Credit: OneWrestlingShow.com
Rory McAllister recently shared the story about how he and tag team partner Robbie became The Highlanders in the WWE. Here are the highlights…
“Robbie and I were trained by the Hart family out of Canada, and we weren’t the biggest guys, so we decided to make our work a lot more aggressive, very old-school, so people were afraid to work with us.
We had been working with WWE for years before we signed our contracts and guys like Arn Anderson, Dave FInlay, and Steamboat loved us. They seen us as the new ‘Sheepherders.’ As a matter of fact, on our first day, Arn walked with us into Creative and said, ‘These guys are just like the Sheepherders,’ and one guy, I won’t say who, said “Who?” Arn said, ‘The Bushwackers,’ and they made us just like The Bushwackers.”
He also discussed Robbie appearing on camera at TNA Impact, stating the following…
“Yes, I knew he was going, and I knew what he was going to do too. He knew TNA was going to put him on screen, he knew he was going to be set up by Jarrett and, to be honest, I don’t think he cared because at that time we were so down on everything WWE. Robbie’s not a stupid guy, I know everyone said, ‘That was a dumb move.’ It wasn’t. He knew exactly what he was doing. One thing a wrestler knows is where the hard camera is, for him to be caught on Hard Cam, that wasn’t a stupid mistake. We both knew why he was going and knew our WWE careers were going to be coming to an end that night.”
