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10 Jul, 1999

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Edge talks about the start of his wrestling career:

Yeah, actually I’ve been wrestling for six years, about seven and a lot of people don’t really realize that because they consider it once you started in the WWF that’s where you started. I trained in Toronto, wrestled all across Canada, drove across frozen lakes, and slept on blue mats and ate cans of tuna, went all cross the eastern seaboards, went to Japan with Christian. So we wrestled all over the place and word got out about us I guess and little by little people started to take notice and then went down signed a contract, did the training camp, and that was the start of it.

5 Feb, 2000

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Sammartino speaks about leaving his position as a color commentator with WWE:

That’s why I left, I had to get out of there, because it wasn’t just the changes that I didn’t like that they were making But at the time, I saw the drugs the steroids and, the other things that were going on, that I found absolutely appalling. And I said no this isn’t the world of wrestling that I was a part of. I just had to get out of there, because I knew I didn’t belong and I just didn’t care for what was going on at all. At that time I thought the changes were rather drastic, but then never would have I believed what has happened in the last two years.

19 Apr, 2000

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Hart talks about his most memorable matches in WWE:

Yeah I would probably have to say the hour match with Shawn Michaels in Anaheim. I’d have to say The Wrestlemania 13 match with Stone Cold Steve Austin and it’s really a toss up off the top of my head. Either the Wembley match with The British Bulldog or … yeah I’d have to say the Wembley match with The British Bulldog.

21 Nov, 2000

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Sable speaks about women competing in the WWE:

I think it’s wonderful that women are having the opportunity to be involved in the wrestling business. Honestly, I’d like to think that I had a lot to do with that. I think that women have proven themselves over and over again in this business and it’s great that they are given the opportunity once again. Back in the days of the Fabulous Moolah, and Wendy Richter, they were the forerunners of this business, Luna even. They kind of disappeared for a while and I came in and it all picked up again and that’s actually when they brought the women’s championship back. It was a wonderful time and I’m glad it’s continuing.

22 Nov, 2000

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Hennig discusses a possible match with Austin in WWE:

Yeah, well there is a little truth to it, but I don’t know much to dwell on that much. Yeah, I think. The reaction from when I was at the announce table with Vince and Austin was in the ring and we had words back and forth, I know that the eruption was unbelievable, so. I could just see Vince going (imitating Vince and laughs) ah-ha-ha, he’s getting his fingers into something here, because the character Mr. Perfect and the Austin character, that would have been a clash and it still might be.

26 Jan, 2001

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Albano addresses the start of his career in WWE:

Well, I got started years ago. I just got out of the service, this was around 1952, and Vince McMahon, Sr., Willie Gilzenberg sent me down to him and I started wrestling and I wrestled for about 20 years and Bruno Sammartino said to me, “You know you are not a great wrestler, but you’re a good talker, a good bs’er, you never shut up.” So they started me managing in the sixties with Crusher Vadue, Baron Mikel Scicluna, Curtis Iaukea, the Moondogs, and I had the British Bulldogs later on and I had the Valiant Brothers and the Wild Samoans.

28 Jun, 2003

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Foley talks about his new book, Tietam Brown:

I did feel like it was one of those books that you’d feel compelled to read once they started and to me that is the mark of a good book. One that kind of calls out to you when your’re not reading it and I have read a lot of books that are supposed to be great and I understood while I was reading them that was writing was really good, but I didn’t feel anything in common with the characters or any need to relate to them and I think if there is one strength, and I think that this book does have several strengths, I think that is the strongest point that the main character is very engaging and likable and I think people like you will find that they will be drawn to them.

19 Jul, 2003

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Heenan talks about what it is like the day of a WWE pay per view event:

Well, at Vince McMahon’s pay per view you get there at noon. You go in there and have a production meeting. That lasts about two hours. He’ll ask everyone questions about what we think about the program. He will read us all the program, what everyone is going to do, when they are going to through to this, when they are going to have this tape up, how the entrances are going to come, goes through everything. A whole mess of people in the room from merchandise people to television production people, no wrestlers. Just the agents, announcers, and stuff like that. Then, we get out of there about 2, 2:30.

3 Aug, 2003

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Sammartino gives his thoughts on WWE buying WCW:

That is a tragedy because who loses out? The wrestlers do. In my day, when you had so many different territories, if you wrestled for Vince McMahon for a year or two, and now you were an undercard guy and were not happy, there were so many other territories you could go to, and become a headliner. You had choices, so many different places you could go. Now you don’t, and McMahon, I don’t care how big his organization may be, he can only use so many wrestlers. That means there are a lot of wrestlers that are either no longer in the business or always looking for work on the independent shows. In my opinion, it has been a horribly destructive thing to the business, the fact that there is just one existing major organization.

25 Aug, 2003

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Steamboat addresses WWE purchasing WCW:

I definitely think it does not leave too many options for the guys. If you have another company out there, it at least gave you somewhat of a chance if things did not work out with one organization, you could try and go work for the other. I think that, there was certainly enough money backing WCW, I put some of the blame on the boys. Having people that were up in the office trying to run a wrestling company without that much of any kind of wrestling company background. As you know, first, second, and even third generation families, all usually ran most of the companies that were around in wrestling. Here we got people, they may be great business people but the wrestling business is a different kind of business, you know?

