Paul Roma Interview
Posted by David Damage on Sunday, June 10, 2012
Under: Interviews
Paul Roma spoke with ClubWWI.com's James Guttman and here are some highlights of the interview:
On Brooke Hogan's debut and being presented as above the Knockouts:
"It's always about who you know and really not much about what you know.
So, you know, Hogan obviously has a lot of pull. He knows what kind of
business the business is. One of the things was always that you never
bring family members into professional wrestling in any nature whether
announcers, ring girls, valets, or whatever you want to call them. That
being said, he's going to have to travel everywhere with her and
probably room with her too, because he's not going to trust everybody
else around her. And he's probably trying to get her a payday because
her singing career flopped. Look, at the end of the day, when someone's a
singer, it doesn't matter if your father is Hulk Hogan. Either you can
sing or you can't sing. Make it or you won't make it. But he has to
realize something. He's not that guy anymore. Nobody gives a shit about
him anymore. He has no juice as far as in the real world. So, that's why
she's in wrestling. Can't make it anywhere else. "
On Hogan's
several returns and his current TNA run: "I still run into people who
know me and say, ‘hey, you look great' or you were this or you were
that. Great. But that's gone. It's over. If I was to come back, sure,
you'd get some people who would come out. But you're preaching to a new
audience. Either they're going to accept you or they're not. At least my
body still looks great. He looks like shit. He comes back and does the
same shit. His skin and everything is flapping all over the place. He's
out of shape and thinks he's still that same guy back in the day and
he's not. It's over. His notoriety is over. These companies that keep
bringing him back in thinking he's going to do something, how long does
it take them to figure out he's not drawing the crowds he used to?"
On WWE RAW going threeh ours and WWE's future 10 hours of new content
per week: ""Maybe he's testing the waters to see how many suckers there
are out there…Maybe if you add in a lot of commercials and get
endorsements from that. It has to be about making money. At the end of
the day do you seriously think (Vince) cares about the fans anymore?…We
can go back and forth until we're blue in the face. It's not gonna
change anything. He's an egomaniac. He thinks everything he touches
turns to gold. That's why he brings back the Hogans and Flairs and he
thinks it's gonna make him money and it flops. You'd think he's have
learned when he tried to start his own bodybuilding federation. Then he
tried to get into football. Had his own league. Then he tried to promote
boxing. He makes movies. And he flops. But he's that guy who looks in
the mirror and says, ‘Wow. I'm doing well Well, it ain't from everything
else you're doing because everything else you're doing flopped. Now
he's losing sight of what got his company to where it was. Maybe he has
so much money, he doesn't have to. I don't know."
On announcers
not being allowed to say "wrestling" on TV: "I think Vince should have
realized he didn't have the power he thought he had when he went up
against WWF for the rights to (the name) and he lost. He had to change
to WWE. That should have told you something. He beat the drug
investigation. He beat that. Then he does the battle with WWF and he
lost that. Then he did movies and he lost that. Then he promotes boxing,
he loses that. Promote football, loses that. Tries to create his own
bodybuilding world, he loses that. But, like the fat girl in the mirror
with her skirt hiked up to her ass, exploding through it, he doesn't see
it. He just doesn't see it. He's a very jealous, insecure man. Hence
back to Power and Glory. They didn't create our dolls because he never
liked me. He's jealous of me. Couldn't look like me. Couldn't get the
women I got. Couldn't have the body I had, and still have. A little
smaller, but still. He didn't have the security that I have. The self
confidence that I have. So he pushes people back. Don't do this. Don't
do that. Don't create t-shirts for Power and Glory. Don't send them to
the top. Get them close, but then pull them back down. Then split the
team up. That's him, man. That's what he's all about. He can look in the
mirror and see what he wants to see, but the people who know him, know
the real him. And if he looks deep enough, he knows the real him. He's
just a punk ass bitch."
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