would imagine I would
pass. The fact is, they just wanted me just for Hall of Fame, strictly, and
they would talk to me afterward. That is all the word I have gotten. I'm okay
with that. If the Hall of Fame is the last thing I do, then I'm cool with that.
If they do decide to work with me and in more of an ambassador role or GM role
or coach or manager role or even wrestling, I'm fine with that. If it was
wrestling, I'd be willing to do that. I've always wanted to finish my career in
<span class="spellver">WWE,</span> and at the very least I have the Hall of Fame
to look forward to. There is nothing confirmed for after the Hall of Fame. Yes,
we can speculate, but that is all it is. (laughs)<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wrestling has a tendency of being circular in nature. How has major
wrestling promotions come around the last half decade to showcase talent that
were relatively unknown on the independent scene?</i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">There has been a lot of talent that has
come through, and I think that now, at this <span class="ver">point in time</span>,
(there is) more talent than I have ever seen in the business. Some of it, from
a wrestling standpoint, and also from an athletic standpoint, it has become
more competitive and because of that when you have 20 kids that all have the
full potential of being the top guy in the company, it is hard to pick the one.
I think there is a sense in <span class="spellver">WWE</span> that when John <span class="spellver">Cena</span> was the top guy in the mid to late 2000s, there
wasn't many others. There was a Randy <span class="spellver">Orton,</span> and
there were a few other guys that you knew were going to rise to the top because
<span class="ver">they were head</span> and shoulders above everybody. That isn't
occurring anymore. There are just so many guys that are so close competitively.</span></div>
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<span class="spellver"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">WWE</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> has also brought
in <span class="ver">lots of</span> other talent from <span class="ver">lots of</span>
other promotions like an <span class="spellver">AJ</span> Styles, Samoa Joe,
Bobby <span class="spellver">Roode,</span> Eric Young, on top of their talent and
the <span class="spellver">NXT</span> talent, and they are going to the UK to get
talent, it just becomes overwhelming. Which of these guys are you going to pick
and which ones are going to be your top guys? It's a lot more difficult for <span class="spellver">WWE</span> to pick through who they want in that position. A lot
of people are going to say ‘well it's not like it was in the Attitude Era,
there were so many great guys'. I think because we had a lot more to different
types of character, we had a porn star for Christ sake, we had a pimp, The
Godfather and Val <span class="spellver">Venis.</span> It was more broad it was
easier to hit all demographics. Now in the PG-era it is really difficult to
separate these talents and say that this guy is this, and this guy is that, and
it is harder to come under the same umbrella that the PG era is. From a
merchandise standpoint, it is awesome because you are marking the kids.
However, from a creative standpoint, it gets a little more difficult.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The rising popularity of NJPW in the western world continues to grow.
Discuss if you could your experiences there and any moments that you hold close
to you from your time competing for them.</i></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Angle has competed all over the world most notably in New Japan Pro Wrestling</td></tr>
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I had an incredible time competing in New Japan. Going over there and
wrestling guys like <span class="spellver">Tanahashi</span> and <span class="spellver">Nakamura.</span> My favorite was <span class="spellver">Yugi</span>
<span class="spellver">Nagata,</span> if you didn't see that match you have to
watch it. When you go over there and you wrestle a talent for the first time
ever, you never met them before, you have never hung out with him before and
you are going to work with him that night, and it turns out to be four or five
stars it goes to show how much of a company they had over there. They have a
lot of great wrestlers and a lot of great wrestlers from the west are going
over there. There is a good mix of them. It is just amazing how far that
company has come because it was big for a long time, but then it calmed down
and now it is making its comeback. I am very happy. I think that pro wrestling
right now, or sports entertainment, there is a lot to choose from. <span class="spellver">WWE</span> is a monster, there is no question, and it always
will be, but it's nice to see other promotions doing fairly well.<br />
<br />
When it comes down to it, every wrestler aspires to be in <span class="spellver">WWE,</span> but the problem for a lot of them is the structure,
the grind, performing <span class="ver">so many dates</span> a year. It is also
about being at the arena for 12 hours every single day. A lot of talent might
not take that at the time because they like the more relaxed atmosphere of the
other promotions. Also, God forbid that there are those guys out there with an
extreme amount of talent, a low percentage of guys that are still doing the
stuff that they shouldn't be doing and they know if they go back to <span class="spellver">WWE</span> that they are going to be drug tested. That is a
small percent.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">There are some big names that I would
never point out, and I have the utmost respect for them, but there are some
names that want to do their own thing. The cool thing about the small
promotions and <span class="ver">the independents is</span> you can do your own
thing, from a competitive point, from a creative point, from a wrestling
standpoint. I just did a match against Cody Rhodes. We didn't discuss the match
until about 45 minutes before the match. (laughs) In the <span class="spellver">WWE</span>
you are there all day, structured, you are putting (the match) together, you
have your <span class="mod">i'</span>s dotted and your t's crossed and it can get
a little overwhelming. It's a lot of hard work to be in the <span class="spellver">WWE,</span> I'm not going to deny that. However, for 99% of the
talent, they want to be in <span class="spellver">WWE</span> and there is no
reason why they can't be. However, there is <span class="ver">some talent that
are</span> out there that prefer the relaxed atmosphere that comes with working
on their own.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">As a father myself, the challenges of work-life balance are difficult.
How are you able to make it work and what do you find to be its greatest
challenges? </i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Oh, my schedule isn't crazy anymore. I do
the <span class="spellver">Anglestrong</span> initiative, and I can do most
things from home. I do speak at different events and stuff like that, but the
past couple of years I have been very, very part-time. <span class="spellver">TNA,</span>
I only did forty dates in the whole year. The year before that I did about 80.
So, I was extremely busy when I was travelling so much. Last year, I think I
did about eight matches for different <span class="spellmod">indy</span>
promotions. So, I spend a lot of time at home. I really enjoy it and it is
really hard for me to leave them. I really love being a father and I love being
a husband, and I love being with my family. So I've learned how to be a better
father because I'm at home. I'm here more with my kids and teaching them stuff
and taking them to school in the morning. I'm playing with them. I'm watching
movies with them. I'm spending time with them. So it is hard, especially when
you are in the grind of any company that is doing over 150 or 200 dates a year
to be a good father, a good husband and good wrestler. It's almost impossible.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Some wrestlers are apprehensive of their kids getting involved in the
business. If your kids were to approach you with their interest in wanting to
pursue this profession. What would you say and what advice would you give them?</i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Well, for me, I don't want to encourage my
kids to be wrestlers. I have one son, Cody a special kid. I love him so much.
He has a form of autism. He really enjoys wrestling. It's his passion, pro
wrestling. My older daughter <span class="spellver">Keira</span> who is 14 years
old, Cody is 10 and they are with their mother in Nashville. If it were up to
me, I'd probably steer him into a different direction, most likely something in
real sports. My younger kids, my three younger kids they won't be involved in the
sport. It's not because I didn't enjoy it. I loved it. When you get to my age
and you look back and you see everything that I have done and everything that I
have accomplished, it's great, it's wonderful. I've been very blessed. However,
my body paid a price. I have been able to take care of it now, pain medication
free, but it is a lot of work. I spend two and a half hours a day working on my
body. Back massage, yoga, <span class="spellmod">antigravity,</span> stretching,
working out, lifting, and <span class="spellmod">cardio.</span> It has become
very high maintenance for me. Just so I can enjoy my kids. I don't want my kids
to live the second half of their life like that. There is life after wrestling
and I am beginning to learn that, and looking back, do I want my kids to feel
the way I do, when they are 48? No, I don't. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Arguably, one of your most underrated feuds was working with Desmond
Wolfe aka Nigel McGuiness. How would you describe the experience and does he
take the title of being the greatest wrestler to never to be in the WWE?</i></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nigel McGuinness is now part of the NXT commentary team. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I believe so. I think he was really
gifted. I really thought that he was better than I had expected him to be.
Nigel was a very special talent. He had some great technique, he was one of the
best technical wrestlers that I've wrestled. He was so good that he forgot how
to be a heel. I remember when we would work he was literally out wrestling me
as a heel. (laughs) I had to tone him down and make him understand ‘Listen, I'm
the good guy, you're the bad guy, I'm supposed to out wrestle you.' There were
certain holds and locks that he put me in that I couldn't escape them. Now, in <span class="ver">a shoot</span> I could have, but in a pro wrestling sense I <span class="spellmod">couldn'</span>t. I had to teach Desmond how to give and take.
Desmond could eat you alive if he wanted to, that's how much technique he had.
He knows a lot of stuff and is very good at what he does. However, once he got
that concept of being a heel, he became good at the give and take. He became a
better heel because of it, and he became a better wrestler. However, when I
first met him he wrestled like a <span class="spellmod">babyface</span> all the
time<span class="ver">. The reason being</span> he was so damn good at <span class="ver">it that</span> he dominated every opponent he wrestled. Once I got
him to tone down, he became even better of a wrestler. I think that he is the
best wrestler that never went to <span class="spellver">WWE,</span> and I think
he could have gone if he didn't have the medical issues, and he would have had
an incredible career.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">With your upcoming induction into the WWE Hall of Fame, you said “I'm
coming home”. Does a return to WWE help you to cement your legacy?</i></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cena was announced as being the one to induct Angle in the 2017 WWE Hall of Fame</td></tr>
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Yes. I always thought I would return. Unfortunately, my departure from <span class="spellver">WWE</span> in 2006, it wasn't a great departure. It wasn't like <span class="spellver">WWE</span> had bad feelings towards me, or I had bad feelings
towards them, it was just more ‘You go your way, we'll go our way, and go deal with
your issues and come back when ready.' Unfortunately, I didn't deal with my
issues for 10 years. <span class="spellver">WWE</span> also strongly suggested I
go to rehab when I left, and I <span class="spellmod">didn'</span>t. So there
were a lot of harsh feelings from me towards <span class="spellver">WWE,</span>
and it was all my own doing. If I didn't get caught up with painkillers, if I
didn't get injured so much, and if I my doctor didn't clear me. If I didn't <span class="spellmod">re-injure</span> my neck I would have probably stayed with <span class="spellver">WWE</span> for another ten years. It was more of my own fault.<br />
<br />
The hardest part was going back after meeting with Vince, and apologizing to
him. I had to own up to what I did. It wasn't difficult, it was just hard to go
back to a guy that you had such a great relationship with, and spoiled it, and
to say, ‘Hey, I know I messed up and is there a way that you can forgive me,
even if I can't wrestle anymore? Let me come back and do one thing with
you and make the <span class="spellver">WWE</span> universe happy <span class="spellmod">for the</span> career I gave you”. Before I could even say a
word, he hugged me. I couldn't believe it. I had tears in my eyes. It was like,
the prodigal son comes home to his father to ask for forgiveness. I didn't
really have to ask for forgiveness. Vince <span class="ver">had already forgave</span>
me. I thought that was really cool.<br />
<br />
I met with Triple H first and we talked for about an hour. We talked about
wrestling, <span class="spellver">WWE,</span> <span class="spellver">NXT,</span>
the UK wrestlers, and then he went to Vince then he hugged <span class="ver">me
and he</span> stepped down. He didn't even discuss wrestling, we talked about
family, my kids, Vince's family. We just talked about things that were
important to us outside wrestling. It was really cool to have that
meeting with him. It made me feel like how <span class="ver">it use</span> to be.
When I first started out, Vince and I had a very, very close bond.
Unfortunately, I put a dagger in that late in my career in <span class="spellver">WWE.</span> The more reckless I became, the more angry I became.
The more reckless I became, the more angry I became. It had gotten to the point
where it put a lot of strain on Vince. I could understand if he had hard
feelings towards me, but he <span class="spellmod">didn'</span>t. They wanted me
to be happy <span class="ver">with who</span> I was. They didn't want to be happy
<span class="ver">with who</span> I was, they wanted ME to be happy <span class="ver">with who</span> I was. I wasn't for <span class="ver">years that is</span>
the one thing.<br />
<br />
I see a lot of <span class="ver">talent in the past have</span> had harsh
feelings towards <span class="spellver">WWE,</span> and I find out later it was
actually their own doing (laughs). I was just saying, ‘So, it was just pride
getting in the way and you believe you are the most valuable guy there, whether
you are or not, you are part of a machine. You are just a tool in that machine.
You are not the machine, you are part of what makes it go. No matter how big or
how small you are, <span class="spellver">WWE</span> is a machine and you are
just part of it.'<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Who would you say was the greatest wrestler, who wasn’t the most
advertised or given the most attention, that you faced?</i></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aries and Angle faced each other once during their time together in TNA</td></tr>
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You know, I really enjoyed this one kid's style. He was in <span class="spellver">TNA,</span> but now he is in <span class="spellver">WWE.</span> We
had a match and we didn't have a lot of time, we had about 10 minutes and I
really enjoyed the way he worked. There was a spot that was blown, (but) it
wasn't my fault it was his. (laughs) In all seriousness, (I'm talking about)
Austin Aries. Wow, that kid is so good. I would put him up there with an <span class="spellver">AJ</span> Styles or Samoa Joe as far as his ability to work. He
is a little smaller, but he makes up for it. He reminds me of a young Chris <span class="spellver">Benoit</span> with what he is able to do. Austin is really
intense, he has a lot of skill. Not just that, but he really has a good gift of
gab. He is very intelligent. He is very precise in what he says. I would have
loved to go an hour with him, I think we would have lit it up. That's the guy
that, if you are asking me, (a guy) that I formally wrestled that I would have
liked to work with more, it would have been Austin.<br />
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He's got it all. The only thing, in a wrestling world where everything is
perfect, it would be great if he was six foot and 220 lbs, but he's not. That
doesn't mean that he isn't great. It just means that a lot of promoters like the big guy, but although he is not he
makes up for it in other ways.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Was there anything else that you would like to share, promote, advocate
as it pertains to Kurt Angle moving forward?</i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The only thing I wanted to say is that I
am really happy to be back in <span class="spellver">WWE.</span> I do believe
that we are going to come out with a long-term relationship eventually. If you
never saw me or you never heard of me, go to the <span class="spellver">WWE</span>
Network and check out my matches. If you really think that I'm not really that
good, you will find out that I am pretty good (laughs). I know there is a
younger generation that might not know me as well, but thanks to the <span class="spellver">WWE</span> Network they may already know me. For those that did
get to see me back in <span class="spellver">WWE</span> between 2000 and 2006,
they have got to know how good Kurt Angle is. It they didn't follow me in <span class="spellver">TNA</span> then at least they saw that. I do have to say that I
became a more seasoned wrestler in <span class="spellver">TNA.</span>
Unfortunately, fans of the <span class="spellver">WWE</span> Universe didn't get
to see that. I've still got it. However, if you do have a chance to go back and
see me on the <span class="spellver">WWE</span> Network, go back and check out
the Kurt Angle matches between 2000 and 2006. Hopefully fans will get a chance
to see that I can still wrestle, you never know.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><i><b>(originally conducted in 2015) </b></i></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Global
Force Wrestling’s, Sonjay Dutt recently took some time to participate in an
interview. Dutt shares about his time in TNA, his time on the independent
circuit, the Ring Ka King experience, his enthusiasm competing for Smash
Wrestling and his aspirations for Global Force Wrestling. Check out the
complete interview below:</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Discuss some of your early training under
Larry Sharpe & Jon Dalton and working with KYDA Pro Wrestling </span></i></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">When
I was a senior in high school, I found out that Larry Sharpe was over at the
Monster factory in DC about 30 minutes from where I was living. I knew I was
turning 18 and graduating high school in a few months. We went up there, me and
my buddies, and I spent a little time there and finished up with KYDA which was
another school that was a little more affordable for an eighteen year old kid
that was going to college. And they had regular shows that were running at the
time, which was enticing because obviously as a young pro wrestler your goal is
to get on a show and get in front of an audience, and I wanted to tackle that
as soon as I could.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Competing for TNA as part of their
X-Division allowed for a number of great opportunities. Which ones stood out
and which do think could have been developed more?</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Better
developed, oh man we could be here all day if we wanted to discuss that. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(chuckles) I guess to put it in a nutshell,
the entire X division at one point was a focal point of the company and it made
us stand out and it made us different. There was a reason why guys like myself
and Sabin, Shelley, Lethal, the smorgasbord of talent, were hired. It wasn’t
because we were household names or we were jacked up guys, we were hired
because we were pro wrestlers and we were good at our craft. At the beginning
it was, ‘Okay, let’s let them go out there and let them showcase what they can
do and then mix different storylines with these personalities and these
wrestlers, and let’s see what happens.’ They did that for a little bit, then
they would pull us back. As far as the opportunities it did afford me, I loved
my time there. The experience and the knowledge it gave me was invaluable. When
I first started there I was 21 or 22 and maybe 2 ½ years into wrestling and I
didn’t know what I was doing. I was thrust onto live pay per views and TV, and you
are forced to learn. It’s funny because a lot of people say this, but about themselves,
that they hit their stride there and then they are all leaving. But I hit my
stride as a heel in 2008/2009, and then I was gone, but I loved it. But aside
from all the wrestling and getting to see the world and working with some of
the best guys and all that talent, I got to spend every day on the road with my
best friend in life, Jay Lethal. That’s just the greatest. Hitting the road and
living your dream with your best friend, what more can you ask for?</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Traveling the independent circuit has
provided you with a number of great memorable experiences. What have you found
to be benefits of competing on the circuit as opposed to being with a major
promotion?</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
loved the independents. I came up on the independents and even being in touch
with a major company in the States, I still did independents. My heart always
stayed in the independents. I love the independents. I think that really is
what allowed me to continue making a good living and being a pro wrestler despite
not having that TV time after I left TNA. The fact that I can go out there and
dictate my own schedule and I don’t have to ask for permission. I’m not a
politics guy and I don’t really play the political game. I just want to go out
there and I want to perform, and I love meeting new people. Stuff like this,
having highly intelligent interviews and having a discussion with you about
wrestling, that lends itself to good things. Being on the independents affords
you freedom way more often than being in a major company. At times, you have
handcuffs on and you’re answering to someone else, where here I’m answering to
myself and what’s best for me and my family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Discuss your time with Ring Ka King. How
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was interesting. First of all, I loved that time period and doing Ring Ka King
was amazing. How it came about was, at the time Jeff Jarrett was still with TNA,
and this was a Jeff Jarrett project, under their banner. Nobody in that office
had anything to do with it other than his team, which was myself and Rudy
Charles. Jeff had approached me at the time and said ‘You know I have this deal
and I think we’re going to be starting a promotion in India. We’re going to
shoot it in India, we’re going to create Indian stars and do this and do that
and we’d like you to jump on board.’ With me and him going back many years, me
starting in 2002/2003 we go back a long time. He knows that I have my head on
straight and could be a liaison between professional wrestling and the Indian
culture. I speak the language, I know the culture and I think in the beginning
he wanted someone that could smooth things over and tell them’Llet’s try this,
let’s try that,’ and this would fit well with Indian people. I became real good
at the behind the scenes stuff. I helped write the shows, produce the episodes.
I went on a talent mission and we had auditions across the country to pick
Indians and train them and make them into pro wrestlers. One of the guys that I
discovered at the time, he’s with TNA now, is Mahabali Shera. So it was a
project and it afforded me opportunities to learn so many other things in pro
wrestling other than just in the ring and I think that it was awesome. It’s
carried on now with Global Force Wrestling and my work there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wrestling's popularity in India appears to
be huge and a relatively untapped market. What do you think could be done to
address its popularity? </span></i></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That’s
an interesting question. I think recently WWE has made an effort to start an
office in India. There are 1.4 billion people in the country and over the last
ten years there has been a growing middle class that didn’t exist in India
before. It was either you had money or you didn’t have money. There is this
growing middle class and this growing young sector that has got money that they
didn’t have before, and they are ready to spend it. With a growing economy, why
not take pro wrestling there? It’s hard because, culturally, things are done so
differently there. Business is different and that goes with any country. In any
country you are dealing with, there are the cultural complexities. I ventured
out there myself and I ran a five night tour in north east India it was a big
success. The problem is, as you said, to tap into that market you need either
somebody that has a lot of money here state side, and knows pro wrestling, or
you need to tap into somebody on the ground in India that has the capital, and
really understands how pro wrestling is and how to present it to the audience.
I think we really did have that with Ring Ka King, but for whatever reason we
didn’t get picked up for a season two. I think that had a lot to do with the television
landscape at the time, with Colours TVR our television network at the time. Our
first episode of Ring Ka King had 18 million viewers which was the most watched
pro wrestling show ever. We had something there, I really wish we could have
continued. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">With a great deal of talent being honed in
India, who would you suggest fans<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>keep
an eye out for? </span></i></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">There
are some guys that we produced in Ring Ka King during our 26 episode run. We
have to keep in mind that these guys were literally plucked out of obscurity
and thrown onto television and told ‘Hey, be a pro wrestler’. I want to say
maybe two of them had ever watched pro wrestling. That goes for Shera as well
who is on TNA now. They didn’t know wrestling. The question we asked at
auditions was ‘Hey, you want to be on a TV show and are you in shape?’ The
people came out of the woodworks. Like I said, at the end of those 26 episodes
some of those talents really started to understand how to wrestle, how to put a
match together, and what it takes to be a successful television character. They
are still light years away from being a top notch performer. I think total
number of days of training they had before they started was 57 days. You can’t
take someone out of a remote village in India and throw them in the ring and
train them for 57 days, you’re just not going to get it. I’ve wrestled fifteen
years and I still am not where I should be. I’m still learning every day and
the same goes for anybody else that does this. So for those guys there are some
that really did get it and were starting to get it and I think that hey, these
guys could have a future in this. But at the same time we stopped filming in
2012 and they haven’t done anything in wrestling since, so the probability of
those guys continuing any kind of career in television and in pro wrestling was
slim to none, but it could have happened, but if I don’t do anything for four
or five years straight, I’m going to forget it and I’m not going to be very
good at it and I’m going to have to start to learn it again. So I guess that’s
the issue with those guys.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As part of GFW, the promotion continues to
seek growth and explore various means to do so. What can you foresee for the
promotion moving forward?</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
think it solely comes down to domestic television here in the States. I think
that for anybody to be a viable competitor, or just be a viable entity out
there in this day and age, and sure there are other avenues out there like you
talked about streaming services and the digital world, the bottom line at the
end of the day is you need a domestic television deal. People still sit down
and turn their televisions on and find something to watch. So our biggest
hurdle and challenge is that. We are working so diligently behind the scenes
and trying to secure something domestically. Internationally, we have great
partners with Boulder Creek International out of London, and we’re working with
them and that’s just in the UK. We’re working on something with them, trying to
secure television in Europe. Trying to secure television internationally is
just so huge that it could reap benefits for any company. Like you said, to
compete and be a viable entity I think it just solely comes down to a
television deal. </span></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Share if you could some of your experiences with CZW. What
do think has continued to makethem <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>still
a viable option for those on the Indies?</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My CZW time was
awesome. I got to experience a lot of different things, and really, just
work with a tight knit group. We were all so close and fighting for a common
goal, totally invested. That's hard to come around nowadays in an
independent group. I don't think there is anything like that anymore.
The hype, the fan base and general interest in their product isn't there.
That can be attributed to many different things.</span></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As a father, do you find you’re more guarded about the types
of storylines you would entertain being a part of? </span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To a certain
degree, yes, but I'm more concerned, selfishly, to guard my daughter from
wrestling all together. I don't think that's it's the healthiest thing
for her to watch or even know about. She does know daddy is a wrestler and
loves that fact. As she gets older, I'm more comfortable with her
watching my matches, and she's, of course, my biggest fan.</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">On October 18th, you'll be competing for
Smash Wrestling, arguably Canada's hottest independent promotion. Talk about
your experience with the promotion & what fans could expect to see?</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
was with Smash a couple of times. I’ve been at a couple of their shows and I
want to say that when I was there the handful of shows they had they were
rammed. They were in their initial stages and I think that they are a totally
different company right now. I think it’s night and day to what they were to
what they’ve become. When you have smart guys behind the scenes and you’ve got
the right talent and have your own local talent, that’s what’s happened with
Smash. They’ve got a great reputation, not just locally but in the United
States. I used to be there every month with another company UWA and they were hard-core,
and I fell in love with the place. I don’t go there like I used to, but every
time I do go to Toronto I still see the same faces of hard-core fans that I see
at every show in Toronto. I’m looking forward to it. It’s a cool feeling going
back to Smash. It’s going to be me and PWG’s Mike Bailey. I don’t know much
about him and I haven’t seen him, but I’ve heard he’s one to watch. That’s my
driving force here is just getting in the ring with guys that are the next big
thing and test my skills and see if I can hang. I think it will be a very
interesting matchup.</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What does the balance of 2015 and beyond
hold in store for Sonjay Dutt?</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Well
we only a few months left in this year and all my focus is on GFW right now and
creating a successful new brand of pro wrestling not only here in North America
but globally. I guess that goes with the name Global Force Wrestling. We have a
real good, strong team and we’re working real hard and we’re trying to arrange
things and present pro wrestling in a completely different light than you are used
to here in the States and Canada. You can head on over to our YouTube page and
check out some of the video’s we’ve put up. Our production team is second to
none. They may just be, I think, the best out there putting stuff together and
presenting characters and really capturing your emotions. I really have to give
it to these guys. Our YouTube page gfwrestling has a lot of cool stuff on there
and globalforcewrestling.com as well. </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Was there anything you'd like to share,
encourage, acknowledge or promote?</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">My
twitter @sonjaydutterson and the Global Force website globalforcewrestling.com</span></span></div>
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<i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">(originally conducted 2004)</b></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Describe your past
working relationship with the WCW and both tours of duty with the WWF</b></div>
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That's a pretty loaded question. Describe what it is like
being a wrestler, commentator, then being a writer and a producer. I was with
WCW 3 times and the WWF 3 times. 2 times with WCW as a wrestler, 2 time with
the WCW as an office guy and 1 time with the WWF as an office guy. As a
wrestler, both times I was more of a mid card guy in both companies that was
used to make other guys look good. I was fine with that. I didn't mind not
being a quarterback where I got all the glory. I enjoyed making the other guys
look good, and I had fun doing that. I knew I wasn't going to get rich and I
was okay with it. </div>
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Then when I went to the WWF, the one thing I was never
really prepared for was the politics. In WCW, it was more or less like a family
situation. In the WWF the office finally gave me an opportunity after nine
months of calling Pat Patterson at noon on Friday. Every friday at noon I would
call Pat and say "I'm ready, I'm ready to contribute, I'll do anything you
ask, I want an opportunity I am not looking for a job.” He finally said,
"if you promise never to call me again, we will bring you to TV". </div>
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My first TV appearance was in Ottawa in 1989 and I said
"Thank you, thank you, thank you". So I went out there and thought
everyone would be as glad to see me as I would be to see them. Dynamite Kid and
Davey Boy Smith, a lot of the guys that were like the locker room leaders as
far as ribbing, didn't appreciate me just coming in and acting like one of the
boys. I didn't know you had to earn that. I figured when the office welcomes
you the boys did too. That wasn't the case. So that was a tough lesson. I never
had a lesson on how to work and I never had a lesson in politics. So everything
I learned was ultimately the school of hard knocks. Those are the best lessons,
because you never forget. </div>
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As an office guy it was the same way, but by doing my job
and doing what was best for my company, that was always the best thing to do. I
didn't know that in the corporate world the first thing you did was to think
about the best way to cover your own ass. Then do what was good for the
company. I was never really good at that.</div>
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<b><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Terry you have worked
so hard to attain the popularity that you have. What is it about wrestling that
has always appealed to you to continue to compete</span>? <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Why?</span></i></b></div>
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I love the business, period. I love the wrestling business.
I don't love the politics. I don't love the back stabbing. I don't love the
guys that lie to each other. I don't love the promoters that lie. I don't love
the stealing. That's the real world, though. That happens in every line of
work. The actual time when two guys can get out there in the ring and can
absolutely command and control a crowd’s emotion for however long they are allowed,
is absolutely magic. Until someone is out there doing it they have no idea what
I am talking about. When they do it they will understand completely, and know
why guys go out there with broken legs and broken necks, and fractured ankles
and all that other stuff and sacrifice everything for those fifteen minutes.</div>
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<i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Has that changed your
perception of wrestling at all?</b></i></div>
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Yeah. In the 1960s, the (Green Bay) Packers, those guys made
$100,000 a year and they won the world title. There are guys that were crippled
being pushed around in wheelchairs that were on the Green Bay Packer world
championship teams. They wouldn't change a thing. They didn't play for the
money, they played for the love of the game. I don't have enough to retire.
There a lot of my friends that can't retire, but they can't do anything else.
They did it for the love of the game, and I am one of those guys. I don't
begrudge anybody making a living. Everything I did I did by choice. Wrestling
is not what it was, it is almost like it lost its innocence. It lost its
innocence. To me, Big business, marketing it, and making it this big
multi-million dollar corporation, took away what it was. This intimate
relationship between the audience and the guys in the ring. To make it into
this mass marketed machine almost ruined what was its very nature.</div>
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<i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">How could you best
describe the Terry Taylor persona?</b></i></div>
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It depends on what my role is and what the promoter wants.
If I am supposed to make people mad, I do everything in my power to make people
mad. If my job is to make people like me than I will do everything in my power
to make them like me, and I had 23 years of experience from which to draw in
order to do that. I know every trick there is to know, and I use every one of
them to get the response I need them to get. I don’t do like a lot of guys,
that are supposed to draw umms. I don’t try to make them laugh or try to make
them like me or do any of that stuff. If I am supposed to go out there make
them mad, pal, that’s all I do. If I am supposed to make the people feel
sympathetic towards me or get behind me, I do everything I can to get that
because that’s my job. You can’t have it both ways. It’s like being
half-pregnant. You have a bad guy that is trying to make the people cheer him,
and a good guy that is acting like a bad guy, you get all cluttered up and you
need to get where it needs to go. It gets confusing and the people don’t get
value for their dollar.</div>
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<i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Were you ever
comfortable with the “Red Rooster” character?</b></i></div>
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Not really. I didn’t understand, for 9 years I worked for
Bill Watts and the NWA and I thought I was a good guy, baby face good guy, most
of the time. I just had a real turn against Chris Adams and I had a good
personal issue, people were with it. I had just gotten some strong negative
reaction from the fans and then going out to Texas I wrestled as a heel and I
got a good reaction there, but the territory was dead. It had a great run with
the Freebirds and the Von Erichs and all that, but the territory had to be rebuilt
and that takes time. I needed money, I had just gotten married and had a kid
and bought a house and all that and I needed a job, and that’s when I called
Pat. When I went to the WWF I was naïve, I just didn’t know. It’s hard to
believe that a 28 or 29 year old man was naïve, but I was. This business is
unlike any other. I learned a lot of lessons and a lot of them were very
painful. </div>
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<i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Have your life
experiences shaped whether or not you will play a certain character in the
ring?</b></i> </div>
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I don’t say no to anything unless it will embarrass my
family. I don’t think I have ever said no to anything. I mean look at what’s
stupid in the wrestling business. If Mr. McMahon said, “I want you to got out
there and kiss my ass”. I would say, “Ok, I don’t care”. It’s a game, guys are
out there bumping into each other and all that other stuff. If a guy says “Kiss
my ass”, and the people are talking about it, fine. What’s the big deal? I have
had guys bleed all over me before, I would rather kiss someone’s ass than to
have some guy bleed on me. It is not the way things are anymore.</div>
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<i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Who or what first
influenced you to follow wrestling as a career? Could you describe the
experience?</b></i></div>
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In Florida when I was a kid, my parents and I were visiting
some friends in Sarasota. I was walking by the ring and I heard this voice
going, “Umm, gottum” or something like that. I was thinking, what the hell was
that? So I go around the corner and I saw these two guys pounding the crap out
of each other, and it was Championship Wrestling from Florida with Gordon Solie.
I was fascinated. I was like, what is this? And I watched it and it was
awesome. Immediately, I was completely captivated by it. This is unbelievable
and I loved it, and from then on I watched it every week. My brother and I used
to watch it and thought it was the coolest thing in the world. We used to go to
the beach and slam each other and all that crap in the waves. Somebody potatoed
the other, hit them really hard, and then the waves go out, and it was like,
sorry about that man. Slamming in that hard mud, that hurt. That’s when
wrestling was real, when the waves went out. </div>
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<i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What is different
about Terry Taylor now, that was not evident years ago</b>?</i></div>
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The naivete. I am not naive anymore. I have been beaten and
screwed and worn out and torn and abused every way you could possibly be in
this business, and I am sure I could be swerved in more ways. (I’ve been) treated
poorly. All the naive things when you come into something. I mean, I came in
thinking I am going to be a pro wrestler, and everybody is going to cheer me,
and (I would) travel around and make lots of money and everybody is going to
love me, and it’s going to be a great life. I didn’t know anything about
traveling 350 days a year, and not being there when my kid takes his first step,
and the day after my son’s born I leave my wife in the hospital, stuff like
that. There are a lot of things you don’t understand going into show biz, but
now I do.</div>
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<i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">In the ring you
combined superb technical wrestling along with speed and finesse. In your
honest opinion, do you think wrestlers today are lacking in their actual
"in ring" ability? Does this affect the quality of their matches?</b></i></div>
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I think wrestling now is like Hollywood. There are no great
actors in Hollywood anymore. All the great movies now have computer generated
heels and monsters, and they have bigger and better explosions. Very few actors
can play with their performances. That is why people are jumping off scaffolds
and ladders. Diving off stuff, and girls are taking their clothes off. It is
either the storyline is lacking, or the ability in the ring is not there to take
people on the emotional rollercoaster. What I think is that, now the talent
started listening to the audience. If the people start going “boring”, you
don’t start jumping up and doing more and more. This isn’t audience participation,
the audience doesn’t start telling the actors in a movie or a play what to do.
Only in wrestling do the young guys say, “The people are going boring let’s do
something”. Screw that! If anybody says boring to me I lay down. You want
boring I give you boring. Pretty soon, people going around saying boring, a guy
is going to say if you don’t shut up, I am going to beat your ass.. They do
shut up. They get with it. The young guys get a little nervous and are not used
to people shouting boring or booing them. There are no old ring generals
teaching these young guys what to do. The Arn Andersons and the Ric Flairs and
Dick Murdochs, guys like that are gone.</div>
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<i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Do you think the lack
of movement by these athletes in a major promotion allows them to be
strong-armed?</b></i></div>
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Absolutely. Let’s be honest, how do you negotiate if there
is only one person bidding. Their are 28 teams in the National Football League,
or 29, and the guy is a free agent and you have all 29 people vying for that
person’s talent, let the bidding begin. If you have one person bidding and
that’s it, who will that person bid against?</div>
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<i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Do you think working
independent shows has helped fans to recognize Terry Taylor and expose your
character?</b></i></div>
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They may, but let’s be honest, I am not the Terry Taylor I
was. Let’s face it, I have been out of the ring 7 years and I am not going to
be who I was when I was 30 when I am 46 years old. I have been out of it for 7
years, and wrestling 3 times a month is not going to make me who I was. I still
can go and I still feel good, but it is like anything else, I used to be pissed
off when I would be working for (Bill) Watts and we would be working 11 weeks
in a row. I would have a day off and it would screw my timing up. That one day
off in 11 weeks would ruin everything. I would be rusty because I would have
that one day where it would throw everything off kilter. Get 7 years off and
see what happens. </div>
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<i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">So it is just
recently that you have gotten back into the ring?</b></i></div>
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Yeah. Eric Bischoff fired me from WCW in ’96, said I was too
old. </div>
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<i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What do you think of
the state of professional wrestling as a whole (i.e, content, language. etc)?
Where do you see professional wrestling headed?</b></i></div>
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Everything goes in cycles. I mean, the wrestling business
goes in cycles, everything goes up, it goes down. You know you get new stars,
the older stars pass the torch, the same as always. Like the Undertaker helping
out this Maven kid. So does it elevate Maven? Does it bring the Undertaker
down? We’ll see. The same thing it always is, new blood in, old blood out. You
have to develop new characters all the time. The business will always be the
same, it is just going to be different, like a river flowing. It is always
there, it is always just moving. There will be new names, new characters. The
last five years have been the most profitable of all-time. When I was in the
WWF, people were saying that was the best of all time, it would never get
better, and that was 84’-85’-86’-87’, here we are 15 years later and people are
saying<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it’s the best.</div>
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<i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Is that attributed to
societal differences or simply the type of content that is being pushed?</b></i></div>
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What was different? It is the same thing, good versus evil.
