MVP didn’t care for Freddie Prinze Jr. when they first met in WWE.
On the latest episode of the Markin’ Out Podcast, MVP spoke with his co-host Dwayne Swayze about his feelings for Freddie Prinze Jr. when he joined WWE as a member of the creative team.
“He and I didn’t get along at first,” MVP admitted. “I didn’t like him, I’m like, ‘I’m not letting this old tiger beat teen heartthrob tell me about wrestling.’ I was not nice to him. Then we had to work together. It was SummerSlam, me against Jeff Hardy. I was working with one of the writers who I was working with a lot at the time. He said, ‘Hey, Freddy is going to help us on this.’ I’m like, ‘Man, I don’t want Freddy on this.’ He goes, ‘No, man, Freddy’s cool.’ Man, fuck Freddy, if you don’t get your ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ ass — ‘She’s All That’.”
However, things would eventually change, and a friendship was formed between the two men.
“It was the go-home to SummerSlam, so this is one of the occasions where we were actually collaborating and writing a promo,” MVP said. “I needed that go-home line. We’re just kind of thinking, and Freddy’s there and he’s pacing back and forth and he’s repeating the lines, and then he stops and goes, ‘What about this?’
“Here’s the crazy part, right? I don’t remember what the line was, I just remember the writer who I was with kind of perking up and going, ‘Whoa.’ I remember me hearing Freddy suggest that and being like, ‘Damn, that’s it. That’s the line right there.’ Begrudgingly, I had to look at him and go, ‘That’s actually real good, man.’
“I remember Vince sending me somebody to tell me that he liked the promo. A bunch of people came up congratulating me on how great that promo was. I was kind of looking at Freddy like, ‘Thanks, man.’ After that, he was like, ‘Hey man, you want to smoke a joint?’ I’m like, ‘Yeah.’ We started smoking weed and talking about kickboxing and martial arts; we had all this stuff in common. To this day, he’s one of my dearest friends.” [H/T: Fightful]
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