Scotty Riggs recently appeared on The Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling podcast to discuss various topics topics. Here are the highlights.
On the American Males clap and 20 years later seeing The New Day use a similar clap:
It kind of came off the cuff. We always did the forearm bump and we would say and I swear to GOD “this is cheesy” but let’s go out there and get it over. We would look at each other when would do the forearm bump and say “it’s not easy, being this cheesy”. Somehow, I think he started doing the clap thing to get the crowd going so I was right behind him and I started doing it and it was very organic. I look at it nowadays and GOD bless The New Day. They turned “New Day Sucks” into an over character or an over part of their character. Either they found it or somebody created it and they ran with it, to me I’m just happy to see it go from the 90s to twenty years later they are working it and it is getting over.
On winning the WCW Tag Team Championships:
In my mind I was saying this is pretty surreal, coming from Memphis wrestling six nights a week and twice on Saturday, driving everywhere putting 70,000 miles on my car, made less than seven grand in the eight months I was there and here I am on the third Nitro ever winning the World Tag Team Championships. So to me it was pretty surreal. Twice during that afternoon, I knew Steve Regal wasn’t going to be there because he was on the tour of Japan because they announced that we were wrestling The Blue Bloods for a future title shot. During the day Kevin Sullivan walked up and said “son, we are changing the finish”. I remember after the match I sat down in a corner of the room and started to get a little teary because it was such a rush to come from where I was, to where I am having the World Tag Team belt in my hand.
You can read the entire interview here:
