Being booked on his retirement tour, working with Indy talent:
I thought alright, I’ll just have one or two matches a month and call it quits at the end of the year. As soon as word got out that it was my last year the phone started ringing off the hook and I forgot how many regulars I used to have on the Indy scene because I never killed anyone with my fee because I wanted repeat work. All of a sudden all these regulars that I worked for are coming out of the wood-work to book me one last time. So I ended up wanting to only have or or two matches a month to having double and triple shots every weekend. It was hard and in a lot of them they wanted me to work their best guy and they want some twenty five to thirty minute X-Division spectacular and I’d say I can’t do that anymore. I’m retiring for a reason, my body is shot. I’d be begging for them to put me in a three way or a four way.
Being trained by Brad Rheingans, his style and what he emphasized:
It was tough and it was not a walk in the park. It was a lot of repetition that would eventually become like second nature. A lot of conditioning. The first few weeks we didn’t even get into a ring it was all amateur wrestling on mats and then if you were doing something wrong he would get in there with you and back then there was a huge, huge emphasis on safety and taking care of each other because you all had to get up and go to the next town and work the next day so it was very important because something as simple as hitting the ropes is dangerous. There was always a big emphasis on safety and if you did something wrong he would get in there and show you what you were doing wrong and how it felt and he would shoot on you and hook you a little bit just so you knew how it felt.
Jerry Lynn also covers his entire run in Global, becoming Mr. JL in WCW, the calamity that was WCW’s backstage, getting the chance in ECW, first impressions of Paul Heyman, feuding with RVD and Justin Credible, winning the ECW Title, not liking his run in WWE, TNA, working backstage and his retirement.
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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.
