After The Rain Posted October 16, 2013 Report Share Posted October 16, 2013 Wrestling legend Larry Zbyszko recently spoke with Steve and Scum of WGD Weekly. Here are some highlights of what the “Living Legend” said about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5qTZSH6aeQ The financial state of TNA: ”They just made wrong decisions…from what I hear, Bob Carter…he had a hard time saying no to his daughter, Dixie… Finally, they blew so much money with no real results after ten years that Bob resigned and I think the mother took over and she is controlling the purse. From what I hear… this guy is now fired, this guy is now fired and if you wanna stay there you get a pay cut. Half the guys wrestling there are on food stamps. I was shocked when I heard that one.” Where TNA has gone wrong creatively: ”If you look at TNA today, I mean like ten years ago they had some great matches, AJ Styles vs. Chris Daniels, now ten years later, like six or seven months ago, I’m flicking through the TV and I stumble across TNA… and what’s the main event? AJ Styles vs. Chris Daniels, they’ve been wrestling each other for ten years. I couldn’t believe it… don’t these people understand?” Hulk Hogan in TNA: ”Instead of guys who can do something, they are blowing their wad on Hulk, god bless him, but he can’t walk anymore.” Eric Bischoff in TNA: ”Eric, who listened to a couple guys, pulled something off, then took credit for it, but everything he’s been involved in since sinks because he doesn’t know and won’t listen.” Sting being “lucky”: “Sting who was one of the luckiest men who ever lived. Sting couldn’t do a good interview, he couldn’t work good. We had to drop him from the ceiling for a year and dress him like the crow and not let him say a word to get one big match out of him.” His relationship with and thoughts on Vince McMahon since once again working on occasion with WWE: ” I haven’t bumped into Vince. I’ve been doing some things, like at ‘Mania, but I was running around doing Axxess, and signings, and filming DVD’s. When they tape the NXT shows they film that right down the street here… but, I haven’t bumped into Vince yet. I haven’t seen him since 1981. I can’t wait to see him, it will be very nostalgic.He looks great, between you and me, he’s one of the best characters he’s got. Vince is a classic, he would die for his creation and his fans, you can’t take that away from him.” Vince Russo coming to WCW in 1999 and the dying days of WCW: ”Eric and his buddies were gone, so Bill brings in this idiot Russo who was writing for the WWE… as far as I’m concerned, he’s a cancer…So, this goofy Russo comes in and by the time he came in… it went back to stupid nonsense with some idiot who has no idea what he is doing. So, they move me to Thunder. I was pissed, I knew the biggest, hottest wrestling ever was about to die. Russo just kept doing stupid stuff, the worst part is, we had a guy that was the next Bruno, Goldberg, people loved him, he was hot… but instead of Goldberg being champion, the new champion was Russo and some idiot little, skinny puke, David Arquette…the whole thing just turned to absolute manure… you had this slob, Mark Madden on Nitro, picking his nose and god knows what else. It was horrifying.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Carell Posted October 17, 2013 Report Share Posted October 17, 2013 good read Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarGreymon77 Posted October 17, 2013 Report Share Posted October 17, 2013 I've always enjoyed hearing Larry Z speak, but I totally disagree about Sting. Sting might have been a little corny on the mic, but he had a lot of charisma, and he always put on great matches. He's one of the greatest wrestlers of all time, the "face of WCW" throughout the 90s, and the fact that he's still so over despite never being in WWE speaks volumes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MST3Claye Posted October 17, 2013 Report Share Posted October 17, 2013 Again, the comments about the pay issue and wrestlers getting very low pay. Joey Ryan shot that rumor down as did a couple others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poe Øhlin Posted October 17, 2013 Report Share Posted October 17, 2013 Outside of the pay comments, that was a pretty good read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGPLX. Posted October 17, 2013 Report Share Posted October 17, 2013 That was a good read, but that's probably because I agreed with most of it on the topic of Sting, Zbyszko doesn't acknowledge the fact that Sting had outstanding charisma throughout his career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulie Walnuts Posted October 19, 2013 Report Share Posted October 19, 2013 "Half the talent is on food stamps". WRONG, rumor was shot down by numerous former and active TNA talent. Sting basically being a talentless hack is also wrong. He says they had to come up with the Crow gimmick to get him over, when factually, in the early days of WCW, Sting, flat top and all was THEE guy for WCW. He was the top draw, right next to Hogan. So uhmm, yea... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThreeG Posted October 19, 2013 Report Share Posted October 19, 2013 I've always said Sting was the John Cena of WCW. Not that its a bad thing, just wasn't the greatest worker but had something, and was the go-to company guy forever. I like Larry, but to call someone "lucky" when he was Bruno's boy is ironic. I like that he's cool with WWE again though, been too long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Dreadful Posted October 19, 2013 Report Share Posted October 19, 2013 he's dead wrong about Sting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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