It’s just that it gets edgier, because let’s be honest, 12 year olds when I was
growing up, I got in trouble for chewing gum, now they get in trouble for
bringing guns. All of society now is just more knowledgeable, more educated,
and smarter and aware. You bring weak stuff to a fan now they are not going to
watch it. It has to be edgy, it has to be hip, or they are not going to watch.
If they’re disgusted by it, you’re going to turn them off to it forever. It
doesn’t have to be distasteful, it just has to be something that doesn’t insult
them. Fans are smart and are very discriminating. It doesn’t have to be all
blood and guts, you can make them laugh too. Entertain them! Give them
everything, the girls, the laughing, the ha-ha, you know, Rock and Sock
connection. There is a lot of stuff that can be fun. It just takes creativity
and somebody that has the vision that can make the stories and get everybody
involved, and get people to care about the characters. </div>
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<i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Any impressions of
the entire Crash T.V format that was pushed out there?</b></i></div>
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It was great. It turned the wrestling business around. Vince
Russo revolutionized the wrestling business. He is the one that brought the WWF
back from the Goon and Freddy Lee Floyd and all that stuff, with all that
revolutionary stuff, the vignettes and all that. He is the one that turned the
WWF around, he is the reason they beat WCW after 94 weeks, whatever it was. He
is the reason they kept beating them. Of course he was edited by Vince McMahon,
but still. It is a lot easier to edit something than it is to create it. </div>
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<i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What are your
feelings about hardcore wrestling? Is it stale and what does it need to
maintain the audience's interest?</b></i></div>
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Bruiser Brody was a legit hardcore guy. He was really tough,
he didn’t need a bunch of chairs and gimmicks. He used them because he was nasty.
Guys use them now because they don’t know what else to do. Brody was
incredible. I knew him. He is the kind of guy that would kick your teeth in for
real. If you had a chair and you weren’t ready to have it stuffed up your own
rear end, you better not bring it in. I mean he was that kind of guy. </div>
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The guys now do hardcore because they can’t do anything
else. Hardcore to me is boring. I mean, what is exciting about hardcore? What
hasn’t been done? How many guys can go through tables, and they get up and they
go through another table. How many guys can get hit with a chair, get up and
get hit with another chair? Well chairs really hurt. I mean you’re really
hitting a guy with a chair, his brain is getting scrambled and then he gets up
and gets hit with another one, because no one cares anymore because the bar has
been raised. So here Mick Foley is getting his brain scrambled with his hands
handcuffed behind his back. (He got hit) 11 times. His kids are watching it and
he doesn’t even know who he is for like a month, or two months, or maybe a year,
I don’t know. And for what? People who say ‘Wrestling is phony, that wasn’t
real, it didn’t hurt.” He will never be the same. So it is not that it didn’t
take talent, guts, whatever it did. What can 11 chair shots do that one doesn’t?
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not always better.</div>
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<i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The fall of WCW is
something I am aware you are close to. How would you describe your working
relationship with Vince Russo, Eric Bischoff and the rest of the roster of WCW?</b></i></div>
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Fine. We all did what we needed to do to get along. Or
otherwise, we weren’t going to have a job. We knew that the company was in
trouble, and we knew that we were like the last hope. Whether it was us running
it or someone else, we knew that WCW was in trouble if we didn’t hunker down and
get together. So we slowed it down, or tried to at least. But we were not
successful. It’s pretty sad, when you see something you love has cancer and you
watch it die, and there is nothing you can do. You try and try and you try, and
think you can help it heal and can see hope. You think something’s going to be
good and it doesn’t happen. It dies anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Have you ever
considered working in tag competition more often or simply as a singles
wrestler? Why?</b></i></div>
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It doesn’t matter. I appreciate you watching, but Cyrus and
me are the Border City Wrestling tag team champions. I like being a single
wrestler, but it doesn’t really matter, I like tagging too. If I have to tag
with a partner I like and somebody that likes me, and we have good chemistry,
that’s fine. If I have a partner I can’t stand and he can’t stand me, that
happens too. </div>
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<b><i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">(Originally
conducted 2001 via email)</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Besides
your father who was a major influence in your life in pursuing wrestling as a
career? Why? </span></i></b><br />
<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">This is
definitely a hard question because of my being around the business as far back
as I can remember....I was motivated by so many people through out my life to
follow in my fathers footsteps. So, even though this probably isn’t the answer
you’re looking for, I would have to say every worker past and present that I
enjoyed watching, and that made me want what they had.<br />
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<b><i>Do you see the Randy Orton character changing much over time? If so, how,
if not why not? </i></b> </span><br />
<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">LOL......what
character?? Really though, i just go out there and wrestle right now, I don’t
have a gimmick really......I am the youngest on the roster, so sometimes I feel
that has something to do with my persona......"the young kid trying to
show everyone that he can hang with the big boys" can he?? We’ll see!!<br />
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<b><i>Randy, you have worked so hard to accomplish all that you have. What is
it about wrestling that has always appealed to you to continue to
compete? </i></b> </span><br />
<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">I would say at
this point in my career making my father proud really makes me happy. In his
day he was really thought of as one of the best in the biz....his selling, his
innovative tactics, the way he put the boys over like no body else. Knowing
that he was THAT good, and is IMPRESSED with me, really makes me fell
awesome!!. Besides making my father proud, definitely the adrenaline rush you
get walking down that ramp, and stepping foot in that ring, it’s like nothing else.
The traveling is wonderful, plus, the simple fact that I really respect this
business.<br />
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<b><i>With the recent death of Russ Haas, a developmental wrestler for the WWF,
how has this affected you and your feelings about wrestling and priorities in
respect to life? </i></b></span><br />
<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Well, first of
all it is still hard to swallow what happened to Russ. I have met both Haas
brothers numerous times, and thought very highly of them. The loss of Russ has
affected me and every other worker that i know. It would be hard for anyone to
say that it didn’t. He was one of the boys, and when one of the boys passes, it
really causes you to reflect on what you have, and to not take it for granted.
What we do in this business is very dangerous, and that is why it is so
important to respect the business.<br />
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<b><i>Independent wrestling promoters can often be described as "used
car" dealers. How would you best describe some of your previous
relationships with promoters? </i></b> </span><br />
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">I have only
worked under one other promoter. Before I located to Louisville, I trained in
St. Louis under Tony Costa. I only talked to him maybe 5 times, but we got
along fine. I have heard horror stories about some Indy promoters taking kids
money, then beating the hell out of them so they quit, in turn getting paid for
nothing. But I believe in Karma :)<br />
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<b><i>Since there is one dominant promotion, do you think the deep pool of
athletes in the company will not be utilized to their fullest capacity? </i></b>Well,
if the Company makes a split, like they are rumored to do, then that
"underutilized" pool of talent will have more then enough exposure. A
separate TV show would allow time for twice the storylines. If only certain
wrestlers worked certain TV shows, then there wouldn’t be as much overexposure
as some claim to believe there is now.<br />
<br />
<b><i>This question allows you to be more of a fan and not an actual athlete
for a second. If you could face anyone past or present in a match or watch any
match of any two wrestlers who would it be and what type of match would it be?</i></b></span><br />
<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">I would love
to pick HHH's brain. I would be all for taking a beating from him. That
man is what wrestling is all about. The dedication, the heart, the skill, and
of course the guts. I feel I could learn a great deal from him. Regal is one of
my favorites as well. He does everything different it seems. Nothing he does is
like anything else you see. He has so much knowledge of the biz it is
unbelievable. It would be an honor to take a whooping from him as well.<br />
<br />
<b><i>What do you think of the state of professional wrestling as a whole
(i.e., content, language...etc)? </i></b></span><br />
<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">I think that
different organizations of wrestling all have different ways of expressing what
they think the content should be. I’ve been to Indy shows were every match is
hardcore; every other word is f**k and there maybe 1 hold during the entire
show. I’ve been to Indy shows were the wrestling was divinity what was
concentrated on. I think it all depends on the fan as far as where or what the
state of wrestling is currently at. I think that the WWF does a great job of
getting there talent over, and I think diversity is a good thing as well. Some
raunchy language now and then adds to the flavor of the show. They combine
excellent wrestling, with plenty of twists in the storyline, and they make sure
the fan knows what is going on. It’s hard to judge the "state” of
wrestling as a whole I think, because of all the different styles of promotion
out there. </span><br />
<b><i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Where do
see professional wrestling headed?</span></i></b><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">I see it going
back to more chain wrestling, holds, and to telling more of a story in the
ring.......maybe longer matches. I have heard that pro wrestling will end up
going in a big circle, eventually becoming what it started out to be, and then
again what it is now. You have to realize that there is not much more the body
can do without the risk of death. I would say without the risk of serious
injury, but lol, each and every worker risks serious injury every minute they
are in the ring. Remember also, that I am 21, and even though i grew up around
wrestling my entire life, I’m still very green.<br />
<br />
<b><i>In your honest opinion, do you think wrestlers today are lacking in their
actual "in ring" ability? </i></b> </span><br />
<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Not at all.
I’m hoping for the much anticipated "split" so that more talent have
the opportunity to show what they can do (as well as muah :). You have
guys of all different shapes and sizes, doing some very impressive stuff. But
they also know all of the basics, which is very important I believe. I have
seen Big Show numerous times actually nip up, with one hand on the
ropes. He weighs close to 490lbs!!! If that isn’t athleticism, tell me what is.
The acrobatics some of these guys can do, it’s simply amazing. But like I said,
they all know how to work. They all know what to do in the ring, and how to make
the people in the stands understand why they are doing it.<br />
<br />
<b><i>When fans check into RandyOrton.net what can they look forward to seeing?
and how can they keep in touch with you? </i></b> </span><br />
<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">My website is
done for me by a handful of very talented people. IM not to "up" on
the internet, but in my opinion, they do an excellent job... The website lets
people know what is going on in my wrestling career, and my interests, as well
as the thoughts and opinions of the people on the board. They can contact me
through the website. I get all my mail, and although very difficult, try to
respond as much as possible.<br />
<br />
<b><i>Although this question is a bit premature for me to ask but, when your
career has come to an end how you do want to be remembered? What is it about
wrestling that will always remain a part of you long after you call it a
career? </i></b> </span><br />
<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">This question
I feel can not be completely answered, but I can definitely tell you that I
want to make my father and grandfather proud. I have been fortunate enough to
be raised in a wrestling family, and lucky enough to have my father eager to
see me accomplish my goals. He is there for me when ever I have a question
about the business, and goes over my matches with me, pointing out mistakes,
and letting me know what looks good. So, I would say when it is all said and
done, one of the things I would like to be remembered as is, a good son that
made his dad proud as a wrestler in this wonderful business.</span><br />
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<i><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">(Originally conducted 2002)</span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Tom, you gained a huge following in AWA, WWF and WCW and All Japan. How
do you think the styles of wrestling have changed over the past 10 to 15 years?</span></b></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">Well, I think each new generation
develops it’s own style. But maybe the biggest difference I’ve observed lies in
the ability to make it look ‘real.’ When I started out it was arm drags, head
lock takeover, head scissors…. and a high spot was a finish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now high spots are the whole match - high
spot, high spot, high spot, high spot ….. If you watch TV there’s really only
so much you can follow. I think they have to slow it down and get as much
mileage as possible out of the work they do. You want to do the least and get
the most out of it – not lazy – just ‘less is more.’ And make the high-risk
stuff really count for something. High-risk means increased injuries and
shortened careers and guys like the Hardys are getting smart to that. To me the
style I see on TV looks fake, loose.... the finishes are weak. And with
three-minute matches, there’s no time to sell. People are following a story but
there’s no story. There’s no emotion in any plot or story being told currently.
In a lot of ways it’s become how Japan used to be.</span></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">In
the ring you combined superb revolutionary technical maneuvers along with speed
and finesse. In your honest opinion, do you think wrestlers today are lacking
in their actual ‘in ring’ ability?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does
this affect the quality of their matches?</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"> </span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">No. Some
of the young guys today have really raised the bar physically. But a lot of
their effort seems to mean nothing given the booking. So it becomes not so much
wrestling as rehearsed high spots. Wrestling should be psychology and
improvisation. I looked for audience support – ‘help me, help me’ – look the
audience in the eye, get them involved in the hurt and provide energy for your
comeback.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seems to me that in the WWF
like WCW before them, on one side, you have the young guys who HAVE it and are
frightened to USE it in case they show up the top guys and put their jobs in
danger, and on the other side, the top guys who have it, and refuse to pass it
on because they don’t want young guys to get over. They’re saving it for
themselves to lengthen their own careers. Either way, the young guys, the lifeblood,
are losing out.</span></div>
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<i><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">You have been equally successful as both a tag team and singles
wrestler. Were you more content in singles or tag?</span></b></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Bear in mind that wrestling may look glamorous but it’s only work. And
it attracts the kind of guys who don’t want a 9 – 5 job and couldn’t work one
anyway. So the idea is get the most money for the least work. Thinking along
those lines, I was more content as a tag, because it meant only half the work.
But I preferred singles. I just never got the push. And it all depends on how
they wanted to push you. I went to WCW on the understanding that I’d work as
one of the top five single babyfaces but inside a few weeks they relegated
Pillman and me to tag. The guys on top didn’t want any competition from anyone.
They never do. Just look at the WWF today!</span></div>
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<i><b><span lang="EN-US">During your time with the WCW and the
WWF, did either of these companies do a good enough job to promote you?</span></b></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I was in WWF for a total of six months and they made us one of the top
tag teams in the business. Six months in the WWF was equal to about18 months in
the WCW. The ‘good ole boys’ – Flair, Dusty, Watts – ran WCW southern style.
Nepotism and cronyism was all they knew or understood. Between them, they
managed to blow off an entire generation of wrestlers. Look at the talent they
jobbed out or let go!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Austin, HHH,
Foley, Pillman, Douglas, Ace… my whole generation! None of us was good enough
to be pushed in WCW!!! Instead it was all Dusty’s boy, Watts’ boy, Bischoff’s
boy (DDP), Flair’s boy and their Florida cronies. And if they were all so
great, where are they now? I remember Dusty Rhodes telling the booking
committee “Why should we push Z-Man? What did Zenk’s daddy ever do for the
business?” They pushed the wrong people and they drove WCW into the ground.</span></div>
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<i><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Along with Rick Martel, you formed one of the best teams in the WWF. Do
you think teams today offer the type of competition that both of you had?</span></b></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">We had unique stuff that we never got to show. And
I’ve never seen any of it used ever since!! WWF brought in Shawn Michaels and
Jannetty and blew them off. The Rougeaus were nothing. The Hart Foundation was
a great team to work with but Neidhart blew up easy. He couldn’t bump around
like Bret. Bret was a master technician. He knew it was all about making it
look real and protecting your body. We wrestled the Bulldogs in Montreal –
Dynamite writes about it in his book. We were the hometown heroes, the Bulldogs
played heel and right away WWF had money in the bank!! I guess that’s what
annoyed Vince and Rick so much – they lost the whole deal by being cheap. And
Vince’s still cheap. So I guess he learned nothing. The tag team scene seems to
mean nothing in the current booking. And the competition is for what?</span></div>
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<i><b><span lang="EN-US">You worked hard to attain the popularity
you have. What is it about wrestling that has always appealed to you?</span></b></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Wrestling provided the money and lifestyle I liked – a single guy
womanizing night to night, town to town, from 18 – 36, the best years of my
life. Verne Gagne told me when I was starting out </span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“you
should get down on your knees and thank God there is such a thing as a ‘work’.”
Because, once they let you in on the con, it was all money for nothing. </span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US">As a fan rather than an actual athlete
for a moment… if you could watch any match of any two wrestlers who would it
be?</span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Dynamite Kid impressed me a lot in his prime, when he was in WWF and I
was in Portland and I used to ask my girlfriend to tape his stuff when I was
out wrestling. So I guess Dynamite Kid vs Tiger Mask. I’ve never seen those
matches but I’ve heard a lot about them. I’d like to see them on tape.</span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US">Are there any other wrestlers either
past or present you would like the opportunity to work with?</span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">No. It is what it is. </span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US">Has there been any one stand out moment
of your career that you would call a defining moment?</span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">When I quit the WWF after just six months and Vince came after me with
a lawsuit. That definitely limited my future choices. After that I was at the
mercy of the All Japan and WCW bookers.</span></div>
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<i><b><span lang="EN-US">What do you think of the current
monopoly? And should wrestlers form a union to prevent being strong-armed?</span></b></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Vince classifies all his talent as ‘independent contractors’ to avoid
paying employee taxes and benefits. There’s no health insurance and no 401 k.
And outside the main guys, the payoffs are tiny compared to how much WWF is
earning. That’s why I quit. So there definitely IS room for a union … but the
guys themselves are too disunited. But thing will change if the Department of
Labor gets involved. DOL almost caught up with WCW before they went bust. It’s
only a matter of time before they investigate Vince and the ‘independent
contractor’ BS. Then hang on to your share values!!</span></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Name
association. What comes to mind when you think of these?</span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><b>Vince McMahon</b> – ‘the devil in a suit’</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><b>Steve Austin</b> – a tenacious, hard working bastard.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><b>Ric Flair </b>– Eagle Beak. The Pinocchio of
wrestling with the nose job to prove it. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><b>Terry Taylor</b> – a guy who should be bitter like
no other and just isn’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On a 1 to 10, a
10 as far as talent. Just wonderful to work with.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><b>Verne Gagne </b>––the best training camp and a
sweet territory and what the business should be based on - respect</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><b>Eric Bischoff</b> – a loser.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><b>Rick Martel</b> – a great guy. We got over in the
WWF in record time.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><b>Tom Zenk</b> – the worst wrestler who ever lived.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><i><b>Hardcore wrestling </b></i>– stupid. The garbage cans
made of tin foil... stuff for hard core hidden under the ring...stupid. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><b>Backyard wrestling</b> – do they have insurance?</span></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">If
there’s any one thing you could change in the wrestling business what would it
be?</span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I’d change who gets over and who does jobs.
They push the wrong people. They’re not in tune with their audience. Meltzer
says it right – “ Young wrestlers are the life blood of the business.” They’ve
got to start pushing the young blood.</span></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Was
there anything you would like your fans to know?</span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Yes – just remember it’s all a work, phony,
fake. Just ‘sports entertainment.’</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03816246595711637157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665826034883825385.post-37652986707355690552017-02-04T20:37:00.003-08:002017-02-04T20:37:18.100-08:00An evening with former WWE superstar and one half of the Killer Bees, B Brian Blair<br />
<i>(originally conducted September 2002)</i><br />
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<span>B</span>rian Blair has seen allot of thing during his
illustrious wrestling career. His career in the wrestling ring spanned
close to twenty years. His first rise to prominence was as a singles
wrestler where he was the Florida Heavyweight Champion back in 1982. It
was not however until he teamed with Jim Brunzel in the WWE that fans
had the opportunity to appreciate his in ring work. Brian took the time
out of his very busy schedule to talk to me about wrestling today in
comparison to that of when he first competed along with, moving forward
on his long time political aspirations.<br />
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<b>MM :</b>You appeared to have gained a huge following in WWF during
the 80?s. How do think the styles of these wrestlers different than
those than those today? Why do you think this is so?<br />
<b>BB :</b>Well you know life changes everyday, I mean look at the
difference in the styles of cars, the way people dress, the trends and
styles are continuously changing and it is no different in the wrestling
profession. Since it is not a sport with exact rules and boundaries
like baseball or football, it is going to evolve continuously. There is
more innovation. There is different storylines that are always changing.
The one thing that I can say is that every time I see someone actually
get down and have a really good set of wrestling high spots, put
together in a very nice way almost like a shoot style way people get off
on it, and really like that. That will never change.<br />
<b>MM :</b>In the ring you combine superb revolutionary technical
maneuvers along with speed and finesse? In your honest opinion, do you
think wrestlers today are lacking in their actual “in ring” ability?
Does this affect the quality of their matches?<br />
<b>BB :</b>I think the wrestlers today in some ways are more talented
than the wrestlers of yesterday and that doesn’t apply to all cases. As
far as the guys with the amateur background if you look at Kurt Angle
for example, the reason he is the fastest rising star that hit the top
of the main event status in the shortest amount of time is because of
his tremendous amateur background. If you ever watch him and Chris
Benoit when they wrestle they are just kind of like a magic that happens
there. They combine the old school with the new school. When you learn
to do that, in an effective way, than it creates for the ultimate
enjoyment of the fans. This is provided that the storyline is adhered
to.<br />
<b>MM :</b>After watching you compete for years, fans who could only
see you on television could not watch you compete. What happened and
where did you go?<br />
<b>BB :</b>We were promised the belts and promised the belts and we
chased the belts for 3 years and I was just getting frustrated. I just
felt like I could do something else in life and just wanted to switch
gears for a while and Jimmy (Brunzel) still wanted to wrestle. We were
in a town in Maryland and I asked Vince (McMahon) if I could talk to him
and I asked him if we were getting the belts and he said, “no time
soon” and I said, “well I don’t know what to do I don’t feel real
comfortable”, and he was real nice about it and he said, “well if you
don’t feel comfortable while don’t you take some time off, and if you
want to come back the door was always open”. So that is how we left we
left on good terms and that was right before 1990, and I came back to
Florida and opened up 1 Gold’s gym and ended opening up 4 Gold’s Gym’s. I
turned those Gold’s gyms into a multi-location, multi-million dollar
business and sold them in November of 1998.<br />
<b>MM :</b>During your time with the WWF, you were involved in
several matches. Do you think the company did a good enough job to
promote you? What could they have done differently? <br />
<b>BB :</b>No, there was no doubt we were in there with some
tremendous talent and I am not saying which team was better at which
given time and when your promised something your promised something
that’s the bottom line and that promise was never a reality, but I am
not negative about it I am grateful to Vince for giving us an
opportunity to work and grateful to the fans for all their support. When
I look back I don’t look back to regret I always look back for good
reflections or to learn something but never to regret. I don’t feel like
we were robbed of anything that’s his opinion. In my opinion it is just
that sometimes you don’t understand someone until you’re in their
shoes. Obviously he didn’t understand my shoes and I didn’t understand
his shoes, but that doesn’t mean that either one of us was right or
wrong, it was just the way it was.<br />
<b>MM :</b>Along with Jim Brunzel you formed one of the best teams in
WWF. Do you think teams today offer the type of competition in the ring
that both you gentlemen had?<br />
<b>BB :</b>I think the styles are a little different. It is more like
you work more like a heel style where Jimmy and I were real hardcore
baby faces. As far as the relationship between Jimmy and I we talk to
each other at least once a month, always have and hopefully always will.
We were on the road together for almost 5 years, and we never had a
major argument that we still couldn’t still split a room in those days
we would still split a room allot to still save money. Jimmy has a
wonderful wife, and his kids are all grown now. He would be so upset and
at one point we wrestled 67 days in a row and didn’t have a day off and
it was really hard on him and the family. We still managed to keep that
togetherness both in the ring and out of the ring we were just both
good friends and remain as that today and that is a great thing.<br />
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<b>MM :</b>Brian, you have been equally successful as both a tag team
and a singles wrestler. Were you more content as a singles wrestler or
as a part of a tag team?<br />
<b>BB :</b>I was a main event single wrestler for a long time in
Florida which is perhaps the most well respected territory in the
history of pro wrestling. You can call that opinion where most people
will call that a fact. If you look at Eddie Graham and what he built in
Florida. It was a dynasty with the Brisco’s and the Funk’s would always
be here and Dusty Rhodes. When Florida was on its downslide, and when I
came back with Rick Rude, Jesse Barr, Derek Draper and Ed Wiscowski the
guys like that. I was very fortunate to be around early in my career to
be around people like Pat Patterson, the Brisco’s, the Jose Lothario’s.
When there were territories I worked my way up to the top my first few
years in the business and every some territory as a single wrestler. So I
enjoyed allot of success, if you go to my website bbrianblair.com. If
you go there, there is a history all the titles that I have held and the
territories I was in and I thought I had a good successful singles
career, as well as Japan. I have spent over a year of my life over in
Japan. Working for New Japan Pro Wrestling and if you go there one time
and they don’t like the way you wrestle they don’t invite you back
because they pay you well, and they don’t put up with any garbage. You
have to know how to wrestle to go there and be somebody that knows how
to wrestle both in the ring and out of the ring. To go there as many
times as I have been there and spent as much time as I have, it is
something I consider an accomplishment.<br />
<b>MM :</b>Brian, you have worked so hard to attain the popularity
you have. What is it about wrestling that has always appealed to you to
continue to compete? Why?<br />
<b>BB :</b>Mono e mono I guess man against man. The reason I first
started wrestling is I looked at Jack Brisco and said that’s just what I
want to do. When I was real little I prayed to be Superman when I was 7
years old. Obviously you can’t be Superman, but I guess God answered my
prayers by allowing me to become a professional wrestler. Instead of
leap frogging or jumping over tall buildings, I was leap frogging men.
Instead of racing faster than a speeding bullet, I was hitting the ropes
as fast as I could. Rather than bullets bouncing off me, I had 300
pound men bouncing off me. Rather than being in the blue tights with the
“S” on my chest, I was in wrestling tights. So my prayer was answered.
The desire to wrestle was something that intrigued me since I was a kid.
From amateur wrestling I played football and participated in allot of
sports. It was something about pro wrestling that was really consuming.<br />
<b>MM :</b>This question allows you to be more of a fan and not an actual athlete <br />
for a second. If you could face anyone past or present in a match or
watch any match of any two wrestlers who would it be and what type of
match would it be?<br />
<b>BB :</b>If I could watch a match past I would like to watch. I
would probably like to see “Stone Cold” Steve Austin against “Gorgeous
George”. (Laughs)I could just picture that. I would think that would be
for tremendous show quality. I could just picture Stone Cold giving
George the finger after his valet sprayed perfume on him. There are all
kinds of things about. I would have personally loved to wrestle Lou
Thez. There are allot of fantasy things you could think about. Right off
the top of my head that is all I can just about say there.<br />
<b>MM :</b>Since you have made the transition from wrestler to
political advocate, has the transition been an easy on or have you
needed to make adjustments?<br />
<b>BB :</b>No. I wrestled for new Japan, October 8th (2001) and it
was a nice tour probably one of the nicest tours I have been on but I
have had political aspirations for a long long time. Since I sold my
businesses in 1998, I have pretty much dedicated myself to community
service even though I have stayed in the ring part time. I managed
little league, coached little league, I do motivational speaking for
kids in schools for athletics and academics. I do allot of stuff for our
church and I stay very active in the community so politics is a natural
fit. I have had several people ask me to take my community service to a
more formal level and that is exactly what I have done.<br />
<b>MM :</b>Has there been any one stand out moment of your career that you would call it as a ‘defining? moment?<br />
<b>BB :</b>Absolutely and that would be Wrestle Mania 3. It was a
very defining moment in our careers as far as a high spot up where you
realized that you have made it and you know you have. Wrestling in
general has made it and when it enjoyed that super boom period in the
mid-late 80’s. Wrestl Mania 3 even though I was on 2, 3 and 4 and should
have been on 5 but that is when Vince and I had our disagreement and we
mutually decided not to. I just think being in front of that many
people I know they reported the crowd at 92,173 you hear pro and con
about that number regardless it is still the largest indoor attendance
record I believe to this day it is and that was a very defining moment
that made me realize that wrestling was popular, we had Aretha Franklin,
Bob Uecker was there, Alice Cooper was there. There were so many
celebrities. Prior to that celebrities were starting to come to the
matches and the white collar was starting to say, “hey wrestling is
cool” and it wasn’t just a blue collar sport anymore about traction.
That point I think from then on became not only a defining moment for
not only the Killer Bees but for the wrestling industry in general.<br />
<b>MM :</b>Word Association, what comes to mind when you think of these athletes<br />
<b>Vince McMahon</b> – Caesar<br />
<b>The Rock</b> – Awesome<br />
<b>Ric Flair</b> – The Best<br />
<b>Verne Gagne</b> – A legend<br />
<b>Steve Austin</b> – One hell of a guy<br />
<b>Hardcore Wrestling</b> – I am not sold on it<br />
<b>Backyard Wrestling</b> – Shame on you<br />
<b>Jim Brunzel</b> – The greatest partner I ever had<br />
<b>Eric Bischoff</b> – No comment<br />
<b>Brian Blair</b> -The “Will Rogers” of wrestling<br />
<b>MM :</b>Was there anything you would like the fans of yours to know?<br />
<b>BB :</b>I would like the fans to know how much I appreciate them,
always will appreciate them. They can always email me. I hope to see
them again in some way, shape or form. Just because I am entering the
political arena doesn’t mean you will never see me again in wrestling. I
learned along time ago, though to never say never. I wish them all the
very best, and wish them all of God’s blessings.<br />
To keep with all the latest on Brian, and his political future check out,<br />
<i><a href="http://www.brianblair.com/" target="new">www.BrianBlair.com</a></i> and to learn more about B Brian Blair the wrestler check out <a href="http://www.bbrianblair.com/" target="new">www.BBrianBlair.com</a> his official wrestling website.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03816246595711637157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665826034883825385.post-24124946014733770922017-02-04T20:24:00.003-08:002017-02-04T20:24:19.780-08:0010 Burning Questions with Mark Andrews<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(originally conducted November 2015)</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mark Andrews has continued to develop and
progress since competing in TNA Impact Wrestling’s British Bootcamp. He
recently took some time out of his busy schedule to participate in an interview
with me. Andrew’s career has spanned almost 10 years as he has been wrestling
since the age of 14. In his career he has unquestionably earned a name for
himself competing for several independent promotions throughout the United
Kingdom and the United States. His growth as a performer both in the ring has
been remarkable. In the interview, Andrews shares his thoughts about work
outside of wrestling with his punk rock band Junior, his clothing brand Defend Indy
Wrestling, and how the last year of his life has seen him competing all over
world. He also opens up about his history with the business and who was
integral in his wrestling development. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Andrews also discusses how integral the
maintenance of relationships, not only in wrestling but throughout his life, has
been in shaping him into the person he is today. He discusses his early
training and development in NWA-UK Hammerlock, how he has made the most of each
and every opportunity he’s been given, and his aspirations to continue to
develop his craft. TNA Impact Wrestling fans will be pleased with how Andrews’ enthusiasm
and energy is just as evident in this discussion as it is in the ring. Prior to
this interview, Andrews held a seminar for aspiring wrestlers and fans,
discussing the psychology behind the decisions made in the ring and how to set
up and transition from one move to the next. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Andrews remains an inspiration that fans
can communicate with via various social mediums, such as Twitter and Instagram where
he can be reached @MandrewsTNA. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Edd
Ferris, Mike Bird, Zack Sabre, Jr. are three people who were key to your
training. Describe the experience. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I originally started training under NWA-UK,
which was basically the Welsh branch in Wales. That was run by Edd Ferris, who
was one of my first trainers who showed me all the basics; that was most of
what I learned from him at the time. Then with Mike Bird, he was the side
trainer who did more private classes with me and taught me a lot of stuff. Then
Zack Sabre Jr was more my trainer at the NWA Hammerlock school in Kent, which
was about a six hour drive for me. I would drive about six hours straight and
then back, and then camps throughout the year. So I think they all had a hand
in training me. I think Mike and Zack, their instruction has shown a lot more
in my style now. If you look at a lot of my old stuff then you could say, ‘oh,
he’s a hybrid of the two wrestlers’ and you can actually compare it. It was
obvious back in the day, but I’m not so sure now if it is as much.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
NWA -UK Hammerlock also gave you a number of experiences. What did you walk
away with from your time there?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Hammerlock was a really great experience.
I spent more time there training, along with the wrestling matches, because a
lot of the shows they did were happening when I wasn’t experienced enough to be
a part of them. The NWA Wales shows were what brought me into the business. The
first NWA Wales show was one I remember back then, Magnus did the ring job so
he was there. Marty Scrull was there as well, I’m pretty sure, or he was one of
the first ones I remember in the ring at least, when I was there. So there were
all these guys who have all become big stars now. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember on my first day in TNA going up to
Aldis (Magnus) and saying to him ‘Hey man, you did the ring job for my first
show’. He was like ‘you were that 14 year old kid?’ and I was like ‘yeah’ and
it was a weird kind of moment for me. 10 years later, it was really cool that
we’re here. They played a big part in my development, the entire community.
Even now, I’m seen as the young guy, since I was the young guy back when I was
training. I had potential as I guess everyone saw. So a lot of positivity and
real positive memories both with NWA Wales and NWA Hammerlock. Those camps
helped me mature as a person both inside of wrestling and out. A real bunch of
fond memories from that time. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wrestling
at times takes itself too serious. Describe the neXXXus experience. How it came
about and could more have been made with it?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(laughs) It’s so funny because this was
such a real small spot in a comedy show and it always comes up in interviews
actually. I only did it once or twice at the time. There was Triple X wrestling
at the time in the UKm which had a real buzz about them. They brought over
Bryan Danielson for the first time. It was an indy show, and not a regular part
of the promotion. They brought in Zack Sabre Jr. They practically made Zack
Sabre Jr. So when I got in there I was ready. It was an indy darling promotion.
It was a good indy promotion and I had some good friends there. They did a lot
of comedy stuff and they put a lot of guys in funny gimmicks. One of them was
the neXXXus, and I was, I believe, Mandrews Tarver. I had a bandanna around my
mouth and stuff. But it was fun and cool, it was one of the few times where --I
would use the term heel loosely-- I was a heel. There were a few other times,
like in Celtic Wrestling and random carnival shows, it was more times when you
are allowed to experiment on a bigger platform on. It was more of a laugh to be
quite honest. The promotion Triple X was one where I have a lot of fond
memories, and they were a lot of fun to work with. A lot of fun to work, for
fun fans that were in the know. I don’t think that it was going to be a serious
kind of thing. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This
past June I had the opportunity to speak with Rockstar Spud who couldn't sing
your praises enough. How would you describe your matches against one another
and what you feel you may have learned from one another?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">How very nice of him. It’s funny because
when we were on the indies together, we didn’t really cross paths too much. We
weren’t exactly like the best of friends, and we weren’t enemies either. We didn’t
really hang out. But once I got to TNA it was a process where, I became close
with him, and I owe him loads. In terms of the advice that he could give me, he
was the only person in the entire world that knew what I was going through, the
exact same thing, in the British Bootcamp, and because he was the winner. I got
a lot of good advice from him throughout the series, and I was very willing to
take it. Ever since I’ve been in TNA he has given me good advice and I can’t
thank him enough honest. I’ve learned a lot from him as well in terms of
wrestling and those sorts of things, so I have a lot to owe to Spud. I’m really
grateful for what he’s done for me really<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">. </i></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Your
time in the UK is long and illustrious. Describe your entire time there &
the farewell tour arranged by ATTACK?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It was actually only a farewell show, that
we did and the show that we did was actually my favorite memory in wrestling
that I have. It was great. That weekend it was so many things all at once. It
was a month that I had completed the Bootcamp in TNA, and it was only a month
after that I got the contract with TNA and it had become public the day before
my birthday. Then the day of my birthday, I had a PROGRESS wrestling show and I
had a big match with Eddie Dennis. For the ATTACK show, we sold it out in like
17 minutes, and it’s only a tiny little venue with 150 capacity, and we had to
oversell it, we had to cram in chairs there. It was all my friends, all my
family, loads of local wrestling fans. People that had travelled from Italy to
Wales to this tiny little community centre, really it was everything I had
really wanted actually. It was a punk rock show but a wrestling show, which is
what ATTACK is all about. It was a nice farewell. I’m really grateful for the
scene we have in the UK, but not just the scene but the group of friends that I
have in the UK in wrestling. I feel that if it wasn’t for us moving each other
and egging each other on that we wouldn’t progress and we wouldn’t grow. It was
a real special show that one with ATTACK. It was probably my fondest of
memories in wrestling.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wrestling
has tremendous crossover appeal to different forms of media. Where did the idea
to play Pikachu come about & do you think that idea could work in North
America?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Definitely. With ATTACK pro wrestling we
have started doing very interesting shows. It started off of as us being really
fond of the idea of American indie wrestling, and no one in the UK was doing it,
so that started becoming something that we would do and then everyone started
doing it. Then let’s take it one step forward and have crazy cosplay shows,
whether it be based on films or themes. We had a ‘Jaws’ themed show, we had an ‘American
Pie’ themed show, and the one that stood out the most was the ‘Press Start’
themed show, which was our video game themed show, so we would be able to act
like our favorite video games from our childhood. A big part of it for us was the
nostalgia. So me dressing up like Pikachu every year was something that I loved
doing. If it was something that I could bring to different promotions, it would
certainly be something that I would love doing. It was just a good laugh. The
one place in the UK where you could have all of these top wrestlers from around
the UK acting silly and dressing up, and you are not going to see that at every
single wrestling show you go to but you will see it at ATTACK. I love it, I
absolutely love it. (laughs) </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Coming
to North America lends itself to opportunity. What did the TNA British Boot
camp opportunity present itself to you & how have you parlayed that moving
forward?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The last year of my life has been insane,
milestone wise, to be honest. Two years ago in 2013, me and Pete Dunne, my best
friend and tag team partner, came out to America for 10 weeks. We flew out here,
we had a hotel for 3 nights and nothing else planned. Luckily, the amazing
people involved in the wrestling community would get us set up with a place to
stay, and we didn’t have to pay for another hotel for the rest of the 10 weeks.
