No problem but I’m a little worried about that finish. I go back into Vince’s office, and I still don’t know him that well at this time. And I said, ‘God dang, Vince, are you sure about that finish?’
And you know how Vince talks. He looks at you. He goes, ‘Oh goddamn. Oh God damn Steve, I’m telling you. It’ll work.’ That’s exactly what he said, and if Vince gives me that reassurance and he’s the guy, so I said, okay, I’m down with it.
Go back out there and me and Bret are talking, and he goes, ‘Steve, if you’re going to pass out in the Sharpshooter, we need to have some color.’ I said, ‘You think?’ He goes, ‘Yeah,’ and at the time, there’s a no color policy.
I’m the newer guy. I ain’t got no tenure, and Bret offers up. I’d done the business plenty, but under this new place I’m in, I ain’t got no stroke. He goes, ‘Hey man, if you want, I’ll get it for you.’ That’s insurance policy. He just put me under his umbrella.
I’m so glad he did because if I would have done the same exact thing, the way I sold that, I guess I’ll blow smoke up my a$$, I sold that like a motherf**ker, but had I not had all that red sh*t on my face screaming through my teeth and then you see how much blood I actually lost, and it wasn’t one of those gore fests because you can go too hard and get too much and it becomes distracting and just hard to watch.
This was not hard to watch. This just added so much level to the struggle that I was going through but was not just a turn-off, and so it became, as you said, one of the most iconic images, in my opinion, in the history of the wrestling business. I’m not going to say the most, but one of the most.”
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