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CHRIS SABIN & FRANKIE KAZARIAN INTERVIEWS
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The Interactive Interview is a revolutionary concept
in the world of broadcasting. While we always can be considered the wave
of the future, we really should be this week as we present "The Show of the
Future" with guests Frankie Kazarian and the new NWA TNA X Division Champion,
Chris Sabin.
This is Chris Sabin's first in depth interview since
re-capturing the X title just a one day prior in Ultimate X2. We also catch
up with Frankie Kazarian and get his take on the initial Ultimate X match.
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CHRIS SABIN & FRANKIE
KAZARIAN
-- Chris says he is sore after the Ultimate X2 match.
His back is sore but otherwise he feels good.
-- "I didn't think it was ever going to come down," said
Sabin about the X belt from the match mentioned above. He added, "I had a
death grip on that thing. There was no way I was coming down without
it."
-- The last Ultimate X match saw
2 pauses in order to put the belt back up in the cross of the X. To avoid
this happening again, they put electrical tape on the belt. "Electrical tape
isn't that strong. I guess they assumed if I hung from it, it'd break,
" said Sabin. It took a good 5 to 10 seconds to break.
-- Sabin has been a wrestling fan for as long as he can
remember. Hulk Hogan and Ultimate Warrior were his two favorites as a kid.
Later, Bret Hart became his favorite. In later years and to this day, Dean
Malenko is his favorite.
-- Growing up, Sabin always wanted to be a wrestler.
It was always his dream and he followed it.
-- Sabin played soccer, ran track, and wrestled in
school.
-- Sabin had trained at a school for a stint but it ended
up folding. He was refereed to Scott D'Amore who finished up his
training.
-- When asked about his first match, he says "the only
thing I can really recall is how nervous I was."
-- Sabin has been wrestling just over 3 years."
-- Sabin was the NWA Great Lakes Heavyweight Champion.
Other than winning the belt, Sabin shares little by way of memory of holding
that title. "The company kind of stopped running shows," said Sabin. James
and Dan then proclaim that Sabin is indeed still the NWA Great Lakes Heavyweight
Champion!
-- In the eyes of the fans, Sabin wants to be considered
a cruiserweight. "It's always been considered a curse to be a cruiserweight,"
said Sabin. But, he does not feel he is big enough to be considered a
heavyweight.
-- Daniel then asks Sabin his take on the WWE's attitude
towards cruiserweights. "The two examples I can give you are Paul London
and Spanky who are two of the best wrestlers North America has to offer and
they're not even getting used on TV. I don't really know how everything is
run there, but I can give you that as an example," said Sabin.
-- Sabin would not entertain an offer from the WWE right
now due to a long-term contract with NWA TNA. But, he would certainly like
to go there in the future. "It's hard to turn your back on something you
grew up watching. It's hard to turn your back on something you wanted to
do since you were a kid. So, I would consider it," Sabin said.
-- The XWF tag titles that Sabin held is not the same
XWF that Jimmy Hart ran and operated. "It was a small promotion here in
Michigan," said Sabin.
-- Everybody is "cool" backstage at TNA. "As it went
on, everyone became just like a family," Sabin said.
-- He loved being given the X title the first time. He
also loved being put in an angle by joining SEX. He does say he wishes he
could have faced Red one on one, though.
-- The WWA tour was something he looks back upon fondly.
"They hadn't had wrestling in New Zealand in many years so the crowd was
really into what we were doing, plus, it was my first time in front of a
really big crowd," said Sabin. He feels the match with Jerry Lynn, Johnny
Swinger, and Frankie Kazarian that made it on the pay per view may have been
his best match to date.
-- When asked about Vince Russo, Sabin says, "I really
don't have anything bad to say about him. A lot of people do, I don't."
-- "The first time we actually got to hang up there was
when the match actually started," said Sabin when asked for his thoughts
on the original Ultimate X match. Michael Shane, Frankie Kazarian, and Sabin
himself were flown in early to prepare for the match. They had poles rather
than the giant lighting grids that you saw in both Ultimate X matches. Kazarian
reached up to hang from one of the wires and the pile it was attached to
bent in. "Everybody was freaking out," said Sabin. But, it turned out to
be good in his opinion.
-- The Interactive Interview is the very first to bring
you Chris Sabin since his Ultimate X2 victory capturing the X title, as said
directly to us by Sabin himself, just like we were first to bring you Michael
Shane after his win in the original Ultimate X match.
-- A ring announcer at a Michigan show kept calling Sabin
"The Future." On the website promoting upcoming shows, he'd advertise "The
Future" Chris Sabin. Sabin liked the name and it ended up sticking.
-- When asked about the Super X tournament, Sabin said,
"That was one of the best things I've done in my career." He added, "Being
able to work with Juventud
was really cool. I'm not that old. I mean, I'm only 21.
So, I remember sitting in high school watching WCW Nitro and seeing Juventud
on there. Just to be able to wrestle him was really cool."
-- When asked about Ring of Honor, "I always enjoy working
for them. The fans there are great because they always appreciate wrestling
... Wrestling more than anything else."
-- Sabin was not at the Ring of Honor show when the Teddy
Hart incident discussed heavily on The Interactive Interview took place.