That was a massive learning curve, though I was already quite familiar with
America and the American wrestling scene. And then going to TNA and the whole
Bootcamp process in the last year has been an even bigger step up. I am not
only dealing with them, but America on such a bigger scale. It’s not just
learning about a TV show, I’m dealing with a culture shock, and it’s a shock to
my work as well. It isn’t indie wrestling anymore. It’s how to work TV, how to
work with cameras, how to work with stress, call times and all those things
that come with TV wrestling. I’m incredibly grateful for what I’ve had over the
last year of TNA and it’s been a massive learning curve. To share a locker room
with Kurt Angle, the Hardys, Abyss, who have sorted out their craft so well. They
are so good at their craft and I get to learn from guys like them. It’s what
I’ve wanted for the last 10 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Describe
your time with PWG, and what experiences and/or matches you had there that provided
the greatest learning experiences?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">PWG was super awesome, it was the best. I
had been watching PWG for years along with Chikara, those were the two big
promotions that I used to watch when I was younger. I got to work with Chikara
when I was 19 in 2011, so I got to check that off the list. PWG is one that I
got to tick off more recently. It reminds me of Progress in the UK in a number
of ways, it’s the more super hard indie show. It worked out well. It was super
fun and everything I thought it was going to be, and hopefully I will get a
chance to come back soon. It was a real good experience. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Smash
Wrestling has been called the PWG of Canada. Having now competed for both
promotions, how did you find your overall experience with Smash this evening?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I definitely think that it’s very easy to
compare Smash to PWG. It’s easy to say that it’s the PWG of Canada. I also like
to think that it’s the Smash Wrestling of the world, its own brand entirely. I
was speaking with Sebastian today and it’s been awesome. He knows what he’s
doing here, and its independent wrestling done right because a lot of people
are doing it wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Often
times people don't plan for life after their careers have ended, but you have
diversified your interests with “Defend Indy Wrestling” & “Junior.” Where
did the idea to expand your entrepreneurial interests come from?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I think that’s something I’ve always had
since I was a kid to be honest. When I was younger, I’d be on the playground
selling video games to my friends, trying to make a profit there. When I had a
backyard wrestling promotion when I was 12, I’d sell t-shirts at school and
stuff like that. I think I’m someone who likes to be progressive and productive,
so whether it’s wrestling or music or it’s a clothing brand, I just like to
keep moving things forward. But wrestling has certainly been the thing that’s
opened me up to the idea. I love to video edit and do graphic design because of
wrestling, and it’s been beneficial outside of wrestling as well. Wrestling
definitely opened up a lot of different gates for me. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What
does the balance of 2015 and beyond have in store for Mark Andrews?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Honestly, 2015 has been incredible and I’m
not sure how next year is going to top it. I definitely plan to, somehow. If I
can keep progressing in TNA, if I can keep progressing with wrestling in
general and with my band, my clothing brand, whatever it is, just keep moving
forward and just see as much of the world as possible at my age now. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Was
there anything you'd like to share, inform or promote as it relates to Mark
Andrews?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I’d like people to check out the
DefendIndyWrestling brand not just to help me sell merchandise but to see what
we are all about. It’s about raising positivity on the indy wrestling scene,
which can sometimes get negative, and just seeing what it’s all about. If you
like ATTACK pro wrestling, check it out. Fans can interact with me @MandrewsTNA
on Twitter and Instragram. It is the best way to get a hold of me.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03816246595711637157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665826034883825385.post-24535885386727340232017-02-04T20:20:00.006-08:002017-02-04T20:20:54.455-08:00An evening with current WWE NXT star Eric Young<header class="header-article">
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<b><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">(originally conducted May 2016)</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Eric Young achieved significant success over the course of his career in <span class="spellver" title="TAN, TINA, TUNA, TN, RNA, TBA, NA, TA, DNA, ETNA, TNT, TEA, ANA, INA, TVA, TWA, TIA">TNA</span> <span class="ver" title="You probably need a space between the subject and the verb.">Impact</span>
Wrestling. He recently took some time out of his busy schedule to
participate in an interview with me. His career has spanned over 18
years, and he has been wrestling since the age of 18. In his early
career he earned a name for himself competing for several independent
promotions in Canada, and then earned more recognition competing for <span class="spellver" title="TAN, TINA, TUNA, TN, RNA, TBA, NA, TA, DNA, ETNA, TNT, TEA, ANA, INA, TVA, TWA, TIA">TNA.</span> His growth as a performer has been remarkable.</span></div>
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In the interview, Young shares his thoughts about his early training, his feuds in <span class="spellver" title="TAN, TINA, TUNA, TN, RNA, TBA, NA, TA, DNA, ETNA, TNT, TEA, ANA, INA, TVA, TWA, TIA">TNA,</span> working with <span class="spellver" title="DOB, OB, OD, DB, OTB, ODD, ODE, ORB, ODS, OMB, OD'S">ODB</span> and his surprise debut on <span class="spellver" title="WEE, WE, WWW, EWE, WW, WWI, WOE, AWE, OWE">WWE’</span>s <span class="spellver" title="NEXT, NT, EXT, NWT, NAT, NET, NIT, NOT, NUT">NXT</span>
a couple of weeks ago. He also opens up about his history with the
business and who was integral in his wrestling development, as well as
his early training and development through a wrestling facility that he
also owned. Young also discusses talent that he helped train and how
they have flourished.<br />
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<span class="spellver" title="TAN, TINA, TUNA, TN, RNA, TBA, NA, TA, DNA, ETNA, TNT, TEA, ANA, INA, TVA, TWA, TIA">TNA</span> and <span class="spellver" title="WEE, WE, WWW, EWE, WW, WWI, WOE, AWE, OWE">WWE</span>
fans will be impressed with how Young’s commitment, passion and
dedication is just as evident today as it was when he first began
training before the turn of the century. Young is also a <span class="spellmod" title="die hard, die-hard, Dillard, heard, Erhard, dead, died, hard, dieted, dished, dotard, reheard, dread, jihad, towhead, dullard, dieter, depart, dickhead, Head, airhead, head, herd, Doha, Hardy, diet, hardy, hoard, dared, heart, ahead, Hart, dart, hart">diehard</span>
hockey fan that encourages fans to see live independent wrestling and
live professional hockey as well. There really is nothing quite like
watching either sport, as Young can attest. Young remains an inspiration
that fans can communicate with via various social mediums, such as
Twitter where he can be reached @<span class="spellver" title="Theorizing, Throng, Thrusting, Procyon, Procyon's, Thoracic">TheEricYoung.</span>
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<strong class="title">Waldo von Erich ,
Carl LeDuc, Scott D’Amore and Chris Kanyon have all been credited with
training you. What did you gain from each experience?</strong></h2>
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“Each was his own <span class="verupdated" title="">individual that is</span>
for sure. Waldo, he was pretty old and beat up when I met him, and he’s
since passed on, but he was a great guy and a lot of what I learned
from Waldo wasn’t any of the physical stuff, it was the mentality, it
was the psychology of wrestling, being in character and making people
believe. Those are the things that I hold near and dear still to this
day, and this is the guy who still holds the record for longest match in
Madison Square Garden history – 93 minutes with Bruno <span class="spellver" title="Smarting, Summation, Smarten, Samaritan, Martini, Martin, Martina, Smiting, Smartens">Sammartino.</span> People thought he was a real Nazi<span class="ver" title="It is unusual to put a space before a punctuation mark.">, </span>and
they tried to kill him. It’s hard to imagine how good that would make
you feel, and that sounds crazy to say, but having people hate you that
much and making them hate you is just insane. All those guys were a very
integral part early on and even later on in my life. Scott, I’m not
sitting here talking to you if it’s not for Scott <span class="spellver" title="Mamore, Demure, Damper, Dame, Dare, More, Demote, Demurer, Damon, Daumier, Tamra, Tagore, Zamora, Admire, Damage, Demode, Tamera, Armorer, Dome, Mare, Tamara, Darrow, Moore, Darer, Dire, Mire, Moire, Daimler, Dames, Maori, Dam, Dimer, Tamer, Dora, Moro, Demo, Dime, Dimmer, Dorm, Dory, Mere, Tame, Tare, Tore, Admirer, Dame's">D’Amore.</span><br />
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<span class="spellver" title="Kan yon, Kan-yon, Kenyon, Canyon, Kenyan, Anyone, Canyons, Canton, Kenton, Canon, Cannon, Kansan, Runyon, Banyan, Pinyon, Kenyon's, Canyon's">Kanyon,</span> was actually shooting the Jesse <span class="spellver" title="Venture, Ventures, Ventral, Ventured, Century, Venture's, Denture, Venturous, Vents, Vent, Vent's, Venturing, Entry, Vendor">Ventura</span> story. He was outsourced by <span class="spellver" title="WC, CW, WW, WWW, WNW, WSW, WOW">WCW</span> to be the head fight choreographer and stunt coordinator for the Jesse <span class="spellver" title="Venture, Ventures, Ventral, Ventured, Century, Venture's, Denture, Venturous, Vents, Vent, Vent's, Venturing, Entry, Vendor">Ventura</span> movie which aired on, I believe, NBC. It was the unsanctioned, official/unofficial Jesse <span class="spellver" title="Venture, Ventures, Ventral, Ventured, Century, Venture's, Denture, Venturous, Vents, Vent, Vent's, Venturing, Entry, Vendor">Ventura</span> movie. I met him (<span class="spellver" title="Kan yon, Kan-yon, Kenyon, Canyon, Kenyan, Anyone, Canyons, Canton, Kenton, Canon, Cannon, Kansan, Runyon, Banyan, Pinyon, Kenyon's, Canyon's">Kanyon)</span> up in Toronto. I did a small part in the movie, and up until I started wrestling for <span class="spellver" title="TAN, TINA, TUNA, TN, RNA, TBA, NA, TA, DNA, ETNA, TNT, TEA, ANA, INA, TVA, TWA, TIA">TNA</span>
it was the most money I had ever made in wrestling, which is hilarious
because it’s about 30 seconds of wrestling. You see me, but you can’t
really tell it’s me. (In the story) Jesse had just come back from the
army, and I go to the ring and there is a quick spot. It was cool being
with a guy that was on TV, and I guy that I really liked. He was really
innovative and was kind of ahead of his time, doing stuff that nobody
was doing way back then.”<br />
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<strong class="title">Share if you could
the Wrestleplex training facility. What inspired that operation and was
there anyone at the time of their training you could see becoming a
success?</strong></h2>
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Vancouver, that were loosely affiliated. I knew the guy that was
running the one out there (in Vancouver) and I really like him, Rocket
Randy Tyler. Nelson Creed, was another guy very good friend of mine that
was helping run the school there. I started the Ontario school because I
loved training guys and started doing it really early on. Carl <span class="spellver" title="LDC, Educ, LED, Led, Medic, Leda, Ledger, Ledge, LED's, Letup, DEC, Dec, Duck, Lead, Lewd, Lied, Luck, DC, LC, Laud, Dc, Loud, Ludo, Lieut, LCD, LLD, Doc, Dug, Lac, Lad, Leg, Let, Lid, Lug">LeDuc</span> was responsible for all of my physical in-ring training, and lived at the same apartment, and trained us five days a week. I <span class="ver" title="The verbs should probably be in the same tense, e.g.: <i>She <b>took</b> the book and <b>placed</b> it on the shelf</i>.">had some experience and I guess</span>
I was one of the better students since I was there every night, so I
have got to take it over the training. Then, I started doing indies and
stuff and tryouts with the <span class="spellver" title="WEE, WE, WWW, EWE, WW, WWI, WOE, AWE, OWE">WWE,</span>
and I really wanted a place where I could stay sharp. I loved
wrestling, so being able to have my own ring, to go out there and work
on stuff and go over whatever I wanted sounded really appealing to me.</div>
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I didn’t have a pile of students, but a lot of really good students, a really good group of guys that were really dedicated <span class="ver" title="You probably need to add a form of the verb <i>be</i>, e.g.: <i>There <b>are</b> a lot of people in my city</i>.">and there several</span> nights a week. It was an amazing experience. I’m happy to say I trained <span class="spellver" title="Tue, Tyre, Rye, Tyke, Type, Te, Ty, Ye, Dye, Tee, Tie, Toe, Aye, Bye, Eye, Lye, The, Ty's">Tye</span> Dillinger of <span class="spellver" title="NEXT, NT, EXT, NWT, NAT, NET, NIT, NOT, NUT">NXT,</span>
I was the first school he went to. He was good right away; I could tell
him one thing or show him one thing and he could already do it, and do
it probably better than I could. When he signed his first deal it was
kind of like your kid going to Harvard, and he’s still there and is very
very respected for several reasons, but his in-ring ability speaks for
itself. <span class="spellver" title="Crazy, Craze, Crays, Cray, Curacy, Razz, Crazily, Cruz, Crazier, Jazzy, Crecy, Crass, Craws, Graze, Crazed, Crazes, Crabby, Craggy, Cranny, Crappy, Crawly, Frizzy, Cary, Cray's, Craw's, Grassy, Grazer, Carey, Carry, Crazy's, Cry, Grays, Cares, Cara's, Cora's, Gray, Cozy, Craw, Jazz, Racy, Raze, Craze's, Carr's, Cr's, Care's, Carry's, Gray's">Crazzy</span> Steve that works for <span class="spellver" title="TAN, TINA, TUNA, TN, RNA, TBA, NA, TA, DNA, ETNA, TNT, TEA, ANA, INA, TVA, TWA, TIA">TNA</span> is another guy I trained. Jake <span class="spellver" title="">O’Reilly,</span> Ashley <span class="spellver" title="Si xx, Si-xx, Six, Xix, Xxix, Lxix, Sics, Six's, Sixes, Sixth, Sixty, Sax, Sex, Xxx, Sexy, Sax's, Sex's">Sixx,</span>
Chris Chambers, these are all guys out of Ontario that have done
something and made a good name for themselves. I never guaranteed
anything, I just said if you come here, you will know how to wrestle.
Whether that means you will be able to do it for a living or do it for
independently, that’s up to you. It was a blast having the school.”<br />
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<strong class="title">Explain how your
initial involvement with TNA came about and the idea behind Team Canada.
What did you feel about the collection of guys apart from the faction
and what laid ahead for them?</strong></h2>
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“Scott was a huge part of that. I was doing tryouts pretty heavily with the <span class="spellver" title="WW, WWW, WWI">WWF,</span> <span class="spellver" title="WEE, WE, WWW, EWE, WW, WWI, WOE, AWE, OWE">WWE</span> now. Bobby <span class="spellver" title="Rode, Rood, Rhode, Ride, Rodeo, Rod, Roadie, Rooter, Root, Road, Rote, Rude, Roods, Rhoda, Route, Rowdy, Rood's">Roode</span>
and I were doing them it seemed like every month. Nothing really stuck,
I remember having a brief conversation with Stephanie McMahon about
coming there. <span class="spellver" title="TAN, TINA, TUNA, TN, RNA, TBA, NA, TA, DNA, ETNA, TNT, TEA, ANA, INA, TVA, TWA, TIA">TNA</span>
called me because I had done one four-man tag with them on one of their
pay-per-views and they were getting ready to do the very first World X
Cup, and they said we’re interested in <span class="ver" title="You should probably add a form of <i>be</i>, e.g.: <i>You <b>are</b> kidding</i>. Another possibility would be to write <i>you<b>r</b></i>.">you coming</span> down and being a part of Team Canada. My first contract was for four shows, same for Bobby and <span class="spellver" title="Pete, Peter, Petty, Peaty, Piety, PET, Pet, Perter, Pewter, Pate, Peed, Pity, Patty, Potty, Putty, Pete's">Petey</span> (Williams) and Johnny <span class="spellver" title="Devin, Divine, Define, Devon, Definer, Diviner, Dvina, Levine, Device, Devise, Diving, Devin's">Devine,</span> all the other members of Team Canada.<br />
I remember us getting really crazy heat right away, and it just took
off. They signed all of us to full-time deals after that. I guess we
impressed them and they wanted to have this heel Canadian faction
full-time. It was just amazing, some of the fondest memories of my
career.”<br />
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<strong class="title">The initial feud
with Robert Roode and James Storm was a special time. Where did the
paranoia of the Young character come from? What stood out as a highlight
in the feud?</strong></h2>
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“I was pressuring them (<span class="spellver" title="TAN, TINA, TUNA, TN, RNA, TBA, NA, TA, DNA, ETNA, TNT, TEA, ANA, INA, TVA, TWA, TIA">TNA)</span>,
as much as someone new could pressure them. I said I want a character, a
gimmick, and it didn’t really particularly matter what it was whether
it was a heel or a <span class="spellmod" title="baby face, baby-face, Boniface, baby's, benefice, babes, Barbuda's, babies, barfs, buybacks, babe's, Babels, babbles, babels, baobabs, Barbra's, barf's, Barbara's, barbarize, Babel's, babel's, baboons, babblers, baobab's, buyback's, babble's, baboon's, babbler's">babyface.</span> That’s my strength, my <span class="spellmod" title="skill set, skill-set, skillet, skillets, skills, stillest, skilled, silliest, skill's, skulls, skillet's, skull's">skill set:</span>
making people believe that I am that person that I’m crazy or happy go
lucky or funny or whatever it is that you decide that you need. I can
wrestle with anybody. There are guys that can athletically make me look
like a slug, but I can keep up with almost anybody.<br />
<br />
For the first two years, I was there I didn’t say a single word. I was in a lot of <span class="spellmod" title="pare, pore, prey, pure, pyre, per, PR, Pr, pr, Pres, pee, pref, prep, pres, prev, Ore, ore, PE, Re, re, PRO, pro, pry, PRC, Poe, pie, are, ere, ire, Pr's">pre-</span>tapes and a lot of <span class="ver" title="You should probably add a comma before <i>but</i>, or begin a new sentence.">promos but I</span> never said anything that was always Scott, sometimes it was Bobby, sometimes it was <span class="spellver" title="Pete, Peter, Petty, Peaty, Piety, PET, Pet, Perter, Pewter, Pate, Peed, Pity, Patty, Potty, Putty, Pete's">Petey,</span> every now and then Johnny would say something, but I <span class="ver" title="You should probably use the bare form of the verb here, e.g.: <i>It can <b>change</b> your life</i>. Another possibility would be to add <i>be</i> or <i>have</i>, e.g.: <i>The soup should <b>be</b> done</i>, <i>You should never <b>have</b> given away the secret</i>.">would never said</span>
a single word for almost two years. I was kind of the silent guy that
was there to carry the action, I got hired because I was a wrestler and a
lot of people knew me as the comedy guy, but I never made a <span class="ver" title="Please check. If the subject is not <i>I</i>, you should write <i>me</i>, e.g.: <i>He is proud of <b>me</b></i> (but <i><b>I</b> am proud of <b>myself</b></i>).">name for myself</span> in wrestling being a comedy guy. That comedy stuff started in <span class="spellver" title="TAN, TINA, TUNA, TN, RNA, TBA, NA, TA, DNA, ETNA, TNT, TEA, ANA, INA, TVA, TWA, TIA">TNA.</span> <span class="ver" title="You should probably place the adverb at the end, e.g.: <i>I saw the film <b>yesterday</b></i>.">I was never a comedy</span>
guy in indies. I never did any funny angles. I never did any character
stuff. I was a wrestler that’s it and that’s how I got my job.<br />
<br />
That thing came along and they said, we want you to be paranoid about being fired. Falling down from my <span class="spellmod" title="PRO, pro, pyre, gyro, tyro">pyro</span> and all that stuff, I came up with on the fly, thinking about <span class="ver" title="The verb should probably end in "-s", e.g.: <i>she work<b>s</b> here</i>, <i>he doe<b>s</b> more than his share</i>. Another possibility would be to use a past form, e.g.: <i>She <b>wrote</b> me a letter</i>.">what it be</span> like if I was a pro wrestler and I was really paranoid, I’m talking really paranoid. It <span class="ver" title="">all kind of</span>
happened naturally, but I just liked it because I could sink my teeth
into it. People really thought that I was worried or was a simpleton. I
am part that guy, but people believed that’s actually who I was and
that’s what makes me proud.”<br />
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<strong class="title">One of biggest
feuds of your career was your feud against the Main Event Mafia. What
did that experience leave you with and what have you been able to take
from it throughout your career?</strong></h2>
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“For me it was my first step in a serious role, and <span class="ver" title="The verb should probably be plural, e.g.: <i>There <b>are</b> a lot of errors in your assignment</i>.">there was a lot of doubters</span>. I had been cast as the popcorn guy, the funny guy, the ‘don’t take him too serious because you will cheer for him and <span class="ver" title="In written English, you should use the expression <i>be going to</i>, e.g.: <i>I <b>am going to</b> leave tomorrow</i> (if you are representing spoken speech, then it is of course acceptable).">he’s a going</span> <span class="ver" title="The verb should probably be in the past, e.g.: <i>We will get <b>married</b> next year</i>.">to get beat</span>‘
guy. Admittedly, it was a big stretch, but I was excited. I’m tagging
with Kevin Nash, and on the other side you’ve got Steiner, Kurt Angle
and Booker T, and I kind of proved that I could kind of hang with those
guys whether it is verbally or in the ring. I didn’t let myself be
intimidated by any of them, I stood up for myself and slid into the role
as best I could, and it was really cool. For me, it was a test: can I
do it at that level? I think I proved that I could. It was going really
well, and then there was a changing of the guard at <span class="spellver" title="TAN, TINA, TUNA, TN, RNA, TBA, NA, TA, DNA, ETNA, TNT, TEA, ANA, INA, TVA, TWA, TIA">TNA</span> and they didn’t like that angle and they didn’t like me and Kevin together, so they split us up and <span class="ver" title="">it was back</span> to square one. However, I have fond memories and I wouldn’t change any of it. It’s all a huge learning experience.”<br />
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<strong class="title">EY as a face is
great, but heel EY is just amazing. Share if you could details of the
program with Jeff Jarrett,Kurt Angle & Mick Foley. Any thoughts,
feelings or memories?</strong></h2>
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“For me, it just gave me confidence. It allowed me to just know that I
can do it. I think everyone feels self-doubt in whatever it is that you
do, and if you have to step outside yourself, then you have to. I feel
confident doing anything in wrestling. I’ve said this in other
interviews. I’m not good at anything. I’m terrible at life and paying
bills and being a regular human being, all <span class="ver" title="">that regular life</span>
kind of stuff, I’m awful at it. I’m not great at any sports. I’m not
really good at much of anything, but wrestling I can do. I was good at
it right away, the first day I did it. I mean, you never really know
whether you’re going to be able to make it. Truth is, a lot of times
it’s out of your hands, even if you are really, really good. I have the
confidence and the knowledge that I can do it at any level.”<br />
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<strong class="title">How did the World Elite booking come about, and how did you become the face of that faction?</strong></h2>
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“That was me saying, I have no problems being the funny guy, but I think I’m suited for a bigger role, I have a <span class="spellmod" title="skill set, skill-set, skillet, skillets, skills, stillest, skilled, silliest, skill's, skulls, skillet's, skull's">skill set</span> that is much more than I am allowed to show at this point. They wrote the <span class="spellmod" title="story line, story-line, strolling, scoreline, Stirling, storing, styling, startling, Sterling, starling, sterling, stolen, stolon, stroking, sterilize, stoppling, streamline, sterile, storytelling, strainer, stripling, treeline, straying, Stalin, strain, string, trolling, staling, staring">storyline</span>
and it was a whole bunch of us that didn’t really have a whole lot
going on and they put us in this group, this foreign heel group, and I
liked the idea of it. It wasn’t so much that America was stupid and it
wasn’t the typical ‘<span class="ver" title="Please check: <i>o<b>h</b></i> or <i>o<b>f</b></i>.">oh</span>, we hate Americans and we hate America.’ It was, we love America, but the problem is Americans are <span class="ver" title="Please check: <i>m<b>e</b>ssing</i> or <i>m<b>i</b>ssing</i>.">messing</span> it up for everybody. It was maybe too deep of an idea for pro wrestling, but I really liked it. It was <span class="ver" title="One usually writes <i>the</i> in this context, e.g.: <i><b>the</b> USA</i>, <i><b>the</b> UK</i>. You might also consider using an adjective, e.g.: <i>American</i>, <i>British</i>.">USA</span> versus the bad guys from other <span class="ver" title="You should use a comma before <i>but</i> if it introduces a complete clause, e.g.: <i>I'd like to go, but I can't afford it</i>.">countries but it</span> was cool. <span class="ver" title="Standard written English prefers the verb <i>have</i> in this context, e.g.: <i>I <b>have</b> to leave by Friday</i>. It might also be possible to write <i>arrived at</i> or <i>be able</i>, depending on the meaning you wish to convey.">I got to</span> talk a lot and be the leader of this group filled with super talented people: Doug Williams, <span class="spellver" title="Ma gnus, Ma-gnus, Mag nus, Mag-nus, Magnums, Magus, Margins, Magnum, Megan's, Meagan's, Margin's, Mingus, Magnum's, Mags, Mans, Magnets, Janus, Man's, Mag's, Mains, Manes, Menus, Minus, Magi's, Main's, Many's, Magus's, Mane's, Mange's, Mango's, Menu's, Magnet's">Magnus,</span> <span class="spellver" title="Davao, Diva, Aviary, Bavaria, Jivaro, Safari, Vivaria, Dairy, Diary, Diver, Divan, Divas, Daiquiri, Daycare, Driver, Davis, Davit, Diva's, Divers, Divert, Dave, Dive, David, Davies, Div, Drive, Dover, Fairy, Friar, Davy, Dire, Drover, Defray, Diver's, Darer, Deary, Devilry, Direr, Drear, Drier">Daivari,</span> and Rob Terry. We had a tool for every situation, it was a great group and getting a lot of heat and getting really over<span class="ver" title="This expression is usually followed by a comma when it is used at the beginning of a sentence.">. Then</span> the guard changed at <span class="spellver" title="TAN, TINA, TUNA, TN, RNA, TBA, NA, TA, DNA, ETNA, TNT, TEA, ANA, INA, TVA, TWA, TIA">TNA</span> again and the angle was a victim of circumstance more than anything.<br />
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A group like this could still be going in some form or fashion, and
the truth was, we didn’t really get a chance to sink our teeth into it,
it was six months, eight months at the most. We were really just
starting to establish what it was and who we were and what we meant and
then it was still split up again. That was frustrating for me, but
that’s part of wrestling. I’m not mad about it, but it is frustrating
when you pour yourself into something and believe in it wholeheartedly
and it gets pulled out from under you for no good reason. It’s just
personal choice, I suppose.”<br />
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<strong class="title">I had a chance to
speak with ODB last year and she said working with you was a career
highlight. What were your impressions of the angle and was
there anything you would have liked changed or not?</strong></h2>
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together and loved that angle so much and remember when you did this or
remember when you did that.’ It was fun. She is an ultra,
ultra-talented person. Probably at the time she was the most over
Knockout there. Her ability to talk is good, understanding in the ring
was good, and she understood who she is and how she fits into the
wrestling landscape, and how to get over. There is no better skill in
wrestling than knowing how to get over, that’s the number one skill.
Whether it’s to make people love you or to make people hate you, I
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I loved and people loved it. I think someone was telling me the other
day that we were the only wedding to start and finish. It was
interrupted, but we carried on and we finished it. I guess that’s why we
had it in the cage, so people couldn’t come in and ruin it for us.<br />
Between the belts and I’m wrestling women for six months, but I’m not
allowed to touch them. If you really go back and look, I don’t really
touch them. Spike TV had a rule where men and women weren’t allowed to
touch so I’d wrestle women for six months, but I’m not allowed to touch
them. I don’t know if there are a lot of guys out there that can pull
that off and I did it. That’s probably what I’m most proud of; no one
ever said, ‘Oh they don’t ever do anything’. They said ‘This was fun’
and ‘That was entertaining’ and ‘That was good.’ <span class="ver" title="You need to add a form of the verb <i>be</i>, e.g.: <i>It <b>is</b> for my friend</i>.">That for</span> me was the ultimate feather in my cap.”<br />
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<strong class="title">On May 29, you’ll
be competing for Smash Wrestling against Johnny Gargano. How does it
feel to be competing once again for Smash & being back in Ontario?</strong></h2>
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“Ontario is my home. It’s where I grew up, it’s where I cut my teeth
in wrestling, it’s where I started. Johnny, is ultra-talented. This will
be I think our third match and we have really good chemistry. I worked
with against him this past summer for Global Force in Cleveland, his
hometown, and I was the bad guy. He came out as a surprise, and it was
just fun. He’s a great guy, he’s a great wrestler. This will be my first
time wrestling for Smash. I hear only good things, and I know Sebastian
(Suave) a little bit, and I know a lot of the guys that work on the
shows. Ontario is a hotbed; there are twenty guys working in that part
of the country that could be on TV right now. Fans there are spoiled
rotten, and they’re good fans. They are respectful, understand
wrestling, show up and are great pro wrestling fans. It’s always great
to come home.”<br />
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<strong class="title">The elephant
in the room is that at the April 28 WWE NXT tapings, the wrestling world
was shocked to see your appearance and confrontation with Samoa Joe.
How did it initially come about and what can be wrestling fans expect
from you in NXT?</strong></h2>
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“That’s a big beautiful elephant if you’re asking me (laughs.) My time came to an end in <span class="spellver" title="TAN, TINA, TUNA, TN, RNA, TBA, NA, TA, DNA, ETNA, TNT, TEA, ANA, INA, TVA, TWA, TIA">TNA,</span>
it didn’t end badly, but it didn’t end the way I wanted it to. People
don’t get divorced because they’re happy. I didn’t agree with some
stuff, but we couldn’t come to terms and see eye to eye on some things,
so it was time for me to go and move on. Twelve amazing years, which is
insane to say, and I became a free agent. <span class="spellver" title="WEE, WE, WWW, EWE, WW, WWI, WOE, AWE, OWE">WWE</span>
reached out to me about coming down there for a meeting, and I met and
talked with Hunter. Things went great; he is a straightforward and
honest guy and so am <span class="ver" title="It is unusual to have a comma following a subject pronoun. Consider removing the comma or changing the pronoun, e.g.: <i>me, him</i>, etc.">I,</span>
and everything worked out and they said ‘Hey, what do you think about
being a surprise on the show?’ I said ‘Absolutely.’ One thing led to
another and out I came, and people went crazy.<br />
<br />
They put the clip up and it airs May 4. It’s humbling; I figured
there would be a reaction, I figured there would be something. I worked
hard for it and earned it. <span class="ver" title="It is unusual to start a sentence with <i>But ...</i>. Consider starting with <i>However, ...</i>">But</span>
I didn’t expect the volume, and the amount of reaction surprised me. It
was an amazing experience to be there and to interrupt the new
Heavyweight Champion, Samoa Joe, a really good friend of mine, a super
talented guy. To get to share the ring with him in the main event on <span class="spellver" title="NEXT, NT, EXT, NWT, NAT, NET, NIT, NOT, NUT">NXT</span> is the first step of many for me and it’s an amazing step.”<br />
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Interview can also be seen <a href="http://www.therichest.com/sports/wrestling/10-burning-questions-with-current-wwe-nxt-star-eric-young/">here</a> TheRichest.com Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03816246595711637157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665826034883825385.post-46554166646448646882017-01-21T13:22:00.002-08:002017-07-22T21:58:57.608-07:00An evening with TNA Impact Wrestling’s Elijah Burke<div data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="text-align: center;">
<i><b>Author:</b> </i><a data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/TheMarcMadison" href="https://twitter.com/TheMarcMadison" target="_blank">Marc Madison</a></div>
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Elijah Burke, who performs as “The Pope”<span class="ver" title="You probably need to remove the space, e.g.: <i>you<b>'v</b>e</i>."> D</span>‘Angelo <span class="spellver" title="">Dinero,</span> is one-half of <span class="spellver" title="TAN, TINA, TUNA, TN, RNA, TBA, NA, TA, DNA, ETNA, TNT, TEA, ANA, INA, TVA, TWA, TIA">TNA</span> <span class="ver" title="You probably need a space between the subject and the verb.">Impact</span>
Wrestling’s commentary team. He recently took some time out of his busy
schedule to participate in an interview with me. Burke’s career has
seen him compete with both <span class="spellver" title="">WWE</span> and <span class="spellver" title="TAN, TINA, TUNA, TN, RNA, TBA, NA, TA, DNA, ETNA, TNT, TEA, ANA, INA, TVA, TWA, TIA">TNA</span>
for a number of years. His growth as a performer both in the ring and
on the microphone is remarkable. In the interview, Burke shared his
thoughts about the chemistry between himself and Josh Matthews, and how a
particular match recently had both of them laughing hysterically. He
also opens up about his history with the business and who was integral
in his wrestling development.<br />
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Burke also discussed his
philanthropic projects, and how crucial giving back is to him. He
discusses his early training and development in <span class="spellver" title="VOW, OW, OVA">OVW,</span> how he turned down an initial offer to have a role in a faction, and how his early call up put him front and centre. <span class="spellver" title="TAN, TINA, TUNA, TN, RNA, TBA, NA, TA, DNA, ETNA, TNT, TEA, ANA, INA, TVA, TWA, TIA">TNA</span> <span class="ver" title="You probably need a space between the subject and the verb.">Impact</span>
Wrestling fans will be pleased with how open and forthcoming Pope is
about his evolution as a wrestler and how he initially prepared to
become a wrestler. As a graduate with a degree in criminal justice,
Burke is quick to share how crucial it is for today’s talent to prepare
for what may happen if wrestling doesn’t work out.<br />
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Burke remains an inspiration that fans can communicate with via various social mediums, such as Twitter where he can be reached <a data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/DaBlackPope" href="https://twitter.com/DaBlackPope" target="_blank">@</a><span class="spellver" title="Blackpool, Blacktop, Bagpipe, Blowpipe, Tailpipe, Bagpiper, Tabletop, Tablecloth, Tablespoon, Tabletops, Tabletop's"><a data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/DaBlackPope" href="https://twitter.com/DaBlackPope" target="_blank">DaBlackPope</a>,</span> and Facebook at <a data-mce-href="https://www.facebook.com/elijahburke" href="https://www.facebook.com/elijahburke" target="_blank">Facebook.com/ElijahBurke</a>.<br />
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<b>11. Discuss your transition from boxing to wrestling. How did that come about?</b></h3>
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"The
transition from an amateur boxing background to wrestling was not that
difficult, as far as showmanship and the entertainment aspect of it. It
wasn’t hard at all because my main reasoning for boxing was just to
entertain. Of course, I trained and did as much as I could to be a good
boxer so I could hold my own in the ring. I was more of a tough guy,
more of a brawler, a slugger.<br />
I grew up fighting, so the boxing
part wasn’t hard, but my main concern was the fulfillment of that
burning desire in me to entertain the masses. However, the only part
that was indeed a challenge was restricting myself from throwing actual
punches. When I would throw my punches or what not, I would have a hard
time pulling it back a bit. So that was the main thing that I actually
had to work on, which I did countless times by punching a dummy.<br />
<br />
I actually learned to throw my first actual wrestling punch from Jim <span class="spellver" title="Cornet, Corvette, Lorgnette, Corned, Courgette, Cornets, Colette, Janette, Connote, Cornet's, Coquette, Jeanette">Cornette.</span>
One of the ways that I learned to throw fake punches in the wrestling
ring, without having legit force that would injure my opponent in the
ring, was using a lightbulb that would hang in the distance. I would do
my best to hit that lightbulb without damaging it, breaking it or moving
it. So if I could throw a good enough punch to a lightbulb without
causing it to shatter, I think that’s pretty good. I think that as time
went on, I felt more comfortable with it and I was able to incorporate
my actual boxing strikes in the ring and be safe with it."<br />
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<b>10.
