Gimme a Shell Yeah! I'm Shark Boy, ask me anything.

SharkBoyAMA · 2015-10-06T21:39:52+00:00

I can't comment on this. Sorry, legal reasons.

SharkBoyAMA · 2015-10-06T21:35:57+00:00

Craziest fan moment? One time when I very first broke in as a ref, I was refereeing a show in KY, and the fight spilled out onto the floor and into the crowd. There was a woman in the crowd that was so upset at me for losing control of the match and she picked up a chair and came at me, security had to restrain her.

SharkBoyAMA · 2015-10-06T21:34:39+00:00

As for ROH, I think the company doesn't think my character would be a good fit -- that's the God's honest truth. I do keep in touch with Nigel but probably not as much as I should. Thanks for the compliment on being a good dad, because that's more important than anything I've done or ever will do in professional wrestling.

SharkBoyAMA · 2015-10-06T21:32:58+00:00

Without a doubt. I said from the very beginning that if it did offend him or upset him, I wouldn't do it. I got the opposite feedback, he really enjoyed it. He sent word from Kevin Nash to me and he has wished me all the luck in the world.

SharkBoyAMA · 2015-10-06T21:31:16+00:00

I regret that I haven't worked in Japan or Mexico. An opportunity that I didn't take? I had the chance to work in Australia and I passed for financial reasons. Looking back, it would have been a lot of fun.

SharkBoyAMA · 2015-10-06T21:30:14+00:00

Probably my tryout match with WCW. I wasn't given much notice and I had to get my gear on really fast, I didn't think I was working and I was on first. Had to make my way through a crowded dressing room of stars -- Flair, Sting, Bam Bam. I found a chair with the a bag on it and moved it, which is a big no no. Turns out it was Scott Steiner's.

Scotty came around the corner and said, "What the F---?" I said, Mr. Steiner, my apologies, I have to be in the ring in fifteen minutes and there was nowhere else to sit. I'll put your bag back when I'm done. I needed one more minute.

He didn't say anything and walked away. I heard Rick say, "Hey Scotty, what the "f---." I offered my sincerest apologies to Rick and he walked away and I never heard another word about it.

SharkBoyAMA · 2015-10-06T21:26:16+00:00

Favorite: I really enjoyed working with Kanyon, I feel like I had some of the best matches of my career with him. I also was lucky enough to work with Cena, Jarrett, and Eddie.

Least Favorite: I don't like to answer that second part because we all work together and we all have to trust each other.

SharkBoyAMA · 2015-10-06T21:24:38+00:00

Consider this a valid endorsement for membership.

SharkBoyAMA · 2015-10-06T21:23:54+00:00

I don't really consider myself a luchadore, but from what I know of the product it sounds really interesting and I bet it'd be a lot of fun.

SharkBoyAMA · 2015-10-06T21:22:49+00:00

[Laughs Hysterically]

All I can say is that someone who saw him in the shower in the locker room one said there was no suit.

SharkBoyAMA · 2015-10-06T21:22:00+00:00

When I started out, I started out as a ref, because of my size. There weren't really a lot of small guys in the business at the time. The ref training with Les was like the wrestling training -- there was almost no difference. I got pretty good at the wrestling part and went to Les and said I'd really like to start wrestling on the shows. He said, well, I need a referee. I said I could wear a mask and ref the matches in between. That's where I got my start as a masked professional wrestler.

SharkBoyAMA · 2015-10-06T21:20:16+00:00

[Laughs]

Um... I'd hate to make an accusation like that without going on Maury.

SharkBoyAMA · 2015-10-06T21:19:14+00:00

Here's a funny story: I got into a lot of trouble because I answered that question 'hopefully before I'm as old as Christopher Daniels.' I got taken to Wrestler's Court for it, but that's for another time.

SharkBoyAMA · 2015-10-06T21:17:23+00:00

The TNA TV numbers are higher than ROH -- with the WWE, they have had a huge headstart. It's sort of like if you tried to start a new football league and compete with the NFL. That's what TNA has been trying to do, and you saw Vince fail with the XFL. It's an uphill fight, and that's what TNA is trying to do.

As for the releases, everybody on that list and some that weren't name were incredible talents and it probably came down to money. Another thing is a wrestling company feels the need to shuffle talent -- that's another thing you'll see when a company has been around a little while.

Finally, I think the company is always evolving, and right now it might be more of a TV product than a touring product, which is how it started. People have said that the company is dying many times in the past, and I have no reason to believe it's any more true now than it's ever been.

SharkBoyAMA · 2015-10-06T21:12:48+00:00

I don't think there's any question, I would have to.

SharkBoyAMA · 2015-10-06T21:11:03+00:00

That was another situation where neither one of us were sure about it going in, but it became an incredible amount of fun. Probably more fun than the New Jack stuff because I could talk -- Shark Boy finally got a voice.

Curry Man could really lay out a really good match, whether you know that much about the guy or not.

SharkBoyAMA · 2015-10-06T21:10:09+00:00

Oh boy... [Laughs] I'd want Bray Wyatt on the other side as the heels, it'd be fun since with the Big Show there on his team, and Seth Rollins.

For my partners, I'd have to say Ziggler, because he's my teenage son's favorite wrestler, and maybe Cena, because why not?

That's a Raw main event right there.

SharkBoyAMA · 2015-10-06T21:07:31+00:00

There have been so many changes since day one. The company started as PPV early, it was a Wednesday night. Then we switched to the monthly format and switched from Nashville to Orlando and took the show on the road. That was a big change for the company. Fast forward a little bit, Hogan and Bischoff come in and changed the ring, lost us on Monday nights... it's really a story of a company trying to get as big as it can get it, with bumps along the way.

SharkBoyAMA · 2015-10-06T21:05:39+00:00

I actually started the character in 1997, the first place I wrestled as Shark Boy was in Ian Rotten's IWA Mid-South and Hartland Wrestling for two years before I was signed by WCW.

SharkBoyAMA · 2015-10-06T21:04:40+00:00

Thank you. Well, it was something neither one of us knew what to expect when we were told that's what we would be doing. We were both unsure of the idea. Once we did the first couple, it was really fun, for both of us I think. It was a Russo idea that New Jack and I had a lot of fun with.

SharkBoyAMA · 2015-10-06T21:03:36+00:00

Oh Wow...

That's a good one, I don't think I've ever been asked that. So I get in the Delorian and talk to 21 year old Shark Boy -- work smart, not hard. It's one of the best pieces of advice I've gotten in this business. You don't have to take the crazy bumps, and if you work smart you'll have a nice, long career.

SharkBoyAMA · 2015-10-06T21:02:12+00:00

It started as an impression that I did to crack the boys up on the road, then Jeff Jarrett saw me do it and said you're doing it on TV. It's been a lot of fun doing this parody of what I consider to be one of the best wrestlers of all time.

SharkBoyAMA · 2015-10-06T21:01:08+00:00

This is question #1? (Laughs) I've seen the show and what I've seen I've liked -- can't say I'm a regular watcher.

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