Ron Bass Interview: Talks about his retirement, Flair, bar fights & more
On Friday, May 12, 2006 at 5:55 PM EST The following was transcribed by Brian P. Cooper of www.BigVanVader.com:
Ron Bass was this weeks featured guest on the Get In The Ring radio show. To listen to the show go to www.getinthering.tv or www.wrestlingradionetwork.com.
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- Ron Bass joins The Phantom and Junior on the show. Phantom immediately asks about the incident where Bass attacked Brutus Beefcake with the spurs. Bass says that was the first time there was blood on WWE television and laughs at the term hardcore, 'I've been doing hardcore for twenty years.'Phantom asks why Ron Bass retired (in 1991), Bass replies that he was tired of hurting.
- Phantom then asks about the money in the then WWF. 'It was good, if you took care of it, then you were set.'Since retirement, Bass says he lost 120lbs(!), and kept getting calls from promoters, and returned to the ring in 2005 after his son asked him to wrestle. On the Legends contract, Bass says he hasn't signed yet, but 'we'll see what happens down the road.'
- Ron Bass puts over Ric Flair, tells some bar fighting stories before moving onto Meng and the Barbarian. The Barbarian story involved 10-12 cop cars. 'They were monsters.' Onto Hogan; 'You'll never hear me say one negative thing about Hogan, he was a class act.
- The Outlaw then talks about Bruiser Brody, saying that if you were his friend, 'you were his friend.' He says 'they were all in on it,' on the Brody death and says that Danny Spivey was on the card and he told him all what happened. Bass then puts over Vincs McMahon, saying 'there are a lot of promoters he wouldn't piss on if they were on fire,' but says Vince isn't one of them, going onto say that the people who criticise Vince are just bitter.
- Junior asks The Outlaw's favourite wrestler to work with. Bass says Barry Windham, 'For two years we wrestled just about every night,' and 'Dusty had the charisma, but Barry had the talent.' On not being as bigger star as he should have, Bass said (of Barry); 'he had a bit of his Dad's attitude.' Bass also puts over Dusty and Dick Murdoch as heels, finishing with plugging his future appearances.