During your training with OVW, you developed your character both in the
ring and on the mic. Who would you attribute as being supportive during
your early development?</b></h3>
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"Jim <span class="spellver" title="">Cornette</span> and Danny Davis. Danny Davis is the grandfather, the wizard, of <span class="spellver" title="VOW, OW, OVA">OVW.</span> Those two were very instrumental in helping me develop my character. Jim <span class="spellver" title="Cornet, Corvette, Lorgnette, Corned, Courgette, Cornets, Colette, Janette, Connote, Cornet's, Coquette, Jeanette">Cornette</span> said “just be you, just do what you do, the people love you.” That was basically what it was.<br />
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On
the microphone? On the mic? The gift to gab, if you will, that came
along with the whole package with Elijah. That’s something that I’ve
always done. That’s something that I hadn’t needed to really develop. If
there is someone that I would attribute my ability to gab to, I would
say my Pastor, Willie May Goodness, from down home in southern
Jacksonville, Florida. Where I grew up, in church, is where all that
came from, the gift of gab and being able to talk on the mic and be
comfortable with it.<br />
If there was anyone that showed me how to
convey emotion and allow it to manifest it into something more for the
viewing audience, then of course that goes to “The American Dream” Dusty
Rhodes, who I had the privilege and the honor to work with. He was my
childhood idol during my time in <span class="spellver" title="VOW, OW, OVA">OVW,</span> prior to my time in<span class="spellver" title="EC, CW, ECO, ECU, ECG">ECW.</span> Definitely, it was Dusty who was supportive.<br />
<br />
Dusty
saw me and I went and introduced myself and he stopped me. He said, “I
already know about you, daddy. You and I are going to have some fun.” I
would do my promos and it would be awesome. They would have scripts, but
he believed in me so much that he would take the script or anything
they wanted me to say and he would turn it down. He would say, “just do
what you’re going to do, daddy. You let me deal with Stephanie and
Vince. You just say what you’re going to say.” That was just so
awesome because he believed in me so much. He knew that I could take
what they wanted me to do and put it in my own words and hit a <span class="spellmod" title="home run, home-run, homering, Homeric, hammering, homered, humerus, homegrown, homeroom, hometown, hovering, humoring, humeri, Hymen, heron, hymen, Hamsun, Cameron, Comoran, humeral, humerus's">home run</span> with it. That’s what we would do all the time."<br />
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<b>9.
The early part of your time in the WWE was alongside Sylvester Terkay.
Describe the experience and what you may or may not have liked about it.</b></h3>
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"It’s <span class="spellver" title="Tue, Tour, Tu, Turk, Tut, Turd, Turf, Turn, Thur, Tr, Ur, Tar, Tor, Tub, Tug, Tum, Tun, Eur, Bur, Cur, Fur, Our, Tux">Tur-</span><span class="spellver" title="KERI, KEPI, LEI, KEY, KEN, KEG, PEI, WEI">KEI,</span>
daddy! (laughs) Well that was very interesting for me, my call up. As
you know, there was a call up for The Spirit Squad, and a lot of people
were always struck by why I didn’t get that call up. I won’t go into
details on that right now, but I turned it down. They said “Don’t
worry, we’ll get you back up when he has something for you.” Lo and
behold, they brought me up with Sylvester, and instead of coming up as a
wrestler, I’m coming up as a mouth piece. I felt that it was going to
be a favourable role as well, much like in the Spirit Squad. However,
they brought me up to be in charge of this beast, who was legit, much
like myself; he was an <span class="spellver" title="MAM, MA, MM, MAMA, MIA, MME, EMMA, AMA, MBA, MFA">MMA</span> guy. He had several <span class="spellver" title="MAM, MA, MM, MAMA, MIA, MME, EMMA, AMA, MBA, MFA">MMA</span>
matches and he was a monster. But he was a gentle monster, and to a
fault he was a naïve monster as well, which might be unfair to say, but
he definitely was.<br />
<br />
So the experience for me at that time as a
rookie was being the advocate for him in our tag team that we had,
smoothing over things that may have gone rough, or may not have been
perceived well by the boys. He was generally well liked, and I liked
working with him. They were grooming <span class="spellver" title="Turkey, Terkel, Terry, Trey, Turkeys, Turnkey, Turk, Take, Teak, Toke, Tyke, Jerky, Perky, Terse, Starkey, Tokay, Dorky, Tacky, Taker, Turkey's">Terkay</span> for The Undertaker, and so I was “<span class="ver" title="">Hey, let</span>‘s do whatever we have to do to make this happen.” If
you’re going to work a program with Undertaker, they will try to take
you to Mania. That’s what they had with Taker. So, they were grooming
him for Taker, but he had so many different folks in his ear talking
about how to get him over, and he would just compete.<br />
<br />
A lot of his
stuff, if it looked like it hurt, it actually hurt. That hurt him in
that aspect. So, I was put in his place, having my first match in place
of him against <span class="spellver" title="Rwy, Rye, Re, Ry, Rely, Ray, Roy, Frey, Grey, Trey, Urey, Prey, REM, Rep, Rev, Rec, Red, Ref, Reg, Rel, Rem, Res, Key, Bey, Fey, Hey, Rex, Re's">Rey</span> <span class="spellver" title="Mystery, Mysterious, Mysteries, Mastery, Hysteria, Muster, Mustering, Maestro, Master, Mister, Stereo, Mystic, Mastering, Mystery's">Mysterio</span> on <span class="spellver" title="Smack down, Smack-down, Markdown, Smacking, Smacked, Stockton, Smocking, Smocked">Smackdown,</span> and the rest is history. It was “Holy crap, this kid can go,” so they went with me instead. Then, I was on my way.<br />
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<b>8.
The New Breed was a faction that brought new and younger talent to the
forefront. How did that experience help you grow and develop?</b></h3>
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"That
was the best confidence building experience that a guy in my position
at that time could have. One, because Vince himself was behind the
Elijah Burke movement at the time. I had no idea that any of that was
about to transpire with me and the <span class="spellver" title="EC, CW, ECO, ECU, ECG">ECW</span> originals, and being called the new face of extreme, or however <span data-mce-style="line-height: 1.5;" style="line-height: 1.5;">it was put at the time. It did so much for me because I have the boss deeming me the new face of </span><span class="spellver" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.5;" style="line-height: 1.5;" title="">ECW.</span><span data-mce-style="line-height: 1.5;" style="line-height: 1.5;">
So it was “Put up right now or shut up,” because everything I had
worked for by that point, or dreamed of doing or being, led to this.
Here is my opportunity to go out there every night and do the darn
thing.</span> I was going in there against former world champions, like my first time against the only guy to hold a <span class="spellver" title="WEE, WE, WWW, EWE, WW, WWI, WOE, AWE, OWE">WWE</span>and <span class="spellver" title="EC, CW, ECO, ECU, ECG">ECW</span>
title at the same time, Rob Van Dam, who has done it all and wrestled
all over. Either I’m going to soar like an eagle in these match-ups, or I
am going to crash and burn. So that’s essentially where I was.</div>
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There
were nights where I went out there and I had no idea that I’d be
wrestling a Tommy Dreamer, who is #3 on my list as far as most
influential people who affected me. Getting in there with people like <span class="spellver" title="SBA, Sub, Daub, Saab, Sabik, Sabin, Sb, San, Saul, Dab, Say, Scab, Slab, Stab, Swab, Saber, SA, Bu, Snub, Stub, AB, Ab, SOB, Sob, Sabre, Sable, Sabot, Sabra, Samba, Sebum, Saki, Sana, Baby, Sane, Sari, Save, ABA, Abe, Lab, SAC, SAM, SAP, SAT, Sal, Sam, Sat, Stu, Cab, Fab, Gab, Jab, Nab, Sac, Sad, Sag, Sap, Saw, Sou, Tab, Cebu, Zebu, Saar, Sobs, Subj, Subs, SARS, SASE, Sade, Sara, Babe, Sack, Safe, Saga, Sage, Sago, Said, Sail, Sake, Sale, Same, Sash, Sass, Sate, Saws, Says, Saab's, San'a, Sb's, SOB's, Sob's, Sub's, Saw's, Say's">Sabu.</span> To be at such a young age, and new to the business, I was actually in a position to lead.<br />
Now,
you have to remember that at the time I was a heel, and heels generally
lead matches. Even though I was young, these guys asked me, “What do
you want to do and what are you thinking?” Things like that. Wrestling
with a Sandman or Balls <span class="spellver" title="Ma honey, Ma-honey, Honey, Money, Mooney, Malone, Haney, Machine, Maine, Mahogany, Hone, Mane, Many, Mainer, Marne, Honer, Macon, Mason, Manner">Mahoney</span>
wasn’t difficult at all because they were down with whatever I wanted
to do. It was just really a great experience to be in there with
everybody that I was in there with at that time."<br />
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<b>7.
Prior to leaving the WWE, the Black Pope character debuted. How does it
parallel D’Angelo Dinero? How much “creative” have you had with the
character?</b></h3>
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"The Black Pope character was something that never got going in the <span class="spellver" title="WEE, WE, WWW, EWE, WW, WWI, WOE, AWE, OWE">WWE.</span> It was something I came up with and did for the first time in the Staples Centre, in <span class="spellver" title="Laos, Leos, Lois, Loos, Lose, Loss, Lows, Ls, Lobs, Logs, Lops, Lost, Lots, Lo, OS, Os, L's, Les, Lou, Lbs, Loo, Low, Lox, DOS, Lon, Lot, SOS, SOs, Cos, Dos, Hos, Lob, Log, Lop, Mos, Nos, Lao's, Leo's, Li's, LP's, KO's, Lou's, Low's, O's, La's, Le's, Lu's">Los</span> Angeles in a dark match against <span class="spellver" title="Funk, Fungi, Funky, Fink, Funkier, Funks, Nunki, Funk's">Funaki.</span> I show up that day and I’m told, “Do <span class="ver" title="Please check: If you mean <i>you are</i>, then write <i>you're</i> (the word <i>your</i> is correct as a possessive form, e.g.: <i>Let's go to <b>your</b> house</i>).">your Black</span> Pope thing.”<br />
No one warned me, and I’m just <span class="ver" title="">there saying</span> “But
I don’t have any clothes for the character!” (laughs) That was
something that we did and it never got off the ground. I was sitting on
the sidelines and had nothing to do, and no one knew what was going on.<br />
We had a shuffle of the writers at that time, back with <span class="spellver" title="EC, CW, ECO, ECU, ECG">ECW.</span> <span class="spellver" title="">ECW</span>
was transitioning its roster to Raw and everything was being switched
up so much that I just got lost in the shuffle. So, I thought I’d come
up with a new character to keep myself new and fresh.<br />
But the whole “Pope” thing was ignored by the <span class="spellver" title="WEE, WE, WWW, EWE, WW, WWI, WOE, AWE, OWE">WWE.</span>
You normally have to go with the flow, even if an idea is yours, but
you believe in it and you see where you want to go with it. You know
where it can go if creative gets hold of it and they say they like the
idea. But they want to put their own spin on it, their own <span class="spellmod" title="touch's, touches, douches, torch's, torches, touch, techs, touche, touchy, toughs, tech's, tush's, couch's, douche's, pouch's, tough's">touches, </span>and <span data-mce-style="line-height: 1.5;" style="line-height: 1.5;">you </span>become jaded or what not.<br />
<span class="spellver" title="Tangelo, Dangle, Dangler, Angelo, Angelou, Dongle, Tangle, Dangled, Dangles, Angel, Anglo, Tangelos, Daniel, Danger, Tangelo's">D’Angelo</span> <span class="spellver" title="Diner, Diners, Dinner, Dinker, Dino, Nero, Dine, Diner's, Dinners, Finery, Deanery, Dinar, Dingo, Direr, Dined, Dines, Denier, Donor, Donner, Dinars, Downer, Dunner, Winery, Dire, Diane, Done, Drier, Dune, Deniers, Dinnered, Drainer, Din, Dingier, Dinner's, Dinkier, Darner, Tinier, Dane, Dina, Ding, Tine, Dinar's, Denier's, Dino's">Dinero</span>
came about through Vince Russo. BRO! You have to give Russo his credit.
BRO! They were going to bring me in as Elijah Burke and here we go
again. “BRO! You have to do that, bro. You have to be the Pope, bro it’s
money. I’ve got a name for it too, bro, <span class="spellver" title="Tangelo, Dangle, Dangler, Angelo, Angelou, Dongle, Tangle, Dangled, Dangles, Angel, Anglo, Tangelos, Daniel, Danger, Tangelo's">D’Angelo</span> <span class="spellver" title="Diner, Diners, Dinner, Dinker, Dino, Nero, Dine, Diner's, Dinners, Finery, Deanery, Dinar, Dingo, Direr, Dined, Dines, Denier, Donor, Donner, Dinars, Downer, Dunner, Winery, Dire, Diane, Done, Drier, Dune, Deniers, Dinnered, Drainer, Din, Dingier, Dinner's, Dinkier, Darner, Tinier, Dane, Dina, Ding, Tine, Dinar's, Denier's, Dino's">Dinero.</span> <span class="spellver" title="Diner, Diners, Dinner, Dinker, Dino, Nero, Dine, Diner's, Dinners, Finery, Deanery, Dinar, Dingo, Direr, Dined, Dines, Denier, Donor, Donner, Dinars, Downer, Dunner, Winery, Dire, Diane, Done, Drier, Dune, Deniers, Dinnered, Drainer, Din, Dingier, Dinner's, Dinkier, Darner, Tinier, Dane, Dina, Ding, Tine, Dinar's, Denier's, Dino's">Dinero</span> means money.” <span class="spellver" title="Tangelo, Dangle, Dangler, Angelo, Angelou, Dongle, Tangle, Dangled, Dangles, Angel, Anglo, Tangelos, Daniel, Danger, Tangelo's">D’Angelo</span><span class="spellver" title="">Dinero</span>
was Russo’s pick for the name and I agreed to it. The Pope was my
thing. It is and was everything to this day because I was allowed to
fulfill the vision that I had with my character.<br />
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<b>6.
During your initial run with TNA you engaged in a number of solid feuds.
Which were you most proud of, and which would you have liked to have
seen more come from?</b></h3>
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"I was most proud of my feud with <span class="spellver" title="AK, ADJ, AH, SJ, A, J, AC, AG, OJ, AX, MAJ, HAJ, AA, AI, AR, AU, AW, AB, AD, AF, AL, AM, AP, AV, AZ, AS, AT, DJ, NJ, VJ, AN, A'S">AJ</span> Styles. Much like my experience in <span class="spellver" title="WEE, WE, WWW, EWE, WW, WWI, WOE, AWE, OWE">WWE,</span> out of the blue <span class="spellver" title="Turkey, Terkel, Terry, Trey, Turkeys, Turnkey, Turk, Take, Teak, Toke, Tyke, Jerky, Perky, Terse, Starkey, Tokay, Dorky, Tacky, Taker, Turkey's">Terkay</span> was removed and I’m put in there with <span class="spellver" title="Mystery, Mysterious, Mysteries, Mastery, Hysteria, Muster, Mustering, Maestro, Master, Mister, Stereo, Mystic, Mastering, Mystery's">Mysterio.</span> I had no idea I was going to be in there with <span class="spellver" title="Mystery, Mysterious, Mysteries, Mastery, Hysteria, Muster, Mustering, Maestro, Master, Mister, Stereo, Mystic, Mastering, Mystery's">Mysterio,</span> and then I’m in there with <span class="spellver" title="Titania, Tartans, Titanic, Tartan, Stank, Tank, Tartan's, Titans, Titan, Titan's, Tetanus, Satanic">Tatanka,</span> and I’m in there wrestling all these legendary guys who I grew up watching.<br />
<br />
We’re watching <span class="spellver" title="TAN, TINA, TUNA, TN, RNA, TBA, NA, TA, DNA, ETNA, TNT, TEA, ANA, INA, TVA, TWA, TIA">TNA</span> while we are with <span class="spellver" title="WEE, WE, WWW, EWE, WW, WWI, WOE, AWE, OWE">WWE,</span> and while touring, that’s what we do. We love the business, so we watch them. So, you watch an <span class="spellver" title="AK, ADJ, AH, SJ, A, J, AC, AG, OJ, AX, MAJ, HAJ, AA, AI, AR, AU, AW, AB, AD, AF, AL, AM, AP, AV, AZ, AS, AT, DJ, NJ, VJ, AN, A'S">AJ</span> Styles “The Phenomenal One,” he’s touted as being Phenomenal, he IS Phenomenal. He’s feuded with the “who’s who” in <span class="spellver" title="">TNA.</span>
Now all of a sudden it’s Pope’s turn. A guy that always knew he could
hang with the best, be with the best, and now quite frankly I was with
one of the best pure high-flying wrestlers there is. He can just go. So, I was most proud to be able to get in there and tour around the country and kill it with <span class="spellver" title="AK, ADJ, AH, SJ, A, J, AC, AG, OJ, AX, MAJ, HAJ, AA, AI, AR, AU, AW, AB, AD, AF, AL, AM, AP, AV, AZ, AS, AT, DJ, NJ, VJ, AN, A'S">AJ</span> Styles. I’m driven as well, so being the character that I am and being in there with “The Phenomenal One” <span class="spellver" title="AK, ADJ, AH, SJ, A, J, AC, AG, OJ, AX, MAJ, HAJ, AA, AI, AR, AU, AW, AB, AD, AF, AL, AM, AP, AV, AZ, AS, AT, DJ, NJ, VJ, AN, A'S">AJ</span>
Styles, it was just magic and I was humbled by that. Along with this
feud, to be in there with one of my favorite wrestlers of all time, <span class="spellver" title="Rick, Rico, RC, Rice, Rich, Riv, Tic, RI, Rec, Rig, Eric, Uric, RFC, Rio, Bic, RIF, RIP, Vic, Mic, Pic, Rib, Rid, Rim, Rip, Sic">Ric</span> <span class="ver" title="Write <i>fla<b>re</b></i> (unless you mean "ability" or "style", in which case <i>flair</i> is the correct spelling).">Flair</span>, it was just great.<br />
<br />
The
feud that I wish would have played out a little bit better was with
Samoa Joe. We got thrown together on a whim, for no reason. Not much
build up. Every time we had a match-up, it was almost as if we were an
afterthought. Even though we did segments that got us the highest rating
on <span class="spellmod" title="impact, impacts, impart, impact's, impacted, compact, impasto, import">iMPACT,</span>
for instance, when they had the roasted pig on a spit and Joe comes to
the ring. We had a really hot roasted pig on the table with an apple in
its mouth. Seriously, I don’t know who comes up with this stuff, but it
was straight out of the oven. <span class="ver" title="If this is a question, the subject should come second, e.g.: <i>Will <b>we</b> be late?</i>">Who does that?</span>
There are people at home who don’t even believe that it was hot, but it
burned me tremendously when Samoa Joe came out and muscle busted me
through that table and that pig fell on me. It was burning my skin,
literally. Our feud went all the way to <span class="spellver" title="Lock down, Lock-down, Knockdown, Lowdown, London, Lockean, Lucknow, Lockout, Letdown, Locking, Locked, Yorktown, Markdown, Cordon, Laocoon, Locating, Locket, Location, Lockouts, Locution, Gordon, Landon, Lyndon, Locator, Lookout, Lockout's">Lockdown</span>
and we had a great match. I just wish our stuff could have played out
and had a little more thought and detail into it. I definitely enjoyed
those feuds the most.<br />
And Suicide! I don’t know how Pope could have forgotten him. Suicide, as well as <span class="spellver" title="AK, ADJ, AH, SJ, A, J, AC, AG, OJ, AX, MAJ, HAJ, AA, AI, AR, AU, AW, AB, AD, AF, AL, AM, AP, AV, AZ, AS, AT, DJ, NJ, VJ, AN, A'S">AJ,</span>
was my favorite, Joe being the one that I thought could have had more
detail and attention given to it. I can say wrestling against Suicide
was one of the most fun experiences I have had as a competitor. It was
unbelievable, we had so much fun. We were willing to do everything and
anything to make our feud great. That series of matches against Suicide
is really what turned the tide. We literally had the crowd turn Pope
from being the bad guy, though they really hadn’t booed me for the most
part. I have to get credit to my series of matches against Suicide, it
was just too entertaining for people to hate me. They wanted to love
Pope, and <span class="ver" title="Please check: <i>th<b>u</b>s</i> or <i>th<b>i</b>s</i>.">thus</span>, Pope became the baby face, and that’s what led into <span class="spellver" title="AK, ADJ, AH, SJ, A, J, AC, AG, OJ, AX, MAJ, HAJ, AA, AI, AR, AU, AW, AB, AD, AF, AL, AM, AP, AV, AZ, AS, AT, DJ, NJ, VJ, AN, A'S">AJ</span> Styles."<br />
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<b>5.
Discuss your return to OVW and the differences you found with the
program. Did you find you were called upon more during this time?</b></h3>
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"It wasn’t necessarily a return to <span class="spellver" title="VOW, OW, OVA">OVW,</span> it was more so a thank you to <span class="spellver" title="VOW, OW, OVA">OVW.</span> It was more a showing up as needed, and <span class="spellver" title="WEE, WE, WWW, EWE, WW, WWI, WOE, AWE, OWE">WWE</span> was no longer there. <span class="spellver" title="TAN, TINA, TUNA, TN, RNA, TBA, NA, TA, DNA, ETNA, TNT, TEA, ANA, INA, TVA, TWA, TIA">TNA</span>
had pulled out as well, I believe. This was more something like “I want
to come in and do anything Danny Davis needs or wants.” If I’m up that
way, then he has me, like on Nov 21st, 2015, he has something big going
on and I’ll be there. He contacted me and asked me if I could be there
and I will do anything for Danny Davis.<br />
As we talked about
earlier, regarding who played the most prominent role in crafting Elijah
Burke, I said it was The Wizard and Jim <span class="spellver" title="Cornet, Corvette, Lorgnette, Corned, Courgette, Cornets, Colette, Janette, Connote, Cornet's, Coquette, Jeanette">Cornette.</span> So any time that I can help Danny Davis or <span class="spellver" title="VOW, OW, OVA">OVW</span>
and lend my name or experience and help out, I am there. I’m in more of
a veteran role now, and I try to do what the Rob Conway did for me and
what the Matt Morgan did for me, and that’s just give advice, give
direction and just be available to all those who want it. Sadly enough,
there isn’t enough that want it, but for those who do, I try to give
them that veteran advice and the same thing that was given to me."<br />
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<b>4.
Since returning to TNA you’ve worked alongside former WWE announcer
Josh Matthews. Discuss the chemistry both on screen and off between
yourselves.</b></h3>
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"Josh
is a middle-aged grumpy old man (laughs). He is going to kill me for
that, but that’s just what we do. You asked about our relationship, and
it’s all good and on the up and up, and I want you to be sure to report
that. Middle-aged, grumpy old man, that’s Josh Matthews (laughs).</div>
What
a lot of people don’t know – and I’m going to discuss the chemistry in a
minute – what a lot of people don’t know about Josh Matthews is that in
his role he is a man that wears many hats. I don’t think he gets the
credit from the <span class="spellver" title="WC, ICC, INC">IWC</span> that he deserves. When I say <span class="spellver" title="WC, ICC, INC">IWC,</span>
I’m just talking about Twitter because that’s all I see and know of. I
don’t think he gets the credit he deserves because I see people make
negative comments about him on Twitter.<br />
<br />
Josh does so much.
Honestly, he is a great individual. We have built great chemistry just
from liking each other. He is the yin to my yang. We just compliment
each other so well. He’s just a straight shooter. He’s the knowledgeable
guy and the historian and he steers the ship. All Pope has to do is
say, “Hey, be Pope.” It just works well. I don’t step on his toes as far
as what he does and he doesn’t step on mine. We both know our roles, we
do it and we have fun doing it. So recently, there was a match in our World title series between <span class="spellver" title="Gr ado, Gr-ado, Grad, Grady, Grade, Gerardo, Grader, Grid, Grads, Prado, Credo, Grate, Grad's">Grado</span> and <span class="spellver" title="Rock star, Rock-star, Rocks tar, Rocks-tar, Costar, Rockiest, Rocks, Rockets, Rocket, Roster, Trickster, Rochester, Backstair, Recast, Roaster, Roister, Rooster, Jocasta, Ricks, Rock's, Rocket's, Huckster, Roadster, Robuster, Rocketed, Acosta, Register, Coaster, Racks, Roast, Rooks, Roost, Roust, Rucks, Rocky's, Rick's, Rack's, Rook's">Rockstar</span> Spud. Josh calls him<span class="spellver" title="Grade, Grader, Grad, Grady, Grate, Graded, Grades, Greed, Grater, Gyrate, Grid, Grads, Grace, Glade, Grape, Grave, Graze, Trade, Crate, Crude, Grade's, Grad's">GradE-</span><span class="verupdated" title="">O, but I</span>
don’t know why. When I tell you I have watched this match so many times
I have lost count, it is the absolute truth. Instead of trying to sit
there and call this a huge match of gigantic proportion, and do an
injustice to what they are doing because it was an entertaining <span class="ver" title="">match with</span>
a lot of comedic spots in it, you call it as it is. You call it as the
fans at home are viewing it. So when I’m calling the matches alongside
Josh, I’m just a fan. If I’m sitting at home watching <span class="spellver" title="">Grado</span> against <span class="spellver" title="">Rockstar</span> Spud, I would be dying laughing.<br />
<br />
So
what happened when Pope was calling the match, Pope was dying laughing.
It was all I could do. He (Josh) just started having fun with it too.
It was that type of match-up, it really was. I love working with Josh,
he’s <span class="ver" title="">a confident</span> individual and we
love working with one another. Some people don’t like working with the
person next to them or loathe who they are with; me and Josh, we’re
brothers in the bond."<br />
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<b>3. What have you found to be the biggest transition from being in the ring to commentary?</b></h3>
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"Pope
adds colour, literally and figuratively (laughs). It’s all good, Marc
(laughs). The hardest part is what you said, to just sit back and add
colour <span class="ver" title="If you mean "excessively", write <i>t<b>oo</b></i>.">to commentary.</span>
When you’re watching your brothers in the ring and you had wanted to be
in there and you can’t, even though you know you are ready to go at any
time, it’s just the hardest part. I believe in being a team
player; I know my role, I know what I signed up for. If I never wanted
to do it, then I never would have come back in that position. I thought
it was a great opportunity to expand in my wrestling career to do new
things and understand different aspects of the business. So, I love
adding colour and adding justice to the guys that are my brothers in the
ring. There are so many times over the years where I’ve listened to
commentary here and there, and sometimes the person on commentary was
not doing justice to what was transpiring in the ring.<br />
I love
being there and drawing attention to specific details by pointing out
different things. I can tie in my own personal experiences to the colour
commentary that I am giving and do the boys justice. I don’t mind doing
that, it’s my role<span class="ver" title="Please check: <i>Hel<b>l</b></i> or <i>Hell<b>o</b></i>.">. Hell</span>, somebody’s got to do it, why not Pope? I’m so blessed and so fortunate that over my <span class="ver" title="The noun should probably be plural (without an apostrophe, unless indicating possession), e.g.: <i>several girl<b>s</b></i>.">twelve-year-</span>plus
career I’ve never really been restricted when it came to being on the
mic. All the way back to Vince, I never had to go out there and go over
verbiage with Vince McMahon and go over how to say something. My bosses
have always had confidence in what I do and how I deliver it. Even to
this day, it’s freedom, it’s being Pope. I am being Pope from start to
finish. I have liberty to say and do what needs to be said, or how I see
it. It’s all to my discretion because I don’t have someone in my ear
that is saying “say this” or “say that.”<br />
<br />
Now of course, you will
have reminders of something that you may have missed, or are not aware
of. That’s when you will get the buzz in the ear, but that’s about it.
The liberty and the artistic freedom is just great. It’s much like when Pope discusses Bobby <span class="spellver" title="Ashley, Lushly, Ashlee, Lesley, Lashed, Lashes, Rashly, Ladle, Largely, Flashily, Lash, Latchkey, Lavishly, Lamely, Lately, Harshly, Leashed, Leashes, Lisle, Lithely, Fleshly, Plushly, Lusher, Ashlar, Labile, Lash's, Lazily, Lushes">Lashley.</span> He calls what <span class="spellver" title="Ashley, Lushly, Ashlee, Lesley, Lashed, Lashes, Rashly, Ladle, Largely, Flashily, Lash, Latchkey, Lavishly, Lamely, Lately, Harshly, Leashed, Leashes, Lisle, Lithely, Fleshly, Plushly, Lusher, Ashlar, Labile, Lash's, Lazily, Lushes">Lashley</span> does a vertical <span class="spellmod" title="sup lay, sup-lay, splay, supply, suppl, splat, splays, sepal, play, slay, spay, supple, byplay, Sulla, sully, suppler, surly, spray, supra, display, replay, simply, splashy, misplay, spill, soupy, spays, ply, sly, spa, spell, splay's, spy, sup, pupal, scaly, spumy, sputa, sourly, splash, slap, ploy, sepals, slaw, spar, supp, supply's, sepal's">suplex.</span> There are a lot of people that may not understand the throwback, what that means and why Pope says it so much when it comes to <span class="spellver" title="Ashley, Lushly, Ashlee, Lesley, Lashed, Lashes, Rashly, Ladle, Largely, Flashily, Lash, Latchkey, Lavishly, Lamely, Lately, Harshly, Leashed, Leashes, Lisle, Lithely, Fleshly, Plushly, Lusher, Ashlar, Labile, Lash's, Lazily, Lushes">Lashley.</span> That’s because I grew up on Gordon <span class="spellver" title="">Solie</span> and World Championship Wrestling. Gordon<span class="spellver" title="So lie, So-lie, Sole, Sloe, Soil, Slier, Slue, Solo, Sol, Sallie, Solar, Sale, Solis, Solid, Solve, Slow, Soul, Silo, Soiled, Soldier, Solider, Slew, Slice, Slide, Slime, Soled, Soles, Stole, Sail, Sill, Lie, Slope, Smile, Soils, Stile, Sole's, Soil's">Solie</span> was the premier announcer at that time for all of TBS. When Gordon <span class="spellver" title="So lie, So-lie, Sole, Sloe, Soil, Slier, Slue, Solo, Sol, Sallie, Solar, Sale, Solis, Solid, Solve, Slow, Soul, Silo, Soiled, Soldier, Solider, Slew, Slice, Slide, Slime, Soled, Soles, Stole, Sail, Sill, Lie, Slope, Smile, Soils, Stile, Sole's, Soil's">Solie</span> called that a <span class="spellmod" title="sup lay, sup-lay, splay, supply, suppl, splat, splays, sepal, play, slay, spay, supple, byplay, Sulla, sully, suppler, surly, spray, supra, display, replay, simply, splashy, misplay, spill, soupy, spays, ply, sly, spa, spell, splay's, spy, sup, pupal, scaly, spumy, sputa, sourly, splash, slap, ploy, sepals, slaw, spar, supp, supply's, sepal's">suplex,</span>
at the time I probably didn’t know what it meant per se, but I knew
what it was because he would always say it when someone would hit a <span class="spellmod" title="sup lay, sup-lay, splay, supply, suppl, splat, splays, sepal, play, slay, spay, supple, byplay, Sulla, sully, suppler, surly, spray, supra, display, replay, simply, splashy, misplay, spill, soupy, spays, ply, sly, spa, spell, splay's, spy, sup, pupal, scaly, spumy, sputa, sourly, splash, slap, ploy, sepals, slaw, spar, supp, supply's, sepal's">suplex.</span> So, I like to pay homage to Gordon <span class="spellver" title="So lie, So-lie, Sole, Sloe, Soil, Slier, Slue, Solo, Sol, Sallie, Solar, Sale, Solis, Solid, Solve, Slow, Soul, Silo, Soiled, Soldier, Solider, Slew, Slice, Slide, Slime, Soled, Soles, Stole, Sail, Sill, Lie, Slope, Smile, Soils, Stile, Sole's, Soil's">Solie.</span> A lot of fans today don’t have a clue who he was because they don’t know the history of wrestling. My boy<span class="spellver" title="So lie, So-lie, Sole, Sloe, Soil, Slier, Slue, Solo, Sol, Sallie, Solar, Sale, Solis, Solid, Solve, Slow, Soul, Silo, Soiled, Soldier, Solider, Slew, Slice, Slide, Slime, Soled, Soles, Stole, Sail, Sill, Lie, Slope, Smile, Soils, Stile, Sole's, Soil's">Solie,</span>
they don’t know what he contributed so therefore they wouldn’t
understand the homage that Pope pays every time he’s on the microphone
doing commentary, and every time Bobby <span class="spellver" title="Ashley, Lushly, Ashlee, Lesley, Lashed, Lashes, Rashly, Ladle, Largely, Flashily, Lash, Latchkey, Lavishly, Lamely, Lately, Harshly, Leashed, Leashes, Lisle, Lithely, Fleshly, Plushly, Lusher, Ashlar, Labile, Lash's, Lazily, Lushes">Lashley</span> hits that standing vertical standing <span class="spellmod" title="sup lay, sup-lay, splay, supply, suppl, splat, splays, sepal, play, slay, spay, supple, byplay, Sulla, sully, suppler, surly, spray, supra, display, replay, simply, splashy, misplay, spill, soupy, spays, ply, sly, spa, spell, splay's, spy, sup, pupal, scaly, spumy, sputa, sourly, splash, slap, ploy, sepals, slaw, spar, supp, supply's, sepal's">suplex.</span> That’s why I do that."<br />
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<b>2. It was reported that you’ve earned a degree in criminal justice. How do you feel that’s set you up for life after wrestling?</b></h3>
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"I did that during my previous <span class="ver" title="Please check: <i>st<b>i</b>nt</i> (period of time) or <i>st<b>e</b>nt</i> (medical tube).">stint</span> with <span class="spellver" title="TAN, TINA, TUNA, TN, RNA, TBA, NA, TA, DNA, ETNA, TNT, TEA, ANA, INA, TVA, TWA, TIA">TNA,</span> but <span class="ver" title="Your probably need to add <i>to</i>, e.g.: <i>She asked <b>to</b> leave early</i>.">I started back</span> on it while I was with the <span class="spellver" title="">WWE.</span> It was one of the things where I was on the sidelines with the <span class="spellver" title="WEE, WE, WWW, EWE, WW, WWI, WOE, AWE, OWE">WWE,</span> and you have Mickie James sitting up in the stands, <span class="spellver" title="WEE, WE, WWW, EWE, WW, WWI, WOE, AWE, OWE">WWE</span> Women’s
Champion, doing work on her laptop. I ask “What are you doing girl?”
She responds, “I’m in school trying to finish my degree.” Mickie had
achieved a great deal up to that point, she didn’t need to have to get a
degree, and it made me look at myself and think, “Hey, Elijah, you
never finished your degree!” I definitely credit <span class="ver" title="">her and</span> give her props because she inspired me and made me think, what the heck am I doing?<br />
<br />
I
went to the police academy, was trained, graduated and got dual
certified, but couldn’t become an officer because I hadn’t finished my
degree since they raised the limitations to a four-year degree. In some
places you don’t have to have a degree to be a cop, but in Jacksonville,
you had to have a degree. I had all these credits sitting at college,
so let me do something here while I’m on the sidelines and not being
used, and even when I was being used, and even when I was travelling
around the world with <span class="spellver" title="TAN, TINA, TUNA, TN, RNA, TBA, NA, TA, DNA, ETNA, TNT, TEA, ANA, INA, TVA, TWA, TIA">TNA.</span>
I remember being out in Paris and everyone else was out, Pope’s in his
hotel room doing his work. Pope is on the train ride doing his work
because I wanted to go back and finish what I started. So that’s what I
did. Thanks to the big man upstairs that’s what I did.<br />
<br />
I don’t
look to be done with wrestling for at least another 8-10 years, but it’s
give and take. It is just so great to have your papers. I told this to
Vince Russo. It is great to have your papers on your wall so that you
know that if something happens and you can’t continue forward in the
career that you’re in, you can always go back. I can always go back and I
can always go somewhere else if I choose too. A lot of the guys in <span class="spellver" title="VOW, OW, OVA">OVW,</span> I’ve told them this may be <span class="ver" title="">their only</span> <span class="spellver" title="Wrestle mania, Wrestle-mania, Beatlemania, Wrestling, Wrestles, Wrestle, Wrestle's, Wrestlers, Wrestler, Wrestled, Resettlement, Wrestler's, Restrain, Gentleman, Restyling, Telemann, Rustling, Wrestling's, Esteeming">WrestleMania</span>
moment, so you have to go out there and enjoy it and have fun with it.
