 Show: The Interactive
Interview
Guest: Perry Saturn
Date: 5/03
Your Hosts: Daniel Edler & James Walsh
Perry Saturn, one of the most dedicated men to work the
wrestling business at this time, was the lateste guest on The Interactive
Interview.
From working with a Mop, to wrestling in a dress, Perry Saturn had to endure
some of the stupidest gimmicks and angles ever invented, but he still surpasses
that and has managed to have some of the best matches ECW and WCW saw.
Now working with NWA-TNA, this extreme icon had a hell of a lot to say in
one of his longest interviews yet.
PERRY SATURN
- Saturn says he grew up in the hood and that the Army
gave him discipline. He feels the discipline provided gave him the right
attitude for pro wrestling.
-- ECW was a fun place to work. He got in via phone calls to Paul Heyman.
-- He does not understand why the scaffold match is talked about so much.
He said it was an honor working with Gordy and Williams but he doesn't feel
it was a good match by any means.
-- His favorite ECW match was at November to Remember against Sabu and Van
Dam.
-- He left ECW to go to WCW for money. WCW offered him and Raven jobs and
they gladly accepted. He didn't get along with Kronus anymore so he felt
it was time.
-- The politics in WCW at the early days were huge. He said it always was
the same. They had the "top 10 guys" and nobody could get into that top 10.
-- The Flock was not used properly. He said they all became good friends
as drinking buddies together. He said he doesn't understand why they used
them to feed to other guys. He calls Kevin Sullivan and Terry Taylor lazy.
-- He didn't see the Goldberg character catching on like it did. He remembers
working with him and says if WCW did one thing right, they made Goldberg.
-- He likes being a heel more than face. He loved the feud with Raven because
at least they gave them a chance to matter.
-- The "dress" angle with Chris Jericho was done as a bit of a rib. They
knew Chris was going to WCW and the stipulation was if Chris lost, he was
off Nitro. Eric Bischoff wasn't at the arena at the show so they switched
the finish. Bischoff made Saturn wear the dress as punishment but he didn't
care because Chris stayed on TV for a little longer.
-- They went gothic with the gimmick but he says the southern crowd didn't
get it.
-- The Revolution being something that would take over the company was "only
in Shane [Douglas]'s mind." He says it was 4 guys that just wanted to get
anything they could because nobody was getting a push so they figured to
have fun with what they did have.
-- He talks about the Bash at the Beach incident with Hogan being handed
the belt from Jeff Jarrett as a sign of the control wrestlers had.
-- He and Vince Russo didn't have the opportunity to really get to know each
other. He talks about the battles Vince had to deal with in WCW like Kevin
Sullivan and others.
-- Politics are why he and the Radicals left WCW. Kevin Sullivan told each
of them that he didn't see any money in the guys at all and he wasn't going
to use them. So, that made their choice easy.
-- Shane Douglas went in to the WCW office with the hope of keeping the Radicals
group in WCW. But, they were leaving. He promised Bill Busch that he'd get
them to stay but it didn't work.
-- The WWE locker room was "cool as hell" when he got there.
-- Terri Runnels was a pleasure to work with. He was more comfortable working
with Terri after 2 days than with anyone else in his life.
-- Pat Patterson came up with "Moppy." He didn't enjoy the angle but he learned
more doing that angle than anything else he had done in the business. He
said "As stupid as that was, the fans loved it!" He says it's impossible
to understand the people sometimes but he learned a lot. He said sometimes
Moppy chants were louder than Rocky chants.
-- There will never be an Eliminators reunion. He says he doubts Kronus has
seen the inside of a gym since the team split up.
-- He couldn't come to a money agreement with WWE. That's why he left.
-- The Mike Bell match was nothing like Bob Holly beating up the kid on Tough
Enough. He got knocked a little goofy in the match and when he was woke up,
he was swinging hard because he wasn't sure where he was. But once he realized
what he was doing, he was fine. He said Vince McMahon became annoyed about
Perry throwing Bell to the outside (which was a part of the match, not part
of the anger).
-- He hopes the concept of TNA will work. He isn't sure if people can afford
to every week but he says they are working hard. He says it reminds him of
ECW because of the fans and the arena. He also says the group is working
hard, just like ECW.
-- He feels the fans of Tennessee get the extreme style. He says people are
starting to chant TNA just like they did ECW. He says a smaller arena allows
the fans to interact more.
-- He enjoyed his match with Mike Barton. He says he watches tapes of all
his matches and he picks apart a lot of what he does. He liked everything
he saw in that match.
-- The WWE closed PerrySaturn.com. He talks about making a remark about a
hotel he stayed at. They screwed with them, he put the manager's email address
on the website and Linda McMahon wasn't too happy with him.
-- He talks about having his tattoos redone into two dragons.
-- His favorite match ever was Fall Brawl against Raven.
-- Finally, we do our famous word associations with names like Terri Runnels,
Vince McMahon, Hulk Hogan, Eric Bischoff, Trinity, Raven, Vince Russo, and
others!
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