Mance Warner was recently interviewed by 411Mania to talk about several professional wrestling topics.
Here are the highlights:
People who don’t appreciate hardcore-style wrestling:
It’s kind of a double-edged sword, you know. You got people that are set in their ways, and to them you paint a picture one way, and that’s it. You got other people that, there’s some people that only wanna see death match wrestling. Some people want to see old-school wrestling. Some people don’t, they wanna see comedy stuff. Ol’ Mancer does a little bit of everything.
That’s always been my thing. I can do a little bit of everything. Sometimes if I’m just doing a straight-up wrestling, just out there fighting, people get mad. They want to see a death match. Sometime people, if I do a comedy thing, they get pissed off I’m doing a comedy thing. Can’t make everybody happy, I understand that. I ain’t gonna give no one no hell on their opinion of whatever they think about this or that. It is what it is. I think people just get set in their ways. You can’t change nobody, they’re gonna think what they wanna think.
The perception that hardcore wrestlers aren’t good workers:
I mean, everybody knows Ol’ Mancer loves Terry Funk, I love Ric Flair, I love Arn Anderson. I love Tully Blanchard, Barry Windham; I could go on and on about the old-school guys that I love. People kind of get, like I said, set in their ways and they wanna see what they wanna see. Ol’ Mancer’s went out, and I’ve had a 60 minute straight up wrestling match with Michael Elgin.
And then people don’t see that, because they wanna see a death match. Or there’s some people that love a little bit of everything. I think if you’re gonna be the best in pro wrestling, you gotta do a little bit of everything. You know what I mean? That’s the way I look at it. If you wanna be the best, you gotta do a little bit of everything.