But be sure to get your degree! Always have a fallback plan. Thanks
again to the big guy upstairs, I have made arrangements, I have made
plans."<br />
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<b>1. What does the balance of 2015 and beyond have in store for Elijah Burke?</b></h3>
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"2015
and beyond, well daddy we’ll discuss Elijah Burke later because it’s
all about Pope right now (laughs). When it comes to the Pope, man, we
are smooth sailing right now. We have some big things planned with<span class="ver" title="You probably need a space between the subject and the verb.">Impact</span> Wrestling. Dixie Carter, John <span class="spellver" title="Gabriel, Gaborone, Garrick, Fabric, Kubrick, Gabriela, Brook, Grok, Brick, Caloric, Brock, Brig, Kabuki, Cambric, Cabrini, Gehrig">Gaborik,</span>
they are all working on some very big things. I am happy to be a part
of it, and I see myself going through 2015 into 2016 to something
bigger, something greater. I think <span class="spellver" title="TAN, TINA, TUNA, TN, RNA, TBA, NA, TA, DNA, ETNA, TNT, TEA, ANA, INA, TVA, TWA, TIA">TNA</span>
will sail in that same direction because I’m aboard that ship. I
believe right now Pope, Elijah Burke, is in the hot seat for commentary
for quite some time. However, for the fans that always question when I
am going to get back into the ring. Pope isn’t retired and hasn’t been.
I’ll be back, much like Bound for Glory, I’ll be making a lot more
appearances, more than likely inside a <span class="spellver" title="TAN, TINA, TUNA, TN, RNA, TBA, NA, TA, DNA, ETNA, TNT, TEA, ANA, INA, TVA, TWA, TIA">TNA</span> ring.<br />
<br />
Right
now I have some special things coming up, speaking of Elijah Burke. We
have a charity, The Love-Alive Charity has been solidified as an
organization in the state of Florida. A big event is coming up, the
first one of the new year, Saturday, Jan 9th, I believe. <span class="spellver" title="Wee, We, WWW, Ewe, WW, WWI, Woe, Awe, Owe">WWE</span> comes
together to feed, cloth, and give hygienic products to the needy, to
the homeless, to those families, and we shelter them. We give them
Burger King straight out of a Burger King restaurant. It isn’t out of a
truck and feeding them cold sandwiches and cold salads. I’m talking
about cheeseburgers, rib sandwiches, chicken sandwiches, and we give the
desserts, and we give them time and acknowledge that some folks have it
harder than others, not by their own fault.<br />
<br />
My charity is still
growing and looking for help from the community and social media. Anyone
who wants to donate, just a dollar donation will help. I remember
telling someone I have 5,000 friends on Facebook. If I could just get $1
from all those people, could you imagine the difference? It’s very hard
being out of character to seek out and solicit the help of others.
Sometimes I think people think, “Oh, he’s Pope, he has money,” but this
is just a really good cause and a way to have people give, when they
take that dollar they are going to throw away, and they donate it. Just
$1 will help us feed, cloth and give hygienic products. There is just so
much we can do to help make this world a better place. I often tell
people to be the change that they want to see in this world. The
Love-Alive Charity is something they can look more into by going to <a data-mce-href="http://www.theelijahexpress.com/" href="http://www.theelijahexpress.com/" target="_blank">theelijahexpress.com</a> to donate and learn more about the charity.<br />
<br />
I
am community driven, whether that is through social media or with fans.
I will be doing something special for Danny Davis and Ohio Valley
Wrestling on November 21st. It is going to be the Danny Davis Tag Team
Cup, and that’s going to be at the Louisville Sluggers Baseball Park. For anyone who wants to book “The Pope” Elijah Burke, email elijahbookings@aol.com and you can follow me on Twitter <a data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/DaBlackPope" href="https://twitter.com/DaBlackPope" target="_blank">@<span class="spellver" title="">DaBlackPope</span></a> or on <a data-mce-href="https://www.facebook.com/elijahburke" href="https://www.facebook.com/elijahburke" target="_blank">Facebook.com/ElijahBurke</a>.
We are hard at work, both myself and my partner Josh Matthews, coming
up with new and innovative ideas, such as following the first <span class="ver" title="You probably need a space between the subject and the verb.">Impact </span>after
Bound for Glory, which is a tremendous and awesome show. We have big
things coming, things we can’t really go into detail about, but I can
assure you that 2016 has big things coming for fans of Pope and fans of <span class="ver" title="You probably need a space between the subject and the verb.">Impact</span> Wrestling."<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03816246595711637157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665826034883825385.post-70233708201107702112017-01-21T13:19:00.000-08:002017-03-26T16:44:39.653-07:00A conversation with Ring of Honor’s Rhett Titus<div data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="text-align: center;">
<i><b>Author:</b> </i><a data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/TheMarcMadison" href="https://twitter.com/TheMarcMadison" target="_blank">Marc Madison</a></div>
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One-half of Ring of Honor’s All Night Express, <span class="spellver" title="REIT, Rte, Rater, Rate, Rite, Rote, Rt, Brett, Ratty, Retie, Rutty, Reheat, Chert, Ghetto, Rat, Red, Rot, Rut, Theta, Rhea, Rhee, Reedy, Rent, Rest, Heat, Sett, Whet, Righter, Reed, Reid, Rita, Root, Read, Redo, Riot, Rota, Rout, Rued, Ratter, Rioter, Rooter, Rotter, Router, Roget, Cheat, Retro, Retry, Rheas, Rheum, Sheet, Wheat, Rhode, Right, Route, Rhoda, Tet, Greta, Great, Greet, Pretty, Etta, Writer, Rosetta, Rosette, Threat, Bret, Re, Rh, Ride, Fret, Retort, Righto, Rode, Rude, ET, HT, Hettie, Ht, Rehi, Write, Wrote, React, Rebut, Recto, Refit, Remit, Resat, Reset, Resit, Rivet, RD, Rd">Rhett</span>
Titus recently took some time out of his busy schedule to participate
in an interview with me. Titus’ career has seen him compete with the
promotion for a number of years. His growth as a performer both in the
ring and on the microphone is remarkable. Titus and Kenny King recently
reformed as a team at Ring of Honor’s pay per view All-Star
Extravaganza.<br />
In the interview, Titus opens up about how he became
a wrestler and who was integral in his development. He discusses the
future of the All Night Express, his past feuds and his early training
under Austin Aries and former <span class="spellver" title="WEE, WE, WWW, EWE, WW, WWI, WOE, AWE, OWE">WWE</span>
World Champion. Ring of Honor fans will be pleased with how Titus is
open and forthcoming about his evolution as a wrestler and different
things he takes into consideration now compared to when he was younger.
He also discusses <span class="ver" title="You probably need to add <i>to</i>, e.g.: <i>I know how <b>to</b> use a computer</i>.">how Ring</span> of Honor’s tag team division is as integral a part of the promotion as the singles division.<br />
His
enthusiasm for the future is something that was quite evident during
our interview. Titus doesn’t hide who his early influences in wrestling
are and how integral they <span class="ver" title="Please check. If you mean "excessively", then write <i>to<b>o</b></i>.">are to</span> what he’s achieved <span class="ver" title="Please check: <i>th<b>u</b>s</i> or <i>th<b>i</b>s</i>.">thus</span> far. As a father, he also shares how he’s made a conscious effort to educate his son about wrestling and its risks.<br />
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<b>10.
Two ROH alumni who are credited with training you are Austin Aries
& Bryan Danielson. Looking back now, what do you believe you learned
from them?</b></h2>
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"With
Austin Aries, I pretty much learned the basics, that sort of thing. He
showed me the ropes and all that good stuff. I had to do, you could say,
on-the-job training with Aries when he managed me and Ken<span class="spellmod" title="NY, nay, nu, N, n, NT, NYC, by, my, Y, y, NE, NW, Na, Ne, Ni, No, no, any, NB, NC, ND, NF, NH, NJ, NM, NP, NR, NS, NV, NZ, Nb, Nd, Np, WY, Dy, FY, KY, Ky, Ry, Ty, N's">ny</span>
King. I have to tag with Aries and work with Aries a lot in six man
tags, which was kind of like the second part of my training with him.
This was all on the fly. It was all really good.<br />
As far as Bryan <span class="spellver" title="">Danielson,</span>
his class was the advanced class, so I learned more about holds. He
made me think outside the box a little bit more, when it came to pro
wrestling. He also disciplined me a little bit more. Aries was more like
me, laid-back. If you were a minute late it wasn’t a big deal. With
Bryan, if you weren’t there by 5:00 on the dot, you were doing extra
squats, extra push-ups, extra running of the ropes, extra everything.
Nine times out of ten, coming straight from work to training, I was
usually there at like 5:03, so I was always doing something extra. But
it was a good lesson learned."<br />
<h2>
<b>9. Wrestlers evolve and
grow as performers. Can you think of a time where you were playing a
character that you felt held you back?</b></h2>
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"I think playing a character makes everything so much easier. Especially being a young wrestler, being out<span class="ver" title="Please check: write <em>th<strong>eir</strong></em> for the possessive form, <em>the<strong>y're</strong></em> for "they are" and <em>there</em> when referring to a location.">there trying</span>
to find yourself. I was doing all these pre-show matches and dark
matches. I had wrestled under a 100 matches in my first few years of
wrestling, and I’m out there in front of all these Ring of Honor crowds.
I wished from the get go that I had a character, but the character was
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It’s funny how it came along. We used to get ribbed a lot by a lot of the older people in the locker room. During a <span class="spellmod" title="pres how, pres-how, peepshow, perish, preach, preachy, parish, perisher, pressie, prow, Pres, pres, preacher, pshaw, Parrish, fresh, press, Prussia, Persia, pares, pores, preys, pries, prowl, pyres, fresher, press's, presser, preview, perch, Peron, Perot, perished, perishes, reecho, Ypres, Rush, posh, prey, push, rash, rush, Pechora, Pr's, pore's, pyre's, prey's">pre-show</span> they mess around. Adam <span class="spellver" title="Peace, Pierce, Pace, Percy, Parse, Pears, Pear's, Pacer, Pacey, Piece, Parcel, Peaces, Parser, Pear, PARC, Pare, Pacy, Pars, Peas, Puce, PARCs, Pence, Place, Par's, Pea's, Peace's">Pearce</span>
is doing the announcements one day and as I was walking down to the
ring he announced me as “the sexiest man alive.” I didn’t ask him to do
that and didn’t know he was going to do that, but I heard him say it and
I was “Alright, let’s run with it.” This was in Detroit during a <span class="spellver" title="Wrestle mania, Wrestle-mania, Beatlemania, Wrestling, Wrestles, Wrestle, Wrestle's, Wrestlers, Wrestler, Wrestled, Resettlement, Wrestler's, Restrain, Gentleman, Restyling, Telemann, Rustling, Wrestling's, Esteeming">WrestleMania</span> weekend. On the next show <span data-mce-style="line-height: 1.5;" style="line-height: 1.5;">I had a robe, the mirror, the whole nine yards.</span><br />
Over
time it evolved, but I think a character in wrestling is for the
better. It makes things more entertaining, more interesting and I think
how one character plays off of another character is a lot more
interesting than wrestler A plays off of wrestler B. But that’s just my
personal opinion, that’s just my personal preference."<br />
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<b>8. Describe your experience during the program you worked against Delirious. What was it like?</b></h2>
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"He was the active trainer at the <span class="spellver" title="RHO, RH, ROTH, OH, ROY, RAH, ROE, ROW, ROM, ROB, ROD, RON, ROT, OOH">ROH</span> <span class="spellmod" title="Tojo, dodo, Dijon, DJ, doom, door, Jo, do, OJ, doc, dog, Dido, Dino, Doha, Douro, Yoko, dido, dolor, donor, DOA, DOB, DOD, DOE, DOS, DOT, Doe, Don, Dot, Dow, coo, dob, doe, don, dos, dot, doz, duo, goo, too, Doug, Togo, dago, dock, doge, dork, docs, doer, dogs, dong, dour, Dole, Dona, Donn, Dora, LOGO, Pogo, Toto, coco, dado, demo, do's, does, doff, dole, doll, dome, dona, done, dopa, dope, dorm, dory, dose, dosh, doss, dote, doth, dove, down, doze, dozy, loco, logo, doc's, dog's, DOS's, doe's">dojo</span>
at the time, and I was still attending there as well. It was very good.
It was actually a fluke how it all happened. At the time, <span class="spellver" title="Ga be, Ga-be, Gab, Gable, Gave, Abe, Gibe, Gybe, Gabs, Gage, Gale, Babe, Game, Gape, Gate, Gaze, Gab's">Gabe</span> <span class="spellver" title="Spoils, Spools, Sapless, Spills, Sepals, Spiels, Splays, Spoil's, Spool's, Spells, Splodge, Sepal's, Pulaski, Spiel's, Spill's, Splay's, Spell's, Supply's">Sapolsky</span> didn’t really seem very high on me. But something happened where Adam <span class="spellver" title="Peace, Pierce, Pace, Percy, Parse, Pears, Pear's, Pacer, Pacey, Piece, Parcel, Peaces, Parser, Pear, PARC, Pare, Pacy, Pars, Peas, Puce, PARCs, Pence, Place, Par's, Pea's, Peace's">Pearce</span> had missed a flight, so I got thrown in there with Silas Young and we had an awesome match. Afterwards, <span class="spellver" title="Ga be, Ga-be, Gab, Gable, Gave, Abe, Gibe, Gybe, Gabs, Gage, Gale, Babe, Game, Gape, Gate, Gaze, Gab's">Gabe</span>
told me he was happy with the match, and then as it usually happens in
wrestling, where someone can’t do something, Human Tornado tore his <span class="spellver" title="ACLU, CAL, AC, AL, CL, AOL, AIL, ALL, AWL, ACT, ASL, ACE, AC'S">ACL</span> and he wasn’t going to be able to do the angle with Delirious and <span class="spellver" title="">Daizee</span> Haze. That’s where I came along.<br />
It was cool because I always got to work on stuff at the school with Delirious and <span class="spellver" title="Daze, Doze, Dozier, Dace, Dais, Dice, Dies, Dazed, Dazes, Deicer, Baize, Dizzier, Maize, Daisy, Deice, Dicey, Dizzy, Daises, Dazzle, Adze, Doz, Dais's, Dicier, Dare, Dias, Diaper, Dire, Dz, Faze, Hazier, Lazier, Size, Desiree, Dazzler, Dee, Duse, Die, Die's, Does, Dose, Dozy, Dues, Diane, Davies, Dixie, Daze's, Dozed, Dozen, Dozes, Dis, Dazing, Dale, Dame, Dane, Dave, Dianne, Diem, Date, Died, Diet, Dike, Dime, Dine, Dive, Gaze, Haze, Laze, Maze, Raze, Yahtzee, Dailies, Dairies, Daisies, DA's, Days, Ties, Tizz, Danes, Dawes, Aides, Daces, Dales, Dames, Dance, Dares, Dates, Diced, Dices, Dikes, Dimes, Dines, Dives, Dries, Dis's, Day's">Daizee,</span>
and we got to do a lot of fun promos and vignettes. It was a blast
because it was my first big angle, and the first time where I was
getting used. Nowadays I still go up to the <span class="spellver" title="RHO, RH, ROTH, OH, ROY, RAH, ROE, ROW, ROM, ROB, ROD, RON, ROT, OOH">ROH</span> <span class="spellmod" title="Tojo, dodo, Dijon, DJ, doom, door, Jo, do, OJ, doc, dog, Dido, Dino, Doha, Douro, Yoko, dido, dolor, donor, DOA, DOB, DOD, DOE, DOS, DOT, Doe, Don, Dot, Dow, coo, dob, doe, don, dos, dot, doz, duo, goo, too, Doug, Togo, dago, dock, doge, dork, docs, doer, dogs, dong, dour, Dole, Dona, Donn, Dora, LOGO, Pogo, Toto, coco, dado, demo, do's, does, doff, dole, doll, dome, dona, done, dopa, dope, dorm, dory, dose, dosh, doss, dote, doth, dove, down, doze, dozy, loco, logo, doc's, dog's, DOS's, doe's">dojo</span>
with Delirious and learn from him, pick his brain a little bit. In his
new role, he has a whole lot more responsibility, but it’s cool to just
go and listen in and figure out why <span class="ver" title="">he does certain</span> things, and where he goes with certain things. It’s all part of the process of learning."<br />
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<b>7.
The All Night Express is reminiscent of the express tag teams of the
80s and 90s. Where did the idea for the team come from and what initial
success could you have envisioned for you and Kenny King?</b></h2>
"Kenny
and I were teaming for quite a while. It was maybe a year and half to
two years into our teaming together before we were dubbed the All Night
Express. We were just the Kenny King, <span class="spellver" title="">Rhett</span> Titus tag team out there on the <span class="spellmod" title="under card, under-card, undercoat, undercut, undergrad, undercoated, undercoats, underact, underpaid, underpart, undercharged, undercuts, underfed, undercoat's, underbid, undercut's, undertake">undercard.</span> Adam <span class="spellver" title="Peace, Pierce, Pace, Percy, Parse, Pears, Pear's, Pacer, Pacey, Piece, Parcel, Peaces, Parser, Pear, PARC, Pare, Pacy, Pars, Peas, Puce, PARCs, Pence, Place, Par's, Pea's, Peace's">Pearce</span>
originally put us together. I remember when he emailed me about it, I
was like “ah, man, Kenny King. I hate that guy.” (laughs) I wasn’t a fan
of Kenny because at one of his first shows in Ring of Honor he really
rubbed me the wrong way. I was getting ready for a <span class="spellmod" title="pres how, pres-how, peepshow, perish, preach, preachy, parish, perisher, pressie, prow, Pres, pres, preacher, pshaw, Parrish, fresh, press, Prussia, Persia, pares, pores, preys, pries, prowl, pyres, fresher, press's, presser, preview, perch, Peron, Perot, perished, perishes, reecho, Ypres, Rush, posh, prey, push, rash, rush, Pechora, Pr's, pore's, pyre's, prey's">pre-show</span> match that happened to be on my birthday, doing push-ups in the locker room. <span class="spellver" title="Ga be, Ga-be, Gab, Gable, Gave, Abe, Gibe, Gybe, Gabs, Gage, Gale, Babe, Game, Gape, Gate, Gaze, Gab's">Gabe</span> <span class="spellver" title="Spoils, Spools, Sapless, Spills, Sepals, Spiels, Splays, Spoil's, Spool's, Spells, Splodge, Sepal's, Pulaski, Spiel's, Spill's, Splay's, Spell's, Supply's">Sapolsky</span>
is looking at me like “Oh my God, look at this guy. He’s a machine.
Look at all these push-ups he’s doing.” Then, Kenny King walks by and
just looks at <span class="ver" title="Write <i>he and I</i>.">me and he</span> looks at <span class="spellver" title="Ga be, Ga-be, Gab, Gable, Gave, Abe, Gibe, Gybe, Gabs, Gage, Gale, Babe, Game, Gape, Gate, Gaze, Gab's">Gabe</span> and he’s like “<span class="spellver" title="Pf ft, Pf-ft, Puffy, PDT, Oft, Puff, PT, Pt, Ft, Pf, Pvt, Puffs, AFT, EFT, PET, PFC, PST, Pat, Pfc, Aft, Fat, Fit, Fut, Pct, Pet, Pit, Pkt, Pot, Put, Pitt, Port, Part, Peat, Pert, Phat, Poet, Pout, Putt, Left, Pict, Post, Prut, Taft, Daft, Deft, Gift, Haft, Heft, Lift, Loft, Pact, Pant, Past, Pelt, Pent, Pest, Pint, Plat, Plot, Prat, Psst, Punt, Raft, Rift, Sift, Soft, Tuft, Waft, Weft, Puff's">Pfft.</span> I don’t even have to do push-ups before I go out there.” Then, <span class="spellver" title="Ga be, Ga-be, Gab, Gable, Gave, Abe, Gibe, Gybe, Gabs, Gage, Gale, Babe, Game, Gape, Gate, Gaze, Gab's">Gabe</span>
was like, “Yeah, look at this schlep doing push-ups.” Are you kidding
me? From that point on I was had a bad taste in my mouth regarding
Kenny.<br />
He felt the same way about me. He said, “Ugh. I’m being put
with this student. This doesn’t really make sense to me. This guy never
really did anything.” We were both, whatever. I was just, like, this is
what is put in front of me, I’m going to do my best to make it work and
see where we go from here. Then, we just started gelling. We created a
bond. We created a friendship. Our tag team started getting better and
then once Austin Aries was put as our manager and we were dubbed the All
Night Express, we really felt like a tag team at that point.<br />
Every good tag team needs a name and for the longest time we were trying to think of a name and we ever <span class="ver" title="Please check: <i>h<b>ad</b></i> or <i>h<b>ar</b>d</i>.">really had</span> anything. But in order to play off of Austin <span class="ver" title="">Aries’ feud</span> with Jim <span class="spellver" title="Cornet, Corvette, Lorgnette, Corned, Courgette, Cornets, Colette, Janette, Connote, Cornet's, Coquette, Jeanette">Cornette</span>
at the time, the All Night Express just seemed right. We’d go all
night, we were just that much better than the people that came before
us. I really dug it. It was good stuff."<br />
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<b>6. When did the idea come about to reform ANX?</b></h2>
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"Kenny and I did some Indy shows in <span class="ver" title="Please check. If the subject is singular, you need to change the verb's ending, e.g.: <i>Terry Nadasdi <b>has</b> left the building</i>.">North Carolina last</span> December and it was cool being back. <span class="spellver" title="TAN, TINA, TUNA, TN, RNA, TBA, NA, TA, DNA, ETNA, TNT, TEA, ANA, INA, TVA, TWA, TIA">TNA</span>
guys had the option to get out, and after the whole Beat Down Clan
thing happened with Kenny, MVP and all those guys left, and Kenny was
left in the dust. He <span class="ver" title="Please check: <i>h<b>ad</b></i> or <i>h<b>ar</b>d</i>.">really had</span> no direction there<span class="ver" title="">. And I</span> had been exiled from Ring of Honor for the whole SCUM thing.</div>
We
were both just, “Hey, let’s get the band back to together.” It works.
We’d been wanting to do it for a while, but it wasn’t the right place,
it wasn’t the right time. It just so happened All-Star Extravaganza VII
it was the right place and the right time. It felt really good, too.
Going into it, we’d never wrestled in Texas before as a tag team, and
it’s been a while since the All Night Express was together. Are people
going to remember? Is this a new crowd? Or is it the same thing? Coming
out to get that reception, it felt really good. Alright, <span class="ver" title="If you are indicating possession, write <i>its</i> without an apostrophe, e.g.: <i>the weather follows <b>its</b> own schedule</i> (<i>it's</i> stands for "it is" or "it has").">it’s back</span> on, <span class="ver" title="This means "it is". If you are indicatin possession, remove the apostrophe (e.g.: The company changed <b>its</b> mind). Another possibility would be to remove the apostrophe and the "s", e.g.: <i><b>It</b> seems fine</i>.">it’s back</span> and popping, so let’s get it."<br />
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<b>5. Now that the ANX have been reformed, what are the long-term plans for the team and for you as a singles wrestler?</b></h2>
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"First
thing’s first, I’m much more of a fan of tag team wrestling than
singles wrestling. I always viewed myself as a tag team specialist. Even
as a kid, I always liked tag team wrestling. I always viewed tag team
wrestling as this great form of pro wrestling. It’s cool now, watching
things like the <span class="spellver" title="NEXT, NT, EXT, NWT, NAT, NET, NIT, NOT, NUT">NXT</span>
Takeover: Respect special and how a lot of focus was put on tag team
wrestling and how with Ring of Honor, tag team wrestling isn’t just a
gimmick; on any given night any one of those tag teams could go out
there and be in the main event and nobody would know the difference.</div>
Ring
of Honor takes the tag team division very seriously. The plan is to get
the belts back that we never lost, the Ring of Honor World Tag Team
titles, and have that reign with them like we should have had. The sky
is the limit for me."<br />
<h2>
<b>4. As a dad, would you ever feel guarded about being involved in any storyline or match?</b></h2>
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"The
thing is, my son is 10 years old now, and he’s very into wrestling.
He’s grown up with it his whole life. I had my son when I was 17, I was a
very young dad. I had him before I finished high school or before I
ever went to wrestling school. The way he looks at it is, “My Dad, he’s a
goof sometimes, he’s crazy, but this is what he does.” He loves it.
He’s a big wrestling fan. I just took him to his first <span class="spellver" title="WEE, WE, WWW, EWE, WW, WWI, WOE, AWE, OWE">WWE</span>
house show and surprised him with that. He had a blast there. The only
time where I had thoughts like that was when the whole angle was going
on that “Oh <span class="spellver" title="REIT, Rte, Rater, Rate, Rite, Rote, Rt, Brett, Ratty, Retie, Rutty, Reheat, Chert, Ghetto, Rat, Red, Rot, Rut, Theta, Rhea, Rhee, Reedy, Rent, Rest, Heat, Sett, Whet, Righter, Reed, Reid, Rita, Root, Read, Redo, Riot, Rota, Rout, Rued, Ratter, Rioter, Rooter, Rotter, Router, Roget, Cheat, Retro, Retry, Rheas, Rheum, Sheet, Wheat, Rhode, Right, Route, Rhoda, Tet, Greta, Great, Greet, Pretty, Etta, Writer, Rosetta, Rosette, Threat, Bret, Re, Rh, Ride, Fret, Retort, Righto, Rode, Rude, ET, HT, Hettie, Ht, Rehi, Write, Wrote, React, Rebut, Recto, Refit, Remit, Resat, Reset, Resit, Rivet, RD, Rd">Rhett</span> Titus is a virgin.” Meanwhile, at the time I had a three-year-old son. I just never wanted him to look at that and think <span class="ver" title="Please check: <i>o<b>h</b></i> or <i>o<b>f</b></i>.">oh</span>, is my dad embarrassed about me, or anything like that? But he keeps up with everything and follows everything on YouTube.</div>
Not
only do I want to be a role model for my son and someone that my son
could look up to, but I think about other people’s children as well.
When I was a kid, I looked up to wrestlers like they were the most
upright citizens, <span data-mce-style="line-height: 1.5;" style="line-height: 1.5;">and
everything that I wanted to be when I grew up. They were my heroes. If a
child feels that same way about me or somebody else, I want to
represent myself well so that their parents could look and say “This guy
isn’t </span><span class="ver" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.5;" style="line-height: 1.5;" title="You should probably remove the word <i>of</i>, e.g.: <i>It's not that bi<b>g a</b> house</i>.">that bad of a guy</span><span data-mce-style="line-height: 1.5;" style="line-height: 1.5;">
after all.” I always try to keep all my social media stuff family
friendly and not be seen in a bad light where someone would say, “Who is
this guy?” and “Why is my son watching him?”"</span><br />
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<b>3.
Thinking about what wrestlers have endured in the past, the physicality
that has been a part of different generations of wrestling, how do you
think wrestling has evolved during the time you’ve been actively
competing in the ring?</b></h2>
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"Thank God wrestling has gotten away from that sort of thing, and chair shots and blood and all that stuff is<span class="ver" title="<em>SpellCheckPlus.com</em> vérifie les textes en anglais. Si vous cherchez un correcteur pour les textes en français, essayez <a href="http://bonpatron.com">www.BonPatron.com</a>">passé</span>
now. A lot of that stuff was really violent and hurt a lot of people
long-term. Poor Mick Foley; sure has made a lot of money, but he
probably has trouble getting out of bed every day. Now wrestling seems
to be getting back to more the sport of things. It’s more about in-ring
competition and actual wrestling. The blood and guts and all that isn’t
the way now. Sure, I’ve had my fair share of bloodbaths, but that was a
different place and a different time. Knowing what everybody knows now
about diseases and long-term effects of concussions, it’s better and
it’s really not something that fans expect anymore.</div>
To be honest, I went back and watched the ladder war match between <span class="spellver" title="AN, AX, ANA, ANN, ANY, AND, ANS, ANT, MANX, AUX">ANX</span> and The <span class="spellver" title="Brisks, Crisco's, Roscoe's, Brickies, Frescoes, Brice's, Braces, Braises, Bruises, Bridges, Briskest, Briskets, Bricks, Briskness, Brasses, Brick's, Brisker, Rescues, Bruce's, Brace's, Bruise's, Bridge's, Bryce's, Brisket's, Bisque's, Rescue's">Briscoes</span>
and I was just horrified at the amount of blood. I was bleeding like
crazy, Jay was bleeding like crazy, Mark was bleeding like crazy, and it
was violent. I actually had to ask myself, what the hell was <span class="ver" title="You probably need to add a form of the verb <i>be</i>, e.g., <i>I <b>am</b> interested in your class</i>.">I thinking</span>, getting myself into this? The final image of Jay <span class="spellver" title="Roscoe, Brice, Brisker, Brisk, Brusque, Crisco, Frisco, Brickie, Bruce, Brace, Braise, Bruise, Bridge, Brisked, Brisket, Bryce, Brick, Bricks, Biscay, Bisque, Brisks, Rescue, Risque, Brice's, Brick's">Briscoe</span>
lying in the ring with blood just pouring off of his head into a puddle
on the mat, it was honestly something out of a horror movie. I thought,
this is brutal. It was something that, at the time and place, was what I
needed to do, but I think wrestling has changed for the better now and
I’m quite happy about that."<br />
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<b>2. What does the balance of 2015 & beyond have in store for Rhett Titus? What are your personal aspirations?</b></h2>
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"Now
that the All Night Express is back up and running, it’s about just
keeping that going full throttle and staying healthy. Also, to get the
Ring of Honor tag team titles back and get back into the same spot that
the All Night Express was in years ago. Also, Kenny and I were just
discussing one of our goals is to get to New Japan. So within <span class="ver" title="Please check. If you mean "the year after this one", remove the word <i>the</i>, e.g.: <i>I want to go ther<b>e n</b>ext year</i>.">the next year</span> I really hope that is something that we could make happen.</div>
You can always like me on Facebook. <a data-mce-href="http://Facebook.com/RhettTitus" href="http://facebook.com/RhettTitus" target="_blank">Facebook.com/RhettTitus</a> or follow me on <a data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/RhettTitusANX" href="https://twitter.com/RhettTitusANX" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and <span class="spellver" title=""><a data-mce-href="https://instagram.com/rhetttitusanx/" href="https://instagram.com/rhetttitusanx/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> </span>@<span class="spellver" title="Retardants, Retsina's, Reticence, Robitussin's, Stetsons, Rattlesnakes, Rattlesnake, Redskins, Gratuitousness, Retardant's, Robertson's, Redskin's, Stetson's, Redesigns, Retardation's, Tediousness, Riotousness, Rattlesnake's, Dotson's, Reticence's">RhettTitusANX</span> and subscribe to me on <a data-mce-href="https://www.youtube.com/user/RhettTitus" href="https://www.youtube.com/user/RhettTitus" target="_blank">YouTube.com/RhettTitus</a>. Ring of Honor has some big shows going on in Kalamazoo, Michigan and in Dayton, Ohio. <span class="spellver" title="">ANX</span> will be going back at it with The <span class="spellver" title="">Briscoes</span> once again. So if you’re in the area, you’re going to want to check that out."<br />
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<b>1.
Describe your experience with the S.C.U.M faction. How did it come
about? Were you pleased with the end result? Would you have done
anything different?</b></h2>
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"To
be honest, I view SCUM as probably one of my favorite things that I did
in wrestling. Just for the simple fact that growing up, when I was a
teenager, Steve <span class="spellver" title="Corina, Corine, Coring, Corinne, Corrine, Corona, Carina, Caring, Curing, Goring">Corino</span> was my man, he was my favorite. I was a big Steve<span class="spellver" title="Corina, Corine, Coring, Corinne, Corrine, Corona, Carina, Caring, Curing, Goring">Corino</span>
fan. I used to email him all the time and bother the poor guy. Whenever
he was in the area, I had to go see him. Being managed by Steve was one
of the coolest things ever, too. I was <span class="spellmod" title="among st, among-st, angst, amnesty, ingest, mangiest, Armonk's">amongst</span> all these other guys like Matt Hardy, Rhino, Kevin <span class="spellver" title="Ste en, Ste-en, Stern, Sateen, Stein, Sterne, Sterno, Steno, Steven, Seton, Stine, Stone, Seen, Teen, Stan, Stun, Steer, Steed, Steel, Steep, Stain">Steen,</span> Jimmy Jacobs; It was a very elite group. I enjoyed it very much.<br />
I
heard a lot of feedback from fans, and it didn’t seem like they were
into it, but I had a great time with it. I will always regard that as
one of my favorite memories. Just being managed by Steve and doing a lot
of his old move set, it was one of those big mark out moments. It was
really cool for me personally. Would I have changed any of it? No. I
liked it. Not everything is going to be to people’s taste, but I was a
big fan of it."<br />
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This interview can also be found at <a data-mce-href="http://www.therichest.com/sports/wrestling/10-burning-questions-with-ring-of-honors-rhett-titus/" href="http://www.therichest.com/sports/wrestling/10-burning-questions-with-ring-of-honors-rhett-titus/" target="_blank">TheRichest.com</a>.</h6>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03816246595711637157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665826034883825385.post-42824427551624200112017-01-21T13:17:00.002-08:002017-07-22T21:53:31.745-07:00Ring of Honor's Jessie 'ODB' Kresa discusses training, TNA and aspirations of a Women's division in Ring of Honor<div data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="text-align: center;">
<i><b>Author:</b> </i><a data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/TheMarcMadison" href="https://twitter.com/TheMarcMadison" target="_blank">Marc Madison</a></div>
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Ring
Of Honor’s Jessie ‘ODB’ Kresa recently took some time to participate in
an interview. ODB discusses her work with TNA, ROH, training under
Eddie Sharkey in OVW and her hopes for a Women’s division in Ring of
Honor. Check out the complete interview below.<br />
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"Training
with Eddie Sharkey (chuckles)... when I first wanted to become a
wrestler I wanted to be trained. So going onto the good old internet
there and I would say I looked up Eddie Sharkey and we basically trained
in a backyard. I went there and I was just coming off from Tough Enough
and I went there and I said I wanted to do this and he said, ‘Alright, I
need some money’ and I said, ‘Of course you do.’ While I was there,
Shawn Davari was there and I just knew that it was the right place you
know, 10 minutes from my house and I trained 5 nights a week. I lucked
out well and I learned from Eddie Sharkey, you know, hide your wallet
(chuckles) and about the business, keep your mouth shut.<br />
That
obviously helped me a lot my first few years. And as they say, I paid my
dues and hopped in a van with 5 other guys for my first few years and
we would go and do the whole Midwest scene, Chicago, Wisconsin, Iowa and
Minnesota. Worked for $20 and I worked with a lot of guys to start out
with and that’s where I learned the most was from the boys. Learn as you
go, you never stop learning in this business. It was good to get
trained by Eddie Sharkey. He helped me get into this business and I’m
very thankful for that."<br />
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Where did the name ODB come from and what the inspiration behind it?</h3>
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"Actually,
I always knew that I wanted to be a wrestler since I was a little girl
and my brother said you need a cool name, you need a catchy name. You
can’t just be ‘Jessie’ you know? I was always different and I needed
something that the audience could chant, and he said ‘Dirty Bitch’ and
then he says ‘ODB, One Dirty Bitch!' So I had my name planned out even
before I stepped into the ring. So I guess I’ve always been a dirty
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I
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until I started wrestling more and someone said to me, ‘Oh, Old Dirty
Bastard’ and I’m like, 'No, it’s One Dirty Bitch, bitch!’ I was kind of
glad too because I trademarked my name and I always thought I was going
to have trouble with TNA and my name and I trademarked it. So Old Dirty
Bastard wasn’t smart enough to get his name trademarked pretty much."<br />
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Being Canadian, your early pursuit in ice hockey is great to see. Was there any consideration to pursue that on a grander scale?</h3>
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"Actually,
I didn’t start playing hockey until my high school years. They were
having tryouts and the very first ever girls hockey team back in 94’ was
when girls hockey started hitting it out and I wanted to play. I never
played hockey growing up. We had a pond in the backyard and I would
skate, but I wasn’t good. My dad said if you want to try out for the
hockey team then you better learn how to freakin' play. All my uncles
played hockey growing up, so I had all my uncles equipment. I remember
the very first day of tryouts and freakin' left my skate guards on and I
went on the ice and fell on my ass! It was good times.<br />
Then I
started trying out and I was like, 'I want to be the goalie.' So thank
God I was the goalie. I mean, I learned how to skate being a goalie. My
first tryout days weren’t looking good. So I was like, 'Fuck it, I’ll be
the goalie.' Oh God, the goalie has to be the best skater on the team.
