When
Wrestling Perspective interviewed Terry Taylor, the 21-year pro wrestling
veteran wore his emotions on his sleeve.
We
were amazed.
We
expected Taylor to provide some great inside information on the business.
He
did.
His
views on writing television shows for the WWF and WCW and his stories about
Triple H, Hulk Hogan, Dusty Rhodes and the late Eddie Gilbert are fascinating.
But
then the conversation took on an introspective tone and became one of the
most personal and candid interviews we've ever done.
Read
Wrestling Perspective #95 and you'll learn about Terry Taylor the wrestler
and Terry Taylor the man.
Find
out...
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Why
his relationship with his former wrestling manager, Bobby "The Brain" Heenan
is strained.
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Why
he believes he never became a top level star in WCW and the WWF.
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What
happened when Vince McMahon fired him.
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How
he played a key factor in pushing Triple H as one of the WWF's top performers.
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How
he got into the wrestling business 21 years ago and the impact Eddie Graham
had on his career.
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What
the future holds for him.
These
questions and many others are answered only in Wrestling Perspective #95.
It's
a must read interview for any wrestling fan.
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Taylor
on why it's tough to keep friends in the wrestling business:
"To
be brutally honest, I know I've done a lot of things wrong. But I've never
maliciously tried to get somebody fired or with this discrimination thing,
I never held anybody back because of their color. I can look at myself
in the mirror and sleep at night knowing that. Because I am so open and
so honest and I do kid and because I'm not this political, smooth operating
I
don't work people and the funny thing is it seems that's what they want.
If I tell somebody the truth, they get mad."
Taylor's
thoughts on Hulk Hogan:
"You're
going to hate this, but I'm a Hulk fan. It's not a popular thing with a
lot of the people on the inside because 'ahh, he held people back. He's
an asshole.' If it wasn't for Hulk, people now wouldn't be making anything.
He's the first guy to make a million bucks in the business. Nolan Ryan
wanted 400 grand and he ended up making a million, which completely changed
the pay structure in baseball. If it wasn't for Nolan Ryan, Alex Rodriguez
wouldn't be making $252 million. If it wasn't for Hulk, all these millionaires
would be making probably half of what they're making now. He's the one
who not only raised the bar as far as finances go, but also created a whole
new perception of what wrestling was."
Taylor
on what a WWF wrestling monopoly is going to mean to the business:
"When
the WWF was doing a 6 and WCW was doing like a 4.5 or something, I never
thought there was an 11 rating out there watching. It's people clicking.
People click back and forth and there's nothing to click back and forth
between anymore and if you don't want to watch Stone Cold - and I'm not
saying they shouldn't - but if you don't, there's nowhere to go now so
you don't watch wrestling. If you don't want to watch the Rock -
not
that they're not great guys because they are - but there was a time if
you didn't want to watch Stone Cold or the Rock or the Big Show, you'd
just go down to Channel 17 and watch WCW. Well, that choice isn't there
anymore. If you don't want to see it, you expand your horizons and get
a new hobby and that's not good for the wrestling business. I think competition
is good. I think the WWF and Vince and those guys have a full plate. They
did the football thing and they scrambled on that. I can imagine how hard
it must have been for them to figure out how to run a football league."
Taylor
on what is was like working for Fritz Von Erich in Texas:
"That
was the most interesting time of my life. I worked for the Von Erichs.
I worked with Mike and Kerry. Oh, boy, I had a pull-apart once with Kevin,
Kerry, me and Iceman (King Parsons). We had a pull-apart and my nose was
broken, my eye was cut. I had lumps all over my head. I had a broomstick
around the corner and when Kevin walked around the corner, I was going
to hit him with it. I thought he took liberties. He came around the corner
and he had five guys with him. I said, 'Oh, God, I can't hit him with all
these guys here.' So I put the stick down, but I was still going to slug
him. Before I could, he hugs me and goes, 'that's great, man. That's the
way we have to do it when it's on TV.' I'm like, 'Oh, for the love of God.
I'm beaten to death and he's like, 'That's great.'' To tell you the truth,
I hit him as hard as I could too. After a while, it's self-defense. He'd
throw you into the corner and run at you and kick and you didn't know if
he was going to kick you in the toenail or on the top of your head. So
you put a hand on your nose and a hand on your crotch and close your eyes."
Taylor
on why he was devastated when Jim Crockett Promotions purchased the Universal
Wrestling Federation:
"We
knew what was going to happen. We did $72,000 in Atlanta at the Omni a
week after - this is not a knock on Dusty or Ric - Dusty and Ric had worked
there the week before and they did like $18,000. We came in and did $72,000.
That's the one where I came in and kicked Chris Adams' foot off the ropes.
We were talking earlier about if you have someone who's trying to elevate
somebody else, you have to be careful that the person you're trying to
elevate doesn't pull the other one down. That's what happened there. Killing
off the UWF did not elevate the NWA. It hurt them. That was purely done
out of spite. I don't think anyone could argue that. That's part of life.
Not everything is just and perfect."
Don't
be swerved: This is the most open, honest and candid interview Taylor has
ever done.
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Issue
#95 also includes:
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Save The Princess: An
open letter to Stephanie McMahon ... and it's anything but a love letter.
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A
review of the pro wrestling book Pinfall: School of Hard Knox
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