Steve Cutler discussed wanting to reboot the APA in a new House of Hardcore podcast interview. Triple H Rehires Former World Champion.
“We were going through an eight month process of throwing ideas. They said, ‘You guys are coming back.’ This is with Bruce Prichard at the time talking. He said, ‘Yep, you’re coming back. It’s you three. We’re just waiting for time.’ No matter what, we sent ideas in because I hated just sitting around collecting a paycheck. Does that sound stupid? Yes, but all we wanted to do was work. It’s like, you’re paying us money, I want to do my job, so let me come work. We pitched tons of ideas. Blake and I wanted to be the new APA where we could have it set up where we have an APA door. During the era of the ThunderDome, they were bringing in a lot more legends in because of viewership at that time because people weren’t tuning in as much. How can we make this work in our favor because this is what we wanted to do and still continue as a tag team.
One day we got told, ‘Hey, we’re starting fresh. New names. New look. New everything, just you and Blake, no Ryker.’ They switched over to Amway. This is around the October timeframe of last year. Blake and I were like, ‘We need a face to face because I’m sick of e-mail. Let’s just go to Amway. We have our Covid tests.’ We went over to Amway and sat in front of Vince’s door. We had a packet made for creative. We wanted to sit and talk. We hung out and were just trying to get word with somebody.
We did sit down with Prichard, and we did get talks, and then we got nothing after it. He just wanted to get to know who we were and get to know our personalities. I was like, ‘Listen, I like to drink. I like to shoot guns. I served my country, and I love pro wrestling. Not much else you’re going to get out of me other than just me being who I am and Blake’s the same way. He’s a rancher. He grew up on a ranch in Texas. He likes to drink and shoot guns. How can we make that work?’ Wrestling News transcribed the quote.
