Credit: VOCNation.com
Paul Orndorff recently spoke about working with Hulk Hogan and more. Here are
the highlights…
On Not Beating Hogan for the WWF World Title: “That’s what
they should have done. And instead of making hundreds of millions of dollars
they could have made thousands of millions of dollars if they had done that. We
talked about it some and that’s what they should have done … I guess for some
reason because [Hulk] was 6’5” and weighed 320 pounds that he was this big huge
thing that nobody should beat him for the belt. If they would have said “Let’s
go out there, Paul, and you fight for your life and Terry, you go out there and
you fight for your life,” you can bet your ass I would have fought. I guarantee
… I would have won and [Hulk] knows it.”
On Today’s Product: “It’s been so downgraded. You look at
boxing, you look at MMA fighting, that’s what people are watching. It’s more
believable. That’s what people want to see. They don’t want to see that phoney
baloney out there. They want to see something real. They want to see somebody
lose a tooth, have a black eye.”
On Working with Hulk Hogan: “It worked out because the
heel ran the show. I ran the matches, and I worked off of [Hulk Hogan]. [Hogan
did] his best to work off of me because [he’d] never be able to keep up with me.
I did that with Hogan. That’s why we worked together good. We [were] two Florida
boys. I wasn’t buddy-buddy with him. I didn’t weigh 300 pounds but I weighed 240
pounds and I was a badass and he wasn’t.”
On the Art of Being a Great Wrestler: “I still call it a
sport, because it is a sport. To me it takes years and years and years and
you’ll never master it. As long as you have an opponent, you have to work around
that opponent. And you’ll never master it. Never. You can be good at it, you can
be great at it like I was. Or you can be good at it and okay with it.
Whatever.”
