11:14:01
Kid Kash
"First
of all, I do have respect. And what I said on the last little
interview that we did was 'HHH couldn't work and Stone Cold
couldn't work' but that's not what anybody meant. I'm in
the wrestling business, I'm here at all these shows and
I'm listening to what the fans say...They want to see real
wrestling nowadays. Why do you think when ECW was opened
the crowd was so crazy? Because
of real, actual wrestling. There wasn't the entertainment
side involved.
"HHH,
I know for a fact, is a hell of a worker. I've seen him
work and so is Stone Cold. I remember the days when he was
in World Class--brother, I was one of the biggest Stone
Cold and HHH marks that there was.
"But
what I was trying to say, that got so mixed up...The way
it is now, these days guys aren't wrestling, what they're
doing is they're putting on a show. Doesn't mean they can't
wrestle, I have the utmost respect for the WWF workers.
Especially the Hardy Boyz, Stone Cold, HHH, Kurt Angle.
He's a hell of an athlete and he's one of the people I'm
more impressed with. He came into the world of wrestling
being a Greco-Roman , Olympic wrestler but now he's an entertainer
and a wrestler. He can hang with probably anybody there.
"But
what I was trying to say, pound for pound, Rob Van Dam--yeah,
he's a good friend of mine, we've been really great friends
for many, many years. But the thing about is, he's a natural
athlete. And it took him a long time to get there, but who
do you know that has as much athleticism as Rob has? What
I was trying to say, would you see HHH or Stone Cold do
the things that he (RVD) does?
"Me
coming up in the business with Rob Van Dam, he's not only
a very good friend of mine but he also taught me a lot of
things in this wrestling business. It doesn't mean that
those guys can't work. All I'm saying, in my personal opinion
and a lof of opinions of fans around the world, is that
Rob Van Dam is pound for pound one of the best workers in
the world. Okay, doesn't mean that anyone else can't work.
Just means, in my opinion, they can't do what he does.
"Times
have changed. I came up in the business back in 1990 with
Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson. And you know what, one thing
I love about those guys, they never put me down because
they knew that times had changed. They knew that people
my size, Rob's size...we're not as big as Hulk Hogan. We're
not as big as HHH. We're not as big as Stone Cold. We're
littler, smaller guys. So we have to go out there and we
have to jump off those ropes, we have to do athletic moves,
we have to do these shoot holds and stuff like that.
"You
know, these guys are in the entertainment field so they're
going up there doing catchphrases and putting their gimmick
off more than their wrestling--which is fine. There's nothing
wrong with that. If it's working for them, keep on doing
it. All I'm saying is that pound for pound, wrestling hold
for wrestling hold, in this day and time, I think personally
in my opinion--and it's not bashing anyone, is that Rob
Van Dam, is probably the most athletic athlete that I have
ever seen.
"The
reason I'm doing this again, is to just let everyone know,
I'm not bashing anybody. Personally, I've met HHH before
and he was a very nice person to me. I don't know him very
well, but he was very nice to me. I met Stone Cold and he
was a very nice person. Everybody I have met in the wrestling
business have always been very nice to me, so I'm not saying
anything bad about anyone.
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