Lateral, side to side and back to back and backwards and stop. I learned
to become a very good skater being a goalie. I also went off and played
a couple of years in college at St. Cloud State in Minnesota. I only
went to college to basically play hockey, party and meet boys. I never
thought of making it into something more. I was just getting started. At
that time, I was just thinking about my future and college hockey was
just the furthest that I was going to go. I wasn’t thinking about going
anywhere farther than that."<br />
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Discuss your time in OVW under Danny Davis. What was that time like and what did you walk away with?</h3>
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"That’s
where I really came out my shell. I’ve always been in contact with Al
Snow. I met him during Tough Enough and I would always be on indie
shows. He was man. He said, 'You need to be seen. Just pack up your
stuff and go down to OVW. Don’t worry about it. We’ll talk to Danny
(Davis) and get you in.'<br />
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So I showed up. I packed up my truck and
moved from Louisville, Kentucky and showed up on TV taping. I mean
that’s where you had a lot of those guys there. You had (CM) Punk, Ken
Anderson all the guys, including Spirit Squad. All those guys were
getting called up then and it was perfect timing for me to come in
because all the girls were getting called up; Beth (Phoenix), Mickie
James, Melina. So I showed up, talked to Danny and he says, 'Alright,
you can be in a contract class.' I got to train under everyone in
developmental. So if not for that experience, I wouldn’t be where I am
now. To be trained by all those guys and then WWE coming in once a week,
checking up on us, doing promos in the ring, you just learn so much
about the business when you’re there. It was an awesome experience.
Those are part of the best times of my life during the two years that I
was there. I made some good friendships and I had a blast.<br />
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They
let me do my thing. 'Who is ODB? Show ODB!' I got an opportunity where I
made up the OVW women’s belt with Serena Deeb. She and I were the two
non-contract girls and we made the very first OVW women’s championship,
so we made history out there. I can’t tell you all the stories that
happened out there, but it was fun. As I was out there, I had to work at
bars and stuff to make a living. Actually, I was a bartender at a few
strip clubs. Good old Seven Street was where we would all hang out after
some shows. Some classy strip clubs out there (chuckles) . Serena was
great. She got to be in Wrestlemania and that’s everyone’s dream. She
did her thing and there is a time where everyone has to move on in their
lives and do a different thing."<br />
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<b>Between
2007-2010 & 2011-2014, you were part of the TNA Knockouts division.
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"I
loved TNA. They made me who I am today, too. They gave me an
opportunity and I got to be myself which was awesome. They were, ‘We
love the ODB character!’ So that was cool. Then we had that awesome
division when I first got there. There was me, (Awesome) Kong, Traci
Brooks, the Beautiful People, (Christy) Hemme, Gail Kim, Roxy. I mean it
was a classic women’s division. We were all in the indies together. I
remember having that first feeling ever at Bound for Glory 2007 with the
first ever battle royal that we did, the first ever Knocked Up champ
and it was an awesome feeling. I remember before the match, we sat in a
circle, prayed and said, 'We freakin' did this.' I loved all my parts in
TNA. I mean I got married, so I got to have a cool wrestling wedding.
That was pretty cool. I got my own talk show. That was pretty fun. I got
to kick some ass while I was there."<br />
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How was your first tour of duty with the promotion different from the second one?</h3>
"I
think I left a couple of times, came back and recharged. Obviously
change happens. My first time was awesome and then they weren’t using me
as much. When you’re a wrestler and not being used, it kind of pisses
you off. I don’t want to sit on the sidelines and watch. I’m not going
to wait at home for a phone call. When is the next time I’m going to be
on TV? So I said, screw it, I don’t want to re-sign. Then they called me
back. I came back all recharged. So it was cool how I came back. That
was one of my favorite times when I came back and EY (Eric Young) and I
got to do a storyline together. I was happy with that."</div>
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"Shit,
I don’t even really know who was really behind me. (chuckles) Actually,
I think there was (Vince) Russo. I think he liked characters. I think
he was... I hope he was supporting me. I know a lot of non-supporters.
I’m not going to say that. When I came back my second time and I was out
there wrestling in Madison Rayne’s open challenge, I came back and
after that match, (Eric) Bischoff pulled me aside and said, ‘Why the
hell don’t you work here’? I’m like, 'Well, I used to!' He says, ‘You’re
getting your job back. I’m going to make sure’. So Bischoff and Hogan
were big supporters of me and I want to thank them. Those guys know what
it’s all about. Bischoff and Hogan got my job back and they helped me
out a lot. I hope they know that, well, I think now they do."<br />
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"When
I first got there, I think I was feuding with the Beautiful People,
which was awesome because our characters were so different. Then you add
in Gail Kim and (Awesome) Kong in the mix and Roxy and we’re like the
outsiders. Those were the fun times and they let us do our thing and
they gave us a lot of TV time and we got a lot of in ring promos. We did
a lot of gimmick matches, so it was kind of cool. I think working with
that was awesome.<br />
EY (Eric Young) and I loved our storyline, but
then it faded out and kind of sucked. I was a little pissed about that
because it didn’t go especially well before I left where it could have
been a big divorce. Leaving TNA sucked, because when someone leaves a
company, do something with it. There could have been an awesome divorce
where I said, 'Screw you, EY. I’m outta here! Here’s your papers. Sign
it, bitch!' It just kind of faded out and he had his own fishing show
and he was busy doing that and I was just standing around. 'Where’s my
fried chicken? Where are you? I’m calling you, where the hell are you?'
That shit got old. There were more things we could have done, and it
just didn’t happen. So that kind of pissed me off, that situation."<br />
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On
Jan 3rd, you made your debut for Ring of Honor. Discuss how that came
about, how your experience has been and what you are most looking
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"I
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didn’t resign. I was just enjoying my summer off and didn’t wrestle for a
while, and then Hunter had buzzed me and he said, 'Would you, and I’m
not exactly sure when the time would be, but would you want to come and
do a little program with us?' I’m like, 'Hell yeah, that would be
awesome!' It took a while, but then that January came around, it was
perfect timing. It was right after they had Daniels and Kazarian and AJ
(Styles) kind of show up, so they didn’t want too much TNA talent coming
in all at once. It was cool. No one knew I was coming. It was in
Nashville at the Fairgrounds. That was kind of cool, because that’s
where I started with TNA.<br />
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It was kind of a cool feeling to be
there, especially for Ring of Honor and I hid all day. No one knew I was
there. The fans didn’t know. When I came out they were like, 'Holy
shit! That’s freakin' ODB!' It was cool too, because they don’t really
have women wrestlers there. So when I finally got my hands on Maria,
that really made them think, 'Oh man, we want a women’s division!' I’m
hoping there will be a women’s division coming from Ring of Honor. There
are so many good young women talent out there that needs to be shown
and I think so far so good. I think it’s going to happen. I hope that I
am a main part of it, and who knows? Maybe they’ll have a women’s belt
in Ring of Honor. That would be pretty sweet. That would be good history
making."<br />
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With the success of the Knockouts division, are there plans within ROH to create a women's division as well?</h3>
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"Oh
yeah, I see that happening in Ring of Honor. I think we can do it. I
think we can grab girls from all over and make it work. All the women in
all the companies, for example NXT, has some awesome women talent. WWE
really stepped it up and the Diva’s Division has really stepped it up
over the years and the Knockouts are still going strong. I think we
(Ring of Honor) really need to add to that and showcase other
up-and-coming talent before my ass gets a little too old! (chuckles)
I’ve still got some years on me though, so I’m still good to go."</div>
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What does the rest of 2015 and beyond have in store for ODB?</h3>
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"Well,
I’ve got my own BBQ sauce and hot sauce out in my first year and I’m
doing that. I’ve really been focusing in on that. I’m still going to be
wrestling a lot with Ring of Honor and I’m taking my first road trip
with my airstream trailer when I’m going to Sturgis. It’s going to be a
fun experience. I’m going to be a vendor out there, so I’ll be selling
my sauce and I’m excited about that. I’m using what my wrestling has
given me and using my brand and getting out there and airstream trailer
has really helped me out a lot. I’m just doing my thing with them. I’m
blogging with them. You never know what could happen and this year for
me has gotten better and that’s what I look forward to each year,
better. I bartend at a bar, I run a bar in Champlin, Minnesota at a
little bar and I love doing that, so eventually maybe own my own bar
someday, hopefully in a few years when my wrestling career starts
slowing down and maybe get married and have some kids someday, but
that’s not anytime soon (chuckles). Someday I can enjoy that life.<br />
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Lisa
Marie is one of my favorite people and I loved being in the ring with
her. She is one of my very good friends and she is such a perfect person
for running a restaurant because she is such a people person. She loves
her fans, she is always at her restaurant from open to close. She
always worked her ass off to get that business going. I’m proud of her
for doing that. It’s all about the fans, you know? If it wasn’t for the
wrestling fans, none of us would be here. You have to give props to all
the fans out there."<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03816246595711637157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665826034883825385.post-64519363959748271272017-01-21T13:15:00.003-08:002017-03-26T16:44:39.650-07:00A chat with Lucha Underground Executive Producer Eric Van Wagenen<div data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="text-align: center;">
<i><b>Author:</b> </i><a data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/TheMarcMadison" href="https://twitter.com/TheMarcMadison" target="_blank">Marc Madison</a></div>
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As <i>Lucha Underground</i>’s
Executive Producer, Eric Van Wagenen recently took some time out of his
schedule to participate in an interview with me. Van Wagenen plays an
integral part in the El Rey Network’s program <i>Lucha Underground</i>’s development and success. With the initial concept coming from the network, Van Wagenen discusses the upcoming season of <i>Lucha Underground</i>,
the potential development of a streaming service, how the concept for
the show initially came about and what fans can anticipate with upcoming
storylines moving into the new season.<br />
<i>Lucha Underground</i>
fans will be pleased with Van Wagenen’s open and forthcoming responses
regarding the upcoming season. After fans waited in anticipation of the
upcoming season, Van Wagenen remains very high on the talent and is
quick to give them all the credit for making the show a success. He also
discusses how <i>Lucha Underground</i> is unlike other wrestling
promotions on television today. His enthusiasm for the upcoming season
allows fans to look forward to a number of new and interesting story
lines.<br />
Van Wagenen remains actively involved as a producer for a number of other Mark Burnett programs. His work credits include; <i>The Celebrity Apprentice</i> and <i>Bully Beatdown</i>. His film production and editing credits include <i>The Amazing Race</i> and <i>Survivor</i>. Van Wagenen has also produced programming for the WWE with their network exclusive show <i>Legend’s House</i>. The recent announcement of season two of <i>Lucha Underground</i>
has allowed Van Wagenen to open up on a number of different topics
along with the future of the show. To read the complete interview, check
out the questions below.<br />
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<b>10. How did the creation of the show come about? What inspired the concept?</b></h3>
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"I got a call from the Mark Burnett development team and they had said that they were in discussions with the <span class="spellver">El</span> <span class="spellver">Rey</span> Network on creating an updated, more US-friendly version of <i><span class="spellver">Lucha</span> </i><span class="spellver"><i>Libre</i>.</span></div>
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My
experiences had really been in reality television, but I have crossed
over into the wrestling world with the Stone Cold Steve Austin version
of <i>Tough Enough</i>, I also produced <i>Legend’s House</i> for the <span class="spellver">WWE</span>Network. I had done a lot of sort of fighting combat shows like <i>The Contender</i> and <i>Bully </i><span class="spellver"><i>Beatdown</i>.</span>
So within the Mark Burnett family of shows, I’m kind of the guy they
call on when they need a show where people are fighting for better or
for worse. I have that little niche covered, but we never really
ventured into putting on our own promotion.<br />
My job initially for
the first several months was to really pull everything and everyone
together on the same page and to try to get everyone to share the same
vision. It was really hard at first, it took several months and it took
several episodes of taping before we all started to see what was
working. But the original concept came from the <span class="spellver">El</span> <span class="spellver">Rey</span> Network, one of the original shows that they wanted to develop was a <i><span class="spellver">Lucha</span> <span class="spellver">Libre </span></i>product that was a little more updated and made for second and maybe third-<span data-mce-style="line-height: 1.5;" style="line-height: 1.5;">generation Mexican Americans."</span><br />
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<b>9. Within reason, based on the events of last season’s finale, what storylines can fans reasonably see developing further?</b></h3>
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"I think one of the more interesting ones that I think will be what will happen with the Dragon <span class="spellver">Azteca </span>character and with the Dragon <span class="spellver">Azteca</span> mask. <span class="ver">Who will carry the mantle?</span> One of the legendary myths that we play with is the idea of the seven Aztec tribes. Clearly one of those tribes is Dragon <span class="spellver">Azteca</span> tribe and will they now seek revenge with Dario <span class="spellver">Cueto</span> and Black Lotus? That obviously comes to mind.</div>
<span class="ver">Mil</span> <span class="spellver">Muertes</span> and <span class="spellver">Catrina </span>taking over the temple and possessing all of the original Aztec gold is obviously a major <span class="spellmod">storyline.</span> Dario <span class="spellver">Cueto</span> on the run and what that means for the temple and his future makes for a great <span class="spellmod">storyline.</span><br />
Obviously everyone’s favorite Pentagon Jr. who has been unleashed and on the loose and how we handle that<span class="ver">–</span> especially with his relationship with <span class="spellver">Vampiro.</span>
That is definitely something that a lot of people are going to want to
know and we’ll be addressing that in the early episodes as well.<br />
We’ll eventually get around to answering all the questions we posed in <span class="spellver">Ultima</span> <span class="spellver">Lucha</span>
some might have to wait a few weeks before we get to them, but it won’t
be in a way that is predictable. I’ll just say that. (chuckles) We are
very unafraid to try things. We got away with a lot in season one, but
we have a lot of goodwill with our <span class="spellmod">fanbase.</span> We’re hoping that our fans will trust us enough to grow and build and resolve in the least predictable way as possible."<br />
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<b>8.
How has the show evolved since its inception to the season’s finale?
How can you foresee it developing over the course of the next season?</b></h3>
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"I actually didn’t think we would be so far into the sci-fi realm at this point. I think originally both Chris<span class="spellver">DeJoseph</span> and I <span class="ver">were wanting</span> to be very cautious of how we start to roll out the more supernatural elements of our characters and our <span class="spellmod">storylines.</span> We wanted it to be user-friendly and familiar at first.</div>
We
knew we were pushing things with the style of vignettes that we were
shooting and that would take an adjustment period. So, we didn’t want to
lead with a bunch of crazy stuff right off the bat. We wanted to slowly
build and dole that stuff out slowly and gauge the audiences’ reaction.
Now we have embraced the full theatre <span data-mce-style="line-height: 1.5;" style="line-height: 1.5;">of it.</span><br />
I
think that that was the biggest shift and risk that we took and it was
definitely kind of something that we were nervous about, but we were
very pleased with the level to which our fans accepted it. They loved
the fact that we weren’t trying to copy the paradigm that the <span class="spellver">WWE</span> presents or that <span class="spellver">TNA </span>presents.
We were trying to do something that was out there and a little bit
fantastic and not so grounded in reality and the response has been
great.<br />
So, I think we’ll continue to push things. I think we
thought that we would be more traditional still at the end of the season
one, but that was where we started doing things like <span class="ver">having Drago</span> turning into a fire-breathing dragon, and <span class="ver">Mil</span> <span class="spellver">Muertes</span> being resurrected, and killing <span class="spellver">Bael-</span> doing these kinds of crazy things. Once we saw that the audience had an appetite for it than we kind of stepped on the gas."<br />
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<b>7. When considering casting, what do you take into consideration as it applies to Lucha Underground?</b></h3>
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"I can say we are looking for more females. We have Sexy Star and <span class="spellver">Ivelisse,</span> and <span class="spellver">Ivelisse</span> had a broken foot for half the season. It’s no secret that we're hoping to work something out with AAA<span class="ver"> and</span> with <span class="spellver">Rey</span> <span class="spellver">Mysterio. </span>But we’re hoping that a lot of our guys are coming back. Not everyone is coming back, but were hoping that a lot of them will.</div>
It would be slightly hypocritical to say we have to only have Latin talent. Obviously we want to have people that can <span class="spellver">Lucha</span> and who are familiar with the style. At our core, and in our name it’s <span class="spellver">Lucha </span>Underground, but we look for versatility. We look for guys that<span class="ver">, if not</span> trained in classical <span class="spellver">Lucha</span> style like a lot of our Triple <span class="ver">A guys</span> are, we at least want them versatile enough where they can work the <span class="spellmod">Lucha</span> style.<br />
That’s why guys like Prince Puma and Johnny <span class="spellver">Mundo</span>
and even Brian Cage are fairly valuable to us because they can go with
anybody. They can go with the American wrestlers and they can go with
the L<span class="spellmod">ucha</span> guys and everybody looks great.<br />
Personally, I kind of like <span class="ver">the guys that don’t</span> fit the mold. Guys like the Willie Mack and Matt Cross. Guys that don’t fit, what you would consider the <span class="spellver">WWE</span> standards. We’re not trying to compete with them. We are trying to compete in the areas where they are not."<br />
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<b>6.
Wrestling storylines have to resonate with an audience and often times
in other promotions they don’t. To what can you attribute the connection
the story lines have had with the Lucha Underground audience?</b></h3>
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"I
think honestly it’s our presentation of our character pieces and our
vignettes. I think that you put a lot of pressure on a performer to cut
promos in front of a live audience. I hate the traditional backstage
scenes that feel awkwardly set up with a camera spying on them and
everything feels so forced. They are trying to pretend like they are
existing in the real world like a reality show.</div>
We’ve gone full theatre. We have a director and we have super talented editors and we <span class="ver">have composers</span>
and all the tricks of the trade to create compelling and entertaining
stories. We’re not just putting wrestlers in a ring and giving them a
promo script to read to a live audience. We have props and we have set
decorating and all the tricks that movies use.<br />
We have hired actors to work with. Luis <span class="spellver">Fernadez</span> Gill who plays Dario <span class="spellver">Cueto</span>
his job is not to be a wrestler. He’s a great actor. We’re grateful
that we have him. He makes everybody more believable because he’s so
good. I think that we are doing something that is familiar yet
different. You are watching a dramatic show like you would watch any
other drama series on television and it just so happens that it’s about
wrestling. We’re putting less burden on the actual wrestling performer
to be convincing."<br />
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<b>5. With the inclusion of talent
past and present from notable promotions, what would the likelihood be
of a cross-promotional showcase of talent much like GFW/TNA? Would the
idea be entertained?</b></h3>
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"A lot of our guys are working with the independents, they work in AAA<span class="ver"> and</span> they pop up in <span class="spellver">PWG, </span>but
as far as a mainstream crossover, it’s a little tricky because it begs
the question, whose world are we living in? Are we living in Dario <span class="spellver">Cueto’</span>s world or are we living in Dixie Carter’s world? I kind of like Dario’s world a little better.</div>
I’m
not a wrestling guy per se I’m more of a TV guy, but the people that
drive this show are not really looking to be too aligned with the old
school club of a wrestling promoters and wrestling events. We kind of
don’t <span data-mce-style="line-height: 1.5;" style="line-height: 1.5;">really
see the need for it. One of the lessons we’ve learned is that we can
create our own stars. We don’t have to rely on established names giving
us validity.</span><br />
No one knew who Pentagon Jr was a year ago, nobody knew who <span class="spellver">Fenix</span> was a year ago. Guys like Matt Cross and Angelico and <span class="spellver">Ivelisse</span> were only known by the most hard-core of wrestling <span class="spellmod">fandom.</span> So we’ve discovered that through our presentation and booking and <span class="ver">our live</span>
events and the editing of the show that we do that we can really do an
effective job of creating or own organic original stars."<br />
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<b>4. What does the balance of 2015 and now moving into 2016 have in store for Eric Van Wagenen & Lucha Underground?</b></h3>
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"We’re starting to build up the temple in Boyle Heights and we’ll be moving back in there. There <span class="ver">were some </span>concerns
that we wouldn’t be able to pull it off, but we will. We’ll be back in
the same building. We will be shooting in November. We will be back on
the air in January of 2016.</div>
We are extremely excited to be
able to pick up where we left off. I know that the cast is even more
excited than we are. There are a few things that we are hoping to land
on the business side in the next couple of months that really should
keep us around for a while. I think that once we figure that out we will
breathe easier and be able to have more permanent plans for our future.<br />
Personally, I am also working on Mark Burnett’s <i>The Celebrity Apprentice</i>,
which is gearing up with our new host Arnold Schwarzenegger. That will
be shooting in the spring probably after we finish shooting <i><span class="spellver">Lucha </span>Underground</i>."<br />
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<b>3. One question that tends to be asked is, much like other sports, how are the ideas of an off-season for wrestling. Thoughts?</b></h3>
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"Certainly
we would like to have as many episodes as possible in a year. It is
expensive to shut down and when you close your doors for a few months,
you are taking on risks. <span class="ver">You have risk</span> with the location, <span class="ver">you have risk</span> with your cast, and <span class="ver">you have risk</span> with your crew.</div>
It’s much easier to keep the <span class="ver">exact same</span> crew if you’ve got them 52 weeks a year. But our <span class="spellmod">motto</span> is, “Put the money on the screen,” and we don’t really want to build a huge bloated infrastructure and bureaucracy.<span class="ver">We’re very lean</span> and mean. Our staff is very small <span class="ver">–</span> it’s all pretty much <span data-mce-style="line-height: 1.5;" style="line-height: 1.5;">freelancers who love this kind of thing and want to do this kind of show.</span><br />
We don’t have pay-per-views to build to and so our <span class="spellmod">motto</span>
is if we can put on something every week that our competition can’t,
that’s our competitive advantage. For us every week there has got to be
something that people are talking about. That’s our only chance for
survival, to keep people talking every week."<br />
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<b>2.
Among the most popular social media trends was #NetflixneedsLucha. That
said, what’s the likelihood of a streaming service/availability for
residents outside the US to watch the prior season?</b></h3>
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"Believe me, we understand that. Half of our battle is making an easy, legal way to view our product and that’s hard. The <span class="spellver">El</span> <span class="spellver">Rey</span> Network is not offered everywhere and <i><span class="spellver">Lucha</span> Underground</i> is not on a streaming service or a <span class="spellver">VOD</span>
service yet. We have a product that everyone wants to watch and no way
to watch it. It’s a unique issue. It’s one that we’re actively trying to
solve.</div>
I don’t have anything official to announce, but I
can tell you that there are ongoing negotiations and conversations
happening with a video on demand service. So, I can’t announce anything
officially, but we certainly still are in the discussion. I know that
kind of sucks. I wish I could tell you more, but that’s not a dead end
by any stretch."<br />
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<b>1. With the announcement of season 2, what can you share with us as being the biggest hold-up?</b></h3>
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"As far as what took so long for us to announce? <span class="spellver">El</span> <span class="spellver">Rey</span> always wanted it. It was never a case of whether<span class="spellver">El</span><span class="spellver">Rey</span> wanted a second season. It was more about how were we going to pay for <i><span class="spellver">Lucha</span> Underground </i>season two at the same level of quality that season one had.</div>
We
have investors from Mexico that funded the overages in season one and
there were some overages, but it’s nowhere near what has been reported
and kicked around the internet sites. It was about proving to them that
there was a path where we could make the show profitable.<br />
There
are still some deals that are pending that we hopefully be able to
announce soon that will be big and exciting and probably guarantee us a
way for us to stay on the air for a long time. For now, we have a path
to do season two and we’ve found some ways to make it cheaper, but not
lose quality. We are leaving some options on <span class="ver">the table for</span> subsequent seasons and additional episodes to happen next summer."<br />
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This story can also be found at <a data-mce-href="http://www.therichest.com/sports/wrestling/10-burning-questions-with-lucha-underground-executive-producer-eric-van-wagenen/" href="http://www.therichest.com/sports/wrestling/10-burning-questions-with-lucha-underground-executive-producer-eric-van-wagenen/" target="_blank">TheRichest.com</a>.</h6>
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<i><b>Author:</b> </i><a data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/TheMarcMadison" href="https://twitter.com/TheMarcMadison" target="_blank">Marc Madison</a></div>
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<dd class="wp-caption-dd">Rob ' Papa Stro' Kellum shares stories about his past and outlook for the future.</dd></dl>
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As
Former WCW wrestler The Stro, Rob Kellum recently took some time to
participate in an interview. Kellum reveals about his time with WCW, his
current film career, how faith has a place in wrestling and his family
lineage to legendary wrestler Gorgeous George. Check out the complete
interview below.<br />
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"I
took the wrestling camps initially because I was with the USA freestyle
Greco roman circuit. Wrestling collegiality at the time and I had the
opportunity to do some wrestling through the Iowa Hawkeyes. Dan Gable
was one of my hero’s growing up, I mean Olympic gold medalist. I used to
watch videos of his training and it was so inspiring. The guy was a
machine, much like the way I respect Kurt Angle for winning the gold
medal. Olympic athletes are so many notches above your normal athletes.
They train so much harder and that’s their life to train to be the very
best. I’ve always had a respect and admiration for Olympic athletes and
wresting in general. To have the opportunity to wrestle and work with
those guys was just amazing."<br />
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Discuss your early
training under Nelson Royal, Gene Anderson & Ivan Koloff and what
you walked away with from each of those experiences.</h3>
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much knowledge. Gene and Ole Anderson were the original Minnesota
Wrecking Crew. Gene Anderson is one of the hookers of the business. He
is just like Danny Hodge and the Gotch’s, William Regal’s that just have
that tendency the Bob Orton Jr. who have that tendon strength that are
just like those mountain climbers that ability to balance themselves on
ledges because they are deceptively strong and when they grab you, you
just want to cry (chuckles) it’s just amazing. Nelson Royal was just one
of the greatest junior heavyweight champions or what they call
cruiserweights of all time. He’s teamed with the very best. He and Sweet
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Then
you have ‘The Russian Bear’ Ivan Koloff who believe it or not is an
ordained minister, God bless him that’s great. He was a machine in his
time, let me tell you. He’s been world tag team champions with guys like
Don Kernoddle and Nikita Koloff and he’s just been one of the very best
and we know his accomplishments back in the WWWF when he won the World
Heavyweight championship from Bruno Sammartino. In my eyes he’s hall of
fame up and down and just a matter of time before he gets inducted. To
have the knowledge that I learned from those gentlemen and by watching
video tapes. One of the first tapes I watched was Chief Wahoo McDaniel
and Johnny Valentine. What a thrill that was and ironically one of my
first matches was with Chief Wahoo McDaniel and Ivan Koloff.<br />
It
was a thrill for me to be on the learning tree from those guys and
ironically I was still training collegiality while I was training to be a
professional. So I was keeping both very separate at the time. For a
time it was hard to put weight on because any amateur wrestler knows it
was like training for track and field. I mean you’re constantly running
you’re constantly doing cardio. I was pretty lean at the time and a lot
of guys would take advantage of me until I started being dedicated to
power lifting and getting strength and doing what I needed to do to get
the size and the know how to become professional wrestler."<br />
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"What
a journey that was. I grew up admiring Gorgeous George. He was a
pioneer for all professional wrestlers. If it weren’t for him we
wouldn’t have the TV and the drama that we have today, I have no doubt.
He was pretty much the guy that started it all for pro wrestling on
television in its popularity. For me it was a crazy journey. He was one
of the guys I always grew up admiring and I’ve always had the love of
professional wrestling since I was little. During my career, what really
got the ball rolling with the whole Gorgeous George thing was, I was
doing some WCW TV tapings and William Regal, a good friend of mine and
Dusty Rhodes were comparing my style to that of the original Gorgeous
George and it just started this chain reaction. Just more and more
people started comparing me to the original Gorgeous George and the more
I kept hearing about it the more it kept rattling in my brain.<br />
I
went to my grandpa one day who was out in Oklahoma in a horse ranch and I
told my grandpa of what was going down and he just looked at me, right
and said, ‘You didn’t know?’. I look back at him and said, ‘Didn’t know
what?’ (chuckles) and my grandpa was the one that smartened me up and
that Gorgeous George was my grand uncle and that he and my grand uncle
were amateur boxing buddies back in the day before he broke into pro
wrestling and it just ironic how life takes its twists and turns and you
find out your relation to one of the all-time greats, so that inspired
me to carry on the name Gorgeous George, later on in my career in honor
and retrospect of him which I was known as Gorgeous George the 3rd for a
long time before my entrance into WCW."<br />
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Fans may
be aware that there was some issue with use over the name. Was there
any trademark over it and how was the issue resolved?</h3>
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is how all that went down. I got a call in Puerto Rico when I was down
in WWC, with Carlito’s dad, Carlos Colon, that was his territory, down
in San Juan and I was staying down there with Rex King and Sean Morley
(Val Venis) and I got the call from Macho Man (Randy Savage) and Hulk
Hogan and they had heard about me from Jerry Jarrett during my time in
the USWA and they had heard about the Gorgeous George the 3rd and to
which Randy Savage was a big fan of Gorgeous George and him and the
Hulkster asked me to come to down for a tryout for WCW Nitro and which I
did. I flew from Puerto Rico down to Virginia for a tryout and was
introduced to Eric Bischoff and The Giant (Big Show) and the guys they
had in hand and that tryout match was with Jeff Farmer who later on was
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The
deal was going to be that they were going to bring me in under a new
persona and they wanted to give the Gorgeous George moniker to Lanny
Poffo. I was cool with that because I had a lot of respect for the Poffo
family. I knew Lanny could carry on the family name well with his style
and athleticism and all. What happened was neither deal went through
with the company so I kept doing what I did. I was still Gorgeous George
the 3rd and I went to Puerto Rico where Jake the Snake Roberts and I
did the Triple Mania main event with him. I went to Mexico for a little
bit and then Texas where I was doing some wrestling out there with the
old reminisce of the old World Class Championship Wrestling alumni with
Black Bart and Wild Bill Irwin and the Von Erich’s. That was a good
treat in itself. I was always a World Class fan in the days of the
Freebirds and the Von Erich’s and Gino Hernandez.<br />
When I got the
call to come up for the second tryout and which that this time was
against Chavo Guerrero Jr, I couldn’t have been any happier. Christmas
came early that year! (Chuckles) I love the Guerrero family and we used
to pray together before matches. Hector, Chavito, Eddie that family was
just like the Armstrong’s. I grew up in the business with them some
great workers some great wrestlers and we had a heck of a match. It was
great. When we got in the back and Dallas (Page) and came to me and was
putting the match over and the last time I saw you, you were light
years. Your workrate was like light years. They came in and put their
little pointers and few things and you don’t know which one to believe. I
remember what my grandpa told me a while back, ‘always know who the
boss is’. I remember Eric Bischoff walking in the back and amongst the
agents and looked at me and said great match and said ‘we could use a
great talent like you, welcome aboard’. No sooner than did he say that,
all the agents changed their tune. ‘Oh, great match. That was
outstanding’. I knew right then that if I had a problem and I had a go
to guy and if things got tight that Eric was the guy to go to, right. I
look out at the door and there was Arn Anderson and a list of the boys
all shook my hand and welcomed me in the company. It was one of the
greatest feelings ever, I’ll never forget it.<br />
For that first year,
in WCW I was known as Gorgeous George the 3rd actually and did some TV
tapings down in Orlando and in and around Florida. I was known by that
full name for almost a full year before Randy Savage (chuckles) decided
he wanted to give the name to his valet/girlfriend at the time Stephanie
Bellows. In a way it kind perplexed me, I mean of all the names why
would he want to give her Gorgeous George but I guess that was his
thing. But like I said backtracking before he was always a big Gorgeous
George fan. So when I went to Eric and told him the situation, I said
‘what can we do?’ because I wanted to work things out. We started
trading ideas back and forth and that’s how the Maestro got created
which was a throwback from the Gorgeous George the 3rd persona that I
was doing anyway but more of my real life musical twist, because I used
to be in theater before I broke into wrestling. I had a musical
background and that’s how the Maestro was born. My vision of Maestro
didn’t really come to play until towards the end where I was more a fan
of the opera persona which became arrogant and an aristocrat but with a
darker side. Something would set him off and he would just go nuts. But
yeah, it was one of arguably the greatest companies at the time and it
was awesome. I was blessed to be there at the time and WCW was just
rocking the world basically. With the nWo surge, Goldberg surge, Sting
surge, Diamond Dallas Page was born it was just a great time."</div>
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"When
I first debuted on Nitro I was kind of the guy that would calm Sid
Vicious down from powerbombing everyone into oblivion. Later on, the
addition of Alicia Webb aka Symphony aka Ryan Shamrock which was great. A
wonderful lady even to this day, a great friend. My original two picks
to be manager were Sherri Martel and Bobby Heenan. I loved both of them
to death and so much history. Bobby wanted to do it so bad but he was
too tied up with commentary and then Sherri she almost had it but then
at the last minute the office decided to go with Alicia Webb. It was
great to work with her and have her valet for me. We got to be good
friends and a real classy lady.</div>
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It
was such an exciting time that I was in the ring on the shows with
arguably the greatest talent in the entire world. From legends like
Roddy Piper, Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan, Macho Man to guys like Curt Hennig,
Barry Windham to the greatest cruiserweights from all over the world,
Mexico, Japan, Europe, and Canada. It was just an amazing time working
with the great mat technicians from Europe the Regal’s, the Finlay’s,
and Dave Taylor. Then there were guys from Japan you had Great Muta,
Masahiro Chono, and Ultimo Dragon. It was just such an awesome awesome
time, we had. The affiliation with New Japan Pro Wrestling at the time
it was just amazing."<br />
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After your time in WCW,
life has been incredibly busy for you. Share some of the stories with
other promotions and what you walked away with from those experiences.</h3>
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"I’ve
done a lot of work with a lot of promotions across the country. On
occasion, I’ll attend conventions. I’m very active now in TV and film in
the acting world. I’ve always evolved myself with life. Basically it’s
just like Triple H, The Rock and Steve Austin have evolved with their
personas. Even though they are called by the same name they have still
evolved their personas and their looks. I’ve done that myself where now
I’ve taken the crazy side of Maestro and went to a whole new level
calling myself Papa and I’ve even got a pop up branding iron. I come out
in the fog and have creepy music (chuckles). I’ve pretty much taken two
guys I look up with and are friends in Uncle Terry Funk which I had
adopted as an uncle from his time in WCW and Kevin Sullivan and made
this creepy, crazy Ghost Rider like persona."<br />
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Not
being one to rest on your laurels, your talents also include singing,
drumming & playing piano. How have you been able to parlay that into
something more outside of the ring?</h3>
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"Well
that goes back to my theater experience where I had to go back and know
a little bit of everything. I was in the musical events like Cats,
Hamlet, Macbeth you name it. That kind of carried over to the wrestling
and acting world being more prepared. To do things like that more
entertainment wise creatively and always keep your persona fresh for the
people to be entertained because they’re your biggest critic. That’s
what it’s all about bringing the people in and having them enjoy your
world and entertainment value."</div>
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"It’s
funny how everything ties in. We tell stories in the ring basically and
that’s what professional wrestling is, it’s physical storytelling. It’s
no different in film and just like in a match where we are sticklers on
detail like we are on film in different scenes. What will work and will
not work. Just like in matches. It’s just like a chess game. You want
to bring the people along for the ride in a chess game. This is no
different in making film. You want the people to come on that trip, on
that journey with you. To make the story the best it can be. I tell
people all the time, it’s not really how matches you win and how many
matches you lose it’s how great a story you can tell to the people to
keep them interested and motivated and watching it."<br />
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Anyone
that has followed you can truly get a strong sense of faith. Has your
faith ever prevented you from making choices in the ring with storyline?</h3>
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"To
me it’s more than religion, it’s a way of life. Everybody goes through a
journey in life their ups and their downs. Their heartaches and their
accomplishments and their greatest moments. There are some peaks and
valley stages and we deal with the struggle every day. The cliché says
the struggle is real. In pro wrestling we have good vs evil all the time
going on. The characters may change which I hate to use the word
character because we live what we do. It’s a persona. It’s a 24/7
gimmick that we live and believe in everyday and put our heart and soul
in everyday 365 days a year. When we set out and do, people live
vicariously through us as a professional wrestlers so when we go out
there and tell our story in the ring we go through those peaks and
valley stages. Sometimes we’re on top and sometimes we’re getting that
sympathy. We’re taking the heat.<br />
People can identify with that
because in everyday life some parts of your day are great and other days
you’re just struggling and going through hardships and people can
identify with that with a match. Not only can they identify with that
with a match but with film too as well. So it’s funny how everything is
intertwined and that believing and having faith in God is so important.
