SAM HOUSTON TALKS BEING MARRIED TO BABY DOLL- 02/25/2009 (6:01:10 pm)
- Georgiann Makropoulos
LEGALLY DYING, ALCHOLISM, RIBS AND MORE…
Show: The Interactive Interview courtesy of www. WrestlingEpicenter. com
Guest: Sam Houston
Date: 2/25/09
Your Hosts: Patrick Kelley, James Walsh, & Nick Noel
Transcript By: Patrick Kelley
It is rare that a wrestler that has a story like this has not told it on a series of radio shows. But, thanks to the stars coming into alignment properly and everything clicking as it did, The Interactive Interview is proud to be the first to bring an in-depth interview with a legend in his own right, Mr.
Sam Houston!
In an interview I, James Walsh, have compared to our Marty Jannetty interview that was so acclaimed back in 2003, Sam Houston lets rip on being legally dead for 2 minutes, crippled for 9 months, and being an alcoholic. He talks about rising to glory and falling from grace. He talks, in great detail, on being married to Baby Doll and even dressing up as Skandor Akbar at Missy Hyatt and Eddie Gilbert's wedding! Plus, find out that he lost virtually everything in hurricane Katrina.
This is an interview we were so proud to conduct. And, we sincerely hope the wrestling community will read and listen to this interview. We also are helping represent Sam Houston so if you want to book Sam, email wrestlebookings@yahoo.com or hit Sam up on MySpace at http://myspace. com/samhoustonwrestling and say the Epicenter sent you!
To listen to this great interview, visit http://www. wrestlingepicenter. com and click the picture of Sam on the right hand side of the page!
SAM HOUSTON:
- Sam joins the show introducing himself as working at a pool hall and calls himself "8 Ball".
We're underway!
- James welcomes the one and only Sam Houston to which Sam says there's been a few before. James says there has but he's the only one who wears tights. Sam agrees but says that is only because it is the required uniform.
- Sam has been well. He had left the ring for a while but is now getting back into it. He says he left and then was asked to give a speech at a wrestling show. He hit the ropes,looked out in the crowd, and realized that this is where he belongs. He said he and Kofi Kingston are the only people you ever see smile while wrestling.
- James asks after his sister, Rockin' Robin. Sam laughs and says she's doing great and is still rockin' in the tree tops all night long. He says she's cut her hair short but is still Rockin' Robin, his baby sister. James also asks after Jake who Sam says he gets along fine with despite what some seem to think.
- Things weren't always a breeze for Sam Houston, though. Sam tells the story of how he when he was young, he was pronounced dead for 2 minutes in a hospital due to difficulties with a tonsilectomy. When he recovered, he turned on Mid South Wrestling (where his dad Grizzly Smith worked). On the show, they announced that Grizzly's son was not expected to live and that's why he wasn't at the show. It freaked Sam out at first, but his dad reassured him that the show was taped days earlier before his health improved.
- He couldn't get into wrestling right away because of his health, but once he started getting better, he began to train heavily. Grizzly tried to discourage him, but Dusty Rhodes gave him his break mainly because it was Grizzly who gave Dusty his big break.
- His interaction with The Four Horsemen was "intense" He felt like he was in the ring with the best. He also references working with Abdullah The Butcher at an early age, and he says that working with those stars brought the best out of him.
But he says that if you go back and watch the tapes "you can tell I'm shaking in my boots"
- He won the Bump of the Year after a match with Krusher Krutchev and says that the bump scared alot of people it was so brutal. He took pride in trying to make everything he did as real as possible. He then jokes that "My nickname is Frankenstein.
I can walk away from anything"
- Sam never liked grabing the ropes when taking an over the top rope bump because he felt it would make the bump look fake. He got advice from Hector Guerrero to "never be second best" And he used that advice both in the ring & when dealing with ribbers.
- He was known as a great practical joker & ribber. He never hurt anybody or cost them money, but he always got them good.
- Houston ended up leaving the Crockets for Bill Watt's promotion after getting poor paychecks & getting stiffed on a big show in which he was in the main event. James & Sam then talk about how poor promotion can hurt a wrestling event.
- The next step was the WWF, which Sam ended up at once Watts sold to The Crockets. When the change in ownership took place, Sam was told that he was the only one losing his job when the change of ownership took place. But Vince picked him up soon after.
- He got along with his half brother Jake Roberts. There was never a plan to ever mention that they were half brothers because they were so different. He said that Jake DDT'd him once during his blindness feud with Martel, but that was meant more for the smart