The following are highlights from a recent interview with former WWE Superstar Sean “X-Pac” Waltman. The interview was part of the Inside The Ropes broadcast on Thursday, June 20th.
Waltman on working with Shane McMahon: “I didn’t like it going in. I was expecting to have this big WrestleMania match, but back then If something wasn’t my idea, I didn’t like it, even if it was a good one. I was a bit of a spoiled brat at the time. I remember thinking I wanted to have a really good WrestleMania match but how was I gonna do that with somebody that’d never had a match before but I told Vince, ‘You know, he listens to me and I’ll do it but it’s my way.” And the agreement was he’d do the job *laughs* But the overall picture of why we did the finish of the match, you know Hunter turned on me and a lot of good things came out of that.”
“My team with Kane came out of that, Hunter’s big first championship run kinda came from that. I thought Shane did an amazing job, he really did. He rented the St. Paul Civic Center, it had this little building that held 3-4,000 people called the Roy Wilkins Auditorium, he rented that and had someone in Detroit drive a ring and set it up in this empty building, so I’d go there and work out a match with him for WrestleMania. I wasn’t going anywhere on my days off. I thought that was really going above and beyond, sending a ring from Detroit. Shane and I ended up being pretty tight.”
Waltman on current TNA product, and if he watches it: “You know what, I should, I really should, but I don’t. I don’t know why or what it is but it just doesn’t feel like must see TV to me.”
Waltman on NXT/HHH: “From where it was a couple of years ago it’s so much better, so much better. I actually think quite often it’ the best thing on TV. Sometimes I think the best stuff comes off of that show. Triple H is working closely with that too.”
Check out the complete interview online at Facebook.com/theinsidenetwork.
