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Don West Interview: Talks about Jarrett as champion, Spike TV & more |
» Reported by Adam Martin of WrestleView.com
» On Sunday, September 25, 2005 at 1:56 PM EST
Voice of Wrestling sent in the following recap:
Chris Cash and the Voice of Wrestling went live last week with special guest co-host, Dick Gomez, and featured guest, TNA's Don West. Plus, Kevin Kelly came on the show for his regular segment to discuss the promotional work done by WWE and TNA as they get ready to jump to their new stations on television. Quick Announcement: Paul Szmall, a correspondent of the Voice of Wrestling show, will be starting up his own wrestling show within the next month (to be produced and booked by Chris Cash) and he's currently in the process of finding a co-host. If interested, please send your name, number, history in radio, and other important information to voiceofwrestling@aol.com as soon as possible. Also, be sure to tune in live tomorrow as VOW goes live again before Raw with special guests, Trinity and Nidia.
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Chris Cash definitely dove right into the meat of things from the get-go as he asked Don his thoughts about Jarrett surprisingly winning the title back from Raven. West said he was shocked liked everyone else and found out the same way by reading it on the 'net. "They kept it a well-guarded secret," West stated, "I've been asked this question so many times and I guess the best answer I can give you as far as him being the champ, let me tell you something...this guy and his father started this thing and nobody believed in them almost four years ago now and you know the work he's put in..and the blood, sweat, and the tears he's gone through...who better than Jeff Jarrett should be champ when we come up on Spike TV?"
After acknowledging that he did read the Internet, Don was asked where he felt Jeff's criticism stemmed from and although he felt Jarrett himself could probably answer the question a little more efficiently, he managed to give it a shot. "One thing I've noticed about the Internet as a whole," he began explaining that he was on it quite often and enjoyed it, "any Internet message boards when you're reading where people are reacting, 8 times out of 10, it's the negative ones that respond. Hey, I get them about myself and if I took it to heart, I'd be sitting there banging my head against the wall. Most positive people don't have a need to vent the positive, they just live that way." Don also feels that it means Jeff is doing is job if he's ticking people off.
Don ended the Jeff Jarrett conversation with an interesting story about Jeff when Don first started with TNA. "I had other things going on and he pursued me for months," he said, "and when I did it, you talk about getting criticism on the Internet, goodness gracious, you bring an outsider into this business..you're going to get persecuted. And mine was justifiably so because I was pretty bad or awful might even be a pretty good word and I went to Jeff and I said 'Jeff look, I don't want you to take heat for me man, I've got things going on...if it's better off if I move down the road, you just say the word' and he looked at me, I mean looked me right in the eye and said 'Let me tell you something..in this business, you better have thick skin and you better get it quick and secondly, you're my guy...I know what you're going to be like down the road, I've got a vision, and you're gonna do it..eventually all this will be behind us and we're gonna laugh about it' and I feel like we've kind of come to that point."
Gomez asked Don who he thought would be the go-to guy to challenge Jarrett once they return to television and brought up Monty Brown being a great choice. "Monty Brown just seems obvious," he agreed, "this guy can talk like nobody, this guy is unreal. He's just got so much charisma and he's getting better and better in that ring and the people love him. It's almost like you try to turn him heel and you can't do it, they love him". After mentioning that, Chris brought up when they did recently turn him heel to align with Jarrett and West felt like it still worked out for the best. "When it's time and I know his time has got to be coming...I think it will be a great move."
Don mentioned that he does follow the current WWE product just to keep up and said that there were a couple things that he would like to see TNA focus on to show the main differences between the two companies. "I think the first thing that stands out about us is the fact that we took a pay per view and main evented the X-Division," he continued, "you would never see that on WWE. You just won't. You're not going to see Paul London main event a pay per view although he'd probably go out there and they would be standing on their feet yelling 'match of the show' when it was over with. We're not afraid to do that." West stresses as the second point that the overall in-ring action is the key they need to focus on when they debut on Spike.
"I think we have more athletic guys as a whole," Don suggested as they continued the discussion of comparison between TNA and the WWE. Cash made the point that very rarely do you find any complaints from someone who just watched a TNA pay per view. "Our last four I think have just been unbelievable," West responded, "we've put on some good shows...I'm not kidding you, for the three hours that we've been putting on..it's as good as any wrestling that's been put on pay per view lately. There's no doubt in my mind." West also pointed out that in every pay per view they have, there's at least one spot or match that makes you say, "I've got to see that again," and he puts over Sacrifice as the best pay per view he thinks they've had.
They went on to discuss Don's start in the business, how he was approached by Jarrett, and what he thinks about being involved in professional wrestling. Plus, Dick Gomez calls out Don on a Beanie Baby scandal you have to hear to believe - it's hilarious. They put over the October 1st debut of Impact! and thank Don for being apart of the show. Check out TNAWrestling.com for more information on TNA and also check out the links above to listen to and discuss the archive of the show. Then, don't forget to tune in to VOW live tomorrow night from 7-9 EST with special guests, Trinity and Nidia.
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