Post by Pennyroyal_Tea (admin) on Nov 8, 2003 14:04:08 GMT -5
-- Jake went to the WWF after having a problem with Bill Watts. He was wrestling the third or fourth match on every show when a lot of the fans showed up just to see him and because of his card placing, he was also getting third or fourth match on the card money when he knew he should've been getting what the other guys did. So, Terry Taylor, who was Bill Watts' "GM" at the time, took him aside and told him he was the company's fifth babyface. Ted DiBiase, Jim Duggan, Steve Williams, and someone else who he cannot recall went over him. So, after that conversation Jake called Vince McMahon's office. Vince was on vacation for four weeks. So, Jake felt "Great. I just quit a job and now I can't get a call back for a month." Fifteen minutes later, Vince calls Jake directly and has Jake come up for a meeting.
-- Vince wow'd you with his genius. He went into Vince's office for the first time and saw all psychology books everywhere. When Vince told him of the strategy for Jake's character, he was told to wear lace up boots and lime green tights. Jake refused feeling that his character wore the karate pants. Vince said "That's a shame because the person that plays this character will be getting $2,000,000 a year" to which Jake instantly thought "Well, I could wear tights."
-- Vince also wanted Jake to carry the Snake. Jake wanted to do that for a long period of time while working for Watts but Watts felt that would be a carnival act. Jake then talks about his boots. He says if you wrestle for ten years, you spend six weeks of your life just lacing up your boots. So, he figures if a wrestler wears lace up boots, St. Peter laughs at you at the gates of Heaven for wasting so much time. So, Jake wore pull on boots.
-- Jake thinks that one day Vince will run for President, and WIN. James asks if that’s why Jake moved to England, but Jake explains that he moved over here to get away from the “sh*tty” indy scene in America, and come across for the architecture in England as he always wanted to be an architect as a child.
-- When Jake was doing the Snakepit, Hulk Hogan was a guest. They did a thing where Hogan said his pythons were bigger than Jake's. Jake laughed at how little of thought went into that. So, he'd tape the snake then tape Hogan’s' arm, the tape was rigged to make Hogan's arm look 24 inches which he says was bullshit, after doing this, Jake threw the chalk in Hogan's face and gave him the DDT. Jake walked through the curtain and talked with Vince as they felt it was working. Vince said to wait for Hogan to come back, Jake said okay but he thinks Hogan's out. Jake explains by saying that you can't do the DDT the right way without it taking it's toll. Hogan was to stand up as the crowd chanted Hogan's name but instead, the crowd chanted "DDT." So, Vince said "that's the end of that." Jake insisted that it was working but Vince felt that the fans being split would hurt his marketing plan.
-- Jake told Vince that he didn't have to get paid, being with Alice Cooper was a cool enough deal. Jake was an Alice Cooper fan and Alice was the hottest thing there was in 1973 when Jake graduated high school. So, he was thrilled. When Jake went to the photo shot, he saw Alice in full make up and Jake said "Woah, who's this dude?" When he figured out it was Alice, he loved it. Alice introduced himself and said he is a big fan of Jake's character.
-- The greatest thing Jake has seen for the business in a long time was that the Ultimate Warrior announced his return to the business. He then saw that it was in a video game. He feels sorry for people who buy the game because it will suck. He took months off doing the backstage clips of himself and the Warrior and they were headed towards a big push for Jake. SummerSlam 1991 comes about and the Warrior refuses to go out to the ring that night unless Vince gave him a million dollars cash. Vince paid the Warrior, Warrior went to the ring and had his tag match with Hogan, and when he walked through the curtain he was fired. Vince then said to Jake, "You have the worst luck".
