Kanyon in his First Interview Since WWE Release!
Report By: VoiceofWrestling.com
This week, the New Voice of Wrestling went live once again on www.voiceofwrestling.com with featured guest, Chris Kanyon, recently released from the WWE. This was Kanyon's first interview since being released. Host Chris Chisum was out due to sickness, so Doc Young took his place alongside Brandon Clark for this solid two-hour show. Listen to see how Doc and Brandon hold up since this was the first time either of them had been put in that position.
All the regulars made their returns to the show except for Molly Brown, who was out due to a death in her family. Dick Gomez made an appearance to do his usual controversial news report and Tim Welch joined the show live this week to discuss all the latest happenings and developments in TNA. Tim touched on many rumors and speculations you've heard around the internet including the new TV deal, Hogan and Warrior signing with the company, the six-sided ring, keeping the weekly PPV instead of going to monthly, plus much more!
Now, here are the highlights from Chris Kanyon's Interview:
- Kanyon's contract ended last Sunday May 9th, but he received the phone call from Johnny Ace on February 7th giving him his 90-day notice on his contract. As far as the reason he was let go, they blamed it on the writers and the inability for them to come up with something for him. "It seems like they're the ones not doing their job; maybe they're the ones that should be fired, not the performer," Chris remarks. "That doesn't make much sense to me."
- The actual decision to let him go did not come of much a surprise to Chris. "I kind of expected it around November or December." After his knee and shoulder injury and working hard to come back from that, the fact that they still didn't put him on TV gave him the impression he might not be around much longer. "I mean my last two years with the company, I literally had zero wins on TV and I had one Smackdown match in two years."
- He doesn't know if the higher-ups there in the company were thinking that he was being negative, but he just went there and did his job every week. "You hear a lot about that with people, but that's not the feedback I was getting," he explains. "They kind of strung me along and said sooner or later we'll come up with something, but they never did."
- Now that he's out of the WWE, he's been doing "normal people stuff," as he puts it. He has a house in Florida and has been spending a lot of time down on the beach, plus getting caught up with bills and taxes. He's basically just trying to figure out what he wants to do next. He's not sure if he wants to try to work full time on the Indies or not.
- The return of the Dead Man gimmick with the Undertaker came up as Brandon thought Mortis vs. The Undertaker would be a cool series. "Yeah, I always wondered if maybe the reason they didn't want to bring Mortis back was because maybe it was stepping on Undertaker's shoes," Chris responds, "and I would have been cool if that's what they told me, but my biggest problem with the WWE is you never knew where you stood with them."
- Politics were brought up within the WWE and how Vince seems to intentionally make Raw the superior brand of the two and Chris agreed. Chris says that the general feeling from the guys in the back on the Smackdown side was that because Raw was Vince's baby, he cared more about that show. On the road when Smackdown talent heard they had actually done better in ticket sales than Raw did, Vince and company would actually switch the venues. They'd give Raw the building they had and vice versa. "Just little things like that made us start thinking that Raw was always going to get treated a little better than Smackdown."
- Brandon looked back at what Ernest Miller had said on the Voice of Wrestling the week prior about the WWE being filled with a bunch of "ass kissers" behind the scenes and asked for Kanyon's thoughts on the realism of that theory. It's strange. "It seems like Vince does at times surround himself by "yes men," but at times, I think it's people that confront them and go against the grain that get the better shots, especially if you're one of the "boys.""
- At this point, Chris' situation with TNA and the Jarretts is really up in the air. There have been talks with TNA and interest on both sides, but right now, both sides want more of a commitment. "I don't want to commit to them if I can't give 110 percent," he proclaims, "I don't want to just do it for the money; I don't want to do it just as a hobby. If I'm gonna do it, I wanna do it 110 percent, or I just want to walk away."
Kanyon went on to talk more about WCW, the "stooges" on the WWE booking committee, his involvement with the movie Ready to Rumble, his horrible feud with Buff Bagwell in WCW, the difference between the politics in WWE and WCW, why he has doubts about TNA's new TV Deal, plus much more! This was definitely a great continuance to the recent first interviews VoW has received with those just released from the WWE and Kanyon gives you one more personal viewpoint on life before, during, and after the current monopoly of wrestling: World Wrestling Entertainment.
Next Week's Guest: Jerry Lawler
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