TNA star Rockstar Spud recently spoke with Brian Fritz of SportingNews.com and below are some interview highlights:
On no one wanting to play the bad guy in the wrestling ring:
“Everybody wants to get their cool move in,” explained Spud. “This is how I compare it: everybody has watched ‘Die Hard’ and everybody wants to be John McClane but nobody wants to be Hans Gruber. Now, when you’re put in the role of Hans Gruber in your wrestling match, you want to walk through glass like John McClane and expect everyone to boo you. It’s ridiculous. I can’t believe it. That’s what’s wrong with the industry; no one wants to play the bad guy.”
“We want you have to have the experience that we are playing the antagonist,” said Spud. “Everybody wants to do the cool stuff but if I do an impressive maneuver, you’re going to applaud me and you’ll go ‘that was really good.’ But if I don’t do these and I kick and I punch and I scratch and I gouge eyes and I bite noses, that’s not really cool is it?
“I want to get people to hate me. That’s my job. That’s what I’m paid to do.”
On his evolving feud with EC3:
“You’re supposed to like one of them and want someone to lose and by doing that you don’t. The guys in the ring are obviously not doing a very good job. That’s how I see it. I probably know nothing and I’ll get laughed at.”
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.
