Recap of Mickey Grant on In Your Head Wrestling Radio, 04/16/2014
by Vic Schiavone

Hosts Jack E. Jones and One Inch Biceps welcomed Mickey Grant to IYH Wrestling Radio. Mickey is the former television producer for World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW).

Highlights included the following:

* Do you think it was in WCCW when people started liking the bad guys for the first time?

“Our bad guys worked so well in World Class Championship Wrestling, and much of the reason why was we told their side of the story. It wasn’t one sided, and so when we led up to a big conclusion, usually with something at Texas Stadium, there’d be fans on both sides. I think that’s what you’ve got to do, but you’ve got to do it well…I think it started with our show. I don’t think anyone had really given enough of the storyline; they’d written enough of a textured, shades-of -gray storyline before. Part of doing this thing live is having respect for the wrestling audience, and I think some people today just don’t have enough respect for the wrestling audience. I find that wrestling audiences come in all shapes and sizes: lawyers, judges, professors, non-professors, truck drivers. Whoever they are, you’ve got to get them…they’re connoisseurs of a good storyline …I respect hard-working people, and I believe they want a good story; they want something like this.”

* Do you think in the long run the WWE Network will be a success?

“I don’t know about their network; I just think I know maybe a little about wrestling. I
think wrestling will be a success. If you have repetitive storylines, and if you don’t have your fans sitting on the end of their seats wondering what’s going to happen next week, you’re not going to have a market. Too many people have done that…I think somebody with relatively little money can jump in there today and do very well…If you’ve got the talent, and you’ve got the broadcast, and a methodology to get it to the audience, it’s going to work…I think that a handful of people will probably come about who will turn wrestling upside down, inside out and rebirth it, where it is exciting…I think it’s there; it just takes bigger-than-life personalities…and it would take off…I think a lot of people like Vince McMahon, they just get kind of in a rut. They’ve done it so many times, and the next thing you know networks are turning them off and turning them down. But that has nothing to do with wrestling; that just has to do with bad storytelling.”

Other topics discussed included:
* Of all the people in World Class, what was it about Chris Adams that made him decide to make the documentary “The Gentleman’s Choice”?
* How did he get involved in wrestling?
* Does he believe that WCCW changed how TV wrestling was presented?
* Did the wrestlers have to change the way they wrestled when he started filming the WCCW show with multiple cameras?
* What is the best wrestling book he has ever read?
* Which wrestler’s death affected him the most?
* How did he get involved with doing a documentary about the rebels in Libya?

If you would like to support Mickey’s effort to finish “Burning Green”, his documentary about the Libyan revolution, you can make a donation at
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/burning-green-the-story-of-the-revolution-in-libya/x/5341362
 
Or simply Paypalling Michael Grant at [email protected]
214-282-2671 phone number to contact Mr. Grant for direct funding

This interview is available for listening at http://www.iyhwrestling.com/viewnews.php?autoid=24601
or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZednAJYRfyA

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Recap of Big Bully Busick on In Your Head Wrestling Radio, 04/16/2014
by Vic Schiavone

Hosts Jack E. Jones and One Inch Biceps welcomed former WWE Wrestler Big Bully Busick to IYH Wrestling Radio for a return appearance.

Highlights included the following:

* How did the look of Big Bully Busick evolve?

“Well, it’s kind of ironic, but maybe a lot of your fans out there listening don’t remember the days when the Mario game was popular, but between that mustache and that hat it paralleled that game, and the wrestling fans really latched on to that, and when we were on ESPN, and down in Georgia and Florida, when we were wrestling before I went to the WWE, the fans would start that chant ‘Mario…Mario’, and it just fit right in for the time…But I know Vince didn’t want anything to do with the Mario thing; he made sure that we didn’t promote that because there were the times when the fans would start that in the WWE and we were given strict orders we were not to acknowledge that.”

* Where did your finishing move (the Stump Puller) originate, and was it hard to do?

“Well, it was hard for me to do because of my physique. In my power lifting career, if it’s one lift that I always hated, it was the dead lifts, and the Stump Puller is very similar to that because you got to be able to bend down and get the bar. Well, I’m thick-muscled and I don’t stretch very easy, and it was actually hard for me to get down in there and grab the ankles so that I could get the guy up. They wouldn’t let me use the heart punch like I was using in Florida, Georgia, and on ESPN…Nonetheless, Chief Jay Strongbow said ‘Look, your finishing move is going to be the Stump Puller’. I said, ‘Chief, that’s going to be hard for me.’ He said, ‘I don’t care, you’re doing it. That’s it.’…And boom, the Stump Puller became my finishing move, and that was it.”

Other topics discussed included:
* What was it like working with Sid Justice?
* Who came up with the name Big Bully Busick?
* Was it different wrestling in front of a crowd in the Northeast, in New England, as opposed to wrestling in Georgia?

Big Bully Busick will be appearing at the New England Pro Wrestling FanFest 2014 on
Saturday, June 21, 2014 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Warwick, Rhode Island. For additional information, go to http://nepwhof.weebly.com/.

This interview is available for listening at http://www.iyhwrestling.com/viewnews.php?autoid=24601 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu3Vo3SnxuQ 

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K.S.W.A. Mayhem 2014

7:30 Saturday, May 31, 2014

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*K.S.W.A. Heavyweight Champion
Shane Starr
Will welcome all the K.S.W.A. Krazies to the new era of K.S.W.A. Wrestling!!!
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*Golden Triangle Title Tournament
"The King" Del Douglas
vs.
Kris Kash

The Jester
vs.
"Dr. Devastation" Lou Martin

Shawn Blanchard
vs.
Mitch Napier

The Bulldozer
vs.
"Iceman" Tony Johnson
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*K.S.W.A Five Star Title Match
K.S.W.A. Five Star Champion
Bobby Badfingers
vs.
"The Drunken Luchadore" Joey Quervo
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*K.S.W.A Tag Team Title
Open Challenge Match
K.S.W.A. Tag Team Champions
Tyler Cross & Edric Everhart
vs.
???????
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Party Gras & "Mr. Puniverse" Bob Atlas
vs.
The Mercenaries & The Blood Beast
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