00:00 He bought into his gimmick just a little too much,
00:05 this undefeatable force.
00:07 Nobody can beat him.
00:09 And my point of view was, bro, anybody could get beaten.
00:12 What can you say about The Undertaker and Paul Bearer?
00:23 I think Paul Bearer is the most underrated promo of all time.
00:31 I used to love working with Paul Bearer.
00:35 What a great storyteller, man.
00:38 So underrated.
00:40 And Taker, man, for his biggest star as he was, man,
00:45 very, very, very easy to work with.
00:48 I think he trusted my writing.
00:50 I think he knew that I was always looking out on his behalf.
00:55 And together, that tandem of Paul Bearer and Undertaker
00:59 was just a pleasure to work with.
01:03 I am going to talk about two people as one here.
01:07 Because when you talk about a man, you always talk about Hall,
01:11 and you always talk about Nash.
01:12 And my working relationship between the both of them
01:16 was very, very, very, very different.
01:19 Scott Hall just never made my life easy.
01:24 It just seemed that producing for Scott, writing for Scott,
01:29 I never really knew what Scott was thinking.
01:32 And quite frankly, man, I'm just going to be honest with you,
01:35 I don't think the dude liked me.
01:37 I really don't.
01:38 And we talked about that at one point.
01:41 I had no problem with Scott Hall whatsoever.
01:44 I got to work with Razor Ramon, bro.
01:46 I got to work with Scott Hall.
01:48 He was a true, true, true professional.
01:52 But for some reason, man, he just didn't seem to make my job easy.
01:57 Now, Kevin Nash, on the other hand, I absolutely, absolutely love Kevin Nash.
02:03 I loved working with Kevin Nash.
02:05 He was so witty, so smart, so funny.
02:09 And I got to admit this, man, I was intimidated by very few people in wrestling.
02:15 But for some reason, Kevin Nash, who was a friend,
02:19 is still intimidating to me to this day.
02:23 But listen, man, no qualms working with Kevin, working with Scott.
02:28 And I think together, man, we put out some good content.
02:31 Man, this guy, probably the most difficult person I ever had to work with.
02:37 And guys, this is not personal.
02:39 None of this is personal.
02:41 It was hard working with Goldberg.
02:43 I'm not going to lie to you.
02:46 I think part of that was-- and again, this is my point of view.
02:50 I'm sure Bill has a whole different point of view.
02:53 And like I said, man, I don't dislike the man at all.
02:56 But I think he bought into his gimmick just a little too much,
03:03 where he really believed he was Bill Goldberg, this undefeatable force.
03:11 Nobody can beat him.
03:13 And my point of view was, bro, anybody could get beaten.
03:17 I mean, you're going to have a bad day, and you may lose,
03:20 especially with the amount of times you wrestle.
03:23 I think Bill overthought his character just a little bit too much.
03:29 But I understood why, because he told me once.
03:31 He said, bro, my character is Goldberg.
03:34 And I really am Goldberg.
03:36 So when I'm out there doing stuff, people think it's Goldberg.
03:41 And I got that, bro.
03:43 I absolutely got that.
03:45 So like I said, man, you're going to have people that are easy to work with.
03:49 You're going to have people that are a challenge.
03:50 But at the end of the day, nothing-- nothing is personal.
03:54 I really had to understand what I was working with when it came to Nick Aldis.
03:59 First of all, you have to understand that it was Dixie Carter's idea
04:03 to bring Nick Aldis into TNA.
04:07 And she was always pushing for Nick and shoving Nick down everybody's throat.
04:13 So right there, Nick had a strike against him.
04:17 And he was put in a very unfortunate situation.
04:22 Now, if you don't know Nick, when you first meet Nick, when you come across Nick,
04:27 you think he is a pompous a-hole.
04:29 You really do, bro.
04:30 You think he thinks very highly of himself, and he's got a chip on his shoulder.
04:34 But bro, that's just Nick.
04:36 This is an incredibly intelligent human being.
04:42 Once you get to know him, bro, you want to be around him.
04:46 You want to pick his brain.
