Road Dogg Interview
Posted by David Damage on Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Under: Interviews
Wrestling Voice interview with Road Dogg Brian James
Being included in the WWE's recent OMG Shocking Moment DVD for the New
Age Outlaws dumpster spot with Terry Funk and Mick Foley:
"I think it is
memorable, I was told a couple of times that we made that OMG Moment
DVD for that and the WCW Invasion and that feels good and it's kind of
the match that put us on the map and it's what people remember
about The New Age Outlaws, we had worked with the Road Warriors already
and beat them for the belts, so we had a few memorable moments in our
career but for that match (with Funk and Foley) we got put on the map
and a paycheck, a lot of people remember for how crazy it was, Billy and
I remember for the gigantic paycheck with got for that match."
On showing up at WCW's show on a tank with D-Generation X and if they
had anything planned:
We just thought, "Oh cool, we get to go mess with
somebody!", we were really just having a good time and (Vince) Russo
wrote us into those scenario's and we had no idea, soon as we got down
that ramp somebody saw us and they started to close the doors. What
makes it so epic is that we had the kajonies to go down to their
building and that was the first time something like that happened. Lord
knows what we would have done, I'm sure it would have been good TV, with
a cop handcuffing me or something."
Does he credit that moment
with turning the rating wars around in favor of the WWE:
"It was almost
like 'Who's got the bigger set' - Vince or Eric Bischoff, and I think
when we did that, it was the straw that broke the camel's back and they
said 'These guys are too much, I gotta watch that.' I think there was
still channel flipping but it was definitely it was an important victory
in the battle between WWE and WCW."
On having to go solo once
the New Age Outlaws broke up:
"I went into Vince and complained, I
didn't think I was good enough to go alone, I still wanted to be a Tag
Team, so it helped that me and X-Pac teamed for a while but he thought
me and Billy could stand on our own and he just wanted us to do that,
and we could each be in our own roles and he was kind of right, because I
found the hardcore devision and it was just me, and I could mask my
shortcomings in the hardcore genre and I could use the props to help me
out and I didn't have to be this great wrestler and I really enjoyed
doing that so Vince was right in the long run, as he usually is. He's
the best there is, just because."
On being fired from the WWE
in 2000 due to concerns over his well being:
"I've lived a rough life, only in the past 10 months have I eliminated all the drugs and stuff out of my life, I caused the friction in my career on my own and I was my own worst enemy and I had to get through that to get to where I am today, I don't have many regrets but I've been to the top of the mountain and if I hadn't been on drugs and alcohol how far could I have gone and how much did I rip the fans off of a better time they could of had."
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