Here is a new interview (with highlights) from Matt Striker on the
In Your Head Wrestling show:
On people yelling in your ear while doing
commentary: “Again, this has always been brought up; people say
they’ve heard guys like Mick Foley or Tazz say this or that. You have to
understand; those guys had a much different relationship with Vince (McMahon)
than I did. Mick Foley made millions of dollars with Vince; I’m sure they spoke
to each other differently than Vince would speak to me. I can say that I never
was straight-up yelled at in my ear. Did Vince give passionate direction? Sure,
but you have to understand what the man wants. If Vince comes in your ear and
says “Talk to me about how strong Sheamus is” and you just repeat what Vince
says “Well, Sheamus is really strong” of course he’s going to get angry. But if
you go into a story about how strong Sheamus is, because Mark Henry noticed that
Sheamus bench-pressed as much as he did in the gym earlier today, well now
you’re giving it some depth. And I think that once Vince realized that I
understood what he was looking for, he kind of left me to my own devices, as bad
as some of my devices may have been in hindsight.”
On WWE’s
version of ECW and working with the original ECW guys: “Yeah, my
thoughts were again, “Oh cool, I’m a part of something.” Looking back, ECW
really gave me a vehicle to get a little bit of quality television time and ECW
also got me to WrestleMania. When else would Matt Striker get an opportunity to
go to WrestleMania? I was real fortunate for that, and some of the matches that
we had I’m real proud of. The matches with guys like Rob Van Dam, Sabu, Sandman,
Tommy Dreamer, Stevie Richards, Danny Doring, and Guido, they weren’t wrestling
matches; those were fights. You fight those guys, and you end up either becoming
really close friends with them, or you can’t stand the sight of their face.”
