2. Rikishi Talks About Recent Controversial Promo From Vince McMahon, Usos Being Successful, His Famous Hell in a Cell Match Bump
WWE Hall of Famer Rikishi recently appeared on WrestleZone Radio and talked about his sons The Usos being a successful tag team in WWE, Vince’s controversial promo involving Sika, his famous Hell in a Cell bump & more. Below are the highlights:
On the success of his sons, The Usos, in WWE:
I always say this, and this doesn’t apply only to my sons it applies to everybody who is trying to come up in the industry, storylines are storylines and creative control is creative control. The one thing storylines and creative control don’t have in charge is when you step in to that squared circle. Jimmy & Jey, Jonathan & Joshua, they work very hard. They went through the moves and got out there and the thought of being accepted, “Are we good enough?” Or, “Do the fans like us?” Or, “What are we missing?” All of that comes in to play. You can only find that as you grow in there. You gotta keep putting in work and keep finding those house shows when TV matches are not being taped.
You are going to come through with stuff to where you find, “Ok, that works.” Then you apply that to TV on Monday Night RAW when people are watching live. The WWE Universe, they are not stupid. Either they like you or they don’t like you and they pretty much call the shots nowadays. With Jimmy & Jey, they’ve worked so hard and they’ve become fan favorites. Only because the fans they see they’re passionate. How much work that they are putting in there. I think when they changed up, change is good. Every now and then you need to change it up. Maybe add paint to your face. I love the entrance. The entrance top to bottom was kind of marinated together.
On Vince McMahon’s recent controversial promo on RAW where he invoked Sika’s name:
Vince is going to do what he’s gotta do and say what he’s gotta say for ratings. I think, hey, the storyline it is what is what they are talking about. In real life I don’t think that really happened. I just want to say this to everybody out there: If you know Samoans, we were Samoans before we were wrestlers. If this had been a shoot type of comment I think you’d see a whole bunch of Samoans up in that arena when Vince mentioned that to Roman.
His Famous Hell in a Cell match bump from Armageddon 2000:
That match was definitely, will definitely, go down in history on my behalf. It was one of the highlights in my career. I’m standing there looking up at the top of the cage and we all just started marinating, “Can I do this?” I didn’t know as far as how I would do it. In wrestling, whenever an opportunity comes you either need to take that opportunity and not be scared to take it or take it and take chances. The thing with that bump right there… no doubt, I was nervous to take that bump.
But when you’re in front of 18,000 or 20,000 people and the WWE Universe it’s just one of those things where that electricity goes through your body and you look and you feel everybody’s energy. It’s like there was no way I was going to back down from taking this type of fall.
