Former WCW star Scotty Riggs was recently interviewed by Wrestling Inc. to talk about several professional wrestling topics.
Here are the highlights:
His relationship with Eric Bischoff:
[Eric] was the reason I left WCW in 1994. Probably one of my favorite Arn Anderson stories was when Arn pulled me aside at Center Stage at TV tapings and said, ‘Kid, you need to get out of here.
I didn’t wanna leave as I was making a couple of hundred bucks a week for them and still working independents. But when Arn pulls you aside and gives you advice, you do what you can do heed it. So, I was working a Thanksgiving show with Jake Roberts and Jerry Lawler was on it. Jake told Jerry to watch my match and put me on to Jerry. At the end of that show Jerry comes up to me and asks, ‘Hey, you wanna come to Memphis and work?’
If he’s still close with Buff Bagwell:
Yeah, we still talk and text every now and then. He was trying to do a podcast, but there’s so many of them so unless you get some footing, it’s really hard to get over. But he tried to for a while and we still talk. We keep in contact pretty well. That’s another reason why I never needed to talk to Eric Bischoff because of the pull that Lex and Sting had. We were always on the same shows together so we traveled together, worked out together and played golf together. So, I never had to speak to Eric about anything as I would pick Steve and Lex’s mind about the business.
The American Males theme song and tag team origins:
That song lasted 20-plus years and for it to still be known is ridiculous in this wrestling world. It’s got that love and hate feel to it as they love that they hate it and hate that they love it. They hate it when they hear it but they can’t get it out of their head. When Jimmy Hart wrote it, he knew what he was doing. I don’t think he realized the heat it could have had if we would have been bad guys. The whole mentality for it was the 80s [teams] The Fantastics, The Rock N Roll Express and The Fabulous Ones – that was his main vision for us.
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