Was the WCW crew frustrated by their utilization following the purchase by WWE:
Looking back now, yeah it’s probably frustrating. But at the time I had only been in the business three years so I was so naive. I figured it was legit, we are coming over and they are going to something with the talent. I just kept busy. I kept working in Mexico and would call JR once a week and say I’m going to work Mexico City and he would say no problem just go for it. Again, for me personally it was okay because I did get to come over right away and do something. For a lot of the other guys they didn’t get the opportunities so I’m sure they have a different opinion.
Looking back on Billy and Chuck and playing a different style character:
I made my best money that I ever made in the industry when that angle was going on. I had the most fun I ever had besides from my early days in WCW, I had most my fun in WWF/WWE while I did that character and it was the easiest thing to do. A lot of guys take the wrestling business too personal and we call it “living the gimmick” or believing in the gimmick and you can’t get that serious about it. It’s a job and you are pretty much a type, you are pretty much acting a part and you have to have fun with it.
Teaming with Billy Gunn and the end game always being “The Commitment Ceremony”:
Working with Billy Gunn who had an incredible career up to that point, great worker and a great veteran. I learned so much from him. That gimmick was booked out to finish around ratings week which was the wedding. Vince wanted a big number during ratings week. We did it, we knocked them out we were number 1 and that’s how he timed it and that’s what happened. I knew that going into it and if that’s what this guy wants and he’s paying me to do it then lets give him the best Billy and Chuck that we can give him.
His last run in WWE being more of a comfortable role and being more like himself:
In the beginning yes, I was given a push with the biker gimmick. I’ve had the interest in the car and motorcycle thing since I was a kid so it made it a little bit easier to be doing that. So the wrestling fan saw a little bit of what I really was like outside of wrestling but the problem with that whole deal was that it never really happened properly. Right away I get thrown into an angle where I was getting aggressive with women and the angle with (Jamie) Noble and (Michelle) McCool and I felt that it was really distasteful and especially for the younger generation of wrestling fans. You don’t want kids turning on the TV and see a 6’5 300lb biker throwing back elbows at chicks. I wish they could’ve done things a little differently but it’s the business and they pay me and I did what I had to do.
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Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.
