Random Question 16: In 2011, you came back to the company with Jacqueline Moore. You lost your first match to Velvet Sky, then lost a handicapped match where you were supposed to leave the company for good. Any reason for that or just bad booking? ODB: No comment (laughs). That feud was actuallythere was no frickin payoff. Thats what ticked me off about that feud. Me and Jackie came in and we didnt sign a contract yet. I didnt know if I was going to be there for a little bit. I didnt know what was going on and that was a time when Bischoff and Hogan were there, and I came back and Bischoff was like Why dont you have a job here? Then I did get my job back and with me and Jackie, I mean, you know Jackie Moore, she doesnt mess around. I think I look back on that, and Jackie was brought up a different way in wrestling. Shes a tough chick. Shes hands down one of the toughest ladies in womens wrestling. She got her teeth knocked out and still finished a damn match. She is tough. Youre in the ring with her and you better know what youre doing. Me and her were kind of rough and roughing the little girls up a little bit. We turned it down a little bit. There was nothing. It just kind of ended. One of those things where we could have done so much more. But nothing. Random Question 17: You had a short lived talk show on Impact, how did that come about and why did it go away so quickly? ODB: I actually came up with the idea. When I was in OVW they always told us Hey, youve got to have ideas for yourself. Dont just expect the writers are going to write you in the show. So I always had that in my head. So Im like All right, Im not doing much right now so I gotta come up with some stuff. I wrote out a thing and handed it to (Vince) Russo and it was a talk show. He liked it. Well then a few weeks later Karen Angle got her own show (laughs) so I was like Oh. Okay. Her show got cancelled and then I came in, stole her set and called it ODBs Angle. So I got the show eventually and I turned it into Trash Talking with ODB and it was good. You know you bring the wrestlers on the show, so its a nice little thing. Youre helping out the other wrestlers and its entertaining. A few of the shows didnt really have a story (laughs). But I had a lot of fun doing it. It was kind of a challenge for me. I wanted to work out my character more to not just be a wrestler. Im not known for my technical skills in the ring so I really wanted to bring ODB out. We had a lot of fun taping those shows. My very first one was with Sharmell with the Main Event Mafia so I was shooting with her a little bit. Honestly, we winged it. We had 2-3 minutes per show, we threw some lines out there, went back and forth. Thats when the best stuff happened. Random Question 18: Do you have any thoughts on Global Force Wrestling and Lucha Underground? Ive been checking out both of them. I think Its awesome that those two are out there. Jeff has done an awesome job out in Japan doing his thing. Thank God for Twitter and Instagram otherwise I wouldnt find out about a lot of that stuff. Im happy for Jeff, I think thats going to be something big because wrestling is so huge in Japan. But thats the one place Ive always wanted to wrestle. Ive never wrestled in Japan. Never had the opportunity to go there. Thats the one place I want to definitely get to wrestle before I stop.
As Rust Cohle from True Detective said "Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you're good at."
Sadly, I can't solve a murder like Rust...or change a tire, or even tie a tie. But I do know all the lyrics to Hulk Hogan's "Real American" theme song and can easily name every Natural Born Thriller from the dying days of WCW. I was once ranked 21st in the United States in Tetris...on the Playstation 3 version...for about a week.
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