06:18:02
TNA "Calvacade of Stars"
Jeff Jarrett on our picks of himself, Shamrock, or Corino
winning the new NWA belt: "Not a bad choice at all,
but I don't think you can forget the 'Hey, Yo" guy. I believe
Scott Hall, he's always been in the running. And that's
one title that's elluded him. So, I'm looking at Shamrock,
Scott Hall, Corino--there's several. This Apolo kid, I saw
him walking around the building today. He looks absolutely
phenomenal, so there's several darkhorses in this group
I'd have to say.
On
the Stone Cold situation: "You can call Steve a lot
of things, but for what he's been potentially charged with,
that shocked me. So, there's two sides to every story so
I'm definitely gonna hold judgement until futher--until
everything comes out and we find out where all the cards
are gonna fall. But, it's an unfortunate situation by any
account. You never want to see somebody go through any personal
problem. So, it just sounds like a real unfortunate situation."
Low-Ki
on gaining such a strong reputation in the indys: "I
do work hard at what I want to achieve--and that's gain
endless experience. I'm glad that people enjoy my work.
I'm constantly trying to train and improve myself and make
sure that I stay at the top of my game and give these people
what they want to see, which is something that will last
forever since it's a memory.
On
being over-looked because of his appearance: "In the
areas I normally wrestle in, I used to get that before they
actually saw me wrestle. And I proved that I'm not in there
to play any games. I think I proved that fairly quickly.
And I changed the first impression that I give off, which
is this is nothing but another typical cruiserweight. Very
thin, very light. Until my agression, my drive, my heart
show into my matches.
Joel
Gertner on managing The Rainbow Express: "The thing
is, everyone said it couldn't be done with the Dudleys...after
I led them to six of their eight ECW tag team championships,
people realized that maybe in this business opposites attract.
And maybe, for lack of a better term and I don't want to
use this term now that I'm with Lenny and Lodi but, it makes
for strange bedfellows...
"We
are going to become the first NWA-TNA World Tag Team Champions.
And I don't care about their sexual proclivity and their
activities outside the ring. That doesn't bother me at all
because I'm so confident that and stable in my sexuality
that why should I care what they do. As long as when they
get in the ring, they realize that it's all business and
the only thing they do in regards to @$$ is kick it."
Lenny
Lane on getting the chance to establish himself: "I
can't wait, basically. I sat home, we know the whole GLAD
deal--we don't have to get into that. Got us kicked off
of tv. Couldn't express myself, couldn't do it. Now, NWA-TNA
is actually giving us a chance to do that. There's no restrictions
and it's gonna be full-blown out, in your face.
On
his character's development: "This is different, developing
the Rainbow Express, because this is new and different than
Lenny and Lodi. Add to the fact we have a new man with us,
his name is Bruce...
"Bascially,
the character development started back when I was just doing
jobs, getting my shoulders pinned to the mat every night
on Nitro. And I was doing a damned good job of it because
they kept bringing me in every night. Dallas Page and Raven
came up to me and they said 'Lenny, you need to get a gimmick'.
So, I thought in my head, I'll create a gimmick. Here came
my idea about an ambiguously gay duo from Saturday Night
Live. I took that, put Lodi in the scenario, gave it to
the writing crew and they said 'it's too gay, Lenny. We
can't do that.'
"Kevin
Nash took over in the writing department and he really enjoyed
the gimmick. I gave it to him, he pressed for it. Bingo.
The next thing you know, we're on, unfortunate circumstance
occur, GLAD kicks us off tv for whatever reasons. I go back
to sitting at home, because they're too afraid the faggot
chants will start back up again. Cause that's what got us
kicked off tv in the first place."
On
the sign in the crowd gimmick: "Yes, that was Vince
Russo's idea. I was gonna do the sign, but there wasn't
much he could do with it. He left. At the time he gave me
that gimmick he was leaving, I was unhappy. New York (WWE)
told me there was all this great interest in me up there.
I went up there, had a dark match. They said, basically
after my dark match, they put me over. I thought I had a
job there, then they said I looked too much like Chris Jericho.
"Well, I said you just told me how much you liked me--why
don't you change my look? We don't want to do that yet,
either. I said okay and played phone tag with them until
I got sick of playing phone tag anymore. And basically that's
the story, here we are back with NWA-TNA."
K-Krush
on what he's been up to lately: "Well, I've just been
staying in the studios. I opened my own record label up
and recorded an album. Got my album complete. It's mastered
and in editing now. And it's an album for my fans, to let
them know how I feel about WWE right now...Kind of like
a "dis" album if you wanna call it that.
On
things not working out and what he learned in WWE: "Oh
yeah. I was shocked myself. The whole thing just took me
for a loop. You question yourself, you question other things.
But you got to understand, that's just how the business
is... Everything I've learned. The way you treat people.
The way you handle business.
By
no means was WWE assholes or anything like that, it's just
the way that the release was that I didn't appreciate. I'm
a businessman, they taught me how to be a businessman, so
in return I would've appreciated that type of business treatment
back to me. I learned a lot up there. The road. The boys.
Just the whole aspect of working and being around the business."
Goldylocks
on her wrestling background: "When I was four years
old, my grandmother, God bless her soul, would take me to
wrestling matches in Minnesota. I was hooked ever since.
I do not possess the talent to be one of these wrestlers,
I'm looking at some of the women in there and they're just--they'd
make you switch directions! They look great, their legs,
their asses, everything looks great.
Like
I said, I don't possess that kind of talent but I'm a singer.
I sing. I got involved with these guys and I'm just gonna
be doing some announcing and pulling a few chains backstage.
That's what I do, to answer your question. That's what Goldylocks,
the American Smart Ass, does.
Jim
Mitchell on the backstage explosion: "Yes, it was. You
don't really appreciate life until you nearly die. It certainly
gave me a new lease on life. It was rather painful and difficult
for, gosh I'd say, close to six months I still had problems
with it. Everyone should be happy to know, I'm certainly
happy to know that my pointy little fingernails and evil
little fingers are working their magic once again. I'm 100%.
It actually was a lot of damage. And I was in shock--that's
why I was in such good spirits...
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