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Chat with James Storm. Talks NXT, TNA & More
By: ChrissiCalvert Date: January 30, 2016, 3:42 pm
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You’re back in in TNA after a short period in NXT. What was
behind your decision to return and leave the WWE behind?
I’ve been with TNA since the very beginning and I want to see
them succeed, I feel like I have a lot to give not just to TNA
but the wrestling business as a whole, I just felt that right
now I can help TNA out a lot.
Many people were shocked to see you return to TNA and once again
work alongside Bobby Roode, where did that decision come from?
It was one of the things that a lot of the fans wrote into TNA
and said that one of the things that they missed was beer money,
so TNA came to me and Bobby and asked if we wanted to do it. We
talked it over and it was really one of the things that helped
me make my decision to come back. Me and Bobby have always had a
chemistry, whether it’s against each other or tagging together.
When it comes to chemistry, its clear to see that you have that
with many of the wrestlers on the roster. Is that something that
emanates from you or is it just an easy locker room to work
with?
I pride myself on being able to wrestle and adapt to any style
there is, whether its wrestling a big man, brawls, hard-core
matches or high-flying… not that I do the high-flying. It’s one
of those things where I’m able to work with anyone and I think
NXT kind of saw that too, that I could help out the guys there
with my knowledge of the wrestling business.
Having the experience of wrestlers such as yourself involved
with NXT is always a good way to help develop the next
generation of superstars, is that one of the things that made
you excited to get involved in the first place?
Oh yeah, it kind of reminded me of when TNA was first starting
out, all the guys are hungry and had a chip on their shoulders
looking to prove they have what it takes.
Speaking of TNA starting out, you’ve come through from the start
of TNA with other guys who are now house hold names, the likes
of yourself, Bobby (Roode) AJ Styles who obviously debuted in
WWE last night. If you had had those type of people around you
at NXT would you had possibly stayed or was it always going to
be a decision to come back to TNA?
No, it was never an all-out decision to come back to TNA, Me and
Hunter (Triple H) had a talk and as far as I’m aware left the
door open, Hunter has done some great things for NXT, no matter
what people may think of his on screen character, behind the
scenes he’s one of the most passionate guys in the business.
Your on screen character is so often completely different to the
person you are behind the scenes, it seems to me that your
on-screen character, especially when you are operating within
beer money, seems to be something that really resonates with
you. Is that because you find it easier to play a character that
is a little bit closer to your real life personality?
Yeah I find it really easy to do the beer money stuff, but even
the stuff I was doing down at NXT, I spoke to hunter and he
said, I just want you to be you, I was like okay cool ha-ha.
I just love going out there and having fun, because people want
to see a great wrestling match but they also want to be involved
and entertained at the same time, so it can be tricky to combine
all those things in the short time that you get while you’re out
there.
For fans watching throughout the years will have seen many sides
of you, you’ve been face, you’ve been a heel and you have been
somewhere in between, it’s one of those things as a fan we never
know what to expect, for example with beer money, you can be
best friends one second and breaking beer bottles over each
others heads the next minute.
If you think it’s crazy as a fan, try being my partner, last
show we did on TV, Bobby looked at me and was like where the
hell are you going? I just jumped out the ring, grabbed some
beer money signs and did the beer money chant, and he’s the same
way, I have no clue what that guy is going to do every night.
For me that’s why in my personal opinion, Beer Money are one of
the best tag teams in recent memory, some of the greatest tag
team matches I have ever seen was yourself and Bobby vs the
Motor City Machine Guns in your best-of-5 series, do you ever
see a scenario where you could see the four of you working
together again?
Yeah I’m not sure if you’ll see Beer Money vs Motor City machine
guns but I have always prided myself in whatever division I’ve
been in making it the best and now that I am doing Beer Money
again we want to bring tag team wrestling back to the forefront
of impact wrestling, a lot of fans right now are bidding for a
Beer Money vs The Wolves best of 5 match.
Right now, the tag scene isn’t as strong as it previously has
been, do you think with the revival of Beer Money you think you
can bring tag team wrestling back to where it once was?
Yeah me and Bobby definitely feel like we can get the tag
division back to where it was or we wouldn’t be doing this,
it’ll take a little bit of time but we are hoping to get there
sooner rather than later.
Looking forward to the UK tour there will be a lockdown match in
London on the 30th, a match that you are very familiar with. One
of my personal favourite matches was Fortune Vs Immortal in a
lethal look down match, if you could put together a team
together to go into a lethal lockdown match, who would you pick?
I would probably say, Me, Bobby and the Harris brothers, Ron and
Don are two guys that you probably don’t want to be locked into
a cage with because they are some bad boys. I can remember a
time I told Ron Harris I was going to body slam him and come off
the top rope with an elbow, he said you try it and I’m going to
punch you in your face, I said sounds good sir ha-ha.
After Triple H once again became WWE Champion could you say that
WWE are guilty of the same old same old programming in which the
obvious choice wins the title?
Yeah, a lot of people have asked me this question, and I always
say wait to see how the story plays out, because it can help to
build a bigger star. Especially now that you want to see Triple
H get beat. Its genuine, real heat, you’re there thinking this
SOB, I really want this guy to get beat now.
Looking forward, I asked James if he could ever see himself back
in a world title picture or if that part of his career was now
behind him, he told me:
At this point in my career titles don’t really mean that much to
me simply because when I go to the bank they don’t ask me if I’m
a world champion or not. On the other side, people realise being
the best as holding a title, so for me id like to be back in the
world title picture, but right now I’m going to focus on making
the tag division great again.
While you are in the UK is there any specific sports or teams
that’s you like to follow?
I think it was on the 4th or 5th UK tour, myself and Bully Ray
(Bubba Ray Dudley) actually went to a Manchester united game, it
reminded me of a wrestling show, whereas the fans all game long
were chanting stuff, I didn’t know what they were chanting but I
pretended I did.
You say that the door is open with NXT but do you see another
move or do you see TNA as the final home for James Storm?
We have a saying in the wrestling business that is “Never say
never” you never know what tomorrow might bring so for me I just
take it one day at a time.
Well what we do know is what the weekend will bring and that is
the unrivalled action of Impact Wrestling invading the UK. TNA’s
Maximum Impact tour starts this Friday in Manchester, don’t miss
out on your chance to see James and all of the TNA Wrestlers as
they bid farewell to one of Wrestling’s biggest icons, Kurt
Angle.
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Re: Chat with James Storm. Talks NXT, TNA & More
By: RosalindeDreams Date: February 1, 2016, 6:43 am
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I always love reading James interviews. Guy is amazing. (Also
got one hell of a pop from the London crowd...)
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