Conducted just a short time before he passed away, James had the opportunity to interview the former WWE superstar

known as Crash Holly, Michael Lockwood.

Crash was simply a fun human being to speak to. If you've not listened to this interview yet, I invite you to do so. It is

a fun look back at a great man's sense of humor.

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"MAD" MIKEY "CRASH HOLLY" LOCKWOOD

-- Mikey explains that he is no longer Crash Holly because the WWE owns that trademark, so now he is Mad Mikey for NWA TNA. What is he mad about? "If you lived with Stevie Richards, you'd be mad too!" He goes on to explain that he lives with Richards calling himself Richards' housewife. He takes care of the house and the garden while Richards is on that "wonderful program called WWE."

-- Getting back on a usual TII track, Mad Mikey says he was indeed wrestling fan growing up. He grew up on the NWA and the Memphis territory. His favorite growing up was Randy Savage in Memphis. Something else that really got him into it was watching Prime Time Wrestling with Bobby Heenan and Gorilla Monsoon. Heenan is so funny and you could just tell that what they were doing was not scripted and was just funny.

-- He played the seasonable sports like Soccer, Basketball, Football, and stuff like that when he was a young man. He is 32 now, his Birthday was actually yesterday (Monday 25th August) so send all gifts and donations to NWA TNA offices: His suggestion, not ours.

-- His trainers were Mae Young and a little Pepper Gomez. He was trained in 1989.

-- One of his Indy gimmicks through the years was the Johnny Pearson and the Leprechaun.

-- He got called up by the WWE because Jim Cornette saw a tape of a match he had with Vic Grimes. He feels they were more interested in Vic than him because Vic did more the Mick Foley style of bumps but Mikey ended up getting a job there.

-- He likes being a "comedy" based wrestler more than a straight-laced wrestler like Bob Holly is. He says the problem is a lot of guys are too concerned with looking strong out there and getting all their "sh*t in." He feels one of the reasons he is successful is he doesn't wrestle to get his stuff in. He likes to just be an idiot, sell, and just do his own thing out there.

-- Going back to when Bob Holly beat up Matt from Tough Enough, Mikey feels that Matt should stop "bitching and complaining" because what happened to him is what Holly does in the ring regardless. He gives it out like that because he expects you to give it back to him. If Matt couldn't take that, he probably shouldn't be in the wrestling business and should be in diapers. He says if he can't take that he can't take it from someone else who is even stiffer.

-- When asked about the downfall of the WWE Hardcore title, he mentions an article in a recent WWE magazine where Mick Foley was presented/handed the title with the reasoning that Foley made the belt famous. "Mick Foley didn't make the belt famous, I did. Mick Foley didn't make that belt famous. Mick Foley fell off the top of a cage. That's what made him famous." He explains that you are given an opportunity as champion to see if you can carry the ball and he feels he did but says that he and guys like Tazz and Saturn made the Hardcore belt with the 24/7 rule and not Mick Foley.

-- His proudest moment as Hardcore Champion was when they filmed the match at a video arcade in New Jersey with the Headbangers. He said a lot of times you have to do multiple takes with things like that but they did it in one take. He says that's always the best because you don't want to keep being beaten over the head with stuff for different takes. He said that is also his favorite one because it was fun to do stuff like going down the slide and things of that nature.

-- Defeating the Rock 'n' Sock Connection for the WWE tag team titles ranks high in his career highlights. He feels The Rock is one of a kind and he does respect Mick Foley despite the hardcore belt thing.

- In terms of career highlights, his highest so far was wrestling at WrestleMania 2000. He says you get in this business to wrestle in WrestleMania.

-- The King of the Ring 2000 experience was good for him and he had no idea even going in to the event that he'd be so involved. He loved the match he had with Kurt Angle and says that he was glad to be able to be the match which put an end to the horrible "hardcore evening gown" match that was going on at the PPV at the time.

