Rhett Titus & Kenny King Interview
Posted by David Damage on Thursday, September 22, 2011
Under: Interviews
Monday Night Mayhem with The All Night Express - Rhett Titus and Kenny King
Hosts: The Big Mosh and "The Chairman of the Board" Todd Vincent
Airs every Monday at 6:00 P.M. (CT)
Show available at MondayNightMayhem.com.
The buildup to Ladder War 3 vs. The Briscoes and what it meant to
headline Ring of Honor's "Death Before Dishonor IX" (Rhett Titus): "The
buildup toward Ladder War 3 has been coming pretty long for me. From the
original Ladder War, you'll find a young Rhett Titus doing ringside
security that night. I remember watching The Briscoes and Kevin Steen
and El Generico and thinking 'Man, how can these guys do this?' At that
time in my career, I didn't have a problem with no one or have a feud
where that could be something I could consider doing. As time went on
with The Briscoes, and the whole just kept snowballing, it just came to
the point where it was only on way to be settle it was The Briscoes' own
game: Ladder War. Throw in the fact that it's a sold-out crowd in New
York City, and we're the main event on the iPPV. We weren't playing no
games. We were going make sure that when we left there that everybody
knew our names, that everyone knew what the hell we're about, and that
everyone was going to know that we are here to stay all night long."
The feeling of having closure in their feud with The Briscoes, while at
the same time becoming the new #1 contenders for the ROH World Tag Team
Titles (Kenny King): "The goal was always to be the Ring of Honor World
Tag Team Champions, but more importantly, we did sign the contract in
the blood of The Briscoes. Ladder War was it. There was going to be no
more of us. We agreed, on both sides, that we weren't going to go after
each other any more after this. It was more for us to let them know that
we can beat their ass and then getting the contracts more than anything
else and achieving both goals. I feeling really good about that."
Having to adjust after Austin Aries' departure from Ring of Honor and
seeing their collective stock rise to their current standing within the
company (Rhett): "When Austin Aries was around, we always kind of looked
up to him as a mentor, and went to him for advice, and that sort of
thing. Once he left, it was 'sink or swim' time. We're out here on our
own, so we just turned it up three notches, and we've been going hard as
hell ever since."
How the mental and physical preparation for
The Briscoes going into Ladder War 3 will be changing completely for
their forthcoming ROH World Tag Team Title Match vs. Wrestling's
Greatest Tag Team (Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas) at "Glory By Honor
X" (Kenny): "Going into it, it's a totally different mindset from our
last match. You can't prepare for a Ladder Match. You can't prepare for
someone to smash you upside the head with a ten-foot ladder, somebody
trying to knock you off a ladder. You just have to get into a mental
toughness where pain doesn't matter, so going from that to going to an
athletic contest with two of the most gifted athletes on the planet and
two of the best professional wrestlers in the world, that's a complete
different mindset."
Much more is contained in The All Night
Express' exclusive interview with The Monday Night Mayhem Radio Network,
including Rhett and Kenny's candid thoughts on Ring of Honor's
forthcoming debut on the Sinclair Broadcast Group, what they believe
that new fans of ROH will see when watching the product, the importance
of finally putting their feud with The Briscoes to rest, whether or not
they can trust The Briscoes in interfering in their Ring of Honor World
Tag Tam Title Match vs. Wrestling's Greatest Tag Team (Shelton Benjamin
and Charlie Haas) at Glory By Honor X, plus a message to the current,
reigning, and defending WWE Tag Team Champions Air Boom (Kofi Kingston
and Evan Bourne). For the latest breaking ROH news and announcements and
to get the up-to-the-minute results during next Saturday night's event
in Louisville, be sure to follow the world of honor on Facebook (at www.Facebook.com/RingofHonor), on Twitter (at www.Twitter.com/RingofHonor), or head on over to www.ROHWrestling.com. If you missed your chance to witness Ring of Honor's "Death Before Dishonor IX," order the iPPV replay right now at www.GoFightLive.tv,
plus check your local listings for ROH on the Sinclair Broadcast Group
this weekend (September 24th/25th), as Ring of Honor makes its
highly-anticipated national television debut!
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