During the latest episode of Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Amazing Red talks on his upcoming TNA Hall of Fame induction and how he invented the Code Red, a move that John Cena did.
On the announcement he will be inducted into the TNA Hall of Fame:
“Yeah, I didn’t know what was happening. All I was told by Frankie was, ‘Stay here. There’s gonna be a shot between both of you.’ That’s all I kept hearing. Then before the last part of the match was happening, Frankie said, ‘Stay close. Stay close.’ As soon as people were powdering. He grabs the mic, and as soon as he grabbed the mic, I instantly knew something’s happening. Something’s up.”
On when Frankie Kazarian came out:
“I thought he’s gonna cut a promo on me. So the last couple of matches I’ve had were dream match-type kind of things, and a lot of the guys would take it upon themselves to grab the mic and big me up and put me over and very grateful of it and I thought this was one of those things that he was gonna do. But I’m thinking this is not an indie, this is TNA, you can’t really do that here and then when he started talking he said, ‘Pay attention to the monitor in the back.’ Oh man they got me. They reached out a couple of times before about this situation about Hall of Fame, and I just kind of, I’m good, I’m good. Thank you. I’m good.”
The reason he said no to the TNA Hall of Fame previously:
“To tell you the truth, man. I’m not that kind of a guy. I just feel like I’ve done one thing in my life, wrestled, and I think I’m good with doing that. And I think when people come up to me and say all these great stories, it just kind of like puts me in a box. I’m like, I’m just doing my own thing in my own lane, and I’m very appreciative I helped you out and stuff like that. But I think Hall of Fame is such a big. I don’t know. I just didn’t want to accept it.”
On the Code Red move that was his invention, which John Cena did:
“It’s John Cena’s move. Ain’t no way I’m taking that from John Cena. I got to ask him for permission...It was a lot of people doing it where I don’t know if it was the move looks cool, or if they kind of took a liking to how I did it, or they just wanted to make it their own, which is all cool. But the amount of people, even Sting- Sting did a Code Red. Isn’t that crazy? But what wowed me the most was the John Cena thing because my phone was blowing up. John Cena just did Code Red! I’m like, that’s kind of cool. But it’s kind of cool to see the things that you come up with that sound and look impossible be a thing, and even S.A.T [Spanish Announce team], it’s called Spanish Fly. Every time someone does that move, Spanish Fly, and I think that’s also cool for them that they get like recognition by that alone.”
“So the Code Red was my younger brother. I had this on social media, you can check it out. I was literally 16 years old. I used to pick him up for a power bomb, and he always rolled behind me like a sunset flip, and I would always jump into it, just felt like a power bomb. So I would call it the baby power bomb. In order for my little brother to feel cool, he’s gonna power bomb me, but I would beat the crap out of him. I would beat the crap out of him. Did all my moves on him. My mother hated it because we ruined all our mattresses. And I have this all on VHS, by the way, which I’m gonna plan on releasing them on YouTube soon. He would power bomb me, and I kept seeing that. So I was thinking, you know what? What if this is a wrestling move? You just go for a power bomb, roll back, and pull him. It worked. Then I saw Tajiri come out of a sunset flip, like in a bridge kind of fashion, and I was like, let me see if this works.”
All quotes are courtesy of Insight with Chris Van Vliet.
Also during the interview, Red talks about working in House of Glory, his dark match against CM Punk in WWE back in 2005, breaking his leg and more!
You can watch the full interview below.