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Interview with Eric Young, talks Rhodes , WWE vs TNA , ROH,
Jeremy Borash & more
DIR By: tnafan
Date: June 29, 2015, 4:59 pm
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The passing of Dusty Rhodes:
"I mean he's a huge part of this industry. He was a massive
in-ring personality for years. He was wrestling before I was
born. He's wrestled in every territory, wrestled for NWA, WCW,
WWE. He's worked backstage at all major promotions at one point,
worked for all of them. His imprints are all over everything.
There's a term called the Dusty Finish and it's a very distinct
finish in wrestling. It was made by him and still used to this
day a lot. The impact of the legacy he built will never be
forgotten.
"He's a guy I shared the ring with. I don't know if me and him
always saw eye to eye, but I respect what he's done in this
business. If you're a person that's in wrestling and you can't
respect what he's done, then you don't know what you're talking
about. He was a fat middle-aged man that was arguably one of the
most popular acts in WWE and WCW. He wasn't good looking, he had
a terrible physique, he had growths on his body, he wasn't
athletic, but he had something that made people relate to him.
And he knew that. That's a skill. If you can do that and make
people care about you in any form of entertainment, especially
wrestling, you're doing something right for sure.
"He had a weird style of booking, if you're asking me. It was an
old style of doing it. I think some good things came from him
being with us, but some bad things too. Part of him being the
legend Dusty Rhodes is that he could skate by on his mistakes
with the fact that he was Dusty Rhodes. And he made them. He did
good things too. He and I maybe look at wrestling differently,
that's no slight on him or anything like that. I always
respected him. Me and him shared the ring on three different
occasions and I had a blast working with him. He's the American
Dream and I was from evil Team Canada. The emotion of those
matches were always great. He was an old man, he couldn't do
anything. But it didn't matter. Those matches are just as fun as
any physical match or blow for blow match that I've ever had
because people cared about him. At that point, I was a heel in
Team Canada. That's all you can ask for as a heel, going against
somebody that people care about. It makes it easy."
TNA competing with WWE:
"In my opinion, none of the companies are really competing
against each other. You are competing against yourself. The WWE
is here and all the other promotions are here. So the WWE, they
control. They've been around for so long and have the monopoly
on most things. They've got three massive television shows and
millions of people, generational, watching. That's grandpas,
fathers and sons watching. We're not competing with those guys.
A way for me to say is that they're the Yankees and we're the
Nashville Sounds, in a baseball term. Not saying the Yankees as
in skill level, I'm just as good or better than anybody there, I
would say that to anybody that wants to listen. But we're in a
different game. We're not competing with them. And for us to
think that we're competing with them is foolish, we're competing
with ourselves.
"ROH and TNA and Lucha Underground and all these other
promotions are fighting over this one scrap. We don't need to be
fighting each other, we should be working together to make that
scrap a bigger piece. There's plenty of wrestling to go around.
I feel this is a boom in wrestling. A lot of attention is on pro
wrestling. There's two pro wrestling shows on Destination
America. Lucha Underground is on El Rey Network, it's a very
cool, young upstart network. These shows and these networks need
to be nurtured so other people have places to work and wrestling
fans have alternatives. I'm telling you right now, if you're a
wrestling fan, you need to start watching stuff other than the
WWE. If they get a monopoly, it's not good because then that's
your only choice. If you want pro wrestling, you can only watch
them. If you're a person like me that likes variety, you gotta
support the other things. I'm not saying not to watch, watch it
all. I watch all of it. When I was fifteen, sixteen, I watched
ECW, I watched Smoky Mountain, I watched USWA, I watched WCW,
NWA, I watched New Japan, Noah. I traded tapes with guys in
Mexico. I watched it all. It's all interesting in its own way,
it all has something to offer. I think everyone just needs to
enjoy this time and not worry so much about everything else."
Jeremy Borash:
"Borash is probably one of the most talented people I've ever
met. He can be an in-ring announcer, he's just as good as
Michael Buffer or any of those guys. He can be a commentator if
he wanted. His knowledge of wrestling is vast, he's been a
wrestling fan since he was twelve. He's watched everything. You
name it, he's watched it. He knows it and he remembers all of
it. Back in the early days when we were at the fairgrounds in
Nashville, he would do the interviews and in-ring announcing.
Then we'd all head to the bars, he'd go home and open up his
laptop and taught himself how to edit. A lot of the early
packages, the early stuff that you saw on pay per view and
stuff, that was him. He did it all. There was him and a small
group, Bill Banks was a guy, Moody was a guy, he works in Puerto
Rico now. But yeah, he's an ultra-talented guy. British Boot
Camp, he wrote it, directed it, edited it, produced it, all of
it. All him. Really successful television show in the UK."
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