Post by Snitsky on Apr 28, 2009 9:40:25 GMT -5
Every week I'll answer the TOP 7!!
1-Bryan Silverstein
**Perhaps you can reveal the truth:Did Bill "Fonzie" Alphonso whistle give you a headache outta hell ?
I have been asked this above question a lot - and believe it or not, I never even heard Fonzie blowing that whistle once! That's the truth. I cannot explain to all of you how focused and in the zone I truly was as the Taz character once i stepped through that curtain! Never heard once.
2-Sterling Callaway (Omaha, NE)
**Hi Taz,kind of off topic..huge husker fan here..how did you get to like the huskers?..and how do you feel the strides the football program has made?..thanks 4 your time!
Kinda strange that a kid born & bred in New York that I'm a Nebraska Husker fan. I play H.S. & College Football and always was a huge college football fan (still am) but feel in love with the UN program years back because I didn't have cable TV as a kid, and NY never had a true powerhouse program to follow including Syracuse (which when your from one of the 5 bouguhs of NYC..Syracuse is just as far away as Nebraska!) so the Huskers were always the prime game on ABC every Saturday and I just love the in your face smash mouth run the ball down your face game they use to play! Currently, I do believe in Head Coach Bo Pelini in a big way and think we need 2 more seasons and than we will be back to the dominant force we use to be! Go Big Red!
3-Jesse Belyea (Boston, MA)
**What do u think of the new look of the ECW title compared to the one u held?
I hate it. To compare what I held to that MONSTROUS HUNK OF SILVER they have is comical....but hey, at least its consistent what everything else in comparing the original ECW to WWE version of ECW.....there is NO comparison at all. Just change the name to anything but ECW and it will be a pretty cool 60mins. But at times, I guess some must attempt to re-write history in in their own eyes.
4-David Geckle (Michigan State University)
**Who was most influential in giving you your first big break?
Without question, Paul Heyman. Paul believe in me way before ECW. For a very short time in around 1989'ish Paul was the booker for IWCCW (Salvoldi territory out of N.J.) and Paul wanted to push me and Salvoldis didn't want that because they were mad at me for me walking out before a show in Upstate NY many months prior to Paul coming in as book. I walked out because the Salvoldis broke there word to me (SHOCKING) on some business stuff and back than I was kind of a "hot head"! So I kept my values & morels and walk and I didnt have a pot to piss in and almost ran out of gas heading back to Brooklyn cause I had no $$! So when Paul took over he wanted me on IWCCW TV and Salvoldis really didn't want me....so we had TV taping up in Middletown NY area and I was walking in this small arena with Ted Petty & Tommy Norton and I heard someone screaming at Mario Salvoldi and this someone was defending me and putting me over....I looked at Teddy who was a veteran to me and always help me and said Teddy who the hell is that?? Teddy said that's Paul Heyman....I'll never forget it I heard,"you don't take him, I walk!!"....and I had never even met Paul up to that point in my life!
5-Anthony Giuffra (Central Jersey, NJ)
**I have two questions:
A- Do you think WWE used you as a wrestler properly?
B- I recall the neck problems that ended your career. Why wouldn't surgery be an option (like the one Austin, Lita, Edge, etc had or the surgery Kurt Angle and Scott Hall had)?
A- NO.
B-Simple Anthony, my neck is loaded with thick arthritis....I waited too long to have surgery. Also, when I blew my neck out in 95' they didn't have the sophisticated neck procedures they have now.
6-Danny Kowalski
**Wintergreen or mint?
Back in the day Mint...now Citrus.
7-Jon Gronsdahl
**For u Taz, i Wanna Know What Was Ur Favorite Suplex ??
This may be a little surprising to some but the Front Head & Arm Tazplex. I tried to incorporate the T-Bone (some call an Exploder) in just about every match...but the Front Head & Arm was always kinda a challenge with taller guys (just about 90% of the guys I worked with fit that bill...lol!) but I felt it had a certain impressive look to it!