-- Jake again did an impression of Randy Savage backstage the night of the snake bite incident. It has to be heard to hear how good it was. So, Jake talks about the incident saying that Randy was okay with the snake bite until his paranoia kicked in and said "What if Vince and the snake man want to take the Macho Man out of the wrestling business, uh huh." Jake says that Randy was convinced the snake was poisoned so he insisted that Jake allow the snake to bite Jake himself first. Macho then sat there glaring at Jake saying, in a real low and crazy sounding voice, "Lets just watch you now." An hour later, Randy saw that Jake was okay and said okay to the snake bite.
To read the rest go to www.prowrestling.com/articles/news/9458.shtml
-- Vince wow'd you with his genius. He went into Vince's office for the first time and saw all psychology books everywhere. When Vince told him of the strategy for Jake's character, he was told to wear lace up boots and lime green tights. Jake refused feeling that his character wore the karate pants. Vince said "That's a shame because the person that plays this character will be getting $2,000,000 a year" to which Jake instantly thought "Well, I could wear tights."
-- Vince also wanted Jake to carry the Snake. Jake wanted to do that for a long period of time while working for Watts but Watts felt that would be a carnival act. Jake then talks about his boots. He says if you wrestle for ten years, you spend six weeks of your life just lacing up your boots. So, he figures if a wrestler wears lace up boots, St. Peter laughs at you at the gates of Heaven for wasting so much time. So, Jake wore pull on boots.
-- Jake thinks that one day Vince will run for President, and WIN. James asks if that’s why Jake moved to England, but Jake explains that he moved over here to get away from the “sh*tty” indy scene in America, and come across for the architecture in England as he always wanted to be an architect as a child.
-- When Jake was doing the Snakepit, Hulk Hogan was a guest. They did a thing where Hogan said his pythons were bigger than Jake's. Jake laughed at how little of thought went into that. So, he'd tape the snake then tape Hogan’s' arm, the tape was rigged to make Hogan's arm look 24 inches which he says was bullshit, after doing this, Jake threw the chalk in Hogan's face and gave him the DDT. Jake walked through the curtain and talked with Vince as they felt it was working. Vince said to wait for Hogan to come back, Jake said okay but he thinks Hogan's out. Jake explains by saying that you can't do the DDT the right way without it taking it's toll. Hogan was to stand up as the crowd chanted Hogan's name but instead, the crowd chanted "DDT." So, Vince said "that's the end of that." Jake insisted that it was working but Vince felt that the fans being split would hurt his marketing plan.
-- Jake told Vince that he didn't have to get paid, being with Alice Cooper was a cool enough deal. Jake was an Alice Cooper fan and Alice was the hottest thing there was in 1973 when Jake graduated high school. So, he was thrilled. When Jake went to the photo shot, he saw Alice in full make up and Jake said "Woah, who's this dude?" When he figured out it was Alice, he loved it. Alice introduced himself and said he is a big fan of Jake's character.
-- The greatest thing Jake has seen for the business in a long time was that the Ultimate Warrior announced his return to the business. He then saw that it was in a video game. He feels sorry for people who buy the game because it will suck. He took months off doing the backstage clips of himself and the Warrior and they were headed towards a big push for Jake. SummerSlam 1991 comes about and the Warrior refuses to go out to the ring that night unless Vince gave him a million dollars cash. Vince paid the Warrior, Warrior went to the ring and had his tag match with Hogan, and when he walked through the curtain he was fired. Vince then said to Jake, "You have the worst luck".
-- Jake again did an impression of Randy Savage backstage the night of the snake bite incident. It has to be heard to hear how good it was. So, Jake talks about the incident saying that Randy was okay with the snake bite until his paranoia kicked in and said "What if Vince and the snake man want to take the Macho Man out of the wrestling business, uh huh." Jake says that Randy was convinced the snake was poisoned so he insisted that Jake allow the snake to bite Jake himself first. Macho then sat there glaring at Jake saying, in a real low and crazy sounding voice, "Lets just watch you now." An hour later, Randy saw that Jake was okay and said okay to the snake bite.
To read the rest go to www.prowrestling.com/articles/news/9458.shtml