God has saved my life I mean, I don’t know how many times. God also kept
me from making some really bad decisions and I’m so grateful to this
day that I didn’t make those bad decisions and that’s all because of
him. I owe everything to God and thank you Jesus for everything because
if it weren’t for Jesus and God, looking out for me I know personally I
wouldn’t be here talking to you here today.<br />
I don’t find religion
in storylines to mock at all. The reason being no matter what you
believe in there is good and there is evil in the world and there are
good times and there are bad times. People no matter what they believe
can identify with that. They understand that either they’ve lived it or
gone through it in the past or the one thing that I call is the best
seller in the world has been here from the beginning of time and always
will be is emotion. People understand emotion. That is why certain
wrestlers, certain wrestling matches fans get into because those guys
instead of creating a picture with crayons, they are using the great
paintings of Picasso to portray that emotion to bring out that inner
feeling from everyone that is watching their match just like in a movie.
That’s why some of these movies are such masterpieces because they
bring out that emotion and make you want to cry, laugh, and be angry
they bring all that out. I don’t care where you are from anywhere in the
world they can identify with that emotion. That is why it really isn’t
insulting anyone because they can identify with certain emotions and
what they feel. That’s why wrestling, film and makes everything we do
unique because it’s intertwined."<br />
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"There
are some great things that I see happening today in wrestling. I’m
really happy that are companies today that are emerging like the TNA’s,
the Ring of Honors and many of the smaller one’s from around the world.
With WWE and their NXT, that’s amazing and it’s great to see guys
achieving down there is someone that I’ve trained and helped get started
and that’s Scott Dawson. He and Dash Wilder are just a phenomenal team.
Just expect big things from them. I’d say athleticism there are some
great athletes out there no doubt.<br />
What I’d like to see more and
like to see more work with is promos and with some of the matches. You
can tell when a match is phoned in. Oh my gosh, even the most avid fan
can tell when a match is phoned in. When anybody gets out there and bust
their butt and puts all their heart and soul in that ring there is no
substitute from that and that is what I think is missing from wrestling
today.<br />
Back in the day, that is why guys connected with the people
they believed what they did they believed it and showed it. Once again
they brought out that emotion in people and the connection between
yourself and your audience. That is why it is important in film, it is
important in wrestling, it is important in everything. You have to have
that connection with the people. Whether you are a villain or you are a
hero, they will follow you to the ends of the earth if they are
connected."<br />
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What does the balance of 2015 & beyond have in store for Papa Stro?</h3>
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"Bigger
and better things. Sky’s the limit. As far as bigger and better films,
wrestling matches, conventions. A possible book coming out. I’m writing a
script for a film right now. Expect big things to come. I’m branching
out into different avenues right now and it’s a very exciting time for
me. I can’t wait myself to see what will happen in the next few years."</div>
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"My official website is <a data-mce-href="http://www.thestro.com/" href="http://www.thestro.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.thestro.com</a>
and that’s all my latest on my wrestling, TV and film appearances,
merchandise etc. On Facebook, Stro The Maestro, on twitter @TheStro, on
Instagram stromaestro and I’d just like to say to anyone out there that
have dreams and ambitions to be the very best, go for it. Anything you
want in life, go for it, don’t let it stop you. You’ll have your good
days and bad days just stick with it. Persistence pays off and never
stop always be driven to do what you love to doing because that’s what
makes life great."</div>
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TNA wrestler Samuel Shaw recently took some time to participate in an
interview. Shaw reveals his work with Gunner, training under Curtis
Hughes and the WWA4 Wrestling School and what he believes the benefits
of either the Gut Check Challenge or Tough Enough. Check out the
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"Curtis
Hughes was an excellent in ring trainer, who taught me the
fundamentals. He taught me all the moves, how to bump, how to run the
ropes correctly, just the repetition each and every day and doing all
that and coinciding with getting into ring shape, I thought he was an
excellent trainer as far as that was concerned. As far as the character
and reasons why we do certain things in the ring, I think that there was
some things left to be desired. I really didn’t know why I was doing
certain moves, why I was selling at certain points and why this was at a
certain point in a match. Why was I doing certain things? But as far as
fundamentals, he was tremendous and one of the things he really taught
me was to just to feel it out in the ring. For instance, my first
professional match was against him and he basically got dressed in a
separate locker room and he told me he’d see me out in the ring.
Basically, I just listened to him during the match and it was one of the
most fun things I ever did. I was very nervous but just listening to
him it gave me that confidence.<br />
My time with ROH was a little
before my time signing with TNA, that was in 2012. I had long hair and
people didn’t even recognize me that’s a very little known thing, that I
actually did that. I loved working with Ring of Honor and I went to two
of their tryout camps and I was big on going to some of the camps and
just getting noticed however I could. I went to a Harley Race camp, I
went to an OVW camp where John Laurinaitis was there. All these camps
were really good for a learning experience but I feel like Ring of Honor
you get the most bang for your buck with their training seminars. They
found a lot of talent through their camp and it’s the reason I got
booked in Baltimore to wrestle the Briscoe Brothers. So I can’t put that
over enough."<br />
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"I
remember the first day sort of showing up a tad bit late to my first
OVW training camp session with Rip Rogers. I have no idea what to
expect. Al Snow told me ‘oh, you’re going to love training with Rip
Rogers’, you’re going to learn a lot. I show up and of course he’s
already got people in the ring doing stuff. There was about 20 people
there and I walked up and I put out my hand and I try to introduce
myself to Rip Rogers and he just sort of looks at me and says, “Who the
fuck are you?” and I am like I’m Samuel Shaw and he responds, “Okay, why
the fuck should I care? What the fuck do you want?” I’m oh my god is
this really how this is going to go? I’ve heard stories about this guy
but okay and he tells me to get in line and let’s see how you can bump
and by the end of it I think he sort of like me because I showed him
some sort of athletic ability and not just a jabroni that is just coming
in and wasn’t some bodybuilder muscle look to him and he wasn’t going
to really do anything special. But at the end of it he was really
receptive to me and I enjoyed training with Rip Rogers. It was very
short.<br />
The developmental program for TNA at OVW was very short
lived and changes were always happening. There was no real structure I
guess you could say. It was sort of like here we have training a couple
of days a week and you have 4 or 5 shows a week which is tremendous
because you are getting into that mode of working each and every day and
I think that it was a tremendous learning experience. I went into the
whole OVW experience thinking that I was already trained really well
coming from Curtis Hughes and then coming from Team 3D academy for four
years. Getting signed with TNA and then I thought I had to go back and
train some more? Destroy my body and this and that. I was there for
practically a year and I feel like I learned a tremendous amount in that
time and I look back on it as a very fond memory for me."<br />
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your thoughts on the Gut Check Challenge and how, in comparison,
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"I
really feel like in the long run, I feel like the Gut Check challenge
and Tough Enough are really good ways to take a talent that might have
not had an opportunity otherwise. Especially with Gut Check, I felt like
they were bringing in some talent that somebody might have seen
somewhere and said, ‘hey, let’s give this guy an opportunity’ and I
don’t know if it’s always for the right reasons. For me, it’s just my
personal opinion but I felt like I was brought in to the Gut Check
because they were going to say no. I feel like they had already said yes
to a number of talent for whatever reasons whether they performed well
or not. Alex Silva was going to be a no but then Ric Flair changed his
mind on the spot. I think there were 3 yes’ and they were looking for a
no because they were trying to make this like an American Idol thing. We
need some drama, we need some guys to not pass the test and make this
good TV.<br />
I think the decision was already made, like I said just
my opinion. I feel like I performed well and I had showed a lot of heart
and passion and I really wanted it and I was told yes and even Eric
Bischoff came up to me afterwards and he mentioned to me, ‘I pretty much
knew it was going to be a no but then you went out there and did really
well. How can we say no to that’? Do I think I would have gotten those
opportunities in TNA to get a contract there? Yes. But, everything in
this business is right place, right time. I was given that opportunity
and I was always told to go out there and shine. With whatever
opportunity they give you. It was crazy because there were some really
bad Gut Check performances and I almost don’t want to name names but I
remember one particular guy that Gunner had to wrestle and honestly it
made for really good TV. You saw this talent given an opportunity to
come and he basically wasn’t ready for that environment. It just showed
up in his work and he had blown up and Gunner was just like ‘oh, man’.
And you can tell it was just bad. For the casual fan and the diehard fan
you could see how real this could actually get, really quickly."<br />
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The
Lupus character had a very short lifespan. Was there more intended for
the character? If so, what? If not, what could have been done to develop
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"I
think as far as I know I think it was just a one shot deal. As far as I
know Tommy Dreamer and some of those ECW originals just popped those
guys a little bit. Of course, just like Gut Check it was an opportunity
and I’m going to do the best that I can with what I’m given. That was in
2010 and I was just looking for any sort of break that I could find and
I remember specially being at Team 3D academy and Bubba Ray says, ‘
Sam, come in my office’ and of course I go in and he tells me they are
going to use me on the Hardcore Justice pay per view. I’m just thinking,
I’m on cloud 9 and whatever you want me to do let’s do it and then he
tells me the spot and he say’s I’m going to be doing my famous leg drop
from the top rope during the Tommy Dreamer/Raven match. I am just like
‘hell yeah’. Then he tells me I am going to be Lupus, and I vaguely
remember Lupus being Raven’s lackey and he carried around a little blow
up sex doll and Bubba asked me if I could go out and find some attire
that is going to match Lupus as best as possible. Absolutely. I go to
Hardcore Justice and I’m surrounded by all these ECW originals and they
give me a blow up doll that is 1/3rd the size of the blow up doll that
the original Lupus had. It was a very interesting day. I think we had
the fire department there at the Impact zone to make sure that because
we were going to use some fire that night they used me as a test dummy
to go through a flaming table earlier on in the day in front of all
talent, in front of Dixie Carter. Bubba and Devon put me through a
flaming table and I was on fire and I singed all of my arm hair off and a
little bit of my eyebrows but at least I can say that I went through a
flaming table but damn it was never televised.<br />
And I think I was
ribbed a little bit that day because Balls Mahoney was following me
around and said, ‘hey man, this is what you’ve got to do before you go
through a flaming table’ he is filling up glasses of water and he is
making me carry all these glasses of water to the ring and in front of
all the boys and I’m thinking oh man, I’m going to get made fun of now. I
get down to the ring and Bubba sees me with four glasses of water and
he’s…’Sam, just get you’re ass in the ring’. It was just one of those
funny little things. I end up getting the Mick Foley barbed wire sock in
my mouth. I remember specifically earlier in the day someone said, its
gimmick barbwire so don’t worry about it. I didn’t know, I didn’t care,
whatever. Then later on we are going over the match and Dreamer says
Mick Foley is going to put the barbed wire sock in your mouth, I don’t
know if its gimmick or not. So whatever happens, happens. I didn’t care
so I was ready for any opportunity that honestly if a real piece of
barbed wire is going to get stuck in my mouth. I remember specifically
my roommate at the time texting me and looking at phone and I had all
this blood pouring out of my mouth and Taz put it over so well on
commentary. I remember all this stuff very vividly because it was all a
huge moment for me and a lot of people might not remember this stuff but
obviously this is a huge moment for me. So I remember checking my phone
and my roommate said that my girlfriend is just crying her eyes out
because she didn’t know if I was dying. That blood pouring out my mouth
made for a good effect because it made my girlfriend cry."<br />
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"I
was pitched the idea of an American Psycho-esque character from John
Gaburick, ‘Big’ as we like to call him. He had this idea that presented
it to me and he said do you think that this is something you could do.
And I said, yeah. Again, this is music to my ears. I’m on cloud 9
because that genre of horror and the American Psycho was one of my
favorite movies of all time. It’s one of those movies that I would break
out a couple of times a year and just look at it. For some reason it
was just so interesting to me. The way that Christian Bale sort of came
alive off the screen and that was a big break out role for him, I think.
I think you knew that even bigger things were coming for him. We used
to say in college, ‘that guy is going to be Batman one day, he looks
like Bruce Wayne’. Just so many cool things he did with that character. I
read the book and I loved how Mary Harron the director of American
Psycho took all the best elements of this long book and put them into an
hour and a half movie and I think Christian Bale just nailed it.<br />
There
was something so interesting about that role and when Big approached me
with that character idea it was please let’s get started right away
because I just feel I have a grasp on this that well. I went home that
day stayed up all night and just went through American Psycho and I
paused, rewound and took notes and just tried to figure out all the
mannerisms. The certain things that he would do to get that character to
come alive. Not to mention that it was mentioned to me that my ring
attire had to look like you were going out for your kill, sort of like
Dexter. Look at Dexter when he was walking around in the middle of the
day he looked like a normal guy but then he always had a specific outfit
that he wore whenever he was out to stalk his next victim and thus kill
them. It was the grey or light green Henley American Apparel shirt and
then the police gloves that leave no finger prints at the crime scene.
We had these very ugly like puke green and I think his were like cargo
pants. I actually had to go search far and wide for a pair of pants that
I could actually wrestle in and do some athletic things in where they
wouldn’t rip in the crotch. I found some Steve Madden very nice dress
boots and I resoled them, thus there is the Samuel Shaw character with
the Dexter/Patrick Batemen all derived from those characters."<br />
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"I
don’t know if it was directly related to the American Psycho film per
say but I think it was a good way to get the idea into the fans minds
that this guy is a creep. By involving a great hero like a Ken Anderson,
that can off the cusp I had really no idea that in London, England that
he was going to call me a “creepy bastard”. When he did, the fans are
so receptive to him and he’s just so good that I felt so comfortable
bouncing off of him. The whole crowd sure enough started chanting creepy
bastard.<br />
People would be offended being called a creepy bastard
but it’s just absolute music to my ears and I had goosebumps. The whole
crowd was chanting creepy bastard and all the things they had involved
with Christy Hemme and I had this reveal where I had this room full of
Christy Hemme posters and Barbie dolls with red hair and a mannequin all
this weird and twisted stuff. I think one of the vignettes we did was I
seemed like a very normal guy and Christy leaves the room and I’m at a
table and I’m fixing the pens and the piece of paper on the table almost
like I have a problem with messiness. I think all those things with
Christy Hemme and Ken Anderson were a very vital part in getting the
idea across that Samuel Shaw is a creep."<br />
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feud with Gunner was the most developed feud for both of you during
your time in TNA. Was there anything you would have done differently
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"I
loved working with Gunner and he’s one of my good friends in the
business. We think a lot alike. We are both hungry. We both bust our
aass in the gym. We are always thinking of ideas of how to have a great
match and little nuances that we can add here and there to just make
everything better. The problem with that whole deal was that we really
had no idea where it was going. Our intent was just to come to work,
whatever they give us let’s just make the best of it and I think Gunner
would agree, we both were given a ton of backstage acting material to
further develop our characters and not just the in ring work. We are
both interested in acting. Gunner has done some appearances on some
films recently and this is something that we both want to get into on a
more serious level at some point. I think that our feud and all this
backstage acting that we did with the vignettes and I think that this
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As
far as the in ring stuff, our goal was to just go out there and kill it
every time. We did a particular match in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania where
we just floored each other. We just wanted to show everybody that these
guys are serious. These guys are taking crazy bumps and are doing
whatever it takes to get recognized here and our goal was just to have
the best of those matches and the creative writing team just didn’t have
enough for us where we were both ‘we need to do more with these guys’.
We are doing a phenomenal job out there. We wanted to do some of those
matches on our next UK tour. Unfortunately, it just turned out where
that was just the end of it. We had that match in Bethlehem, PA and then
we had a three month break because TNA was just negotiating a new TV
deal elsewhere getting off Spike TV we had no idea where we were going
to end up. The feud just had ended over the three months. Brittany
(Santana Garrett) didn’t resign with the company so, there goes that
with Samuel Shaw and Brittany that’s over with and well, we had that one
match with Gunner. I guess the writing team just said I guess it’s not
in their interest going forward to push Samuel Shaw and Gunner. This is
just my opinion, there is so much talent on the roster and they have
their ideas of who they are going to push and put in the limelight and I
think it just sort of fizzled out for me and Gunner and they didn’t
know what to do."<br />
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"Really
and truly at the moment, I was with TNA since 2012 and I have seen so
many regime changes there and I said 2012 but I was training at Team 3D
Academy since late 2007 so Bubba Ray was always giving me the
opportunity up at TNA and I’ve seen so many changes up there almost like
an identity crisis. I never had any problem with that obviously, I just
got released and now you look at it as well, they don’t really have
their structure all there yet even after 13 years.<br />
I think for me
personally, I don’t have any interest in returning there any time soon. I
think that there are so many other great opportunities out there that I
am striving for and we are really in a wrestling boom period now and I
think that now to explore other opportunities that will better utilize
my talents. I feel like I have just scratched the surface on what I can
do. I give TNA all the credit in the world with giving me the ball to
run with and that character was such of breath of fresh air for me and
something to latch onto in a lot of ways. I don’t think that character
is totally done with yet. I feel there are ways to make that character
more user friendly. I think he can thrive in another environment
somewhere else."<br />
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"As
far as the beginnings of the Samuel Shaw character and getting it off
the ground I really have to give it to John Gaburick. Big was the guy.
After I left OVW almost after a year it was such a weird time. I
remember I had gone home to Florida and had some family stuff to take
care of and I went home and a few days later about and it’s all over the
internet that about 11 or 12 talents had gotten released from TNA and
one of them was Bruce Prichard who had just left.<br />
This whole new
regime change and I had not really been used and I wasn’t making very
much money and I was tired of being in Louisville, Kentucky and I had a
home in Florida and that I was coming back to once every two months or
so and what’s going on? It was almost as if I didn’t know if the office
was watching my OVW stuff or not or my progress. Like I said the
structure there was you never knew what to expect there and I don’t
think they knew if they had a set structure there but things like OVW
were a developmental project for them or not. I’m not sure if it was
like a vanity thing or not. So WWE had the developmental so we need to
look more like them and let’s have our developmental so they can send
some young talent to be picked up.<br />
By the time the year had passed
now, I am thinking alright nothing has happened this regime change is
happening, what’s going on? A good friend of mine, Crimson, he and I
were just busting our ass at OVW and it was just okay, he’s gone and
they aren’t doing anything with me. I actually asked for my release and
then Al Snow calls me and tells me Dixie doesn’t want to let me go for
whatever reason. I am okay, well, then what is going on? Then I hear
that John Gaburick comes aboard and he actually gives me a call and he
tells me Dixie doesn’t want to let me go and he actually has to look at
the tape, he said please bare with me, we see something in you and we
just may have an idea for you and then I wait about 2 months and then he
takes me to a show I think in Oklahoma and that is when he pitches the
American Psycho gimmick and I think for the first few months of that
character, I think John Gaburick was the producer of all my segments.
All the subtle nuances of the character, he was a great help of getting
that character off the ground. He believed in me and said you can do
this, I know you can, you’re perfect for this.<br />
After that he had
the confidence in me to just make my own decisions and just let me loose
and one of the writer’s on the writing team Dave Lagana was very
instrumental in producing all my segments after John Gaburick. He was
really helped me with all the dialogue and made sure that I was hitting
the write bullet points and I owe him a lot.<br />
I think Al Snow was
always my agent for all my matches and he really helped me there. When I
am putting a match together my mind is all over the place and sometimes
I need somebody to help me focus everything in the right direction and
Al Snow was always just a great help. He made me realise that you don’t
need that but to do this. This is the business of the match. I owe a lot
to him. Those three guys are instrumental, John Gaburick, Dave Lagana
and Al Snow."<br />
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"I
think that Lucha Underground is such an awesome TV presence. Their
stuff is so much like a movie it is so cutting edge and its more risqué
and violent. I think that is a really strong suited place for the creep,
Samuel Shaw to go. He doesn’t necessarily need a mask there. I think
the Samuel Shaw character wears a mask in general. I think that some of
those backstage segments would be so great for the Samuel Shaw character
to latch onto some good material. Of course, I don’t think that people
have really seen what I can do in the ring 100%. Couple that with Lucha
Underground being full of all these high flyers and able to do all these
incredible athletic things in the ring, I think that not many people
know that I can adapt to any style. I feel like I can thrive in that
environment.<br />
NXT is just doing great things right now and a place
that I would be highly interested in trying out there. I think that I
would thrive in that environment.<br />
I know Kevin Kelly really well. I
know a couple of the guys up there (Ring of Honor). I’ve had some
discussions with them and I’m not saying I’m definitely going to show up
in Ring of Honor and I’m not saying that discussions have gotten that
far whatsoever but, it’s definitely a place that I look at as a serious
option and I love their TV show and I think it’s great that they are on
Destination America and they do house shows consistently and it’s the
place that if you get in with them you can work consistently. It’s a way
to get your name out there."</div>
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"Well,
I’m busting my ass man. Really, I’m doing a lot of interviews. I’ve got
a lot of Indies lined up. I’ve got some other opportunities lined up
that I can talk about later. At this time it’s just keeping that mindset
that I’ve always had to keep striving for bigger and better things.
It’s the first time I’ve been released by a wrestling company and I was
always taught it’s going to happen and it’s up to you as to what you are
going to do. Are you going to take it as a negative or a positive?
Gunner and I both got released at the same time and you have that
initial oh that’s a slap in the face or an initial anger but I’m taking
it as a positive. I feel relief. Artistically, my mind is just going
crazy with ideas and I’m excited about the future and opportunities that
are going to present themselves if I continue to bust my ass. It’s
going to be very interesting the rest of the year."</div>
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"I
am also a freelance artist and I do commission work. I draw a lot of
wrestlers and superheroes and things like that. I just did the Florida
Super Con down in Miami and I was at the headlock comic both with Jerry
Lawler and we were there just drawing on the spot. I drew a Dusty Rhodes
and talked to a lot of fans. I loved being in that creative environment
and Jerry Lawler is a phenomenal artist as well. I would bounce ideas
off of him. I have an email that people can reach me at that’s <a data-mce-href="mailto:shawdawgarts@gmail.com" href="mailto:shawdawgarts@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">shawdawgarts@gmail.com</a>
and you can hit me up for art commissions. Seriously, I can draw
anything your heart desires. You can also find that email address on my
twitter <a data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/TheSamuelShaw" href="https://twitter.com/TheSamuelShaw" target="_blank">@TheSamuelShaw</a> and also Instagram <a data-mce-href="https://instagram.com/thesamuelshaw/" href="https://instagram.com/thesamuelshaw/" target="_blank">@thesamuelshaw</a>."Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03816246595711637157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665826034883825385.post-61441533647115081952017-01-21T13:11:00.002-08:002017-03-26T16:44:39.647-07:00Mexican wrestling legend Konnan opens up about his career and his hopes for Lucha Underground in the future<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Lucha
Underground’s Konnan recently took some time to participate in an
interview. Konnan reveals his work with Kevin Sullivan, the faction that
he was a part of that was under rated in WCW, his role in Mexico and
what he looks forward to with Lucha Underground. Check out the complete
interview below.<br />
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Super ASTRO, Negro Casas, Eddie
Guerrero and Rey Misterio Sr. are all synonymous with your
training. Describe your experiences with each and what you walked away
with?</h3>
"Super
Astro was the first superstar to ever come out of Tijuana and he
trained me with the fundamentals and he used to train Rey Mysterio (Jr),
Psychosis and whenever he would come into Mexico from Tijuana, he would
go in there and he would help us train and he would prepare me with
what I was going to confront once I came into Mexico city because it was
a whole different world there in Mexico City. Mexico City was like New
York. That was where all the media was and where they filmed soap operas
and everything like that. He wanted to get me ready for that.<br />
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Rey
Misterio Sr. was the guy that you could say discovered me. He was one
of my first trainers and he basically taught me how to wrestle the
Mexican style, Lucha Libre and he would make all my outfits for me. He
was an incredible designer. He had a very creative eye and made all my
early outfits for me. He made Rey Mysterio’s first outfits too. He also
made a lot of outfits for the wrestlers that came out of Tijuana. The
group that came out of Tijuana that came before and after me were always
known for having really cool outfits, really investing money in our
presentation and that was because of him. He always thought that you had
to look like a star.<br />
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Eddie Guerrero, basically helped me fine
tune, whatever I was still missing in the wrestling game. I would cross
the border Ciudad Juarez in the state of Chihuahua which was where I was
wrestling for a long time and he was from El Paso (Texas) which was on
the other side and I would cross this international bridge. He would
take me and I would teach him how to do weights and shit and he would
teach me everything there was to wrestling. He even had a wrestling ring
in his backyard. His dad, Gory Guerrero who is considered maybe the
greatest Mexican wrestler of all time would tell me old school stories
of wrestling of how to respect the business. He actually had a library
that was full of wrestling books and I would be reading them. I would
ask him, ‘can I take this and read it?’ and he goes, ‘well, you have to
check it out’ like a library card. So I would have to check out these
books and bring them back and he would actually ask me questions about
what I read. Eddie Guerrero really showed me how to separate personal
from business and how to always be in character. Once I left that car
door to go into the arena, he really helped me a lot. They all did in
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"No,
absolutely not. I went in either at 17 or 18 years old, really to stay
off the streets of Miami. I had really gotten into a lot of trouble and I
was basically told to go by a judge. So when I got in there, I was
actually like a republican. I was a big fan of Regan, I believed in the
American propaganda, the American ideology. I never questioned anything
my country told me. I went in there really blind. When I got in there I
started to find out, the true politics. Who really ran the country? I
will give you an example. I went to the Iran/Iraq war and I remember
being out there and there was a ship that wasn’t too far away from us,
had gotten blown up by mistake by an Iraqi plane which is ironic because
the same country we sided with, Iraq, we went to war with 20 years
later for 8 years for again the flimsiest reasons.<br />
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I started to
question what am I doing out here? When I started to investigate, you
know actually in the Iran/Iraq war to make sure that the Strait of
Hormuz which is very narrow channel where a lot of oil came from the
Arab states to get to the United States. I didn’t join the service to be
protecting big oil companies interest. I just began to become very
disillusioned with it. Even though I was given the choice to go there
and spend time in jail, I was very patriotic and I left there very
disillusioned at the way our country had lied to so many of its
citizens. There was just no way I could be there anymore."<br />
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your time in WCW, outside of the success of the nWo, was there a
faction that you felt you were a part of that was underrated?</h3>
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"I
think the one that comes to mind is the Filthy Animals. Imagine this in
the same faction. You had Torrie Wilson, Billy Kidman, Eddie Guerrero,
Rey Mysterio, Disco Inferno, Konnan and then for a while there we had
Juventud (Guererra). So there is a lot of talent right there and they
just didn’t do anything with us. The problem with WCW was and we all
know and it’s been well documented and I know this is going to sound
redundant but you had an owner that was a mark for the stars and the
stars dictated what they wanted and they made sure that none of us got
through. So none of us did, a lot of these guys had there to go to WWE. I
give Vince credit for that.<br />
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Chris Jericho and Rey and (Chris)
Benoit and Eddie had to leave WCW to become stars, would never had
happened had they stayed. The funny thing about that group was I’ll tell
you how it was formed. I had actually gone to Vince Russo who had just
taken over and I said, ‘look, they’ve been burying us since before you
got here and I don’t know if you have any plans to do anything with us
but let me get a bunch of my friends, put us together and let us have
fun and if you want bury us then at least we’ll be together and we’ll
get buried together’. So I basically got a bunch of my friends which
were the people I just named. Torrie was actually going out with Billy
so we just brought her into the fold. That’s basically how the group
came about. We did some angle where we buried Ric Flair in the desert,
somewhere in Vegas I believe and nothing ever happened after that. We
just knew they weren’t going to do anything but at least we were having
fun being together."</div>
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"What
had happened was I had known Paul E from WCW, like in 1990 I was
actually there for a little while and he was a commentator there at the
time. We got along and when I saw him in Singapore at some Indy show
that we were on he told me, ‘listen, I’m starting a company and you know
I’m bringing in Public Enemy and these guys and that guy and I’ve heard
a lot about Rey Mysterio. Look how on point Paul E was back then. He
goes, ‘I’ve heard a lot about Rey Mysterio, Psychosis, Love Machine and
Eddie Guerrero. What can you tell me about them?’ I just put them all
over. He said, ‘alright, let me bring in Rey Mysterio and Psychosis
first and then I said with all due respect to the rest of your roster,
they are going to blow away anything else you are going to do that
night’. They went in and they killed it. Paul E is not the best at
calling back but he called immediately you could tell he was still in
the venue and he goes, ‘oh my God, you got to bring these guys back and
when can you come in?’ Then we brought other stars in and I’m sure we
would have done more of a talent exchange if WCW hadn’t called us."</div>
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"It
was excellent because Kevin was the one that had originally called me
because Woman (Nancy Sullivan) was working at the time which you
remember was his wife at the time. I think that she was the one that
told him, ‘look, this Konnan’s I believe you can do something with him
especially since you don’t have any Latino’s’. He called me and when I
got there he really helped me out a lot. I was actually going to do a
program with Hogan at one point for Mexico and the United States. I
think what happened and I’m not sure, I have ask him about this and it
is something that I want to ask him the next time I see him is, this is
what I really think happened.<br />
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I got there and they really had big
plans for me but I don’t think they thought I didn’t know how to wrestle
the American style which Paul E made that same mistake. When I went in
there, he put me in there with some American guy and we had some
terrible match and I told Paul E, I don’t know how to wrestle American
style. They think just because you speak English, that you could also
wrestle the style and I think the same thing happened with Kevin. So I
had to be deprogramed. I had to learn how to wrestle American style. By
the time, I learned I think my stock fell in their eyes. But Kevin was
always like a mentor to me there."</div>
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"Well
they were two different groups. Ron Killings, Road Dogg and I did the
same story I did with the Filthy Animals. We went to Jeff Jarrett and
said, ‘you’re not doing anything with us so put us together’. We hung
out, outside of wrestling so we were friends and so basically. We did a
lot of funny skits because we had basically, we had one black guy from
the hood, we had one Latino and we had a redneck. It was funny because
we went one time into the hood where Ronny is from and Brian James
dressed up as a pimp and he was walking through the hood of Nashville,
Tennessee dressed up as a pimp with a big multi-colored rainbow afro and
they were loving it. Then we did this thing where Road Dogg brought us
back to his neck of the woods in a trailer but a double wide trailer and
then I brought them to Mexican restaurant. So ours was funnier, it was
more on the comedic side.<br />
Then LAX (Latin American Xchange) was
the extreme opposite. I was a radical Latino who hated anything that
wasn’t Latin. It was reverse discrimination and that for some reason it
hit pulse. Some people loved it and some people really hated it. But
that group was very near and dear to my heart. I was kind of the author
of the whole idea and I brought it to Dutch (Mantel) and he liked it and
he was a booker at that time and he convinced Jeff Jarrett and we were
on it immediately. It touched on a really strong political view points
and we one-time hung Uncle Sam in effigy and we burned it up. Another
time, I tasered Spike Dudley and I said, ‘I’m just like the cops. I
shoot first, ask questions later’. Which is very prevalent now, ten
years later. We had Orlando Police Department call up actually call up
Dixie and say, ‘you know we don’t like Konnan going out there and making
light of us. We go out there and put our lives on the line’, and all
this other bullshit. I was just basically touching on a lot of sensitive
issues that in wrestling they don’t usually touch on. I wanted people
to think, you know what I’m saying? That’s why I like LAX a lot. I think
when I left it kind of lost the heart of the group. Dixie allowed us
the creative freedom because her dad like it and he’s the guy that owns
the company. So he actually came up to me and he’s some white guy from
Texas and came up to me at a pay per view and he goes, ‘man, you guys
are my favorite act on the show’. So maybe he was doing what I wanted
and he was thinking, ‘wow, this guy isn’t just going out and cutting a
wrestling promo about bullshit, he’s going out there and he’s talking
about sensitive issues which people don’t usually talk about on a
wrestling show."</div>
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After
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"There
was an option, I just felt that in WCW I was held back and I wanted to
prove myself in TNA and in TNA in the beginning I was held back without a
doubt but then when LAX exploded and I think they couldn’t do anything
but go with it because we were selling more t-shirts than anybody. So
now they are making money off of us and now they see us in a different
light and I had complete creative control to do whatever I wanted, I
will give them credit for that. I left because they wouldn’t pay me and
due to racism and I wasn’t going to put up with either one.<br />
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So I
got to Mexico and I was really in a lot of pain from being in the
business so long. When the company started, the owner whose name is
Antonio Pena, I used to book everything with him. I used to write shows
with him, everything. So I said, can I give a stab at this? I’ve been
here since day one back in the day with Pena and they gave me a stab and
I’ve been there ever since. So what I do backstage is help with the
finishes. I help put together matches. It is just what a booker and a
writer would do and produce vignettes, I am having a great time. Our
ratings are actually up so we are doing really well. I remember when WWE
was there about five years ago, they were doing four times the numbers
we were doing. It took us three years but we surpassed them in the
ratings. That’s something that I’ve always been proud of."</div>
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The
unfortunate death & passing of Perry Aguayo Jr effected the Mexican
wrestling community. For those in North America unaware of his loss to
the industry, could you speak of his significance to those affected?</h3>
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"He
was that charismatic bad guy that everybody loved. It was like when Ric
Flair was a heel, you know what I am saying? And everybody loved him.
