Former WWE Writer Interview Highlights

Former WWE writer Alex Greenfield recently talked with MLWrestling about a verbal exchange with Vince McMahon that came close to exchanging blows. Here is the story. "Now that I think about it, I can't remember what arena it was but it was over the stupidest f--king thing in the world. It was during the thing when it was Shane and Vince vs. DX and we were doing some silly, little backstage pre-tape. This isn't even a live show. This is something we're taping earlier in the day to feed back into the show. "So, Snitzky and a couple other guys are watching DX make fun of Vince and Shane on the monitor. Then, we come out of the monitor, and we see the guys laughing at all the hilarity of Shawn and Hunter -- which is a whole other issue -- and then you do the slow reveal that Shane and Vince are standing right behind them. Then they yell at the guys and I think Shane punches one of them out or something like that. "What I wanted to do was get Kevin Dunn to feed back in the bottom of the scene, so that we would be seeing them still standing in the ring and the audience cheering or whatever it is they were doing when we pull out so that the audience understands what these guys are laughing at. Vince is like, 'No, God damn it.' Then he gets on the headset with Kevin Dunn and says, 'Just put the Raw logo up and we'll come out of the logo.' "I said to him, 'Vince, that's not going to make any sense to the audience.' He said, 'Yes it will. We're just doing it.' I said, 'No, let me explain.' He said, 'I don't want to hear an explanation.' I said, 'You f--king hired me, I'm going to give you an explanation.' His eyes went wide with shock. "I think the thing that pissed him off is that I did all of this in front of everybody standing there. But, he was just shutting me down without listening to what I had to say and I was f--king right. "Anyway, we go back and forth and it's his company so Vince gets it his way. When it aired, the shot didn't make any sense whatso-f--king-ever. You couldn't tell what the guys were laughing at. Then, after the scenes over, he says, 'You come with me right now!' I was like, 'OK,' thinking I was going to get fired, frankly. "He lights me up outside, saying, 'God damn it! How dare you get on my case in front of people. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.' Understand, there are fans in the background because we're standing right outside the arena. There were fans way back that were wondering what the f--k Vince was doing yelling at this little Jewish kid. [Laughs.] I just refused to back down and said, 'My way is the right way. You did it wrong.' He said, 'God damn it, I wish you were 6'7".' I said, 'I'm not but I'm standing right here.' I get pretty pissed myself. "There was a moment in that conversation where I thought he was just going to haul off and punch me in the face. Don't get me wrong; I'm not talking like a bad ass here, like I would have won this confrontation. [Laughs.] He probably would have broken my jaw. But that was the big, almost-coming-to-blows confrontation. I'm convinced to this day that he thought about knocking the s--t out of me. "I think it became a game to Vince. (Fellow ex-WWE writer) Court (Bauer) and I played this little game once. I was going to pitch this idea that everybody on the writing team believed in and we decided, you know what -- because Vince liked Court a lot -- you know what Court, let's have you pitch this. He did and it got over and I know with a certainty that if I had pitched the same idea, it wouldn't have. I think for Vince -- and this was right before I quit -- it became the game of 'how far can I push this guy before he blows up?'

TNA’s Abyss – Conference Call Highlights

TNA’s Abyss – Conference Call Highlights


BY Phil Allely



TNA’s Abyss took part in a conference recently and spoke about his time in TNA, their Ra Ka King project in India, the Abyss character and the development of the character over the past 10 years. Phil Allely was one of the journalists offered the opportunity to participate in the call, below are some of the highlights.

The highest and lowest moments in Impact Wrestling's 10 year history: "The finest moment I think, would be the debut of Spike TV. It was a huge tactful event that really shaped the company, a network like Spike TV, I think was the beginning of growth period for TNA as a company. As far as low period's go, maybe being unsuccessful in our first move to Monday night's, we had high aspirations and I truly believe it wasn't from a lack of effort on anybody’s part, from top to bottom in TNA, but it's something we've learned from, we learnt a lot of lessons from it and I think we're better off as a company from the directions we've ended up taking."

His own personal highlight of the past 10 years: "I've had so many of them and I've been very privileged and honoured to have so many moments there, I'd definitely have to say winning the TNA World Title back in 2007 I'd have to say was the most memorable, it was my first major world title and it was an extremely emotional and proud moment for me."

Talents he worked with in India for Ra Ka King that he'd like to see in TNA: "All of them, it was a privilege to work with Chavo Guerrero over in India, and others, Chris Masters, Harry Smith and probably a few other that just don't come to mind right now and the chance to work with them because I haven't had the opportunity because they haven't been with TNA so it was a great experience and I truly enjoyed working with all of them, you know Chavo Guerrero is very smart and I love listening to him just put stuff together, just the overall vibe and overall chemistry that I had with all of them was really incredible.

How he's prepares differently than for usual matches for his trademark Monster's Ball gimmick ones: "It's more mentally that you change, you have to get into a mindset that you're gonna go out there and try to hurt somebody and they're gonna try and hurt you just as much, and throw in the fact that it's Monster's Ball with the weapons, you have to prepare yourself that it's not going to be a regular match. By the way, a normal, regular match is very taxing on your body as it is, but when it comes to Monster's Ball it quadruples, so you have to prepare yourself mentally for it to be a fight and to be a war."

You can catch Abyss and the rest of the TNA roster on Impact Wrestling each week (Challenge TV) and via www.impactwrestling.com

Mick Foley new TNA DVD match line-up

he following matches will be appearing on TNA's new Mick Foley DVD, Hardcore Legend, which comes out on April 19th: 
* Mick Foley's TNA Wrestling debut in September 2008 
* TNA Genesis 2009: Mick Foley, AJ Styles and Devon vs. Booker T, Scott Steiner and Kip James
* Sting and Kurt Angle vs. Jeff Jarrett and Mick Foley 
* Mick Foley Interviews Cactus Jack 
* TNA Lockdown 2009: Sting vs. Mick Foley for the World Title 
* TNA Victory Road 2009: Kurt Angle vs. Mick Foley for the World Title 
* TNA Bound For Glory 2009: Abyss vs. Mick Foley in Monster's Ball 
* TNA Final Resolution 2009: Abyss and Mick Foley vs. Raven and Stevie Richards 
* TNA iMPACT: Jeff Jarrett vs Mick Foley 
* TNA iMPACT: Ric Flair vs. Mick Foley