He says, "I wish I was just so I could have seen what happened."
-- When you listen to the audio, you can also hear Sabin's
upcoming events calendar read on the air. Download the audio at
http://www.theinteractiveinterview.com.
-- http://www.chrissabin.com is up and running. You can
keep up with the latest in Chris Sabin's career. You can also book him for
shows through that site or at http://www.tnabookings.com.
-- James asks, "If you were to put together a "Best of
Chris Sabin" video, what would be on the tape?" Sabin says one of his matches
with Truth Martini would be on the tape. Also, his match with AJ Styles from
IWC a month and a half ago would make the tape as well as his match with
Kazarian from the Super X tournament, his TNA match with Paul London, and
the 4 way dance with Jerry Lynn, Johnny Swinger, and Frankie Kazarian at
the WA tour would as well.
We then do "Word Associations" with names like Jeff Jarrett,
Jerry Jarrett, Trinity, Michael Shane, Christopher Daniels, Low Ki, and many
more!
<u>Frankie Kazarian</u>
-- Frankie has been working locally in Southern California
recently, and plans on going back to Japan for Zero-One at the end of the
month.
-- As a young child he was a fan of Tito Santana, Hulk
Hogan and Ricky Steamboat, and then as he got older he enjoyed Bret &
Owen Hart, Shawn Michaels & Sean Waltman.
-- His first match was really unexpected, and he had
no time to get nervous, as he wasn't supposed to be wrestling. A guy on the
show had car trouble and couldn't make it. There were a couple of thousand
people at the show, and he thinks that it was the perfect way to make his
debut as it was a big test for him.
-- In his earlier years he worked for feds like EWF (Empire
Wrestling Federation), started teaming with Nova on the indy scene, and UPW
who he's been with since. Daniel brings up how he sometimes deputises as
a trainer for UPW schools, which Kazarian says he really enjoys.
-- On the topic of Nova, Frankie still talks to him on
a weekly basis and really feels he should have been on television in WWE
a long time ago.
-- Kazarian said he'd be lying if it wasn't a goal of
his to go to WWE, and even though he hasn't been on TV for a while he's happy
where he's at now, working places such as NWA:TNA where he's under
contract.
-- Nothing really came of all of his dark matches and
TV tapings. They just told him good work, keep on doing what he's doing.
-- Talk then turns to Frankie's WWA Tour match with Sabin,
Jerry Lynn and Johnny Swinger. It's not only one of Sabin's favourites, but
is one of Kazarian's too. "The crowd was very very hot, and it was just a
very good match, very very fun".
-- Frankie says he really hopes to see Jerry return to
TNA as soon as possible.
-- Scott D'Amore and Glenn Gilberti put in good words
for him in TNA and he was brought in pretty much right away. Speaking on
his pretty immediate push in the company to a title match with AJ Styles,
Frankie exclaimed how talented Styles is.
-- During that match however, Styles' Styles Clash went
horribly wrong; "botched moves you know, this aint ballet its wrestling".
He says luckily he's alive to talk about it.
-- The way that Frankie got the nickname The Future was
that before he got into wrestling he envisioned that name for himself. He
had a logo and everything. Another factor was that he always was a big fan
of the "Back To The Future" trilogy.
-- Of course, since Ultimate X 2 was last week on NWA:TNA,
James now asks Frankie for his thoughts on the first Ultimate X that he,
Michael Shane and Chris Sabin was involved in. He says they got nothing but
positive feedback from it and feels proud to have been a part of it.
-- On the topic of future gimmick matches to be in, he
cant think of anything original, but he'll perform in anything they throw
at him.
-- Before he was taken off of television, Frankie was
just entering a gimmick as a ladies man. That idea was a combination of an
idea he had and what the writing team wanted for him. This was during the
spell where the writers wanted to add more character to some of the X Division
guys.
-- He's not sure why he's not on TNA now. They're always
trying to switch things up and bring in new faces but he's really not sure
why he hasn't been on.
-- Frankie clears up a rumor about his involvement with
the Learning Channel's Wrestling Reality show. He was offered something by
the group, but he had a scheduling conflict that day. However, they still
threw his name out there as being a part of it - he never was!
-- Fans who want more information about Frankie can check
out www.thefuturefrankiekazarian.com, which is the same resource anybody
looking to book Frankie can use.
-- We then roll into word associations with names such
as Shark Boy, Christopher Daniels, Rob Van Dam, Sean Waltman, Jeff Jarrett
and many more. The answers to these can only be known by listening to the
audio of the show.
-- Frankie then gives out a message to all of his fans
listening to the show, and one to the hosts.
-- The interview itself closes off with a question on
whether anybody's ever told Frankie how much he looks like Antonio Banderas.
Frankie says he gets that almost every day. Daniel then asks if he's ever
thought about going in as a celebrity look-alike, and while he's not too
sure about that, the idea of acting is something he really wants to follow
and he's been doing some acting workshops, and has decided to look into that
a lot more in 2004.
-- We then move into our after-show recap where the hosts
talk about such things as upcoming interview names and give their thoughts
on "The Show Of The Future" that you just read the transcript of.
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