Reported by Adam Martin of WrestleView.com
On Friday, May 26, 2006 at 2:24 AM EST

The following was transcribed by Victoria Lee of wrestlingweekly.com:

BJ Whitmer joined Doc Young and the man who trained BJ for the business, Les Thatcher, this past Tuesday on Wrestling Weekly. BJ discussed the differences between wrestling in Japan and wrestling in America. In the Japanese fed NOAH, BJ wrestled 5-6 nights a week, while he wrestles only up to three in the States working for Ring of Honor. The differences between wrestling in Japan and in America go beyond the number of night you work, though: the attitudes of the fans are different. Japanese fans see wrestling as a sport, said BJ, and they give the athletes respect. American fans, however, "try to get themselves over with ridiculous chants."

What happened to the team of BJ and Jimmy Jacobs? Why did they break up? According to BJ, it was a simple matter of the team running its course, and Ring of Honor wanting to see BJ in singles action. After all, most of BJ's career has been spent in tag team wrestling. BJ is enjoying doing something different, and actually prefers singles competition to tag team action.

From the Wrestling Weekly chat room, "Green Clovers" asked BJ whether he preferred to wrestle with or against Jimmy Jacobs. It was a close call, said BJ, but he preferred competing against Jimmy.

BJ has loved wrestling since he was a kid, but he didn't always plan to become a professional wrestler. He tried the college life, but found that it wasn't for him, so he decided to look into various wrestling schools. That's when he came across Les' Main Event Pro Wrestling Camp. Les and BJ recounted fond memories from their days as teacher and pupil.

BJ has come a long way since he was a kid under the tutelage of Les Thatcher. Now, BJ is the one giving advice to wrestling hopefuls. "Heel2006" asked how long a trainee should wait before going out and actually wrestling. BJ said that students should listen to their trainers. If they aren't ready to wrestle, they can get their feet wet by asking to referee a match.

What the heck does "BJ" stand for, anyway? Quite simple: "Benjamin." That way, BJ and his father, also named Benjamin, would be referred to by different names, and BJ wouldn't have to be a "Jr."

BJ was also asked what "NOAH" stood for. NOAH actually isn't an acronym, according to BJ. The name is actually drawn from the story of Noah, who gathered two of every species into an ark. Well, NOAH gathered wrestlers from All Japan Pro Wrestling into a federation.

BJ mentioned that more and more American wrestlers are working in Mexico nowadays. He noted that Chris Hero went down to Mexico, and will be working there for several weeks.

BJ named The Rock & Roll Express, Barry Windham, Arn Anderson, and Tully Blanchard as his favorite wrestlers to watch growing up. BJ said he was an "NWA guy," though he had watched all the major wrestling promotions growing up. But who would his dream match be against? Heel2006 asked this question. It's any of BJ's NWA childhood idols - it's a current WWE superstar: Chris Benoit.

Green Clovers asked BJ whether he preferred to work as a face or a heel. BJ said that he is having a lot of fun with his current face run, as he's spent most of his career as a heel.

"WayOfTheMasterDotCom" told BJ that he is the "Bobby Lashley" of Ring of Honor: he's a great competitor without a gimmick. BJ doesn't think it's a good idea for a wrestler to have no real gimmick.

Heel2006 asked which is better: WWE or TNA? BJ doesn't watch the shows enough. He reads the results online, but only catches a few seconds of the respective wrestling shows when flipping through the channels.

BJ mentioned that he has watched Ring of Honor's latest DVD. RoH DVDs are not only a good way for him to catch parts of the show he misses live, but they also provide him an opportunity to watch his own matches critically and improve himself. With this, the BJ Whitmer interview came to a close.

Wrestling Weekly's featured guest, Jimmy Hart, took the phone. Doc mentioned that Jimmy was at a personal appearance and may be difficult for the listeners to hear, but he should've known that nothing can muffle the voice of the "Mouth of the South"! Jimmy was interrupted at the beginning of the interview by a fan excited to meet the 2005 WWE Hall of Fame inductee.

Jimmy was asked which of his jackets were his two favorites. He named his Hulkamania and Hart Foundation jackets.

Gary Brown asked if Jimmy still has his famous jackets. Yes, Hart said, he still has most of them; though he gave some of them to his son to sell for extra money after his son returned from military service in Iraq.

Jimmy was asked what he thought of managing the Rougeau Brothers. He said he enjoyed it, and that the Rougeau Brothers were the "real deal."

When asked about Vince Russo, Jimmy did a nifty dance around the answer. He said, "If something is good, everyone takes credit for it. But if something fails, nobody does." Jimmy felt that the good thing about WCW was that it was "different." He said that WCW shouldn't have tried to become like WWE in the end - not that he was blaming Russo for that.

Jimmy was asked about his favorite Own Hart memories. Jimmy remembered his visits to the Hart family mansion when Owen was training, and Jimmy did his best Stu Hart impersonation: "It's cousin Jimmy!" He remembered people coming up to him and telling him that his "father" was great, referring to Stu Hart. People didn't understand that Jimmy is "not Hart kin!"

Jimmy was asked about the crowd reaction Hulk Hogan gets to this day. Jimmy said that you can give air time to wrestlers, but when they're popular 20 years later, that separates the boys from the men.

Miss Destiny asked Jimmy: if he could invite four people - two women, two men - to dinner, who would they be? Jimmy picked two women he says are always nice and very talented: Torrie Wilson and Gail Kim. Jimmy saw a Torrie Wilson match recently, and said that she has greatly improved. He couldn't decide which two men he would invite, though - there were too many to choose from.

Has Jimmy steered his son toward wrestling at all? No. In fact, Jimmy has tried to keep his son away from wrestling. He said that people look at wrestling differently when it comes to employing your child. Jimmy pointed out that only a couple of federations have survived when the boss' son gets involved, because favoritism is inevitable.

Last but not least, Jimmy Hart was asked if there was any fear that a riot might break out when Hulk Hogan turned heel at Wow's "Bash at the Beach" event. Jimmy said that that WCW was prepared, just in case.

Before leaving, Jimmy mentioned that the "Mouth of the South" energy drink is available now at 7-11s nationwide.

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