-- Working with Matt Hardy and Shannon Moore was great but he says that was at the point where he was really not being given the chance to do a lot. He says it's like being the champion in that you are handed the ball. Well, those three weren't handed the ball and they really didn't do anything with them but he says they should and could have. He says he considers himself, Hardy, and Moore to be the very best six-man tag team to never have a six-man tag match.

-- The Hardy Boys were kind of looked upon as the Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty of the 90's with Matt being the Marty of the team. He says look how far Matt has come in reinventing himself. Now he cuts great promos and has created a total new persona for himself. He says then again look at it this way. Hardy didn't have a match at SummerSlam. So, who is getting the ball?

-- Being released was a mutual agreement though he didn't really like the idea of leaving because it is a let down but he knew it was coming because he wasn't really being used.

-- Right after the King of the Ring is when he realized they weren't doing anything with him and he felt most under used. He never should've been a world champion but they should've made him a bigger piece of the puzzle than they did. He said having matches on Jakked, Metal, and Heat where the matches don't matter and they are more or less exhibitions with no stories at all can make you go crazy when you know you should be on Raw or Smackdown.

-- The morale of the WWE fell dramatically while he was there. He said it is like being on a winning Baseball team and then the team goes into a slump. Obviously the players are not going to be as happy.

-- He says the morale in the NWA TNA locker room is far better. He says he has more fun with TNA than he has had since he was first used in the WWE. He says they let you go out there and be yourself and have fun and it isn't as stressful. He says if you scratch your ass wrong in the WWE, you get in trouble. TNA lets you just have fun.

-- Vince Russo came up with the name Crash Holly right before Vince went to WCW.

-- He has no hard feelings towards the WWE. He says he isn't bitter like Sable and others won't sue like they did from bitterness. He doesn't expect the phone to ring tomorrow but if they wanted him back, he'd go back.

-- He loves to wrestle women. He says he's smart and realizes all contact with women is good. He says he loves working against women though because it is challenging. "I enjoy wrestling with the women and treating them like their equals." He says if you wrestle Jacky or Molly, you whoop their ass because they will do it right back. They're equals in terms of talent and should be treated as such.

-- In NWA TNA, he would wrestle Trinity if the opportunity came about. He said he's smart and makes the women practice hurricanrana's and headlock takeovers on him several times. Any contact with a woman is good.

-- His favorite match in his career so far was against Vic Grimes, the one that got him signed by the WWE.

-- He thanks his fans for supporting him and says he knows he isn't everyone's favorite and that his style isn't everyone's favorite but realize that if you're ever having a bad day and need something to laugh at, watch TNA and laugh at him because that's what he is there for. "If you can't laugh at yourself, laugh at me!"

-- Next up were a set of hysterical word associations, with names like Bob Holly, Molly Holly (what a line he throws at her), Jeff Jarrett, Hulk Hogan, Stevie Richards, and Vince McMahon!

-- After the word associations, we went to sign off but Mikey wanted to talk about Triple H quickly. He says everyone says Triple H is a bad guy and the Internet really hates him but you have to understand that he is a stand up kind of guy. If you watch him on pay per views or RAW or any other show, you can see it. He is ALWAYS standing up and never goes on his back. A really hilarious joke told in true Mad Mikey fashion.

-- After the show had ended and finished recording, Mikey called back for more information about when this would air. During that conversation with James, Mikey asked if James could mention how "sorry" he is that Mick Foley's book isn't in the top 50 books right now. You be the judge on how sincere he was�


-- ALSO on this edition of The Interactive Interview is Randy Savage's rap song "Be a Man" which James and Dan discuss. Don't forget that James is the Glam Slam King of Noise and rap is not something he has any respect for, so his feedback is not exactly glowing.

-- And, James discusses WWE SummerSlam 2003, as well as analysing all of the submissions for a new segment we hope to introduce every now and again for special occasions, called "Have Your Say" (information available upon request), adding another truly interactive element to our show!