Scotty Riggs, best known for is time in WCW as part of the Flock and his ECW
run against Rob Van Dam, recently appeared on the Undisputed Wrestling Show.
Check out the highlights:
On John Cena: “Every single
match is the same, and it is sickening. Five simple moves every match. When it
is time for Cena’s comeback it is the same moves, boom, boom, boom. That does
not suspend any disbelief. That is what wrestlers are supposed to do, have the
craft to anywhere in the match a finish can come up… Cena has mixed himself
with the Super Cena thing, which is what Vince McMahon has a hard on for, he is
a good guy that is so good that it is sickening. That is why so many people
don’t like him…. Cena is WWE’s cash cow. When I am watching Cena I feel like I
am watching a TV commercial. Everything he is doing, he is selling cereal, he is
selling t-shirts, he is selling something in everything he
does.”
On Randy Orton: “Randy Orton just can’t seem to
find something that fits. He’s got all the tools in the world, and every
opportunity, but he is not allowed to be himself.”
On the
difference between WWE and WCW: “WWE is a TV show about wrestling, WCW
in their prime was a TV show that had happened to have wrestling on
it.”
On the WWE Network: “I’m one of those guys that I
rarely ever watch my old matches. The only thing I think would be really good
about WWE Network is finding stuff that fans don’t know that used to be
wrestling like is different than what WWE is giving them now. If WWE gives them
what USWA used to be, what World Class used to be, what Florida Championship
Wrestling was, if what wrestling really was in the ’70s, ’80s, I think it would
be good because it will teach fans what wrestling was. It could hurt them (WWE)
because fans can say I like ‘wrestling’ not ‘sports entertainment’
stuff.”
On Hulk Hogan returning to WWE: “Hulk Hogan,
even at his age, still has the ‘It Factor’. The crowd loves the nostalgia that
he brings. It’s the same old thing, over and over again, but the fans still dig
that. It still captures their childhood imagination.”
On
recently catching up with Dennis Rodman: “He is the most personable,
charming person you will ever meet. When Dennis Rodman walked in to the bar, he
said ‘Riggs, I didn’t know you had a beard.’ For him to remember me was a really
cool moment. It was a really good time.”
On Perry
Saturn: “Perry Saturn is the only guy I know who is a Ranger that has
had 103 successful jumps out of a perfectly good airplane and wear a dress in
the ring.”
On almost signing with WWF instead of WCW:
“I was being groomed as a protege of Lex Luger in the WWF. Little did we know
that on the first Nitro Luger has crossed over to WCW, if I had listened to
Jerry Lawler and stayed on as Lex’s protege, Lex wouldn’t have been there
anyway. I would have been lost.”
On the American Males theme
song: “The great thing about that song is, the song as wacky as it is,
it still stands alone today. Fans still remember that song.”
