In an exclusive for WrestlingNews.co, Trevor Murdoch spoke with Steve Fall about his wrestling career with stories about Hulk Hogan, Steve Austin, Randy Orton and other legendary names he's worked with or been around over the years. Scroll down for the full video interview.
On his experience with Hulk Hogan and Steve Austin:
“I'm still a wrestling fan at heart, so I kind of marked out a little bit (for Hogan). I said, 'It's so nice to meet you.' He said, 'I've been watching you wrestle, kid. You're doing good.’ ‘All right. Thank you sir. I appreciate it.’”
"I remember one time when I was with the WWE and I was on a flight. Stone Cold Steve Austin was on the show that night and sure enough, him and I were on the same flight. I felt awkward. I talked to him a little bit, but I didn't want to fanboy out because to a certain extent, like, he's everything I wanted to be attitude wise. You know what I mean? That ass kicker, that guy that goes in there and doesn't take any sh*t. When he steps into the ring, he's there to fight. He's not there to be pretty. He's not there to make friends. He's there to fight and then go home. So I was a bit of a mark for Stone Cold because of the fact that was his whole attitude."
On the politics in WWE and getting buried from a John Cena comment:
"I won't say the producer's name, but Lance and I on our first run, everything's going well and a certain producer that was there during our vignettes tried to convince Lance and I that John Cena was a real thug. Like, really from the streets, like a real thug. Lance had lived with him at OVW in an apartment, you know, before he was John Cena and he was The Prototype. Yeah. We all know that John is obviously not a thug, thug. You know what I'm saying, and this producer is getting angry because we're not selling it. Like, he's just John Cena. He's a regular guy from Massachusetts. Like, he's not a thug."
"Well, this producer got so angry that we didn't cater to that conversation, he went into the production meeting and buried us and said that we weren't ready, that we were too immature, that they didn't think it was the right term. It was so bad that Shawn Michaels came out of said meeting and came up to us and was like, 'What the hell did you say to him?' We were like, 'Why?' 'Because that cat just went in there and buried you to Vince, buried you to Johnny, buried you to the whole writing staff, and you guys aren't on TV this week.' So we explained the situation to him, and he goes, 'Well, that's some horse sh*t.' I go, 'Yeah, it's some horse sh*t', and he goes, 'Well, you boys better figure out how to fix it.'"
"It wasn't that Shawn didn't want to help us, but he knew, like, there's some things that we have to do for ourselves. You know what I mean? If he goes in there for every fight, every argument, we become, we don't stand on our own, we stand on him, and it took us a couple months to convince Vince that we were a good tag team and that we should be on TV. It's just horse sh*t politics that I wasn't prepared for.”
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