Johnny Swinger Interview
Posted by David Damage on Friday, August 19, 2011
Under: Interviews
Johnny
Swinger, who performed for WWE in 2005 and 2006, appeared on Right
After Wrestling with Arda Ocal and Jimmy Korderas. Highlights from the
interview are as follows:
His early career with guys like Edge
and Christian: "It was always fun with those guys. We would go to
all-you-can-eat spaghetti places and just sit there for like 6 hours. It
was funny because Edge used to weigh 190lbs and he would just eat stacks of plates in those restaurants and we always wondered where he was putting that stuff."
Working
on 'death-tours' in northern Canada: "It was usually in Manitoba. We
used to drive over these frozen lakes in the Winter to these reserves.
It was the only way to get there. I saw -60 degree Celsius weather and
it was always tough. But it was always the true test of your passion to
go on those tours because some people would go on those tours and never
wanna wrestle again. I never heard of any other tour that was worse than
those. It was just below human standard. Anybody could easily die on
those tours out there. I remember we crashed the ring-van out there one
time and we were terrified because we had no contact to anybody and we
didn't even know where we were."
A character he created for WWE
that he never got to use: "I sidestepped creative and went straight to
Vince. I asked for just a moment of his time and I laid out this
character where I was a hermaphrodite and I would wrestle in both the
male and female division. I would do a program with Trish Stratus and
win the the Women's title then go against Cena. I had angles written to
go against Trish, Kane and Cena. I wanted to go to the top. I wasn't
going to pitch an idea to wrestle the first match of the night. I wanted
to make money and be in the main event. I own the character...I have a
patent for it so if it used on TV, I'll get paid either way."
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