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Sam Shaw intervew Talks Rip Rogers Going Through The Gut Check C
hallenge
By: tnafan Date: August 28, 2015, 12:13 pm
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Former TNA wrestler Samuel Shaw recently took some time to
participate in an interview with Marc Madison of The News Hub.
Shaw reveals his work with Gunner, training under Curtis Hughes
and the WWA4 Wrestling School, and more.. Check out excerpts of
the complete interview below and the complete interview at this
link:
About the pros of the Gut Check Challenge/Tough Enough format:
"I really feel like in the long run, I feel like the Gut Check
challenge and Tough Enough are really good ways to take a talent
that might have not had an opportunity otherwise. Especially
with Gut Check, I felt like they were bringing in some talent
that somebody might have seen somewhere and said, 'hey, let's
give this guy an opportunity' and I don't know if it's always
for the right reasons. For me, it's just my personal opinion but
I felt like I was brought in to the Gut Check because they were
going to say no. I feel like they had already said yes to a
number of talent for whatever reasons whether they performed
well or not. Alex Silva was going to be a no but then Ric Flair
changed his mind on the spot. I think there were 3 yes' and they
were looking for a no because they were trying to make this like
an American Idol thing. We need some drama, we need some guys to
not pass the test and make this good TV.
"I think the decision was already made, like I said just my
opinion. I feel like I performed well and I had showed a lot of
heart and passion and I really wanted it and I was told yes and
even Eric Bischoff came up to me afterwards and he mentioned to
me, 'I pretty much knew it was going to be a no but then you
went out there and did really well. How can we say no to that'?
Do I think I would have gotten those opportunities in TNA to get
a contract there? Yes. But, everything in this business is right
place, right time. I was given that opportunity and I was always
told to go out there and shine. With whatever opportunity they
give you. It was crazy because there were some really bad Gut
Check performances and I almost don't want to name names but I
remember one particular guy that Gunner had to wrestle and
honestly it made for really good TV. You saw this talent given
an opportunity to come and he basically wasn't ready for that
environment. It just showed up in his work and he had blown up
and Gunner was just like 'oh, man'. And you can tell it was just
bad. For the casual fan and the diehard fan you could see how
real this could actually get, really quickly."
See Also: Sam Shaw Talks TNA Release And How He Found Out, If He
Had Pay Issues, TNA Storylines, More
Training under Rip Rogers at OVW:
"I remember the first day sort of showing up a tad bit late to
my first OVW training camp session with Rip Rogers. I have no
idea what to expect. Al Snow told me 'oh, you're going to love
training with Rip Rogers', you're going to learn a lot. I show
up and of course he's already got people in the ring doing
stuff. There was about 20 people there and I walked up and I put
out my hand and I try to introduce myself to Rip Rogers and he
just sort of looks at me and says, "Who the f*** are you?" and I
am like I'm Samuel Shaw and he responds, "Okay, why the f***
should I care? What the f*** do you want?" I'm oh my god is this
really how this is going to go? I've heard stories about this
guy but okay and he tells me to get in line and let's see how
you can bump and by the end of it I think he sort of like me
because I showed him some sort of athletic ability and not just
a jabroni that is just coming in and wasn't some bodybuilder
muscle look to him and he wasn't going to really do anything
special. But at the end of it he was really receptive to me and
I enjoyed training with Rip Rogers. It was very short.
"The developmental program for TNA at OVW was very short lived
and changes were always happening. There was no real structure I
guess you could say. It was sort of like here we have training a
couple of days a week and you have 4 or 5 shows a week which is
tremendous because you are getting into that mode of working
each and every day and I think that it was a tremendous learning
experience. I went into the whole OVW experience thinking that I
was already trained really well coming from Curtis Hughes and
then coming from Team 3D academy for four years. Getting signed
with TNA and then I thought I had to go back and train some
more? Destroy my body and this and that. I was there for
practically a year and I feel like I learned a tremendous amount
in that time and I look back on it as a very fond memory for me.
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Re: Sam Shaw intervew Talks Rip Rogers Going Through The Gut Che
ck Challenge
By: tnafan Date: September 2, 2015, 6:49 am
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why did TNA not keep him? He was over with the fans too what was
great to see .
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