Brian Knobbs Interview 13.4.2010
Posted by David Damage on Friday, April 29, 2011
Under: Archive Interviews
Source: MondayNightMayhem.com
Monday Night Mayhem radio with Brian Knobbs
Hosts: Big Mosh, Blade, Todd Vincent
The
truth behind The Nasty Boys reportedly being released from TNA
Wrestling: "Right now, no one has contacted me or (Jerry) Saggs. No one
from TNA. I have talked to (Hulk) Hogan, and he has not verified whether
we are not. Supposedly, we are still with TNA. Nobody hasn't told us
anything yet. There's a lot of stuff going on there as you see. They
went to Monday nights, they're trying to get ratings up, they're
throwing a lot of stuff together right now, and right now we are in 'the
limbo factor.' Nobody has told us that we are there or not there yet.
I'm not gonna speculate like everyone else is on the Internet, and I'm
not gonna throw wild stories out there like 'Brian Knobbs acted crazy to
one of the executives at Spike, took his pants down, and ran naked
across the pool at The Hard Rock.' C'mon, we know better than that."
The
truth behind the alleged incident at The Hard Rock Cafe: "Let me put
this into perspective. Something did happen two or three weeks ago, but I
was there with Orlando Jordan's significant other and Ric Flair. Now
you don't think that if I went crazy and we haven't been there in over a
month, even if it was in February or January, somebody would have said
or put on the internet because they are a bunch of fans in front of
everyone? There are no private parties like they put on the internet.
There was nothing like that. Every time we were through with a match, we
went out for a couple of beers, and we were professional as hell. We
were at the Hard Rock Cafe, and we were with everybody. So you don't
think if we were acting like people are saying, it would have been on
the internet the next day. Not when you hear The Nasty Boys are not
there now, and this might have happened; that's all speculation, and
it's a bunch of BS."
Knobbs' relationship with Hogan, Eric
Bischoff, and Dixie Carter when The Nasty Boys came into TNA and if it
changed throughout their run with the company: "Let's face it. Me and
Hulk are good buds, and we are always going to be good buds, but Hulk
brought us in. Hulk asked me and Saggs, we did not ask to come to TNA.
Hulk asked us to come help him out, and that's what we were doing. We
were coming to help him out. We never went against Team 3D, and it was
like a legendary match-up made in heaven, since they're crazy, and we're
crazy. So we loved it, and said, 'Sure we'll come help.' Now Dixie
Carter has always been nice to us, always a real sweetheart. She's out
there doing a lot of things, and she always talked to us real nice. Eric
Bischoff on the other hand...you never know. It's 50-50 with him. He's
now running a lot of stuff again, so who knows...Between Hulk and Dixie
Carter, there is no ill will, and I wouldn't think there would be no ill
will between us and Eric, but you never know."
Was there any
heat from the TNA locker room towards either Knobbs or Saggs:
"Truthfully if there was, they never really showed it to me and Saggs.
Everybody was great to us, and everybody showed us a lot of respect, and
we do have a lot of friends down there too. Sting's a very good friend
from many years, and Kurt Angle's a good friend. We had wars with Cactus
Jack (Mick Foley) in WCW, so we have a lot of buddies down there also,
so when came in, we fit right in. We never got into with anybody. We
joked around...had fun. There was no ribs pulled or nothing like that.
The old Nasty Boys didn't come out...that's for sure. As mind-bogging as
it is to you guys, it's pretty mind-boggling to us."
Whether The
Nasty Boys were contacted by the WWE prior to going to TNA or have been
since their reported release: "We got contacted back in January. [WWE]
called me and left a message to call them back, and they wanted to see
what our status was in TNA. It was short and sweet, and they left a
number, but I never did call it. I told Hogan they called us, and he
said we should check it out, but I said right now, we're down here, and
our loyalty is our loyalty."
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