04:48 Bro, he is extremely creative, extremely witty.
04:53 But it took me a little bit of time to warm up to Nick Aldis.
04:58 But to this day, I'm proud to call Nick Aldis a friend.
05:02 And this next individual, I never saw a guy pick up wrestling as quickly as he did.
05:09 And I am talking about Ken Shamrock, man.
05:11 And to me, I say it to this day, Ken Shamrock was one of the most believable wrestlers
05:18 I ever worked with, bro.
05:21 His level of intensity.
05:23 Every time I saw Ken, I believed in what he was doing.
05:28 I believed in his matches.
05:29 I believed in his promos.
05:31 Great, great to work with, bro.
05:34 Again, a pro through and through.
05:38 Man, there were two different Dixie Carters.
05:40 There was Dixie Carter the boss and Dixie Carter the character.
05:44 As a boss, Dixie, man, I just don't think she was meant to be in the wrestling business.
05:51 I think she was too kind.
05:52 I think she had too big of a heart, and she had no idea what she was getting herself into.
05:57 She was just eaten by the sharks, man.
06:00 She was just worked and worked over and worked again.
06:04 I just feel, man, she was too kind to be in the wrestling business.
06:08 She had a fault of always repeating mistakes and not learning from them.
06:14 And I think ultimately that's what caused Dixie.
06:17 But I want to make one thing perfectly clear.
06:20 As a human being, bro, and as a personal level, I love this woman.
06:24 I'm just giving you the business side of it.
06:26 Working with her as a talent, bro, she was a little too much.
06:30 You had to spend a lot of time with her.
06:33 You got 20, 30 people you're working with, bro.
06:35 You got to go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
06:38 And Dixie as a talent, man, just took a lot of attention.
06:43 And it was difficult at times.
06:46 But again, guys, understand, man, I'm talking on a professional level.
06:50 I am not talking on a personal level.
06:53 Eric Bischoff, bro, it's been documented.
06:57 I did not have fun working with Eric Bischoff at any time.
07:02 And I am not going to blame that on Eric, bro.
07:05 We were two people that were put together and forced to work together.
07:12 And we were like oil and water, bro.
07:16 Eric Bischoff was the complete opposite of Vince Russo.
07:21 And, bro, from the start, we just did not get along.
07:24 We were just two people that were complete opposites.
07:29 And it was never going to be easy.
07:33 But I am not going to sit here and bury Eric or say anything negative about Eric.
07:39 It was just a bad situation, man.
07:42 That's all I'll say.
07:44 When I think of McFoley, bro, I just think of creative.
07:47 You got to understand, man, this is the man that played three characters very, very differently.
07:53 Let's face it, bro, 90% of people in the wrestling business today can't play one character.
07:58 So you are talking about an absolute creative genius, bro.
08:05 To this day, I love McFoley with all my heart and soul.
08:08 He's my Long Island brother, bro.
08:10 And I was so lucky, man, so lucky to be able to have conversations with McFoley.
08:16 Man, bro, what can you say about The Rock?
08:18 I got to tell you, man, it only took me about a month to understand The Rock is smarter than everybody else.
08:26 I always knew there was going to be greatness for The Rock, bro, because he was always one step ahead of everybody.
08:36 And, bro, he knew how to pitch his ideas.
08:41 Rock wasn't one to say, "This doesn't work for me, brother."
08:45 Rock would say, "Hey, Vinnie Rue, man, I read the show. I love what you wrote. It's tremendous.
08:51 But what about if we tweak this?"
08:53 He knew how to respectfully present his own ideas, bro, and his ideas were great.
09:00 Bro, all those great catchphrases, I wish I could say I wrote one of them. I didn't.
09:07 Every single TV, bro, Rock would come with a new catchphrase.
09:13 He was constantly thinking about that character 24/7, man.
09:18 And he was just a people person, man. And he was smarter than everybody else.
09:24 So there you have it, everybody.
09:26 Who was easy to work with? Who was hard to work with?
09:30 But remember, at the end of the day, this is not personal, and that was just my professional opinion.
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