FTW
Taz
1-Bryan Silverstein
**Perhaps you can reveal the truth:Did Bill "Fonzie" Alphonso whistle give you a headache outta hell ?
I have been asked this above question a lot - and believe it or not, I never even heard Fonzie blowing that whistle once! That's the truth. I cannot explain to all of you how focused and in the zone I truly was as the Taz character once i stepped through that curtain! Never heard once.
2-Sterling Callaway (Omaha, NE)
**Hi Taz,kind of off topic..huge husker fan here..how did you get to like the huskers?..and how do you feel the strides the football program has made?..thanks 4 your time!
Kinda strange that a kid born & bred in New York that I'm a Nebraska Husker fan. I play H.S. & College Football and always was a huge college football fan (still am) but feel in love with the UN program years back because I didn't have cable TV as a kid, and NY never had a true powerhouse program to follow including Syracuse (which when your from one of the 5 bouguhs of NYC..Syracuse is just as far away as Nebraska!) so the Huskers were always the prime game on ABC every Saturday and I just love the in your face smash mouth run the ball down your face game they use to play! Currently, I do believe in Head Coach Bo Pelini in a big way and think we need 2 more seasons and than we will be back to the dominant force we use to be! Go Big Red!
3-Jesse Belyea (Boston, MA)
**What do u think of the new look of the ECW title compared to the one u held?
I hate it. To compare what I held to that MONSTROUS HUNK OF SILVER they have is comical....but hey, at least its consistent what everything else in comparing the original ECW to WWE version of ECW.....there is NO comparison at all. Just change the name to anything but ECW and it will be a pretty cool 60mins. But at times, I guess some must attempt to re-write history in in their own eyes.
4-David Geckle (Michigan State University)
**Who was most influential in giving you your first big break?
Without question, Paul Heyman. Paul believe in me way before ECW. For a very short time in around 1989'ish Paul was the booker for IWCCW (Salvoldi territory out of N.J.) and Paul wanted to push me and Salvoldis didn't want that because they were mad at me for me walking out before a show in Upstate NY many months prior to Paul coming in as book. I walked out because the Salvoldis broke there word to me (SHOCKING) on some business stuff and back than I was kind of a "hot head"! So I kept my values & morels and walk and I didnt have a pot to piss in and almost ran out of gas heading back to Brooklyn cause I had no $$! So when Paul took over he wanted me on IWCCW TV and Salvoldis really didn't want me....so we had TV taping up in Middletown NY area and I was walking in this small arena with Ted Petty & Tommy Norton and I heard someone screaming at Mario Salvoldi and this someone was defending me and putting me over....I looked at Teddy who was a veteran to me and always help me and said Teddy who the hell is that?? Teddy said that's Paul Heyman....I'll never forget it I heard,"you don't take him, I walk!!"....and I had never even met Paul up to that point in my life!
5-Anthony Giuffra (Central Jersey, NJ)
**I have two questions:
A- Do you think WWE used you as a wrestler properly?
B- I recall the neck problems that ended your career. Why wouldn't surgery be an option (like the one Austin, Lita, Edge, etc had or the surgery Kurt Angle and Scott Hall had)?
A- NO.
B-Simple Anthony, my neck is loaded with thick arthritis....I waited too long to have surgery. Also, when I blew my neck out in 95' they didn't have the sophisticated neck procedures they have now.
6-Danny Kowalski
**Wintergreen or mint?
Back in the day Mint...now Citrus.
7-Jon Gronsdahl
**For u Taz, i Wanna Know What Was Ur Favorite Suplex ??
This may be a little surprising to some but the Front Head & Arm Tazplex. I tried to incorporate the T-Bone (some call an Exploder) in just about every match...but the Front Head & Arm was always kinda a challenge with taller guys (just about 90% of the guys I worked with fit that bill...lol!) but I felt it had a certain impressive look to it!
FTW
Taz
