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Christian York talks working WCW , ECW and gut check
DIR By: tnafanforum
Date: November 22, 2012, 3:51 am
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Christian York had an interview with the Shining Wizards podcast
in which he talked about TNA’s Gut Check challenge, working in
WCW and more.
On how he got involved on Gut Check: “I was working in MCW
(Maryland Championship Wrestling) and TNA was doing a house show
in Bowie, Maryland, and the agents asked for a list of 10 guys,
and I was one of the 10. I was eating breakfast with my wife,and
they gave me call saying, we want to use you on some house shows
and get a look at you. So I did that, and they called me back
about doing this Gut Check.”
On the Gut Check Experience: “They told me it’s all a shoot,
it’s all real. It’s not scripted stuff or anything like that,
and we did that. We went from there, they did the profile thing
with me, and then the match with Zema (Ion), which was pretty
wild. All day long you don’t know anything, its just like a
rehearsal type thing. Just stand in the ring and we will go from
there. Its all a shoot, they want raw emotion. “
The Boy Band Gimmick: “We started that in ’99. We weren’t really
on board with the boy band thing. We were like, man, that’s gay.
We were trying to be edgy, like every indy wrestler, trying to
be cool as hell. We wanted to be called Fourplay, but we ended
up being the Badstreet Boys. It worked, we had tons of girls as
fans. Kanyon had seen the gimmick and had the idea of getting
Shane Helms and Shannon Moore a tryout. Myself and Joey didn’t
have any idea about this. Then Shane called and said, hey, man,
we just got signed, and I was like, did we get signed? And he
was like, no, they are gonna give you a tryout, we are gonna do
the boy band gimmick with Evan (Karagias).”
On WCW not being around: “I miss the hell out of it, man. I wish
it was still around so guys would have a place to work. “
First Run with WWF/ECW: “After we got released from WCW we had a
no compete clause, 120 days. We waited and we just said, let’s
go there and try to get on. And we got on, it was pretty cool.
They let us do dives and like all kinds of stuff, stuff that
unheard of. They were like, just go out there in tear it up. So
we did that, and they liked us and stuff, but we looked like
kids compared to the cast of characters in WWF at the time. So
they said why don’t you go to ECW and go there and get over, get
seasoned, and then come back here. We got in touch with Tommy
Dreamer, and they were already interested in us, so we went
there and off we went.”
#Post#: 6708--------------------------------------------------
Re: Christian York talks working WCW , ECW and gut check
DIR By: snakejake
Date: November 25, 2012, 4:18 pm
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I did not no who he was until he was on gutcheck tbh
#Post#: 6718--------------------------------------------------
Re: Christian York talks working WCW , ECW and gut check
DIR By: jeeban4life
Date: November 25, 2012, 6:57 pm
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I never realized he came out of retirement
#Post#: 6756--------------------------------------------------
Re: Christian York talks working WCW , ECW and gut check
DIR By: tnafan
Date: November 26, 2012, 4:23 pm
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to work for TNA thats a god reason to come out of retirement lol
:P
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Re: Christian York talks working WCW , ECW and gut check
DIR By: tnafanforum
Date: November 26, 2012, 5:03 pm
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He has still got some years in him , yes he i old but he can
still go in the ring.
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