10 Things You Didn't Know About The Honky Tonk Man
2. He Doesn't Care About Making Friends
After leaving the WWF for the second time in 1998, the Honky Tonk Man set his sights on a second accolade: becoming the greatest shoot interview of all time. Through a combination of YouShoots, KayfabeCommentaries, releases through RF video, and his own controversial website thehonkytonkman.com, Farris, surpassing even the fabled Jim Cornette in his blunt, no-punches-pulled style, would lay bare and intensify real-life feuds with the likes of Hulk Hogan, Dynamite Kid, Roddy Piper, Bret Hart (shake rattle and rolling over the line of good taste by impersonating Hart post-stroke), Ric Flair, Kevin Nash, Ted DiBiase, Eric Bischoff, Bubba the Love Sponge, Jake Roberts, Ricky Steamboat and even his 1st cousin, one Jerry 'The King' Lawler - or as he dubbed him "Chester the Molester." This is a mere taster of The Honky Tonk's abrasive style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDp0O_FwA9g Greatest IC Champion of All Time? Perhaps. Greatest Human Being of All Time? Perhaps not.