One of the infamous storylines that Lance Storm is known for is the storyline where he would explain to the fans why he is not boring. During one of his matches, WWE Hall of Famer Stone Cold Steve Austin pulled out a pillow and slept during Storm‘s match.
During his latest interview with Chris Van Vliet on his Insight podcast, Lance Storm opened up about the time Austin slept during his match.
“It started bad and thankfully they did adjust it, because it hurt Lance Cade for a long time too and actually started hurting everybody, because Jerry Lawler was like ‘oh, yeah, grab a hold.’ That’s boring. And the crowd started chanting boring. Anytime on a house show someone grabbed a hold, [the boring] chant was there. Oh sh*t, what have we done here?
“But again, Vince pulled me into the office with a, ‘Well we’re trying to get more crowd interaction.’ He’s like, ‘Everybody chants you suck at Kurt. No one thinks he actually sucks. It’s just something for them to say. We want to see this as that.’ And after the pillow with Steve, I went to Vince and I was like, ‘Can we not make it more than that?’ Make it a shut up and wrestle gimmick where it’s like, ‘Dude, get off the goddamn microphone, you’re boring as sh*t just go out and wrestle, it’s what you’re good at.’”
How Lance Storm made it work
“And it started working on house shows because I go to the ring and grab a microphone and start explaining how I’m not boring. I even started reading the definition of boring from the dictionary to explain how it’s not doesn’t apply to me at all, which is boring as sh*t. And then the opponent’s music would hit. I do the head turn like I did in WCW the place would pop like crazy. And then we go on to have a match. Like it was working. As soon as I told Vince it was working, they changed it. But then again, part of me thinks they were trying to see if I would say no to something.
“I could be off base. Like Dean Malenko would come and he’s like, just to give you a heads up, someone said wouldn’t this be funny if Lance did this? And it’d be like, I’m dancing. And then the Dean came to me. He’s like, Yeah, just so you know, he said someone said something and Vince thought it would be really funny if it turns out you were a human tripod and had a large hose and I’m like, where’s that gonna go?”
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