3 Oct, 2003

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Austin speaks about his 1996 Survivor Series match against Hart:

Bret goes to me, Hey man good match. I’ll work with you anytime. So, I guess he is the one that told the office, Hey, I can work with Austin. He kept watching my matches, and I was hand picked by Bret for his comeback, because that was his comeback. Man, it was a blast. I don’t refer to that match a whole lot because I do not think a lot of people just in general don’t remember that match, but if you are a wrestling fan you do remember that match, and I have watched that match just as much as the Wrestlemania XIII match, and some of the other matches that I have had that were my favorites.

27 Dec, 2003

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Blackman discusses his tag team with Snow in WWE:

I don’t know, we just kind of fell into that, they put us together. We were doing something backstage, we had like a funny promo and it kind of stuck. After that people started doing that head cheese gimmick. You know people used to pop see what crazy thing that Al was going to have me do on the next TV. Every week he had me doing something ridiculous. I didn’t even believe him when I’d get there. Somebody would say, Hey, come over here. We are going to do this with you. I would be like, Yeah right. Like ten times in row, I wouldn’t believe them, and every time that was what we would be doing.

24 Jul, 2004

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Heenan reflects on his WWE Hall of Fame induction speech:

I didn’t have anything. When I was called at home by Jim Ross, I said sure. I was thinking of how I am going to open up, what I was going to say, who’s going to be there. I don’t want start out knocking this guy or I don’t want to put this guy over. I don’t really know what to do. I’m just going to go there and see what happens and I really didn’t have anything. So I was sitting there talking to Muraco and Tito. Then when they started the show and started introducing us, I didn’t know what I’m going to do. See, I never like to rehearse anything. Monsoon and I never rehearsed a thing. There was nothing written. I can’t say other people’s words and I can’t remember things people write. I just have to do it on my own. That’s the only way I’ve ever done interviews or anything, forty years in the business.

31 Jul, 2004

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Sammartino responds to critics of his in ring style:

Well ask people like Killer Kowalski, Don Leo Jonathan, Ken Patera, Gene Kiniski, Ivan Koloff. I mean anyone who has ever seen me with these people, know what kind of action we provided in the ring. For one guy to accuse me of being lazy…if there’s one reputation I had amongst my peers, which makes me feel very proud, was always the great shape I kept myself into, and the great shape I was performing in the ring. I don’t understand why this man would say these things. I just don’t get it.

2 Nov, 2004

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Edge gives his thoughts on playing a heel character in WWE:

Right now, I’m having so much fun. It is so much more fun to piss people off. [It’s so hard] to get people to like you. If you try too hard to get them to like you, they just go ‘too hard,’ and if you don’t try hard enough, they go, ‘what’s his deal?’ As a heel, you can just let it all out. You can be whiny, you can be bitter, disgruntled, whatever you want, and blame it on everybody else. (Laughs) It’s a lot of fun. In a way, I’m taking the year of frustrations and channeling it into the character.

26 Mar, 2005

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Valentine talks about being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame:

I definitely was flattered by it I did not expect it because I hardly have talked to the WWE at all since I left. I did not leave on bad terms or anything I just was out of a job (laughs). So I went other places and I managed to stay, you know I have never done, honestly, anything else in my life to subsidize, or add some income in, in my career, my thirty-five year career in wrestling. I have never done anything but wrestle. I never drove a cab on the side, I never shined shoes, I never sold cars (laughs), keeping afloat. I am not the wealthiest of all of the wrestlers, obviously Hulk has got lots and lots of money, and Flair does. I was fortunate to make a lot of money but I never got rich from it. I’m still involved in the wrestling business because I want to be, and not really because I have to be.

28 May, 2005

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Sammartino talks about the back injuries he suffered during his career:

Yeah in my case no question because when one of the world renowned neurosurgeons, Doctor James Moroon who did the surgeries on me, he told me that he could see how hard I had trained and the kind of condition I was in but he also the tremendous kind of abuse that the back took and when he did the couple of surgeries he had to remove a total of sixteen spurs on my back and three vertebrae he had to remove and I still have a lot of problems that to this day.

30 Jun, 2005

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Awesome talks about his match against Tanaka at WWE’s ECW One Night Stand:

I thought the show was great you know, the entire thing, just the way it all came together, um the way it was put together. Maybe it had a little too much of the WWE influence with the angles that they were doing but overall I thought the show was great and I was very happy with my match. You know usually when I get out there with Tanaka him and I we just beat the hell out of each other and tear the house down.

2 Nov, 2005

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Christian talks to WWE.com about departing from the company and what he has planned after leaving.

My contract came up on Oct. 31 and we negotiated back and forth a little bit. But it wasn’t about the money for me, really. There were some other things that were going on that helped sway my decision. It wasn’t a contract dispute, if that’s what you want to call it. It was a number of different things — I’ve been on the road with WWE for eight years straight, and it takes a toll on your body when you’re going 250-300 days a year.

18 Mar, 2006

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Watts talks about his time working for WWE:

Well, you know everything in the WWE is scripted. It was such a disappointment, the three months I was with Vince [McMahon], I’ll never forget, there was a problem that happened, we won’t go into it, where everybody was late and we were having a television shoot, and I had two top stars and they were going to have like a ten minute match, and they didn’t have enough time to get ready for it cause they only had an hour before show time. An hour for a ten minute match! I was fractured.