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Manik Says He Wants To Lose His Mask, Talks GFW & TNA Status
& More inside
DIR By: tnafanforum
Date: July 21, 2015, 5:32 pm
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The following are highlights of a new v2 Wrestling Podcast
interview with T.J. “Manik” Perkins:
On the future of the TNA/GFW relationship: “I”ve got no idea, to
be honest. I’m sure maybe some people do, but I kinda feel like
a lot of people don’t. I think that maybe it really is a
rollercoaster that everybody just decided to get on without
seeing how far the track goes. Maybe that’s a good thing, I’m
all for it. I hope that it’s going to continue to become a
bigger and bigger thing, because the guys that have been or are
going to be working with Jeff, a lot of them are friends of
mine. I was thrilled to see them working together, so it would
be cool to share a banner or share a ring with them in some sort
of fair-weather status or better.”
On the endgame for the Revolution storyline: “I don’t know. In
some ways I”ve tried to overachieve a little bit lately out of
frustration, not really at any particular thing. Just sometimes
I personally feel like I”m treading water. It’s funny because
there’s been times where I thought that there was no idea for me
and then I found out that there was a lot for me to do that had
been set in place. And then there”s times where I feel like
maybe I have to figure out my own details myself. But as far as
treading water, it’s not in the group sense or anything like
that. Personally, sometimes I set little goals for myself that’s
not really being asked of me. It’s just something that I’m
trying to do on my own. Now I kind of feel like I’m treading
water because there’s little things that I”m expecting of myself
that I’m not always getting. It’s not necessarily something I
wish I could be doing and I’m not getting the opportunity or
anything like that. It’s really more of a personal thing.”
On rumors of per appearance deals in TNA: “Pretty much nobody is
on a per appearance deal. Maybe people have asked for that now
in an effort to change course in their careers, because maybe
they have other stuff they want to do. Some of these guys might
not even want to necessarily be wrestling anymore, so a lot of
it might have to do with that too. But as far as before
recently, none of us were on a per appearance deal. I don”t know
where people would get that from, but if you got it, you were
definitely lied to. And actually where it might come into play
is because all of us were getting guaranteed money, and then on
top of that we get extra bonus money per appearances. So I think
people might hear that and depending on your level of personal
negativity, you choose only to hear the last part. Some people
have a different ratio where their appearances are more than
their guaranteed, but everybody was definitely on guaranteed
money.”
On his obsession with Deadpool: “I”ve always felt like the
Deadpool character is very different from everything else. It
has so much freedom. I”ve always been into it, but I also drew
inspiration for Suicide and Manik from that character. Like with
other characters I”ve done, I”ve never had a character that I
felt more handcuffed than I did when I took on the role for
Suicide and Manik. So I really started to embrace my fanboy for
Deadpool because I felt like channeling that was my way of
creating freedom in that situation. It kind of helped me open my
mind to other ways I can individualize myself and it became a
good model for me. It’s funny because some of the best stuff
about the character is in a lot of ways how Deadpool is. For
example, Deadpool is just barely getting a movie and the reason
being is because everybody, probably even down to the people at
Marvel offices, thought: not enough people are going to get
this, not enough people have seen it and not enough people will
understand it. In my case, sometimes I feel like the best stuff
for my character is a lot of stuff that most people won’t get,
but some people will get because they”ve followed me more
closely. Like on social media, they’ll follow me when I live
tweet shows and some of the funniest and brightest stuff as far
as my charisma will come out in that medium, but most people
don’t get that because not everybody is following me closely.
But those that do, think that some of those things are my most
brilliant stuff, because I don’t get to hold the microphone very
often.”
On whether he will drop the mask: “I hope so. It’s funny because
if you ask everybody individually in the TNA office about me,
then all of them have the same answer. Why is this guy in a
mask? He”s good looking, he”s charismatic, he’s funny, he’s very
witty. But I feel like if you guys never had this conversation
altogether, it’s like none of you guys think I should not be
doing it, so then why am I doing it? So I like to think that
that’s a sign of changes to be made when it’s ready to come
out.You don’t want to move too quickly. You look at people’s
careers and the arc that their creative character took and the
arc that their personal real life took –it didn’t happen
overnight. At least people that did something great, it took a
long time to really progress and there were specific times and
reasons for those things. You have to find the right time, like
now’s the time it’s going to start getting better because this
part of my life or my creation is done. You know, like losing
the skeleton mask. At that point I felt like the suit was ready
to be retro, so I had to let it go for a while and the change
ended up becoming something else, and eventually that’s going to
need to change too.”
On his best friends during TNA tapings: “Lately I”ve created a
small clique with myself, Mandrews and Crazzy Steve. We”ve
become like the three amigos, at least for the last little
while. They’r’e fun guys, I like them a lot. We snuck out and
rode rollercoasters one time. It was fun.”
On whether he will work the GFW shows: “I simply don’t know. If
it were up to me, yeah, I would be on everything, even if it
meant rocking the boat. But then again I don’t want to be like
Hernandez or anything. Only because it’s so new and I haven’t
really approached that professionally yet as far as what’s going
on personally and what’s going on between the two, I haven’t
really caught myself up on it.”
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