I've been a fan of one particular guy since I first saw him in 'Ring of Honor' eight years ago. He was Tyler Black then, but he's Seth Rollins now. And I think he's just the whole package.
John Cena's success was the least surprising.
A lot of people say now, 'John Cena doesn't work.' Well, John Cena does the things that people go to see John Cena do, and he doesn't take a lot of risks.
The NWA has money, it could have enough talent, and it has the resources of TBS. It just needs someone to give the company direction.
Nobody ever went and saw The Midnight Express and thought their match was bad.
I loved Houston. Those fans would go ballistic.
I was a big fan of The Revival when they were in NXT. I thought they were as good as Tully Blanchard and Arn Anderson.
There's a lot of crossover between comic fans, wrestling fans and pop culture fans.
The thing is, wrestling is the oldest form of combat known. The cavemen wrestled. And everyone in the American public can understand that.
We all prosper when folks are more appraised of how great those matches were and how great those talents were from all of the guys who populated the NWA in the '80s.
We got shorted when it comes to recognition for the '80s war. Everybody talks about the 'Monday Night Wars' and the 'Attitude Era,' but it was neck and neck in the '80s.
I didn't get a chance to see Bruno Sammartino regularly because I didn't grow up in the northeast, but he came into Indianapolis in his in-between time of being the champion between '71 and '73 when he worked for Dick The Bruiser because he liked The Bruiser. I got to see him and the The Bruiser against the Valiant Brothers.
Between the '80s with The Midnight Express and the '90s with The Heavenly Bodies, and then in the 2000s on the reunions with The Midnights, I think only Bobo Brazil and The Sheik had a longer-running rivalry.
I spent the majority of my adult life in a business where the object is to make people believe that you believe what you say. I was good at that, right?
They way new stars were made in WCW and WWE was by beating the established guys and getting in that mix. When you only have one established guy, that's gonna be hard.
The reason why the tag teams are not main event level attractions in the WWE is because Vince McMahon doesn't like it and doesn't present it that way. He'd rather make individual stars.
I loved Jimmy Snuka as a fan.
Even if people that I was in love with - even if Bobby Fulton inherited a billion dollars and opened All Elite Wrestling, I was never going to be the manager of The Revival on a weekly television basis ever because that would require me being on the road on a weekly basis.
Well, I don't want to say mad, but there was 'heated' exchanges back in the closing days of OVW when I said that I was running our own business there in OVW and they said, no, we are running their storage closet. They didn't actually say that, but that was how they treated it.
I know a lot of people may not really believe this, but I'm kind of outspoken and I like to tell people what I think.
