Sonjay chats candidly with Nick about how he got involved in Global Force Wrestling, what all he is doing with the company, working on Ring Ka King with Jeff Jarrett, how GFW’s current TV negotiations are going, the pros and cons of pro wrestling on a platform like Netflix, India as a pro wrestling market, whether he thinks WWE or TNA will be more successful there, his reaction to Jeff Jarrett telling him GFW was invading TNA, Kevin Nash’s time on screen with Sonjay in TNA as part of the Paparazzi Championship Series, more
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On if there are any intentions of TNA and GFW working together going forward:
SD: Right now, no. I don’t see anything right now. I don’t see anything in the immediate future. Obviously you never know. You can’t predict those things. Hell, I don’t think anybody predicted the relationship we had earlier this year. Honestly, it was only for a couple months, a few months, you know? We taped TV in four days and that aired across three months or something. That was pretty much it as far as our relationship. Like I said, you can’t discount anything and you can’t eliminate anything in wrestling. I don’t think that anybody thought that Jeff Jarrett was going to appear in TNA back early this Summer. I don’t see anything in our future but you never say never.
On what his reaction was when Jeff Jarrett said that GFW would be “invading” TNA:
SD: I was taken aback. When I get a call from Jeff that says, “Hey, what do you say to us appearing on Impact next week?” I said, “Excuse me?” That first appearance that he made and everything that he said was the honest to God truth. He had gotten a call I think four or five days before that Impact. That was the live Impact I remember. About five days earlier he got a call from them and they said, “Hey, do you want to come back?” I want to commend him. That is a tough decision to make and he didn’t make it on his own. He got our input and there were not a whole lot of people who were in the know on that one. He definitely had a little conference with the team and said, “Hey, is this good for us? Is this bad for us? What are the pros? What are the cons?” I could speak for a small part of that but there’s a big part there that are personal relationships between him and Dixie, Karen and Dixie and some other people in TNA. I can’t talk for that. At the end of the day it wasn’t my decision to make. I think that we definitely supported any decision he wanted to make.
On working with Kevin Nash on the Paparazzi Championship Series in TNA and if he sees a place for Nash in pro wrestling today (Video included below transcription):
SD: I’ll take that last part first. Yes, I think he does have something to contribute. He does have something to contribute. Not just in front of the camera but behind the camera I think he definitely does in today’s age. I have always said, “He is the coolest fifty year old that you will ever meet. That will probably ever be.” I aspire to be as cool and hip as him when I turn that age. Which I probably won’t. He has definitely set the bar pretty high. He is very in tune with what is popular. What is hip? What is going today? I think that he has kind of lapped his peers in that area. A lot of people didn’t change with the times. He kind of adapted and figured out what was cool and, “How do I reach this new audience that wasn’t around ten years ago when I was on television?” I think he’s definitely got something to contribute. He is probably one of the smartest men that I have ever met in wrestling. That Paparazzi Championship Series stuff, man, if you thought the stuff that aired was funny Jeremy Borash is sitting on a gold mine of all the stuff that we could not air. Due to various reasons. Whether it be cursing, whether it be just completely inappropriate jokes. We had a blast man. That was some of the most fun stuff ever. I remember we would shoot it at the end of the night so that the arena was clear. Everyone, production had gone home, you name it there was not one person in that building except just us that were associated with the show. It was JB with the camera. All of us, no script, no story, no nothing. Just go out there and have fun and that’s exactly what we did. To see even Low-Ki laughing and having a blast. It was awesome.
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