He was oozing with charisma. He was a tremendous worker and he was loved
by everybody in the dressing room. There wasn’t a lot of guys his age
that would help some of the younger guys. They were more like learn for
yourself. That’s how I learned, learn for yourself. He was there to help
anybody and he loved the industry. His dad was my biggest rival in
Mexico, so I’ve known Perrito since was twelve years old. We were very
close he was probably my best friend in the dressing room. The main
thing for me at the time of the incident was I was trying to wake him
up. I had thought he had been knocked out so I’m trying to wake him up."</div>
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I
recently spoke to Matt Striker and he credited you with a lot of
success in today's Luchadores with an heir of legend about you along
with Blue Demon & Mil Muertos. What are your thoughts on his
comments?</h3>
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"I
am very flattered. You know Matt Striker is a student of the game. He
respects the business so much. He has a very high work ethic and so I
respect him a lot and that coming from him. Thank you very much man, I
appreciate it. I have nothing but respect for Matt anyways."<br />
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The birth of Lucha Underground has provided great opportunity for several talent. What has the experience meant to you?</h3>
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"It’s
incredible because you know what Rey Mysterio and Juventud and
Psychosis and all those guys did, Hector Garza did back in 1997 in WCW
to me was the forbearer of what we are seeing here today in Lucha
Underground, fifteen years later. This is what happened and the most
beautiful part for me is when I came to WCW and I talked to Kevin
Sullivan and Eric Bischoff about bringing in Luchadores it was an all
Mexican thing. They were all Mexicans and when you look at Lucha
Underground you have Puerto Ricans, Blacks, and White Boys you’ve got
everybody now doing Lucha Libre. That is so beautiful to me. The thing
is Chris DeJoseph Eric Van Wagenen, John Fogelman, the guys that run the
show, I don’t think they have ever done anything Lucha related and they
aren’t latino, which was a huge concern for me. But unlike, Bischoff,
Dixie, Jarrett and Vince, they have a profound respect and pride in the
Mexico heritage and lucha libre and they are very open minded and great
to work with plus I would be remiss if I did not thank the behind the
scene latinos who support this 100% Dorian Roldan, Antonio Cue and Alex
Garcia.<br />
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What we do is straight Lucha in Mexico. What I do is
straight Lucha in Mexico. What they are doing in Lucha Underground is a
hybrid and they are taking chances. These are things that we don’t’ even
do in Mexico. They have taken chances. If you don’t take one foot
forward you are always going to be in the same place. If you don’t ask
that questions, the answer will always be no. They have gone out there
and done a lot of cool different things that has never been seen before
and you have an incredible cast of wrestlers and of course the
production staff by El Rey. It’s just a product that’s never been seen
before."</div>
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What are your aspirations and hopes for Lucha Underground going into season two?</h3>
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"Just
growth. The product speaks for itself. So my whole thing is we need to
get out there so more eyes can see us. I know they are trying to do
stuff with Netflix or Hulu or something like that which is obviously the
right path to go. I think that we’ve got a great product and it isn’t
just for Latino’s. It has a Latino sensibility to it like most of Robert
Rodriguez’s movies but it’s a way of the future without a doubt. It’s
something you can see NXT doing a lot of stuff now starting to go to
that type of wrestler.<br />
<br />
I’ve always been a prominent advocate of
the smaller, quicker, more creative wrestler. You never saw a lot of
monsters in Mexico because I was always of the mindset yeah, it’s good
to bring in a monster every now and then if he can work but Lucha Libre
at its best is just guys going balls to the wall. You can’t do that with
many big guys. So I’ve always been for the smaller wrestler and the
vision that I had back in the day was without sounding vainglorious it’s
coming to fruition. Rey Mysterio and Eddie (Guerrero) and all those
guys opened the door for Bryan Danielson and all the other smaller great
workers that you are not just seeing in WWE but in ROH and some of them
are in TNA."</div>
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Of those in Lucha Underground and on the trajectory to be there, who would you encourage fans to keep an eye out for?</h3>
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"That’s
tough bro, because they all have such incredible talent and attitudes
and they bring such good ideas. That’s the good thing about Chris
DeJoseph and Stollman and his group is that in most companies when you
come up with ideas people are threatened, ‘I’m the booker here now, not
you’ or they think you’re trying to take their spot either they are
paranoid by nature. You can go up to them and give them ideas and stuff
like that which makes the match even better because you’re contributing
and sometimes they don’t have all the answers.<br />
<br />
Just like me in
Mexico, I’ll go to a guy and when I go over his match, I’ll say do have
any suggestions or anything that you think we could do better or are you
happy with the way it’s laid out? That way people come up with things
that you wouldn’t have thought of and it helps the match to be even
better. It’s hard, bro because there is so much great talent there that
any of them could really be the man. So we could go with Angelico, we
could go Jack (Evans) with Fenix, Prince Puma, Drago, or Aerostar. There
is Willy Mack, whose awesome, Brian Cage is. So much talent there that
all of these guys I think are going to blow up really. To tell you the
truth I wouldn’t pick one over the other."</div>
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"You can hit me up on my twitter which is <a data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/Konnan5150" href="https://twitter.com/Konnan5150" target="_blank">@Konnan5150</a> and I have a podcast it’s on <a data-mce-href="http://www.MLWRadio.com" href="http://www.mlwradio.com/" target="_blank">MLWRadio.com</a>.
There are detailed archives there of other shows. There are other
people that have shows there too. Kevin Sullivan talks about who he
booked for WCW and he covers each TV week by week while he was there.
Jim Cornette has his own show and you know how wild he can be but always
entertaining.<br />
<br />
Then we have our show which is me, Court Bauer who
used to be a writer for WWE and we also have MSL as well. I’m not sure
who he is or what he does, he is just there like a guy on the couch from
the movie “Half Baked” or the gimp from “Pulp Fiction”. We don’t just
talk about wrestling but we talk a little bit about current issues and
it’s a very controversial show, very unfiltered, very funny and I think
people will like it so check it out."</div>
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<i><b>Author:</b> </i><a data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/TheMarcMadison" href="https://twitter.com/TheMarcMadison" target="_blank">Marc Madison</a></div>
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Former
TNA star Chad ‘Gunner’ Lail recently took some time to participate in
an interview. Lail reveals his strong connection to his faith, his
growth and development as a character and his aspirations to compete in
other promotions. He discusses his time and TNA, what else is in store
for him in 2015. Check out the complete interview below.<br />
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Who would you say were your influences either in the ring or out that have helped to shape you as a person and your character?<br /> <img alt="" class="img-responsive alignleft" data-mce-src="https://res.cloudinary.com/the-news-hub/image/upload/q_60,f_auto/v1438009844/zlvjggd7xleihhqrrnho.jpg" src="https://res.cloudinary.com/the-news-hub/image/upload/q_60,f_auto/v1438009844/zlvjggd7xleihhqrrnho.jpg" /></h3>
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"The
person that would be outside of the ring would be totally outside of
the wrestling world would be my father. My father is the one that
supported me since day one when I was 11 years old and out playing
backyard wrestling with my friends stuff and he was the one that always
taught me to follow my dreams and never called them stupid. He said you
can do whatever you want as long as you set your mind to it. He always
instilled that in me.<br />
As far as in ring, in the wrestling world my
number one supporter and someone that has helped me a lot has been Ken
Anderson. Ken has been another guy that since 2006/2007 where I did a
WWE extra spot. I was with Ken doing a little spoof of Shawn Michaels
blast from the past and he did a great job. When he got to TNA and he
took me under his wing, he really believed in me and always told me I
could do bigger and better things. He really gave feedback and said I
could do better. The character stuff was something I really appreciated
and looked up to and he’s one of my best friends in the business."<br />
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Anyone
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"I
think that my faith is something that is important to me. I was brought
up and it was never something that was forced on me but something I did
on my own and it’s my choice. It’s really just one of those things that
whether you believe in God or a higher power or even just being a
spiritual person to me all things happen for a reason. Whatever life
brings me I realise it’s not the end of the world, it’s not my last day
here on earth. There are bigger and better plans for me and the thing is
you can’t sit home and expect people to come knock at your door. My
faith really helps me realise that you better go on out there and get
it. Just keep a positive attitude about life and say that one of the
people I look up to most is Christ. He was a role model to me. He was
and is a positive influence in my life. The things he taught, the way he
walked and I just tried to model myself after that, just being a good
person and to work hard to get things.<br />
I don’t really get offended
by religious angles. When Vince McMahon said he challenged God to
wrestling match, some people might have been offended by it, but it
doesn’t offend me at all. I think bringing religion into wrestling is a
really touchy situation. It doesn’t mean a lot of people have to believe
in it and it may turn a lot of people off of it and offend a lot of
people but to me everyone’s got their own beliefs and respect and their
own way of life. I personally believe you have to keep religion out of
the wrestling business. Now me posting stuff on Facebook or Twitter,
that’s different. Those are my views and if someone doesn’t like I don’t
force it on anyone. And if they don’t like it they can unfollow me.
There are things that you have to keep out of the entertainment
business. That religion and other things are really really touchy to
kind of hit on."<br />
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"That
was the toughest moment thus far in my life is going through Marine
Corp Boot Camp and going through combat and being overseas and being
away from my family and friends for 7 months not knowing if I was going
to make it home alive. Its one of those things where it really taught me
that you have to work hard to achieve anything.<br />
When I was in the
Marine Corp, I had goals and I set out to obtain them and I reached
many of them. It also made me cherish life a little bit more and like I
said before when one door closes for instance leaving Impact Wrestling
it wasn’t the end of my world. I wasn’t in Iraq. I knew that the next
day was going to continue. I think the Marine Corp just being able to
have respect for being able to wake up another day and being able to
live my dream regardless of whether it was with Impact Wrestling or WWE,
Ring of Honor or any wrestling promotion that wants to bring me on.
Life goes on."<br />
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"I
met Abel Adams in 2001 and he’s the one that gave me a chance to step
in the ring and really and I actually spoke with him the other day and
always talking about the next step in life and he was one of those guys
that was hard on me. He taught me respect for the business, respect for
those that came before me and etiquette which I think is lost in some of
today’s professional wrestling and the independent stuff.<br />
Abel
was another one of those father figures. One of the best friends in my
life that believed in me and still believes in me. It was one of those
that were instilled in me and was just another person who said you’ve
got the goods, you’ve got the look and what it takes and I think you can
go far. I was 18 years old when he started training me in 2001. He took
me on the road and that’s one guy that I owe a lot to because he drove a
lot of the times and I was pretty fortunate because I didn’t have a lot
of money and one of those guys that I respect thoroughly."<br />
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"I
started in 2001. September 2002 I went to Bootcamp. So for a whole year
I didn’t wrestle at all until right about the Summer of 2003. For the
most part when I was in the Marine Corp, I was stationed at Camp in
North Carolina and I would travel home every weekend unless I was
deployed to work shows. I would drive 5 hours to my home town, get into a
car with Abel and wherever the show was in Florida or Georgia, Alabama
we were looking at sometimes 25 hour round trips just from one show to
have me get into the ring. In 2006, when I got out (of the Marine Corp) I
really picked up what I call full time working with the NWA and doing
stuff all over the states. It was worldwide. I did some South America.
That’s the truth, I joined Impact in 2010. We’re looking at 8 years.<br />
I
think my time in the Marine Corp slowed down my progress. Luckily for
the most part, being in the Marine Corp I saw some good shows working
with some good guys but obviously there is talent out there. You have to
work with people that are better than you in order to get better. When I
got out in 2006, that’s really when I started with NWA Anarchy and
really started to work with those guys down there. I really came into my
own. I learned TV product, art cam and was working with guys that were
way better than me. I learned psychology and how to tell a story. So the
Marine Corp time hindered me a little bit but the thing was I was still
able to make shows and not miss a whole 4 years of slowing my dream
even more."<br />
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worked in programs with Jeff Jarrett, Samoa Joe, James Storm &
Samuel Shaw. Describe each program and how it helped you progress as a
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"I
think the Jeff Jarrett stuff was really when Murphy and I were in his
corner was during the big MMA deal with Kurt Angle. I would take a
couple of German Suplex’s from Kurt but working security was more just
standing and watching Jeff while he was cutting promos. When it came to
working with promos and listening and how he talked to the people and
how he built his opponent up that was a learning experience.<br />
Unfortunately,
Joe and I we worked some house shows together but we didn’t really have
any big feuds, I was always upset about that. Crimson had to have a
pretty lengthy feud with Joe. Any time I stepped in the ring with Joe
that’s the guy that you know he’s an amazing talent in the ring. He
knows his was in and out of the ring. He knows all about character
facials and people love him obviously from his Ring of Honor days to now
and in NXT which I am so happy to see him in I think that’s where he
belongs. The guy is a machine. He was always very helpful when it came
to having a young guy like me and building that character and getting
your moves set and just placing the moves where they belong and not
doing 30 different moves but less is more kind of thing.<br />
Working
with James was awesome. You know tag team wise, I’m a huge tag team fan.
So we always wanted to take a tag team and make it two guys like when
you look at some of the true tag teams back in the day like Brain
Busters and Rock n Roll Express. Two guys that weren’t individuals but
were a team and they worked as a team and that’s what James and I wanted
to do. He was a beer drinker and I was a modern day Viking and I would
beat my head on a turnbuckle but I think we fed well off of each other.
Then we finally got the deal to do the feud. The feud was done right. I
think that was one of those feuds that I needed to catapult me as a
singles star and have people say ah this guy is actually competitive, he
can actually make a run for the heavyweight title. Some things weren’t
done right after that, it wasn’t my fault, it wasn’t James’ fault. For
the most part working with James was a really good learning experience.
He has been there since day one. He knew what the fans wanted to see and
he taught me that. He was very open for ideas. I think we taught each
other. We taught each other certain things and I think always good when
two guys can get in there and put their differences aside and can tell a
good story.<br />
And the Samuel Shaw feud, other than the James Storm
one was one of the favorites of mine. I talked to another interview the
other day about this about how we had these two young guys, we had this
creepy guy gimmick that Sam took, molded into his own, you had Gunner
who for the most part never really talked unfortunately never given the
microphones so people don’t know about my promo skills whatsoever, it’s
not my fault but that’s another story. (chuckles)<br />
The good thing
is we took this and I’ve done some acting as well. So we did this six
weeks’ worth of vignettes where he was in a padded cell and all this
other stuff and I loved it. It was character development and I think the
fans really got to see another side of the Gunner character. Somebody
who actually cared, you know a little bit different. You can’t just have
a guy that goes out and bashes his head and wants to kill everybody all
the time there is no dimension to that to me. Triple H back in the day,
the man, he’s still one of the greatest but he’s still had a different
side to him.<br />
The Shaw feud was one of my favorites. They gave us
ideas and we went with the writers about really hoping that doesn’t do
all the whole thing and once we did the little turn we had two guys that
wanted to go out there and show that they could like we did in
Bethlehem, PA in December of last year unfortunately it was the only
match we ever did. I thought there was so much more opportunity with the
Sam Shaw and Gunner character even though the girl (Brittany) left
Impact Wrestling and I guess that affected the storyline. Don’t
understand why we still couldn’t have gone on with it but Sam’s one of
my favorite people to work with because he’s young and he wants to get
it. Unfortunately he’s not with Impact anymore but you can see that he’s
one of those guys that he’ll be around somewhere."<br />
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"I’m
not married anymore. But being formally married to someone who was part
of the business we would have clashes here or there when it came to
wrestling and everyone’s got different views in wrestling. I was brought
up loving this and everyone has their different views and ways on how
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She’d
get mad at me and want to kill me sometimes, I swear. (chuckles) She
definitely understood being a wrestler and being an actor my schedule
would like I could get a call tomorrow and they would say, hey, I need
you in LA or I need you on a movie set or hey I need to book you on a
show, she understood that’s what paid the bills. There were arguments at
times but you could take away from the family but the bills still had
to get paid. So it takes a strong women for that."<br />
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"I
really enjoyed working for the company. I’ve been with them since 09’,
Terry Taylor helped me get my foot in the door with me and Murphy and
working the security deal. I will definitely miss the guys that I worked
with. I think it goes the same way and that they will miss me. I talked
with a handful of them. I really think it was best. After six years,
there were times where I felt I was underutilized. Even though I worked
with James Storm and I did the main event with Magnus, even after the
Sam Shaw stuff I was put on the backburner for some odd reason and
didn’t do anything wrong. After six years, I was to the point where I
was stressed out a lot. I’m 33 you know and I don’t want my youth soaked
up. I feel like I have something more to offer to somebody whether
Impact calls me back in a couple months or WWE or Ring of Honor whoever
it is, I know that me as a person I have a lot to offer. I think it was
what was best for business.<br />
There is no bad blood. It was a mutual
agreement and I thank them for the opportunities of having me in the
Impact ring. But I have bigger and better goals and I think that since I
was 5 I wanted that Wrestlemania moment. Ever since I was a kid I
wanted to compete in the WWE ring and I’m not getting any younger. It’s
still in the back of my mind, hey, I want to compete in a WWE ring or
NXT has an amazing product right now down there. So I feel like I could
wrestle on Impact and I’m looking forward to the future.<br />
I think
it is more of a hearsay rumor (about 30 year old’s not wanted in the
WWE). I think everyone goes through a developmental tryout now and I
think that’s fair. They want condition. They want a different athlete
now. Wrestling is totally different from what it was back in the 80’s
and 90’s when I was growing up. Its guys are balls to the wall now. So
now you have guys working 15 and 20 minute matches and stuff like that
it’s not just body slams anymore its everything. I think it’s awesome
that wrestling is getting more into the athletic look. I’m 240(ibs), I’d
be happy at 225 if I got a job with WWE if they said hey, we want you
to get ripped. I think 33 is a good age. They are looking for stars and
they are building their own stars which I love. They are taking their
young talent and not taking guys that were formally with another company
and putting them in the spotlight and putting their young talent on the
back burner. I don’t want to drop any names but we know what’s
happening over there. So I look forward to the opportunity to it as
well."<br />
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yes. I felt that I was underutilized many times and I felt like after
the James Storm feud. James was already established. Gunner who just
established himself in all these high caliber matches just got voted for
one of the top matches of 2014. Here is a guy that was finally getting
noticed and the fans were finally getting behind me. He wasn’t just some
security guy anymore. He wasn’t just some guy coming out mad all the
time. They got behind the military thing. They got behind they got
behind the modern day Viking gimmick and I felt like I was
underutilized. For some reason, I don’t know the curtain got jerked out
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am thankful that they allow me to leave a couple months off of TV and
doing movies to help build my brand a little better. Still my heart lies
in professional wrestling and I never just wanted to be the mid-card
guy. If that was the case then I would have been happy. During the time
that I was there and I didn’t do anything, I was just irritated because I
want to be a champion. I want to be somebody that people look up to. I
want to be a locker room leader and I just felt that a lot of the times
opportunities were taken from me a handful of times."</div>
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When
you left the promotion, you were in the midst of a feud with Samuel
Shaw, who has also left the promotion. While it can be difficult to
speak of what someone else is feeling, was there a commonality as it
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"I
think we were both released to be honest it wasn’t my choice. But I
look at it as a blessing. Sam’s maybe 31, 32 maybe and I’m 33 and I
think for our sake it what was best. Impact has their own thing going
right now. They’ve got guys that they are pushing that they didn’t have
anything planned for me. So I think that Sam and I being let go was a
good thing for us and I don’t know what the future is for Impact
Wrestling but I have buddies that work there that I pray it goes well
that Destination America re-signs them but I think that guys like Sam
and I getting released was a blessing in disguise. There is something
better out there for us.</div>
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Ring
of Honor they have an amazing product. Sam is still young and very
talented to be able to compete in NXT as well. Jeff (Jarrett) when he
left Impact Wrestling it sucked. He has been there and that’s his
company that’s his baby regardless of what he is doing now his heart
lies with Impact. He knows what he’s doing business wise building
characters and everything. I would love to do some shows with GFW. I
think he’s starting small but doing the right thing. He’s not trying to
fill arenas now he’s just trying to build the brand and I’ve got a
pretty good relationship with Jeff and I think that I can see myself
doing some GFW shows."<br />
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"I
personally hope to one day in the future compete in the WWE. I mean
like I said a minute ago, that is my ultimate goal since I was 5. I
really feel like even if I go and another huge goal of mine is acting.
I’ve done two movies this year and I do numerous amounts of auditions
every week but I think my heart lies and still does with having a WWE
match and having that Wrestlemania moment. After that I can probably
retire and hopefully build The Rock’s status and act as much as I can
because I love acting. The beating on my body and wanting to have kids
one day and enjoy them.</div>
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If
I’m 65 and I never even attempt to try WWE then there will be a missing
and void there. I’m in Kingsport, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia and
right outside of Atlanta. So anybody that follows me, I post independent
shows. I’m booked up all the way to December from Virginia to North
Carolina to South Carolina and I’m working on a UK tour, going to Korea
for some Military appearances. I stay busy, man. (chuckles)"</div>
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"They could follow me on Twitter <a data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/GUNNER_ChadLail" href="https://twitter.com/GUNNER_ChadLail" target="_blank">@Gunner_ChadLail</a>
where I use my wrestling and my wrestling brand name there. I have an
amazing amount of support on twitter almost 132,000 followers it’s crazy
to think about a small town kid having that many followers. Just don’t
give up on me. There is way more in store for Gunner and I don’t think
anyone has given up on me, I think. My fans really believe in me.</div>
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I’m
working on some Modern Day Viking shirts finally for some reason Impact
did not like the Modern Day Viking name but it’s still with me and
ProWrestlingTees is going to be doing some Modern Day Viking
merchandise. So expect a lot. 2015 still has time left here and that’s
still a lot of time to conquer the world and I’m still ready to rise and
reach the top of the mountain."</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03816246595711637157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665826034883825385.post-30598892180750914292017-01-21T13:08:00.002-08:002017-03-26T16:44:39.615-07:00Global Force Wrestling's Jeff Jarrett discusses learning from his father, WWE, the Bullet Club and the emergence of GFW<div data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="text-align: center;">
<i><b>Author:</b> </i><a data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/TheMarcMadison" href="https://twitter.com/TheMarcMadison" target="_blank">Marc Madison</a></div>
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Former
TNA World Heavyweight and owner of Global Force Wrestling, Jeff Jarrett
recently took some time to participate in an interview. Jarrett
revealed the changes of the wrestling industry, new opportunities with
Global Force Wrestling, his time with the TNA promotion and his
experiences competing in both Puerto Rico and Japan. Check out the
complete interview below.<br />
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entrenched in the business, was training under your dad both beneficial
& detrimental? And how did it differ from your training under the
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"Let
me stop you, I wasn’t trained by Buddy. He never trained me. That’s a
rumor that got put out there. He and Bill Dundee beat me up for the very
first time. That was sort of my induction so he would like to take
credit for training me. (chuckles) He would like to say that he put me
through what they say is the school of hard knocks.<br />
I have often
thought and I’ve been told this by numerous people that I respect in the
business that have been around a long time. When you’re the son of a
promoter and the son of a wrestler, it’s the best thing that could ever
happen to them and it’s also the worst thing that could ever happen to
them all at the same time. You have to take the good with the bad
because being the son of a wrestler and a promoter and being the
grandson of a promoter on his stepmother’s side, it’s a wrestling
family.<br />
As I work through the difficult times as a rookie in the
business and I’ve been in all my active years. I look back at all my
life experiences and realize how valuable those early days were riding
in the backseat of a car going to all those different towns and put down
all those wonder cards or running the concession stands and setting up
the ring. Just all the instances that are life opportunities that I got
in the wrestling business. Then it just paid off because it opened so
many doors for me and I got to wrestle at such a young age in Puerto
Rico and in Texas and Japan. It really began to make me a more
well-rounded as not just a wrestler where I sort of got my first taste
at a young age, loving the production side of it and the promotion side
of it. Just all the different components and departments so the short
answer is I think is it was a huge benefit.<br />
There is a lot of
second and now especially third generation wrestler’s guys out there.
The hottest box office attraction out there in Hollywood, Dwayne ‘The
Rock’ Johnson is a third generation, professional wrestler and his
ability to connect with the audience is you have to assume, I certainly
do that at a very young age he saw his grandfather, a beloved
individual. He saw his father travel around the country and become
champion every place he went. So that was in Rock’s blood at a very
young age and he obviously worked his butt off and continues to work his
butt off but parlayed that into a much bigger position other than a
professional wrestler and, box office attraction. Now he is a worldwide
brand."<br />
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"In
those days, I was on the tail end of the territory days so to get the
opportunity to fly out to Puerto Rico and have a match on a Thursday,
Friday, Saturday, Sunday and see the different styles and it was a
really wild set of circumstances but it was so fun and fresh and new. I
was on one of the anniversary shows and Hurricane Hugo I believe is the
name came in and it rained it out. I caught the last flight off the
island of the American Airlines flights. Adventurous, would be to say
the least would be to a 20, 21, 22 years old and living that type of
lifestyle it was pretty crazy.</div>
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Then
I get over to Japan and Bob Orton (Jr) was my partner and we wrestled
some legends over there. I was in a tag match with another gentlemen
wrestling and we took on at that time the Midnight Rockers. It was a lot
of fun and very adventurous for a young guy in the business. Without
question, there was something I could take from it. The different styles
in Puerto Rico with Carlos Colon and Japan the strong style even in the
Von Erich’s territory in WCCW. The Texas style was different. Even in
our home territory it was different. The Louisville crowd was different
than the Memphis crowd and people would come in and learn that and you
have to learn to live through the people and you have to truly listen to
your audience. That is something that I was fortunate enough and able
enough to wrestle and have a different style and have a different ear
for what ride the fans want to go on."</div>
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"The
inspiration was very simple. My God give name is J-e double f
J-a,double r-e-double f. I am from Nashville, Tennessee. I’ve got a
strong passion for country music, I love it. I probably think I’m a
better singer than I really am. I had jumped from the boy at home and in
those days they called them babyfaces in this area and then I stood on
the grandest stage in 1993 in WWF and just that persona took on a whole
new life. During that era especially, when you entered into the WWF
things were amplified larger than life much more than they are so today.
The world has changed and times have changed and no, you can’t
introduce a character in 1993 even though that character was truly an
extension of my personality.</div>
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no, you can’t introduce that in 2015 like you did in 1993, not even
close. Obviously that is who I am, Mark Calloway is an extension of his
personality that has been as successful as The Undertaker, Stone Cold
and same with others. It’s all planned extension of your personality and
not playing somebody that you are not. That for me is a recipe for
success and not playing somebody you are not. An extension and taking a
part of your psyche and really diving into it and letting the fan base
attach to it."<br />
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When you returned to the WWE, Jeff Jarrett had an edge about him. How did you feel it reflected the attitude era at the time?</h3>
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"Everybody
that was part of that era on both rosters were just stacked full of
talent. WCW was stacked top to bottom, the WWE being stacked right to
the bottom. Everyone was scratching and clawing and doing their best to.
It was drastically different in 97’, 98’, 99’ then it was in 91’, 92’,
93’ and everybody had an edge and some more than others. I had a series
of matches with X-Pac and DX which culminated in a hair match and there
were some other matchs it was such a unique time and I was fortunate to
be a part of both organizations during the Monday Night Wars. From
95-96’ and 96’-97 and 97’-99’. I jumped back and forth so I was there
when the nWo was red hot and I was there when Stone Cold and The Rock
and DX were red hot. It was a really cool time in the business and the
business was red hot."</div>
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Describe the 'Chosen One' character and the revamped nWo faction. Would you have done anything differently now looking back?</h3>
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"Well
obviously, you are not in the position of decision making. Obviously,
hindsight is 20/20. But it goes without saying that the original Four
Horsemen will always be the best version of the Four Horsemen. The
original core group of the nWo, the original three Scott (Hall), Kevin
(Nash) and Hulk (Hogan) are obviously the very best version. They do say
though that the most sincere form of flattery is imitation so, as it
rolled along there were different versions of the Four Horsemen, there
were different versions of nWo and then it split to red and black and
then it reunited. That’s a part of this business that has always been
around and hopefully it won’t always be around but at Global Force what
we are trying to do is to truly evolve the presentation and the
production of professional wrestling because the world see’s so much
more in 2015 it really does. There are Youtube stars that have never
been on TV but they have their own Youtube channel and they are truly
pop culture stars. That goes to show you in my opinion in 2015 where the
world is heading. You don’t need to be on broadcast network like you
had to be 15-20 years ago. The age of the digital technology especially
with all the social media platforms it’s just a different era."</div>
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As
part of the nWo & now aligned with the Bullet Club in NJPW, this
lends itself for some interesting in ring competition. What similarities
or differences can you see in both factions?<br /> <img alt="" class="img-responsive aligncenter" data-mce-src="https://res.cloudinary.com/the-news-hub/image/upload/q_60,f_auto/v1437576997/kxq2f8afm4t9pls41hxz.jpg" src="https://res.cloudinary.com/the-news-hub/image/upload/q_60,f_auto/v1437576997/kxq2f8afm4t9pls41hxz.jpg" /></h3>
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"Those
guys, the Young Bucks, Doc and Karl have already been part of our Grand
Slam Tour shows the first seven that we’ve had. The in ring ability of
the Bullet Club versus the in ring ability of the nWo and I think those
guys (nWo) would be the first to tell you is that without question would
say the Bullet Club is off the charts bell to bell more talented. They
organically came out from Fergal DeVitt and Karl Anderson and those guys
came up through the hard way in the New Japan dojo. They worked their
butts off, match after match, tour after tour. The timing was right also
as it all exploded all at once. It is a completely different set of
circumstances then the nWo when it was real life set of circumstances
when Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, arguably two of the biggest four or five
guys in the WWF at the time defected and went south and were taking
over. That was as real as it gets. But when you talk about competitive
and Global Force Wrestling, we are going to bring that type of
competition to the forefront.<br />
Scott and Kevin walked in and were
making much more money than the established WCW stars. This is a
business so they stepped in and they took over from day one. Then as
Hogan became a part of that mix then who had already gotten multiple fat
pay checks and deservedly so as he moved through his time. That group,
all three of them were much better known as the faces of WWF. Now here
they are in the Turner group taking over, so this was some real life
emotion here coming out and I still believe this was the big success of
it. Having AJ (Styles) now as a face of that group is great. Timing is
everything and when you get back to the original nWo angle and you can
go back with Stone Cold Steve Austin 3:16 was born and then fast forward
up to the Bullet Club and how the turn happened organically blossomed
from one thing into the next as circumstances would take place, AJ would
leave his comfort zone goes over to Japan, shocks the world and he’s
pardon the pun a Phenomenal athlete, a phenomenal professional wrestler.
He just stair stepped it up and took the Bullet Club, collectively to
another level.<br />
A couple of months after that timing is everything
and Global Force was inking a deal to promote Wrestle Kingdom 9 and they
brought me into the Bullet Club with the suit and I whack Tanahashi.
The true story and Tanahashi has told people that his own daughter was
in tears just because of it. I am not saying that to say something about
myself but collectively the group already have that aura around them.
Then you have Bad Boy Tama Tonga and Bad Luck Fale and then Cody Hall,
Scott Hall’s son. They just keep stair stepping it up, where it is
without question the hottest faction in professional wrestling, bar
none."<br />
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TNA
has seen peaks and valleys in the promotion's existence. How did you
envision the promotion initially, and to what do you attribute to its
longevity?</h3>
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answer is the alternative. At that time when it was launched, WWE had
just bought their competition WCW and, I thought there was a huge void
in the marketplace for another organization and launched the company.</div>
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attribute the longevity to the rabid TNA fan base that was build
starting when the company began in 2002 and continued to be built for
many years. That carried them for quite some time. It is that rabid,
dedicated and loyal fanbase. That is what us at Global Force, we are in
the process of trying to do the same. To try and create that brand
awareness here in 2015 with multiple styles, multiple talents from
different promotions all over and under one umbrella and I’m looking for
the chance with GFW and we’ve already had a done so somewhat with the
Grand Slam Tour, just that rabid fan base where people really want to be
a part of it and really want to pull together and connect with those
different fan bases from around the globe."</div>
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Describe the Ring Ka King experience & working with Sonjay Dutt at the time.</h3>
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"It
was very rewarding. Endemol from India partnered up with us to be one
of my favorite experiences in my entire career in India and be in that
setting and with an off the charts group of unbelievable talent. No, not
everyone got along but at times that’s what makes up a great locker
room where there are egos and striving and competing to be the very best
as there were experiences that were very unique.<br />
Ring Ka King to
this day was a result of the Colors Network. It was incredibly
successful in ratings and I would love to go back over there and do
another season. But the Indian television market is a unique one and
that network quite frankly is like an NBC. It is a major broadcast
network and professional wrestling doesn’t have a long term play over
there but professional wrestling in India is wildly loved and has a real
place in that country."<br />
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I've
recently had the fortune to speak to Nick Aldis & Chris Mordetzky
(Chris Masters). Both give you a great deal of credit for your ability
to find talent and assemble tremendous teams to further create
opportunities. To what do you attribute this ability, awareness and
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"I
appreciate those guys commenting on it but to me it’s always simple.
Cream always rises to the top and when you look around and I’ve been
blessed and fortunate enough, I probably watch more live wrestling for
somebody my age then anybody in the world and I’ve just gotten lucky
with that. Plus, I grew up in a territory and promotion and wrestled for
7 years for 6-7 nights a week and then I got the chance to go to the
WWF and at that time they were touring 20-23 days a month. Then, I went
to WCW and I was on not just the majority of television but the house
shows as well and so I’ve just had that opportunity.</div>
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When
you see talent, going to show and when now you have the luxury of
watching them on Youtube you can see how a guy carries himself, the
confidence in his eyes and I can watch a guy literally in the ring and
know if he’s sure of himself or not. So you just have to have that aura
about yourself and one of the things I absolutely loved about this
business is going out there, finding talent, finding guys that really
really love it and they have a work ethic and they’ve got the right
attitude where they are going to make a career out of this and if I’m
going to make a career out of this then I am going to invest in myself, I
am going to invest in this business and I am going to dive in head
first and realise that you are going to reap what you sew. So if you are
going to sew some real seeds of passion early, they are going to reap
them when the time is right. Both of those guys (Mordetzky and Aldis)
check out all those boxes as far as reaping what you sew."</div>
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During
your time in TNA, your on-screen character has seen a number of
changes. To which feuds could you attribute further character
development?<br /> <img alt="" class="img-responsive aligncenter" data-mce-src="https://res.cloudinary.com/the-news-hub/image/upload/q_60,f_auto/v1437577111/sc8xsxtjkofp7znqtmev.jpg" src="https://res.cloudinary.com/the-news-hub/image/upload/q_60,f_auto/v1437577111/sc8xsxtjkofp7znqtmev.jpg" /></h3>
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"I
have always enjoyed being challenged. The ‘Double J MMA’ was a lot of
fun to this day, I am undefeated in MMA bouts and had a lot of fun with
that as well. Also the series of matches that I had with Kurt (Angle) at
that stage of my career is something that I’m very proud of. I know he
pushed me, I hope I pushed him.</div>
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We
turned out some really physically brutal matches but it was rewarding
and like any wrestler you have to evolve and evolve with the times and
keep challenging yourselves and the audience will latch on to that and
realize that the effort is all about that and all about effort and in
2015 the wrestling fan is so acute to what is going on. They do not take
a lack of effort ever."</div>
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The
appearance and capture of the King of the Mountain title on TNA'S
SLAMMIVERSARY pay-per-view stunned the wrestling world. What was the
inspiration to create this appearance & match?</h3>
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"It
came out of the blue, it came unexpectedly. I didn’t know at first, I
had no idea and then once everything was laid out and the opportunity to
compete at the King of the Mountain match at Slammiversary, then when
we tabled the discussions about a talent exchange and potential
co-promotions and the opportunities, again at the end of the day it was
twofold.</div>
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I made the
decision of what was best for my family and what is best for Global
Force Wrestling and we persevered through that and we’re looking forward
to the weeks and months to come on just what will turn out. It was a
lot of raw emotion over there over several days and something I soon
won’t forget."</div>
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The
birth and emergence of GFW has provided a new outlet for several former
TNA, WWE and WCW talent. How did the idea come about? Is your vision
reminiscent to that of TNA's initially? And how will the recent
television deal allow for viewers all over the continent, and not just
the U.S, see them?<br /> <a data-mce-href="http://prowrestlingstories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/jeffjarrettgfw1.jpg" href="http://prowrestlingstories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/jeffjarrettgfw1.jpg"><img alt="jeffjarrettgfw1" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2115" data-mce-src="http://prowrestlingstories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/jeffjarrettgfw1.jpg" src="https://prowrestlingstories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/jeffjarrettgfw1.jpg" /></a></h3>
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"The
vision is fundamentally, very different. It’s also because of the
timing of things. I named the company April 7th, 2014 and went directly
and worked to form alliances with major promotions in Japan, Mexico and
independent promotions in South Africa, Europe and Australia and really
dialed in and the NEX GEN title was about giving guys opportunity which
quite frankly are too many to name. Just in Lake County (Ohio) last
weekend at the Grand Slam event, the main event of that show was
Showtime Eric Young, a guy who is under contract with TNA wrestling has a
serious issue in his head that I, a non-contracted TNA talent left his
promotion with a belt and we invited him on the tour and out of that he
faced Johnny Gargano, a local guy who is a phenomenal talent just a
tremendous talent wrestling in his home promotion right there in
Cleveland, AIW and that was the main event. That is a part of what we
are doing when we are heading to Vegas.</div>
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We
are going have Kushida the top Junior in the world out of New Japan Pro
Wrestling competing for us, we are going to have Bobby Roode, the best
wrestler in TNA wrestling, we are going to have Chris Mordetzky, we are
going to have Nick Aldis, we are going to have Micki James who is a
multi-time women’s champion. Sanada, he is a (Great) Muta protégé. So
all of these different talents jigsaw, wrestling under one umbrella and
that’s a big part of the vision. Then that’s the bell to bell vision and
then you want to take outside of that all you have to do is go to
@GFWwrestling our Youtube channel or any of our social media platforms
and the word that I use is authentic.<br />
We’re diving into guys real
life stories, why they want to wrestle, why the want to be in GFW, why
they want to main event, why they want to be a champion all of these
stories that make our business very very competitive at that’s at the
core of it. That people at times, where it really hasn’t been brought to
the forefront, there is going to be an enormous amount of competition
within our industry and we’re going to document. We release information
at the right time and we want to give the Global Force wrestling fans
every ability and chance they could get to view Amped and that doesn’t
only go for the United States or all of North America it goes for
literally all around the world, all around the globe. So that is a
challenge for us right now but it’s something we are working our way
through and when the time is right we will definitely share it and we’re
excited about releasing those details."</div>
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